Month in Review: December

Most of the bloggers I've read have been doing lovely posts about their year in review.  Due to getting this blog started only a few months ago, I decided I'd leave the year in review alone.  Instead, now that I'm making active progress towards my goals, I thought I'd start doing month reviews.  Without further ado, I think I did alright this month for starting in the middle.

I've been really working on starting a foundation for this blog that I'm hoping will last into the future.  Towards that, I've:

-Set up a monthly calendar for my blog posting schedule.

-Did every planned post, and am about a week ahead on posts give or take a few days depending on my publishing rate.

-Regularly working through the three programs I've got going on.  My blog views have gone from about 0-50 daily to now 50-100 daily.  Subscribed readers will come, but the focus is exposure right now.

-Spent some time planning out the next few months and some goals for the upcoming year, which I'm very excited about.

-Doing my own photography for the vast majority of any pictures, and looking into ways to really improve said photography.

-Kept the 3 posts/wk. minimum goal.

-Recognized how much regular work it takes to build a blog platform.

-My method for writing posts is to just get everything out all at once one day, and then wait a couple days and edit to fine tune everything.

The other goals I completed:
-5000 words towards my novel.

-Only one sewing project, but that's because I wanted this month to really focus on laying the foundation more than anything else.  Now that the system is starting to get into place there's going to be a lot more sewing happnening here.

Still working on:
-My blogging voice.

-Developing my brand, and trying to figure out details with promoting that.

-Making my schedule better by becoming a morning person so that things aren't last minute and done late, but instead done first thing.

-I really need to get my office in shape so that it can become a hub.

-Developing social media and figuring out how it's going to be used to promote my blog.