March Update: 2026 Goal Progress Monthy Update

This may be repetitive of my quarterly review.

Project Status

Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series On track/in progress
Project #2: Publish my novella Completed
Project #3: Review romance conference material On Hold
Project #4: Review Jericho conference material On Hold
Project #5: Google Drive Review & consolidate tentatively completed for now.
Project #6: Genre exploration On Hold
Project #7 Watching Instructional videos: On Hold
Project #8 Complete LinkedIn Learning course On Track/In progress
Project #9 The cover design course On Hold

Breakdown

Project #1: Finish book 2 in my main series

I've completed this round of edits, and it's looking good. I just need some tightening here and there. At the moment, I'm on a break but I hope to resume it soon. I have also outlined a plan of what I need to focus on.

New issues, risks, blockers: None at the moment though I'm taking a short break.

Project #5: Google Drive Review & consolidate

After a few false starts, I settled on a logical methodology. At first I was looking for simple ways but in the end I just went with a simple audit folder. I looked into every single folder on my drive and counted the files. The only problem with this method is that the files in the main google drive or root folder cannot be sorted so I had to count those as one. I started with 80 folders but have 67 folders now. During the audit, I deleted 129 files.

New issues, risks, blockers: During the file and folder audit I realised a lot of the files were associated with old incomplete projects and writing material. I've counted about 663 files but there may be more in the main folder.

What this means is I'll need to decided what is going on with the project before I go further. For now since I reached the target, of looking at 30 files, I'll say achieved but it highlights that I need to review my other projects.

Project #8 Complete LinkedIn Learning course

Still in progress and I have 5 more modules to complete for this pathway but in total, I've completed 8.4 CPD/CPE credits out of 40 credits which is my target.

Projects on Hold

These projects were on hold.

Project #3: Review romance conference material On Hold
Project #4: Review Jericho conference material On Hold
Project #6: Genre exploration On Hold
Project #7 Watching Instructional videos: On Hold
Project #9 The cover design course On Hold

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