I’ve learnt a couple of things in February. Ok I’ve known them all along but never made the decision to acknowledge them fully, until now.

I’m a control freak.

I’m an overachiever (not always successful!)

I have way high expectations for myself.

I am my own worst self-critic.

None of these things help in becoming successful. There needs to be a balance. I noticed something at work that made me realise some of these things. No one expects me to know everything from day one or even day 365.

Life is a journey, we get to learn every day. I need to realise that aiming for perfect will mean achieving nothing. Perfect doesn’t exist. We live in an imperfect world, so why should I expect anything different. Does that make sense? It does to me. I realise though that I have a long way to go before I feel comfortable in my own skin. But as long as I make progress every day, even if it’s tiny, then I’m on the right track.

So peeps, where in the hell did February go?

It feels like it wasn’t even here at all.

Goals wise, the month was shit. There was so much going on that I am utterly exhausted and disappointed in myself. I’m finding it difficult to stick to any sort of schedule.

My new role at work is draining lots of mental energy from me – it’s completely new and there’s so much to learn! But I am enjoying it.

My toddler is going through a phase – I swear he’s started the terrible two’s at eighteen months and is driving me insane. I admire women who can be stay at home mum’s. Me, um, yeah, not going to happen. I love my son but it’s healthier for the entire family that I’m a working mama.

My February goals were completely forgotten. I didn’t sell a hundred copies of my books, nor did I publish book 3, Lethal Aftershock. I didn’t set up a mailing list or run a Facebook promotion, nor did I send out any pitches or make $200 from my writing. They seemed like such modest goals and yet, I couldn’t get it done in 29 days.

February is just going to get filed away as one of those months. Lots of lessons learnt but nothing really achieved.

I did however, finishing rewriting Lethal Aftershock. As I’m sticking to a budget, editing and cover design will need to wait a couple of weeks. That’s ok. This gives me time to spruce up the copy before I send it off to my proofreader and hire my cover designer.

Queries sent: 2
Responses: 0
Accepted: 0
Follow ups: 0
Income: $0
Books sold: 11 (AUS, UK, USA)
Free Books: 739
Income: $5.97
Total writing income: AUD$5.97

Not quite what I had in mind but shit happens. March is going to be much better.

Here’s what I’m aiming for in March:

A) Publish Lethal Instincts & Lethal Disposal on Kobo, Smashwords, IBooks 
B) Publish Lethal Aftershock on Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, IBooks
C) Make Lethal Instincts permanently free on all platforms
D) Send out as many pitches as possible in March (joining a challenge!)
E) Make some money from my writing this month (aiming for $200 again!)
F) Clean up one of my blogs and figure out how to monetise it