Accountability: Outcomes—Week 3, December 2025

Of the goals set for the week just gone, this is the outcome. 

Achieved:

1. Recorded the next 29/28 gameplay videos for the schedule;

2. Edited the next 30/28 gameplay videos for the schedule;

3. Scheduled the 10/10 videos to accompany the novel release.

Partly Achieved

1. Recorded the next 11/22 gameplay videos for the completion series;

2. Scheduled the next 25/28 gameplay videos for the schedule;

3. Edited and formatted, but did not schedule the 2 videos for the short story release;

4. Wrote 2/7 poems for Another 366 Days of Poetry.

Not Achieved

Did not complete the 7 pieces of flash from the main goals, and did not complete the novel from the stretch goals. Did not complete the publishing cycle for January 2026.

Swapped In

1. Edited and formatted the 3 reading videos for a second upcoming short story release;

2. Began industry-accredited courses in computer coding and Spanish as part of external obligations. No doubt these will inform my writing in the future…although everything seems to end up doing that.

Analysis

I appear to be struggling with the ADHD trait of setting higher goals than I can achieve, aka ‘biting off more than I can chew.’ I am also having a problem with focus when I’m doing things for myself, and not for someone else. When it’s someone else, I will exceed my deadlines, because other people matter, while I struggle for myself, because, simply, I do not. I need to work on that, although when I consider things from the point of view of having an obligation to my readers and viewers, it becomes a lot easier.

In addition, I lost about twelve hours out of the week due to researching requirements for external obligations, and assisting my husband with saying goodbye to another part of his life….and more hours after that, due to dealing with the emotional fallout from those events, as well as the reminder that I will lose him, too, in the next half a dozen years or so. Apparently, I need to build some ‘being kind to myself’ time into the schedule since video creation requires face time, and creative endeavours require a small amount of mental and emotional clarity, whilst administrative and editing needs an absence of depression, in order for focus to be maintained.

I’ll add those to the ‘background task’ list, and see how I go.

For now, it’s time to continue with this week’s goals.

Have a great week out there, wherever and whenever in the world you might be. May you find fair weather and smooth roads...or shelter and comfort as you need it.