To that end, I have decided to simply report on the work that was done and make goals for the following month. We can then check in about the status of those goals monthly. There will be a relationship between my goals and time but being more abstract it will help me to treat myself humanely regarding misses and show up more authentically from a human place I want to cultivate in myself.
Podcast:
This month I really started getting the podcast pieces together. I got my Mac back and started learning audio editing. I read through Pat Flynn's free podcasting guide and got a birds-eye view of the process and necessary steps. The first episode is shaping up well and I've been working both on the episode, the infrastructure for the podcast and the pipeline for getting episodes through from start to finish more efficiently in the future. There are a lot of steps to producing a podcast and I'm learning a lot but it is really slow going. I set up an email for the project and a mailing list. If you know you want to receive an email when we launch our first episode, you can send an email to dadyourewrong@gmail.com and I'll make sure you get added. It will be low frequency and easy to unsubscribe from if you change your mind.
My Goals for November's end-of-month update:
- Publish a blog post about the podcast so that folks know whether they want to be an early listener.
- Publish the first episode
- Appear in all the major podcast distribution channels
- Have 10 people opt-in to our email list to be notified of new episodes
- Have 1 review of our podcast by an early supporter
- Make at least 4 social media posts about the podcast
- Episode 2 audio producing complete and show notes started
- Episode 3 rough edit complete
- Episode 4 raw recording
- Episode 5 & 6 ready for recording
- Organize brainstormed ideas
- Initial Patreon Setup
Project for Awesome:
Project for Awesome is coming up again and this year I want to show up in a powerful way. This month I was looking into research for Raices. Their services are focused in Texas however, and although Texas has great need and Raices is an excellent organization that I frequently support monetarily, I think that selecting a nonprofit that serves immigrants nationwide may have broader appeal with the Project for Awesome audience and thus increase the odds of getting funded. So this year I am going to make a video for Freedom for Immigrants' National Bond Fund.
My Goals for November's end-of-month update:
- Publish a blog post about my history with the Project for Awesome and introducing it to the community.
- Research and outline the points I want to cover in my video
- Write the script for my video
- Publish a blog post about my research, outlining, and script writing process.
- Initial footage for video recorded.
- Research how to do video editing techniques required for video
- Make at least 6 social media posts about the project
Community Project:
My mom and I have been thinking about the ways in which we see community, how it is similar and different from how other people conceptualize it. We think that there are strengths that arose from our circumstances that are not well represented in the self-help space and that the self-help space in general focuses too little on the role of community in their purview. We have fallen off on some of our conversations but we did meet once in October and it really renewed my interest in the project.
My Goals for November's end-of-month update:
- Have met with my mom at least once
- Track down all my notes from previous conversations and organize them
- Make goals for 2020 for the project
Voting:
At time of writing this we already voted but it technically happened in November so I'll be writing more about this in the next Accountability report. One thing that I did do within the bounds of October though was watch the Democratic Presidential Debate. I do feel like each additional debate is yielding fewer returns as far as knowledge about the candidates but with such a large field I also feel like I haven't gotten to a point where I can conceptualize each of them uniquely and fairly so I really appreciate the debates as an opportunity to drive home my feelings about different candidates, both my appreciation and my concerns.
My Goals for November's end-of-month update:
- Research, Vote, Return Ballot - (Already completed)
- Meet with Mom to help her vote - (Already completed)
- Watch the November Presidential debate.
- Write a blog post about Voting as Showing Up
Micro-Volunteering:
I've been trying to get back into micro-volunteering as a way to use spare moments here and there or times when ill to make the world better, even in small ways. Here are a few that I've been working on in October:
- Free Rice: Allows you to practice your vocabulary (or other subjects) and, for correct answers, uses ad revenue to donate rice to the United Nations World Food Programme
- The Hunger Site: Actually a collection of sites that you can visit once per day and ad revenue goes to support. I click through all the sites except the autism site because as an autistic person I am skeptical of the way that the money is being used. I know they have the best of intentions but there are a lot of work being done to autistic people that is quite harmful.
Goals for November's End-of-month update:
- Track down some of the other Microvolunteering I've done over the years and re-evaluate potential for future volunteering opportunities.
- Write a blog post about my history with Microvolunteering and recommended places to get started.
Management:
I spent some time this month researching for how I wanted to fulfill my monetary commitment. As usual, it takes some time to select my Kiva repayment re-loans and this month there was an extra loan to research since my timing allowed me to make an extra loan due to a sponsor special. You can read more about my Kiva process in a blog post I wrote about it. Since the school year has just started I did research and selected a Donors Choose project to support. I also was thinking a lot about the circumstances that caused me to start these commitments in the first place. The incarcerated and detainment of people without cause and in inhumane conditions is unacceptable and horrific. As my depression with some of the aspects of this fight increases I have shifted my focus toward bail bond non-profits. I looked into a few options and selected one that serves residents in the detention center in Tacoma (Fair Fight), and one that serves citizens awaiting trial nationwide (Bail Project). I also decided on a national immigration bond non-profit for my Project for Awesome charity (Freedom for Immigrants).Goals for November's End-of-month update:
- Research and reloan repayments and make a round up loan in Kiva.
- Ensure my Patreon language is up to date with how I changed this commitment.
- Post at least once about my Patreon on Social media.
Blog Post:
This month my blog posts were entirely about accountability. I think that by changing the format of my Time and Effort commitment I should have more time and energy instead of spending so much of it bean counting and reporting. I think these monthly posts are still helpful and I think this new goals focus will help a lot.
My Goals for November's end-of-month update:
Standard:- 1 Money Commitment Accountability Post
- 1 Time / Effort Commitment Accountability Post
From above:
- 1 blog post about the Podcast
- 1 blog post about the Project for Awesome
- 1 blog post about Research, Outline, and Script Writing for Project for Awesome
- 1 blog post about Voting as Showing Up
Additionally:
- Consider, decide, and write about my Christmas plans regarding gift giving
- Brainstorm a list of 10 blog post topics for the future.
Conclusion:
I have set some pretty ambitious goals for myself. It likely won't all get done but having goals will help me stay focused and moving forward. It will provide me motivation and incentive on days when it is hard to make myself work on this. If you've read all this, please let me know in the comments which project you are most excited to see more of.
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