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12-Week Year Progress Report: Business Marketing and Standard Operating Procedures
I can feel the crunch in week 9 of the 12-week year as the “year” is now closer to ending than beginning. One of the things that I love about this 12-week year is that it fits well into each quarter. Sunday was a typical Sunday for me. I did what I normally do on Sunday. However, I decided that since Monday was a holiday (Memorial Day here in the US). I would have a different focus on the day.…

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#book marketing#Standard operating Procedures#The 12 Week Year#The Art of Focus#The E-myth Revisited#Two Rivers
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What is the 12-week year?

While there is an entire book on the concept (The 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington) of the 12 week year, I think it is so valuable that I might as well give it a quick run down...
The 12 week year works, because it keeps the pressure on. So often, we will make New Year resolutions, and never stick to them. We figure we have the whole year ahead of us, so why start now? Be honest, we are in April now... Did you really get the washboard abs you thought you would? How many times did you set foot in the gym? It's still 2024, it doesn't technically mean you failed... right?
In this book, Moran points out a study that found that people tend to be the most productive when the year is drawing to a close because they weren't productive toward their goal for the rest of the year, and feel pressured to play catch up as a result. The 12 year week utilizes the mindset surrounding this dynamic to the individual's advantage.
The 12 week year is a concept that encourages one to create goals not with an entire year in mind, but by splitting their year into quarters. Instead of focusing on what you want to accomplish by the end of 2024, instead focus on what you want to accomplish before the end of March. Then, by the end of June, September, December, and so forth.
The key to this entire dynamic is being incredibly detailed and intentional with your goals. Instead of saying "I want to walk more" say, "I will walk every morning after breakfast at Cedar Park for 15 minutes." Instead of saying "I want to read more books" say, "I will finish one audiobook a week by listening to it while I take my walk, cook dinner, and work on my crochet project." Then, prepare a list of books you have in mind.
Many people feel limited in their ability to be truly productive, but at the end of the day, it isn't who or what you know... It's how you implement those two things into your tangible decisions from day to day. Knowledge without acting upon said knowledge is hardly knowledge at all. My measly summary could never do this amazing book justice, and I highly recommend a full read through to anyone looking to restructure how they approach their goals in a truly beneficial way.
Can't afford to buy the book? That's fine! I am a firm believer that knowledge should be freely accessible to anyone who wants to better their lives regardless of their circumstances! You can read the PDF copy for free here, or listen to the audiobook version on YouTube for free here.
A bit about @princessproductivity! 7 ways to organize your life... 7 ways to reduce your screen time...
#100 days of productivity#content creation#content creator#digital well being#get motivated#intentional screen time#intentional living#intentionality#minimalism#motivation#the 12 week year#productivity tips#productivity challenge#princess productivity#productivity#study motivation#mindset#how to be productive#how to succeed#how to be a billionaire#how to be successful#planner#self development#self control#self discipline#self improvement#discipline#organization#productivity boost#planning
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“You’re a caveman. And I’ve invented fire.”
Close-ups under the cut :)



#I've had this idea since May and I've finally finished it#Did the sketch after watching SAD for the second time#I watched the end of One Step Ahead when the camera closes in on Curt and Joey's finger guns and Curt was kneeling#and I was struck violently and urgently with this idea#And then I proceeded to put it off for a million years up until last week when I picked it back up#I'm very proud of this one and I hope you guys like it as much as I do#I really love doing painting parodies and this one worked just too well#Anyways yeah- spent almost 12 hours on this piece so that's fun- time to go draw more!#Fun fact: Former US President Andrew Jackson was a flat earther#yikes#Spies are forever#SAF#Spies are forever fanart#SAF TCB#Tin Can Brothers#Tin Can Bros#tin can bros fanart#Curt Mega#Agent Curt Mega#Owen Carvour#Joey Richter#the creation of adam#The creation of adam parody#My art
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Blood Blossom Au: Baby's First Commissioner Meeting :)
TL:DR This Post: Danny (orphan) gets poisoned with blood blossom extract by Vlad. He runs away from him and ends up under the care of one Pre-Robin Battinson Batman! Starry is loudly pushing her batdad agenda.
(Also known as "Late At Night, When The Nightingale Sings" on my ao3!)
This was a fun rough idea I've been sitting on for weeks, thinking about how Commissioner Gordon and Nightingale's first meeting might go.
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Commissioner Gordon likes to think that he's adjusting to the new normal of Gotham very well, -- the new normal being grown men running around dressed like bats, in military-grade strength body armor, committing acts of vigilantism, -- and slowly, little by little, he was no longer being surprised when this new normal pops up out of the shadows like the world's most terrifying daisy. His shaving lifespan thanks him for it.
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The kid is a surprise though.
Granted, he seemed to be a surprise to the Bat too.
There's been a string of murders lately, -- which, in Gotham, is kind of like saying there's been another storm during monsoon season. And there's just been another; in some dilapidated building down in south Gotham, with the broken, boarded-up windows and mildew-crawling walls to match. The victim is a man in his thirties, multiple gunshot wounds to the chest, left in the center of the room for the blood to pool out around him.
The place is already secured when he arrives, the building swarmed with officers and the forensic detectives. The Bat emerges shortly after he does -- or, he might've been here the whole time, hiding someplace dark and shadowy. For his own sanity, Gordon doesn't think about it too hard.
The kid is a surprise, and he appears like a bolt of lightning.
He shows up in the middle of a conversation Gordon is having with the Bat.
A whistle, sharp and loud, slicing through the air, meant for open air rather than a confined space. Gordon's ears pierce and protest the sound, and the solemn, murmured chatter floating through the room abruptly cuts off like the swing of a gavel. As he turns towards the sound -- as they all do -- he swears, up and down, that he sees Batman's shoulders jump, just slightly.
At the source, perched on the window, is a boy. A boy in a gray-blue scarf and an oversized black hoodie, one that hangs off his frame and has ace bandages wrapped around the wrists in some attempt to cinch the sleeves. The hood is up, big like the rest of it, and threatens to swallow the upper half of the boy's face whole in the fabric. What upper half Gordon can see, is smeared with some kind of opaque, black face paint. He's holding onto the side of the frame with one hand, on his hip is a grappling hook. A familiar grappling hook.
Gordon has multiple questions, and his officers tense up.
Martinez puffs up, brows furrowing as his face shapes into a frown. Shoulders rolling back. "You can't be here, kid--"
The reaction is immediate, like a spark to gunpowder, the boy yanks his fingers from his mouth and his mouth twists into a scowl. Head snapping over to Officer Martinez, his hood manages to stay on but Gordon swears that as he bares his teeth, the glint makes them look sharper than they should be. His voice is rasp and quiet and harsh; snappish in its hissing; "Put a fuckin sock in it, Martinez. I'm not stayin."
Martinez reels back, and the boy immediately veers his attention off him. Like a switch, his demeanor drops. Despite half his face being covered, his mouth twists into a cringing, apologetic smile. Slanted and off-beat, embarrassed. It'd be disarming if this wasn't Gotham, and if he didn't just hiss at Martinez like he was about to bite his head off.
"Sorry." He whispers, voice deceptively polite and softer now. Gordon has to strain his ears to hear him. "I was looking for him."
He points his finger towards-- Gordon? No, Gordon follows the direction, and finds himself looking at -- the Bat.
The Bat, who always looks stiff as a pole, now looks even stiffer. Somehow. Well, the explains the grappling hook attached to the boy's waist.
"What are you doing here?" The Bat says, gruff and unable to completely smother the stumble of surprise in his tone.
The boy still holds a sheepish smile, and slips off the window ledge. His feet hit the creaky boards with a near-silent thud, the Batman finds his feet and rapidly begins crossing the room.
Gordon notes the slight tremble in the boy's legs as he straightens. He adjusts his scarf, which droops close to his knees now that he's standing, and slings a backpack -- how long has had that? -- off his shoulders. When the Bat reaches his side, he does as he always does, and looms over the boy like a spectre. A threatening mass of shadows cloaked in all-consuming black. Standing next to him, the boy looks teeny in comparison.
The Bat is a man who terrifies even the most hardened criminals, Gordon has seen grown men shiver in fear at the mention of his name. And yet when the boy looks up at him, he doesn't even flinch.
Instead, his sheepish smile melts away like ice under the sun, holding only traces of his previous embarrassment. It remains as a shadow on his face, a small upturn at the corners of his mouth. The boy pushes his hood back just enough to reveal glinting, ice-flint eyes surrounded in tar-black face paint. He holds the backpack up with one arm. "You forgot this."
#I have never seen Batman (2022) so really I'm just using battinson and crew as templates for my fic. but hey what else is new lol#dpxdc#danny fenton is not the ghost king#dp x dc#dpxdc crossover#dp x dc crossover#dpxdc fic#dpxdc au#dp x dc au#dpxdc fanfic#i dont know shit about detective work or true crime so forgive me for any bad terminology or incorrect procedure for how these things work#just a fun rough idea for how i imagined gordon's first meeting with nightingale goes LMAO. im sticking to the idea that danny doesn't#officially join the field for a *while* due to more than just health reasons. so his first appearances are brief and usually to give B smth#danny: im only here as express delivery for vader's little brother over there. yall stay safe tho.#bruce: *kill bill sirens bass-boosted* ohmygodwhatishedoinghere#batman: how did you get here... | danny: you have so many spare grappling hooks it was pr easy to just grab one and go#also danny is whispering on purpose because he doesn't have his ghost form to fall back on as a secret identity. so he *is* actually taking#extra steps to keep his identity safe. and people usually sound different when they're whispering. he also has personal beef with#office martinez despite the fact that they've never met. Danny's HEARD of his ass. he hATES his ass.#Martinez: *to batman* freak | danny: im going to Bite Him. | batman (reluctantly): hmr. please don't. | danny: im going for his shins#Martinez and Nightingale have this whole thing going on between the two of them. danny WILL slap a sticky note on Martinez's back that says#'asshole' on it and its the one spot square on his spine that martinez can't reach.#someone: why are you beefing with like. an actual 12 year old | martinez: HE'S A LITTLE RAT. THAT'S WHY. he's here to torment me#battinson: *did you grapple the whole way here* | danny: yah. it was kinda fun. i would've gotten here faster but i kept having to stop#battinson: *hnnn* im driving you back | danny:.. are you sure? | battinson already pulling him out of the room: y e s#i've been thinking about this for literally WEEKS. what did bruce forget? good question! i'll figure that out if or when i get to this#danny has Issues behind the word freak so its like a mini beserker button for him regardless of who the word is aimed at lol. lmao#martinez calls batman a freak once while nightingale is within range and its just the doom ost as danny simply Disappears from sight#like oops. you are now. In Danger. rip couldn't be me.#blood blossom au
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@mikimeiko is doing a photography project where you take the same picture every month (introduction/explanation here) and I promised I'd join in. And wouldn't you know, I discovered that one of the old pollard willows down by the creek is freshly trimmed! That should make for an interesting subject.

09.01.24, 16:41
#braved the cold to get this picture#climate change will turn you into a wuss#i grew up with winters that would be well below -10°c for weeks#and lots of snow#now we go below -5 for a few days and it feels like hell because I'm no longer used to it#sigh#anyway don't you love pollard willows I love pollard willows#12 photos 1 year
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Ribbun week - Day 5: Angst




Angst…? Good ending
This is a continuation of the day 2 prompt
It’s somehow more angsty than a drawing from the day literally called “angst”
#Yall lucky i get a new year break tomorrow#I stayed up til 2’ for this man#The shading looked good from afar#But now on camera its kinda ass#my back huuuuurts#I’m too young to be getting too old for this:(#I’d have more to say but rn id rather sleep#tadc gangle#tadc jax#ribbun#the amazing digital circus#tadc fanart#gangle x jax#jax x gangle#ribbun week#ribbunweek2024#Ribbunweek#ribbunny#ribunny#operabunny#jangle#Bunnybow#Technically i planned on staying up til 12 but like#Not for this long😭#I forgot to link the day 2 drawing lol
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He started back as quickly / And staunchly swung aside / With all the woe in the world / He turned to the wood to hide...
[a gawain for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'hunt']
#em draws stuff#march to camelot#arthurian things#arthuriana#gawain#sgatgk by way of love death and robots' 'fish night' I believe#caption verse is from the 1997 translation by gwyn jones - not my usual but I'm away from my print copies of everything#and going to the library either online or in person would be a whole can of worms that I don't have time for <- they're typing this at 2am#took a little while (read: 12 days) to get my brain back up and running on mtc...#I really like the style I did last year but I needed something different this year. also I can't exactly take a week off being a person#like I did last year. albeit for other reasons than speed-drawing arthuriana (it just happened to coincide with that)#during the week of pretending to not be a person mtc was the only thing I could really draw that didn't make me feel sick#but that does also mean that trying to pick up the project in the same style as last year means there's The Residue on it#anyway. Fish :) and gawain :)
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i think what would be really important to me if i were to write a band au for anything ever is they cant be good or very successful. their gigs have got to be shitty theyre playing in welfares and half-packed student unions and community centres and villlage halls they manage to book one tour in a horrible van and its shit and the weathers shit and some people really do like them and they might get a few breaks here and there but they are not going to be rockstars it just cant be in the cards for them. chekhovs band for me if i introduce a band at the start of the thing they have to have failed and had sex with each other by the end of it
#play in a pub it ends in a fight someone gets a bottle smashed over their heads and no ones getting paid because of the damage.#tour shitty venues in a secondhand van that stinks where everyone has to sleep and is miserable and living off crisps and lager#manager is their mate who didnt really want to do it has no contacts or organisational skills quits twice a week and sulks off to#his bedsit until they coax him back. maybe MAYBE write a few decent tracks of the kind that my dad will scour youtube for#like 45 years later and maybe find one recording no live footage 179 views posted 12 years ago by someone called Ian Hughes#but its only my dad and ian hughes. only them.#shitty band. shitty manager. aspiring music journalist following them around wishing he worked for nme writing reviews that#gradually get more biased the more he wants the guitarists cock in his mouth. these are my essentials
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Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched.
#rant incoming#this is the longest i have spent on a piece in . i have genuinely no idea#this started out w me just doing a rough painting of the ta’al and then i was like . well damn now i wanna draw jim#and then when i was almost finished jim i was like . ever since i first saw this movie almost 12 years ago i have wanted to do a rendition-#- of this scene . but have never had the artistic skill to execute it how i wanted#so was like fuck it. guess we doing spock now#and then i agonised over logging and details and skin tones and fkn Fingerprints for days if not weeks#anyway all that to say#i put a lot of time and effort into this bc this movie is so dear to me#as are those two#and i am really proud of myself for finally doing this. i’ve wanted to for over a decade now . rlly nice personal win 4 me :))#anyway on another note heaven iowa by fob is jim’s song and you can argue with the wall!#ok yapping done time for a stupid amount of tags apologies in advance#star trek aos#aos spirk#aos kirk#aos spock#spirk#star trek#jim kirk#spock#how many tags does jim even have oh god#captain kirk#james t kirk#stid#star trek into darkness#star trek fanart#is there an official trekkie art tag or no i stay relatively out of the community bc i have imposter syndrome#god this is too much text it’s too late for this shit if i’m forgetting something im sorry ok gn hope this doesn’t completely flop lol#edit: JUST FOUND OUT VULCANS CANONICALLY HAVE TWO EYELIDS BRO I JUST ADDED THEM BC I THOUGHT IT MADE SENSE FOR THE DESERT KITTY PLSSSSSS
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My 12-Week Year-Week 2
One Step Back but Three Steps Forward in Book Marketing On Sunday, I was supposed to go to an event that was supposed to be going on for the entire weekend. However, when I got there, no one had been there. In addition, it was very windy and it was raining. I decided to return home. I could have beat myself for having made this decision. It’s easy for “what ifs” to plague me. I let it go and…

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#Author Cygnet Brown#book marketing success#Eat that Frog by Brian Tracy#Launch by Jeff Walker#The 12 Week Year#The Wave Accounting Program
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didn't make one of these last year so here's my summary of art for 2023 and 2024! happy new year and here's to an amazing 2025!! 🎉🎉
#summary of art#summary of art 2023#summary of art 2024#art summary#my art#mine#actually kind of hilarious that 7/12 months this year are dc#and that's NOT including all the pieces i finished in sept for superbat week
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Trying to remember how to draw him T-T
#Fíli#the hobbit#how long has it been since i last drew him#at least a year right#but now i'm back in dat lotr phase ^o^#expect more probably!!#it's been so long since i've painted 'realistically' too aaaa#myart#week 12#week 168#i'm so behind on uploads#im trying T-T#might fix this one up once i see it with fresh eyes idk
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My final fashionably late festive sketchy coloured piece with young Sanji and his siblings all together along with Nyasha as well.
I hope everyone is having a lovely 2025 so far. :3c
#one piece#vinsmoke reiju#vinsmoke ichiji#vinsmoke niji#one piece sanji#vinsmoke yonji#vinsmoke family#vinsmoke siblings#kid vinsmoke siblings#one piece nyasha#my art#12daysofvinsmoke#12 days of vinsmoke#12daysofvinsmoke2024#one piece fanart#Say on last post it would get posted by tomorrow ha more a week. I got invested colouring this piece. All well at least it is done now.#vinsmoke sanji#An alternate reality where the Vinsmoke siblings happy and are with their mother. :’3#I will probably get bad luck posting a festive piece a week into the new year maybe who knows.#But who cares I’m just happy to see the piece is finally be done. So I focus on drawing other stuff now.
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happy new year and MAY i just say. i should have been at the club
#also happy 1 yr anniversary of me knowing new zealand guy. i'm too emotionally compensated to tell him this but just exchanging trivia about#NZ and the NL a few times a week (with like a 12 hour time zone delay) had been a really welcome distraction during a year thay was kinda#tough for me. UHUHUHU CHANCE MEETINGS#why tf did i type compensated when i meant CONSTIPATEDDDD
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If I see one more “they’re platonic soulmates 🥹🥰” comment on a tagged Caryl post I’m gonna go Carol on these mfs.
If you don’t ship it move on. Creeps. Only thing worse is when they follow up with “she’s like his mother. They have a mother-son relationship.” Wtf show are you watching?! They’re the same age??? Carol has adopted many children. None of them were a middle aged man named Daryl who she flirts with a dreams about being married too.
#twd caryl#Caryl#caryl is endgame#you don’t have to ship it#i get it#but damn why you gotta comment all over ship posts#I don’t trash on the other Daryl ships I just ignore them#just say soulmates 🙄#I just want them to be together already#I’ve done my waiting 12 years of it#the shows been hinting at it forever#I feel like I’m back in my old fandoms being queerbaited but with a straight couple#Destiel you’re endgame too ❤️#again you don’t have to ship it but the mom/som comments are so ridiculous#she literally jokes about him going down on her#like I get it if you want them just to stay besties or you ship them with other people but the mom/son comments are just 🤢#she flirts with him#they are the same age#just say you don’t want Daryl to be with someone with gray hair#daryl dixon#carol peletier#I haven’t started season 2 book of Carol so this could end very embarrassing for me#although honestly didn’t love season 1 with the weird messiah storyline#and Daryl abandoning Judith RJ and Carol#for some weirdo kid he’s known for a week#hated that#wow that last gif is perfect
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okay, when was someone going to tell me that
oh, idk, steven started at 19, burgh has a younger sister, clay actually isn't born american, skyla's whole fam thing and ELESA IS 15???? (even younger than skyla like wtf???)
(also the 'alder' at the bottom is supposed to be drayden lol)
and that's not all
say hello to:
viola being 18??? 'black whirlwind' korrina, RAMOS MEETING AZ'S FLOETTE AS A KID, genderfluid and apparently also age-fluid olympia, CLEMONT?? AND HIS WHOLE THING DOWN TO BEING 12 OF ALL AGES???
(you know what, marlon being 30 definitely makes sense with the hippie vibes)
wikstrom SAYING that he only wears that suit in pokemon battles but i've never seen his casual wear, malva being pr for flare lol, drasna selling dragon merch + great family lore if you want to know, siebold having to third-wheel lysandre and sycamore while eating (move aside malva, you're not the only elite 4 dealing with this) and 20?? YEARS OLD?? DIANTHA????????????
(way too many men in kalos are getting ladies, c'mon)
ethan being into history is such a neat detail hmmm, idk much of the frontier brains ngl, and we've finally got the region for looker and it's... hoenn??? you know what, makes sense with his chaotic vibes so i'll take it (throws away unova taped to a rock behind my back). also he's abolsutely cheating we all see that he's just relying on knowing us as protags, should've known smh
(um i think someone said that 'caitlin' should've been anabel but idk)
oh and the last one is charon, if we care about how much of a loser he really is. forget about birch and the poochyena, this guy is the lowest heh. imagine being charon (please don't).
(when the protags of johto are the same age as clemont lol) (yeah i know there are years between those events just let me have this)
and last but not least:
aaron 🤝 valerie: wanting to be pokemon (and ig gotta toss in shauntal with the ao3 writer gift heh, don't know if they would commission her or stay away), bertha's description???? i love flint just saying, cynthia 👀👀 is absolutely doing something illegal 👀👀, roark is WHAT??? (child labour laws in sinnoh must be lax ngl), maylene as well???? fantina watching scary movies is something i'll have to incorporate into my worldview and bryon?? are you okay??
so yeah. credit goes to @/KuroBlitz96 on the twitter/x for having this up, i'm just here to project sheer surprise at this massive dump of ages... my thoughts on pokemon have completely turned on its head once more lol (this is fine)
#sinnoh is the most surprising out of the regions avaliable#but c'mon 12 year old clemont?? he is legit baby#steven is really just chilling around for at least 4 years until the protag got him huh??#when i was first watching bw i thought that cilan was middle child until that 3rd last ep?? with the fight for the gym#and having the bros come to him cemented the idea that he was the oldest#so hearing that is good to know#even though i have to make peace that they never left the city lol#WHY IS ELESA/ROARK/MAYLENE/DIANTHA SO DANG YOUNG???#i can maybe let go of viola. in time. maybe.#i also love some of that lore/history dump here as well#lenora's dad bringing back fossils and lyra being torn between countryside/city#viola being a big sister figure and getting that camera from her father#crasher wake being a fake fan but also heavily embodying that barry spirit in his own way#the ramifications of the mother dying after bonnie was born and wow that gag in the anime is suddenly a lot more sadder huh#on the brighter side the prism tower used to be a part of a travelling amusement park lol#flint's hype!!! maylene being confused over her own strength!!! (thoughts about paul's insults hit a lot harder after this hmm)#wulfric being an explorer!! and i'm still not over ramos and az's floette oh god#unfollow me right now. this is all i can talk about for the next few weeks. my brain is way too small for this knowledge help#is it canon now?? idk. but the fact that this was here is killing me#pokemon teraleak#save#deep stuff
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