Last month, I wrote:

What could January look like? I’d like to:

• create lots of value for my consulting clients
• start the marketing and sales process going for upcoming events – hope I’m not too late for the events in March!
• delegate more: add a new person to my virtual team
• maintain my twice-weekly fitness/self-defence class schedule

I hit the ground running with a couple of much-appreciated tweaks and tools for my consulting clients.

I’ve decided to scale back a little on selling sketchnoting services for conferences because I’m also curious about developing other business models. Still, it’s great to have a few events lined up! I’d like to practise graphic recording, and am looking forward to ordering some equipment.

Patricia has been a great addition to my virtual team. I should send them more work. I’ve been a little remiss.

Fitness class has been less regular as of late, but at least I keep going even though I sometimes get really anxious.

In February, I’d like to do a lot more coding and a lot more drawing. We’ll see how it works out!

• Sketchnotes
  • Visual book review: Blue Ocean Strategy–W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
  • Sketching twelve business ideas
  • Visual book review: The Art of Pricing: How to Find the Hidden Profits to Grow Your Business–Rafi Mohammed
  • Sketchnote: ENT101 Lived It Lecture–Kunal Gupta, Polar Mobile
  • Sketchnote about mindmapping: Rock the Monkey: Visual Facilitation Skills and Brain-based Learning–Chuck Frey
  • Visual book review: Cool Time: A Hands-on Plan for Managing Work and Balancing Time–Steve Prentice
  • Imagining an index of sketchnotes
  • Reflections on sketchnoting TEDxOCADU
• Plans
  • Looking back and looking forward
  • Web app idea: Stamp mix calculator
  • Imagining the next five years and planning 2013
  • Planning by the numbers: Checking the length of my runway
  • An embarrassing failure is the result of a series of unfortunate decisions, and that’s a good thing
  • Planning my code/development learning
• Business
  • Business experience report: Amending my T2 corporate tax return
  • In which I do the same thing again and again
  • Accelerating my business learning: setting a goal for a new business every month
  • Experiment notes: Accounting, sales, and marketing–all the other parts of a business
• Emacs
  • Emacs Org: Display projects with a few subtasks in the agenda view
  • Emacs Org: Task-related keyboard shortcuts for the agenda
• Life
  • Cooking: Warm lentil salad with sausages
  • Reading old letters and relearning how to write
  • The smugometer
  • Quantified Awesome: Taking inventory of stuff in closets and drawers
  • Figuring out my guidelines for time
  • It’s my dad’s 65th birthday today
  • Helping people learn more about programming
  • Things I value unequally
  • First thoughts on Windows 8
• Reviews
  • Monthly review: December 2012
  • Weekly review: Week ending January 4, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending January 11, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending January 18, 2013
  • Weekly review: Week ending January 25, 2013