Your December Goals & The Sparkle Call
Mon 4 Dec, 9.30am - Continuing our 'Joyful Growth' chats and co-working
“From tiny acorn seeds, might oak trees grow.”
Hi all,
How are you? ✨ How’s life?
How’s Substack life? 😃
You know, I was just thinking about (and journalling on) my own goals for Substack for the month…
The main goal I have is to make myself rest and get creative in off line ways. More at the end of the post…
I’m hosting our Sparkle members call tomorrow (the penultimate of the year). If you’re not yet a member and you’d like to come along for free, please email me TODAY and I’ll send you the zoom link. It would be my honour and my pleasure to support you as a gift this season.
Do you know your goals for Substack for this month?
I’d love to hear in the comments? Your comments really inspire me here - co-creation is part of my practise and it fuels so much of my direction here on Sparkle!
7 pillars of joyful growth.
We covered two pillars last time round. We’re doing two more tomorrow!
Did you catch the replay? You can head to the members area to do that!
Mon 4 Dec - The Sparkle Call - Session Details
JOYFUL GROWTH on Substack - Co-working (workshop 2) - PLUS Substack Growth Q&A - Mon 4th December, 9.30-10.45am BST.
Your time zone convertor is here.
In our mini joyful growth workshop tomorrow, we are covering;
Free trials and how/ do they work??
Substack Notes and how to be there with your audience.
Our zoom meeting link is here in your members calendar post.
You can come along cameras on or off, in pjs, from a cupboard at work, on a walk, from the bath - it’s all good!
We’ll start muted, use the chat box to say hi and network and then have a chat at the end. This will be when I finish recording as I’m finding this is nicer for everyone’s energy and confidence.
🌱 If you’re new here this was a really well received post on joyful growth…
My December Goals…for Substack…
🎁 to write in notebooks FIRST!
This month, I have a post to write for
, a beautiful collab with , my ongoing work with my colleague and creative bestie . A commitment to my writer pals over at ‘s Heart Leap club to show up and write. I’m also writer in residence for by and of course two beautiful calls to host for you. In between all of that there will be rest. I’ll be at the spa thinking, journalling and swimming, I’ll be out for walks in our wintery wonderland of Northumberland observing.I’ll be putting my phone away - are you listening so we can rest and watch allllll the Christmas movies with the kids and hope they sit still. I’m still tentative on whether I’m scheduling anything for over the holidays - I’m hoping you’ll help me decide… so to rest! 🥱
Sending sparkles to you all for the rest of your Sunday folks,
Claire x
PS - would LOVE to hear your December goals in the comments?! Stats, subs, paid subs, open rates, recommendations, a tentative step into video, audio, collabs, something else?
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PPS - I have to give a shout out to my dear friend who is writing and creating here quietly. If you resonate, you can find her work here
PPPS - There is ONE spot left on my SMALL group programme for Substack growth next year. It’s going to BE wonderful - I have my guest experts confirmed in
and and we are getting together to ‘Curate our Substacks’, support each other and GROW!
My goal was to try and get to 100 subscribers by the end of the year, but I somehow managed to hit 106 today after my latest Slow Sunday Letter (mind blown) ... so I need some new goals! I have started to outline my posts for over the Christmas period, and I am also toying with a couple of weeks off posting over the Christmas/New Years week, but I do feel a little nervous... I don't want to lose any momentum! Will try and join you in the morning! Thank you for holding space for us Claire.
Here on Substack I’m planning to send out one email next week and then go into hibernation mode. Meanwhile I’m slowly laying track for my self publishing course, but without urgency and deadline it doesn’t feel heavy. Of course, after setting up the first half Substack went and changed things (you can now add a cover images for podcasts in a different way.) It looks great actually, but it means I have to go back and do that bit over. Just taking it all in its own time. It will be done when it’s done. And no one wants that in December anyway.
For life, I want some expansive space for baking and crafting ornaments and holiday films (Davy sat through the whole of the Snow Queen on Cebeebies and loved it.) He’s at that magic age for Christmas and I don’t want to miss it in a fog of stress.