Bookending Chat

Hi, I’m Rachel Z. Cornell, The ProNagger. Bookending is a tool I use with my clients. Clients have direct access to me by text message or voice mail for their bookends. It’s such an effective tool that I wanted to offer the opportunity to create a bookending community.

How does bookending work? Simply. That’s the wonderful thing about it, its simplicity.

1. Commit to doing something. Come to the chat and write OPEN BOOKEND: and post your action you’re about to take. For the best results, you should plan to go do your committed activity right after you send your update.

2. Go do your committed activity. Nothing is too big or too small. Bookends are best when the activity is one step or lasts 5, 10 or no more than 30 minutes. A one step bookend might be “go call my father.” A 10 minute action might be “10 focused minutes on revising first section of my manuscript.”

3. Come back here and CLOSE BOOKEND by saying you accomplished what you set out to do. If you didn’t say that too. Then start another bookend.

4. Before making your next bookend or leaving the site for the day see if anyone else just crossed their finish line and offer a word of support.

Bookend as often as you want, this chat is for you. Now and then I will run marathons. For the marathons you will want to work on a single project throughout the day or number of hours. I will host and be available for questions and support for these special events.

So go, bookend. I’ll be here myself as a part of the community, doing my own bookends.

Important: This page is like a drive-thru. Make your commitments and then go do them.