While I’m still working on revising my first manuscript (more on that later – it’s going well!), I’m trying to get going with novel #2 as well. I was about to write “trying to get disciplined” about writing novel #2, but I remembered a recent Zen Habits post with the enticing (if sensationalist) title The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need. Leo made a very valid point that sticking to your goals is not a matter of discipline, but a matter of motivation: if you make your goals motivating enough for you, then you will achieve them without the military-style push of “discipline”. That makes sense to me.

So anyhow, speaking of motivation, the owner of the Comotivate website contacted me recently because he’d (rightly) heard that I’m interested in achieving goals. Comotivate is a quite new website (actually it’s still in beta) that aims to connect up like-minded people who are trying to achieve similar goals. For example, my goal is listed in the Write a book goal list although I’ve yet to find a buddy or a team to join. By far the biggest number of people have joined up with health-related goals like getting fit or losing weight.

But I really like the idea and encourage you to check Comotivate out if you’re like me and need a bit of support to reach one of your goals … and especially if you’re trying to write a book too then search for me and “buddy up”! It’s easy to find me on Comotivate because my username is amandak and my picture is of my cat Lucy.