AJ is Always Juggling

Once I had (finally) committed to going for Giant Squid status in June, I had no problem with signing up for the Giant Squid Challenge and applied to join JJJJ’s Team, which is organised by the lovely Lensmaster Joan4. The list of lenses being added to the Plexo is growing fast, but how it compares to the other teams, I do not know. I have been so busy with my other projects on Squidoo that I have not had time to have a look.

However, what I am enjoying about the challenge is that it has brought me into contact with Lensmasters who I have not “met” before on Squidoo and the sense of Team Spirit that is evolving. Lensmaster Michey has set up a special blog, which has pages dedicated to the Potential Giant Squids and the Potential Giant 100s plus links to the lenses being made. A very valuable source of backlinks! Thank you Michey!

I now have 14 lenses to make it to 50, but am aiming to do a couple extra just in case. I am still finding it hard to make “quick quality lenses” as once I get going on an idea, I always seem to have a lot I want to say! However, I have been trying to focus on topics that I have a lot of personal knowledge and experience of, to reduce the research I need to do and I have also been trying to sort out my time management.

5 New Lenses!

Being involved with RocketMoms has helped me focus on making specific lenses and so far, after two tasks I have not had a problem thinking up topics that fit in with the Task and this is what I have been up to in the last two weeks:

10 things I want to do: For Week 1 of RocketMoms, we had to make an “About Me” lens. I already had quite a few lenses in this category, (including my Squidoo Angels  lens which made it to #1 in About Me), so it is not a topic I would have picked, but I had no trouble coming up with an idea.

As soon as I completed the task, I then turned my mind to another lens I had been planning for some time and published I Love You Dad. This lens is the “partner” of I Love You Mum and although the lenses will probably do best around the time of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, I have made them so that they are not just topical for that time of year.

Then it was RocketMoms Week 2 and the task was to make a “niche” lens. This gave me the motivation to start the first in a series of lenses I had planned but had yet to get going on and so Time Management tips for WAHMs was born.

However, I ignored my own advice to finish one job before I started another because I soon came to realise that the first few modules were about a time management related topic and I had enough material to make a separate lens. So, I stopped what I was doing and did a lens about Stop Procrastination instead!

Finally, my sick goldfish inspired me to do another lens. The challenge for this lens was not the content, because thanks to our sick goldfish, I have learned a very helpful fact about the ailment that it suffers from time to time. (This also enabled me to narrow my keywords down to be very specific. I hope Lensmaster Spirituality will be very proud of me!) No, the challenge was there was a danger that although I had something interesting to pass on, how could I make the lens enjoyable. What is there to enjoy about a sick goldfish?

So I did something I have not done on any lens before. You will have to visit Our Goldfish Swims Upside Down to see what I did