While writing/updating the Official ACT QuickStudy Guide for Sage, I keep an elaborate spreadsheet tracking how many hours I have spent on the project, how many pages have been reviewed, how many days until identified deadlines, how many pages/day I have to complete to make my deadlines, and more.

Since ACT! 2008 is Vista compliant, I am also reshooting all of the screen captures and making notations in the book about differences between the current Microsoft world and the new one (Vista and Office 2007). My college-aged son is helping me with the screen captures. Some of his comments about working 8 to 5 versus project work have made me realize how important it is to have goals and methods of tracking our progress. It is what keeps us ... sane. It helps us to know if we really are ahead of the game or struggling to keep up.

Impossible goals are what makes life interesting, and sometimes challenging, and many times fun. It's the organization that makes getting there manageable