Officially busy
I'm not complaining, mind you. Still, my day is booked from 9 am to 5:30 today.
Okay, I have booked a walk with a friend AND a massage in there.
Yesterday, at the end of the day, I looked at my Toggl, the software where I keep track of what I do and how long it takes me to do it, and...it was at just over 10 hours. What was I DOING? I spend a couple of hours getting my next door neighbor into the VISTA program, that federal government program that pays you almost nothing to fight poverty. Five years ago, I used it to create a great network, learn Salesforce, get some in-depth experience working for nonprofits and meet some of my best friends. R is ready for a life change, and so I'm helping her with Salesforce. The other day, with a flash of insight, I suggested she might want to get a VISTA thing, never imagining she would be actually open to it. Bam, the minute she said yes, "the universe moved too."
I have three prospective projects that all moved to the "send me the invoice so we can get started" phase, and I spent time on the phone with the clients and then time in my database getting the work set up there. And I spent all kinds of time playing with apps I would be using to work with them. One of them involves a job I've never done before, moving the structure of one database to another. It's a very geeky thing to do, and I've always wanted to learn it. Yay! I spent some time on my upcoming certification study group-- I'm facilitating.
I've got three webinars saved in my "watch later" folder. I've got about ten country-themed slide shows I want to post to SlideShare and then embed in the worldstouch web site. And today, I need to finish the little report I promised to a partner on The Event Calendar for WordPress. I'm lovin' it and I didn't think I would. I'm a Google Calendar kinda gal, but this puppy will make beautiful event pages, a nice list for the sidebar AND let you post to google. I'm sold.
It would be dishonest not to say that twice yesterday, I got into g-chats with friends and didn't hurry them with just the basics before I signed off. That, mostly, was my life "before." No time for lingering encounters with friends. I used to say, "Work, yoga and sleep" was all I could get done. That wasn't strictly true, but I did get pretty proficient at the Art of Neglecting. I actually had a dream this week about inviting people over and having about an inch of dust all over the floor. If I were fastidious, I'd probably think it was already almost there. I'm neglecting laundry that needs to get folded, the last tendrils of my finances from the weekend that didn't get done.
Okay, I'm also going to stop with the judging. What gets done, gets done. What matters to me is the quality of my relationships. That is my star that, as my Grandma James used to exhort me, I hitch my wagon to.
Okay, I have booked a walk with a friend AND a massage in there.
Yesterday, at the end of the day, I looked at my Toggl, the software where I keep track of what I do and how long it takes me to do it, and...it was at just over 10 hours. What was I DOING? I spend a couple of hours getting my next door neighbor into the VISTA program, that federal government program that pays you almost nothing to fight poverty. Five years ago, I used it to create a great network, learn Salesforce, get some in-depth experience working for nonprofits and meet some of my best friends. R is ready for a life change, and so I'm helping her with Salesforce. The other day, with a flash of insight, I suggested she might want to get a VISTA thing, never imagining she would be actually open to it. Bam, the minute she said yes, "the universe moved too."
I have three prospective projects that all moved to the "send me the invoice so we can get started" phase, and I spent time on the phone with the clients and then time in my database getting the work set up there. And I spent all kinds of time playing with apps I would be using to work with them. One of them involves a job I've never done before, moving the structure of one database to another. It's a very geeky thing to do, and I've always wanted to learn it. Yay! I spent some time on my upcoming certification study group-- I'm facilitating.
I've got three webinars saved in my "watch later" folder. I've got about ten country-themed slide shows I want to post to SlideShare and then embed in the worldstouch web site. And today, I need to finish the little report I promised to a partner on The Event Calendar for WordPress. I'm lovin' it and I didn't think I would. I'm a Google Calendar kinda gal, but this puppy will make beautiful event pages, a nice list for the sidebar AND let you post to google. I'm sold.
It would be dishonest not to say that twice yesterday, I got into g-chats with friends and didn't hurry them with just the basics before I signed off. That, mostly, was my life "before." No time for lingering encounters with friends. I used to say, "Work, yoga and sleep" was all I could get done. That wasn't strictly true, but I did get pretty proficient at the Art of Neglecting. I actually had a dream this week about inviting people over and having about an inch of dust all over the floor. If I were fastidious, I'd probably think it was already almost there. I'm neglecting laundry that needs to get folded, the last tendrils of my finances from the weekend that didn't get done.
Okay, I'm also going to stop with the judging. What gets done, gets done. What matters to me is the quality of my relationships. That is my star that, as my Grandma James used to exhort me, I hitch my wagon to.