Today has been all about food. Craig dropped me off at Costco while he went to Top Foods. We hadn't even been out of the driveway for 9 days, and we needed to restock. Veggies were getting low, and we really need some more TLS friendly food. It was easier when we were doing the detox, now we have to get in some protein as well. Didn't get milk, have to so to Safeway to get the acidophilis milk for making my yogurt.
When we got home, it took us 2 hours to clean, prep and process everything. Now is it cooking time. It's cioppino night and Craig loves to make it. I love to eat it. So it works out pretty well. He doesn't have fresh shellfish tonight, only frozen, so no shells. :-( And we are 4 more weeks with no grains, so no crusty sourdough bread to go with it. (This is making a big difference, I lost 2 3/4 inches in my waist in the first week. I think I am definitely carb sensitive.)
I am now trying to work up some ambition to sort something in this office, but seems I am not really in the mood and would rather go crochet a hat right now.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Not What I was Supposed to Do
So I got totally sidetracked and lost. Didn't get anything done to my desk. What happened was this blog. It got me going. I set up a blog for both of my businesses (Sebring Shops and Sebring Total Wellness)! A good thing, right? They look great - at least I think so - and have been waiting for a couple of years for me to get to them. But the desk is still a mess. I did get two levels dusted, with only a cursory straightening.
It looks like there are too many categories of I-use-it-every-week items. It would be an easier task if I had less interests, or could separate something into another room. Which, by the way, is why I really need to get the mess cleaned up. I need to move the whole thing over to the other side of the room, switching the office end with the guest room end so we can get a wall and closets put in. I can see it finished (in my head) and it looks fantastic. But no work will get done until I start it. The idea has been there since fall. No action on my part YET.
Same thing for the furniture going to the rental duplex so we can get Craig's closet made. Too many projects. No interest in working so hard. At least on TLS I have more ambition and am getting more energy, so maybe there is hope for the future!
It looks like there are too many categories of I-use-it-every-week items. It would be an easier task if I had less interests, or could separate something into another room. Which, by the way, is why I really need to get the mess cleaned up. I need to move the whole thing over to the other side of the room, switching the office end with the guest room end so we can get a wall and closets put in. I can see it finished (in my head) and it looks fantastic. But no work will get done until I start it. The idea has been there since fall. No action on my part YET.
Same thing for the furniture going to the rental duplex so we can get Craig's closet made. Too many projects. No interest in working so hard. At least on TLS I have more ambition and am getting more energy, so maybe there is hope for the future!
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Snow Day Project
Ok, here I go. One more time. I can do this. Blogging really can't be that difficult, right? I start today. we currently have power in this extreme snow storm for Puget Sound. So I am getting busy cleaning and dusting off my desk. What a mess. I haven't gone though this paperwork since sometime 2010. Let's start this year off with a clean desk. This is after I've already spent a half hour on the desktop itself!Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Time Manages Me
I have learned that it is not easy to fit everything in. This blogging is certainly always last on my list and quite challenging to get to. It takes time to create new thinking patterns and therefore habits. Since I haven't devoted any time to this new habit I was going to create, it didn't happen.
As my business grows I am finding out that this is a good form of communication and I really could benefit from getting it going. Managing my time does seem to be my biggest challenge this year. Being busy is such an unusual situation that I wasn't prepared to handle it. I so have to depend on my calendar, and Outlook has shown itself to come up a bit short. We have a networked system of computers at our house and both of us schedule appointments. Sometimes both are expected to attend, sometimes it is just a courtesy to let the other know what is going on. So we have previously always tried to remember to invite each other to all of our appointments. But that doesn't happen every time. Consequently we have often found ourselves double booked, or with consecutive appointments across town from each other. And now we have the Local NMTSS events to add as well.
This issue prompted me to look for alternatives and I found the Google calendar to work quite nicely. Only thing, it will synchronize only one default calendar with my Outlook. Preferring to have all calendars - my Outlook, my PDA, Craig's Outlook, Craig's PDA, and both laptops that access the Google calendars - on the same page I look further for a more complete solution. I think I have found a good one. It is called Sync My Cal and so far it is getting all the calendars connected and synchronized. At only $25 it is not out of my price range, compared to any of the other commercial solutions that can cost hundreds. It can't get all of our appointments on the refrigerator calendar, but all others are looking good. Nice bonus feature is the contact sync that I have yet to try. If we both had all of our contacts together in one place - now that would be a miracle of organization!
Back to managing time. I am beginning to think that time manages me. If I don't have a concrete to-do list each morning and my weekly goals in front of me every day, I get so sidetracked! Yesterday I was supposed to do my vacuuming. Got so many other things done including organizing the paint cans in the garage - never did get to the vacuum. So that little chore is facing me today, when I already have enough to do - on the hottest day of our summer so far. Setting aside enough time to do everything I want to do is really not possible. I read a book by Brian Tracy - Eat That Frog that has helped when I feel overwhelmed. He said that we will never get everything done, so we shouldn't worry about it. It is better to get the most important thing for each day done right away and then everything else you get done that day is a bonus. That does help reduce the stress of too much to do.
Of course, not everything I want to do has to be done. But my Basic 5 checklist has to be #1. When it isn't I find myself sidetracked and not working on the important things. I am going to add "write in your blog" to my weekly checklist and move forward from here!
Here's to not getting sidetracked,
Leanna
www.SebringTotalWellness.com
As my business grows I am finding out that this is a good form of communication and I really could benefit from getting it going. Managing my time does seem to be my biggest challenge this year. Being busy is such an unusual situation that I wasn't prepared to handle it. I so have to depend on my calendar, and Outlook has shown itself to come up a bit short. We have a networked system of computers at our house and both of us schedule appointments. Sometimes both are expected to attend, sometimes it is just a courtesy to let the other know what is going on. So we have previously always tried to remember to invite each other to all of our appointments. But that doesn't happen every time. Consequently we have often found ourselves double booked, or with consecutive appointments across town from each other. And now we have the Local NMTSS events to add as well.
This issue prompted me to look for alternatives and I found the Google calendar to work quite nicely. Only thing, it will synchronize only one default calendar with my Outlook. Preferring to have all calendars - my Outlook, my PDA, Craig's Outlook, Craig's PDA, and both laptops that access the Google calendars - on the same page I look further for a more complete solution. I think I have found a good one. It is called Sync My Cal and so far it is getting all the calendars connected and synchronized. At only $25 it is not out of my price range, compared to any of the other commercial solutions that can cost hundreds. It can't get all of our appointments on the refrigerator calendar, but all others are looking good. Nice bonus feature is the contact sync that I have yet to try. If we both had all of our contacts together in one place - now that would be a miracle of organization!
Back to managing time. I am beginning to think that time manages me. If I don't have a concrete to-do list each morning and my weekly goals in front of me every day, I get so sidetracked! Yesterday I was supposed to do my vacuuming. Got so many other things done including organizing the paint cans in the garage - never did get to the vacuum. So that little chore is facing me today, when I already have enough to do - on the hottest day of our summer so far. Setting aside enough time to do everything I want to do is really not possible. I read a book by Brian Tracy - Eat That Frog that has helped when I feel overwhelmed. He said that we will never get everything done, so we shouldn't worry about it. It is better to get the most important thing for each day done right away and then everything else you get done that day is a bonus. That does help reduce the stress of too much to do.
Of course, not everything I want to do has to be done. But my Basic 5 checklist has to be #1. When it isn't I find myself sidetracked and not working on the important things. I am going to add "write in your blog" to my weekly checklist and move forward from here!
Here's to not getting sidetracked,
Leanna
www.SebringTotalWellness.com
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