Just a few random thoughts for a Monday morning…
First, after writing yesterday’s posts about figuring out how to activate Tasks in Gmail, I’ve gone a bit crazy with Tasks and my Google Calendar. Although it may not seem like it when you first see my office, I absolutely THRIVE when I’m organized. I work better if I know what I’m supposed to accomplish before I sit down, and if I don’t know EXACTLY where something is when I need it, I can waste hours (if not days) looking for it.
So 2012 is going to be the year when I get organized. My first goal is to spend (no, make that “invest”) 15 minutes per day in going through the piles of stuff in my office and either organizing it or getting rid of it.
“Gentlemen, Start Your Shredders!”
Gonna be a lot of that going on in my house come January… If I wait that long…
I’m also going to take, at the most, 15 minutes every evening to decide what I want to accomplish the next day, then review that list first thing in the morning and around 3:00 PM (when I get home from work). And I don’t want to work on my business for more than 3 hours on most days because it’s starting to interfere with family and personal life. Yes, I hear all of you “screaming” that I’m not committed, but instead of “committed”, I hear “fanatical” — and quite frankly, I do this for my family. No point in building a seven figure business if I drive away my family in the process. Besides, I can probably get more done in three organized, focused hours than I’m currently doing.
Your opinion may vary. Only you can decide what’s best for you and your business.
I’m also going to try to refrain from doing any business work from sundown on Friday until sundown on Saturday each week. Yes, it’s the Jewish Sabbath (or Shabbat), and no, I’m not Jewish, nor do I have any intentions of ever becoming one. In fact, I’m not even what most people would call “Christian” because that word has religious connotations, and in my opinion, religion has caused many / most / all of the problems we have in the world nowadays. Instead, I am trying to learn how to follow in the footsteps of Yeshua (Jesus) of Nazareth and live in the forgiveness he offers, and in order to do that, I need to learn more about the rich heritage of the Hebrew and Jewish culture that he was a part of. So “Shabbat” is on my to-do list now. Or is it a “not-to-do” list? 
I’ll probably write for my spiritual journey blog on those days (because I’m learning so much right now), but that’s about it insofar as work goes.
Another thing about yesterday’s blog post: You may have noticed that my blog looks kind of “spartan” in that there isn’t a whole lot of “extras” slung here and there around it. You know: stuff like ads, ads, and ads…
I do that on purpose because people visit blogs to read them — and all that “other stuff” gets in the way. Did you ever visit a blog where you had to get past a header graphic, 3 ads, and a whole bunch of other stuff you weren’t interested in before you got to the blog post — which was crammed into a column about an inch wide so the owner could post a ton of adds to the left and right of the blog post? Ugh!
There’s a right way and a wrong way to do ads (Pawel Reszka does it well — and also writes some pretty darn good content on his site! — so if you get hacked anytime soon, Pawel, it was just me, copying all of your themes and plugins…), and while I’ll probably add some type of ads to this blog at some point in the future, I won’t make you look all day to find the content. As a side note, I’ve already incorporated one change to this blog as a step towards future improvement… If any of you long-time readers can figure it out (Hi, Mom!), please leave a comment and let me know, OK?
(If you simply must know, drag your mouse over the white text area between the parenthesis. I wrote the answer in a white font… (I simply increased the size of the text column from 480 pixels to 600 pixels, which effectively increased the size by about 25%. Easy to do when you use the Thesis Theme! — and that is an affiliate link…)
But the graphics I added to the blog yesterday were nice. At least I think so! So much, in fact, that I’ve decided to start adding more graphics to this (and my other) blogs if they contribute to the information I’m trying to convey. And since I just upgraded to WordPress 3.3, it’s very easy to do so (as if it were a problem in previous versions…). So I’ll start adding more graphics and pictures to my blog. It should make it look nicer and will hopefully make it more useful for you.
By the way, the picture to the right is a quick photo I took of Pike’s Peak back in May of this year. It has nothing to do with this blog post (other than show how much I love living in Colorado Springs, with the mountains so close), but if I’m talking about adding pretty pictures, then I should probably add one to this post…
As always, I value and appreciate your feedback. Please let me know how I can make this blog more valuable for you.
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