New Priorities for 2023

Well, I'm happy to report I had a great Prayer & Planning Retreat week last week.

(I highly recommend doing this if you have never tried it before; though you may wish to start with just one day, or part of a day, especially if you are afraid you won't know what to do with youself for a whole week of this.)

I did pause to check emails once or twice during each day, but I only answered those that required an immediate answer. I will try to catch up on the rest this week.

Well, I had many ideas - some of which I could or should do, and some of which I had some hankering for, but aside from the blocks of time that were already committed in stone, I could only take on three major projects.

1. Now that I have a shopping cart connection for the diecast models I'm gearing up to sell in earnest now - all to keep my promise to my brother Tom - as he asked on his deathbed (and before). it just seemed obvious that I need to give extra time to this, so I've set aside Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings for this. I did get 8 products connected up for sale before Christmas, but I sense that once this site is discovered, there will need to be many more products ready for sale.

Thursday evening is still promised to my clients and some of their sites need to be rebuilt, so though one client is pulling back more and more, and wants to end my contract in June, I still have at least three sites to rebuild. Maybe four. Friday night is for bookkeeping. A must for a business woman.

2. Secondly, now that I have a shopping cart account for selling ebooks, not on just one site, but on as many as I can paste a few lines of code on a "Store page", my mind is humming with ideas for ebooks. Some that I wrote years ago, and set aside, and some that need to be written yet.

I could easily assign all my morning and afternoon hours to this, but the Lord has been impressing on me for more than a year now, that it is time to write that book for Caregivers, especially those now finding themselves thrust into the position of being the adult who has to make decisions for their elderly parents or grandparents. When Dad died in 2007 I begged the Lord for a break before I tried to write that book. I think my "break period of 15 years" is probably long enough.

However, so many of my notes, thoughts and experiences are in my handwritten prayer journals from those caregiver years. About 23 years worth! Hunting for exact details by skimming back and forth through my spiral notebooks and binders full of those prayers is utterly hopeless. I learned from doing the WTM history book that first all those notes have to be typed/keyed into the computer and then I can do a search through those documents when I want to find one name or detail or event.

By my calculations, just giving 1-2 hours a day to do that Transcribing, will mean about 6 years of preparation time! Ouch!!

So to balance out time for the ebooks with this huge transcribing job I've decided to give my mornings to the transcribing, except for Tuesday mornings, which I will save for this RoseBouquet. The ebooks will have to limp along with whatever time I can spare in the afternoons, aside from answering emails.

Let's see if I can juggle the work of three people. Not counting the cooking, cleaning and gardening I like to sneak in too.

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