Imaginif...the spirit of Christmas lasted.

For a smart woman I’m pretty dumb sometimes!!! I have been stressing because I just have not been able to find the time to write to Writer’s Prompts Daily or to work on a book project (secret squirrel stuff).

Prone to an over developed super ego that growls me for being anything less than super woman,  have been blaming my age, my eye sight, and my abilty for not smashing through the work as I usually do.  I felt stressed as a result of not performing.

Last night I called a meeting with myself and gave myself a good talking to. I put myself on performance review and provided warning that a pay drop would continue unless I picked up my game and performed miracles again.

In defence of myself I came up wih all sorts of reasons why I don’t have enough hours in the day for my extra curricula activities….and then the truth fell on me like a brick of bird shit falling from afar!

What a baby I am! The reason I’m not getting through everything is because I am actually sleeping for the first time in years! That is a fantastic thing. Congratulations to me. Where once I arose at 4.30am to knock over all my personal tasks before work, nowadays I am not getting up until 7am and thinking that I can still squash personal, university and freelance work into my day. Huh! I am such an idiot.

I’m not working at a lesser rate. I’m working less hours and trying to fit the same amount in as I was producing before.

I refuse to become super woman again so therefore I am back at the drawing board looking at which extra curricula activities can go out the window. It won’t be my writing and it won’t be my study. I’ve already given up housework and sport. Ummmm, perhaps I’ll give up stressing and just cruise happily along. It’s okay if I don’t get everything done, every single day.

Stressed spelt backward is desserts. I’m going to swap being stressed for desserts by the pool Life is indeed good.

Don’t forget that along with creating words for your business, I build fantastic wordpress sites for people wanting to increase their internet presence.  I’ve just finished hacking a free blogspot theme for a client - Penny Pearling. Now there is a woman who knows how to have fun. Man, she is one hot lady! I damn near melted when I read her ebook! My recommendation: if you need a little something to get you going, read Penny!

Penny encouraged me to put my own book up on smashwords too (mine is not raunchy like Penny’s is – mine is a children’s book). Bitss of Caramel Marmalade on Toast is now available as a multi-format ebook at Smashwords. As many of you know, the book is a novel approach to teaching body ownership and personal safety in a non threatening way. I hope you’ll take time to check it out at Smashwords, where you can sample the first 30% of the book for free. To buy the book is only $3.00 compared to $15.00 for a hard copy in a book store.