It's all good so far

The challenge today is one that I should be able to handle. I have a simple deadline for a request for information. Normally I would just shoot it back with the answers however, this needs to be a coaching moment for a last minute youth volunteer. I do need to remind myself that this is their opportunity.

So I am working on a coaching response to send to the youth, alerting him step up and letting me step out of my comfort zone.

Monday am and it is a new week. Progress made with the online book keeping getting the 2012 online balance to match the bank’s. Then spent some time entering the details to a complex buyer only to lose the edits. The system does not like shortcuts.

I should know by now that there are no shortcuts when trying to keep things in balance. There is no quick weight loss, bills don’t miraculously disappear overnight, and that if there seems to be an easy way to get the data entry done, the details will prove my undoing.

So it appears that I must slog on. On the treadmill, on the diet, on the book keeping. It’s what it takes. I will eventually accept it.

No entry yesterday. Up early and away to a Scout Meeting in Austin. Six hours of travel and seven hours of meeting. I do feel better about the service project that we are getting into. I am not sure that I was successful in getting balance. I did get some things delegated but it looks like I picked up a Saturday of work in exchange.

The cold seems better. I still get drowsy in the afternoons and sleep comes in short deep bursts, split with moments of conscious viewing of the alarm clock. I feel that it has been good rest, the trick will be getting a solid 8 hours in. Definitively will have to vary the routine.

Enjoyed breakfast and the paper with Sandra. Off then for some grocery shopping. Working on the diet. More soups and fruits instead of snacking on cheesecake crackers. With a thirteen hour meeting yesterday – there was not much opportunity for exercise. I will have to put a break into the data entry’s this afternoon and get a good walk in.

Time to set the distractions aside and jump into the accounting entry.

I have noticed that when I open my iPad, the screen orientation never seems to be in the direction I need it. I spend a moment to get re-oriented before if move forward with whatever I had planned.

While I can look at this as beginning a minor annoyance, I also have consider that one of the things we are pushing out in our safety launch is where one stops, thinks about what is important to them and then reexamines the situation to see if one an proceed safely.

Perhaps I should view the moment it takes to reorient my screen as an opportunity for another quick review of what is important and perhaps to reorient myself as well before proceeding.