Archive for May, 2010

May 25

life’s little hiccups

Recently, I had the opportunity to review my ability to persevere. I came through fairly unshaken, though not perfect. And fortunately for me, I’m not overly concerned about perfection more than doing my best.

I have to move and I’m not ready to move. It’s been thrust upon me to make this happen even though I’m not ready, financially or otherwise.

Having just started my certification training, I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to focus. But that wasn’t really the problem. I love the training so I will find the focus. I thought about the money, but that’s only part of the problem, and one that I’m working on daily.

The biggest problem I had was fretting and not being able to sleep. An unrested mind is bereft of good ideas, to say nothing of optimal daily functioning. So today, I slept for many hours. It wasn’t so much an effort to catch up as it was an attempt to relieve my stress headache. It had been around for the past week and today it was making my eyes close because the pressure was so bad.

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May 15

permission to focus

It is  a lot exciting and a little intimidating to be back in a classroom setting–as a student. I’m thrilled about my first formal training toward computer certification. And it’s intimidating, ever so slightly, to be accountable to others for learning material within a given time. It probably has to do with learning things on my own for many years now.

permission denied

It’s a pleasure to learn new things that interest me. I guess that’s why I keep picking up on new things here and there. But I have to say that I am not one to finish everything that I start. Even useful things that are fun for me must sometimes be abandoned for things that are more pressing. And getting back to abandoned projects is not the easiest thing to do. You may not know anything about this, but I can tell you it’s difficult.

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May 09

twitter work

Tomorrow is my first day at school. And I’m so excited I have no words. But I do have some ideas of things that need to be expedited. This was definitely a Twitter weekend. I needed to step up my tweeting activities. I’d fallen off for a while but I know it’s important to get back into it—for work as well as play.

social media preparations

TweetDeck
I’ve been working on finding writing jobs and everything I read lets me know I’m practically writing in a vacuum if I don’t promote my writing. So I decided that I needed to step up my tweeting game by insuring that I get the most out of my Twitter client—clients, now.

First I signed on for a TweetDeck account. Usually, I just dismiss the offer to sign up but I was curious. Research on the subject yielded none of the information that I was looking for. So, I decided to try it out for myself, and wow!

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May 06

time’s short before training starts

Remember, last post I mentioned I secured training for A+ certification? Well, I do have a spot. The 14 week training program begins MONDAY. That’s less than a week away and I’m so excited! At the same time, I’m focused—trying to be focused about the things that I want to accomplish before I get started.

5, 6, and 7

I was reviewing my list that I shared last time and I can honestly click of three things right now, with a fourth coming later today. Numbers 5, 6, and 7 are well in hand.

Number 7 details: In fact, for #7, the posts for my dormant work blog, I actually wrote several and scheduled them for release throughout this week.

And I like it so much for that one, I’ll likely continue doing it by writing much on Thursday through Sunday. (Did I mention that I only have class Monday through Thursday?) That will give me more than enough time to generate the number of posts I’m aiming for which is 4 weekly. My class time will be over before I know it and I will have a tolerable routine in place that I can continue beyond that time.

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