Timing of Life

One thing as of late which I can’t seem to find a good balance on is timing. Like when should I do XYZ? or should I take the time for ABC? - just been a lot on the plate, by far in the last 5 years, this year’s end of year wrap up has been the most hectic - eCommerce, Hosting Consulting, Server Cleanups, Server Audits, etc. etc. - but on that same level also relationships outside of work, family, friends, and possibly more than friends.

Just lately feels like everything is hitting at the same time, work, mixing with personal, mixing with family, mixing with faith. When I started in this biz working for another company my boss hit a roadblock, and at which his repair/escape from the pressure was exstacy (or so we were told) he didn’t kill himself or anything, just his judgement went from great ideas, to too much on our plates, varied priorities, and the eventual break up of the company - went from great things to end of it in a matter of weeks. Sad stuff. I want to avoid that, and truly find the proper timing, and priorities.

One thing I have always tried to do with this business of mine as of late is balance with personal time, had some definate help from friends and family in keeping my sanity, but I am having to re-structure how to spend my time. I recently announced to CMC’s forums I am leaving at the end of this year, just no time to focus there, re-vamping service level agreements for servers I manage for the new year, explaining what my fee covers, hours, response times, etc. just making sure my time is spent wisely and properly - I still enjoy helping people, I enjoy giving customers more when I can, but over the past 5 years I have built a solid base, God has sent me some awesome clients, and has helped me to shape my business, well even though I wanted to make 2005 the year for personal life, I didn’t achieve it persay, but I did get my foot in the door, and still have a month to do more, but its a start, with 2006, I hope I can have some people brought on staff, to expand operations, hours, and services.

So I guess it’s true, thing’s don’t always work out as we plan, but I am hopeful of what 2006 has to offer, and also what the remainder of 2005 has in store, all in due time I suppose, but I do think things in my life will begin to simplify a bit in the realm of work, and become oh-so-more complicated in others (but thats a good thing)