For me:
Hard: This feeling that I was just falling further and further behind in some of my blogging activities early in the week.
Fun: Working with a friend to create some videos.
Beautiful: Deciding mid-week to take a day off from work and stay home and just concentrate of blogging. And it was beautiful to do this, so peaceful for that day and for the good feelings it brought.

Hard: I want to be a squidoo giant and the deadline is getting close, so I’m making squidoo lenses as if there were no tomorrow.

Fun: Thursday I went to my sister’s house and watched Spiderman and Batman YouTube videos with my two little nephews.

Beautiful: Yesterday I was jogging on a path that runs along the ocean and it had already gotten dark. When I looked to my right I could see all of these little lights off in the horizon. They were ships waiting to sail across the Panama Canal.

For me:
Hard: This feeling that I was just falling further and further behind in some of my blogging activities early in the week.
Fun: Working with a friend to create some videos.
Beautiful: Deciding mid-week to take a day off from work and stay home and just concentrate of blogging. And it was beautiful to do this, so peaceful for that day and for the good feelings it brought.

Hi Keishua, I hear ya about the early wake up time. It’s not easy adjusting to change.

Hi Evita, waking up by our own internal clock is something we should all live by. It’s tough to live by other people’s schedules.

Hi Nathalie, never played bridge, but I love strawberry smoothies.

Hi Nathan, thanks!

Hi Sue, setting up a business is always exciting. Good luck! You always have such insightful comments. Hope you have fun with your mum.

Hi Barbara L., 2am or 3am. You are crazy! You must be tired by the time 5pm comes around.

Hi Patty, focus is one of my tough things too. My scattered brain likes to do 3 things at once. The problem is that I never get anything accomplished.

Hi Barbara, I love the mountains. That’s one thing that Austin doesn’t have. I need to go on a trip into a mountainous region very soon.

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I’m beginning to think multi-tasking is WAY over rated. I find I do a better job when I focus on one task at a time and then move onto the next one. I don’t mind an interruption like a phone call, or someone showing up in my office, but then I (try)to go back to that which I was working on. Like you, I forget where I was when I multi-task.

For me, this week..

Hard – Staying off of my blog and the blogs of others so I could concentrate on work or chores.

Fun – Going for a drive with my husband – we always have a lot of laughs.

Beautiful – Looking at the mountains. Oh, how I love the mountains.

Hard: Staying focused, dealing with my wandering and somewhat scattered thoughts and actions. Maybe something to do with the autumnal equinox? Seasonal changes always seem to affect me.

Fun: Doing yoga with my husband in the evening after work!

Beautiful: I realized I could take some of my work into the living room, where just outside the window lives a huge morning glory vine in full bloom. It certainly doesn’t know it’s fall yet, and its beauty has filled me up this week.

Thanks for the inspiration!

I wish it would rain here; ‘way too chilly/cold. I love rainstorms; they bring out the best of emotions.

Don’t be too hard on yourself about the multi-tasking. I’m quite sure we are NOT meant to multi-task: Even computers don’t actually multi-task, it just looks that way to us. I recommend re-reading Leo Babauta’s articles on doing less (i.e., no multi-tasking) but doing less really well.

Here’s my summary of the hard, fun, and beautiful this week.

Hard–After putting in extra time last week (including when I was at home sick with a really nasty cold)to ensure that I met a deadline (I was given 9 days to accomplish a slightly smaller version of a project that a colleague had worked on for several months last year!), I was told my boss wouldn’t be able to look at it until the following week. Sigh… It’s also a bit challenging at the moment realizing that I likely won’t have this job in about three more weeks. That in itself is a good thing and I will be celebrating the escape from a toxic office–but so far I’ve not been able to get anything else lined up. The number of things I need to do to get “Plan B” into place is feeling a bit overwhelming! Okay, one thing at a time….

Fun–well, my Mum and I are heading off to Granville Island for the afternoon. It’s a really neat place with a huge farmer’s market and lots of artsy stores, galleries, etc. While I’m there, I’m going to get tickets to a couple of events at an upcoming Writers & Readers Festival, and enter one of my poems into the writing contest they are holding. I have also been doing some preliminary footwork for setting up my own consulting business. I really need to find/make the time to do a bit of marketing research and figure out which of the many skills I have –and enjoy exercising–are most in demand.

Beautiful–The way the morning light catches the leaves on the trees and makes them appear to shimmer–or burn in the case of leaves that are starting to change colour. Perfectly woven spider webs with dew drops on them that look like little opals as they change colour in the sunlight.

Okay, I’d better get to my most important things for the day–like firing off a few more resumes!

Best wishes to everyone for a fabulous Friday and weekend.

You’ve got a wonderful perspective and are very inspirational. Keep rocking man.

It’s so good to focus on and regroup weekly. My twitter-length recap:
The hard: Buying & assembling lamps, moving, blarg.
The fun: Playing bridge with friends, making strawberry smoothies.
The beautiful: Getting in the flow of my work and loving it.