daily reflection. 6.32am Thursday 9th March 2017

What went well.

Yesterday Hub and I went to Jane's Place Co-Working.  That was a good move.  Day before Hub was practically insane with frustration at having builder in house. Causing chaos (but transforming our house for the SO MUCH BETTER).  He had been stuck in a very negative energy.  Bad back pain, angry, STUCK in his anger and pain "I feel like I am TRAPPED in this house! There is no solution!" etc.  Which wasn't true, but pain can make you beligerant (sp?).  So I was delighted when he said he would come too.  It was a huge success.  Working outside the home is so much more productive, especially when you have a loud radio and externalising builder.  (Our chap, talks to himself about what he is doing, a lot! and loudly! - thank god he listens to radio 6 - but its still all loud!)

We found a delicious and delightful spot for lunch in Portslade (Franklins?) a cafe which also sells renovated old furniture.

Later that afternoon on the way to pick up Bub from school, I had a brainwave.  We are currently rabbit sitting, for friends who are travelling in Goa.  We must feed the rabbits, clean them out etc, but also let them out for a run in the garden every day.  My friend suggested I take some work round there, and it dawned on me (as Jane's Place co working only runs Mondays and Wednesdays) that - Hub can work there during the day!  Perfect!  Its just around the corner, he loves animals and can watch the rabbits play for hours (My friend, who LOVES her Bunny babies will be really happy).  Builder is in all next week, and that's when the actual kitchen units go in, so it will be full on chaos.

Really happy with that.

We had tuna melts and pizza toasts for tea.  Sounds minor but for years (yes, years!) our cooker had a broken grill, so having a working cooker with a working grill is really cool.

I got paid.  I do love how my associate work for Then Somehow gets paid for so quickly.  I mean I only invoiced yesterday and was paid ON THE SAME DAY.  That is super cool.

Meanwhile in Croatia, Amanda (from Hidden House) is working, like she does, like a whirlwind of Getting Suff Done, and the house will be beautiful.  She reckons she can help rent it out for July and August, which will go some way towards paying for the works that are being done.  Its so fabulous to have her help as she knows the rental market and what rooms need, in terms of furniture, and plug sockets and stuff like that. And all the legal stuff and safety stuff that needs to be covered.  So excited about it all.

And yesterday I booked flights for me and Hub and Bub to go out in October.  Flights were only £63 return!  We have a whole week! My friend who owns the bunnies, will be able to pay us back with pet sitting and we can all go and stay in the beautiful house, hang out with Chris and Amanda and  - have a holiday.  We will also stay in Split for 2 days and be able to go see Castles where Game of Thrones was filmed!

Later I had a chat with Rozynna - we are planning a retreat recce and mastermind planning session to Croatia in May.  We have dates! today we will book flights! I LOVE going on holiday.  I love sorting out summer - and May and October!  So many holidays this year.  In mid term at the start of June we are going to Cornwall to stay in a holiday home belonging to a friends dad.  With them and another family.  YAY.  At Easter we are off to Suffolk, then after easter I'm going on retreat recce to Greece, then in early May, to Croatia with Rozynna.  In the summer, we will stay in the UK.  But will be holidaying in Suffolk - some camping, some staying in Southwold at the family holiday cottage with beach hut....(I hope?) and not sure what else.  Then October mid term - off to Croatia again.

OH - another good thing.  Yesterday I got an email from my good friend Caroline - who is organising an event in conjunction with Roundtable.  A 3 generational event about making the world a better place.  Hub said he really wanted to go.  I already really wanted to go.  So I checked if it would be OK to bring Bub and she said yes.  So we are going to a conference with world changemakers.  Am really excited.

The first Curry Club inaugural potluck supper is official and being held on Saturday night.  So that's exciting - we have a social event we are ALL going to.  Super cool!

I donated to Lizzie Dinawi's fundraising for her brother in law in Aleppo.  I love that this initiative is happening.  So good to think that its possible to kick start a business to help people there.  She is doing loads of fundraising of various kinds (I think you can go rent her villa in Crete as a way of donating, so go ask her!) Lizzie is a blogger (see here) who I met online many years ago.  She has supported me from no career to here.  That she has family in Syria makes it so close to home.  It was a functioning and beautiful place.  War is terrible.

other stuff.  I did Miracle Morning, yoga, plank, meditation etc.

Could go better.
I got up so early that I lost track of time and was slightly late for Games club for bub.  I am not very disciplined yet with the MM and perhaps I need to time myself. (same goes for today.  I did Yoga for 25 mins, and now have done my journaling for 30 mins.  I still need to do affirmations and visualisation and meditation.  And I am running out of time again! ha.  So there  is a learning.

I also didn't plan well enough to go to Jane's Place with everything I needed.  As a consequence I wasted time there a little bit.  In my defence I was slightly thrown, but in good way, by Hub coming too.  But going forward.  Plan what I need to do and head off with all I need.

Longer term aims
Have dates for Wild Art Journaling going into the future, set up, with a promotion schedule and mailing list and all that, so that folks who are interested in coming know about it, and when it is and where it is, and how to book in etc.  Having a range of offers from the trial taster sessions, courses, weekends, short courses, day long sessions, week long retreats in beautiful places.

Bringing in corporate coaching work, Capacity Building work, and facilitation work.

Private coaching client work - helping folk get where they want to go faster than if they were doing it on their own.  Being a creative thinking partner.  Simplifying complexity into tangible grounded actions. Making life and business better.

Being as good a parent as I can be.

To do today
Send Kings Futures email out.  (hmm - maybe wait a week? no.  do it today)
Pay Graeme - done
Get Premium bonds cashed in (take paper work with me to do this online)
Send money to Bro - done some.  sort above later.
Pay SS
Check accounting  / book keeping files and take all of those with me.  - no.  do this another day.
Confirm dates for WAJ at Green Garden Cabin and write a newsletter.
Decide dates for WAJ  / Painting days at Lawrences Art Studio.
Write bio and short description and send photos to Oli at Happy Start Up re the taster session on April 7th.
Think about day long dates for WAJ
Let SS know of my dates for being away this year.
Check with Mum re Southwold holiday and see if she is OK with that.
Pick a vision to do my visualisation MM with.