“Scotty! I need more power!”

[angela_n_hunt]

Or: the quiet start to the year is over.

As of today, I’m off to a networking thing tonight, it’s Valentine’s Day on Friday, a bridal shower on Sunday, and running 18 miles on Sunday, all while carrying my usual work load.

Piece of cake. But the moderate pace of the last six weeks has clearly just been ejected from my schedule like woah. It’s not a problem, but I can see that I’m going to have to start being more militant in deploying the word that we all seem to struggle with from time to time: No.

There’s so much that I want to do this year and there’s so many opportunities. But if I learned anything from last year, it’s that I can’t say yes to everything at the same time and I absolutely have to make my own work a priority or suffer the consequences. To some degree, I’m still digging out from that. Which is not a bad thing.

But I would really like to be able to squeeze out enough to hit Warp 9 in this bucket…

(Oh, and I need to figure out a new user pic…)

Originally published at ANGELA N. HUNT. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[roomette.livejournal.com]

I am working on this too but that word "no" has got to apply to the kid's activities. I can seemingly say no for my stuff but every day after 3PM is SO FULL and then I end up putting him to bed late (too late, at 9 or even 9:30 for someone so active it makes him exhausted) and then I work from 9PM to 2AM and stagger out late from bed.

I need to cancel soccer. I feel so guilty about this. SO GUILTY. But he wasn't loving it any longer and the coach coaches in the wrong way for him. But I know it's burning bridges with some of the more dedicated parents who aren't double tracking a career.

no no no no.

More of it.

And more sleep and more work. RIght? :)

[angela-n-hunt.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, saying No to kid activities is an awful one, isn't it? We quit karate for the Mouse because she wasn't loving it. Luckily it burned no bridges, and we'll probably go back later, but I feel you. The guilt. Woof.

As for the other parents, they can suck it, to be blunt. Most of them are not working artists and they do not get us *at all*. Stay strong, babe. No is a Power Word.

And yes. More sleep. More work. All of it! :D