Admiration and Respect

I've just visited the blog of a friend, and how I do admire her. She set a schedule for posting to her blog, and she meets her goal. I set a schedule (once a week), and I'm doing well if I post in two months. How is it that I don't find the time for such things? I also want to learn Spanish, refresh my calculus, and work on three SAT workbooks. I rarely spend time on any of those tasks, either.

My business, which is truly a labor of love, seems to gobble up all my available time. Perhaps I should set a firmer schedule of "working" hours, and then set aside avocation hours.

Well...something else has taken up a lot of my time recently. I'm on a roll doing marathons. I've done five so far this year:

First Light Marathon in Mobile, AL
Ocala Marathon in Ocala, FL
Gasparilla Marathon in Tampa, FL
Lost Dutchman in Apache Junction, AZ
Sarasota Grouper in Sarasota, FL

I've made firm plans for five more:

Spirit of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Oklahoma City Memorial, Oklahoma City, OK
Avenue of the Giants, near Eureka, CA
Delaware Marathon, Wilmington, DE
Big Wild Life Marathon (formerly Humpy's) in Anchorage, AK

My total count is up to 44 and I have 27 states to date.

Still, I should be able to manage my time better. For the last six months, my writing has been a distant third priority to tutoring and running. Periodically, I dream about finishing the book I'm working on, and then I promise to spend more time on it. That usually lasts all of one day, or else I don't even get started because I need to finish other pressing matters first. Aargghh!

On the bright side, or the stressful side, Wise Owl Tutoring is growing so much that I'm looking for a larger space to move to this summer. We moved into our current location about eighteen months ago, and I thought we'd have plenty of room for the next five years. So much so that I was disappointed that I couldn't have a five-year lease. Good thing. Now we're almost at the point of having to turn people away because we have no more room. Seven tutors (besides me) and only six tutoring spaces.

I know it's a good problem to have, but some days I get dizzy. Should I buy my own building? Can I afford to buy? If I lease a larger space, how much will the rent increase? Where's that crystal ball?

Then I take a deep breath and know that it'll all work out fine. My life is an uncanny history of things working out for the best as long as I do what appears to be the right thing and have faith. Surely, I must have angels who guide me and show me the way. I know I don't deserve any credit.

As a former coworker said, "Onward and upward."


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