My Day Today

Well.

After about 2 weeks of having no work at all, I got some in yesterday and got it done -- about 5 very small contracts, probably about $500 worth of work. (For which, of course, I will be paid in about 30 days. Ah the life of an independent contractor...)

I also spoke with a potential new client today. I am getting "surlier and surlier" with potential law clients. One part of this is probably because I'm on the receiving end of a "spurious" lawsuit from one shareholder of an ex-client (he sued the other shareholders, lost, and is now coming after my malpractice insurance, saying things were "my fault" I had nothing to do with). For $2.5 million, no less (and I have $100k of insurance). The other part is that I really REALLY want to move on to doing what I LOVE to do, which is the Bond grrl stuff.

The gal who called today sounded nice enough -- but I forwarded her on to 2 other people to contact before coming to me. I "could have" taken the work she wanted me to do....I just would rather not. These folks will do the work that she has as her immediate needs, then likely will refer her back to me for drawing up some contracts.

I am caught in such a quandry. On the one hand, I am trying to get the Bond Grrl Biz moving....but there isn't a lot of "time room" for it what with still having the law practice, "starting" the real estate practice (which was supposed to go quicker than this, so I could really "close" the law practice, but so much for that), planning the wedding, trying to get back in shape (so I look good AT the wedding!), needing to rent out my house, getting my Associate degree and Certification in Sexology from IASHS (which right now entails me watching about 5 hours' worth of tapes I'm "behind" on, most from the 70s, and all of a sexual nature...not so pleasant I'm afraid I am not much of a voyeur!), etc. etc. et-c. The one thing I should be making time to do, which is in my mind a "linchpin" of the Bond Grrl Biz, is working on the book. This means reviewing the outline, and seeing what I haven't "written yet"....

Oy.

I am actually really glad I'm doing all the IASHS stuff today. I got those contracts "knocked out" and there are all sorts of things I should have done (gone to the gym for example), but it's so important to knock out this Certificate, so that I will have that in my "author's copy" for the book. Similarly, I have written to a client who is a life coach, and asked her if there is a "cheap and easy" certificate program for life coaching -- I have done a LOT of seminars, etc., but never an actual certificate program. Again, it's all part of having something that will give me an "imprimatur" of expertise. Kinda silly -- just to have a certificate saying you can do what you are doing. But I feel that this is likely key. I know when I got my massage certificate, I actually didn't "learn all that much" that I didn't already know when it came to massage -- maybe a little about putting moves together and how to "drape" a client, but that's about it. Then again, I did learn SOME things -- and it also gave me the feeling that I had some "templates" for doing what I already kinda knew how to do.

Now, how just to give 40 hours into the day???