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Have you lost your spring?

I hadn't been anywhere for two days on Monday when I got the car out. I turned the wheel and under the bonnet it went TWANG! That, dear readers, is the sound of a broken spring. I know that because my old car had the same problem. The garage have ordered the part and it'll be here in a day or so. What I want to know is - how come a spring can break when the car is sitting there for two days not moving? One of life's great imponderables. However as well as my car losing its spring it seems that I've lost some of my spring too. A friend visited last week and told me that I wasn't my normal bouncy self. I hadn't noticed this, but on reflection he was right. As a result of the combination of all the travelling, doing things at the last minute, getting to financial year end, coping with the VAT change I had just run out of steam. What is interesting is that until I was interacting with someone else I hadn't noticed it. So since last week I've been taking better care of myself. We've sorted out the finance stuff and I now have about 3 weeks without any work travel so everything has calmed down a bit. I'm also feeling good as things are looking bright for next year. I'm talking to half a dozen potential new clients who are very warm prospects. I already have trips planned to Australia, Spain and France and others might follow. How do you know how much spring you have? What will you do if you also run out of spring?

Put More Orange in Your Calendar

On Friday I spent some time with a client and remarked on how she had her Outlook calendar colour coded.  This reminded me that its something I've been intending to do for ages, so I did it over the weekend. I made all my client work burgundy, meetings turquoise, training for me lime green, holidays yellow and other personal stuff, such as parties and nights out with friends, orange.

This morning I've realised that there is not enough orange.  It says something that when we get to this age we are still either a) not looking after ourselves enough or b) still running around after everyone and everything (and I include all the self-employed people here, running around, like me, after their businesses). The result of this is that we do not have enough time for ourselves, to do the things that we enjoy.

Isn't it time that we did this?  Otherwise we will approach our dotage wishing that we had gone to see that film, spent more time with this friend, looked at more art, read more books, been to more house sales, done more walks, knitted more jumpers.  Whatever you want to do for you, factor it in to your diary today.  Put more orange into your calendar before its too late.