Hi there, my name is Maven, and I’m an overbooked procrastinator.
Well, not really. See, what I am is a father of six amazing busy kids (one is grown and flown, but I still count him as one of my kids), and husband to an amazing beautiful woman who is also working full time. So, while procrastination may be one of my faults, it’s hardly the biggest concern in my world right now.
The absolute hard limit of 24 hours and half a second is the one I have to contend with these days.
This will be a short post specifically because of that had time limit, and the fact that I am needed to get the damned life back on track. See, I have five blogs to my name if you include the Medium Pub in those blogs, along with a full time career, and that all takes a back seat to my “I’m a husband and father first and foremost” commitments.
I was about to say obligations, but there is no obligation here, I made a commitment when I married that beauty and chose to have kids with her, and I shall honor that commitment to her and them first and always, above any career choices I make. Naturally, some juggling is needed.
So, I have a few moments before I have to jump up and get back to working like mad here, I thought I’d ruminate on what needs to happen.
See, the recovery blog and the personal home blog (Chaos is a thing after all), are both intentional but fairly similar, so posting the one and the other is really kinda redundant. But expanding on one to the other is probably a good idea, seeing as how one is about learning to live in recovery, while the other is about handling all the mayhem life throws at you.
Can you see how the second blog ( the-castle-chaos.com ) might be expanded upon from the posts that originated in recovery at the https://chaoticfoundations.siterubix.com/ site?
Secondly, there’s the Medium accounts that I need to populate, since that’s where the readers are all coming from at this point. I pay for and carry the full on blogs as a means to keep my own work as mine, rather than handing it off to Medium or any other platform.
Next, there’s the business and the writing sites that I need to start getting back online, and subsequently the pipelines that I get to push the posts down for social media and other sites, the learning curve is steep. To say I have no clue is a good measure of the man on that point.
Finally, It’s December 18, 2019, today, that leaves me with fourteen days to the end of the year, if you count today. That means, since January first is an arbitrary start point everyone uses, that I have just under two weeks to revamp and map out my next year’s activities. I pay real money for the internet presence I have, site fees, hosting fees and such, to the tune of a few hundred per year, which while not going to break the bank on me (I’m an accountant after all, and not as broke as all that), if I’m going to do this, it’s time to treat it like a business and start making it pay for itself. I have one year (-ish~, black Friday was recently and that’s the billing date of one of the biggest recurring costs I have, the second comes due in February, but that’s Dropbox, which I have some thoughts on that need addressed as well.
If only there were enough time to do the things I need to do as well as the things I’m committed to doing.
Ah well, aim high, fall short, and I”m still ahead of where I started. Time to start making waves.
Until later, thanks for reading my meandering monologue.
Orion or Duke or somebody. Wonder who I’ll be when I get to the office later?
Cheers!