Where in the heck did I go? Summer sure flew by fast. My daughter started preschool in January which gave me time to work during the day. Well for summer there was supposed to be a daycamp and it was cancelled at the last minute. So I decided to pretty much take the summer off. I did some work here and there for various clients, but nothing too stressful.
Then in July my husband was offered a position in Germany. A “life’s dream, how could we say no, even if the timing was off” offer. Full panic mode ensued in arranging all of the things that needed to be done in order to move by September-October. And then a clause appeared in the offer we were not comfortable with and we called it off. After all that I decided we needed a vacation and I was going to take August off. Which I very successfully did. I took a leave of absence and didn’t spend much time focusing on work at all. I did however watch a few videos and read a few ebooks.
Here we are almost September and the start of school is just around the corner. There is orientation on Wednesday and then the first day of school is September 8th. My daughter is very excited. She will have the same teacher and the same classroom and I think the continuity will be great for her. I will get three mornings a week to focus on work and I am very happy about that.
I’m kind of taking a leap here and leaning toward not going back to work for any clients. I have all of these ideas and more education lined up that I want to make time for. Plus implementing all that I have learned into my own websites. I think that if I spend a little time pinching the budget and devoting the time I was spending working for others on my own things, that the return in the future will be great. That is what I am going to be contemplating over the next week or so.
Have you taken this sort of leap? How did it turn out for you?
-Shannon
