Failure to plan is a plan to fail...so I'm going to be rich!

I had my last full time day at my job yesterday.   My workload was drastically reduced once the new guy took on major portions of my role and I suddenly had weekends and evening free of work related texts and phone calls. My work week on average was 60+ and most of it in the high stress range of activities - constant need for critical thinking and crisis response.  The sudden drop into normalcy was surreal in some ways.  It was easier than I though it would be, perhaps because I have a vision for my future there was very little to cling to there.

I've been contracted for the next six weeks by the same company to work two days per week, this money will assist me while I get my own company off the ground.  Speaking of my company I've been given an exclusive opportunity to be the sole contractor for a pilot project doing gap analysis for agencies throughout Alberta.  It's a coup because it opens the door wide to getting contracts based on recommendations from the reports I'll do.  The opportunity comes from an organization who is extremely well positioned in the sector I'm in.  I have a stellar reputation with this firm and it's paying off now.  I can't tell you how fantastic this is!

I have yet to finish my home office, my plan is to get it finished by Friday.  Today I'm going to work out a plan for what I want to get done for May.  I haven't formalized a strategic plan yet and want to do that so I can measure progress and set some benchmarks.  I have worked for others my whole life and have watched poor planning result in poor results.  A favourite workplace saying of mine, "failure to plan is a plan to fail."

I also plan to introduce fun to my life.  I'm not even sure what fun looks like anymore.  I do laugh, but have no fun hobbies or extra curricular stuff going on to augment the chuckles.  I will also make sure I go to the gym three days a week to reestablish weight training.  I'm starting to get fat again and that's a terrible place to be in my head, let alone my clothes.  In fact today is the start of a juice fast to clean out toxic sludge - both body and mental ick.  I will be taking a mini-vacay with a girlfriend at the end of the month and hitting boutiques which means I need to lose 10 in 21.  Fasting combined with Paleo will get me there.

Well gotta run and get to the meat and potatoes of life, okay maybe I'll leave off the potatoes.