• Attended F-T Chat
• Empowered Mysti and Rob with a free tarot reading regarding a career choice
• Discussed personal growth and blocks and developed new tools and techniques to develop new habits and overcome fears.
• Discussed F-T – both MM’s legal concerns and my sense of low priority/hobby.
• Set up Client Blog
  • Installed Wordpress
  • Installed and Upgraded Plugins
  • Upgraded Wordpress
  • Created Database
  • Created 2nd admin account
  • Conveyed details to client.
• Emailed client regarding passwords
• Emailed Mysti her reading
• Emailed author regarding interview
• Emailed client regarding ad plugins x2
• Researched Wordpress Ad Management
• Installed and Trialed 2 Ad Plugins
• Discussed Marriage and Personal Power with Mum
• Listened to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Progressed in Evony Game
• Quality, relaxed time with Mum
• Storybook character Assembly at Kid’s school
  • Attended, dressed the part, and encouraged kids’ participation
• Updated Diary
• Reorganized and tidied 2 bedside cabinets, dressing table top, office desktop, and office draw.
• Washed 3 loads of laundry, dried 2 loads.
• Cooked a healthy dinner.
• Ate with the family – Quality time
• Got kids to and from school
• Participated on Plurk
• Shouted to Facebook and responded to response
• Shouted to Twitter
• Selected several new torrents and innitiated downloads
• Put rubbish bin out for collection
• Made several cups of tea for self and coffee for Mummaa.
• Determined loss of e-record file
• Copied etax 09 record from old laptop to thumb drive
• Began short shopping list
• Discussed Gratitude and Accomplishment journals and committed to beginning.
• Added notification regarding new F-T chat time to F-T.

1. I am so thankful for my precious baby boy. I was so proud of you today! Baby Boy performed in a musical production put together by his school. He sung lots of songs and did the actions. I felt such pride and joy watching his face light up with smiles and listening to his little voice stumbling over the words. You tried your hardest and enjoyed yourself which is the whole point. I’m looking forward to watching you again tomorrow.
2. Today I again give thanks to my family. Thank you to my mother and stepfather, sister, and brother-in-law for taking the time to support my little man. Your attendance tonight meant the world to me and I’m sure it meant as much to him. It was a pleasure to be able to share this with you and while I can’t imagine anyone could have enjoyed it as much as I, his doting mother, I hope you enjoyed the experience.
3. Thank you my beautiful daughter. You were a great big sister today and I think your little brother was very pleased to have you watching him perform. I also appreciate all your help around the house. Your assistance allowed me to get things finished up here and still manage to meet time restraints. I’m also very thankful for your bright mind and your personal integrity and initiative. When you chose to spend time completing your homework I was proud of your sense of responsibility, that you accomplished such excellent results is inspiring.
4. Thank you for cool things to drink. Today was warm and muggy. I am very thankful for the fluids I could drink to replace the water within my body, to cool me and refresh me. Sometimes the simplest sips are nectar.
5. Thank you to the universe that gives me the messages I need to hear, exactly when I’m ready to hear them. I’m thrilled to be reminded of the significance my Gratitude Journal has played in the past and glad to have this opportunity to return to it.
6. I truly appreciate the wonderful people who attended Tarot Chat today. The energy was vibrant and uplifting. Exactly what I needed to help bouy me through these next few days. I’ve been feeling the downward spiral of my Bipolar swing and am truly grateful for the boost that helped me through today and inspires me for tomorrow.
7. I’d like to give gratitude to the teachers and staff at my childrens’ school. You’re dedication, creativity, and passion make me very glad that you play a part on my childrens’ lives. Tonight you proved that with hard work and commitment you can pull together hundreds of children into a cohesive unit. I can’t begin to imagine the work that must have been involved in getting this production together and I think you’ve done a fantastic job. You’re leaving an impact on the lives of these children that will last a lifetime. Thank you for allowing me and my family to be a part of it.
8. I give thanks for the roof over my head tonight, for fly screens that keep out the bugs, for an air cooling system that restores a chill to formerly muggy air, for blankets to stave off that chill, for a safe place to sleep, for lockable doors and windows, for a place to call my own and hang my hat. I am truly thankful.
9. Thank you to all the friends who touched my social circle today. No matter how small or large a part you played in my life today, you matter and I would be a lesser person without you.
10. I’m struggling tonight and I suspect it’s because I’m tired. So, perhaps, my final gratitude should go to a full and busy day. Today, I proved that I can accomplish great things, that I can pull things together in an orderly way, and that it doesn’t have to be perfect. Even rushed we got things done well and I think, in not being concerned about getting it ‘just right’ or ‘just so’ I was able to enjoy the moments that matter all the more.

Recently, Tom Weber from Deliver Freedom asked readers: What 5 things would You do if Time and Money were of no concern? The Deliver Freedom Newsletter often asks fantastic questions and Octobers is no exception. Below are MY 5 things, what are yours?

1. I’d spend more time reading.
There is so much I want to read, from inspirational books, fiction novels, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, and everything on the internet. There is an abundance of information and education available but never enough time to read everything of interest.

2. I’d travel around the world.
I would really love the opportunity to visit Ireland and explore more of the USA. I have friends around the world I’d like to visit; cultures I’d like to experience; climates I can only imagine; exotic foods to taste; and so much more!

3. I’d establish a write colony.
I’ve always dreamed of creating a haven for writers. I see a small community-style resort setting designed to provide all a writer needs to immerse themselves in craft, creativity, and inspired purpose. I’d like to host workshops and social gatherings, provide scholarships, and play a part in the success of thousands of writers from around the world.

4. I’d experience more with my children.
There are so many things I want to share and show my little ones. I’d love to be able to give my daughter the horse riding lessons she craves and build the ranch of her dreams. I’d love to immerse my son in a range of activities to discover what he is truly passionate about and help him achieve his full potential. With existing time and money limitations the best I can do is provide unwaivering support and encouragement which I suppose is good. It teaches them to put in the hard work to accomplish their goals for themselves. But it would feel incredible to be able to give them all they could desire from life, to make their lives remarkable and fulfilled.

5. I’d work more on my physical health and mental wellbeing.
I know the theory, eat healthy, balanced meals, get regular execise, meditate, contemplate, and enrich your mental and spiritual self. But sometimes I’m just too exhausted to do more than toss a frozen meal into the oven and curl up for a nap. So much happens in every day that sometimes these simple, vital aspects of living well stumble down the list of priorities and are neglected.

What 5 things would You do if Time and Money were no concern?

• Self
  • Finish listening to 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (97)
  • Keep up the Abundance and Gratitude Journal on The Inner Core (98)
  • Write other Journal entries to discover my inner core on The Inner Core (99)
• The Flight of Torque (100)
  • Examine fear and resistance to finishing this project
  • Sit and write to get the final 20,000 words
• Writer’s Round-About
  • Maintain min. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday Posting Schedule. (1)
  • Reach 110 subscribers in October (2)
  • Reach 120 subscribers in November (3)
  • Reach 130 subscribers in December (4)
  • Connect with WRA contributors and develop relationships (5)
  • Consistently promote posts and site via Social Media (6)
• Future-Tarot
  • Redesign site – Dynamic, professional, develop mission (7)
  • Develop contributor base to encourage more submissions (8)
  • Maintain min. Monday, Wednesday, Friday Posting Schedule (9)
  • Strive to achieve min. 3 sales per month. (Increase as appropriate.) (10)
  • Participate and promote Tarot Chat each week (11)
  • Follow up with John regarding audio files from RadioXShow (12)
• eProducts Publishing
  • Taste Organic Health
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through October (13)
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through November (14)
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through December (15)
  • Automatic Plant Watering
    • Install Ad plugins and create ad campaigns for affiliate products (90)
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through October (87)
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through November (88)
    • Schedule posts every 2 days through December (89)
  • Conceive Naturally
    • Redesign site to build mailing list (93)
    • Select 12 different affiliate products to promote in weekly mailing (95)
    • Create 12 emails to be sent out one per week to mailing list (94)
  • Natural Menopause Alternatives
    • Redesign site to build mailing list (91)
    • Select 12 different affiliate products to promote in weekly mailing (96)
    • Create 12 emails to be sent out one per week to mailing list (92)
  • Abundant Green Homes
    • Edit Background Images to display Sidebar (78)
    • Add 460×90 Banner Ad Zone (79)
    • Discover how to automate Ad Space purchase requests (80)
  • Mysti’s Christmas Lists
    • Register a Domain Name (81)
    • Upload Wordpress CMS to Hosting Space (82)
    • Register an admin account for Mysti (83)
    • Choose an existing magazine theme (84)
    • Customize theme with Winter/Christmas elements/colors (85)
    • Add various plugins for Contact, Ads, SEO, etc. (86)
• Kids and Family
  • Survive the School Holidays (16)
    • Take the kids to the Royal Show (17)
    • Take the kids to the Zoo (18)
    • Take the kids swimming (19)
    • Take the kids to the movies (20)
  • Celebrate Mum and Sister’s birthdays – October (21)
  • Attend the kid’s school sports carnival (22)
  • Participate in end of year school events (23)
  • Enrol Baby Boy for Private Speech Therapy (24)
  • Celebrate Christmas – December (25)
• Client Sites
  • Hair Design Australia
    • Design Home/Index Page (26)
    • Add Staff Photos to Gravatar (27)
    • Add shop photograph to About page (28)
    • Create Catalogue with lightbox descriptions (29)
    • Create Staff page with lightbox bios (30)
    • Design Blog Theme (31)
    • Write Tutorial for Staff to Add Products to Catalogue (32)
    • Write Tutorial for Staff to Post to blog (33)
  • Abundant Writer
    • Register an admin account for Dawn
    • Install Plugins – SEO, Ads, Contact, etc. (34)
    • Design Theme Sidebar (35)
    • Design Category Pages (36)
    • Design Content Pages (37)
    • Design Post Pages (38)
    • Design Home/Index Page (39)
    • Design Footer (40)
    • Design 125×125 Ad Button (41)
    • Design 460×90 Ad Banner (42)
  • Healing with Juices
    • Site Maintenance – October (43)
    • Site Maintenance – November (44)
    • Site Maintenance – December (45)
  • Writing the Cyber Highway
    • Site Maintenance – October (46)
    • Site Maintenance – November (47)
    • Site Maintenance – December (48)
  • Hillbilly Herbs
    • Repair Contact Form (49)
    • Site Maintenance – October (50)
    • Site Maintenance – November (51)
    • Site Maintenance – December (52)
  • Hillbilly Homestead
    • Design Site Header Image (53)
    • Edit Theme Colors (57)
    • Examine Pages design and make theme changes if needed. (77)
    • Site Maintenance – October (54)
    • Site Maintenance – November (55)
    • Site Maintenance – December (56)
• House and Household
  • House Inspection – October (58)
  • House Inspection – November (59)
  • Hang Christmas Lights – late November (60)
  • House Inspection – December (61)
  • Front Garden Bed
    • Weed out all grass and weeds. (62)
    • Shape and dig out garden bed. (63)
    • Line garden bed with edging materials. (64)
    • Bury Soaker Hose along length of garden bed. (65)
    • Dig in potting and garden bed soil mix into the dirt. (66)
    • Cut down Jade plant into smaller, managable plants. (67)
    • Plant Jade plants along the fenceline. (68)
    • Retrim and train the existing Jasmine. (69)
    • Plant two or three new Jasmine plants along trellis. (70)
    • Plant riot of color seeds. (71)
  • Laminate Wood Floorboards
    • Lay Laminate Wood Floors in Baby Boy’s room. (72)
    • Pull up carpet in Daughter’s room. (73)
    • Lay Laminate Wood Floors in Daughter’s room. (74)
    • Pull up carpet in my Room. (75)
    • Lay Laminate Wood Floors in my room. (76)

So, I acknowledge my lapse. Despite fluctuating moods, terrible eating habits, and lack of sleep, I forgive myself. I am emotional creature and I am still learning to control the swing of my emotions, I am still learning how to maintain momentum despite inner turmoil, I am imperfect, and that is perfectly ok.

But, since it’s been a week, how about I go over specifically any of the more significant accomplishments this week. Yes, I dropped the ball in acknowledging my accomplishments but, even in my depressed, low cycle, I achieved:

• Friday to Sunday I took it easy on myself, I let myself experience my Bipolar low under my comforter. I read the first three Vampire Academy books and watched a few movies and the first two episodes of Vampire Diaries. I’m on a Vampire kick at the moment but I haven’t quite sunk to Buffy levels yet. lol
• On Monday, despite being very tempted to ‘call in sick’ I dragged myself out of bed, got dressed, and attended my weekly meeting with one of my favorite client/friends. Working together with her does amazing things for my energy and motivation and I knew in pushing myself to go beyond my perceived Bipolar limit that day, and knowing it was day 4 the turning trend of my low I could convince myself and empower myself to get out of the lull I’d given into all weekend and take action.
• I followed up Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, and some of Wednesday with a spatter of work related tweaks and tasks. Such as purchasing and inserting the photographs into HairDesignAustralia.com’s site design and writing a follow up email to that client, and I ran my hands through several of my web projects but can’t actually remember what I did when except to know that I DID accomplish quite a bit with all of those projects.
• I have spent time this week on the development and promotion of WritersRoundAbout.com and embraced the growing excitement that comes with the increase in traffic.
• I did the monthly maintenance on one of my client sites, cleared over 400 spam messages, updated Wordpress, updated plugins, etc.
• Tuesday I again left the house, this time to have lunch with my mother and grandmother. It was lovely and relaxed which was perfect and I enjoy our time together.
• Tuesday afternoon I took the kids to the park for half an hour between end of school and start of their 3rd term Learning Journey. We had some fun playing in the new playground before they showed me around their classrooms and shared what they had been learning this term.
• Wednesday, Mum and I pulled up carpet from baby boy’s bedroom. We’re thinking of laying wood laminates in the three bedrooms and getting the carpet out is the first stage of that DIY process.
• Thursday, I participated in Tarot Chat. Was a wonderful session and it was great to see new faces. Perhaps our reach and influence is growing.
• I took Mum out to lunch after that and treated the kids (and her) to icecream after school.
• Today I spend some quality time with the kids. Baby boy wasn’t feeling well this morning and being the last day of school before mid-semester holidays I decided to let them both stay home. We had extra snuggles and maybe I spoiled them a little but it felt warm and loving, relaxed and caring. It felt right to give today to that experience and not pressure myself to do more than me Mom.

See, so while I might not have been able to build my nerve enough to post my accomplishments each evening this week, I can acknowledge these, as just some of what I achieved this week.

Today, I push against that resistance, reaffirming my commitment to personal growth and development. I keep this promise to myself, because I am worth it, it holds true to the values I want to instill in my life, and because in choosing to hold to this accountability I strengthen the muscles of my will and resolve which in turn makes it easier to stay the course next time I feel the temptation to waver.

Today, I:

• Spent two hours dancing! I have a great time swing dancing but it can be difficult to convince myself to go because it is about an 1 hour to get there and then an hour home again. This is four hours of every Thursday evening, doing something I generally would not have chosen to do for myself, but something I know builds relationship with my sister and that I truly do feel uplifted and enlivened after doing.
• Participated in Future-Tarot’s weekly chat. Had a great time talking with Mysti, Miss Michele, and PlaidEarthworm.
• Co-read two Tarot readings with Miss Michele. One for Mysti and one for PlaidEarthworm. It was fulfilling to be able to help them both rediscover their passion, touch that aspect of themselves they had been letting fall dormant and reinspire them to push for their dreams. THIS is why Miss Michele and I do this!
• Played Plant Tycoon, enjoying this game despite knowing it chews up a fair portion of my time.
• Checked in on Plurk – Not too thrilled by the ‘conversation’ going on there at the moment but I suspect that is mostly because my interests and focuses are elsewhere, on grander things than the mundane of every day living.
• Checked in and progressed on Evony. This game is again another time consumer and not particularly challenging. But I’m addicted, at least for the moment, and at least my towns are growing.
• Received my new battery in the mail. Oh, pretty, black, fat new battery.
• Checked to see if the photocopy aspect of my printer works even without the printer installed or even plugged into a computer. It does!
• Gave extra loving attention to my baby boy. He’s been unwell each evening this week. It’s a strange kind of ailment where he seems fine in the morning, is NOT fine in the afternoon after school (tired, running hot, feeling cold). I’m going to keep a closer eye on him to see if I can track down a cause. Maybe I should check his blood sugar levels.
• Encouraged and assisted my daughter with her math homework. She’s better at math than I am so to be honest she’s teaching me but I enjoy being able to reaffirm her enjoyment of the subject and her sense of worth and value in knowing all she knows and learning all she learns.
• Spent time with my mother. Companionable, no pressure time.
• Did extensive keyword research on two current projects. Still struggling to come up with an effective angle on one but I know it is there, I just need to dig a little deeper to find it.
• Installed WordPress on an existing but inactive domain name.
• Installed Themes and Plugins on this new WordPress, created a database, activated the site, created a new user account, activated plugins and themes and set some of the site settings.
• Ensured Thursday’s WRA blog post launched as scheduled.
• Spent time searching for and eventually finding a piece of paperwork I had been ‘keeping safe’ for my sister. *rolls eyes* Ever think you left it someplace only to discover you left it someplace else?
• Listened to about two hours of “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” still loving this book. I MUST write a book review!
• Got my business bookkeeping back under control after losing the past few months records while transitioning from one laptop to another. 3 months worth of income and expenses needed to be tracked and recorded. Thankfully, I keep those details close to hand and it was really just data entry. Still, lesson learned again, backup, backup, backup!
• Spent some time examining my current situation. At the moment it is only in stage one planning, all in my head while I nail out exactly which direction I want my life to take, what my end-goal currently is, and how I can most effectively set about making that end-goal a reality.
• Fought and won against the resistance that reared trying to convince me I didn’t need to do this tonight. Felt amazing for having followed through despite that resistance and, although still very tired and ready for bed, feeling very positive about all I accomplished today.