Honey Do's Do Distract

This time of year it is even more difficult to stay on task in growing your business. There are already many tasks on my personal list that I need to get done during the course of a day. But just as I think I am catching up and will be able to work on my WA training, I hear the sweet voice of my wife: "Honey, would you........", and my list of things to do just got longer.

But the house smells so wonderful from all her baking, how can I refuse!

The cooling rack pictured above contains just 6 of the 72 small fruit cakes she is making to give to friends and neighbors. Hopefully a few extras that I can sample. They are packed full of healthy nuts and dried fruits and she uses whole wheat flour and unrefined sugar as well. You can not buy a fruit cake this good anywhere, so her friends look forward to it each year. Another dozen ready to go in the picture below.

And in the following picture is the Angel busy at work bagging and decorating the gift bags.

So, how does all her productivity in the kitchen keep me from staying on task??

Well, we took a day off Tuesday to drive to Las Vegas and deliver about 14 of these cakes in person to friends there. We had pleasant visits but not something we do on a regular basis, so I lost a day of work there.

Another "honey do" is the making of boxes to ship another dozen or so cakes in. I have tried in the past to use the priority boxes at the post office for this but they are just not the right size. Either too big to add extra postage, or too small to keep from turning the cakes into a cookie shape. So, my job was to design boxes for single cakes as well as larger ones for the 2-cake recipients. That created the need for a pattern to start with.

Here are my pattern designs, with room to spare for bubble-wrap or other packing materials.

So, What else to distract from the WA work?? A half day lost going to Bullhead City, about a half hour drive each way, to get more cooking ingredients at Sam's Club. I actually prefer Costco for that but the closest one of those is an hour and a half drive, so we opted to go to Bullhead. A beautiful drive through Golden Valley, over the mountain, and down to the riverside (Colorado River). The reward was we got to stop on the way back for lunch at our favorite Pizza place in Golden Valley: Great American Pizza & Subs. A very patriotic place where we feel welcome and safe during all this chaos; and they always give free drinks to Veterans and company.

We had called ahead and placed our order so our lunch was ready and hot when we got there. I took a picture of just one of the walls in there, reminding us of what it used to be like in America before all the nonsense started.

The end result of my "honey do's" this week is this post, so it wasn't a total distraction from my work; just didn't get to my training.

The important thing to remember as you work through WA is that the training and the work will always be here. Friends and family will not. Make sure, especially at this time of year, that you don't neglect friends and family for the sake of accomplishing goals you have set. If you can do both then by all means do so, but don't get upset by taking a little time off to help and comfort others.

Enjoy your Holiday season as you move foreward with WA.

Archie