I am rapidly approaching the date when I will need to renew my annual membership for WA or leave the site. So, therein lies my dilemma.

I really have to cut back on the time I spend on WA and the time working on my Bootcamp website. I have so many other projects in the works, both online and off, that I can’t keep up with them all.

You would think, now that I am retired, I would have more time. In fact though, I am busier that ever and I find I just don’t have enough hours in the day to do all I want to. Don’t get me wrong, retirement is great. The difference in being swamped when you are working and being swamped in retirement is that now I am the one deciding what projects I will take on - not a boss (well my wife but then she always was one of my bosses ;)

Anyway, to get to the point, I had my mind made up to leave WA so I could focus on other things. I still might do that. I have a couple weeks before my membership expires to decide.

Right now I am thinking about how I can stay with WA but cut way back on the time it takes.

I have already reduced the time I spend on WA emails and reading blogs. I still like to help fellow members if I can but I don’t reply as often as I used to. My WA rank has been dropping steadily as a result but I am OK with that. Going forward, I will try to cut back even more and just read what is most important to me.

Also, I will almost certainly drop my affiliate marketing for retirees website. I have put a lot of work into it but, to keep it up like I have been, takes a huge amount of time. I have written a lot of training type posts on there and they take time to research and to write. I think I might be better off writing occasional training for WA rather than for that website. I will probably leave it online for now but not renew it when the registration comes due and not work on it much at all.

I do hope I can stay in the WA community. I love the training you all post and the tips I get from so many of you. The web hosting is another perk I would hate to give up. It would cost me as much or more to host my sites elsewhere than I pay for annual membership now. That said, I do have some issues with the hosting, mostly related to the restrictions on outgoing connections, but I hope those can be resolved or worked around eventually.

For the next two weeks I will be trying out my WA reduction plan and I hope it works out for me. I want to stay - I just need more hours in my days! I appreciate any thoughts you might have that will help.

Tom

(UPDATE:

Thank you all for your insight and help with my decision. As of now, I will be staying around for anther year. I will have to work out a schedule for WA and limit my time here but I am confident I van work that out.

See you all around.)