After a week of hard work, with the weekend in sight, I felt I had earned the pleasure of going out for breakfast. And while I was enjoying a deliciously warm, crispy bun with Manchego cheese and butter and a tea I was looking back at my accomplishments this week.
For as far as the goals I had set on Sunday evening, they are already met, writing daily in several blogs, creating 10 new links every day and getting to meet and greet with other bloggers. So far so good!
The biggest change I am noticing at the moment is the change of energy. Don’t know exactly how to describe it, but I feel more energized when facing my tasks at hand, and once finished, I just continue doing more, searching for more opportunities, thinking and planning ahead. I also faced up to my landlord who I had been avoiding for 2 weeks after a dispute over my energy bill, him claiming I owed him another 200 euros while I was sure he was wrong. At times it is just easier to stick your head in the sand and just pretend problems are not there, but it really started to make me nervous of being in my own house, not wanting to run into him.
So, I went to his place to have another talk to sort things out and I ended up not having to pay anything more and that it was his “mistake” after all. So, my nerves have calmed tremendously, he even gave me a big bag of freshly picked sweet oranges and a big crate of tomatoes of his own land! (Still wondering what to do with all of them, but I guess I will be making litres of tomato sauce and freeze it).
The biggest relief was not the produce that he gave me, nor the 200 euros that I saved, but knowing that I had faced the problem at hand, returning my peace of mind again.
Another positive thing is that I was given 3 offers to write reviews, which I gladly have accepted, so my paypal account is going up, plus I received the check I mentioned earlier which has already been deposited at the bank. Things are starting to pick up and it is great to see that all my effort, time and hard work is finally paying off, just when I was about to throw in the towel and start thinking of accepting a low paid job in the neighbourhood.
The only problem I encountered this week was last night, while trying to upload a new script to set up a directory on one of my domains. All of a sudden, the blog that was up and running for over months without problems had disappeared in thin air, making it impossible to enter the domain.
If this has ever happened to you, you probably understand the stress and worries of the situation, so I spent all night into the wee little hours trying to recuperate the contents, hours consulting a friend of mine who is way more computer literate than I am, and many mails back and forth to my hosting provider.
This morning, it was finally back up and running like it always had, but my stats obviously had taken a dive, from 300 daily visitors to zero. One good thing came out of it though…. people I had never heard of started contacting me to ask me what had happened to my blog, since they could not enter it anymore! What a great push to find out it is actually read and appreciated!
All in all it has been a wonderful week and I hope many more like this will follow, with positive movements and things going up.
I could surely do with this energy boost, which has made me feel more confident in my possibilities and show me I am on the right road!
So, if you are reading this, I hope you are doing great and have a super weekend, I sure plan on having a great one!
Todays note of the Universe:
Never underestimate human spirit, Mirjam.
Especially not your own.
It comes from the finest stock, if I do say so myself.
Be the ball!
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on Feb 25th, 2008 at 12:57 am
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