JAN’S IDEAS

I wasn’t sure with all the hacking that occurred with my previous hosting company, if my 47 day challenge was on this blog or it was lost when I got hacked into. It was still there! I added links to the posts regarding that challenge.

Here is my 47 Day Challenge from last year. I’m hoping this year for my challenge I can keep up the momentum that I’m starting and have my income have a steady rise instead of a peak and drop until the next challenge!

My 47 days till I turn 47 challenge ended a week ago. It was a mix of success and failure. I don’t feel too bad about the failure due to the trouble I had the past month when I changed hosting companies. Between the hacking into of my blogs and the down time, I was very discouraged. I was regularly loosing work that I did (including 3/4 of this blog) and when I was motivated to catch back up, the server was down.

Here’s how it ended up:

Internet Ventures:

• Launch group home project, Project NP, and project Confetti on April 2-mixed success, I launched Jan’s Group Home Support.
• Prepare my projects for launch, especially the group home project-mixed success due to other projects stared and work lost.
• Do some writing for my own project-successful

Work:

• Maximize hours available at the group homes-successful
• Re-focus and get back on track with Jan’s Writing Services-mixed success, discouraged with hacking and down time
• Improve my working at home routine-successful..now I just need to follow it!

Personal:

• Loose 10 lbs-I lost 2.5 lbs and will continue on this goal.
• Start exercising-successful
• Take care of myself better (eat better, take care of my skin, etc.)-mostly successful, got a little lazy the last few weeks
• Get rid of clutter-in progress, made some headway

I had a wonderful birthday yesterday. It was nice and relaxing.

When everyone was together on Saturday they took a group shot, my oldest daughter framed it and I got it for my birthday! The 3 kids that live with me made a great dinner of salmon and shrimp. The house got cleaned and they even cleaned up after dinner. The girls got some markers that write on glass and decorated my car and the front window of our house with “Happy Birthday”. My youngest daughter sewed a beautiful mat for my computer table. My youngest son assembled a delicious strawberry short cake desert.

On Sunday when having a beer with a friend for my birthday, I told him about a dog I found that was pretty far away and he offered to take me to pick it up. I had my dog put down in Aug and decided to wait until my birthday to get another dog. I’m pretty excited, I miss having a dog so much I have dreams about having one!

I got calls and cards from family and friends. The birthday wishes from WickedFire members are here in this thread.

I feel blessed and privileged to be celebrating this birthday healthy and happy!