Tax season approaches

I spent the past few days working on getting all of my banking stuff organized into a spreadsheet for organizing things for the coming tax season. I swear it's going to drive me insane getting that stuff all sorted into columns and cross referenced and everything. I am starting to win the battle, though, and even thinking I might go dig out last year's receipts and make sure I have everything entered right.

Someday I want to get into investing.

Back when the economy took a nose dive, my dad and I sat and watched and wished that we had the money to invest in some of those pennies on the dollar companies that had nose dived on the stock market. Unfortunately, we did not have the money to invest in the market at that time, but I do plan to make some investments when I get a chance to start learning more about the market and what exactly it is that I am looking at when I am investing and how to do it right.

No time to work

I am trying very hard to get things reorganized for my websites this year, however, for this first month of the year my focus has been off of work and onto getting a new heating system into the house and on fighting off computer viruses when I should be working. It is getting very very frustrating, but, one more week of insanity on the house stuff and I should be able to focus more on work projects once again. Which will be good, because I am going to have one heck of an electric bill by the time we get the heater in and can stop using the electric heat.

Work should not be hard when you do what you love

The new year has got off to a rolling start, rolling right along to the 5th of the month without even a blink of the eye to separate it from New Year's Eve.

I am going into the new year with a determination that I am going to revitalize my work as a writer and start reorganizing things to make my work day as relaxing as I find writing to be.

Writing has always been a perfect way to de-stress for me, but I am so unorganized in my work day that I end up stressed out from work - not from the writing, but from the simple act of trying to work and earn a living from my writing.

I think that is where many who transform something they love into a job fail, they still love what they do, but they have shifted their perspective on it to the point that they allow themselves to stress about things associated with using that activity as a means of income.

So, my goal for the year, or rather my goal for the month of January, is to find a way that I can make my work as enjoyable as my writing.

Happy New Year!

New Year, new start to my websites. As I enter into 2010 I have decided that I am going to rebuild my websites. Not all of them, and not entirely, but so many of them need vast modifications to make them more like what it is that they are supposed to look like that I find myself feeling a full clean start for the new year is in order. I want to have my sites all pretty much only need my attention a few times a month, so I am going to strip them down of the things that have been tapping my mental resources and get the sited set up to be mostly self sufficient.

I need to start actually earning an income from my writing, so I need to get a hell of a lot more serious on the WORK side of working at home. That is my 2010 resolution!