Posted by Raphael on May 8, 2009 in Personal | 0 comments

I sent out a newsletter yesterday to my mailing list.  It felt good… just a short piece letting people know about Kingston (if they didn’t already know), headsup about a small vacation I’m giving to myself for my birthday next week (May 15 – May 22).  Mainly just reminding people I’m still around.  You gotta do that every once in a while when you got your own business.  Funny how my marketing training kicks in every once in a while….I keep remembering my college professors teaching me about “top of mind awareness” and I guess that stuck.

You know, I’m really looking forward to vacation. It’ll be the first REAL time off I’m giving myself since my honeymoon 2 years ago.  Ever since getting married we just simply let life take over.  Sure I’ve had “rest time” when I had my surgery and my recent 3 week fight with the flu I didn’t do much work.  But is that really vacation?  So, I’m going to be a good boss to myself and tell myself to just chill for a bit.

It’s good timing too…all the craziness I’ve had over the last year is slowly being lifted off my shoulders.  I no longer have to be President of my networking chapter & I’ve finished teaching at least for the rest of this year.  I had no idea how much these responsibilities were weighing down on me.  But now I just feel like I can catch my breath a bit.

It’s funny how responsibility keeps trying to find me.  A couple nights ago I attended my condo’s owner association meeting just because I was curious.  Who knows what these old farts in my building end up approving with my maintenance fees huh?  Anyway, they were voting for new directors and a few of them were looking my way.  You know how in class you try to avoid the teacher’s eyes when he asks for volunteers?  Well, that meeting I think I memorized the strands of spider webs in the back corner of the room because I did NOT want to deal with any more responsibilities for a while.

Hopefully during my vacation time I can recover my health.  My mother tells me every health issue I’ve had lately was probably stress. I’m skeptical but I’ll give it a shot.  I’ll force myself to relaaax!