Your To-Do List

Okay, I know it’s a vacation day, so you shouldn’t have anything on your To-Do List except 1) Make more guacamole and 2) Make sure you have enough chips to go with the guacamole. At least, that’s what lists look like around our house, Oh, also later today I have to go buy lotion and tea. That’s my drugstore list. I just went to the grocery store yesterday, so all that’s on that list so far is pasta and white wine vinegar.

To think I ever worried that my blog would be boring.

Here’s your list for the week:

• Be glad if you sent in your contest CD’s already. I know I said the deadline was yesterday, but if you get them to me in the next couple of days I’ll still listen to them. Especially if you told me you “ran out of CD’s but my husband is bringing me some home because lawyers have lots of blank CD’s laying around” like three weeks ago, Ms. Avoiding The Inevitable. Or something like that. People who Fed-Ex stuff really impress me, so knock yourself out. And if you forgot the contest rules (or just want to get in on the action), get the info here.

• Sign up for the workshop. Space is limited,  it’s already over half full and over a month away, so you do the math. It’s going to be an incredible time, just like I told you here.

• If you have already signed up for the workshop, be sure to friend me on Facebook and follow me on Twitter. We’ll be doing some fun stuff in the weeks just before the workshop that you’ll hear about there first. Plus it saves time later, since we’re totally going to be pals as soon as we meet in real life and get rid of this internet between us.

• Check out my coaching pages — personal is here and professional is here. If you don’t know which you want, drop me a comment and we’ll figure it out, NBD. Just be sure to contact me before February 27 (hubby’s birthday), because that’s when my rates go sky-high for 2010. Okay, not really sky-high, but doesn’t that kind of “urgency marketing” make you want to book me out of panic? No? Me neither. Glad we’re both such level-headed individuals. Must be all the guacamole.

• Reach out to someone this week. Last week I felt a bit lonely, and then I happened to read an e-mail from an acquaintance who came across as extremely self-sufficient and without a single flaw. I felt so discouraged afterwards, like she was gaining the whole world but soon would have no one to share it with. She was so overt about how she accomplished everything she did without a bit of help that I felt like an even lonelier loser than I did before. So reach out, connect, and feel the joy that comes from bonding with a like mind. If it happens over chips and guacamole, so much the better.

P.S. Thanks again for all the sensitive messages, both online and in person, about my last two full disclosure posts. As naked as having a blog sometimes feels, support like many of you offered feels like a warm set of clothes fresh from the dryer. May you be blessed for your kindness.