Ever notice that sometimes life just does not go according to your schedule? Well, that happens to be the case with this website. Technology got the best of us. In my Pollyanna mind this website would be three weeks old by now, which is why talking about my resolutions seemed so timely. Now that we are finally up and running, 3 weeks later, not so timely. But still, I felt it was important to share as my first blog.
I hope you will choose to come along on this new journey with me, as I share my random thoughts and I encourage you to please share yours with me. I don’t know about you, but I am very excited... enjoy the read!
My 2014 Resolution is accomplished...better late than never, right?
As most of you know, of the many things I do, one is being a children’s book author (thus the website and blog). As part of my “job” I have the honor of traveling around the United States speaking at schools, organizations, businesses and to anyone and everyone else that I meet along the way; airline attendants, taxi cab drivers, school custodians...you get the picture. Some people say I would talk to a tree if it could talk back to me. For years, some of these people have asked me if I have a blog. I’ll be honest, (as I always am), I had no idea what they were talking about. I thought it was a sport!!! I then thought who (yes, even The Who’s down in Whoville) would want to read what I have to say, or even follow my blog? It surprises me that people are somehow attracted to what is on my mind and in my heart. As they say somewhere, give the people what they want. So, I got “schooled in blogging” and here it goes...
It was the end of 2013 and I was struggling with what resolution I could possibly make that I was capable of following through with! Those pesky promises even from when I was a little girl have always ranged from be nicer to my younger sister, stop biting my nails to the more “mature” ones like: eat less bread, drink 8 glasses of water a day, keep all flat surfaces in my home free from clutter, do 300 sit-ups each morning, be less of a procrastinator, embrace my inner OCD... all of which lasted maybe until well, I forgot to remember!!! But then I figured it out!! My 2014 resolution would be to rethink my business plan and give it my all, because I love it too dearly to let it go. So among other things, I would start by redesigning Inch by Inch Publications’ website and incorporate a BLOG! I thought how hard can this be, after all it’s not a sport!?!?!
Wondering how it worked out for me? Well, I am sitting here writing to you on my back porch (a sunny 40-degree morning and yes my fingers are very frosty) with my trusty, sweet dog Cornell, and the date is December 20, 2014! Yup, procrastinated all year long, and not while doing sit ups, being kind to myself or drinking water!!! Yet in my own defense I really did try all year long. My obstacle was my lack of knowledge of how technology works. So this is where my younger sister Karen enters the picture, and yes, I am so much nicer to her these days. Karen has all skills I have not and vice versa. While I baked and crafted she did everything she could to help Inch by Inch inch along. Who knew my resolution would become hers? With her determination, she hired a past coworker of hers, the talented and always patient Regina Ranonis Tucker, who also happens to have the same resolution as me, imagine that? The website was not redesigned a little bit, it has been utterly and completely transformed. Somehow Regina understood all my sayings and managed to design my new website!!! I hope you like it as much as I do and want to share it and my blog with your friends and family. All you have to do is click the share button below, no exercise involved!
Just as Aesop’s Fables has a moral at the end of each fable, so shall I.
Moral: Do not be afraid to ask and enlist the help of those that can do what you can not!
your friend,
