La Bene Vita

Monday, Monday

I'm very trusting, which makes me very open. But I also fully expect that my competitors read this blog (Hi, Molly!) in addition to keeping close tabs on my Tweets, Facebook updates and of course the school website. I mean, if my competitors had personal blogs where they aired out their griefs, goals and student counts, I would probably read that. Websites and social media advertising are obvious fodder for scrutiny - only a stupid businessperson would fail to regularly analyze the market. It's all public information, like my blog, since I've chosen to publish it publicly, which makes it all legal spying and not in violation of anti-trust laws.

It does crack me up that they (she) could never admit to the spying. (Although, just to prove my trusting and honest nature, I'll admit that I spy on all of your websites and social media sites. Because I'm not a stupid businessperson.)

This is just my way of telling any competitors who happen to be reading this blog post that I don't care if they know my student volume numbers. I offer the information willingly, along with our pricing (which, unlike just about every competitor I can find, we publish in detail for our customers on our website), our lesson format, and the number of recitals and performance events we host.

I guess I'm having a cynical day. *shrug*

Health goals
Weight: I forgot to check.
Exercise: Yes, after taking the weekend off.
Yesterday's points: 39-ish.

Weekly writing goals
Performance Evaluations: In progress: 1 down, 15 to go. Scheduled all week during 750Words.com entries.
Character Inventory: In progress. Scheduled Tuesday.
Set one song to music: Scheduled Wednesday.

Weekly work goals
Reach 400 students at MTMS   by 12/31/12: 231.5
Blog at MT.com  : Scheduled Thursday morning.
Year-end closeout: In progress and mostly delegated.
Sign-in process for students: In progress and not scheduled.
Judge Ohio Idol videos: Scheduled Friday.

Music Log
Yesterday, I practiced: "Wade in the Water" before worship, then performed it. It fairly well rocked.
Yesterday, I listened to: Nada.
This week, I performed at: Pending.
Songwriting progress: Pending.

I'm having a low energy day, which may explain my Monday morning cynicism. Last week - Friday night - I had to get up at 2am and drive to the boonies to rescue a friend who'd been picked up for DUI and was hanging at the police station. Yesterday - Sunday - my boyfriend's mom fell and hit her head and had to be taken to the hospital. Today, Chris, the office manager, is sick, and I had to come into work this morning. And to top things off, I haven't been getting to sleep at a decent hour (my own fault) because I've been sucked into a good book.

My whole schedule has been screwed up since Friday. I'm not sure why I bother to schedule things. Maybe I should go back to old-fashioned to-do lists. Yahoo Calendar has a decent one. It tells you, "Good job!" when you check one off and it moves it to a "Done" list. I'll take all the encouragement I can get, LOL.

Balance. Body. Growth. My goals for 2012. Balance. Body. Growth.