Get Yer Priorities Straight

 It occurs to me that my priorities are all screwy.  Mondays are my blog day. I write write, write and spread, spread, spread. Right now I am sitting in the hospital OR family waiting room next to my mother waiting for my step dad, who just had vascular surgery on his other leg, to be taken up to the 6th floor. 6 months ago he had the first surgery where he went on to spend the next four months recouping in the hospital. The nurses await his repeat arrival with what they report is glee, but I’m sure behind the scenes that in actuality is a nervous laugh peppered with a lot of eye rolling. He isn’t what you’d call an easy patient.

 They have free hospital wifi in the waiting room and so I sit here able to pump this baby out while my mother studies the NY Times fall Style Magazine.  I couldn’t escape even if I wanted to. We are comfortable in our roles. But shouldn’t we be talking?

Last Thursday my friend and colleague Jennifer Covello and I met with Jane Pollak about her role in our upcoming telesummit series.  We’re very excited about her participation. She’s produced webinars, but this is even more complex- there are even more moving parts, as there will be 6 joint venture participants, not just 1, on 6 different dates. Affiliate tracking. Auto responders. Shopping carts. Oh my!! We casually asked Jane about a few of the venders she’d used for her webinar series. Her answer? “Not sure! My VA did all of that.” Hmmmm…..

I know Jenn and I were both thinking the same thing as we heard those words come from Jane, more than once.  Can you spell “lightbulb”?

 Smart, not hard, Smart not hard. Repeat 3x, spit, rinse and repeat.

I am so used to doing things myself, to not delegating- that I’m always having to be beaten into the reality that I can’t do it all, nor should I try.

Wait just one more minute. I did have an intern, but she graduated this past May and has gone the way of most college graduates. Somewhere else.

 So it’s time to get back on the delegation wagon. I ran home on Thursday and immediately placed an ad on Craigs List for a very techy VA. You can’t imagine how many out of work very techy VA’s there are out there. As of Sunday my choices were up to 36. So not only am I going to be smart, damn it, I’m also helping out the masses  of over qualified internet savvy programmers and the like by employing one of them who has no idea what they’re getting themselves into.

 Time to get my priorities straight. Going to upload this baby and take my mom out for lunch as soon as we’re sure that my step dad’s settled in.