One
of the things that I have yet to catch up on has been all the emails and other
things that I need to get done for the lodge. I have been able to take care of
a few things here and there but, overall, there is a mountain of ongoing and
monthly projects that haven’t been checked off the list. Even my attendance at
the usual weekly fellowship has been put on hold for the remainder of the month
(at least there is a darn good reason for it).
Even
some of the simple things like keeping current on the email have been on hold
as any ‘work time’ that I have had has been dedicated to catching up on other
work. Sometimes the lodge activities have to be moved down the list so that
other things can get done. No that the backlog from the office has been
completed and I am running through only current projects, I was finally able to
get back to the lodge work that has been piling up.
Email
was the first thing that I had to tackle and when I pulled up my account I was
surprised to see that the unread messages still numbered less than a couple of
dozen. After deleting the spam, I slowly went through each one by one, reading
and answering when appropriate, from oldest to newest, until they were all
taken care of. Thankfully, there was nothing too urgent and nothing that made
me scramble to get something else done right away.
Next
I started going back through my calendar trying to figure out all the events
that were coming up and if I was going to be able to attend and/or participate.
While the weekly fellowship has been put on the back burner, that doesn’t mean
that everything was going to be put aside. With the Secretary Seminar a no go
for this weekend (thankfully my new assistant was able to attend) it was time
to look at March to see what was going to be manageable.
The
stated meeting is the one thing that I don’t want to miss (still some work to
do there) and the extra meeting should be fairly short this month so I want to
keep that on the calendar as well. Everything else seems to be up in the air.
There are many things that I don’t want to miss but I really have to get this
new balance right. Now is the time to make sure my priorities are right so it
is going to be a very careful process… one that I have a week to figure out.
After all, I don’t want to end up like a Harry Chapin song.
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