Heart Recovery

Today we took a drive to a different almond grower / retail store near Modesto. The weather was a little wet there and coming back. I really like rain. This was a smaller store but I picked up a few things. It was another nice drive. I’m still practicing guitar. I missed a couple of … Read more

There was some really nice rain today carrying over from the nice rain yesterday. It was pretty heavy at times. Not mid-west heavy rain but heavy for Sacramento. We went to the farmers market to pick up vegetables and got drenched at one point. The farmers who were there selling were very happy to see … Read more

I got my weeks mixed up and missed the every other Friday networking group I’ve gone to before. And I like that group. But I may also have gotten mixed up on purpose. It was nice to work in quiet. I was overall a little down and also realizing why. I was inflicting self-doubt on … Read more

I returned to the Thursday networking group this week. It’s noon-ish and I met up with someone from the group beforehand to talk. They have a friend out of state who needs web help and doesn’t have much money so I said I’d call to see if there was anything I can do. The group … Read more

I had a pretty productive day and a couple of calls, one with someone from the networking group who wanted to talk. He and his partner had seemed slightly spammy in their sales / outreach approach and I was giving them a hard time about it. I think it was from inexperience and youth. I … Read more

The semi-automated LinkedIn client prospecting is really promising. I’m getting a 29% connection rate on one of my prospect lists which is higher than I expected. Certainly good enough to move forward with. Not that those are clients, just people I can follow up with. A tiny number reach out to me and want to … Read more

My morning mastermind group was today and it went well. There were 4 of us and we had some good discussions. I did some client work, and writing, and got additional connections on LinkedIn as part of my semi-automated client prospecting strategy. The little automaton running on my laptop has a list of profiles and … Read more

I got my office re-organized after being away. There was quite a stack of mail to go through but everything is sorted for the most part. We continued feasting on Thanksgiving leftovers and won’t go hungry for a couple more days. It’s been raining nicely which I really enjoy. There is supposed to be rain … Read more