They had read the manuscript and loved it!

Back in the day when I was running the coffee shop I used to always say “Precious seconds, people.Precious seconds!” ..and they all thought I was crazy.

Until they realized that I was brilliant.🙂 When you look at your day in 10 minute segments though, and assign each 10 minute segment a purpose, magical things will start to happen.And it’s absolutely OK if sometimes those 10 minutes are assigned to things like breaks and snacking.. Use a timer..

Using a timer really helps to keep you on track.makes you actually get started when you’ve made up your mind to hit “start”.

I used to use a chicken-shaped egg timer and I liked that the constant “tick tick tick” in the background kind of subconsciously let my brain know that it was “working time”.

Plus a chicken timer is always fun and funny and I’m whimsical like that.Oh well, I’ll put out a non-matching one for him on Christmas Eve and he won’t care.

I would have put some fresh cedar into these for now if I had wanted to walk the 20 feet from my back deck to cut some.But I didn’t.. Don’t worry, the ladder is firmly attached to the wall!

We’re working on making the dining room presentable right now so I can only let you see a tiny bit.We’ll have to save most of it for a future post!