Slow leak

Not sure what to do with the massive amount of motivation I have that has a slow leak through the wormhole that is 'not enough time'.

Spent three days last week in Brisbane at the IPMA World Congress, my former client AIPM's conference baby. So happy to learn that people still recognise me and took the initiative to come up and say 'hi' and mention what a good job I'm doing with the website. Managed to coerce a few of them to write for me, too, which is good.

I met the new editor of the magazine too. Unfortunately she's not very, er, interpersonal, though she was all right to talk to for a couple of minutes. She was the kind of chick who's quite slight in stature and makes it worse with bad concave posture. We chatted for a bit and I asked her which sessions she enjoyed and she came back with some platitude about finding it all a bit above her head. I felt the same way about my first conference back in 2007, the difference being that I wasn't four issues in as editor... *facepalm*

I also found out that she had an entourage with her: a journo, her sales guy and a photographer. Man, if I had those resources... Anyway, I've now strayed into territory that could best be described as 'me trying to make myself feel better about losing the magazine to someone who isn't as good'. Of course, the readership suffers and that's no good.

Work still hangs in the balance. There's a pile of it, but I'm determined to see it through. If only, if only I could stop time to clean up my processes so I can be more efficient. But onwards I charge into the fray.