Full, wonderful life
My life is pretty full at the moment. At the weekend I worked out what my week looks like from Mon to Sat:
- 48 hours of sleep
- 6 hours of personal hygiene: showering, toilet, brushing teeth
- 6 hours meal
- 6 hours of prayer + inspiration
- 30 hours Publisher
- 30 hours ship
- 9 hours travelling time to the ship =
- = 135 hours out of 144 hours
So on average from Monday to Saturday 1.5 hours a day for shopping, running errands, cleaning, reading, phone calls, maintaining friendships, sport....
That's a shamefully short time. If an appointment - such as picking up contact lenses - takes an hour or longer, the "free time" is used up. Occasionally, with such a tight schedule, one or two details slip through my fingers. Like today, when I stopped by the letterbox to look through the post after work at the publishing house and before a doctor's appointment. Because I had a lot of luggage with me for the ship - a load of laundry that I had washed for the shipbuilder, I only took a quick look at the letter from the tax office: advance income tax payment 2014 43000!!!!, solidarity surcharge 1800!!!!. I was shocked to the bone, but didn't have time to think about it any more because I had to leave to get to the appointment on time. On the way, I thought desperately about what the mistake was....Later, when I unfolded the letter completely, I saw: the last two numbers are the cent amounts!!!! (Honestly, why can't they put a comma in front of the cent amounts?
Second glitch: I sell books that I no longer need or that friends give me on Amazon as best I can. On Sunday, a friend asked me to return a book that she had lent me.... um...um...you guessed it...yes, it had ended up in the sales pile and I had successfully sold it.... (but the nice customer gave it back to me because her comments were important to her).
Third mishap: After paying with an EC card, I didn't put the card back in....netterweise die Ladenbesitzer sie aufgehoben und mir am nächsten Tag, als es mir einmerkt, wiedergegeben...
Fourth breakdown: I think I'd better stop....
It's mishaps like these that make me realise that it's really busy at the moment...and then some things slip through the cracks...but I still enjoy both lives: publishing and shipbuilding. In addition to the intellectual and organisational work in publishing and the empathetic and strategic work in coaching, the practical work on board is really good for me. Cutting off a few metres of rust with the pneumatic needle is fun. And it's just nice to see how things are progressing.
As a rule, the first reaction of people who come on board is a "Wow, you still have a lot of work ahead of you..." - which I don't always find encouraging. On Monday, a young woman from the Czech Republic who is helping for a fortnight came on board. Her first exclamation: "Wow, that's beautiful!" That encouraged me!
We've also got a lot done: we've continued to remove rust and organise the guest rooms. And in the last few weeks I've been able to sell a few things that had been standing around for a long time. Old rubber seals, windows and finally the old heating system (a bad buy that I almost couldn't get rid of.....). That was a story in itself: because I had a group of helpers there, I asked them to lift the monster off the ship and carry it ashore....300 kilos were a bit too heavy for me alone...)... 2 days after she was ashore, a buyer came along...wonderful...
