I had three webinars with Tony Laidig this week.

Each one was very different from the other.

On Tuesday night for his Expert Media Show the topic was how to “Live in Balance” and Tony talked about some of his real life experiences that brought up emotions in him, in ways no other internet marketing coach would share. I related to some of his experiences very deeply. Wished I could have hugged him, as I am sure other listeners wanted to do also. In lieu of being able to hug him, I knew I had to pack a mask to ship soon, so decided to sent him one also.

And when he had been really sick and traveling, I had thought to send him some Young Living Thieves, but he was far from his home for many weeks, so didn’t do that then. I decided to pack a Tiger FantaFaces mask. Thinking about which mask to send, of course the idea of “Tony the Tiger” came to mind. Humorous and yet filled with Strength.

I also added the essential oil blend to the package as he will be traveling some more and his voice didn’t sound like he had totally gotten over the winter cold. So I sent them off to him as a thank you for all the free trainings and awesome sharing of his knowledge in a very human way.

I got posts done for the upcoming show “Spectrum of Spring” that will open in Commonwheel’s invited guest gallery March 21, 2014. One of the artists was a long ago Commonwheel member, so will be fun to see what she is doing now. I then worked on the Festival committee meeting agenda, got it pretty close to done. I had a call from Kathleen who needed some printing done for her Sharing Inner Health business, as her printer wouldn’t print for her. Short detour, and easy to do.

Wednesday started with a webinar with him and his partner Felicia Slatterly on “Your Genius Factor” looking to inspire us to find ours and share it with the world. Some of this sounds very familiar and similar to some training I did in the past with Eben Pagan. They have a little different approach, and I am looking for this to help get me where I need to be with my writing and publishing business.

My roommate fixed a really lovely lunch for us, and we sat on my sunny porch basking in the winter sunshine. I took a walk to the Post Office to pick up Festival applications that don’t fit in our PO Box properly and ship the mask to Tony and the other one I had sold on Etsy. Then on to Commonwheel to get my Festival agendas copied. It was a beautiful day outside and I really enjoyed this walk in the sunshine.

When I got back, I made a call that I found out about new challenge for the Art Festival that was a surprise. I guess most challenges come as a surprise, and I got another one on Friday that was even more challenging to handle. This first one was that the person who had done the sound for our stage for I believe about 10 years was retiring and selling his equipment, so we needed to find a replacement. He hadn’t told the person who hires the musicians yet. So I had to send out a few emails and made some inquiries to the folks that will be doing the new idea of a beer garden and runs other music festivals. With luck, this will not be a huge challenge and get resolved quickly. Still, an extra piece to handle that was unexpected.

I came home and put together a simple meal for the group, spinach salad with sweet yellow tomatoes and pickled red peppers. I had three types of cheese, two types of gluten-free crackers and regular crackers. My roommate had baked gluten-free cookies earlier, so had an easy desert. The goat cheese with figs was a big hit!

One of the committee members called and told me she had a fever, so would not be at the meeting and she had not completed any of the tasks she had taken on last month. That meant she missed a deadline for a grant, and some other items I had thought were being handled were not done. We were all glad she chose not to come with a fever, but not having her jobs done was not good for this smaller committee.

She is the committee member that had suggested time and time again that I should give up not just some “tasks” but whole sections of the Festival to committee members. If this was any indication of how she would handle a whole section of the Festival, I am really glad I have only given her tasks. Then at the meeting, I asked the person who was taking on getting information about signage and where CDOT would allow them. In last month’s minutes it pretty much stated he would contact with one of two MS Public Works people and get information from them, then contact CDOT. At the meeting, he said he was waiting for me to get him CDOT’s info. Not sure how that was so misunderstood even with the written directions in the minutes. Luckily we have time to work on this part of the Festival.

One of the committee members is doing a minor bit of updating our logo to use for the Art Festival Poster. Some of it looked really great, as in the Columbines at the top looked like flowers again. But when I saw it, something still looked not cleaned up as much as I think the whole group would like to see. I hesitated saying this, but then decided to see what the committee thought. I brought my white out tapes, but neither worked, so he said he would take it back and do the clean up. He had multiple copies, and I did keep one.

I realized I had lots to do myself for the Festival, especially since no one was taking on some of the tasks I was trying to give away. But I am the only one paid, and know I must do the lion’s share of the work. Still, I would have liked a couple of tasks to have been taken by others as there is much extra to do because of the move to the different park.

Thursday I did Tweets for the Gallery Show. I had forgotten about them earlier this week. I had a conversation with our marketing person who had been on a leave of health related absence and was slowly getting back into the job again. I told her I could do the Facebook pages at least until my 40th Anniversary show was over. And I would do the Tweets as long as needed, as she had never done them.  When I do Facebook posts, I make them a bit more story-like than hers had been. Hers just seemed to be a press release. I would add something about the photos I added to the posts and try and engage people more than just tell them there was a show to come see.

When I first started doing Tweets, and I only do them for Commonwheel, I had found that if I thought of them like writing a Haiku, the flowed easier and were almost fun to write. For all of the posts and Tweets I create a Word doc and write them all out, then use the scheduling tool, so it is easy to get them all done in just one or two sittings. I can always add more when the show is actually up and I have photos taken there, but even then, I write a series and make a note of which photo is used, so the readers can get a taste of what they would see when the come into Commonwheel that month.

 I think I need to end here and continue catching up tomorrow night.