Exciting Spring Planned!

It’s hard to consider March as “spring” though, as I look at the snow on the ground and my back muscles ache from shovelling yesterday. But I’m going to be optomistic that yesterday’s snowfall was the last of it. I’m ready for some warmth!

I have a couple of items to share: 1) I am now the Managing Editor of IVAACast, the International Virtual Assistants Association’s online magazine. It has a circulation of 4,000 and hasn’t been published in a while, so the “first” issue (again) will go out next month. I have a great staff and I’m looking forward to resuming this fine publication.

On a related note, I’m about to throw my router out the window. For some reason, it will not let me access the ivaa site. This is a problem (see paragraph above). Since I have to check IVAA for email, etc., I need to be on that site. My poor husband has been troubleshooting for about a week trying to figure out what’s going on. He was on the phone with Linksys last night for at least an hour and still can’t figure out a solution. But if I plug my laptop directly into my cable connection, it works. Then, however, I lose my Vonage phone line. Technology is great when it works!!

Right now I’m editing a really great book, and I have 3 more lined up after this one. I can’t think of a better career.

Next week I travel to Manchester, CT, to the Manchester Community College to give a presentation based on my book, Entrepreneurial Freedom. The staff up there has been incredibly helpful and kind and I’m looking forward to it.

At the end of the month, I’m giving a presentation during one of Myron Golden’s workshops on the bookwriting process. Those are always fun and Myron is one of the most positive people I’ve ever met.

And it wouldn’t be the month of March without my older son’s birthday. He’ll be 7. That’s hard to believe.

In April, I’ll be going to the IVAA summit in San Francisco, and giving a presentation on Continuing Education–Investing in Your Own Mind! And in researching flights, I’m really wishing there were direct flights from Harrisburg, PA to San Francisco, but I don’t see that happening in my lifetime!!

Happy Spring everyone!
Lauren