What a Tuesday!

I haven't really felt like going into the office lately. I find it depressing. Work is piled up all over, files need to be filed, deadlines looming, etc. Not much fine. Not very inspiring. So on the weekend I decided to bring home my laptop, a couple of files and some accounting. I set myself up at the dining room table and yesterday morning, started to dabble with some work. I used to work at my little home office set-up, but I stopped when my printer died. It had a piece of paper jammed in it, so I fixed it but the printer thought that there was still a jam. I did EVERYTHING to fix it. I uninstalled the printer drivers and reinstalled, I turned it off and on several times, and I even shook it violently but alas, nothing worked.

Yesterday I had a commitment letter that I had to get out. I didn't want to drive all the way to the office just to print off a stupid commitment letter. So I marched on over to London Drugs and purchased myself a new printer/copier/scanner machine. Brought it home, placed it on my shelf under the fax machine and moved my laptop from the dining room table to my desk in the corner. I did my commitment letter took the rest of the day off.

This morning I got up and came down stairs and saw my little home office. My new printer, my fax machine, my laptop... all that was missing were piles of admin work, deadlines and filing... "Interesting" I thought to myself as I had this weird happy feeling inside. I went and made me a cup of coffee, brought it to my little desk area and suddenly felt inspired. I didn't have to worry about stupid admin, or filing or anything else. Today, today I could be a broker. I could do broker things. I could actually do things that help make me money instead of doing things that don't make me money but keep the boat afloat. I made contacts with new brokers and got two lunch dates out of it. I made contact with a new realtor and made a date for coffee. I got a new deal and sent a commitment letter! I even got word on my land fill deal from a broker in Victoria, that his lender is looking at it tomorrow!!!

I got more done in the last two hours then I would have at the office. A change of scenery. That's all it took. Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to get a part-time job and volunteer as a dog walker for the SPCA, but it felt good to sort of like what I do again. It also made my assumption correct, I'm done with MIC's and admin. I just want to be a broker.

Life is good.