Hello and good morning and welcome to Thursday, October 5th It is a little chillier this morning here Where I am at So maybe fall weather is you know just around the corner.

I do know that this coming weekend I think we’re supposed to get back down into the normal What people expect for this time of year?

And it seems what most people really enjoy and I’m happy if that’s you I’m happy for you I’m happy that you enjoy the chillier weather Me I definitely prefer the hot summer weather Hotter the better The more humid the better.

It’s uh yeah, there’s there’s something for everyone when it comes to temperatures for sure Unfortunately where where I live here in central, Pennsylvania the summers In my very humble opinion, but very experienced opinion as I’ve essentially lived here my entire life the summers are about two months you have Essentially July and August will be your hot months Where the humidity is you know very high?

Your temperatures get very high If you own a pool those are the two months that you typically will be able to comfortably use it Then you know September is very hit-or-miss September can be sometimes warmer Other times colder like it was this year.

It was chillier And then October is you know typically as well when it just keeps creeping down the chart as far as the temperature is concerned But like I said earlier this week The past few days have been very nice, so we’ve been enjoying those or I have and other people like me have been And then so you typically have right July and August summer and then September through November I’ll say is fall or autumn and then December through April I consider to be winter for sure April or excuse me then May and June is spring and Sometimes the spring temperatures which are just very cold and not very good humidity creeps into early July Other times not so it’s very hit-or-miss summer is just that very you know small sliver of enjoyment for us for people like me anyways So today’s grateful log on this Thursday morning so far is last night.

I had some excellent sleep Which I’m always thankful for that when I can get it I?

Do this to myself, I don’t know if you Can relate to this, but I’ll sometimes stay up later than I should working on some idea that I had and get to bed very late I tend to only do that when I have a must wake up by time the next morning So it’s impossible to still get that seven to eight hours that I have learned my body needs So then I just I enter a few days of being With just carrying around like a sleep debt where I have to catch up on sleep so the past two nights I have Been I’ve been very responsible It’s it’s all this is all on me.

I’ve been very responsible about getting to sleep at a normal time around 10 10 30 and then Rolling into the second item here on my log is having a flexible schedule I’m not necessarily proud of sleeping in but I’ve been able to so I can get to bed responsibly sometimes Around 10 or 10 30, but then if I need to I can sleep even beyond that eight-hour window This does not happen very often, but if I need to catch up on sleep.

I have a flexible schedule where I’m able to Just make that decision So the night before I can look at my schedule for the next day and I Don’t know you can tell when you wake up in the morning.

Do I need more or am I good?

And you know some more and most mornings I wake up.

I’m good to go I just get up and get going out of bed right away Other mornings I can tell not quite there yet.

The battery still needs to be recharged a little bit more So there was those mornings.

I’m very thankful for the flexible schedule that I do have just to again, just be able to make that decision and It really serves me well for the rest of my day being at you know Peak performance as far as my brain and body are concerned so pretty important stuff So thankful for the sleep the flexible schedule and also for just striving to keep things simple This just is a theme in my life.

I think this would be debatable with depending who you asked who knows me Some folks would say I like to make things as comfortable as complicated as possible.

I would tend to a point to agree with them But my my spirit is always to keep things as simple as possible Primarily why I’m saying that I have in mind My leather business, which I am, you know going to be taking full-time here Shortly and As I tell people that the immediate it’s weird I’m not sure what it is, but the immediate response is or are you going to be hiring people?

Like absolutely not I that is not at all on my to get to list Keeping this as as small as possible is really my primary objective.

I want it to be something that can be managed Successfully and as you know financially profitable as possible By one person so Now I will add a little seen a sliver of a caveat here.

I don’t want to have if I hire anyone it would be for Administrative type work it would be for computer stuff.

It would be for you know, packing orders up and be for communicating with customers, maybe Taking stuff to the post office if I don’t have it picked up, you know that day Just stuff that you can’t really mess up where I would hesitate to hire someone like Majorly hesitate is to do leather work with me the That’s where I want to keep it as simple and as small as possible Yeah For many reasons which maybe you can just kind of think of but you know top of mind for me is I work on leather in a very certain way and that is what I’m selling and So you’re buying from a single artisan Even though I may at some point have other people assisting with the back end or the back office type type work That work that comes off of the workbench is done by Me and I think there’s I don’t know.

I think there’s a lot to be said for that I’m not against, you know companies and places that hire other artisans to work on projects, but you lose You know, they’re then taught a very specific way to do things So you can just lose the individual artisans touch Artisans touch Again to a point I know you could you can argue these little things all over the place But that’s just how I’m approaching it.

So Even though others again would argue that I tend to complicate things I do believe in my heart that my my spirit is always to keep things as simple as possible and Again, even though folks would disagree maybe I’m thankful that I’ve been able to maintain that and Yeah, so that’s that’s it that’s what I’m thankful for today And like yesterday we’re gonna leave it there I’m not going to allow myself to pause And get into something else because that will certainly happen.

So I hope that you have an awesome Thursday If it’s at the end, I hope it was great if you’re at the beginning of it, I hope you have an awesome day ahead and Remember if it doesn’t quite go to plan stop and think of a few things that you can be thankful for just to help Get you over that hump.

So, all right.

We’ll talk tomorrow.

Take it easy.

See ya