How strange to be back at work again, though I am excited for 2025
CREATED BY THE THE ONE, THE ONLY, STEFFI LEWIS Published: 06/01/2025 @ 10:53AM
After a solid year of coding, creating YourPCM v2 from the ground up, I really enjoyed taking my foot off the gas over the festive season, but I wasn't completely absent, as I was monitoring my servers and ensuring my subscribers were being looked after when they reached out to me ...
I slept a lot, I watched a lot of TV, I spent time with my friends, and I ate so much junk over Christmas. Everyone gifted me chocolate, biscuits and wine so what's a girl to do? Can't let it go to waste, can I?
Many of us overindulge at that time of the year, so I'm not going to chastise myself for it!
I'm simply going to take action and deal with it. Properly this time as my previous attempts to lose weight are always half-hearted and fall by the wayside after a few months of slow progress.
I did give up drinking last year so I know I can give something up if I want to enough. This year it's sugar which means no more chocolate, biscuits or junk food. Yes, glucose is in virtually everything so as a foodie I'm not going to disallow scrummy food I cook myself, but refined sugar? Gone.
Not even a case of "oh but Steffi, one choccy bar on a Friday night isn't going to hurt you!" Thanks, subconscious, but no ... there lies a slippery slope, because one choccy bar will quickly become two choccy bars ... so shut up brain, I'm in charge.
I'm doing weekly meal prep (I've had scrummy curry, rice and Indian snacks this week) which is all about portion control, but as I prep it on a Sunday, I'm not going to fall by the wayside, wonder what I want for my dinner, pop a mini pizza in the oven and have it with a pile of chips. Carb loading is a thing of the past now.
And I'm going to take a little exercise as well!
I've been walking this week. My eventual goal is to get back into the fields, but as they're saturated with water right now (they always are in winter) and the footpaths are swampy I'm sticking to the local roads.
There's a nice 1/2 mile country lane near me so I've walked to the end of that and back a couple of times this week, so I'm just prepping my body ready for when the fields dry up again. After all, I've been sitting at my desk for a year and my knees are seizing up. Don't want to overdo it and damage something.
And I haven't even talked about business!
I'll save that for my blog post next week, but needless to say, I do have a marketing plan and will be growing the YourPCM subscriber base in 2025.
I'm a 31-year veteran web developer, who published one of the first 1,000 websites in the entire world when I worked at The Open University way back in 1993. Since then I've been involved with projects big and small, funded and unfunded, corporate and commercial. I was part of the dot com boom and contracted in California in the mid-2000s.
On my return to the UK circa 2011, I started work on my digital marketing platform SLO Media, and have run that successfully for over a decade. During the pandemic, when we were all bored out of our skulls, I created YourPCM, a CRM designed exclusively for UK small business owners (sorry rest of the world), then built YourAI as my artificial intelligence playground (yay for the whole world!). Although it was only ever meant to be a new module for YourPCM, I made it available commercially when a number of my friends and networking buddies saw it and demanded access to this handy set of content creation tools.
And now we have sBlogIt! which is a more focused version of the blogging part of YourAI with enhancements up the wazoo and the ability to create and publish an entire blog post in just a few minutes using a low-cost token-based system. If you want to know more about all that, you can visit sblogit.com and sign up for free. We'll even give you 50 tokens to get you started, so no excuses, ok?
My head is in The Cloud, my heart belongs to The Web, and my soul is filled with such beautiful code 💗
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