Phone call with Josh. He wants some help doing developer work for potential clients. They, Josh, Cory, Steve, and Eric have been doing some fun projects. Lots of look and feel, email campaigns, and new ecommerce skins. He has some potential clients lined up, just needs to fix certain things. He was asking me where I'm at with things. I'm off the side of the bus (not with everybody else). He wants me to work with Steve and the crew on development projects that need to be done. I'm trying to do some planning and working with ChatGPT (AI) to help line out the master plan stuff. We have never had that, meaning a master plan. I'm not trying to get it, the master plan, too detailed, but we need it. I feel that it is very important. We will always have more projects and development work. To me, it's just another checkbox and/or request. We have tons of those, meaning checkboxes, done and pushed out. Just for fun, here is a link to a 50-page document, just with features inside of adilas.

It's not just planning, I'm circling back around, finishing things up, reinforcing the foundation, and refining things. I'm trying to simplify things, make it easier to understand, explore new avenues, use AI to help us get rid of the rub and/or friction. Tons of things. In sales we talk about features, advantages, and benefits. We have the feature part down... We need to circle back around and make sure that we can show the advantages and the benefits. Some of that is look and feel and some of that is flow and simplicity. Just as a sample, here is an element of time entry that shows some of what we are doing and how we can harvest these AI conversations to help show the simplicity of what we are really trying to do. See EOT # 12793 in the shop. This entry has four new documents that are super easy to read, yet tell a huge amount of what we do and offer. We are working on graphics, help files, documentation, etc. We tend to go so quickly, that we don't put the finish on it.

One of the biggest things that people complain about is what it looks like (look and feel of the UI). We have great tech and functionality. We need to circle around and put that finish on our product that people are looking for. I love it, and I totally see it. There is nothing wrong with what he, Josh, is asking. I also know that it takes major resources to do all of that. I really want to see if we can get some investors to help us with some gas money, help us along the path. We have put every extra cent into this project that we could and/or can. That is awesome, but it is also taxing.

Josh recommended that I call Steve and see what he needs help with. I just know if I do that, I'm back in the mix of going a million miles an hour without a plan. We joke about it, but there is some reality to the situation, we are hanging on the car or train as it is going down the road and/or train tracks. We are working on it while it is going, making corners, going up/down hills, etc. In real life, the plan is - just follow the money, but then it never ends and you don't know where you are going. It starts getting complicated. Everything has to keep going and connect to tell the story. I really feel like me not being on the train is important right now. I don't know the timing of everything. We'll get it all figured out.

After we got done talking, it took me a couple of hours to get back on level ground. I think that I have some mental anxiety about where things are at right now and where things are going. I've been in this battle (the adilas project) for 20+ years. I've been burned out and reanimated a number of times. It's a repeating cycle. It has been pretty stressful. I really want to see it succeed, but the current demands are saying, jump right back in at full speed. I need to be on the outside right now, if for nothing else, for my mental wellbeing. I'm working on other parts of the system. There will be great ROI (return on investment) of what I am doing, it just may not be super visible right now. I know that it is going to help.