Step Away From the Cake

 I'm tired of thinking about my business. I'm tired of thinking about the list of things I have to do for it. I'm tired of trying to learn new things. I'm just plum tired. I think I need a day of not thinking about my business. I need a day of just doing what I want and not worrying about what I should be doing. Maybe I'll work on school work. That is the complete polar opposite of my business and I know what I'm doing. Generally. Maybe it's time for that. Tomorrow morning will be my 1st CEO meeting for my business. I'm going to figure out what to work on and get my planner set up. I'm going to make Sunday morning the time to revamp my weeks. I'm going to figure out what I need to do for my business and I'm going to work on my planner for the week. I need to get better at doing these things consistently and if I just do it, it will get better. I also need to work on setting goals for the week. I'm really bad at that. My goals are either t...

 The other day I came to the realization that I can only do myself. I can't be anyone else. I can't follow anyone else's plans. I have to be myself. And honestly, that's the way to make it in social media, be yourself. And I started in that direction. I wrote a blog post for my website - something I've been doing for 20 years. I came up with some ideas for posts. I roughed out a plan that would work for me. Mondays would be blog promotion. Tuesdays would be engagement posts, ask a question, do a poll, etc. Wednesday would be new product information. Initially that would entail just the products that I currently have, but as time goes on I hope to have my own stuff to highlight. Thursdays would be a kind of before and after, behind the scenes, that kind of stuff. The magic behind the curtain so to speak. And Fridays would be fun days. I'd talk about things that happened during the week, or something cool I saw or did, things like that. That makes sense to me and ...

 I don't know, I'm just not a fan of Christmas anymore. I think it's gotten to the point where it's too big, too commercial, too family, too loved ones, too whatever. I don't know. Maybe it's just me. It probably is.  Anyway, I've been working diligently on my social media stuff for the last couple of days. It is hard for me but I've come to the realization that I have to do what works for me. I can read all the gurus who tell you to have content pillars, engaging posts, limit how much you push product, blah, blah, blah. I have to do what works for me or it all feels phony. So I'm just going to post. Just post. Every day. Just post. I'm going to work on building my consistency and from there I'll work on building my 'content pillars' whatever the hell they are. I came to that realization the other day and I keep losing it. I have to remind myself to just post. I'm going to push my blog, not this one, I'm going to push my websi...

 It is so hard to believe that another year is almost over. This has been a sort of crazy year, especially the last 6 months or so. I think I finally realized what I didn't know about my business and have been working to try and fill in that knowledge gap. It's hard. It's completely outside my wheelhouse, but I'm working on it. I find myself getting stuck in certain places and I just have to step back for a minute, take a breath and try again.  What I really need to do is stop the negative self talk I have going on. I keep telling myself that I don't have time to work on this during the week. I don't have the energy to work on this during the week. This is hard, I don't understand. How do I do this? I need to stop all that nonsense in my head. Are those things true? Yes, yes they are. They are all true. But I know if I focus on those things I'll never fix them. I need to focus on what I can do during the week and what will work for me. I have gotten into...

 Every once in a while, a thought crosses my mind that maybe we shouldn't have left Hawaii. We moved here with some very definite purposes in mind. We wanted to see family more. We wanted to be able to travel and see the country/world. We wanted to do things. It hasn't exactly worked out that way and I can't help but wonder if leaving was the right thing to do. Of course, had we stayed we would have had to put up with the horrible neighbors for longer. We would be living in a basic shack. We would be paying an exorbitant mortgage. Hubby would most likely be working 2 jobs still. I would have to work summer schools to make ends meet. So now as I type these things out, I realize we did make the right decision. I look at our life here now and it is so much better than in Hawaii. We work 4 days a week. We have money in the bank. We live in a great house that fits us perfectly. We really don't worry about things much at all. We don't see family as much as we would like, ...

 I've been working my butt off these last 2 days. I don't get to make things much during the school week but yesterday I made up for that. I cut a desk set that I've been wanting to make - it's gorgeous. I got my quilt coated with the first coat. I made some dominoes for a gift - though I'm not thrilled with the color.  Took Mavy to the vet. Yup, it was a busy, busy day. But now I need to step away from the making for a bit and do some computer work. Theoretically I could do that while I cut things, but it just doesn't work that way. When I'm cutting I have too many things going on that I need to keep an eye on and so I can't focus on the computer work. So I think I'm going to focus on that today. I did start it a bit last night. I had been saying that I'm dumping all the listings in my Shopify store and literally starting over. Well, I finally did that. I deleted everything and am starting from scratch. One thing I had is when someone talks abou...