Hello Readers! Once again, Happy New Year, and I hope you've all had a relatively relaxing holiday season. Mine was a whirlwind of activity, but now comes the fun stuff (real work). After the holiday cheer wore off
I had to dig my car out of 3-4 feet of snow, which I'm still not done as of yet. Almost though.
It's tough, hard work, and for a 5'5" chubby girl with short legs it's even harder. Believe me, I wish I had much longer arms and legs. Sometimes I can't throw the snow far enough out of my shovel, and it lands on my face...Pretty pathetic.
Yet, as much as I complain, I must admit that those hours of digging out the car in the driveway gave me much time to think about what I want to accomplish over the course of the coming year. Things that I previously was doing relatively okay with, but want to improve. Like my health, my weight-loss, my businesses, and my relationship with my boyfriend (not the actually relationship between us, but the long-distance relationship aspect of it), my online endeavors, and so on.
My number one on the 2013 "to-do" list is actually not what I expected. Most people would put their health first, which I probably should, but seeing as my health is an ongoing process I've decided instead to put focus on my business instead as a major priority. Having spent the last 1.5 plus years doing almost nothing for myself and nearly everything for others, I cannot stand this anymore. I know and recognize the fact that I need to start doing things for myself to further my life and my career (what's that, hmm?).
So my resolutions for 2013 are as follows: get my business performing outside the scope of what it is now (not really much at all), improve my business potential, post on my blog at least twice a week, get myself doing more videos on Tarot for my YouTube channel, and bring back my Tarot Etsy shop and maybe open my soap shop online as well (but perhaps not on Etsy). I love Etsy to bits, but there is too much going on there for me to get properly noticed. I'm still having an inner debate on this issue, though. As I always say, we'll see.
If anyone is interested, I'm posting a widget for my Etsy store on this blog. I'll have a few readings up soon for purchase so keep watch here on my blog. My next post will be the 100th, so I'm planning to write up something fun and interesting for you guys.
Okay, better get down to business! I'm off.
For a Tarot reading and other types of readings, you can visit my shop, Saphira Blue Tarot, here.
Good for you! I love to see people being driven by passion. I am constantly overwhelmed with people telling me the "smart" choices to make, to take this boring office job and work your way up. Which is fine and I have not ruled that out - bills have to be paid. But I wish more people would say "yes! go make your homemade candles and sell them..that sounds so interesting" rather than "you'll never get anywhere with that." I'm hoping this year to actually make several and sell them as well on my weekends. Best of luck!
ReplyDeleteThank you, K, for the support.
ReplyDeleteI'm in a place in my life where due to extremely unforeseen circumstances I cannot work at a normal job. I'm living between countries and taking care of my grandfather at the same time, so until I have certain paperwork gone through I just have to do my thing at home.
When I was able to do my work more publicly I did start out with my soap-making on a strong note because I loved what I was making and I knew everything about what I was doing. If you want to sell your candles, I say go ahead. Do more research on candle making, experiment a bit like you have been doing, and make a good product you know and understand. That was the key to my early success.
All the best to you, and I hope we get to see more beautiful candles!