This is a short post, I promise!!!!!
For the past two months, I have been sharing my goals for
the month. Now to put up a warning; I am not
reporting one this month.
Why?
- Because I want to see if
my goals will happen naturally and authentic?
- Because it is summer, and
I am lazy
- Because it is my birthday
month
- All the above
I have one, I am not publicizing it.
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| Photo by Elle |
It is all the above.
Let me explain….
Since April 2019, I have been on a mission to improve my
ultimate goal of being an entrepreneur and writer. Really,
it has been my goal from the very beginning, but I have been sort of lax from
the beginning. If you take a look at my
previous post, one of the goals was to take my business seriously, and I while I
have been working at it, I sometimes feel like I am spinning my wheels. I feel like I was not going anywhere fast,
and not making any money.
Starting today is the start of a new day and a new fiscal year for me (July 1,
2019-June 30, 2020), and while it may not mean much to some people, it means a
lot to me. June is usually the time
where I look back at the last 12 months and clean some things up in my business. I may add some things, take away some things,
and redo some things that may not be working while keeping the things that are
working the way they are. The past 12
months, I have been doing it each month.
Well, not every month. There are some months that I skipped because it was really not needed for that month.
Tip: take time out to look
at your situation and change it if it is not working.
This is not just a tip for business but a life as well. No one is expected to stay the same for the
rest of their life. For one, it is boring,
and another, it looks weird if, for example, a six-year-old who still learning the same set of
skills they did as a four-year-old. There are some exceptions, such as the
child may be autistic or they may not have learned it as a four-year-old, but
under normal circumstances, it looks weird.
Same as an adult or any type of situation. You learn and grow from it as well as new things.
One of the things I have learned from a long time ago is
that Blogger is not the best platform for me.
If you have been following me for a while, you know this has been a struggle
for me. Another struggle for me has been
to keep a consistent schedule.
One of the things I talk about a lot is being careful. I do not fully come out and say it, but I
dropped little hints on how to be careful.
Being careful includes;
- Watching your back
- Watching your time
- Watching your writing (or
whatever business you are into-passion)
- Watching the money
It is watching the money that I want to briefly touch on
for the rest of this post (which is growing longer by the second, LOL). It is a touchy subject for many and most people do not like to talk about money situations.
The first part of watching your money is careful about who you talk to.
When we first start a business, we (and I include me in this
as well) want to tell everyone. If we
could tell our first-grade teacher we would do it, but not everyone needs to
know that you are going into business for yourself, especially when you first
get started. Your boss does not need to
know about any situation that you are facing unless it affects your job, and your business should not be one of them. Your co-workers most definitely
do not need to know this.
Here is why:
Most people are jealous.
Sure tell your family, unless they run the business you are working
at. What will happen if you have this
new business idea at your job, but your supervisor poo-poos the idea. So, instead of sitting on it, you decide to
make it a business venture. Heck, that idea
may be working your paintings or photography as a side hustle. Whatever it is, you decide that this going to
be your second income instead of getting a second or third job. It now tells your employer that you are no
longer available for certain hours, the weekend, that holiday shift that no one
wants because they want the two weeks in Cancun instead. Not only that but, now you have done
something that they should have done, leave.
When I first thought of going into business for myself, I
was working at Archiver’s, which was a scrapbook store. I kept getting requests from customers who wanted someone to have one of the associates make something for them, but that was
not a service that the store offered. It
was a Do It Yourself store, that offered supplies to make a project. This
happened especially around the holiday season and even though the store offered to show
them how to make a project, the people who asked were not creative, and they
told me that the moment their mouth opened.
I wanted to offer it as an extra income for me, separate from the store,
without the managers knowing about it. One
employee was already offering those services on her own. As soon
as I got my ideas together, a new employee handbook came out that November
2009, and apparently, the company was made aware of this to the point where
they stated that no employee can work for themselves or for a direct selling
company. I was also a Longaberger consultant
at the time. Since I was down to one day
a week, and making $8.15 an hour for 4 hours, I had a decision to make.
Talk about your punishment. I
thought, “they might as well fire me”, but I quit instead. This was my mistake, now that I think about
it.
Tip: do not quit until you can make 10 times more than your current
paycheck.
Now, I am sort of struggling to keep up, and even though my parents
have been gracious by helping me, still I should have gotten another job until
I am able to peacefully quit to run P. Lynne Designs full-time. I have a friend who owns his own photography studio,
but he also has a job that does not take up his weekends, so, he does photography
shoots on the weekends, and works during the week at his regular job. Which
reminds me to schedule for a new headshot with him soon.
OK, I lost track of time, and this is starting to become my
normal post length
Other excuses on why there is no July report…
It is my birthday month.
If I use that excuse for the reason why I am not writing is that my birthday month is here, I
would not be working at all. Every year,
I keep saying that I am going to have a giveaway, and my month is gone before I
could get started, so to roll everything in one package, I will be working on a
giveaway that combines my birthday with my anniversary of 10 years of blogging. I am not sure what the giveaway is as of yet, but it
is coming. I would say around Christmas,
but I am traveling that month, so it will be around November. It is in the midst of the holiday season. Anyway, look for it.
OK, that about does it, I am no longer announcing that I will have
a short blog post. If you like this
post, please comment and share it. I
hope you enjoyed it. God Bless You.
