Gradually gaining momentum
May 15, 2009 by Juliet Chase
Filed under Juliet's Journal
It’s amazing what a day off doing something totally joyful can do for you – even when you’re self-employed. Last weekend I did indeed go beach glass hunting on a distant but famous beach that I hadn’t been to before and as you might expect there were setbacks – like having to wait two and a half hours for a ferry for some unknown tidal reason. The delay meant I missed low tide and had to turn back before reaching the ‘good’ beach but I was plenty happy with what I’d found and more than tired from the approximately 1000 toe touches I’d done to get them. Now that I know what the tides and the walk is like I’ll be going back as soon as I can coordinate the tides, ferries and daylight to my advantage. And even though I ached, got some bad sunburned spots (yes, I should know better) and had to wait for ferries I had a blast. Somehow that translated to getting even more done during the following week than I might have expected:
- I’ve gotten two class proposals written for continuing ed at the nearby community college and will get those sent out today.
- I’ve got the bread-baking business ready to launch as soon as the business cards show up – so that means ordering business cards, creating a website (http://bread.julietchase.com) ordering food-grade sacks for marketing and writing fliers. I still have a few forms to design like invoices but I’m ready to start. So yes, it’s possible to start a business for less than $75 (I already have a business license so that’s not an added expense- but even if I didn’t it would still be less than $200)
- I’ve also updated my photography site so that it’s ready for me to launch selling products. Mostly that meant going in and changing menu items but like anything else you don’t do for a long period of time, half the struggle is remembering how to do it.
Those are the highlights of my status report for the week! I’m excited because most of these things won’t be coming back on the list; sure, there will be other work to do and it will mean that I’m succeeding when there is.
