Slow progress

This last week centered around showing my jewelry to the museum shop on Wednesday. There was prep work ahead of that and recovery time afterwards!  It went well and I learned a lot. I came away without immediate sales but specific requests and another meeting in a few months.  Now I need to apply what I’ve learned and continue the marketing.  Doing anything the first time is at least twice as hard as the second so I’m looking forward to when I get to the 100th and it all seems easy.  While it was more of a challenge to juggle my schedule around a job this meeting underscored that these things take time to develop; I’m glad I made alternative plans for income while my passion jobs incubate.  I know that’s not what most people want to hear – how to make a million while sitting under a palm tree sells a whole lot better than how to juggle a full-time job and your own business while still trying to have a life.  I’ll write the palm tree book in twenty years when hind sight makes it all look so easy.  I’ll have forgotten how nervous I was on that first sales call and only remember how naturally it all came together.

That said, I was doing pretty well on keeping my schedule together until Friday when the trains weren’t running. That meant switching over to wi-fi free buses and emerging damp and grumpy.  Sometimes it’s good to get a reminder of how easily carefully crafted plans can fall apart.  But you make do. You write the Friday blog post on Saturday morning and realize it’s not that big a deal.  It is a test of how much you want something; how much are you willing to do to achieve the goal?  I’m still feeling pretty darn determined.