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.