The No Excuses Project: Keeping jewelry design in the loop
April 28, 2010 by Juliet Chase
Filed under No Excuses Project
It would be nice to think that eliminating all the excuses would somehow cause the day to double in length – wouldn’t that be an incentive? But it doesn’t seem to work that way. So here I am trying to turn sea glass jewelry into an active business and finding everything else getting in the way, including the excuses.
The first thing I’ve done is make sure I’ve got the essential supplies (the ones that would actually stop me in my tracks) restocked before I run out. I’ve listened to the feedback I’ve gotten and incorporated that into the plan as well.
The rest of it is execution and marketing. So my plan is to do at least one thing in each area every week. One marketing action, one production action. The real question is is that enough? There certainly may be times when I need to do more but that will become deadline driven. My weakness is losing momentum during the slow periods when there is no immediate deadline or it is far enough away to feel that way. That’s when the excuses really take hold.
Realistically things are getting to the point where I can’t keep track of them mentally – do this once a week and that every other week. I’m thinking it’s about time for a chart with some gold stars to help make this happen!
Holding Myself Accountable
- Gardening – sticking with the new plan; it seems to be going well
- Photography – basically good; no new pictures this week but high marks on marketing
- Exercise – not so good; clearly I need to reinforce the priority
- Romance – making progress; time to make some changes to old habits and ways of doing things
- Treasure hunting – plans to go out next weekend so on target for now
