The last Friday of Spring
June 18, 2010 by Juliet Chase
Filed under Juliet's Journal
Summer starts next Monday, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. It’s been a long, rainy week and not much beside office work has gotten done. The new jewelry pieces though are almost complete – a few weeks behind schedule but impossibly so. I’m not sure where the summer plans went but I realized that I’ve got no immediate plans for shows and so forth but I’m still paying to have credit card services. Rather than cancel that it’s a reminder to me to work harder on marketing and get more productive with my time.
I’ve been reminding myself that everything really does happen for a reason. Too much work does at least mean more pay (the major benefit of contracting) so right there is my travel fund and that may prove to be invaluable in achieving other goals. So I’m trying not to wince at how much time is going away from my major projects in the last week.
The one benefit that comes from being truly committed to goals is that the distractions and setbacks actually reinforce the commitment instead of dissolving it. It seems unfair but you can see that in people that are truly confident as well, not to be confused with arrogance. Confident people tend to gain more confidence from their experiences, even the failures than those that aren’t. Those still struggling in that area will see a win as chance, luck, or a coincidence and not carry it forward.
