Intuition vs common sense
August 7, 2009 by Juliet Chase
Filed under Juliet's Journal
Some say that happiness is working through a challenge, not relaxing on the beach. And I admit to a certain state of bliss when working on a project as it goes from ignorance, confusion and chaos to something vaguely resembling the goal. That’s pretty much where I am now in my life project – still chaotic but beginning to take shape which is probably why I’m taking some pretty big financial risks to keep investing in the ‘project’ of me instead of being my usually fiscally responsible self and finding an outside job in addition. This week marked the first no going back on taking out financial reserves. Suze Orman and I are never going to see eye to eye but then I could never survive with just one pair of earrings. I know what convention would say I should do, but I can’t quite bring myself to pursue it, at least not this week!
As I’ve been working on the No Excuses Project, I’m beginning to see what a huge role excuses have played in putting ‘being safe’ in front of dreams. Sometime around high school I realized how much talk there was in my family of ‘someday’ and exciting projects, trips, and businesses. None of which ever materialized and I vowed that I would not become that. I haven’t, but I’ve let it influence me just the same and have been somewhere more in the middle of that spectrum then where I truly want to be. Of course I could be entirely wrong and have some serious crow to eat in a year or so but…. I’d rather find that out for sure, I guess.
On a more tangible level, I’ve gotten prints made of my photography and gotten those posted on Etsy. Between clearing error messages on the temperamental printer I worked on going outside of my comfort zone when it comes to writing sales copy. I would much rather say ‘red hibiscus’ and leave it at that but I know better – still it’s struggle!
As soon as I finish one last necklace this morning, I’ll have the first batch of beach glass jewelry ready for photography. I picked up some sand and pebbles for props yesterday so hopefully I can get that done this weekend and the online shop setup quickly (more copy to write!) It’s taken a lot longer than I anticipated to get this far, as usual!
