It’s been an interesting week – almost completely occupied with work drama. The very reason I want to avoid working for someone else. What’s interesting to me is that the explanation given for some bad behavior was being tired and stressed. Fair enough, most of us release our inner toddler under those circumstances. But...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Personal Growth ’
The second layer
The power of three in the art of happiness
There is an implied stability in anything with three legs that is not present in anything with either two or four. In Jungian philosophy the number three is associated with creativity, self-expression, and optimism. By default a third option will get you out of either/or, black/white thinking and take you into the ambiguous area...
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The No Excuses Project: ‘My perception is skewed’
I would liken this excuse to being suddenly blind and deciding to sit in the same spot until either you could see again or magically become confident that you would never bump into a wall. Just because I see the fallacy in the argument doesn’t mean I haven’t used it! A belief that you...
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Efficiency versus ethics
They say that you begin to grasp a subject when you realize there is more that you don’t know than what you do. For some that’s an ego thing but I think for most of us that means we can itemize what we don’t know; we have a more specific form of measurement than...
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An indescribable week
Truly, I can’t think of a word or phrase that can sum up the jumble of events over the last week. Firstly, the craft show last weekend – unfortunately a massive disappointment in terms of sales. However, I’ve come to the conclusion that even moderate success would have caused me to continue pursuing events...
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The value and danger in prototyping
I am definitely one of those people that likes the research and development stage far more than day to day business. That’s not always a bad thing but this week I saw the reality of the downside. I’ve been pushing other things aside to get jewelry done for the show this weekend but as...
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A week of fighting the ‘I must start perfect’ demons
I don’t know if this particular demon is genetic or environmental but I can say that the majority of my family suffers from it. And they all know it too, which doesn’t seem to reduce it’s impact. If it takes too great a hold you can end up sabotaging yourself in order to avoid...
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Approaching deadlines
There’s a big gap between where I want to be in two weeks for that first craft show and where I am right now – which has had me in a bit of dither all week. Of course, that means that solder is refusing to melt and silver is not which leads to having...
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Lots of new things to learn
I think my brain is starting to hurt from all the new things I’ve taken in this last week. On the plus side I finally got my merchant application in so that I’ll be able to process credit and debit cards at shows – it will be a miracle if it goes smoothly because...
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Refreshed and refocused
It’s amazing what a little vacation can do for you – while I didn’t find any treasure with monetary value in Florida over the weekend, I came back with a sense of adventure. The plants were different, the shells on the beach were different, the houses were different and I got to try authentic...
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