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14 January 2010 | No Comments | Archive/Search

Have you ever had so many things that you wanted to do, but you just didn’t know where to start? That is how I am feeling right now. I started my Etsy shop right before the new year and have a ton of things I want and need to do for it, but I just can’t decide where to start! I also opened a booth on Bonanzle to unload some of my old Boyd’s Bears and Neopets stuff, but again…I need to do a lot with it before I can feel good about it.

Some of the things I need to do include:

• Finishing an overall brand including new shop banners, avatars, etc
• Finishing the set up of my Facebook Fan page
• Re-shooting all the pictures for my Etsy store so they look more professional
• Adding more inventory to my Etsy shop and my Bonanzle booth
• Create and customize the website where I plan to promote this small business venture
• Make business cards
• Register the “doing business as” paperwork at the Court House
• so much more

In addition to all this I am trying to get ready for an impending adoption which will then throw my whole world upside down. Oh yeah, and I work full time. And help run the church’s kitchen ministry. And I’m trying to eat less and exercise more. And I need to sew some stuff for the nursery. And buy new curtain rods. I could go on, but you get the picture.

It’s easy to sit here and think about how much I have to do and let it paralyze me. I read Chris Guillebeau’s post on his blog, The Art of Non-Conformity, today. What perfect timing! It’s about this very thing…being busy! He said a couple of things that I really liked:

1. One way or another, we all make time for what’s important to us.
2. If being busy really prevents you from doing something you want, stop being so busy. It’s not that complicated.
   
3. Busy people tend to do more, not less — but either way, being “so busy” that you become overwhelmed doesn’t help anyone.

So, maybe I need to prioritize, decide what truly needs to be done, and then set about accomplishing the most important things first. I know that I am capable of accomplishing a lot, so I need to just spur myself toward action and the more I accomplish, the less overwhelmed I will feel, and then I will be free to do other things as well. It’s a cycle. Get things done, have less to do, have more time for other things that I want to do, start on getting them done, and so on and so forth.

I didn’t really have a point to all of this except to share that my life is busy (which Chris noted in his post people don’t care about, because they’re busy, too!). So, if I forget to call you, or forget to email you, or just plain forget something all together, then I’m sorry! But just think…when I manage to get all of this done, I will feel so good about it!

Maybe that’s all the motivation I needed…

posted in Etsy, Personal, Total Miscellany

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