Starting a Baby Boutique & Clothing Line

Business and Life - It’s All in the Timing

October 30th, 2006

Everything with the business seems to take so much longer than I think it will. Which means one of my weaknesses is project scheduling / planning. How do you get better at this? The steps I’ve taken are to break my day into segments, so that some time is allotted towards (pretty much) everything. Some marketing, some web updating, some production, some sales, some advertising, and always some designing - at least in the back of my head.

Better balance. A better rythem really. I’m tired of being the mom who’s always late, who forgot this-or-that, or who is just completely out of the loop. This means I need to do more deep breathing and more re-grouping.

Another thing that HAS helped me is to re-fresh my to-do list every night. That buys me a bit of sanity and easy breathing in the mornings. It’s just that it’s the fires that get you. All the stuff that pops up each day that blind-sides you, that you just didn’t see coming.

I need to open my mouth and talk to moms more, because it seems that when I do, I get comfort in a “me too” type of story from them, a story that lets me know I’m maybe not the only one that feels like my head is not attached to my body all the time. I to re-focus a bit and make sure the kids needs are taken care of first first first. Like the thank you notes I STILL need to get out for my daughter’s bday a month ago. I think that I’ll feel better if I’m a little more in control of what’s going on around the house.

I’m writing this here because it’s pretty much the reality of running a business and raising your kids. It’s everything all day long, it’s squeezing in little business tasks while they nap, while they snack, etc. And for how long the days are, I really love what I’m doing.

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