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Oh hi there! It’s been a while since I’ve posted something on Prix so I’m sorry. I must tell you that I have been really in my feelings as of late and pretty much uninspired. However I’m in the midst of an “aha moment” and I truly have something brewing.
So I decided to be completely candid with you, so you know I’m not just busy (or lazy) but I’m fighting these internal thoughts that I truly need to stomp on. I’m an interior designer that eats, lives and breathe’s design and without sounding “KanyeWesty”, I’m really great at what I do because I love it so much. At any given time I have to myself, it revolves around design, I’m constantly dreaming of ways to make a place beautiful. I walk into rooms and either adore it from top to bottom or I’m rearranging the furniture in my head. So needless to say this is what Ill be doing till my dying day.
Here’s the clincher, I have a full-time at a well known entertainment company. I enjoy going to work and I do a great job, I have a great boss and colleagues and am pretty comfortable here. However, this is not my stee (don’t know if they say that anymore). I have a lot of potential to get promoted and move up in this company but the problem is that I don’t want to! Frankly I would like to stay under the radar as much as possible because it gives me a great sense of work/life/design balance and I don’t need to be too removed from my ultimate goals.
Okay blah blah blah… I say all of this to say that my ultimate goal is take my design company to new heights, create a brand with Prix Decor where I play an influential role in the field and I can change people’s lives through designing their homes. I’m an all or nothing kinda girl so this interim position sucks.
So here is where I’m struggling, I need to work to fill this hunger that I have for success in doing what I love. I’m busy with consultations and not enough installations (sounds like a rap song, I know) to fill this drive of mine. Although I’ve done installation the amount of consultations are astounding and frankly some people don’t want to pay for a designer but will pay for their ideas. Sad, I know.
As for blogging I find myself putting in a lot of time and effort and when I look at those damn stats it says that my post has reached a whopping 10 people!! So if 10 people visited the site than lets minus the 8x my dad reloaded the site (love ya daddy) and what do we have left?!? And so I second guess myself and talk myself out of even trying to do this thing.
Back to the A-ha Moment: I was talking to my 3 year old (disregard the fact that we have full blown grown up conversations) and he’s in the “being independent” stage and now is taking off his clothes by himself so I can give him a bath, the pants and socks are easy peasy but that long sleeve shirt is a massive issue. Here he is literally stuck with his hands above his head with the trunk of his shirt covering his face, he’s pretty much in a wrestling match with this shirt and he’s screaming ” I CAN’T DO IT!!” and just to make sure the shirt doesn’t win this bout, I quickly pull the shirt back down and I told him these exact words while looking him directly in the eyes. {“CANT DO IT” IS NOT AN OPTION, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO, WE JUST NEED TO START SMALL AND WORK OUR WAY TO THE BIG SHIRTS}(long sleeves). So I took off the big shirt and showed him how to take off his undershirt and sure enough he did it.
Then I had the A-friggin-HA Moment, I need to start small and work my way up. Soon enough my 2 visitors will be 12 and then 22 and maybe even 100 one day. If I keep the momentum up perhaps some more people will listen to me but they can’t hear me at all if I ain’t saying nothing. So there you have it. Looking into my eyes which happen to be my sons, I found my answers.
There aren’t many successful entrepreneurs out there and here’s the reason why. If it were easy everyone else would be doing it. It’s gonna take some patients, some more consultations but more will come and when it does. I’ll be ready to accept it. In the mean time I’ll continue to work on the “undershirts”.
Are you an impatient person as well and want success right away. How do you practice patience? Share your strategies with me please. God knows I’ll take all the advise I can get.