Although I always say "I would like to live from my creations", I need to put down a more concrete and specific goal. If you are specific, you are more likely to focus on it and work towards it. If it's too broad or disperse, you might not get there because you will get lost on your way. So sometime ago I sat down and asked myself:
"What do I want to achieve?"
My aim is to get enough money to live comfortably from selling my items.👍 Ideally, I would have a small shop with 3 to 4 employees so I can take days off or focus on designing and travelling.
[That´s the "realistic" dream. There are smaller and bigger versions. For example, I could just sell online and have a casual-part time job on the side. Or work entirely from home. Or have shops all over the world. Move over, Cathy Kidston!]
In order to achieve this, I could choose many path or products to sell/produce. But I want to earn my living designing and selling small, portable or giftable items that make people smile, reflect, that can empower them ,motivate them, make them think, make them learn something, or just soothe them. And I want those items to be respectful with the environment as much as possible and ideally produced in the same region/country I sell them.
Now, setting a goal means setting also a time frame. I am pretty bad at that because I tend to be super optimistic with times and amount of things I could do. That's why this time I am trying to be more realistic and give myself about 3 years to turn things around in order to spend more time working for myself and drop days at my full time job. I believe this can be done as long as I carry on working on things little by little -and taking good care of my finances. 2019 is a very important year since I am completely re-working my brand, style and how I do things . I guess the results will determine my chances of being successful in the future!
Now that I have a big goal, I need to break it into smaller ones! I will share those on the next post.💛😜
"What do I want to achieve?"
My aim is to get enough money to live comfortably from selling my items.👍 Ideally, I would have a small shop with 3 to 4 employees so I can take days off or focus on designing and travelling.
[That´s the "realistic" dream. There are smaller and bigger versions. For example, I could just sell online and have a casual-part time job on the side. Or work entirely from home. Or have shops all over the world. Move over, Cathy Kidston!]
In order to achieve this, I could choose many path or products to sell/produce. But I want to earn my living designing and selling small, portable or giftable items that make people smile, reflect, that can empower them ,motivate them, make them think, make them learn something, or just soothe them. And I want those items to be respectful with the environment as much as possible and ideally produced in the same region/country I sell them.
Now, setting a goal means setting also a time frame. I am pretty bad at that because I tend to be super optimistic with times and amount of things I could do. That's why this time I am trying to be more realistic and give myself about 3 years to turn things around in order to spend more time working for myself and drop days at my full time job. I believe this can be done as long as I carry on working on things little by little -and taking good care of my finances. 2019 is a very important year since I am completely re-working my brand, style and how I do things . I guess the results will determine my chances of being successful in the future!Now that I have a big goal, I need to break it into smaller ones! I will share those on the next post.💛😜
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