How do you balance the creative aspect of your business and the business aspect of your business? This is something that I struggle with a lot. I find myself tuned into the newsletters and Tweets of "small business builder"s and sometimes almost forget that I need to create jewelry to sell in order to make these sites and postings useful.
Right now I'm working on scheduleing specific time for these activities so that they don't interfere with everything else I have going on. For example, I'm vowing to make my son's nap time my school time. I am a full time student and have to make sure that I can get all of my online and hardcopy work done. That's roughly an hour and a half to two hours a day that I don't have to think about business, or family dinners or anything else. That is time for me to be productive in another area.
Baby's bed time is now fully devoted to jewelry. I have also broken up different aspects of the bussiness to be handled on different nights. So, Monday night is picture and inventory night, Tuesday is labels and hangtags night etc. Accounting is only done on one day of the week. By breaking everything up and designating it to a specific day and time (even if it's as general as baby's bedtime) it helps to relieve the pressures of thinking about it over and over until you finally have a chance to do it....sometime.
I've applied this same principle in my personal life, Friday is laundry day for example. To help compartmentalize different aspects of the house. I still wiggle room for everything (I have a baby after all, and those can be quite unpredictable!) and don't have everything scheduled down the minute. So if I don't get to do a certain thing when I had originally planned, it's ok! I can do it a little later.
Baby's awake...I'll see you guys later!
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