Mooloo’s Managing it in 2018

Savvy_sewing

trix-a-belle wrote: »

Mooloo, definitely set a minimum number for the courses and don't go ahead if its not met, your time is valuable, if people want it on that much perhaps they will encourage friends to join them then so it goes ahead, my local place tends to have 6 places on most courses and only goes ahead if there are at least 4 booked on
not good re the seamstress' errors, some time needed to reinforce the requirements and why its important
i'd get in touch with the customer re the roman blinds first thing if possible, was it a walk in today or had you quoted the customer previously that she should have referred back to?

The blinds were collected after being made and quoted. However the Shop copy said £16.99 each set and labour £65 each but hadn't been totalled. She got the two blind kits but only one lot of Labour. The customer even went through it with her. Recon she was trying to pull a fast one. She had already had a quote before we started, in writing as well. I have spoken to her and she is going to come in "sometime "

I am not sleeping very well and having lots of weird and distressing dreams in between. It's the dreams that are waking me!
Several days on the trot I have dreamed my mother was falling down the stairs with such vivid scenes. Really horrible.
Other dreams were more disjointed and very jumbled, my twins, the BF and his children have been popping up in them in the weirdest of situations. Quite exhausting.
Feel exhausted as I wake up and my eyes feel like grit.

Savvy_sewing

Just realised today is Wednesday so I don't have to open up, and I can take the day at my own pace. How lucky am I?. A reprieve just as I need it.as I was with Mum on Monday, then she won't mind if I don't go today, and my brother is coming over from France in a few days so she will have extra visits and he always takes her out for lunch.
So I am going to just potter, keep the house warm and tidy up as I go. Most of the place was done at the weekend so it's just keeping it up.
I may have a soak in the bath with bubbles later this morning and maybe even start sorting some of the disaster drawers out if I feel like it.
As long as I get a good night tonight and I am back on track at work tomorrow.
I am advertising again for staff, let's hope that I find someone who is going to fit the bill soon, meanwhile I will have to start bringing work home again for a while. I did bring a couple of things with me yesterday to do at some stage today. But they won't take long.

Savvy_sewing

Side tracked and been studying all day.
Only job really done was keeping washing moving.

Dinner nearly ready, then a little more project planning.

beanielou

:eek: to dreams.
I just hope things settle down for you really soon.

Savvy_sewing

Well BF seems to be changing the pattern in our week a lot recently. Another Wednesday where he didn't come over. But I managed to text/chat with him ov

er about an hour in two sessions and continue to tell him of my dreams and ambitions and after I had been studying I realised one of the things that I had subconsciously been doing, procrastination, was because if I saw the end goals I didn't see him, well we all knew that, but I hadn't realised it was one of the things that was stopping me from making progress. I finally voiced (ok text - this is BF after all).
I have realised that I am self sabotaging my dreams because I was not able to see the junctions without possibly loosing the us along the way.

He said what exactly did I mean? Didn't I want to know him when I was rich and famous. Was it that I was going to sell up here and move to Portugal.
So I told him again my dreams. I said that once I had wanted to go lock stock and barrel but after a lot of thought, what I wanted to do was concentrate more on my business, expand it, do videos, pdfs and online sales. That I need to put more time and effort into the lessons ( like tonight's), and make it a multi stream revenue, that is going to pay me a living wage by 2019. I want to have all my various revenues up, running and profitable by 2022. So that I can fund a holiday home in Portugal, and have enough staff that I can come and go when we wanted. That I could have a studio out there and go to run workshops during the spring and Autumn.
But fear was holding me back.
Fear of getting too busy, and getting burnt out, fear of putting in the hours and loosing my life work balance, fear of going it alone. Not having the support from him that I feel I need. It came out that I didn't always think that he believed in me, supported me etc and that after 14 years of hardly talking about things, I was out of the habit of sharing my dreams with him.
But that recently he has started to listen, or appear to listen, but I said that I have felt that if I get any success it would be the end of us, because he lives in his little castle, will never leave his castle, and I have dreams of bettering myself.
He came back a few times with questions and I had to clarify that it wasn't that I didn't want to know him, more the opposite, and that I know that I will have to see less of him if I have to put the study in to achieve the dreams. That's when he began asking me about my deadlines etc, and he did actually come back with the fact that I need to look for the smaller goals and move forward. To have lower aims that stretch but don't demoralising if too unobtainable. He said he felt uncomfortable with my saying that He was holding me back. I said again that it was my mind, that was holding me back, my fear of loosing waft I have in the pursuit of trying to get where I want to be.

So now he knows what I want.
Now I know that I will not settle down until I have put the effort in to this.
That he has hopefully understood that if I am going to be busy building my dreams that he can come along for the ride and I could do with his support and understanding, and his belief in my ability to do this.

Therefore I have voiced my aims completely to him, as I have here to those of you that follow my ramblings. By voicing the dreams now you will all be making me feel accountable for my actions, some will have huge doubts, some will cheer me on. Some will wait for the fallout. But I feel now that I have put it out there, I am actually ready to study and learn and make sure I follow through and build the business and find a better future for Dgd and myself.
I am going to have to stop procrastinating and playing Shop. I am going to have to get serious and start learning more about running a business and how to turn it around and make it more profitable. Evenings will need to be in front of the computer, or at the table with books etc rather than sitting in front of the tv with a glass of wine!

Gulp I have said it now.
I am also now 15 minutes behind schedule. Go go go!

vandanfc

Wow, Mooloo. I am sure that you feel somewhat better airing all of that to your bf. I hope that he is going to come along and support you on your big ride. You are so determined that all this should pay off, maybe not in the exact time frame you have in mind, but I am sure you will get there. x

Savvy_sewing

vandanfc wrote: »

Wow, Mooloo. I am sure that you feel somewhat better airing all of that to your bf. I hope that he is going to come along and support you on your big ride. You are so determined that all this should pay off, maybe not in the exact time frame you have in mind, but I am sure you will get there. x

Time will tell.
But I cannot keep coasting or I definitely won't achieve anything.
Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Feral_Moon

Mooloo, have you considered holding classes in creative projects and upcycing clothes etc alongside your teaching classes. I know it's something you enjoy and I'm sure lots others would too. I saw an advert for local classes on FB which immediately made me think of you. They hold both adults and children (8-11) classes and people bring their own materials.

Savvy_sewing

Only just got home! The sewing course today was all timed wrong, and it took 3 hours longer than I had expected.
The next one will have to be a weekend one. One day just didn't work. I am shattered now!

Savvy_sewing

Feral_Moon wrote: »

Mooloo, have you considered holding classes in creative projects and upcycing clothes etc alongside your teaching classes. I know it's something you enjoy and I'm sure lots others would too. I saw an advert for local classes on FB which immediately made me think of you. They hold both adults and children (8-11) classes and people bring their own materials.

I thought I had posted a reply yesterday, sorry.

Yes I will be adding other craft side workshops as I go along.
But after today's marathon I need to sort out the timings.
What I can do in a few hours I doubled the timing. I should have trebled it!