They say the first step to fixing a problem is being able to address that there is a problem. Well…. check! And who is “they” anyway?!
I hear it alot lately…. “It looks (or sounds) like you’ve been so busy! That’s so great!” Yep, it’s true. I’ve been real busy this year. But is it really all that great?! Don’t get me wrong, my business being busy is a great thing. It’s successful it’s doing it’s thing. That, I love. But I’ve learned something about myself recently. I don’t know when to stop.
My mind is always going a million miles an hour with thoughts and ideas. The amount of small legal pads all over my apartment with scribbled ideas on them should be a crime. Maybe this is just the mind of a creative. I don’t know. I know I have to totally zone to make headway in work. So I list to-dos or they get lost in the mind that’s running wild, and then forgotten about. But as I cross 3 things off the to-do list I’ve somehow added 5 more things that crossed my mind.
I’m grateful for opportunities to travel. Cause it’s the only me-time I seem to take. I actually step away from work…. well my mind is still going crazy with things and I’m still making notes. But I’m relaxing. Being an ambitious single woman working from home…. I get maybe carried away. If it’s just me in this apartment sitting at my desk, I’ll hit that zone and I don’t stop.
This isn’t all bad. I just need to redirect this a bit. As I sit back and look at my business throughout this year I took more on than I had initially planned. And because of all the things that NEEDED to be done my business has lost that personal touch a bit. Everyday I say I need to blog. I need to post. I need to write. But I immediately hit this wall. I’m in the habit of not being personal, to just get out the info I need to so I can cross that item off the list and tackle the 1645 other things listed. And that is the problem with busy.
That can’t happen anymore.
I’m sitting back now visioning (and writing down) what I have going on and what I want to happen and where I can say yes and where I need to say no. It may be just as simple as outsourcing some things. And hopefully it is. I’ve just hit this roadblock every day and decided maybe I needed to openly admit I’M STUCK before I can move forward.
Truthfully I already feel a weight being lifted. I feel like I can talk to you again! AH!
So there. Step one, admit there was… is…. was… a problem. Now we can move on 😉 I like seeing my business busy. But I don’t want to see me so busy I lose touch of my business. This isn’t created to work that way.
I can actually see the end of my to-do list. I’m so excited to share upcoming projects. Travelling to photograph my couples in stupidly amazing places. The rehaul of options for mentoring and coaching other creatives. And seeing my business flourish forward. Going out of 2015 with a BANG! 🙂
TGIF!
XOXO