My own private success :)

 Happy Monday Thrifties!

I have finally gotten my crap together and am now a licensed business! Yay! 

What an overblown big thing I made that process out to be! If I had been more dedicated and not so easily intimidated it would not have taken me from mid-December until now to get my paperwork in order.

Don't get me wrong, my actual paperwork is by no means in order! My file boxes are still securely in the plastic bag from the craft store (where I also got a planner for 25 cents! Sometimes it literally pays to procrastinate.... although that is arguable considering I haven't been getting anything done.) What I mean is, getting a license is actually - dare I say it - fairly easy.

I also had my first sudo-appointment with a prospective client today. I say sudo, because he told me to "pop by" anytime today. When I popped by at 10:30 he was in managers meetings, and when I came back at 1:15 (safely after lunch), he had left for lunch. So in reality it was a lot of me feeling physically ill with nerves, and no actual face-to-face contact with the man. However, the success story here is that I actually called someone, and eventually, I may meet with him.

My husband and I have also put an offer in on a mobile home. I severely hope that we get it, but we were behind an accepted offer which means that we will have to wait and see if they back out for any reason. I am trying NOT to wish doom and gloom on the other people, but.....

-- I just went and called that maybe client again, just because I was thinking about it. Check me out!--

I have to say the progress is due almost entirely to the speech that I heard from Barb Stegemann this week at the conference. She really pushed the point that as long as you know what you are doing and what your business is about, it doesn't matter if some people don't like it, because you can't change that. This is really the root of all my procrastinating, is that people won't like the idea or how I present myself, and I know its inevitable that this will be the case some of the time. It also reminded me of what someone else said (and I'm sorry, I don't remember who) which was that it takes 10 "no"s to get to every "yes", so even if you get a "no" just think of it as one down on the way to the "yes". Its just something that you need to progress past.

Now hopefully I will still be feeling as resilient a week or month from now.

XOXO Thrifties! 

P.S. I went live with my facebook page, which I had previously been hoarding unpublished, and you know what the great thing about facebook is? There is no "dislike" button for your page! So like me :) Gloss Creative Branding.