Everyone has a day where they think they can't. I have been in that boat and sailing for about two weeks now. My photography business started with a bang. I have been able to stay booked and even get clients for upcoming shoots to fill my portfolio like it's nobodies business. The problem is that my full time life keeps getting in the way. Add second guessing myself to the list as well. I am so behind in editing I have no idea where to begin. The stress paralyzes me.
So last night I started working on a timeline to get pictures edited and the blog updated. I know everyone goes through this and I am lucky to have another job that pays the bills, but I worry that I am not giving everything I can to this business. I worry that like the small business statistic quotes, I'll be out of business before I even get it off the ground.
This morning I found a tweet about Ten Solutions To Running a Good Business. Here's the last bit of advice it offered:
Limit your time with nay-sayers and doom & gloomers. They are not productive. Stay on point and do not let anyone tell you that it is impossible or that it can’t be done or that you are wasting your time.
That, gentle reader, is bullshit.
Keep yourself motivated by creating new things and being busy. A person who is busy cannot make time to be depressed. Depression is for those going nowhere (clinical depression is a disease that should be treated… I am referring to people who are always negative and on a mission to bring you down.
They are everywhere. Everywhere! Shut them out.
Don’t discuss what you don’t have, frame your language and your efforts toward what you do have. Stay focused on the essentials of your business and your art: making pictures and showing them to people.
Look… there are always going to be challenging times. Some more than others. Refuse to be brought down to the failure group… the hopeless tribe of “it’s all over… whine whine whine.”
After reading this a few times and then about 100 more times, I decided that I need to stay in the present and do something about it. Baby steps are what I need to focus on. I am learning that business, like my life, is all about patience. If I remember to enjoy the little moments, the rest of the pieces will fall into place. So no, I am not giving up, but I think it is time to put some sweat and stop all the tears. It can happen and it will, I just have to believe it so.
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