The Roller-Coaster Ride...

Nothing could be truer than saying that running your own business is quite an emotional roller-coaster!!

Term 4 has started, and this is my usual first week of running no classes yet trying to catch-up with all the work and communications and planning and schedules and a kazillion other things that need to be done for my business... that I would have liked to have got done over the holidays - but had buckley's chance of course...

Yesterday I sorted out my class-lists (there had been a few drop-outs over the holidays, and a few new customers added) and got the new term details email out.. then awoke to 5 more drop-outs in my inbox when I awoke this morning..

That put me in a bad mood!

It is just SO hard to not take things personally when it is your business!!

Intellectually I know that I am on track... I am steering my business to launch in areas that have nothing to do with the classes as I am pretty sure that that will be an easier and more financially rewarding path... So I shouldn't care too much about my class sizes... it is NORMAL to gain some and lose some.. and I should be happy that the overall trend of my business is positive and I am growing with more customers, more classes, more teachers etc.

But always it is friggin hard - and it is hard to push your emotions aside sometimes!

All that being said... there is SO much  I LOVE about my business:

I LOVE my studio, and that me and the kids can just go in there and create and play whenever we want to... Even if my business didn't exist - the studio and what's in it gives so much enjoyment to us!!

I get to order all the art-materials that I want and plan how to use them!!!

And even though most of the time I am flat-out busy.. I DO get some time to play and create as well... As my last post said, I am just trying to go with the flow... and even though today my productivity is a bit slower than I would like - I can smile knowing that I am having a cuppa-tea break in the mug that I decorated, and that I friggin deserve to just have a cuppa and take things slower every now and then :)