[Jewelry making - Article 00419] - Re: [Orchid] Improving you stamina

[Karen Goeller]

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    I think Wayne really hit the nail on the head with his reply, but I
    also think there's another component that's critical: your emotional
    attachment to the work. 

    The people who you see succeeding as a 9-5'er with excess income
    have also succeeded in building a level of emotional "detachment" to
    the business that enables them to see it AS a business... not as an
    extension of themselves. For artists and artisans, this can be the
    nearly impossible part, because for many of us our designs really are
    emotional expressions of our own lives. 

    The key is to know what you want... do you, personally, want to be
    the designer and maker? Do you want to be the designer and hand it
    off to someone else to make? Do you want to oversee a staff of people
    who are designing and making things under your imprimatur? Or??? 

    Once you know the answer to that question, you'll know what you need
    to do. If you can develop the emotional distance to be able to hand
    off the design and making, you'll be focusing on managing and
    building the business end of it. If that's the area where you get
    your fulfillment, then that's where you need to be. But if you only
    thrive when YOU are doing both the design and making, then you need
    to hire yourself someone to run the business end of things (sales,
    account management, acctg, etc.) and be ready to work under their
    guidance. 

    In reality, it's seldom so cut and dried, but it can help to turn up
    the resolution on the question and ask yourself... If I could only
    play one role in my business, what would it be? 

    In an entrepreneurship course I took a bunch of years back through
    our community college's continuing education department, the teacher
    said something that stuck with me. You need to know whether you're
    building a business that you expect to outlive you, or one that will
    die when you do. The approach to those two types of businesses are
    polar opposites, in many ways, and drive decision making and the type
    of involvement you'll have very differently. 

I hope this helps!

Karen Goeller
No Limitations Designs
Hand-made, one-of-a-kind jewelry
www.nolimitations.com
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