This is the third post in a series about reworking my business goals to fit with my current lifestyle, and to hopefully increase both my creative fulfillment and my profit. As a creative entrepreneur, I constantly struggle with finding a way to balance what I want to do with what I need to do to [...]

I have been doing a LOT of thinking about my goals. My recent post about not meeting a goal is an excellent reminder to me that when I make goals, I need to be sure they are good goals for me. As I was thinking about what that means, I thought that some of my [...]

I was looking through a journal from a year ago, and noticed that one of my goals (which, I admit, was more of a wish than a goal) was to be completely self-employed in a year. Guess what – it’s been almost exactly a year since I wrote that, and I’m nowhere near being self-employed…unless [...]

I was just reading the Rose Works Jewelry blog and realized that it isn’t just tax time – it’s also the 2nd quarter of the year, which means it’s time to check on my progress toward the goals I made for this year. Unfortunately, I didn’t hit my online sales goal for the first quarter. [...]

Mid-February and I haven’t forgotten about my goals for the year yet! February has been slow in terms of sales, and sometimes I’m just not in the right frame of mind to do any major promoting, so I’m working on some of my other goals. Well. All of my pearls and semiprecious stone beads are [...]

In January, I wrote a Thursday 13 post listing 13 things I want to accomplish this year. It’s been about a month since I made my list, so it’s time to check in, see if I still think the goals are realistic, and see which ones I need to focus more on in order to [...]

Remember I promised to write more about my goals for 2009? I got distracted by other things to write about, but I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to accomplish this year, and writing lists (on paper – so old fashioned!) that I keep changing and updating. One thing that really sticks out [...]

Stock my etsy shop with items I can make more than once Organize my inventory Sell 100 items online Be able to do 25 full push-ups in a row Take two more fitness certifications (I sub for some fitness classes and really want to be qualified to teach more than just the basics) Earn $200/month [...]

Here’s to a great 2009! Now, I know most people seem to want to forget that 2008 ever happened, and I can understand that. A lot of bad things happened last year. But I’d like to focus on the positive things, and work on improving the things that weren’t so good. I know that I [...]

One of my goals for 2009 is to get my etsy shop fully stocked, as well as a shop right here on my own website. By fully stocked, I mean every item I can make multiples of should be listed on my website and my etsy shop. This way, it will be easy for people [...]