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Slow and Steady Wins the Race

March 27, 2006

I’ve been doing a lot of research for my website today. Actually, the past few days. I can’t help but wonder if having my pin sold at the auction has something to do with my inability to stop obsessing about business stuff. Probably.

I’ve spent the past two days concentrating on SEO (search engine optimization), press kits, and press releases. I’ve also read a couple fashion mags this past week to make sure I’m on track with the latest trends. Looks like I am.

It doesn’t look like the site will be ready as soon as I had hoped, though I haven’t exactly communicated that wish to the woman working on my site. Mother’s Day is coming soon, so I should probably work on some ideas for that. I’m guessing it will be the first big jewelry holiday once the site is up and running for real. Not that I have any grandiose visions of the site immediately generating traffic, but it’s fun pretending.

It seems like I’ve been making improvements to the site forever. And yet, the whole time I’ve been improving it, it’s never been fully functional. How dumb. But I really think this time will be it.

Though I’ve technically been doing this for two years, it’s only now becoming real, and quite frankly, I’m feeling a little nervous about it. Excited, but nervous. Until now, it was just this thing I was dabbling in and planning to make a serious endeavor eventually. Well, eventually has arrived, and it’s time to take the next step.

I’ve taken another look at the business plan I wrote last summer. I don’t know if business plan it the right term. It’s basically a list of goals broken into phases detailing the things I hope to accomplish as the business grows. I decided to use phases rather than a timeline to allow myself some laziness flexibility. Afterall, this whole business thing IS cutting into my sitting-on-my-ass time. Because of that, there was a moment of disbelief when I realized I have just about completed Phase I (as soon as the site is functional), and I am already moving into Phase II.

Things have been moving at this sort of slow and steady pace for so long, I wonder if it will ever feel real. You know? Like, will I ever have that TA DA moment? I imagine myself some years from now moving along at this same slow and steady pace and missing the point at which I could call myself a success. I don’t necessarily expect to be successful, nor do I think getting there and missing it would be such a terrible thing. But it does make me wonder…

Would I be able to recognize my own success?

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4 Responses to “Slow and Steady Wins the Race”

  1. Ozzilyn Bean Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 3:49 pm

    About success. Whoopi Goldberg once said something that I find really helpful about my opinions about my writing (not the blog, but the fiction I write). She was talking about acting, and a student actor basically asked Whoopi how she got to be so successful so that she (the student) could follow in her footsteps and also be successful. And Whoopi said that if you considered success to be being a good actor, that anyone can obtain that with hard work and dedication to the craft. However, if you consider success to be getting paid big $$$$$ and commercial recognition of your acting, that was impossible to guarantee or to manufacture.

    For me, that has been the key to my happiness as a writer. Being a good writer, to me, doesn’t mean outside validation–or at least not from strangers, I do appreciate feedback from friends and family. Perhaps you can look at your jewelry the same way. Or perhaps you already do?

  2. Whimsy Chick Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 6:52 pm

    Hmm, so maybe before I ask whether or not I would recognize success, maybe I need to ask myself how I define success.

    Success means not just being good at what I do, but being great and knowing it. I know I’ll never feel what I do is great on my own, so I look for recognition, mostly from colleagues. Though I admit, it’s very satisfying to have my work valued by anyone.

    Success does not necessarily mean money, though ideally I would like to be able to make a living doing what I love, whether it be jewelry or one of my other passions.

    So I guess, I can be happy just enjoying what I do and knowing I’m good at it. But to define myself as a success, I would need some sort of validation telling me I’m not just good, but great.

    I’m always the runner-up. Maybe that’s why I want so much to be number one.

  3. The Sister Says:
    March 30th, 2006 at 10:34 am

    I think our family full of dreamers puts pressure on you. Making you change the “success” image that you want.
    You strive for perfection. Another good question is “realistic” goal setting. I know you and you are one of the only people I know that can literally do anything……if you want it bad enough.
    We have always believed in you it is about time you did. And answer you darn phone.

  4. Noodle Doodle -- Biz Blip Says:
    January 20th, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    […] than I’d hoped, but slow and steady worked for the tortoise, right? (Hmm, I’ve been down this road before… ) CATEGORY: Blips, Biz […]

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