Hi everybody;-) It's blog-o-rama time! lol It's been kind of weird these last couple of weeks soo THATS WHAT THE BLOG IS ABOUT! of course lol
One of the things that I've always known and MOST of the time can do is - MAKE A PLAN! Now, of course, I'm not the only variable in my plans and THAT is occasionally the problem! lol The past 2 weeks luckily have NOT been thrown out of whack by anyone in particular and more importantly- nothing intentional!!
Tonight I'm sitting in my livingroom, no wait, I'm pacing through my sewing room, no wait, I'm walking my dog, no wait, I'm starting to clean the... no wait! What I'm ACTUALLY doing is trying to make peace with the fact that on my new life path I am ALWAYS fluctuating between TOO MUCH FREE TIME and being completely FRAZZLED with TOO much to do!!!
At first I really didn't see how this would have ANYTHING to do with my blog topics. I figured its just the weird way I roll. ;-) But then I realized anyone out there that is contemplating changing course and going from career path to life path would probably encounter this same situation!
For YEARS on my career path my work time was very defined and while it still had a lot of variable during the day; when it was over each night, it was over. I did still did things like teach classes, and write employee manuals and have meetings but it was generally all still in the same mind set.
So now I find myself in the (what most people,including my former self would call enviable) position of having a shitload of unstructured, self managed time!!
Now I already talked about how to FIND time to start making something happen in the 168 hrs we all have each week. THIS is about the self focus of using my time wisely when I have MORE of it than EVER before!!Its also about KEEPING YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME, for lack of a better term! lol
I have ALWAYS worked on straight commission. I CLEARLY get the idea of no work/no pay! I sorta got the concept of what I call "investment time"; prep-work, planning, training etc.
WHAT DO YOU DO when your primary paying job (hairstylist) is SLOW!? I'm not as busy as I used to be or I wouldn't be on this AWESOME new life path but sometimes its even SLOWER than what I can mentally handle!!!
I get SCARED!! Worrying about what I know my minimum needs to be. I suddenly have more free time than I know what to do with!! And THAT, ladies and gentleman, is where I find myself this week hahahaha!! I can't prove it but I know I'll be ok and 95% of the time I can handle it just fine!!
Exhibit A- 2 weeks ago I was at a breaking point!!! I hadn't had 2 days COMPLETELY OFF in...I can't even tell ya how long!;-) Short and erratic days just don't mentally revive me as well as straight time off. I know. boohoo. Lots of people have multiple jobs, or crazy home lives with no help or balance at all but still...
So anyway! LAST week was so slow and I was so grateful!!! Very little income but my house is finally clean and my sewing work room (clio&matty on facebook;-)) is organized and I'm well rested and I wasn't even worried!!! THIS week has ALSO been slow... I know its a cycle. If I do my monthly or annual numbers I know I'm about on track. BUT NOW I'M WIGGIN'!! NOW I'm too freaked and restless to use my time wisely and do more sewing. I did start working on our online store for clio&matty. But seriously. Collectively. I ain't done shit.
MY WHOLE POINT! FINALLY- when you are in this process of change and before, if you can, KNOW THYSELF! Know your financial minimums you must make. That is for real! lol However you'd probably be shocked to see what you can eliminate and still feel ok because you're HAPPIER!
Also, equally important, know how YOU operate. You probably know how to work under pressure or unhappily but how do you SELF MOTIVATE?! Just DON'T LET THIS BE AN EXCUSE NOT TO FIND A WAY TO ENJOY YOUR DREAM!
Maybe it's realizing you would function best if you made time for a fulfilling HOBBY. Or maybe you are an all or nothing kind of person. KNOW YOURSELF BUT PUSH YOURSELF!!.
If you keep doing things the same way you WILL keep getting the same results (at best!)
BEING BRAVE ISN'T THE SAME AS BEING CRAZY! hahaha
*** totally unrelated funny story***
I do the dumbest/goofiest shit ALL the TIME! I'm usually by myself so you would think- OH COOL nobody saw that! Oh HELL NO! The first thing I do is tell on myself!! I've almost never had anything happen that was so horrifying that I COULD'T tell. I mean there's a small window of TMI but other than that... Ill let you decide if this story has gone over that line lol
In the mid '90s I saved up and went on my DREAM trip to Ireland. All by myself!! It was FREAKIN AWESOME!! 10 days with a rental car and a minor itinerary. My rhythm was to decide what town I wanted to end up in each night and see things along the way. AMAZING (in case I haven't made that clear lol) Each evening I would check into a B&B and walk over to a pub for dinner and Guinness and sometimes music and conversation. ONE NIGHT I kinda forgot that my B&B was farther away than usual and I kinda had more beers than usual and I kinda, REALLY needed to pee. So I sat down on a little stone bridge to collect myself and look around for nature coverage lol While in my planning stage... I FREAKIN peed my pants!!! International pant pissing incident!!! I wasn't drunk enough to not care but I was still a half mile from the B&B! Thank God I had a jacket to tie around my waist!
Keep Calm and Carry On!! lol
ps Yes, I did also take a nature pee beside a prehistoric burial site. DAMMIT. Not nearly enough public toilets!!
MORAL OF THE STORY- travel off season like I did. WAY less witnesses hahahaha;-)
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
walkin dogs or how 1 part time job saved 2 people!
Hi I'm back!! I hope the last few weeks have been great!
The last time I wrote it was about being aware of how you use your time! The idea was that not many people can just jump off the cliff from career path to life path lol BUT there IS time to get something started... HOLY CRAP lol I just got distracted by the first XMAS ad for kmart layaway!! I don't care how many hours there are in the week!! This is too soon hahahaha ANYWAY...well I had planned to start writing again last week but I ended up using my free portions of the 168 hrs a week to work on my side project (with my friend sheila) Clio&Matty. Baby blankies, burpies, drool bandannas, and bibs- half cut, sewn, and stacked ALL over the place hahahaha! (check it on facebook sometime.) I realized though, that writing this blog is something I enjoy so I need to back in the swing!!
After the BIG salon closed and I was working at the small salon in Powell I started my first side project! I designed my own reusable grocery tote and started sewing! It was fun but ultimately not much money was made and much money was needed! ;-) So my friend Lynne had listened to me talk(whine) about my career/money problems and started talking to me about dog walking! She owned a dog walking & pet sitting biz and I... owned a dog! I was desperate and she was really wanting to go back to school to finish prerecs for nursing school! We both found ourselves on the brink of change. At the time, I wasn't as aware of how big this was for her but I was terrified to lose everything I had worked for! I've written before about my state of identity crisis at this point. I was embarrassed to not be able to make enough money on my career path!!
Well, I took her up on her offer. * side note* I have a personal saying "every new experience is a new wardrobing opportunity" hahaha the thing is- I really believe this! I was in Chicago at a work trade show and bought a super cute pair of white flats onatsuka tigers at Nordstrom (clearly I hadn't adjusted to broke girl status yet lol) that look like little golf shoes. I envisioned myself as this bouncy cute dogwalker. HAHAHAHAHA!! if there is something more emphatic than TOTAL OPPOSITE than that would have been the reality of me as a dog walker.
Lynne started my training with me shadowing her and meeting the dogs; but it was so much more than I realized!! People had to trust me to have their house keys, alarm codes, parking passes and their precious baby dog!One thing that really helped me was the time issue. When each appointment is 20 or 30 mins and then you have to get to the next dog and they ALL have to be done between 10:30ish and 4ish you HAVE to stay on sched!! Just like a busy HAIRSTYLIST! Also I was already very familiar with the area where I would have most of my dogs! I can and will go on to tell you lots of funny stories about this adventure but for now...
My friend Lynne had the nerve to buy the dog walking biz after she had career changes that were out of her control. I realize now that we had alot in common careerwise. Then she had the nerve to hire her hair stylist to work for her! hahaha ridiculous! She was alittle desperate;-)
Eventually I was working almost the entire schedule 2 or 3 days a week and sometimes petsitting in my house. Now THATS fertile ground for blog stories lol.
She paid me fairly. I worked hard. We became even better friends, especially since we lived in the same neighborhood!Lynne busted ass to get great grades AND she also started dating a guy whose dog had spent the night at her house before he did ;-) His dog Foster was also the first dog that my dog would walk with and not freak out!!
Im not kidding when I say that we ALL grew exponentially during those few years! I was hired back with the new owner of the dog business and, oh yea, Lynne sold it! Shes quite happy in FL with her former client- owner of Foster the dog! ;-) She took a chance to change her career path because an amazing life path opened up!!
I still love walking my 5 or 6 dog walk clients but I only petsit Lulu and Bronx. Its one thing to not do something because you're afraid. Its another to try your best and realize you DON'T LIKE IT! Petsitting random dogs- not for me lol
So I really didn't expect to tell someone elses story tonight but I realized as I wrote that Lynne was at the same crossroads as me! I think I mentioned in a previous post, I have some REALLY interesting and brave friends!!;-)
** so tonight I don't really have a totally random story. Im just going to hit ya with random phrases about my experience as a dog walker. Maybe I'll elaborate later hahaha
* pee on foot* screaming house alarm* walking on paper towels*tire blowout* knocked over* talkin to homeless dudes* bird dog chasing an airplane* empty poop bags in every pocket of every article of clothing* losing keys*THE FLU* show must go on* cats scaring dogs* two hands to pick up st bernard poop*writing funny notes to people ive never met*learning to carry wet wipes because some bags have holes...* talkin to cops* becoming a regular in my fav neighborhood* ;-)
The last time I wrote it was about being aware of how you use your time! The idea was that not many people can just jump off the cliff from career path to life path lol BUT there IS time to get something started... HOLY CRAP lol I just got distracted by the first XMAS ad for kmart layaway!! I don't care how many hours there are in the week!! This is too soon hahahaha ANYWAY...well I had planned to start writing again last week but I ended up using my free portions of the 168 hrs a week to work on my side project (with my friend sheila) Clio&Matty. Baby blankies, burpies, drool bandannas, and bibs- half cut, sewn, and stacked ALL over the place hahahaha! (check it on facebook sometime.) I realized though, that writing this blog is something I enjoy so I need to back in the swing!!
After the BIG salon closed and I was working at the small salon in Powell I started my first side project! I designed my own reusable grocery tote and started sewing! It was fun but ultimately not much money was made and much money was needed! ;-) So my friend Lynne had listened to me talk(whine) about my career/money problems and started talking to me about dog walking! She owned a dog walking & pet sitting biz and I... owned a dog! I was desperate and she was really wanting to go back to school to finish prerecs for nursing school! We both found ourselves on the brink of change. At the time, I wasn't as aware of how big this was for her but I was terrified to lose everything I had worked for! I've written before about my state of identity crisis at this point. I was embarrassed to not be able to make enough money on my career path!!
Well, I took her up on her offer. * side note* I have a personal saying "every new experience is a new wardrobing opportunity" hahaha the thing is- I really believe this! I was in Chicago at a work trade show and bought a super cute pair of white flats onatsuka tigers at Nordstrom (clearly I hadn't adjusted to broke girl status yet lol) that look like little golf shoes. I envisioned myself as this bouncy cute dogwalker. HAHAHAHAHA!! if there is something more emphatic than TOTAL OPPOSITE than that would have been the reality of me as a dog walker.
Lynne started my training with me shadowing her and meeting the dogs; but it was so much more than I realized!! People had to trust me to have their house keys, alarm codes, parking passes and their precious baby dog!One thing that really helped me was the time issue. When each appointment is 20 or 30 mins and then you have to get to the next dog and they ALL have to be done between 10:30ish and 4ish you HAVE to stay on sched!! Just like a busy HAIRSTYLIST! Also I was already very familiar with the area where I would have most of my dogs! I can and will go on to tell you lots of funny stories about this adventure but for now...
My friend Lynne had the nerve to buy the dog walking biz after she had career changes that were out of her control. I realize now that we had alot in common careerwise. Then she had the nerve to hire her hair stylist to work for her! hahaha ridiculous! She was alittle desperate;-)
Eventually I was working almost the entire schedule 2 or 3 days a week and sometimes petsitting in my house. Now THATS fertile ground for blog stories lol.
She paid me fairly. I worked hard. We became even better friends, especially since we lived in the same neighborhood!Lynne busted ass to get great grades AND she also started dating a guy whose dog had spent the night at her house before he did ;-) His dog Foster was also the first dog that my dog would walk with and not freak out!!
Im not kidding when I say that we ALL grew exponentially during those few years! I was hired back with the new owner of the dog business and, oh yea, Lynne sold it! Shes quite happy in FL with her former client- owner of Foster the dog! ;-) She took a chance to change her career path because an amazing life path opened up!!
I still love walking my 5 or 6 dog walk clients but I only petsit Lulu and Bronx. Its one thing to not do something because you're afraid. Its another to try your best and realize you DON'T LIKE IT! Petsitting random dogs- not for me lol
So I really didn't expect to tell someone elses story tonight but I realized as I wrote that Lynne was at the same crossroads as me! I think I mentioned in a previous post, I have some REALLY interesting and brave friends!!;-)
** so tonight I don't really have a totally random story. Im just going to hit ya with random phrases about my experience as a dog walker. Maybe I'll elaborate later hahaha
* pee on foot* screaming house alarm* walking on paper towels*tire blowout* knocked over* talkin to homeless dudes* bird dog chasing an airplane* empty poop bags in every pocket of every article of clothing* losing keys*THE FLU* show must go on* cats scaring dogs* two hands to pick up st bernard poop*writing funny notes to people ive never met*learning to carry wet wipes because some bags have holes...* talkin to cops* becoming a regular in my fav neighborhood* ;-)
Thursday, August 22, 2013
168
Good Morning! Yes I know its thursday... not wednesday. Yesterday I went to The Wilds with a couple friends! I LOVE that place! I think its wonderful that these animals are in a preserve not a zoo cage, although it is a division of Columbus Zoo. Some of the animals there are extinct in the wild! You should seriously consider a trip!!
So last week I talked about the idea of contentedness. I also realized that considering what you think about the idea of content is the first step in planning your trip from career path to life path! I did not have a planning phase! lol My job/ career changed without my consent ;-) HOWEVER, looking back, I made choices to act or not act that made me see that I had been devising a plan without totally realizing it!!! I think we all have wondered what we would do if we had MORE TIME or MORE MONEY. Think about it. Really. What would it be? Live somewhere else? lose weight? see the grand canyon? go to walmart before 11pm? lol have your own bakery? have a b&b? teach yoga? have a horse? be in love?volunteer for habitat for humanity? become self employed?get a promotion?drive a lexus?
Why did I choose these specific choices? BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WHO MADE THESE THINGS HAPPEN!!! Not on the news. Real people in my life. Everyone one of their stories could be told 2 (at least lol) ways!
1 way- They are so lucky. Things fall into their lap. HOW DOES SHE HAVE TIME TO DO THAT? ETCETCETC. Thats REALLY not how it happened!!!
2.How about this. Each one of these people 1. realized what their dream was.2. decided to make a plan. 3 TOLD PEOPLE!! (my personal weakness. its amazing what comes to you when you put it out there!!) 4had their eyes open because they knew what they wanted. 5 looked for an opportunity, or even just a tiny opening to stick your toe in and kick open that F-ing door!!! THEY TOOK IT!! They are making it happen.
Here's the thing. MAYBE not every career path to life path is a total 180. Maybe you just wish you had time to add an hour of something you love or have always wanted to try! SAME PROCESS!! ITS YOUR LIFE!! Even if you happily share your life with someone YOUR CONTENDEDNESS AND HAPPINESS IS YOUR RESPONCIBILITY! Everyone around you will enjoy you alot more if your happy hahahaha. What people do you try to avoid? UNHAPPY BITCHERS THAT NEVER DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE WHAT THEIR BITCHING ABOUT... but i digress hahahaha. ANYWAY are you wondering why the blog is titled 168? Let me hit you with this. Prepare to be amazed;-)
There are 168 hours in a week.
subtract 56 hours ( 8 hrs a day for sleep... if your lucky ;-) HEY! maybe thats your plan! just to consistently get a freakin nights sleep!!
subtract 50 hrs for work ( a good average I think considering part time, full time, over time and/ or commuting)
SO NOW WE'RE AT 62 HRS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING WITH THESE 62 HOURS A WEEK?!?! If I lost $62 a week I would be PISSED!! Instead I PISS away (at least) 62 HOURS A WEEK!!!
Ok, I know we all need to grocery shop, cook, have family time, walk the dog, write out the bills, catch up on tv, keep the house clean, mow the f-ing grass (obviously not my fav lol) BUT once again there are 2 ways to see this!!
1. I never have time to do anything fun or for me because Im always taking care of all of this shit!! Believe me! I have thought that! Who hasn't?! But seriously. These are the moments life is made of!!!
2. I love winding down from work by walking my dog for a half an hour, then cooking dinner with the kids 3 times a week and carryout 2times so I have time to clean the house after and then enjoy some tv... HMMM. This could work p.s. that is an EXAMPLE I do NOT have kids!! How do you think I have time to write this blog? hahahaha;-)
I had an epiphany walking into work at the BIG SALON one day. Of course I felt sick and miserable and I said out loud "I cannot let work dictate my happiness" This was new for me because my career path had ALWAYS been some of my greatest happiness!! I said this mantra every morning and sometimes during the day too lol My brain began to accept and believe it!! My stress level started to change and I started thinking about the value of my non work time!!! DUH! Like I said before- Im a slow learner ;-) Not long after, I got my beloved dog.
SO ANYWAY AGAIN! A couple days ago I read a quote from the founder of Stella and Dot accessories company- I don't remember word for word. Basically she said NO SUCCESSFUL PERSON BEFORE HER HAS EVER HAD MORE THAN 24HRS IN A DAY!!
OMG sooo obvious but profound!
SO MY POINT today is this is step 2. YOU DO HAVE TIME. Decide if what you want in your life path is major or minor, ,make a plan for the first step by using your time more CONSCIOUSLY!! ITS YOURS USE IT!
See Ya next week!!
**semi related funny story**
Do you seriously think I have this shit mastered?! Hell NO! I def do things WHILE I watch tv BUT yesterday I took, probably, 90 mins of work and dragged it out over a few hrs because I was half watching a CASTLE mini marathon...which I don't really love anyway! Good Lord people!! I'm writing this blog to help keep ME on track too!!! oh yea and also... one time my skirt fell OFF when I was walking my dog. TTYL ;-)
So last week I talked about the idea of contentedness. I also realized that considering what you think about the idea of content is the first step in planning your trip from career path to life path! I did not have a planning phase! lol My job/ career changed without my consent ;-) HOWEVER, looking back, I made choices to act or not act that made me see that I had been devising a plan without totally realizing it!!! I think we all have wondered what we would do if we had MORE TIME or MORE MONEY. Think about it. Really. What would it be? Live somewhere else? lose weight? see the grand canyon? go to walmart before 11pm? lol have your own bakery? have a b&b? teach yoga? have a horse? be in love?volunteer for habitat for humanity? become self employed?get a promotion?drive a lexus?
Why did I choose these specific choices? BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE WHO MADE THESE THINGS HAPPEN!!! Not on the news. Real people in my life. Everyone one of their stories could be told 2 (at least lol) ways!
1 way- They are so lucky. Things fall into their lap. HOW DOES SHE HAVE TIME TO DO THAT? ETCETCETC. Thats REALLY not how it happened!!!
2.How about this. Each one of these people 1. realized what their dream was.2. decided to make a plan. 3 TOLD PEOPLE!! (my personal weakness. its amazing what comes to you when you put it out there!!) 4had their eyes open because they knew what they wanted. 5 looked for an opportunity, or even just a tiny opening to stick your toe in and kick open that F-ing door!!! THEY TOOK IT!! They are making it happen.
Here's the thing. MAYBE not every career path to life path is a total 180. Maybe you just wish you had time to add an hour of something you love or have always wanted to try! SAME PROCESS!! ITS YOUR LIFE!! Even if you happily share your life with someone YOUR CONTENDEDNESS AND HAPPINESS IS YOUR RESPONCIBILITY! Everyone around you will enjoy you alot more if your happy hahahaha. What people do you try to avoid? UNHAPPY BITCHERS THAT NEVER DO ANYTHING TO CHANGE WHAT THEIR BITCHING ABOUT... but i digress hahahaha. ANYWAY are you wondering why the blog is titled 168? Let me hit you with this. Prepare to be amazed;-)
There are 168 hours in a week.
subtract 56 hours ( 8 hrs a day for sleep... if your lucky ;-) HEY! maybe thats your plan! just to consistently get a freakin nights sleep!!
subtract 50 hrs for work ( a good average I think considering part time, full time, over time and/ or commuting)
SO NOW WE'RE AT 62 HRS. WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE DOING WITH THESE 62 HOURS A WEEK?!?! If I lost $62 a week I would be PISSED!! Instead I PISS away (at least) 62 HOURS A WEEK!!!
Ok, I know we all need to grocery shop, cook, have family time, walk the dog, write out the bills, catch up on tv, keep the house clean, mow the f-ing grass (obviously not my fav lol) BUT once again there are 2 ways to see this!!
1. I never have time to do anything fun or for me because Im always taking care of all of this shit!! Believe me! I have thought that! Who hasn't?! But seriously. These are the moments life is made of!!!
2. I love winding down from work by walking my dog for a half an hour, then cooking dinner with the kids 3 times a week and carryout 2times so I have time to clean the house after and then enjoy some tv... HMMM. This could work p.s. that is an EXAMPLE I do NOT have kids!! How do you think I have time to write this blog? hahahaha;-)
I had an epiphany walking into work at the BIG SALON one day. Of course I felt sick and miserable and I said out loud "I cannot let work dictate my happiness" This was new for me because my career path had ALWAYS been some of my greatest happiness!! I said this mantra every morning and sometimes during the day too lol My brain began to accept and believe it!! My stress level started to change and I started thinking about the value of my non work time!!! DUH! Like I said before- Im a slow learner ;-) Not long after, I got my beloved dog.
SO ANYWAY AGAIN! A couple days ago I read a quote from the founder of Stella and Dot accessories company- I don't remember word for word. Basically she said NO SUCCESSFUL PERSON BEFORE HER HAS EVER HAD MORE THAN 24HRS IN A DAY!!
OMG sooo obvious but profound!
SO MY POINT today is this is step 2. YOU DO HAVE TIME. Decide if what you want in your life path is major or minor, ,make a plan for the first step by using your time more CONSCIOUSLY!! ITS YOURS USE IT!
See Ya next week!!
**semi related funny story**
Do you seriously think I have this shit mastered?! Hell NO! I def do things WHILE I watch tv BUT yesterday I took, probably, 90 mins of work and dragged it out over a few hrs because I was half watching a CASTLE mini marathon...which I don't really love anyway! Good Lord people!! I'm writing this blog to help keep ME on track too!!! oh yea and also... one time my skirt fell OFF when I was walking my dog. TTYL ;-)
Friday, August 16, 2013
the struggle with contentment
Hi welcome back again!! I'm sure you've noticed that once again I did not hit my goal of a wednesday morning post lol I'll be honest. I didn't feel like it. I've been off my game this week! I didn't feel like being an achiever. I'll also admit that one of the only downsides to being self employed and having so many pans in the fire is sometimes its more of a smolder than a fire hahahaha!! Thats ok! I know if I have a real deadline or people counting on me. Thats totally different! But, having said that, I'm committed to this blog and I'm going to make it a real deadline! ;-)
Soooo, this week I've been thinking about the concept of being content. I struggle with this! Do you?
I don't want to settle! I want to make my life path of choosing my projects and forms of income to be successful financially BUT I'm content to not be chasing after my old goals and career path!!
My handy dictionary app says- content- satisfied with what one is or has; not more or anything else.
Hmmm that sounds like some of the inner peace type stuff that some of my friends talk about. It sounds like the way we should feel about ourselves. We are good the way we are. BUT ...I don't WANT to ALWAYS be content!! There are so many things I would not/ will not experience if I'm content!!! DAMMIT! Whats a girl to do?! I DO think it's a good question to ask yourself though!! Before you stick with a job that you don't love, or a PERSON that you don't love OR BEFORE you begin a big career path to life path change. YOU have to decide if being content is ok. I think some times it is! AND sometimes its a perfect excuse!!!
Its really step 1 of deciding how you will redirect your life path!!! Think about it!!!
So I wanted to share more about 1 of my new life path business projects! It's called Clio & Matty! My friend Sheila and I decided to make baby blankies,bibs, burpies, and drool bandanas! I design and sew. She brands, markets and sells. It's a cool idea! Im enjoying it... but I gotta tell ya- I sometimes feel like a sister wife sitting at home makin' clothes for the babies!!! WHO AM I??? My entire dining room is my sewing room- which is no big deal since I only eat at that table every few yrs for friends thanksgiving lol. I have discovered that terrycloth is card to cut. Who Knew? that those old jeans with the blowout from thigh chaffage make great denim baby bibs! That if you're at Joann fabrics ALL the time they'll be a bit liberal with the coupons!! whoo hoo! that there are multiple ways to adhere tiny cut out flannel designs to bibs making them exponentially cuter and they are ALL a PAIN IN THE BUTT!! and just how many people are excited to give me insight and ideas for this new project i.e. droolie bandanas! ;-) Most of all WHO KNEW that I would be content spending time sewing baby crap!! ;-)
My whole life my mom has been a sewer. We have COMPLETELY different styles so we didn't collaborate alot ;-) As a matter of fact even as a little kid I was PISSED one summer when she made my sister and I each learn how to make a shirt! (I still don't do clothes. too complex) I fought the stereotype of "girls" classes all through school. Straight up REFUSED to take home ec. No. Damn. Way.
Sooo the irony is not lost on me lol.
But I choose to use and develop any skill I even sorta have!! Most people I know don't have a degree in the field they eventually have come to work in. So if I know a little about sewing than I can learn more. Trial and error and you tube videos!! I know alot more about sewing now :-)
Do I want this to become the main way I earn money? NOPE. I don't want to sew all day every day!! But I enjoy it! Why not take what you enjoy, don't be too content, and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
I think I'll always struggle with the concept of contentedness BUT I'm content to be making my own way! Maybe that's what its really about ;-)
** totally unrelated funny story***
I have a beagle mix 13.5 yr old dog who I completely adore! However beagles have an absolutely disgusting streak!! They will eat ANYTHING and I do mean ANYTHING, except for expensive, organic baby carrots purchased just for her!! She has eaten- cat shit,cat food,bird food, human food, dog food, rabbit poop, deer poop, bugs,grass,BREAD, paper, underwear, and is obsessed with CICADAS!!! (hey pure protein. What the hell), toenails, rotten food, dead birds,dead squirrels, trash, recycling... I call her my baby goat!! Miraculously she doesn't get sick so I roll with it!
one year we had a blizzard and we decided to go for a walk and assess the situation. ;-) Everyone is always nice to each other right in the midst of a storm... thank God. We stopped to help multiple people push a car. Another guy laid down his bag from the gas station... a little too close to the dog!! While we were working miss clio had snatched the guys loaf of bread!!! right in the middle of the loaf!! it was probably the LAST one on the shelf too!! she was SCARFING it down because she knew her time was limited hahahaha Luckily the guy was cool! probably too shocked to realize what just happened hahahaha
dogs! hours of entertainment... or embarrassment;-)
Have a great week!! see ya on wednesday!;-)
Soooo, this week I've been thinking about the concept of being content. I struggle with this! Do you?
I don't want to settle! I want to make my life path of choosing my projects and forms of income to be successful financially BUT I'm content to not be chasing after my old goals and career path!!
My handy dictionary app says- content- satisfied with what one is or has; not more or anything else.
Hmmm that sounds like some of the inner peace type stuff that some of my friends talk about. It sounds like the way we should feel about ourselves. We are good the way we are. BUT ...I don't WANT to ALWAYS be content!! There are so many things I would not/ will not experience if I'm content!!! DAMMIT! Whats a girl to do?! I DO think it's a good question to ask yourself though!! Before you stick with a job that you don't love, or a PERSON that you don't love OR BEFORE you begin a big career path to life path change. YOU have to decide if being content is ok. I think some times it is! AND sometimes its a perfect excuse!!!
Its really step 1 of deciding how you will redirect your life path!!! Think about it!!!
So I wanted to share more about 1 of my new life path business projects! It's called Clio & Matty! My friend Sheila and I decided to make baby blankies,bibs, burpies, and drool bandanas! I design and sew. She brands, markets and sells. It's a cool idea! Im enjoying it... but I gotta tell ya- I sometimes feel like a sister wife sitting at home makin' clothes for the babies!!! WHO AM I??? My entire dining room is my sewing room- which is no big deal since I only eat at that table every few yrs for friends thanksgiving lol. I have discovered that terrycloth is card to cut. Who Knew? that those old jeans with the blowout from thigh chaffage make great denim baby bibs! That if you're at Joann fabrics ALL the time they'll be a bit liberal with the coupons!! whoo hoo! that there are multiple ways to adhere tiny cut out flannel designs to bibs making them exponentially cuter and they are ALL a PAIN IN THE BUTT!! and just how many people are excited to give me insight and ideas for this new project i.e. droolie bandanas! ;-) Most of all WHO KNEW that I would be content spending time sewing baby crap!! ;-)
My whole life my mom has been a sewer. We have COMPLETELY different styles so we didn't collaborate alot ;-) As a matter of fact even as a little kid I was PISSED one summer when she made my sister and I each learn how to make a shirt! (I still don't do clothes. too complex) I fought the stereotype of "girls" classes all through school. Straight up REFUSED to take home ec. No. Damn. Way.
Sooo the irony is not lost on me lol.
But I choose to use and develop any skill I even sorta have!! Most people I know don't have a degree in the field they eventually have come to work in. So if I know a little about sewing than I can learn more. Trial and error and you tube videos!! I know alot more about sewing now :-)
Do I want this to become the main way I earn money? NOPE. I don't want to sew all day every day!! But I enjoy it! Why not take what you enjoy, don't be too content, and MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
I think I'll always struggle with the concept of contentedness BUT I'm content to be making my own way! Maybe that's what its really about ;-)
** totally unrelated funny story***
I have a beagle mix 13.5 yr old dog who I completely adore! However beagles have an absolutely disgusting streak!! They will eat ANYTHING and I do mean ANYTHING, except for expensive, organic baby carrots purchased just for her!! She has eaten- cat shit,cat food,bird food, human food, dog food, rabbit poop, deer poop, bugs,grass,BREAD, paper, underwear, and is obsessed with CICADAS!!! (hey pure protein. What the hell), toenails, rotten food, dead birds,dead squirrels, trash, recycling... I call her my baby goat!! Miraculously she doesn't get sick so I roll with it!
one year we had a blizzard and we decided to go for a walk and assess the situation. ;-) Everyone is always nice to each other right in the midst of a storm... thank God. We stopped to help multiple people push a car. Another guy laid down his bag from the gas station... a little too close to the dog!! While we were working miss clio had snatched the guys loaf of bread!!! right in the middle of the loaf!! it was probably the LAST one on the shelf too!! she was SCARFING it down because she knew her time was limited hahahaha Luckily the guy was cool! probably too shocked to realize what just happened hahahaha
dogs! hours of entertainment... or embarrassment;-)
Have a great week!! see ya on wednesday!;-)
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
taking time...
Thank you all for joining me again this week! This weeks post has a bit of a different feel. I want to celebrate the life of a recently lost friend. You've probably noticed that I don't use names in my posts but today I am!
I met Danielle Terrance maybe 2 years ago. She was friends with Michael Oxley and I later learned she was friends and a co-worker with other friends of mine. It is a small world! Michael has always been a wonderful cheerleader for me as a hairstylist and he sent Danielle in to see me.
I'm a professional I can find a way to "click" with alot of different types of people but it wasn't hard to "click" with Danielle! What an infectious and easy laugh! It was like we had known each other for a long time.
What took longer to uncover was how BRILLIANT and GIVING she was!! I wouldn't say modest because she was happy to talk about her work but, maybe modest in the downplayed WAY she talked about it!!
I know I don't know her whole story but here is what I DO know.
Danielle was a Native American (Mohawk) woman in her mid 30's. I find Native cultures very interesting and we would talk about different things. I always knew that her ethnicity, her culture, and her people were very important to her but not the ONLY thing about her!! So we also discussed everyday life- for better or worse lol
Danielle was a college student, I think she finished her masters and was getting ready for Ph.d, She also worked at OSU and taught a class on plurality at Columbus State all the while having a part time job at The Home Depot. She was a strong woman with a bold vision! AND she actually took action!!
She grew up partly in Buffalo, NY and partly on the Reservation. She knew first hand how few opportunities were available to Native people especially girls. In itself it was an amazing feat to have studied at Cornell and OSU but I began to realize she had a much greater mission!
Danielle always had funny stories about her trips around the country, mostly out west.Again I began to realize what she was doing. I'm not sure which organization she was working with but she was going to reservations and talking to kids about the importance of education and how to get it!!! As a Native American. Teaching them and their tribal leaders about keeping their culture strong and still getting into the world and having opportunities!!!
I am so blessed to have known such an amazing, intelligent, enjoyable, humble and giving person!! She truly knew how to blend her CAREER PATH and her LIFE PATH!
I remember telling her all about my recent visit to the Smithsonian American Indian museum!She listened to detail after detail! (I LOVE that museum! You should def check it out!) She smiled and said she had been asked to be the liason / assistant to the President of the museum for the opening week! hahahaha I laughed my ass off! Here I am telling HER and she was there from the beginning!!
A month or so before Danielle's initial cancer diagnosis she was in for a haircut and excitedly showed me a book. It was about integrating Native Americans into college life. SHE HAD BEEN ASKED TO WRITE AN ENTIRE CHAPTER! PUBLISHED!! What an accomplishment!
For sometime she had been telling me about a job interview she had on the reservation. While she was there her cousin, a secretary in the tribal office, told her about another job! Long story short- she also applied for DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION for her tribe. THIS. WAS. BIG!.
The next time I saw her she had 2 pieces of news for me. SHE GOT THE JOB!! and would be moving in a month or so. I love when my friends succeed!! I love when life takes them along their hard worked for path!! I would miss her but was SO happy for her! We even planned a shopping trip the next time I was in Syracuse! So Danielle!
The second bit of news was... she had ovarian cancer. This was April 2013.
We cried and laughed. We made plans for a haircutting party... and cried a little again.
Her cancer diagnosis changed and became more dire. Her medical story is too long and really not the point. I went to the hospital a few times to style her hair and to chat... or just sit when her pain meds kicked in and she would drift off.
Her family came down from Buffalo in small groups, going from optimistic to realistic in a short amount of time. The Columbus friends tried to chip in to help with gas money and we were trying to plan a caravan to take her back home for treatment.
The Tribal Leader of the Reservation said they would wait for her! She was the one they wanted.
When it became clear that Danielle had a very dire prognosis they stepped in and paid for her have a medical helicopter transport back to her family in Buffalo. This had to have been immensely expensive and once again showed how important and respected she was.
Danielle died this week surrounded by her family and knowing that she had lived well. She accomplished what she set out to do! She worked SO hard for her mission and she saw it beginning to happen!
I admired Danielle from the start and I believe MANY people did! Because of her work she has built a strong foundation for others to build on. Education and knowledge of opportunities for ALL Native Americans. What a legacy.May we all live so well and so boldly.
I hope you all have an inspiring and intentional week!! If its not so great don't feel defeated! It just means there are more steps to go in your process of figuring out what you want and how to get it!!! ENJOY THE PROCESS. ENJOY LIFE ;-)
I met Danielle Terrance maybe 2 years ago. She was friends with Michael Oxley and I later learned she was friends and a co-worker with other friends of mine. It is a small world! Michael has always been a wonderful cheerleader for me as a hairstylist and he sent Danielle in to see me.
I'm a professional I can find a way to "click" with alot of different types of people but it wasn't hard to "click" with Danielle! What an infectious and easy laugh! It was like we had known each other for a long time.
What took longer to uncover was how BRILLIANT and GIVING she was!! I wouldn't say modest because she was happy to talk about her work but, maybe modest in the downplayed WAY she talked about it!!
I know I don't know her whole story but here is what I DO know.
Danielle was a Native American (Mohawk) woman in her mid 30's. I find Native cultures very interesting and we would talk about different things. I always knew that her ethnicity, her culture, and her people were very important to her but not the ONLY thing about her!! So we also discussed everyday life- for better or worse lol
Danielle was a college student, I think she finished her masters and was getting ready for Ph.d, She also worked at OSU and taught a class on plurality at Columbus State all the while having a part time job at The Home Depot. She was a strong woman with a bold vision! AND she actually took action!!
She grew up partly in Buffalo, NY and partly on the Reservation. She knew first hand how few opportunities were available to Native people especially girls. In itself it was an amazing feat to have studied at Cornell and OSU but I began to realize she had a much greater mission!
Danielle always had funny stories about her trips around the country, mostly out west.Again I began to realize what she was doing. I'm not sure which organization she was working with but she was going to reservations and talking to kids about the importance of education and how to get it!!! As a Native American. Teaching them and their tribal leaders about keeping their culture strong and still getting into the world and having opportunities!!!
I am so blessed to have known such an amazing, intelligent, enjoyable, humble and giving person!! She truly knew how to blend her CAREER PATH and her LIFE PATH!
I remember telling her all about my recent visit to the Smithsonian American Indian museum!She listened to detail after detail! (I LOVE that museum! You should def check it out!) She smiled and said she had been asked to be the liason / assistant to the President of the museum for the opening week! hahahaha I laughed my ass off! Here I am telling HER and she was there from the beginning!!
A month or so before Danielle's initial cancer diagnosis she was in for a haircut and excitedly showed me a book. It was about integrating Native Americans into college life. SHE HAD BEEN ASKED TO WRITE AN ENTIRE CHAPTER! PUBLISHED!! What an accomplishment!
For sometime she had been telling me about a job interview she had on the reservation. While she was there her cousin, a secretary in the tribal office, told her about another job! Long story short- she also applied for DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION for her tribe. THIS. WAS. BIG!.
The next time I saw her she had 2 pieces of news for me. SHE GOT THE JOB!! and would be moving in a month or so. I love when my friends succeed!! I love when life takes them along their hard worked for path!! I would miss her but was SO happy for her! We even planned a shopping trip the next time I was in Syracuse! So Danielle!
The second bit of news was... she had ovarian cancer. This was April 2013.
We cried and laughed. We made plans for a haircutting party... and cried a little again.
Her cancer diagnosis changed and became more dire. Her medical story is too long and really not the point. I went to the hospital a few times to style her hair and to chat... or just sit when her pain meds kicked in and she would drift off.
Her family came down from Buffalo in small groups, going from optimistic to realistic in a short amount of time. The Columbus friends tried to chip in to help with gas money and we were trying to plan a caravan to take her back home for treatment.
The Tribal Leader of the Reservation said they would wait for her! She was the one they wanted.
When it became clear that Danielle had a very dire prognosis they stepped in and paid for her have a medical helicopter transport back to her family in Buffalo. This had to have been immensely expensive and once again showed how important and respected she was.
Danielle died this week surrounded by her family and knowing that she had lived well. She accomplished what she set out to do! She worked SO hard for her mission and she saw it beginning to happen!
I admired Danielle from the start and I believe MANY people did! Because of her work she has built a strong foundation for others to build on. Education and knowledge of opportunities for ALL Native Americans. What a legacy.May we all live so well and so boldly.
I hope you all have an inspiring and intentional week!! If its not so great don't feel defeated! It just means there are more steps to go in your process of figuring out what you want and how to get it!!! ENJOY THE PROCESS. ENJOY LIFE ;-)
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
being as cliche as I can- CHOICES ;-)
Welcome Back!! Hope you had an awesome week! Let me ask you... are you thinking about what to do with your life ? lol I used to think about that a lot more when I thought I was on my career path than I do now that I'm on my Life Path! HOWEVER! I don't want to give anyone the wrong idea. I'm not breezing through life without a care in the world! I'm just more satisfied with the way I view and conduct my life! AND ANOTHER THING! ;-) I most certainly would not have been ready for THIS LIFE much sooner than when it occurred!! I'm very happy with everything I accomplished but I found myself in my late 30's wondering what the hell just happened!! lol Sooo with that - I'm still on my ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER kick ;-)
I've realized that I have a long history of GOOD TIMING/ GRABBING OPPORTUNITIES. I'm no pollyanna that's for damn sure! But I see no point in looking for the BAD side in an experience!
So here's another LIST! I knew it! You've been dying for a list of lists! ( why isn't there a sarcasm font!?)
1. 10th grade boring tour of vocational dept. eyes rolling into the back of my head and SUDDENLY beauty school!! When I tell you it had never before crossed my mind I mean- I had only had 2 professional haircuts in my life!! 1 at Doris' salon ( small town granny shop lol) and a perm and cut at JC Penny! whoo hoo. I wanted my hair to look like the chick from USA's Night Flight videos... I looked like a mullet boy with a grandma perm.
2. One of the last days of beauty school a friend was on the payphone declining a job offer( ahh YEA I was eaves dropping. duh!) and I grabbed the phone from her and said I was interested what time should I come in! That was the NEW ME! I had something to be passionate about!
3. First time in Columbus was for my stateboard tests. We stepped on to High st at noon and it felt like a real city! ( I had been to D.C. too many times to count) A year or so later my 18 yr old cousin and I came to Columbus for a weekend so I could find a job and apt. I took a job at an old chain salon called Christines. NOT FOR ME. But I stayed a couple mos while I read the want ads! ( PS THANKS TO MY PARENTS FOR LAUNCHING ME INTO THE WORLD WITH 3 MOS PAID RENT!!!)
3. Got all glammed up for an interview at the "society" salon downtown. At that time. At that moment. It was COOL AS HELL!! Halfway through the interview I realized they weren't hiring a STYLIST but an ASSISTANT. I really didn't know what the hell that was but I just shifted gears right there. I NEEDED TO BE IN THAT SALON!! Got the job;-) It was exactly what I needed. High drama clients (very city. in my mind;-)) SUPER HIGH DRAMA salon owners. ( some stereotypes are true lol) I absorbed EVERYTHING!! good and bad! This salon is where I became a city girl. By then I lived in a newly redone apt at High and 2nd- BEFORE the short north went up that far! lol I HAD MADE IT!!! It was such an imperfect, melodramatic situation I would have been bored if it was anything less!!!
So another day I will continue with my list of CHOICES! But I feel like those were 3 VERY pivotal moments for me! That was the window of time where you get scared and go back to what you know or you get OVER IT and forge ahead!! I can't imagine my career/life without those 3 CHOICES!!
MY POINT for you today- If you're trying to figure out what to do NEXT. Think back to what you did FIRST! Get your MOJO back ( I really don't know what the hell mojo actually is but you know what I mean hahaha) Get your excitement back! You don't have to change the world... but it is your CHOICE!!
*** SEMI RELATED FUNNY STORY**
The guy I worked for as an apprentice knew his shit... when it came to hair. Not always a genius in other realms. Now I will admit when you talk ALL day to clients you can begin to ramble or not pay a lot of attention to what you're actually discussing BUT One day he was discussing new skin and beauty treatments with a client. ( most of them were on first name basis with their plastic surgeons) She was saying something about a Japanese treatment and he said... hold on its gonna be good... " oh yea its that whole euthanasia thing... "EUTHANASIA IS NOT THE SAME THING AS YOUTH IN ASIA!!! The client and I did not make eye contact.;-)
HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK!! AND IF ITS NOT GOING YOUR WAY- ITS YOUR CHOICE TO CHANGE IT!!
Thursday, July 25, 2013
OOOHHH the IRONY ;-) aka making lists
Hello!!! Im back. A day( or two) late and hopefully NOT a dollar short lol
You may have noticed the dual name for the blog. My topic today is my love of lists! How they have helped me to figure out what I want( subject to change ;-)), how to get there( usually), what I need to pack this weekend,what I want to get done before I leave(hahahaha yea right!) and how to stay on track with the KIND of PERSON I want to be (work in progress). The IRONY part this week is I really didn't want to look at my lists! I'm rebelling against my self. shocking. I always say one of my greatest skills is self sabotage!! BUT I KNOW IT!! I learned it from looking at my lists! For real.
Out of all of my posts so far I hope that this one will be the most helpful and not just revealing MY story.
This week I saw a bumper sticker that read- GOALS WITHOUT PLANS ARE JUST WISHES. so, So, SO TRUE!!!
I have had many goals over the years that I've taken off the list or accomplished them with great regret hahahaha (reference the story of the BIG SALON) and I've stumbled onto things and loved them. Without them being on the lists. I'm not THAT rigid! To me lists are like road maps. You'll probably get there with out one but you'll never know how and have no idea what else is in the area!
My purpose of sharing my story is twofold. One I needed to GET OVER IT!! I was hanging on to moments that I KNEW I needed to move past but also!! I learned a few things along the way!!! Alot of people,esp in my age range (40's) find that they need to change course! There are also people out there who feel unsettled where they are,just as I have, but upon closer review (its almost football season. I sound like a referee in the replay box lol)They realize they are EXACTLY where they need to be!
I'm going to share my basic list of WHO I want to be. THAT is the most important. Consciously deciding the kind of person you choose to be. NOT the person your SITUATION is turning you into!! I know. Heavy shit. But seriously, If you don't care enough to mold yourself no one else will that's for SURE!!
1. I WILL NOT SAY I CAN'T. I started this in beauty school. I was a sophomore on a required tour of the vocational dept and totally flipped out for beauty school!! I begged my parents, they agreed. Jr and Sr year was spent in training and I started telling myself that I didn't know ANYTHING about hair so I NEEDED TO LEARN IT. That was a new thought for me. For the most part I still believe if I want something I can learn to do it. SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT IT THAT BAD but at least I realize it!!
2. ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING RIGHT. Thanks dad for the words of wisdom and blue collar work ethic! lol
3. NOW NOT LATER which has morphed into FORWARD MOTION. I have a lazy streak ok?! hahaha When my career starting changing I had a lot more free time than EVER in my life!!! NOT as GREAT as it sounds lol! Putting things off for the hell of it ain't a great plan!!;-)
4. NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF THIS. When I feel myself getting all caught up and annoyed by some stupid shit that really ISN'T ANY OF MY BUSINESS or something that there is no way I can change-I remind myself of this simple fact. ex my neighbors yard looks like a prairie/weed patch. so. I have weeds growing in my gutters. The rude ass that parks directly in front of my sidewalk when there are NO OTHER CARS PARKED ANY PLACE ELSE. big damn deal. my legs aren't broken. Walk around. Which leads me to this little gem
5. RESENTMENT IS LIKE WANTING TO KILL SOMEONE BUT DRINKING THE POISON YOURSELF. really. I don't think this needs explained;-)
6. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD. I love this and I really need to remember that clicking "like" isn't actually taking action!!!
and FINALLY (for this list at least) the hardest one...
7. BE LIZ you can't be true to your career path OR life path without this step!! Well, you know a less funny person would insert joke about everybody being Liz and how awesome the world would be. But I won't go there... hahahaha .
One of my new mantras hasn't actually made my official list yet ;-) CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS when I am about part way through some big rant/whine about being -too busy, too tired, which outfit to wear, where to park at the mall blahblahblah- I suddenly realize it say this is a champagne problem!! I, and most other people certainly have much BIGGER and more life altering problems than that and I need to SETTLE DOWN! hahaha;-)
** totally unrelated funny story*** when I was an apprentice/assistant at my first salon in columbus I worked for a guy that did(the hair of) all of the society people in town. This was pre new albany. The old school club of bexley and upper arlington lol ANYWAY I was VERY busy doing color, shampooing, keeping him on schedule and trying to be perfect. One client was walking back from an excellent shampooing (if I do say so myself) I was behind her. The towel was falling slow motion style from her neck and down her back.My attempt to catch it was even MORE slow motion and I ACCIDENTALLY GRABBED HER BUTT!! OMG. 20 some years later I'm still traumatized!
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH I hope you'll think about making a few lists yourself! You'll be amazed how it clears your head and helps you see who you REALLY want to be!
You may have noticed the dual name for the blog. My topic today is my love of lists! How they have helped me to figure out what I want( subject to change ;-)), how to get there( usually), what I need to pack this weekend,what I want to get done before I leave(hahahaha yea right!) and how to stay on track with the KIND of PERSON I want to be (work in progress). The IRONY part this week is I really didn't want to look at my lists! I'm rebelling against my self. shocking. I always say one of my greatest skills is self sabotage!! BUT I KNOW IT!! I learned it from looking at my lists! For real.
Out of all of my posts so far I hope that this one will be the most helpful and not just revealing MY story.
This week I saw a bumper sticker that read- GOALS WITHOUT PLANS ARE JUST WISHES. so, So, SO TRUE!!!
I have had many goals over the years that I've taken off the list or accomplished them with great regret hahahaha (reference the story of the BIG SALON) and I've stumbled onto things and loved them. Without them being on the lists. I'm not THAT rigid! To me lists are like road maps. You'll probably get there with out one but you'll never know how and have no idea what else is in the area!
My purpose of sharing my story is twofold. One I needed to GET OVER IT!! I was hanging on to moments that I KNEW I needed to move past but also!! I learned a few things along the way!!! Alot of people,esp in my age range (40's) find that they need to change course! There are also people out there who feel unsettled where they are,just as I have, but upon closer review (its almost football season. I sound like a referee in the replay box lol)They realize they are EXACTLY where they need to be!
I'm going to share my basic list of WHO I want to be. THAT is the most important. Consciously deciding the kind of person you choose to be. NOT the person your SITUATION is turning you into!! I know. Heavy shit. But seriously, If you don't care enough to mold yourself no one else will that's for SURE!!
1. I WILL NOT SAY I CAN'T. I started this in beauty school. I was a sophomore on a required tour of the vocational dept and totally flipped out for beauty school!! I begged my parents, they agreed. Jr and Sr year was spent in training and I started telling myself that I didn't know ANYTHING about hair so I NEEDED TO LEARN IT. That was a new thought for me. For the most part I still believe if I want something I can learn to do it. SOMETIMES I DON'T WANT IT THAT BAD but at least I realize it!!
2. ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH DOING RIGHT. Thanks dad for the words of wisdom and blue collar work ethic! lol
3. NOW NOT LATER which has morphed into FORWARD MOTION. I have a lazy streak ok?! hahaha When my career starting changing I had a lot more free time than EVER in my life!!! NOT as GREAT as it sounds lol! Putting things off for the hell of it ain't a great plan!!;-)
4. NOTHING GOOD WILL COME OF THIS. When I feel myself getting all caught up and annoyed by some stupid shit that really ISN'T ANY OF MY BUSINESS or something that there is no way I can change-I remind myself of this simple fact. ex my neighbors yard looks like a prairie/weed patch. so. I have weeds growing in my gutters. The rude ass that parks directly in front of my sidewalk when there are NO OTHER CARS PARKED ANY PLACE ELSE. big damn deal. my legs aren't broken. Walk around. Which leads me to this little gem
5. RESENTMENT IS LIKE WANTING TO KILL SOMEONE BUT DRINKING THE POISON YOURSELF. really. I don't think this needs explained;-)
6. BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD. I love this and I really need to remember that clicking "like" isn't actually taking action!!!
and FINALLY (for this list at least) the hardest one...
7. BE LIZ you can't be true to your career path OR life path without this step!! Well, you know a less funny person would insert joke about everybody being Liz and how awesome the world would be. But I won't go there... hahahaha .
One of my new mantras hasn't actually made my official list yet ;-) CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS when I am about part way through some big rant/whine about being -too busy, too tired, which outfit to wear, where to park at the mall blahblahblah- I suddenly realize it say this is a champagne problem!! I, and most other people certainly have much BIGGER and more life altering problems than that and I need to SETTLE DOWN! hahaha;-)
** totally unrelated funny story*** when I was an apprentice/assistant at my first salon in columbus I worked for a guy that did(the hair of) all of the society people in town. This was pre new albany. The old school club of bexley and upper arlington lol ANYWAY I was VERY busy doing color, shampooing, keeping him on schedule and trying to be perfect. One client was walking back from an excellent shampooing (if I do say so myself) I was behind her. The towel was falling slow motion style from her neck and down her back.My attempt to catch it was even MORE slow motion and I ACCIDENTALLY GRABBED HER BUTT!! OMG. 20 some years later I'm still traumatized!
ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU SO MUCH I hope you'll think about making a few lists yourself! You'll be amazed how it clears your head and helps you see who you REALLY want to be!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
what my dog did for me or how one good decision opens a lot of doors!
Hello again! Its wednesday!! Of course when you're on the self employed path there is no hump day lol. Each day is its own, independent adventure!! ;-)
This past week I feel like I've been really aware of how one decision leads to another and another and another! Its so much easier to see these links after the fact, but I've always tried to see opportunities around me.Think about some of the things that have probably happened in your life. It could be as simple as listening to a friends referral on a car salesman at a Lot you never would have considered and getting a great experience. It could be as big as taking a major career "plunge" because the bakery you've always tried to copy at home is closing... and its for sale cheap!
I always say everyone has opportunities we just don't always have our eyes open!!
So, back to me! GEEZ!! ;-)
About halfway through my run at The BIG salon at The BIG Mall I was sitting on my couch, buried in near tonnage of papers and a clunky old laptop. I was compiling all of the notes I had taken from classes over the years. Creating a reference book and writing my own apprentice training manual. TOTAL. DREAM. COME. TRUE. I was also watching a dog competition show. I don't know why!?! Probably couldn't unbury the remote!
Lightening Bolt! I wanted a DOG! But I was easily gone 12 hours a day. Wouldn't a dog be nice? Sure I didn't know shit about dogs but, but, but... I did a survey online and beagle was the best breed for my lifestyle.
A day or two later I'm having lunch with 2 friends. I excitedly tell them about how I want to change my life i.e.get a dog. They look at each other like a moment like from a movie and say" we have the perfect dog for you!"
Its a long story of why this overweight, depressed, 5 year old beagley mutt needed a home but when they brought her over for a visit she sat all 60lbs of herself right on my lap!
I could go on forever about this dog and me but I'm going to come back to this another day.;-)
My point(finally)for this topic today- what my dog did for me... Now some people might say "damn your life/career really fell apart after you got a dog. I say we came into each others lives when we were most needed!
Besides all of the emotional well being and exercise I've gotten from having this sweet dog many opportunities have come my way!
A client of mine bought a dog walking business and then moved to my neighborhood. She taught me how to walk my dog! (for a year that stubborn damn dog dragged me down the street going crazy on every other dog she even thought she saw!!) Later when I was desperate for more income that same friend was in need of a part time dog walker/ petsitter . "My" dogs were mostly downtown, which i loved! We always left notes for the dog owners and through that I became friendly with some very cool people that I had never even seen in person! When my friend was selling the business I knew I would miss these neighborhoods.I started thinking it was time to become self employed. One day, as I was bending over to pick up dog poop ( the constant reminder to stay humble!) I saw a new rental salon opening right on one of my favorite streets! The next day a friend said she had already checked it out for me!! WEIRD!
So I start the adventure of self employed hairstylist, and the new owner of the dog biz eventually asks me to work for her because I'm a hardworking responsible person! She and her husband eventually become hair clients.Another "human dog client" lives across the street. She loves the way I do her hair;-) The mom of one of her friends comes in for her hair and her dogs are now clients too. Another "human dog client" became a friend. I was the only one that would pet sit his wild dog! I now adore this dog like a niece lol. On day he asked if I was interested in doing a top to bottom house cleaning for him since his house keeper flaked out.By then I was much less weirded out about my new attitude toward doing non career work.
BIG BIG bucks just in time for xmas!! Oh and then! I started cleaning for him once a week! One day his friend asked me to take the dogs to a photoshoot. The photographer was brilliant!!! Now I'm part of the team working to make his vision of a cool new local magazine come true!! SERIOUSLY!!!
I truly believe these things would not have happened if I hadn't decided to take a chance and make a change.
Getting a rescued twice, used dog that was almost nothing like what I thought I wanted, But was unbelievably exactly what I needed!!
**don't have a totally unrelated funny story today because I want to take a moment to tell you just how much I really love my dog! Even if not a single work or social connection was made because of her; she would still be one of the best things I've ever done for myself!It's been 8 1/2 yrs now. She's 13 and we walk 2 or 3 times a day and sleep together every night! She quickly got down to her proper weight of 40lbs, learned how to walk on a leash, and grudgingly puts up with other dogs!! We ADORE each other!! Rescuing an animal is also rescuing YOU! ;-)
See ya next wednesday!!**
This past week I feel like I've been really aware of how one decision leads to another and another and another! Its so much easier to see these links after the fact, but I've always tried to see opportunities around me.Think about some of the things that have probably happened in your life. It could be as simple as listening to a friends referral on a car salesman at a Lot you never would have considered and getting a great experience. It could be as big as taking a major career "plunge" because the bakery you've always tried to copy at home is closing... and its for sale cheap!
I always say everyone has opportunities we just don't always have our eyes open!!
So, back to me! GEEZ!! ;-)
About halfway through my run at The BIG salon at The BIG Mall I was sitting on my couch, buried in near tonnage of papers and a clunky old laptop. I was compiling all of the notes I had taken from classes over the years. Creating a reference book and writing my own apprentice training manual. TOTAL. DREAM. COME. TRUE. I was also watching a dog competition show. I don't know why!?! Probably couldn't unbury the remote!
Lightening Bolt! I wanted a DOG! But I was easily gone 12 hours a day. Wouldn't a dog be nice? Sure I didn't know shit about dogs but, but, but... I did a survey online and beagle was the best breed for my lifestyle.
A day or two later I'm having lunch with 2 friends. I excitedly tell them about how I want to change my life i.e.get a dog. They look at each other like a moment like from a movie and say" we have the perfect dog for you!"
Its a long story of why this overweight, depressed, 5 year old beagley mutt needed a home but when they brought her over for a visit she sat all 60lbs of herself right on my lap!
I could go on forever about this dog and me but I'm going to come back to this another day.;-)
My point(finally)for this topic today- what my dog did for me... Now some people might say "damn your life/career really fell apart after you got a dog. I say we came into each others lives when we were most needed!
Besides all of the emotional well being and exercise I've gotten from having this sweet dog many opportunities have come my way!
A client of mine bought a dog walking business and then moved to my neighborhood. She taught me how to walk my dog! (for a year that stubborn damn dog dragged me down the street going crazy on every other dog she even thought she saw!!) Later when I was desperate for more income that same friend was in need of a part time dog walker/ petsitter . "My" dogs were mostly downtown, which i loved! We always left notes for the dog owners and through that I became friendly with some very cool people that I had never even seen in person! When my friend was selling the business I knew I would miss these neighborhoods.I started thinking it was time to become self employed. One day, as I was bending over to pick up dog poop ( the constant reminder to stay humble!) I saw a new rental salon opening right on one of my favorite streets! The next day a friend said she had already checked it out for me!! WEIRD!
So I start the adventure of self employed hairstylist, and the new owner of the dog biz eventually asks me to work for her because I'm a hardworking responsible person! She and her husband eventually become hair clients.Another "human dog client" lives across the street. She loves the way I do her hair;-) The mom of one of her friends comes in for her hair and her dogs are now clients too. Another "human dog client" became a friend. I was the only one that would pet sit his wild dog! I now adore this dog like a niece lol. On day he asked if I was interested in doing a top to bottom house cleaning for him since his house keeper flaked out.By then I was much less weirded out about my new attitude toward doing non career work.
BIG BIG bucks just in time for xmas!! Oh and then! I started cleaning for him once a week! One day his friend asked me to take the dogs to a photoshoot. The photographer was brilliant!!! Now I'm part of the team working to make his vision of a cool new local magazine come true!! SERIOUSLY!!!
I truly believe these things would not have happened if I hadn't decided to take a chance and make a change.
Getting a rescued twice, used dog that was almost nothing like what I thought I wanted, But was unbelievably exactly what I needed!!
**don't have a totally unrelated funny story today because I want to take a moment to tell you just how much I really love my dog! Even if not a single work or social connection was made because of her; she would still be one of the best things I've ever done for myself!It's been 8 1/2 yrs now. She's 13 and we walk 2 or 3 times a day and sleep together every night! She quickly got down to her proper weight of 40lbs, learned how to walk on a leash, and grudgingly puts up with other dogs!! We ADORE each other!! Rescuing an animal is also rescuing YOU! ;-)
See ya next wednesday!!**
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
do I swear? when the naval academy has new cadets...they call me!
Well I think I wanna throw up now. I hit a mystery button and my entire blog draft disappeared. Never to be seen again. ok. Pity party over. I, of course don't have notes so here is my brand new version of my brand new post. DAMMIT!
Sooo, last week I asked What You Thought Your First Job Said About You. I'm sure you pondered this for many self reflective hours. No? You mean you have other things to do? lol I understand. But you might be surprised to discover what it says about you. It might even help you change from career path to life path.
So this project is for me to tell you how this all came about for me. I'm going to spare us all the torture of going chronologically through my 24 year career an get right to some of the Big Pivotal Moments.
About 10 or 12 yrs ago I serendipitously got a job working in a small, successful salon in the 'burbs. I thought my friend had given the owner the heads up that I would be calling sooo when I did call (while I was working some place else) and he said "where are you calling from" I said " the parking lot". He paused and said " no where do work now" Really?! He still hired me. It seemed like a lucky break.
I started working right when they were planning a huge new salon, possibly even more. An empire, if you will. Dream come true!The whole team was motivated, smart and they valued my experience. Perfect. More check marks on my career path goal list!
I should tell you now. I'm the kind of person that LOVES energy, inventiveness, vision,and most importantly, follow through. I can, and have, been strung along by amazing team meetings and brainstorming sessions! I don't want to create and be the entire engine. I want to be a PART of something BIG! I'm a weirdo. I know.
So, jump ahead a year or two and we had a BIG Party for our BIG Salon in the BIG Mall and I soon realized I was fucked BIG Time.
Things weren't good from the beginning. I cried a lot. At the same time I was checking off career path goals left and right!!I did EVERYTHING I set out to do. The problem is when you want to be a part of someone else's BIG Picture, your fate is in their hands.So things that went down over those 4 yrs will be blog fodder for a long time ;-) Lets just say for now I'll tell you one story.
While walking to my car in the back of the BIG Mall parking lot I started to think- What if I got hit by a car. Just a little. Just enough to knock me down. I would HAVE to take a week or two off from work. YAY! No choice. It would be even better if it was one of the security trucks. Oh yea! Someone with good liability insurance. Maybe even a little settlement so I'd keep my mouth shut!! Seriously. At the time it seemed completely reasonable. I should ALSO tell you- In the hair biz you work strictly on commission. No base pay. No work paid benefits. But you get to be a full-time, fully taxed employee. Just the price you pay to be in a profession you love. So. anyway, I didn't get hit by a car. I didn't even take a dive and fake it. lol I did probably cry on my way home. I don't remember for sure because I used to do that Alot!!
So a couple years after that it finally fell apart. It was on its way from day one.There was a lot of super secret stuff and alot of bullcrap and ALOT of stress!!
I chose to go with those same salon owners to their new, small salon in the 'burbs. It was a new beginning! My work stress level was way down! But, unfortunately so was my income. By about half. Too many changes for most of my clients and I was probably too fried anyway!
I started off there so relaxed, relieved, positive, pumped and as usual the team cheerleader. Well I had a HUGE!!! identity crisis!! I never saw myself as anything other than a full time hairstylist/manager/ trainer. I did something I had not done in my ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFE-I got a part time job. I was embarrassed... but eventually REALLY PROUD! I'm a scrambler. I get shit done. I can take care of myself. Because eventually I realized I love my chosen primary profession. But I am on a LIFE PATH now!!
ps You know I left out a LOT of details;-) They'll show up later because it wasn't THAT easy lol
*totally unrelated funny story-I LOVE being an Aunt! I've been fortunate to be involved and do alot for my sister and her 2 kids. BUT one of the aunt moments I'm most proud of was teaching these two little angels (15mos apart. what the hell was she thinking?!) to say, in sweet little baby voices "damn the luck!" hahaha AUNT VICTORY!!
thanks! see ya next week;-)
Sooo, last week I asked What You Thought Your First Job Said About You. I'm sure you pondered this for many self reflective hours. No? You mean you have other things to do? lol I understand. But you might be surprised to discover what it says about you. It might even help you change from career path to life path.
So this project is for me to tell you how this all came about for me. I'm going to spare us all the torture of going chronologically through my 24 year career an get right to some of the Big Pivotal Moments.
About 10 or 12 yrs ago I serendipitously got a job working in a small, successful salon in the 'burbs. I thought my friend had given the owner the heads up that I would be calling sooo when I did call (while I was working some place else) and he said "where are you calling from" I said " the parking lot". He paused and said " no where do work now" Really?! He still hired me. It seemed like a lucky break.
I started working right when they were planning a huge new salon, possibly even more. An empire, if you will. Dream come true!The whole team was motivated, smart and they valued my experience. Perfect. More check marks on my career path goal list!
I should tell you now. I'm the kind of person that LOVES energy, inventiveness, vision,and most importantly, follow through. I can, and have, been strung along by amazing team meetings and brainstorming sessions! I don't want to create and be the entire engine. I want to be a PART of something BIG! I'm a weirdo. I know.
So, jump ahead a year or two and we had a BIG Party for our BIG Salon in the BIG Mall and I soon realized I was fucked BIG Time.
Things weren't good from the beginning. I cried a lot. At the same time I was checking off career path goals left and right!!I did EVERYTHING I set out to do. The problem is when you want to be a part of someone else's BIG Picture, your fate is in their hands.So things that went down over those 4 yrs will be blog fodder for a long time ;-) Lets just say for now I'll tell you one story.
While walking to my car in the back of the BIG Mall parking lot I started to think- What if I got hit by a car. Just a little. Just enough to knock me down. I would HAVE to take a week or two off from work. YAY! No choice. It would be even better if it was one of the security trucks. Oh yea! Someone with good liability insurance. Maybe even a little settlement so I'd keep my mouth shut!! Seriously. At the time it seemed completely reasonable. I should ALSO tell you- In the hair biz you work strictly on commission. No base pay. No work paid benefits. But you get to be a full-time, fully taxed employee. Just the price you pay to be in a profession you love. So. anyway, I didn't get hit by a car. I didn't even take a dive and fake it. lol I did probably cry on my way home. I don't remember for sure because I used to do that Alot!!
So a couple years after that it finally fell apart. It was on its way from day one.There was a lot of super secret stuff and alot of bullcrap and ALOT of stress!!
I chose to go with those same salon owners to their new, small salon in the 'burbs. It was a new beginning! My work stress level was way down! But, unfortunately so was my income. By about half. Too many changes for most of my clients and I was probably too fried anyway!
I started off there so relaxed, relieved, positive, pumped and as usual the team cheerleader. Well I had a HUGE!!! identity crisis!! I never saw myself as anything other than a full time hairstylist/manager/ trainer. I did something I had not done in my ENTIRE PROFESSIONAL LIFE-I got a part time job. I was embarrassed... but eventually REALLY PROUD! I'm a scrambler. I get shit done. I can take care of myself. Because eventually I realized I love my chosen primary profession. But I am on a LIFE PATH now!!
ps You know I left out a LOT of details;-) They'll show up later because it wasn't THAT easy lol
*totally unrelated funny story-I LOVE being an Aunt! I've been fortunate to be involved and do alot for my sister and her 2 kids. BUT one of the aunt moments I'm most proud of was teaching these two little angels (15mos apart. what the hell was she thinking?!) to say, in sweet little baby voices "damn the luck!" hahaha AUNT VICTORY!!
thanks! see ya next week;-)
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
what does your first job say about you?
Hi! welcome back!:-) I hope you took time since our last post to think about "what did you do for You today?" It really doesn't have to be anything big but it needs to be clearly declared (if only in your own mind) that you owned a moment in your entire week. To me that was the first step in starting to change from career path to life path. I got a dog. Dogs need walks, food,and love. They are not ashamed to ask for either! Honestly, the best thing I ever did for myself.
So let me tell you about how i ended up at my first job and I'm gonna start WAY back;-)
I was born in 1970 first child of high school sweethearts. They married during my dads leave from Vietnam. I was gestated and delivered in California. (which is the only possible explanation for me being the only dyed in the wool liberal in my whole family. My WHOLE family.)
My parents moved back to their hometown in Ohio. Right on the Pennsylvania/ West Virginia border. This is relevant because THIS is where I developed my stubborn streak which evolved into "if I work hard enough I sure as HELL CAN do this...)My dad worked hard everyday because he was going to take care of his family. period. You Work. He made a career eventually as a Riverboat Pilot- after every other crappy job within that field. He apprenticed and busted ass to eventually be a Captain. I don't think he was always very happy, though.
My first few jobs don't count. ok. Seriously. I refuse to think that working at Hills dept store for 2 weeks or Ponderosa salad bar for a... few weeks, defines my destiny. But! It did say I would take whatever job was offered. hmmmm I actually never thought of that! Also, yes, we did eat out of the cooler trays of prepped salad bar food, and yes I did have an entire crock of french dressing spill UP, inside my polyester, A-line skirt. (green, of course) Oh yea I forgot about the girl that curling-ironed her hair in the prep kitchen... I should re-forget that. Sorry ;-)
No. My first real job was the summer before sr. year of high school. I was a trail guide at a horseback riding stable!!! EP! IC! SCORE!! I used to ride those trails all the time with a friend of mine. They sorta knew me and when they said they would PAY me $15 cash a day ( 8 to 10 hrs during an actual drought and heatwave) I said HELL YEA!! GREATEST SUMMER EVER! I had no formal riding training, Couldn't remember all of the trails, never cleaned a stall or a hoof or a saddle before! But I wanted it bad.So I did it! I learned as I went, I was loyal and hard working and even though they laughed themselves to sleep every night thinking about my slave labor, I WAS THE ONE THAT GOT THE MOST OUT OF THAT DEAL!! I rode horses all day long! DUH!! And you know what I now think it said about me- I take what I do seriously and I will seriously do what it takes to get to do it!!!
* so. funny unrelated story time- As an adult I used to fall down ALOT! Its possible, I suppose, that I was always thinking about 50 other things and NEVER the actual act of walking! lol I have fallen down steps, off of high heels, off of flipflops, DONE flipflops, Fallen directly under my car. on the ice. with one arm still in the seat belt. Ive got MAD skills. I dont put my hands down when I fall.You know that's instinct to that. But I have actually DEVELOPED a new INSTINCT!! I call it the stop. drop. and roll. and then I'm back on my feet. Mud, rain, snow, ice, sand, carpet, concrete, steel, sunshine, fog. I KNOW why its called HARD wood. You name it I've landed on it. My dad used to ask in the back ground of my calls back home, Where'd she fall this time. My sister says shes never known anyone to turn their ankles (or choke on spit. unrelated.)more than me. LOL Dad used to tell me to get my next apt on the ground floor or he was going to take out a hazard policy on me hahahaha!! family love ;-) See Ya Next Wed! and think about that first job of yours. You never know, it might remind you of how you wanted things to be by now!;-)
Sunday, June 30, 2013
did you do anything YOU wanted today?
Hi I'm Liz and welcome to the inaugural post of my blog "from career path to life path- no one got me off my ass but me.
I want to share this wild, sometimes fast sometimes slow, career/life ride I've been on for 24 yrs. I hope to have fun sharing my story but also help you find your story.
Some of us make career/life changes on purpose and some of us- ok MOST of us- find ourselves reacting to changes made by other people. Thats ok! I've done both and that's what this is really about.
Each time I post I want to ask YOU a question. it doesn't have to be a lifechanger in itself. Let it roll around in your head with all the other craziness in your day and lets see what happens!
So here we go!
Today I woke up, walked my dog and got ready for work.
Im a self-employed hairstylist, part time dog walker, part time petsitter, once a week housekeeper, slowly starting a marketing biz with a friend, selling ads and helping market a start up mag called Scalawag, and I design and sew reusable grocery totes called live your ideals, AND i just started clio and matty with a friend- designing and sewing baby blankets, burpees and bibs. seriously.
Slight contrast from my original CAREER PATH!
I was a hairstylists who became a trainer, manager, marketer, mentor and hair salon jack of all trades. I LOVED IT. Until I finally got everything I wanted in my career at one time. HORRIBLE. How did I get here? What just happened?!
Don't worry I'll fill you in on details later but suffice it to say- it didn't last.
BOOM!
so in short -that's the day when the rest of the story started. I didn't get me off of my ass all at once but I've really grown and that's why the question today is "did you do anything YOU wanted today?" I did!
also just for fun i want to share little moments that i now enjoy (instead of totally miss or freak out about) and they're probably totally unrelated to the rest of my story hahahaha ;-)
*one day i was doing my dog walking job and i could see and hear a man ranting. he was clearly not in the same world as me ;-) As we got closer i realized he was standing on a landscaping rock and TOTALLY babbling UNTIL i got there. He turns his head and looks straight at me and yells" hey white lady! i need fourteen dollars for a slice a cheese"... Yep. Ok gotta go. The dogs didn't even notice so i figured this is the new me. never would have seen that in a huge salon at Polaris Mall...
I want to share this wild, sometimes fast sometimes slow, career/life ride I've been on for 24 yrs. I hope to have fun sharing my story but also help you find your story.
Some of us make career/life changes on purpose and some of us- ok MOST of us- find ourselves reacting to changes made by other people. Thats ok! I've done both and that's what this is really about.
Each time I post I want to ask YOU a question. it doesn't have to be a lifechanger in itself. Let it roll around in your head with all the other craziness in your day and lets see what happens!
So here we go!
Today I woke up, walked my dog and got ready for work.
Im a self-employed hairstylist, part time dog walker, part time petsitter, once a week housekeeper, slowly starting a marketing biz with a friend, selling ads and helping market a start up mag called Scalawag, and I design and sew reusable grocery totes called live your ideals, AND i just started clio and matty with a friend- designing and sewing baby blankets, burpees and bibs. seriously.
Slight contrast from my original CAREER PATH!
I was a hairstylists who became a trainer, manager, marketer, mentor and hair salon jack of all trades. I LOVED IT. Until I finally got everything I wanted in my career at one time. HORRIBLE. How did I get here? What just happened?!
Don't worry I'll fill you in on details later but suffice it to say- it didn't last.
BOOM!
so in short -that's the day when the rest of the story started. I didn't get me off of my ass all at once but I've really grown and that's why the question today is "did you do anything YOU wanted today?" I did!
also just for fun i want to share little moments that i now enjoy (instead of totally miss or freak out about) and they're probably totally unrelated to the rest of my story hahahaha ;-)
*one day i was doing my dog walking job and i could see and hear a man ranting. he was clearly not in the same world as me ;-) As we got closer i realized he was standing on a landscaping rock and TOTALLY babbling UNTIL i got there. He turns his head and looks straight at me and yells" hey white lady! i need fourteen dollars for a slice a cheese"... Yep. Ok gotta go. The dogs didn't even notice so i figured this is the new me. never would have seen that in a huge salon at Polaris Mall...
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