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I'm not a New Year's Resolution maker - never have been. It seems silly. A year is such a long time and also such a short time. Which resolutions really fit that time frame? Many of the things I want to change about myself or the way I function will take far longer than a year. Others could be accomplished in an hour, a day, a week... And who decided that January 1 is the right time to begin them?
That said, as I was pulling together my expense sheets for EarthyMamaGoods for 2011 and assembling invoices and whatnot to file my 2011 sales taxes I had some thoughts rush through my head. Goals, objectives, concepts, inspiration all flowed. If someone wanted to call them New Year's resolutions they could. I won't. It was a nice quiet time before the girls woke up. I was relaxed, happy, productive.
I'm definitely keeping the business. It's growing and it provides me with a great deal of satisfaction. I love, love, love the creative outlet. It's more than love, really. It's a need. I have to create and the business gives me an outlet. There just isn't enough space in our little home for all of the toys I want to create. I haven't enough shelf space for all of the sculptures that are inside my heart and head waiting to be sculpted. I need other homes for them.
It also fills another need for me. When I was out in the world of work heading up a career center, supervising employees, counseling college students, networking with employers, and partnering with faculty I received a great deal of feedback. I knew I was accomplishing something. Now as a wife and mother I can also see that I'm accomplishing something and I receive daily feedback - both positive and negative - about my work. But it's not as tangible as running a business. There are no spreadsheets to show me if my daughters characters' are developing properly. And their accomplishments belong to THEM. Yes, I worked hard to assist, but it's not my achievement. They are they and I am I. With the business I'm not just facilitating, assisting, mentoring. The accomplishments (and failures) are MINE. Mine to own, mine to crow about, mine to realize.
I finally understood this morning that the business fulfills a need I hadn't previously recognized as unmet. And I like meeting that need.
So how about you? Do you set New Year's Resolutions?
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