Ever get the feeling you’re trying to do too many things all at once, but feel like you’re not doing anything?
Every morning I wake up, get my husbands coffee ready for him and out the door he goes, leaving me and the boys for the day. After he leaves, I get myself a cup of coffee and I set out for the laptop. My boys sleep until about 9AM or later leaving me with a good solid 2 hours of me time, time for me to either work on Etsy, my blog or just do household items, bills, email, grocery shopping.
I feel like my Etsy shop is slipping, the Etsy algorithm is so terrible lately that I’m losing my steam. I post daily on my Facebook page, but that’s getting old too. My friends have told me they see my posts days later, so again, the Facebook algorithm is not in my favor. I’m trying to learn so many new things so that I can help contribute to our bottom line but nothing seems to be working for me. I am part of NUMEROUS Facebook groups about selling, creating, the dreaded SEO, blogging, how to get out there and make 1,000 sales and everyone seems to be an expert. How are they making sales when I’m sitting here trying to figure out how to sell 50 items, halfway there but it’s taking forever, 5 1/2 months to be exact to get to 25 and most of the sales have been friends.
My goal is/was to spend the summer with my boys, which we are doing, but when they go back to school in August, I NEED to find something that will keep me going, something to entertain 4-6 hours of my day. I’ve entertained Virtual Assistant, finding a part-time work from home job or even getting out of the house for a 4 hour-ish job while they are in school. The problem… I watch all of the video, experts, FB posts about regular women doing the VA or part-time jobs and I feel like I have no experience to do them, I was in the insurance industry for 23 years with the same company. I am scared of the unknown, the new training that may be required, the thought of having to interview and put myself out there. I am the WORST interviewee (is that a word) out there, I get nervous, I turn red, I start to have a nervous laugh or completely zone out because I hate and I mean HATE talking about myself. I am an introvert, all of my friends are talkers, I’m the listener… how do you overcome that? You don’t, you accept that you are an introvert and do the best you can to put yourself out there.
What is this post about? Fear! Fear of the unknown, fear of putting yourself out there, fear of leaving the comfort of your home because that’s the safe place. I will read this post several times and I WILL put myself out there to find some form of work when my boys go out to school. I’m going to push harder on my Etsy business and start creating Christmas items, YIKES, Christmas items in July! I’m going to explore becoming a Virtual Assistant, so that I can make my own hours. I’m going to continue to blog about all of it, even if I have no followers. I will not give up and neither should you! Set goals, if they don’t work, change them up, come up with a new plan or maybe ride them out with a few tweaks… You can do this!
If you made it this far, THANK YOU! If you are in the same boat, leave a comment, it’s amazing how much better you will feel when you write it out or tell someone else what you are thinking / feeling.
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