While it’s a cliché’ I know, I also
know it’s pretty easy to be focused on the bad things in your life. The things
that you perceive as preventing you from going the direct you desire or think
you should be going.
As a way to
prevent that I have spent the morning thinking about all the things that have
went my way this year. The things that show that my life is pretty great and
that while I may not have reached the goals that I put in my sights, I am still
doing pretty good.
My shop may
not be the giant space I would like, it’s far better than some of the shop
spaces I have had in the past. In Anchorage I had a 10x12 storage shed out
back, no heat, etc… I put up plastic sheeting on the walls in the dining room
space and used a shop vacuum to keep the dust down and turned there. Not ideal,
but it does make the heated space I have in my shop now seem a lot better when
used as a reference.
Now every time
I think to myself that I could sure use X or Y tool, I look around at all the
tools there and remember that many others are coming to my shop to use my
tools, and that I have been told I must have every tool already… (I don’t, but I can get things done).
My wood
working business has not taken off in the manner I wish it would, but it has
grown considerably over the last year. Much of the issue I know is from my lack
of pushing my work. From my own slacking on pushing my work and then after
that, pushing it even more.
I know that
if I don’t sell my stuff, than I can’t expect anyone else to do so. To that end, next year, well starting Now, I
will be pushing my own stuff more, to a variety of places and working on stock
piling product of a variety of types to show that I am serious about making
this work and become profitable.
