The year in review

            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.