A few years ago, I did an exercise in a business training that helped me to identify why I really love to do what I do, and my notes and progress from that exercise still are helping me to hone in on what really matters to me. I started with a basic question, then turned my answer into another question,
I talked about my pricing robots in my last Toolbox Tip on The Pricing Kit. A valuable time-saver, you won’t regret adding one to your tool arsenal. My pricing bots are thermal printers that only require thermal labels (they come by the roll) and the occasional recharging. An app on my phone runs the bot via bluetooth connection. One of
Walk with me step by step through painting this waterfall chest.
To feel childlike joy, the fastest way is to get your hands dirty. It’s proven science that getting your hands in the soil produces endorphins that make you feel joy. It may not be proven by science, but I get the same feeling from painting with my hands. It’s some fantastic medicine this time of year (February), when it’s too
I grew up farming. When I was a kid, I drove my parents crazy with my little “farmsteads.” I would gather rusty bits from the garage floor, out of the top crust of the dirt floor of the machine shed, or pilfered from the dregs of my dad’s scrap metal pile, which stretched along the wall in both directions outside
How important is a pricing kit? All of the tools in the toolbox are important, but I’ve never been so miserable as when I forgot to bring along my pricing kit to an event. That was a race to the nearest shop where we could get sharpies, sticky tags, cardstock, hole punch and twine. A basic list of needs: ***this
The best income tax return money I ever spent was on my toolbox. That probably sounds silly, but hear me out: I can’t live without it. Every time I go somewhere, I need my toolbox. Which means I have to have ALL the things inside it, and I have to load it before leaving, then unload it at my destination,
“And let us consider one another to prove unto love and to good works” ~Hebrews 10:24 Encourage fellow laborers. No matter what their labor is. Lift others up. I want to share a few remarks on weird stuff other vendors do that ends up preventing sales, how to not be that gal/guy, how to deal with people who think it’s
