Re-inventing Myself Ah..Gain....

Tonight I am thinking all about the things I have done in my life. It seems things have never felt as stalled as they feel now.

I have started and run successful businesses, designed jewelry collections, taught college, been a life coach, adopted and, most importantly to me, been a mother.

I guess there is no more important thing in my life that I have ever done than raise up a decent human being, my daughter.

That season of her childhood is over. She is off at college and I'm having a delayed empty nest syndrome reaction.

After 10 years I'm not selling at fairs anymore at least for the time being. And I'm not wholesaling to stores anymore after many years of that too. I've started my Etsy store and am up to my eyeballs in photographing my work (learning to use the camera), writing descriptions, understanding how Etsy works, learning about web analytics and search engine optimization, learning the Mac and the PC....all at the same time.

It's a learning season...How to re-invent myself ah...gain for the umpteenth time in the midst of this rotten economy. I will not quit because I have no other choice but not to quit. But it sure is discouraging at times.

I'm used to asserting myself into whatever I attempt in life and having some modicum of success. But this time it's much harder. It is much slower. I'm not seeing results. I feel like I'm not moving forward.

Maybe it's still the most important thing that I demonstrate to my daughter how to thrive in adversity, how to be resourceful and creative when options seem to be nil.

Universe, hear me..... I will never never never never never never never never quit.

-Nanette