MORE Magazine January 2017 | Page 42

It ’ s stationery , not stationary like tomato is not tamatah !
I was so internally excited to finally have an idea that could possibly earn me extra money , that immediatelyI , made conscious changes to my after work routine . I began coming home daily after work , preparing myself for the following work day , then spending the rest of my evenings on my computer creating stationerysets . I felt my designs were worthy enough for sale , and that again made me excited with optimism . All designs created went onto my flash drive , awaiting their order . I had no printer , lol .
While thinking of all the printing items i ’ d need , I made my list of priority purchases for my new business . Mentally , I was already robbing Peter to pay Paul , again . I set aside bill payments to accommodate my list of items needed for my stationery . All the while , creating stationery designs and posting them to my facebook page constantly .
With every design I ’ d create , my enthusiasm grew . I began to do overtime at work to earn the extra money I needed to be able to purchase printing items as quickly as possible . I clearly remember how tired I was while on my computer those evenings , but my financial desperations and business dreams were stronger than my exhaustion . I earned the money iI needed for a new printer and its necessities .
I walked past the mail that sat on my desk , knowing bills were due . I was still , physically on my way to buy my printing supplies . I prepared copies of the designs i ’ d created for sale and they were ready for immediate purchase , they sat there waiting . I stopped printing designs , I began to feel as if i ’ d wasted too much printing items on the sets that were still sitting , waiting for their purchase .
I fought the feelings of my designs not being good enough for sale . I fought the thoughts , I wasted a lot of time . I fought my constant imagination of how the money I spent on the printing items , could have paid a bill . My bills were sitting on my desk and like my stationery sets , they were sitting , waiting .