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While I am designing and running a business it’s easy to lose track of time and sometimes even the perspective of what a customer is seeing online or on social media. To me, it can feel like my designs are old news and that things are not happening fast enough. Side note, I love how these newsletters have quickly become just a copy and paste from my notes app. So really, at this point, you’re just reading my personal thoughts about running a business, that for some reason, I then decide to share with hundreds of people.
Anyway, when I take a step back (and I am sure you could do the same exercise with any circumstance in your life) I see that people are still discovering the designs that I am making and that three years ago this business was literally just a thought I had in my lil’ old brain. Internet trends, social media and really most of the world move so f**** fast. It feels like you always need to be sprinting to keep up, but that is not the reality of the story or project in front of us. Instead, I think we all find better results when we slow down and enjoy the process that we are working so hard on. It feels a bit silly to rush into the manufacturing off all these designs that I have, when the reality is that I absolutely love the design process. I love researching materials and how I can incorporate details that other people may not have thought about- why would I rush my favorite part of the business I’ve worked so hard to create? Just to keep up with TikTok?! That’s insane. My sister and I were talking about how once our generation moves into higher rolls within the workplace, we think things will slow down a little and maybe we will even get a 4 day work week... (Sorry boomers, y’all just really emphasized that all we should do is work and I think we are over it (unless it was your parents that emphasized it?? (How did we get here?)))
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