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It’s About the Possibilities

As I prepare my mind to embark on a new week, I can’t help but feel a little overwhelmed not only at the things I must do this week, but more perplexed by the things that I wish to accomplish. Despite my strong desire to step out on a ledge and pursue a lofty goal my mind is telling me I can’t get it done. Not because I don’t have the time, but because my mind is singing the tune of fear of rejection and pending failure. I’m dreaming big and with big dreams come work, and with work comes discipline and to be honest at times I am more like the wayward disobedient child to the things that my mind tells me I can do.

Sitting down on Saturday evening I came across an article in MORE magazine written by Kathryn Stockett who is the author of the best seller The Help. In summary the author explains how she received nearly 60 rejections for her manuscript but she never gave up. She explained how she would lie to her husband and friends and would sneak off to hotels on the weekends so she could write. She felt the need to do so in an effort to not explain why after so many rejections she believed in her work and was going to keep  at it until somebody saw her vision.

I felt her on this. I find myself muting my dreams of growth for Divinitee and other business aspirations for fear of what some people might say..okay and setting out to do something and failing. FAILURE is a huge thing with me.

Out of the entire article the following passage spoke to me.

“The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of being rejected and put your manuscript-or painting, song, voice, dance moves, [insert passion here] – in the coffin that is your bedside drawer and close it for good. I guarantee you that it won’t take you anywhere. Or you could do what this writer did: Give in to your obsession instead. And if your friends make fun of you for chasing your dream, remember- just lie.”

On that note, I’m going to take a stab at it and if I have to lie to your face I will!

What will you set out to accomplish this week that fear says you can’t do? 

Have a great week!

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*Comes Out of Hiding*

I took a mini hiatus last week. Did ya miss me?

Last week I took a trial run at planning out my week, and trying to make quality time for family, blogging, entrepreneurial tasks and just plan out me time. In an effort to make sure the Mr. and my children are getting the time they need from me, I will not be on the computer from the hours of 3p-8p and the computer will be shut off at 11:30p daily. It’s going to be hard, but it must be done. With that new adjustment to my daily schedule, its no mystery that two things found themselves out of the loop and on the doorstep. Yep, you guessed right, blogging and “Me” time got straight dissed. This week, I am trying the same schedule but seeing that I don’t have 3 weeks of laundry to wash and fold, blogging is now back in my life.

Yes! Three weeks of laundry. I’m not really sure how that happened. I tried to stay on top of it but….I was just washing the whites and hoping no one needed anything colored but the inevitable had to be done. Took me ALL week to get it under control.Other than laundry, I really began putting in time daily on my business and started the ball rolling on a few new things.  I am pleased with my progress…now if I can just keep it up.

 Race training is going well. I have been using the Couch to 5K app on my phone and even though I am on week 2 I see progress already. I have gotten an extra kick in the A&% to get out there, my blood pressure was 141/101 Saturday. *sigh*

I have gotten quite a number of new followers over the past few weeks. A warm HELLO, hugs and air smooches to you. Please don’t be a stranger!

For all of you with blogs, I will get around to reading and commenting eventually..Blame it on the laundry for my tardiness and lack of blog etiquette.

Last but most important, Audrey over at The Chronicles of a Future Wife is hosting a giveaway for a Divinitee shirt. Head over to her blog for the deets and enter to win. Thanks for your support.

See you tomorrow!

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A Week in the Life of.. You Might Need a “Drank” Edition

This week was pretty decent but for lack of better words I was just plain out ditzy. I’m not sure what was going on. But I found it to be rather hilarious.

The keyfob to unlock my door has been needing a new battery for quite some time. Well the other day the battery died and the doors wouldn’t unlock. I had a fit, started looking for the AAA card to have someone come unlock the door for me when I realized…uhhhh there is a key hole on the door that is used to manually stick the key in and turn. Gosh darnit and wouldn’t you know its main  purpose in life is to unlock the door. Technology has surely made the obvious invisible. 

 I go to Marshall’s and take the Mr.’s car. I come out out of the store and my heart starts racing. I’m looking up and down the parking lot, I’m walking around in circles in the middle of the street until it dawns on me that I didn’t drive my car, I drove his…and yes the children were with me.

I’m cooking a recipe and it called for 1/8 tsp of Nutmeg. Well I only had the 1/4 measuring spoon. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out if 1/8 was smaller or larger than 1/4… As I type this I still don’t know. But lets just say the dish seemed extra nutmeg”y”. For all intensive purposes fractions have never been my thing.

I went to wash my hair and couldn’t find the shampoo. Looked high and low, never washed my hair only to realize it was hiding between the shower curtain and the liner.

Having yet to learn my lesson, I go to the store without a list and purchase a third bottle of bleach.

In other news:

Baby starting standing this week. *wahhhhhhhhhhh* I don’t want her to grow up. However it is so much fun to see her discover new things…most of which go in her mouth.

I got some major things accomplished with Divinitee. I am still in major need of capital so I’mma get real creative. I’m about to sell all of this baby “stuff” around her and with the proceeds standing as business capital I hope to start a small amount of inventory. The response has been growing and although my initial plan was not to keep inventory it seems there is no way around it. Who needs an investor when you have a daycare center worth of baby swings, Bumbos, bouncey seats…..laying around.

The weather here has been the PITS. Raining and cold not to mention the hail and awful thunderstorms we had for like three days straight. AWFUL. Messed up my running schedule but I did manage to get in 3 days. I got my number to run in the annual Peachtree Road Race which will take place on July 4. I am one of 60K and nearly 2K were not taken..I feel speeeeecial about that. Now I really have good reason to get out and run. I start the Couch to 10K training program TODAY.

Enough of my madness. How was your week? Do share your ditzy moments from the past week…please!

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Fab Mama Business Advice…Take 1

So, we all know I am embarking on a path of mompreneurship and I promised that I would share my experiences with you. Hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and triumphs in your own ventures. Look at the tag line of my blog header…”the rants and raves of a fab mom”. Well today you get a rant..wanna hear it? Here it go.

Prior to relaunching my website I did a TON of research on the vendors that I would need to collaborate with to fulfill my shirt orders. I narrowed down my options and decided to work with two vendors. One as a primary and one as a back up. I met with each, and specifically laid out what I needed from them and how the order flow would go upon receiving orders. Both were onboard and I felt confident in their abilities to meet Divinitee’s demands.

Fast forward. At the beginning of last week, I submitted a request to my primary vendor to have a couple dozen shirts printed to fulfill orders that I recived. Request submitted, no response. I call to follow up and I am told that they are behind due to the ice storm that hit our area. Understandable, I was then told that it would be the beginning of this week before the order could be started. I told them fine, I would check with my secondary vendor to see what their timeline was looking like and get back with them regarding whether I would need for them to proceed on the order.

I reach out to the second vendor, and just as luck would have it the secondary vendor is also behind and will not be able to get to printing right away. ARGHHHHHHH!!!!! Are you kidding me. I know this is a situation beyond their control based on the weather but my goodness. I can’t help but think at this point what was the purpose of the secondary vendor. I know I am probably being a little dramatic, but I pride myself in doing things the right way and I have surely gotten off to a less than stellar start out of the gate.

As disappointed as I am, I am learning to deal with each obstacle as they come and I have decided to refund all orders that were made and send the customers free shirts because I was not able to uphold my promise of having their shirts mailed within 5 to 7 business days. I only think that is fair and can only hope that their initial experience with my company won’t leave a bad taste in their mouth.

Basically all of the above can be summarized as..Make sure your backup has a backup..Got it? Good!! That was on the house, I might have to charge you next time!

As a customer would you be satisfied with my remedy to the situation?

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