The life of an Entrepreneur (the real deal)

After a restless night of not a lot of sleep and lots of worry I thought I'd share my feelings of working for myself. Now please keep in mind that yes, I have been a small business owner since 2004 but I have only recently left my "cush" full time job a bit over a year ago.

After working solely for myself, I now understand why people have always said how much they respect entrepreneurs. I get it!

Being a small business owner is the hardest thing I ever ever done in my short 32 years.

I'd also like to say that I do love what I do, I have always loved helping people and parties so I do have a fierce passion to keep my business going strong.

My Mother is also a small business owner (with a store front, that crazy lady!) and for years I just couldn't understand why we didn't get to see each other as much as I would have liked or that she just couldn't get away from the business. Mom, I know you love me more than the amazing store but I understand why you had to be there too! It just took me jumping into this whole crazy world of working for myself to truly get it.

Working for yourself is hard, it's scary and you learn how to live without really knowing when the next paycheck is coming. You can budget all you want for it, but life happens, things change and people flake.

On the positive side; I love being able to work where I want, in whatever clothes I want and with who I want. I am super lucky that my Clients are amazing and have respect and appreciation for what I do.

I have been teased my whole life about how optimistic, happy and cheerful I am and now I thank my lucky stars that I can find humor and the positive in everything. My mantra for the past year has been: "will it really matter in another year?" Typically the answer is no and quickly that follows a lot of laughter.

I am blessed to have a wonderful Husband, family and amazing friends who are there to cheer me on, listen to me, pick me up, dust me off, pour me a glass of wine and keep me on track. I couldn't have done all of this without them.

In short, being an Entrepreneur is all about not taking things too personally and rolling with the punches, loving what you do and showing it everyday (even when the punches can hurt a bit) ;-)