How Life Leads Us
Success Comes One Step at a Time
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED how life leads us in new directions when we least expect it? We get involved in one thing, sometimes accidentally, and before we know it, we’re off and running in a new direction. We find ourselves zigzagging here and there until one day—Viola!—we find exactly what we’ve been searching for.
A step in any new direction will automatically set in motion a chain of events that could change and enrich not only your life, but the lives of your family and friends as well. Without question, a serious involvement in any art or craft will lead you in surprising new directions. Many couples who began with just one of them producing art or crafts for sale are now working together full time. In some cases, whole families have gotten involved in a business activity based around mom or dad’s former hobby.
In observing so many home business owners through the years, both in and outside the crafts community, I’ve noticed that few of them end up in the same business they started. The reason for this is that we often don’t know what we can do until we actually get involved in something, and only then will we know what to do about the new ideas and opportunities that present themselves.
- Through experience in your moneymaking endeavor—whatever it happens to be—you will begin to learn your special strengths and weaknesses. You will suddenly discover talents and skills you’ve taken for granted, or didn’t even know you had.
- You will add excitement to your life because you’ll start meeting new people.
- The longer you work at producing and selling your products and services, the more you will understand the marketplace and your special place in it. This understanding will naturally spark ideas about new products or services you might sell, or new sideline businesses you might start.
If you haven’t already begun a new art or crafts venture, the important thing now is to just get started. Then you will gradually gravitate to this or that, learn some new lessons, expand your horizons and someday land in a place you can’t even imagine now.
In the SUCCESS STORIES category of this site I will be publishing stories of creative individuals I’ve featured in my books or have met since the books were published. Your success story would be of interest to me, too, so tell me about yourself and your accomplishments in an email, and I’ll get back to you. For ideas, read:
The Kathy Cisneros Success Story
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