Making mistakes and making money - a micro business update
I've been making mistakes and money in January. We all make mistakes right?! I'm all for correcting them as fast as possible. After an end of the month business meeting with my husband last night, I'm ready to share my mistakes with you and what changes I'm planning to make as I go forward.
If you're not familiar with my business yet, you can learn more here
Making mistakes
If you are going, "Wait, why is @frugallady posting a business update, what happened to @quiethearts?" Then you have already located my first mistake. I've been struggling with where to put most of my efforts. This past week I had the week off between my exams and beginning my master thesis. I spent that week evaluating, planning and praying. I currently have a Pinterest affiliate marketing business but what I really want is for that to be a small part of an overarching ministry. I've tried new things in January and I've learned so much from them, including that some of them were mistakes.
For a while, I thought my ministry would live at @quiethearts. The more I've prayed about it the less sure I became. Then at the business meeting last night, the final nail was put in @quiethearts' coffin.
Dreaming big
This past week has been full of me dreaming big. I follow a business mentor (not a spiritual mentor, we differ a lot in that area), Lisa Jacobs, who always says what would you do if you knew you could not fail? I spent last week answering that and I have a pretty clear idea now.
That idea is based more on a traditional blog, maybe even with a podcast if I can get over speaking English in public. There are a lot of facets to my dream and it will slowly evolve and change, but overall, as the technology stands right now, Steemit is not a good home for it.
I'm not leaving
As I'm writing this I'm procrastinating (ahem, taking a break) on my first day of thesis writing. I'm not leaving Steemit but I am limiting my commitments. I made promises to myself more than anyone else of what I would do here and those promises are not a good fit with my dreams. They are stealing me away from the work that matters the most to me.
Your Daily Verse is moving back
One of the commitments I will be keeping up with is Your Daily Verse. I get so much joy from it. To be honest, sharing it on @quiethearts just wasn't the same. I know it takes time to build up, but it just didn't sit right with me. So that was another mistake. I'll be doing an official moving post soon.
Making money!
This is not a full income report, but for those of you who are curious, I wanted to let you know that the business is working surprisingly well.
I reached the €100 payment threshold late on January 31st or early on February 1st. Since then it has really taken off and I'm now well on my way to getting a big payout on the 20th of March. Here are my current stats:
Almost all of it is coming from a single pin and I'm a little afraid it will stop at some point. It would be very discouraging to go back to making €0.20 a day. I'm, however, extremely thankful for whatever I get, and I have plans to reinvest it all back into the business for the first €600 I make.
I'll be back
I'm mostly working behind the scenes on some stuff now not to mention that thesis I have to write. I'll be back soon though, with a moving post for YDV, a logo reveal and so much more.
As always, you can support my business easily by upvoting this post,
following me on Pinterest or simply by clicking here.
Until next time, keep your hands busy and your hearts quiet.
SO sorry @frugallady! Focusing on your thesis is important right now.
@quiethearts, steemit and all the other ventures you have planned will still be here when you come back.
Sending you blessings and words for a bright day!
Thank you. I will not leave :) I will just try to refocus where and how I spend my energy. I knew I had to do so at some point, it just came a lot faster than we thought with the Pinterest business taking off like that and opening doors with the income.
Thank you for sharing this, after all you can learn from others mistakes jusy as well as your own. I like that question, 'what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?' It's certainly food for thought.
Sometimes you have to prioritise and put things on hold, but hopefully those things can wait for you.
Yes! This is so true. I've learned so much from other's mistakes. I also think it's dishonest when people only show the 'oh I'm so amazing' side of things. I would much rather own up to my mistakes whenever possible and then move on.
If the things won't wait for us, they were most likely not meant to be part of our lives.