Musings with May Michaels
By May Michaels
Musings with May MichaelsNov 24, 2022
Finding (daily) Focus Within the Chaos
Part of being a creative person is that you do get pulled in all these different directions, right? You're always wanting to, like explore and that's where the beauty and the the creativity and the really unique, unique ideas come from right? It's when you can kind of play and let yourself get pulled in the different directions.
But then the problem that we have is that the things that we don't want to do kind of don't get done or we don't enjoy it, or it feels like a chore and then we're like why am I even running this business? Because this isn't fun to me anymore. Or, like, oh, we just get really stressed and things get really chaotic and especially at this time of year, where there's hits of markets or there's hits of events or there's like Black Friday and like just all of this stuff.
It's it's really hard to keep on top of it all as a one person show which most of you probably are. Which is a shame because I think a lot of the magic in small business does come from collaboration. But that's not always possible, right?
So anyway.. Here's a little strategy I teach, and use myself when there's a never ending to do list of random things that keep morphing into a bigger more chaotic task dragon... don't fight it... be it's friend. You know you wanna! But you gotta tame it right?
I hope you enjoy it, if you do let me know so I can give you more ramblings :)
5 easy tips to help you be less PASSIVE in business
Let’s talk about being less passive in business
I had two things happen in the last few days that stood out to me as times where we are too passive.
One of them was in a mentoring session recently, I had an artist saying that she had contacted heaps of galleries, heaps of potential stockists to have her work there by email, but she hadn’t heard from them. And she felt like she was a failure. She felt like they didn’t want what she was selling, that they didn’t like her stuff, that, you know, she wasn’t good enough. And I was like, Honey, that’s, that’s not what’s happening here.
The other example, or the other thing that happened was more about my business, I had some interactions with a larger business. And some things were not going the way that I thought that they would. And I just assumed that they didn’t like me. But on reaching out to them, I realized that it was a technical problem.
So that got me thinking about how many of us are WAY too passive in business and I did an Instagram live video with five tips on how to be less passive in business and get more out of your marketing endeavors.
And now i've converted it to a podcast, just for you!
Watch the video and read the tips at www.incube8r.com.au/be-less-passive-in-business/
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