I write this feeling a tad overwhelmed by all the things I need to be doing.  It’s not like I don’t have time for them, I only work around thirty hours a week in the restaurant and I’ve no kids.

I do however have a serious problem with procrastination, whereby I put off til next year things I should really have done yesterday.

Right now, I should be working on the website for our business, I haven’t done a lot with adding new stock recently and that’s imperative if we’re gonna draw in more customers.

I should also be sorting out our new gift packaging, a job I’ve had on my  “Priority To Do List” for over a month now that is really important as regards us gaining more sales and respect and recognition for our brand.

I should be writing a few interesting blog-posts for the business, things that can attract more traffic to the website, boosting it’s overall ratings on Google, gaining more visibility for our business and ultimately leading to more sales.

These are all good important jobs I “should” be doing so I think it’s ok to be a little stern with myself when, instead of tackling one of them, I sit in front of my phone watching Youtube or scrolling through Instagram.

“You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”

When you’ve got #GOALS to achieve, you’ve got to put in the work as much as possible or they’re just daydreams.  It’s hard sometimes.  There are days I sit here typing away on the keyboard, tired and uninspired after a long day in the restaurant, wishing I could just switch off and curl up on the couch and watch TV.

But I get the work done (um, sometimes) because I have some discipline and some principles that I stick to like super-glue.  Currently those principles are my daily scribbling, consistent business Instagram posts and no-sugar-evenings.

It’s not quite good enough for my liking (probably not even the sun, the moon and the stars would satisfy my inner-perfectionist’s standards!) but it’s something and something is better than nothing.

Ciao darlings!

Lizzie xxxx