Tagged: starting out

Let’s be clear — we aren’t Zen Habits. We take the long way around. We get unnecessarily stressed. We forget to simplify.

But we’re trying to change that.

This past month has been, well, insane. All of our down-time has been spent working: brainstorming, marketing, writing, researching, learning and designing. All at once. At a frantic, unsustainable pace.

We have been falling asleep in front of our computer screens, forgetting words in the English language, and basically burning ourselves out, day after day.

Our adventure might have sounded a bit like a vacation, but trust me, we have been trying to accomplish the nearly impossible: a truly organic, ethical clothing line.

At breakfast every day, our Guatemalan home-stay dad, Jose, would ask, “Are you girls going to conquer the world today?”

And we would enthusiastically reply, “Yep.” And every day, that’s what we would try to do.

We’ve been told that starting a business can take control of you. You want something so badly, that you start running towards success full-force. You work constantly. You stress. You can’t get away from it. You start to go a little loco.

Well, that’s not the lifestyle we want. We started all of this to change our lives for the better; to gain a greater world perspective, to learn things, and to enjoy a new experience. It’s time to take a pause before we start to really go loco.

So today, we’ve made a list of things to remember when life gets hectic:

• We run the business; the business doesn’t run us.

• Don’t sweat the small stuff.

• Most things aren’t as pertinent as we think they are.

• Whether we reach our launch goal next week, or in 6 months, it will come.

• Our relationships, health, and happiness come first.

• A number of events had to occur in both of our lives for us to embark on this adventure. Be grateful.

• We are more fortunate than we can comprehend.

You can find us brainstorming about our production process, at a leisurely pace, probably in a hammock, in San Juan del Sur. The journey is a beautiful thing. {r}

Let’s be clear — we aren’t Zen Habits. We take the long way around. We get unnecessarily stressed. We forget to simplify.

But we’re trying to change that.

This past month has been, well, insane. All of our down-time has been spent working: brainstorming, marketing, writing, researching, learning and designing. All at once. At a frantic, unsustainable pace.

We have been falling asleep in front of our computer screens, forgetting words in the English language, and basically burning ourselves out, day after day.

Our adventure might have sounded a bit like a vacation, but trust me, we have been trying to accomplish the nearly impossible: a truly organic, ethical clothing line.

At breakfast every day, our Guatemalan home-stay dad, Jose, would ask, “Are you girls going to conquer the world today?”

And we would enthusiastically reply, “Yep.” And every day, that’s what we would try to do.

We’ve been told that starting a business can take control of you. You want something so badly, that you start running towards success full-force. You work constantly. You stress. You can’t get away from it. You start to go a little loco.

Well, that’s not the lifestyle we want. We started all of this to change our lives for the better; to gain a greater world perspective, to learn things, and to enjoy a new experience. It’s time to take a pause before we start to really go loco.

So today, we’ve made a list of things to remember when life gets hectic:

• We run the business; the business doesn’t run us.

• Don’t sweat the small stuff.

• Most things aren’t as pertinent as we think they are.

• Whether we reach our launch goal next week, or in 6 months, it will come.

• Our relationships, health, and happiness come first.

• A number of events had to occur in both of our lives for us to embark on this adventure. Be grateful.

• We are more fortunate than we can comprehend.

You can find us brainstorming about our production process, at a leisurely pace, probably in a hammock, in San Juan del Sur. The journey is a beautiful thing. {r}