I have spent the last two years learning. After all these information that I have absorbed, and the trials and errors made, I feel that it is now time that I step up and play a bigger game. No more second-guessing myself, my abilities or my intentions. As it dawned on me that this is the new year of a new decade, I thought that the timing just couldn't have been more perfect. Where do I see myself at 10 years from now? After a reflection, I have chosen my word mantra for this year, to get my gears started and going. That word is ACTION. To take action in the parts of my life that will propel me to be where I see myself at 10 years from now.
I want to have a family and live in a beautiful and loving home. To be working on Styl full time, having built it up to the mini empire it has the potential to become. To have the freedom of time and the energy to play and create, explore and experience.
So, this blog will serve as a journal where I will share some of what will come out of taking action, particularly in the areas of my business and my craft. As I tweeted earlier, I was just reading 52 Weeks Of Blogging Your Passion by Tara Gentile, and it will be a great accompaniment to the year ahead. I hope that these stories may also be an inspiration to you in your own quest to reach your goals. I also hope to share with my customers the person and processes behind the craft.
To start off, these are three key things I have started taking action for:
1. Preparing for self-employment. I've already read and understood what I need to give the bureau and printed out the necessary papers. Now I have to understand what's written on the form, fill it out, and get the other necessary documents ready. They say it's a tedious and lengthy process here in Czech. Well, I'll just see it as something that's necessary that I have to go through. I hope by June I'd be all set. In the meantime, I'm saving the cash to see me through at least 3 months of not having a steady income. What I'm really looking forward to is to finally have the time to give full focus on my business. I'm sure that my clients and customers will be happier too, that I will be able to fully serve my purpose.
2. To have balance between food and exercise. Growing up I hated Phys Ed. I credit my ability to stay in shape over the last 12 years to a well-balanced Asian food diet and youth. Now that I live in a country where big-portioned fat-laden food are the norm, and I am none the younger, my body has taken a toll. I'm dealing with this in two ways. First is consciously knowing what goes into my body. Second is to step up on the exercise. I'm beginning to like it too.
3. Keeping good home. I'm living in rented rooms at the moment with housemates, not really the arrangement that I'd like to be in. I wanted to at least have an apartment of our own. But when I come to think of it, my dwelling is home after all, and Jirka is family. Sometimes all it needs is a simple mindset change.
I will finish this off with a quote. I can't remember where I heard it from, but here it is..
"To start you don't have to be good, but to be good you have to start."
So, start. Take action.
xox, Riz
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