Learning

I want to keep writing about my experience as I try to build a viable business as a designer/consultant/whatever. Right now I have a few big things I am trying to work through:

• I don’t have my stuff done. Like a web site, portfolio and business card. I really need to get them done, but it’s hard to put off client work to do your own stuff. Yet, if I would take the long view then it should be easy to see that they are more important. It’s easy to tell others to take the long view, not so easy when its you.
• Nothing moves as fast as you want it to. There are lots of projects I though i would have started and finished by now, but instead I am still waiting on people to decide if they want to do the project. Which is fine, but I have to learn how to schedule this sort of uncertainty
• There are three option yes, no, later. I told a lot of people I could not do their projects because I had two many projects going. I need to learn to asses timelines before I say no. There may be some of those projects that I could have done because they did not need them until later. I have to keep conversations going.