Progress and a Good Reminder

 This week’s reading included The E Myth again by Michael E. Gerber. One of the things that stuck out to me was working on your business instead of working in your business. I liked the point he made about making sure the company is serving you because your business is not your life. I sometimes feel like I am working in my company, that I’m beholden to it. It takes a good read every now and then to be reminded that it is supposed to be working for me. In the case of my flag company, I want it to become a franchise, as it mentions in the book. I think this would be a great compliment to the business-that it could be a franchise due to its processes and successes being duplicatable.
Another great read was Elder Wirthlin’s talk on Opening the Windows of Heaven. I know there are a few things to work on, for me, like learning to serve others. I know how to serve, I just don’t feel like doing it (and for right now in my life, I don’t have a lot of time to do it). I know that’s something I will focus on again when my school load is reduced in December. Learning how to do Family History in the summer has opened my eyes up to so many possibilities when it comes to serving others.
Progress on the $100 challenge is…challenging. I put the $20 into adwords with Google and I have already started to send traffic to my t-shirt site. I talked to some co-workers and they gave me some more shirt ideas. I’m considering creating a couple more graphics to increase my storefront. This way, when traffic is sent to the t-shirt store I have set up, there will be multiple options instead of just one. I talked to an entrepreneur last week about his t-shirt business. It was enlightening and I hope to use some of his ideas. I got my shirt in on Tuesday, and I’m not terribly satisfied with the output, so I might move the graphic over to a couple t-shirt sites this entrepreneur told me about. I think there might be higher profit margins at some of the others anyway. Other than that, I’m trucking on and learning as I go in this new venture.