After one of the biggest holidays for a flower shop, it is understandable I would be tired, feel exhausted, feel sluggish, but defeated….. saddened, …… and disappointed in myself????
I know there are something’s I can not control in my business. I know I provide a great product and service, I am proud of everything I make and leaves my shop so being disappointed in myself maybe a self inflicted wound on my mental state but I can not help taking responsibility for everything and anything in my business, in my shop.
I had a lot of left over flowers after Valentine’s Day. I order the same as last year’s, in fact I order less roses. I remember feeling proud of that decision, feeling like it was completely reasonable considering I started last year’s valentine day with almost 250 rose stems, and by the end of that holiday I was sold out and exhausted. So with that experience, I thought order 250 less and then you will be done sooner, I was fortunate enough to sell my roses, but everything else felt like it was never even touched. How do you not see all that product and feel defeat? The loss, the expense, the waste….. in business all you see is your money, dollars being just soaking in water, that slowly disintegrates. I see my failure, my lack of experience, my poor choices, and the cost it cost me.
I feel defeated.
