Yes, you read that correctly! It is a new year for me, at least that is how my mind works in my business.
So I interpret my years and work differently, than most I’m sure. I guess it’s contributed to the fact that even when I started was about this time in 2019 when I acquired the business. Summertime is a pretty slow time for I guess the flower shop industry so that’s my downtime. I utilize that to do a complete spring clean and an over hall of the shop. I clean out anything that is unnecessary or re-organize my workspace, re -set the front shop.
When I acquired the shop, the previous owners informed me of what was to come, not just tips and trick but what the work load looks like in a normal year. (Although I barely have experienced a normal year). They mentioned that it was a good timeframe to learn the business because as summer approaches, it does slow down and then school starts back up and certain occasions that come with fall that comes with work. It slowly builds up to being busier for me and it slowly just keeps going as a stair-stepper and slowly building on as we get closer throughout the seasons in the months in the year. So mentally I would need to start prepping and preparing for homecoming. This will be my second official homecoming. Any previous homecomings I had before last year was put on through the students and I did not see demand for corsages and boutonnieres when the children put together their own event. The schools still had Covid restrictions, so I did not have the typical school functions for my first three years. So last year was our first official Homecoming for our school and I learned a lot in my last prom which was probably the busiest that I can recall being for a corsages. I want to take what I learned and what I messed up on and do better. I have been fortunate enough to be busy over Christmas as well, so I find ways to prep the best way I can. I worked many, many long days during Christmas, despite wanting to b e home with my family and kids but I live by the saying “when the going gets going, so do I”. I go into that knowing what I’ve learned in the past couple years and feeling like there’s things that I can correct and make better and I plan to. Of course the next big holiday would be Valentine’s Day and so that’s why I look at it as a new year that starts for me in August. Most people have December and Christmas to in their calendar year as the big holiday and celebration that can consume that time frame and money; for me Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day is my highest point and my priority I work towards. Anything after that is a slow walk down the mountaintop. Anything after Mother’s Day is kind of a slow incline down, mentally and physically. I go into August preparing and mentally planning for each season and how I can make it better; and what can I do to change some of the things that I did previously that I did wrong, or made things harder on me.
So I am preparing and ready for this new year and any new challenges, because honestly there is no other options.
Failure is not an option for me and my business
