BlogHide Resteemsselfemployedblog (25)in business • 2 years agoFailure at business, failure at lifeWell, last post was two months ago saying I hadn’t posted for a month. How dumb am I? I finally advertise my business and it doesn’t bring in any noticeable rise in sales. Here I was worried about…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSelf employed blog / bookstore / self motivationWell, it’s been about a month since I last made a post. Either I am depressed and have no motivation to make a post or if I have the energy I don’t want to use it here. Maybe I should try and write…selfemployedblog (25)in blog • 3 years agoSelf employed blog / bookstore April 21, 2022Yesterday felt like garbage and didn’t get anything done. Today feel a little better but had a late start. Desperately need to get these books organized. This needs to be priority one. 40% of…selfemployedblog (25)in bookstore • 3 years agoSelf employed blog / used bookstore / depressionWell, it’s been a while since I posted. It seems like there is a direct correlation between how often I post and how motivated I am to work on the business. I even knew this would probably happen…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSelf employed failure / bookstoreLooks like how often I post is directly related to how motivated I am at work. When I am motivated I seem to forget what it’s like to be depressed and unmotivated. That’s where I have been the last…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationHad three book customers today. Going to need more that that to stay in business. Seven bookshelves to sort through still, yesterday it was at 14. Really need that space in the back I keep talking…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / self motivation / four weeksFour weeks in and I have kept my slacking off to a minimum. Sometimes I have written on here longer than I should and sometimes I get distracted on Reddit, but for the most part I have put in four…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationPurchased more books today, probably not the best idea considering how few I have sold. Made a listing on Facebook Marketplace and listed it in ten groups or so, seemed to get a fair amount of…selfemployedblog (25)in blog • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationLooking back at this past year I can’t believe how lazy I was. Maybe it was more depression than being lazy, but I don’t want that to be an excuse. I am worried when I run out of gas I will go back…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business bold / bookstore / self motivationI wonder if I should put an overall summary here or not each day. Probably not necessary at this point. The general idea though is I have a bookstore in the making and 10,000 books I am trying to…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationToday has been a “just try to sort things” day. Biographies here, poetry there. Still pretty sure unsure about whether this is the best way to go. Figure I can at least sort out fiction from…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / opening a bookstore / self motivation / 21 days inIt looks like my post 21 days ago was when I decided to rearrange the store. I hope this blog is working because generally I have stayed on track. I might still spend too much time on the Internet…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore/ self motivationFor anyone that hasn’t been reading the old posts, I took on the books from a used bookstore that closed and I am trying to start a bookstore with them. I have troubles with self motivation so the…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / starting a bookstore / self motivationI think Friday was a fairly successful day. I decided to start sorting books by category. I probably need to go to Half Price Books and see how they do things. I am already struggling though how…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / self motivation / bookstore organization / 2/11/22Well, I thought I had a good plan for organization, I mixed up two numbers though so I thought I had everything lining up perfectly and now it’s not. I can probably still take things one step at a…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationYou could probably consider yesterday a success. I still spent too much time writing on here, probably took too many Internet breaks, too much time shoveling snow. Still, most of the time was spent…selfemployedblog (25)in blog • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore/ organization / self motivationToday was a partial success. I spent some time breaking apart snow and ice rather than actually working. Otherwise I cleared out enough space in the back to build the shelves I want to build…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / self motivation / bookstore / roadblocksWell, I figured I would get to this point at some time and I think I am there. I spent hours over the weekend thinking how best to configure things. One of the main things I planned was to clean out…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / bookstore / self motivationNot sure why I am writing this today. I purchased wood to make bookshelves but when they are all assembled they will be pretty heavy so I will need to assemble at the store. It’s pretty sad but I…selfemployedblog (25)in small • 3 years agoSmall business blog / self motivation / organization / opening a bookstoreYesterday I went a little overboard on trying to come up with an optimal bookstore / bookshelf organization plan. Already I have new ideas in my head. As I mentioned this will be part bookstore part…