My business week v. 18

There are few weeks that have passed as fast as this, is it already Sunday and a whole week into May? :)

Visions & sort their plans in writing
Last Sunday I had a really cozy and much needed job while setting the tone for the whole coming week in fact!

The sun shone on our glazed terrace and Miska painted paintings and listened to happy, Spanish music. There I sat with the computer and a cup of coffee and took the opportunity to write about myself. I wrote a document, a list to be exact, entitled "Visions". And by that I do not mean a whole goal picture but more what I have for vision for different projects, and then a little overview to-do points under it.

I want to be as productive as possible but it felt a bit like I had a tangled ball of yarn with all our plans and ideas in my head that I just needed to sort into one and the same common thread :)

And you know what? It was so liberating! Nothing was new in any way but just the feeling of having everything in front of you, it sort of goes from being abstract to something concrete that you can more easily grasp and focus on as well.

Here is the beginning of my vision list if you want to make your own and have a picture of how to post it :)

The most important thing when making a vision list like this is that you are in the right fashion in terms of energy, and I really was with this vision next to me! :)

Quiet week at the salon
Since last week was very intense at the salon with fully booked and lots of customers, this week feels incredibly quiet in comparison.

Olga, who works most of all makeup artists, has a holiday, which is immediately noticeable in the make-up studio. Tuesday was a red day (closed at the salon) and on Wednesday so many were free that I also opened up times for online booking so that customers could book in :)

As a private person, I can think that it felt nice, so calm and atmospheric. But as an entrepreneur, I want it to always be like last week!

On Thursday, Zahra got a cancellation in the morning, so then Miska and I only went to work around 11 o'clock and worked from home on the morning twig. We had the work phone with us so Miska was a receptionist at home on the couch hehe and I worked both at the computer (with Viktoria in her arms, she loved our home morning) and of course in the photo studio with step by step make-up as well. So luxurious!

Many streams small-stuff
When you have quiet weeks, it is important not to relax and enjoy the peace - if you are an entrepreneur then;) I have taken on lots of "little things" that are not prioritized when you have more important things to do.

There have been phone calls with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency back and forth, new small treatments to be included in booking systems and price lists, people to be emailed, answers to be awaited, schedules to be checked and changed, stuff to be purchased, decisions to be made, customers to to be contacted, product news to be fixed, etc.

I'm more into working on big projects, so there you go and lie down and pray "WOW what I have accomplished a lot today". You do not have such a feeling after a week like this right away, but at the same time you get a little more inner peace when you have been able to bend a lot of things! Things that are important to get rid of so that you can focus on 100% on your vision list;)

Here I sit and work in the evening in the kitchen around half past nine in the evening :)

Event-fix!
I will nag about this summer event only until it's done haha! But there is a lot to be done and I have taken on the role of event fixer so I feel a great responsibility for everything to be good and that everyone is involved and helps.

This week came our balloons that we have ordered! Wihoo! However, we had problems with the order and out of 1000 balloons, many had defective prints, that only half the logo is visible, type 40% of the balloons. We contacted the company that printed the balloons and do you know what they answer? They deduct the amount on the invoice, but we must send back those that are defective. So now we have to go through 1000 balloons and sort them out! Ain't nobody got time for that.

Hope our interns want to help us with that next week! :)

But those who are nice are nice! Beauty is wellness, it says on them :)

Tip! Reflections in Hanapee's Incredible Podcast
In the latest section "in phase with the wine list" of Hanapee's Incredible Podcast so Hanna reflected on this by resting after work and I just thought it was some nice reflections, for the sake of variety! :)

Many people that I listen to otherwise are either real career people who give all the tips to succeed, or they are people who went into the wall a long time ago and suffer a lot from mental illness. But here it was a little in between - a lot of work but also focus on resting!

Hanna talks about a lot of work with blogs, podcasts, collaborations etc., at the same time her permanent job is already a 100% service, at the same time she wants to hang out with friends, be a good girlfriend etc. And all that can be put together, BUT she also wants to have time rest. And by rest, she does not mean "be free and hang out with friends" but actually lie down in bed and watch a series.

I do not know how many of you readers have this problem, but I, like Hanna, have a job where you never finish the day. You can always do more, refine things, think about whether you should have done something better.

It was not much deeper than that, but I have written in previous business week posts that I can feel like a bad entrepreneur who does not work so that I get burned out, which is very skewed haha. I want to be a diligent entrepreneur who works 300% and who works instead of sleeping, but I am smart enough to know that this is not how I want to live actually and therefore stop before it becomes so :)

But it really is a balance and if anyone recognizes themselves in my thoughts I can recommend that episode and listen to Hanna!

Another way for me to relax, instead of movies and series, is to check out cute animals that have their own Instagram accounts haha! @Yves_the_cat is my new favorite, so heavenly cute! :) I just get happy with accounts like this! (Update: Instagram account seems deleted now! Must have happened right after I made the link, so scary!)

The hairology folder
In Quip, which is our communication system in the company, I have now compiled a folder with lots of hairology info! There are some new tips that I learned in the latest course that everyone should take part in, but also a lot of things that can be good to be able to look up when needed, e.g. exact mixtures for different scalp problems, etc.

I do not need to go into so much detail but there is a lot of info in several different documents and categories that I have collected in the new "Hairology folder", as a little school work almost haha!

Update with henna eyebrows
I wrote before that we ev. will start with henna eyebrows as a treatment at the salon! But as with everything we do, we put the stuff to the test properly first and now we are in step two of the testing. I have tested a lot at home and now I have taken the stuff to the salon so that the makeup artists can test and come up with a response as well.

This week I did not have much more to tell. It has been the end of the month so I have also sat lots with salaries, invoices, budget, statistics and the usual chores with it.

And so I checked off sick a lot from my to do list and ba breathed out before I went home from the salon last Friday and had just checked off the last thing on the to-do list, so nice!

But not all weeks can be just as rich in content either :)

Hugs are! ♥