When I think back on this week, I basically only see my to-do list in front of me haha.

As I wrote about mine last business week then there was full focus on our kickoff. This week, the focus has instead been on grabbing all the things that had to be put aside during the time I planned the kickoff day :)

One non-priority thing a day
When the schedule is full, there are a lot of things that are never checked by the to-do list because they are never urgent enough. Nääär will I have so little to do that my uncleaned drawers in the office or my full memory in iCloud is first on the prio list?

The answer to that question - it will never be a priority so you can just as well grab it at once;) The boxes I grabbed a long time ago but this with iCloud has caught up with me and now that my mobile basically became completely useless, it certainly became urgent in the end.

CHECK on that point I can at least say now! Like a stone that fell from my shoulders!

Today's lesson - A non-priority thing a day is good for tomorrow haha. As an entrepreneur, you have to be good at prioritizing, they say, but that does not necessarily mean that it is always the most urgent things that should be first on the prio list.

Salaries
New month for me means two things:
Kuul print out the reports and see how last month turned out!
2. Hjääälp what a very boring job that suddenly filled my to-do list!

And one of the boring things to do is pay. Oh, oh, there is something less inspiring than sitting down with everyone's hours, naps, holidays and company here and there. It is not difficult at all but very time consuming and so boring haha! We are a lot of people at the salon to keep an eye on now :)

But if I am to be a little open on the financial front, then my first 3 years with the company (when I was alone and working from home, almost immediately after the student) I did not take out a single penny in salary but lived only on saved money. And since we opened the salon 2 years ago, I have only taken out so that I can manage - which is very little as you become extremely good at living poor (but with good living conditions) when you have never had money;)

So something that makes salaries a little more fun now is that I have been able to start collecting salaries and suddenly my name is among all salary specifications! So you know how wonderful it feels? I'm definitely not money driven in life, but there is a limit to how long you can put your soul into something and just live on it being fun. Last year, I kind of did not have to pay tax because I ended up below that 18,000 kronor limit haha.

Work from home
I decided to work from home for two days and just graze on stuff. In addition to my constantly long to do list, I always have a lot to do at the end of each month, such as salaries, reports, invoices, statistics.

I love working at the salon but get so much done when I'm home. Avoid travel time to Uppsala and sit completely undisturbed from morning to evening. I get so extremely focused then and when Miska said he was going to a friend after work, I continued to work equally focused all evening. The brain is completely pie afterwards but the soul feels so good haha!

At the same time, I have got an outlet for my creative and social side as I had a lot of bookings when I was at the salon, which is great fun. Especially last Friday when almost all makeup artists were at the Skin & Cosmetics Fair 2017, so fun for them to do something inspiring and fun together, while I kept the positions in the salon :)

Quite simply a really good mix of brain and heart this week!

One of the things I have not had time for in a while is to cut together all the before and after pictures from treatments at the salon, which I have been sitting with a lot now. It's so much fun to show off on social media! Here is an example of a great makeover that my colleagues have done:

1. Pick and color of eyebrows
2. Permanent eyelash (lash lift) and lash color
3. Lashliner (narrow eyeliner) permanent makeup / cosmetic tattoo

Here you see her transformation, before, after lashes and eyebrows and then after the eyeliner tattoo. How nice!

If you want to book an appointment with us, you can do so online on our website Creativemakeup.se :)

Hope your week has been as good as mine! Have a nice Sunday :)

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