This has been an incredibly fun week!

Also a little extra intense week, I must say, which you may have indirectly noticed already because I did not have time to blog as regularly as usual. But then it gets huh sometimes!

But today I will just be free and hang out at home in the garden, you must not forget your health - I have been extra reminded of this this week :) ♥

Lots of customers and Saturday jobs!
There is a lot of pressure on the salon now before the summer which is so much fun !!

I have had an unusual number of customers, 16 and about 11 hours in a week is not so much for those who only work with customers but for me who mainly works with other things and takes customers "on the side", it has become intense :)

When I came home from work yesterday (I worked at the salon again on Saturday) I was really completely exhausted. After a pizza dinner in the sun, I then took a bath and worked with the computer in the bath while the hair wrapping seemed haha.

No we do not have a direct fancy bathroom haha, with silver tape on the bathtub edge, rusty pipes and a laundry basket upside down as a computer table. But it's good enough for little me!

Summer salon - Planning and preparation
We are making our waiting room a summer oasis! Deadline is May 31 when we have our summer event but we will have that styling all summer.

Among other things, we have ordered artificial grass to be rolled out and palm trees, plants and hanging plants in plastic that came this week!

Here are Annika and Miska who have just started unpacking the first delivery with stuff, so fun to go all in! We will ev. buy a small waterfall too :) Next week you will see more because then we will have had our summer event!

Meeting with Disruptive Materials
I was so happy when Paiam who is "sales director" at Disruptive Materials came to the salon with a bottle of bubbly as a thank you for all I have helped them with, so good!

We had a meeting and sat and talked for an hour, now they are starting to get so far in development that things go under secrecy so I can unfortunately not say much more. BUT I can say that the plans have changed a bit and I have been extremely pissed after the meeting!

Continuation follows, I must say;)

That a small gesture can do so much! As an entrepreneur, it is my job to make others understand and feel how important they are, so you are not spoiled by being the one who gets appreciation, I was so happy :)

Beauty Brunch with Lina Ekh & Silja Line
When I was invited to this event which started with the words "You are a strong entrepreneur that we like - therefore you deserve a break!" so I thought - "yes I actually do" haha!

Lina who is a makeup artist and runs the beauty blog Makeupbylina held a Beauty Brunch together with Silja Line with a focus on well-being. I really have to give credit to Lina for this event, so good in so many ways!

A while ago, Lina wrote the blog post "Good girl - Thoughts of burnout”Who was very divided and was then contacted by Silja Line where they highlighted the problem and how important it is to take a break and take care of themselves.

I took less photos than usual because I really tried to be in the present (that was a bit of the theme haha) in addition, they had a photographer on site who yesterday emailed out the photos (perfect timing!) So instead you get real professional photos from the event which is photographed by the photographer Kajsa Göransson :)

While waiting to go on the Silja Line boat! :)

Jannike Viola, Tove Castor and I!

The day started with everyone getting a bathrobe with their name on it and then we changed into swimwear!

Lina started the event by saying "everyone we have invited is hand-picked because you talented entrepreneurs who work hard and make a difference in the industry and therefore deserve a break!".

So go ♥ I feel really honored that I was one of these guests, it was not just people who work in beauty who were invited. Being among all these awesome people and being one of them feels very nice!

Lina also highlighted that a large part of why stress is so great in society today is due to the mobile phone - therefore the event started at Silja Line's spa department with a mobile ban!

It looks like I'm sitting and laughing to myself but Helene sitting there behind actually haha :) This was just before they told us to put down the mobiles.

So in my opinion this mobile ban was a success!

1. First, you let go of the stress of taking photos and filming all the nice and wonderful things that you otherwise want to show directly on social media. Because it was really magical among all the whirlpools, we sat outside and ate fruit in the sun out on the deck and everyone was so happy!

2. They started talking to each other in a completely different way, partly because they lived in the present but also because everyone was an entrepreneur and had so much in common around this with stress and performance. So it was not difficult to find topics of conversation directly, even though you mostly floated away and talked about other things of course :)

I do not have that hard to let go of the phone at home actually, but still got a thought about how nice it was that No was working on the phone. It was not only that I lived in the present but also that there were people around me who did it too!

Here we sit and just have it so sick nice! We talked about various beauty treatments, were inspired by "do it yourself stuff" by Dnilva and that both me and Mariette are brutal snoozers while Frida do not even sound the alarm :)

Then we moved towards the lunch restaurant where Lina herself shared her story. WOW what a powerful story about when the good-girl-lifestyle can go crazy too far. It is really important not to run out of yourself, if you do not have the health with you, the career loses all its meaning.

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I really felt so pampered at this event! Went home with a really nice feeling in the body :) However, a less nice feeling in the fingers:

So the goodie bag !! In addition to lots of nice products, the goodie bag also contained a cruise with Deluxe cabin and breakfast AND you got the bathrobe in terry with your name on it - which I have planned to buy because we built a sauna at home and I really needed one :)

If you want to see more pictures, Lina has published them all in a blog post from the day that you can read here!

My energy is precious
I just have to add one thing that I was thinking about when Lina spoke.

Lina not only highlighted the problem of stress, pressure and mental illness but also tips, advice and keys for how to minimize stress and the risk of wearing yourself out. One of the tips was to hang out with people who give you energy and dare to say no to all friends who do not.

In an episode of the Shulman Show podcast with Isabella Löwengrip, she told me about how precious her energy is and I was so inspired! Isabella was a bit over the top at this point haha but that mindset that you should not waste your energy is so heavenly good. And energy does not just mean that one do things - but also everything you see, hear people tell, conflicts etc. Or to pick up the phone 250 times in one day;)

In Lina's blog post from the event, she has posted all the keys she told us about. You can read them here.

See your energy as a watering can and that you should only water where you want it to be green! Sounded like a cliché but I came up with it myself just at the time of writing, I think, otherwise subconsciously stolen;)

Playing photographer again!
Last week we photographed teeth whitening pictures and this week it was time again with beard pictures!

Annika's friend posed as a model, our barber Niclas fixed his beard, I fixed my eyebrows and then I took photos both inside the salon and outside by a motorcycle :)

I love photography, it's so much fun that we all make our own commercials!

So my photo posture, ergonomic and good haha! There were a lot of good pictures, I have gone through them and selected the best ones but have not had time to edit yet :)

My computer is being repaired
Last Wednesday I handed in my computer for troubleshooting and hopefully repair I thought but they did not find the error so it cost me 600 SEK for nothing. But they would replace the screen for free (you apparently get it if the computer is less than 4 years old and has worn glass) so it was nice in any case.

In the meantime, I have borrowed Annika's computer. Easy to do, you might think, but when you have all your work and routines on one computer, it's not just about borrowing another and starting work as usual in a second. I first had to transfer all the pictures, templates and stuff I work with + shared dropbox folders and things that are connected here and there. Then little things like that her Photoshop does not look exactly the same as mine, etc. Everything just takes time!

But it has gone well in any case, I could not show the metrics when we had a hug meeting for that document I had missed and some such little things that I had to solve afterwards. But no major disasters :)

However, I was not prepared for the fact that it would be emotionally difficult to leave the computer! But I have been using it constantly for 3 years now, I work at it and then when I go to sleep it rocks me to sleep with Netflix;) It is never turned off!

So in conclusion, I want to wish everyone an incredibly nice Sunday and remember not to waste your energy, take a break, put away your mobile and remember that you are the best!

Hug ♥