Tag: life

Pain, its not my favorite word, but sadly it was the perfect word to describe last month. After weeks of pushing as hard as I could to prepare for the holiday rush, dreaming of what might be, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not one sale the entire month.

My heart sank into my shoes. After all that effort, pushing myself to the point where I was to exhausted to move which intensified my chronic nausea and the severity of my now daily migraines, I had actually taken a step backward, because at least the previous November, with only a handful of activity packs, I had made 1 sale. And now, with more than a dozen POD puzzles, sweatshirts, t-shirts, and mugs I had made nothing.It was hard to tell what was more painful, the severe ache in my head or the searing pain in my heart.

While I had done my best to remain cautious, repeatedly reminding myself that even though I had slightly more than doubled my listings from the previous year, my selection of listings was still to low to expect hundreds of dollars worth of sales. Yet even though I knew there was no real hope of making a couple of 100 sales, considering that a few months earlier in the middle of quarter 3 I had made 8 sales, with the over 2 dozen listings I had added since then combined with the holiday rush, surely I should be able to double that number. Or so I thought.I wish I could say that the month of December proved to be kinder, but so far I have gotten a grand total of 1 sale where last year I at least had 3.

So enjoy this short acrostic poem about pain. And hopefully, if you were to chose a poem describing your last few weeks, words like cheer, joy, and success would be the words that best fit your experience.

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