Why it’s Important to Just Start
I’m sitting in my solid work chair, hunched over, squinting close to the monitor and trying to get the walls in Revit to snap together. I’m on hour 7 of recreating a 3D model of a building from its prehistoric floor plans and I’m thinking to myself “I should probably stand up now or I might keel over in this chair. The coffee is stale, the minimal sunlight is barely reaching my desk. I’m BLINDED by the old fluorescent lighting and my mind drifted to 15 years down the road. Listen, I think I got a few grey hairs at the end of my master’s program, but I think I saw myself completely grey haired in 15 years.
This is not the life I envisioned for myself.
I can’t believe it took me 30 years to actually realize I don’t want to be in an office for the rest of my life (especially not if the offices are going to just keep getting old and smelly). I yearn for natural lighting, music playing, laughter and movement. A gallery or studio space sounds WAY more appealing. It was this time last year I realized I wanted to venture off on my own and learn what it actually takes to run your own business.
We’ve all heard the saying - just do it or you’ll never do it, don’t wait until you’re ready because you’re never ready, I’ll start after… NO NO NO
Start now, fix along the way. I am living proof of this. I started my own LLC a few months ago without a solid plan. Yes, I had a rough road map but at the same time, I wanted to allow myself to figure it out and not be too rigid so I can embrace the twists and turns of starting off on my own. I submitted the papers to the Texas secretary, signed up for my own Google workspace and pleaded with Squarespace to give me my own domain & website. So far, so good. No regrets and I want this to serve as your sign to just start and fix along the way. You’ll learn way more doing it this way that to wait and plan out what you’re going to do. Especially if you’re going into uncharted territory, of course you’re not going to know what to prepare for and THERE IS NO USE in trying to exhaust yourself in trying to prepare for everything.
It’s day 10,950 since I became an artist and only day 56 of being a business owner. Follow along with me as we try to figure it out :)
