Supporting Dreams is Always a Good Investment!

My blog friend Erika Lee Sears is inspiring to me because she embodies the true meaning of Live Love Life Now™. She is a self-taught artist who took the leap of faith to leave the corporate world and pursue her dreams of painting full time.

And if that wasn’t enough, she has also created a kickstarter project in order to fund a two-week artist residency in Hong Kong! I am in full support of Erika and anyone else that goes after their dreams wholeheartedly and have pledged my support.

Perhaps you too will be inspired to help! Check out all the details here.

I Need A Vacation From My Vacation

The past five days in Vegas were awesome…and exhausting!

They also were productive and educational, which I think makes a pretty well rounded vacation.

My most notable accomplishments? See below:

1. I finalized and emailed my response.

2. I gave one of my products to my dad, which led to a lot of encouraging feedback and an invaluable discussion.

3. I learned how to play craps…which I subsequently became addicted to.

4. I won $142 playing slots!

5. I told my brothers about my business idea and received a lot of support and encouragement, which felt awesome!

That Wasn’t So Bad

Yesterday, I found the email response in my inbox.

I was equally excited and scared to death. So I gave myself fifteen minutes to procrastinate by deleting all of my spam emails.

Then I took a deep breath, told myself to grow a pair, and opened the email.

It was short and sweet:

“Jennifer – tell me about Live Love Life Now!! It sounds exciting!”

I’m not sure exactly what I had been expecting, but I took this message as a positive and encouraging sign. They had responded quickly to my inquiry and wanted to know more.

Now I just have to figure out what I’m going to say! It’s tricky to put into words something that is so personal to me. I haven’t had a lot of experience verbalizing my goals and intentions for the company and apparently I need some practice.

Looks like I’ll be getting that practice now!

Leap of Faith

I’m freaking out.

I just hit send on the first email putting Live Love Live Now™ “out there”.

GAAH!!! Now what??

I’m in unknown territory and it’s honestly freaking me out.

How long before I’ll hear back? What will they say? Will they be interested? Will they think my idea is dumb?

Since I’m offering up my first product as a way to fundraise, I think they’ll be interested. And in my gut I know that what I have to offer is well designed and well intentioned…

But what if they can’t tell all this from one little email?? ACK!!!

Okay, off to take a chill pill and relax. And to relish in the fact that I actually took the first jump off the cliff – this is momentous!

I’m not sure I’ll be able to sleep tonight; I’m so excited and nervous all at the same time!