September just blew right past me, and October is doing the same.
We invested more than ever into our Art Outside booth this year but mother nature reminded everyone who’s most in charge of these events. The show was a rained out, muddy catastrophe to say the least, but we made it out unscathed and only lost a couple shirts to rain-damage. (That’s not to say, we’re out $1000’s in invested inventory and other costs.) This after the last two months of hard work creating the designs and the last couple days of skipping sleep entirely, it wasn’t what you’d expect, but I guess it also comes to show a level of contentment with one’s self to see that you can handle sticky situations like pushing the van out of the mud, picking yourself up after losing money you don’t have and still being a happy camper through the whole ordeal.
I made up my mind not too long ago and I’m making it my motto, “I can shovel shit with the best of them, and do it with a smile on my face.”
When you can, say, shovel a pile of animal dung and smile than you’re achieving something.
Your ability to smile at the hard things in life is your ultimate strength. When you smile at death, you then become limitless. It also comes from a place of appreciation. Knowing that things could be so much worse. You could be cleaning elephant dung! Let’s not even get on a list of all the worse things that could be happening, we don’t want to waste out attention…
Instead, I like to focus on whatever I can do in the present moment to feel good which is fine-tune my process. It always starts from within.
So what happens now? Well now, we bust even more ass. Hustle harder.
We have to re-coupe costs and we’re going to.
With that said, check out some new items that I just added to the shop and don’t be afraid to buy something that is sure to offer many years of good energy.