CONTROL FREAK!

For many years now I have realized my tendency to want to control too many things in my life. Recognizing the trait has been healthy for me. But it's causing me problems with my website.

I've lost a few orders because I took the tactic to drop ship my items rather than putting my cash on the shelf and risk not recovering it. If I did a financial analysis on that, I may decide that I should stock the inventory and liquidate what doesn't sell. But I'm not a "big boy" and not ready for that financially or mentally.

But getting an order and finding out my supplier didn't tell me they were out of stock for a month is a bit frustrating. Also frustrating is not being able to take more pictures of the items, expecially the antiques.

So what do I do? I take a big breath and let it out slowly. Then I make a mental note of the situation and sally forth. Someday I'll be in the position to make improvements to the business, I just can't do it today. You see? It's still under my control, isn't it?!