Delightful Difficulties

I don't really have anything from the course work that seemed worthy to write about. However, I do want to talk about the message that Brother Beck gave about finding delight in the difficulties. I appreciated that announcement since my husband and I are dealing with some difficult and scary scenarios with our oldest who is 15 almost 16. She is making some not so good choices, that have caused me to ponder and step back and ask myself, "did we teach her everything she needs to know to withstand temptations and make the right choices?" I sure hope we did! BUT, in the meantime I can make sure there is some delight in the difficult moments with her and the rest of my children. I can make an effort for her (and the rest) to see what true happiness looks like, I can show love by serving her (even though I don't want to), I can take her out for dates and give her the opportunity to open up when she feels like she wants to. What I am trying to say is that I can hold her close in other ways so that if/when she makes mistakes, she knows I am here for her to fall on.

Taxes & Fees

What a week! I feel exhausted from looking into the tax, licensing and certification requirements for our business. I was kind of shocked to learn that there isn't any licensing or certification requirements. All you have to do is say you’re a life coach and be willing to put yourself out there and WA-la, you’re a life coach. When I was looking into the taxes I kind of spiraled and went down a rabbit hole with all the eventualities there will be if our business takes off...like we hope it does. For now, we are working on becoming an LLC and making sure that we keep our records for tax purposes. Since I am the money and finance person I will probably be saddled with that responsibility until we are large enough to hire a legit person so I better get cracking on learning the program, especially since we are already purchasing software, website domains, and paying fees for premium features and plugins we want.

I Feel Like I Am Bleeding

This week became really real that this website and our business is a legit thing. We purchased a domain last week, but this week we played around with adding a PayPal button to our site. I even connected a credit card and made a real purchase, to myself, and it went through. My sister and business partner is busy putting together FHE packets to add to our site to sell, and eventually we will have coaching classes and one-on-one sessions to offer. Working with WordPress has been a learning curve for me, which makes me so grateful for YouTube videos to quickly help me learn. Finally, one frustration for me this week was that it feels like every service/help wants their hand in your pocket. Like the small buttons for PayPal, if I want to enable multiple purchases instead a 'buy now' button the price per transaction is significantly higher. It just feels that small businesses bleed a lot of cash at the beginning, and the amount we are spending makes me really want this endeavor to work.

Our Mom, Our Legacy

This week got real real with the starting of making a website to sell a product for my business that I am starting with my sisters. We have felt the promptings to do this business since the passing of our Mom at the beginning of this year, but waited knowing that I was going to be taking this class and that it would be helpful for us young, inexperienced entrepreneurs. Our Mom was a woman full of love and acceptance, but also had a deep abiding testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She is our legacy and as we talked about the 'about us' section of our website that I am making, and what we wanted to put there, we were able to reminisce on her life and what we want to carry on. This week has been a hard one with missing her, but I know that she would be so very proud of the work we, as sisters, are about to embark on.