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Couldn`t agree more!  How bout those "pocket shots" last night.  Giiiiideee up!

I am addicted to it!  and this is the first show I want to be on when I make it `slightly big`.   I do not want to be on Oprah...I want Donny D!   I have to Tivo it because I get so fired up at night I cannot sleep.    It is much better to watch in the morning then only my husband is home working and he can hear me downstairs whoopin and a hollerin`.   Then I talk his head off at lunchtime.  Love it Love it Love it.  

o.k.  talk to me, why r you feeling overwhelmed?    spit it out so we can help you!    Everybody has helped me thru my moments.

di

Holy Cow,

Ditto Ditto and Ditto.    I feell all of your pain.   

1.  which podcast I need to listen to it.  2.  I want to be designing clothes  and different tshirt designs.. Not gonna happen right now as there is too much else to do.   3.  I am the only one.  I am an island.   I am writing copy, taking photos both still and live for the website, pricing (again and again), trying to think about approaching retailers for wholesale order (scary) 4.  my website is late.  I was really upset about this.  It would have been great to have everybody huddled around after turkey checking it out.   I could go on and on. 

My main problem is not only prioritizing task, but estimating the amount of time needed for each task on a daily basis.   I sometimes only have 1 hour of uninterrupted time.    By the time I get focused, Wham it is over. 

suggestions-  You are doing a great job, we believe in you.   Get out of your own head.   go for a walk, go have food/coffee by yourself.  Get out in nature.   Refresh and renew your mind.   Talk to a funny friend.    Accept what we cannot change.   IT SUCKS you will not be ready by Christmas.       I have handled these disappointments by knowing that I am not ready for a huge order wholesale order, nor any major online orders.  I need to fine tune my shipping and handling, learn how to handle billing, inventory, returns, money coming in, money going out.  etc.  There is a reason the Universe is telling me to take it slow.   I will have the slow jan/april season to analyze my customers, my designs and figure my future path as I also have many other product ideas.  

You will also have the slow season to adjust to the daily running of the business.  We will do it together.   then we will go on the donny show together, along with Leslie! 

I am currently not doing what I am suppose to be doing...I am drowning in my sea of paperwork on my desk. AND the kids are all out of school today at 1:00 and do not return til next monday.    That has put a screeching halt to some of my task. 

Di