These books are helping

I'm glad I'm reading / listening to the books I am. They pretty much fall into two counts, business or personal growth. When I have a good list I'll post it here as there are some goodies I'm looking forward to in July.

And weirdly when I listen to books I like to listen to them twice through. Means I get all of the information, I also play them faster than their standard speed so that 8 hours goes slightly quicker throughout the week. Maximising that time!

One of the things the books have told me is that whatever I thought my initial spend would be - treble it. In my case treble plus a bit. And it's not just because of the website, but I was getting that little whisper at the back of my mind about the stock.

I bought the original stock I did (keyrings) because everyone has keys, and if the supplier turned out to be dodgy, then I love keyings and I have presents to give for a few years. The original plan for Gem Stone Love was to quietly sell them from ebay and Amazon and get a little pocket money, but things changed.

I don't mean it had a runaway scope, things really changed, all of a sudden I realised how much it could align with my life values and the ways it could expand into a holistic living hub. And so I started building everything else around the holistic living hub mindset, which is fantastic and feels so right. It was only last week during my marathon phone call with my friend that I realised I needed to widen my stock pool. The stock I had didn't synergise with my overall offering.

I didn't go out and spend several thousand pounds, but I did get a couple of items of jewellery and most importantly Tumblestones. Tumblestones are where everyone starts on their crystal discovery and I was only selling them in keyring form. That didn't sit with me. I only told my marathon phone friend that I was buying more stock because I knew no one else would understand, and even she was mildly disconcerted at the overall amount I've spent now.

I'm glad I listened to myself. The website is very nearly ready, I'll just have to do the usual neatening and choosing what to display for the launch, but I'm excited. Exactly one month until the launch and my baby is born - it does feel like my baby - yes I know, I don't have children and yes you can laugh.