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I thought I\u2019d be utterly done after work on Sunday night. Instead, was in a go <\/em>mode. It\u2019s almost like I feel so energized. Working on building a business and a brand is a creative kind of fun. I literally feel so empowered. The more time I spend learning about business opportunities, the more my thinking expands beyond my typical boundaries. I never thought, for the life of me, that I would be considering starting my own clothing line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am kind of impressed by this line of thinking that is clearly outside of the box for me. I think it means that I am growing personally and that makes me happy. I have some really fantastic ideas for a clothing line. Where I fall short is that I am not a graphic artist by trade. The cool thing though is that I have great mental imagery and capacity to use technology and tools. So I am going to take advantage of this. I have the ability to take my ideas and put them into precise written language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I never even thought about e-commerce before. Now, I am considering e-commerce and drop shipping. The newest technology tools are really opening up avenues that never would have been previously available to me. It’s exciting and a bit nerve-wracking at the same time. Well, there’s no time like the present to wade in the waters. Again I am excited and nervous at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m still amazed at how my synapses fired on last Sunday night. I went from thinking about designing corporate swag and logos to, “Holy shit! I think I am about to design my own line\/brand of fashion and clothing.” I haven’t had this excitement in some kind of time. I realize these businesses fail more often than they succeed but I have technology on my side. At the very least I can try it with not too much in the way of risk because I can do so much on my own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I just need a way of building the brand and it’s going to be somewhat slow and steady winning the race. I don’t expect to make millions here. The only expectation I have of myself is to simply try and to be able to tell myself that I will honestly do my very best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I\u2019d be utterly done after work on Sunday night. Instead, was in a go mode. It\u2019s almost like I feel so energized. Working on building a business and a brand is a creative kind of fun. I literally feel so empowered. The more time I spend learning about business opportunities, the more my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}