What's Your Skill Set?

It really does not have to make sense to anyone but yourself when it comes to bettering your life towards abundance and financial freedom/ease. It probably doesn't look like anything to someone who can not see beyond the weekly paycheck they hustle for and the job that has ruined their mental state. As I have stated before, the mother of necessity is ingenuity. If you have no desire or skill to achieve personal greatness through another vessel, another way to do things and break away from the norm of society, you will die depleted and emotionally devastated because not one person on their deathbed says, if I could have just earned more! If I could have had just one more paycheck... it could have saved my life! No one!!!!!!

Something that dawned on me yesterday, as I sat at my sewing machine finishing up a dog coat for my older dog. Fact: Hobbies can be monetized. It is the simple and narrow-minded that can not see this concept. It is usually the critic that has no raw talent or any other desires other than to conform to somebody else's view on what they{the company} deems their worth to earn. Hobbies supplement income... hobbies are a way to go with in and think about how from start to finish you are achieving a goal to put something together, build, and have personal enjoyment for utilizing a gift, you know you can make money at! Most do not realize the mental toll and clarity that is needed to start a business. It can consume your lifestyle and you have to be precision-focused on a plan that allows you the ability to create a marketing plan seeking out who needs what you have to offer! I remind you there is a market for everything!!!!!

My grandma sewed. She was an accomplished seamstress. When she and my grandpa got married, they lived in the back of their first shoe shop. My grandpa who was a shoe cobbler, a trade that mostly no longer is around; ran a business repairing shoes and designing orthopedic footwares while my grandma sewed an array of items to supplement their income. They stayed in that small facility raising 3 young girls. Eventually, moving, my grandpa found a larger place that allowed his shoe business to grow for 40+ years! My grandma continued to sew... It was her passion! and she treated her sewing machine as her prize. (as a kid, I can remember the numerous times a Necchi repair man would come and do maintenance repairs on it)

Did you know? {history} Women of the "olden days" sewed everything. There were no dept stores for clothing and bedding. They had fabric in their general mercantile to be bought. You were an accomplished woman if you could sew!!!! Men chose their wives based on their "domestic" abilities and the way they could put their touch on the families living quarters creating a warm and inviting home. Anyway, when the homesteaders would invite people to their new digs, depending on the weather and the season, they would give the new homeowners tomatoes! Tomatoes were a sign of luck and prosperity! Until eaten, they would be placed on the mantle. As the seasons changed and tomatoes were not readily available, women who sewed would create a stuffed fabric tomato to offer in the place of the real ones. Kept neatly on the mantle, The woman of the house would place her favorite sewing needle in the tomato to ensure a proper place for her prized tool that kept her needles secure so as not to be lost. [hence the tomato stuffed with pins we all have seen]

I can not keep hearing in my head, "It's just a hobby. You're not making money at it!" Let me just explain, to the naysayer when any person is starting out with an idea, no one is making money! You are doing something and starting something new because you have a concept and an idea from a passion that you hope (you can earn something) if you let people know what you do, they will want to buy from you! It's in the way a person markets their idea and brands who they are! #KitrynMarie I have been at this since 2011!!!!

All of those people who have criticized certainly change their tune when the business yields and brings in the dollars. These same people who do not have one ounce of ingenuity in their bones and are dependent on the high dollars of commerce's cheap goods. They do not have the compassion for the creator and the sincerity of what it takes to handcraft something. They equate a shopping receipt from the box store as a good buy! vs something created from love. A love of their work! Something that a creator has taken pride in making! for someone else to enjoy!

Do you know in the last 2-3 years, farmer's markets have blossomed into crafters that are living off of their handmade goods? Did you know roadside stands have made a huge comeback!!! Shifting items from one season to the other that earn a good yearly salary? Did you know that once sewing was the cheapest hobby there was is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise?

There is a skill set that is involved with sewing! Like Gram used to say, "You have to have patience and you need to have quiet" in order to produce good quality merchandise! That saint of a woman made my wedding dress and all 7 of my bridesmaid's dresses! She was in her element!

As a business coach, let me set this record straight, people have been chastised for not earning enough money in a "real job" but yet still criticized for having a hobby they monetize as a second income. An individual who is helping themself by adding an extra way to make money and making a name for themself, in order to survive, and yet these critics who do nothing with their hidden talents, exclaim... You're not doing enough and you are embarrassing yourself! When did it become so shameful for an individual who is trying to create something better suited for their life because of who they are as a talented person become a crime? It is not that person's fault they have a desire for something different if they HAVE A DEEP DESIRE FOR CHANGE and are schooled and wired like that! It is also no crime to create content in order to build a new lifestyle!

People learn a variety of topics and subjects and they intertwine their new education creating content. Whether that be through speaking, writing, video, pictures, or posting on social media! This is the world we now live in! Even if you look on LinkedIn most companies want someone who is social media savvy and how a person presents depends on the nature of their GOAL!!!! You have no right to criticize the way someone presents themself to the masses as they brand their identity and build a business! (Just because you can't understand it... it doesn't make it wrong! It shows your small and narrowmindedness and you are stuck in an outdated passage)

I fluctuate between teaching, consulting/coaching, and creating whether that be content for media or handcrafting merchandise. It is the multistream income (while I still hold an outside 2 gigs/ job working 6 days a week)

I put my KM Designs line of merchandise on hold this year. Not having the correct venue to sell and with the economy in a slump, it wasn't worth my effort. Sitting at the sewing machine in the last couple of weeks almost felt foreign. Although I felt accomplished. Not everyone can do what I do!!!! This year has been the biggest struggle both emotionally and financially! The setbacks have been huge... but here I am!

Can we say resilient, stubborn, and diligent! There will be more to come! I have a camera somewhere around here and I have my sights on a new heavier-duty sewing machine! I have more painting classes to teach also!!!

You have no one to blame but yourself if you have fallen short of your dreams and goals! Money fluctuates, comes and goes and it's how you budget your lifestyle in order to make it work for you! and only you! It does not matter one ounce how someone views what you do in order to be happy! As long as you are doing something!

If you would like to learn more, reach out kitryn_marie@yahoo.com to schedule a class! Painting, Life or Business coaching!

Fate Turns on a Dime!

Kitryn Marie

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