Yom Kippur is a day when we try to reflect and contemplate, staying quiet, fasting and looking at the past year. We try to learn from our mistakes, ask for forgiveness from those we hurt and try to think about the next year and how we want to enter it. This past year was so challenging and so hard but I learned a lot. I learned who my partners are, I learned a lot about my business and its needs, I learned about those people I don't want around me and how precious life is. Working under pressure and fear took a toll on all of us. What a great opportunity to learn. I mainly want to keep asking myself...
I want to be able to float through this year, nose above water and to mainly watch. Watch the world, see what’s needed and then react. I invite you to join me. Take this year as a passage for what will come next, focus on the now, look down and not too far ahead. We don’t know what’s ahead. But we do know what we have right now. We have our customer and we want to learn how to keep her happy and shopping. Work with her and stay in touch through zoom, calls, and emails. Keep working on your online and social presence. Work on terms with your vendors, and with your landlords. Pack some untouched Spring goods and...
Can I feel hopeless without falling into hopelessness?
Can I find stillness among the chaos?
How can we not be swayed by the winds today?
I find this period of time with heightened awareness of a virus and pollution to be quite beneficial to people doing spiritual work.
So much work of noticing. And if I can just notice and not react, good things will come !
Happy Tuesday!
Yael
Monday Zoom calls uplift my spirits tremendously! Today was especially brilliant! Sharing our experiences as the country is starting to reopen and as we are all learning new ways of being in business and with each other are priceless! Let me share a few ideas with you all - * Zoom trunk show with a high end jewelry designer that brought 35 sales. Customers enjoyed the interaction with each other and were happy to shop. * Art + Fashion in store event - great success! Presenting a painter, showing her paintings in 3 different stations in the store, merchandise matched with the store's clothing.15 ladies at the time, split into 3 different areas, 3 different times a day - 12:00pm...
In the mornings, on my way to work, I like to pick up fruit from the guy on the corner of 96th street. Last week I picked my fruit and when I was about to pay him I couldn't find my purse. I looked in my bag, I knew it was there 2 minutes ago when I paid for my coffee but I couldn't find it. I started sweating and telling him I don't have my purse but kept looking into my bag quite anxiously thinking about all the things I have there that I need. It took me a few more minutes to realize I was holding it under my armpit. Holding it tight..... I call people twice with...
