This summer I’ve taken a break from staging clients’ homes; putting my energies instead into business planning and being a mom.
With excellent vacations with my Lil Millennial to New York and Oregon.
One of the things I love about being my own boss is that you can take time out when you want to do other things, without having to request vacation time or wait until the next year when you can take your allotted two weeks.
Perhaps it was the break from staging and decorating clients’ homes but my creative energy has also been channeled into my own house.
A new wall unit for my bedroom arrived today and I’ve been styling the shelves with my favorite art books and the decorative objects that have been stored away since my last move.
While working on it I recognized my craving to get back into staging and all the fussing over the decorating details that comes with a home staging career.
How many other careers are there where it’s appropriate to spend so much time fine tuning the precise placement of a group of objects?
Photo styling, store merchandising, interior design, decorating, home staging are all such careers that require a creative eye for detail. A talent in any of these lends itself well to the art of decorating homes to sell.
As August draws to a close I look forward to getting back into the back to school routine that allows me to build my home staging business while having control over my time.
If you’ve dreamed of becoming a home stager and you’ve been waiting until your kids were out of the house or at school all day, why not explore what it takes to move into a home staging career that does not take over your family life?
As September rolls around, perhaps it’s time to take a home staging course and see how you can reinvent your future.
If you’ve already taken the plunge and started your home staging business, please add your comments here on how you made the decision to get started.
I know it will inspire others who have been contemplating the same thing!
I think being my own boss as a home stager and ReDesigner is what set me free to be me. Not only can I take vacation time when I want (and need it!), but I’m free to be with my kids when they need me and when it counts! No more letting my kids down when I arrive late to their concert because the “boss” decided I have to work overtime… No more having to deal with employees I don’t like and no more worrying about if I’ll lose my job or not. Only I get to decide who fires who. When I was a little girl, my grandmother used to say that I should figure out my career by doing something I’m passionate about, that way I wouldn’t have to work a single day in my life! Well, it took me too many years to figure that out but now that I have, I wouldn’t trade my life as a home stager and ReDesigner and go back into law for anything. I’m completely happy being my own boss and doing work that passions me. There’s nothing like the thrill of helping someone sell their home for top dollar and as quick as possible. I love what I do and I owe part of that to Debra and The Staging Diva training course. Thank you!
I agree Pauline with everything you said, and Debra is very good at sharing with us how to make our business work. She shares what she’s been thru so we can go ahead and avoid some of those situations or how to use them to help things go more smoothly. I love Debra, she gives me inspiration but I have yet to do a stage job. I live in a very small community where they don’t want to spend the money on staging, and WINTER started today. I’m hoping for a week of Indian Summer. I will be ready for Spring and Staging will happen then and I should be ready to go then.
Carolyn, Thanks for that comment. You are on the right track laying the groundwork for your new business. As we discussed in our coaching call, all these steps are important and the projects will come from there. Your life CAN look a whole lot different come spring, keep pushing forward, you WILL get there!
Debra