My First Order

This was a big week for Jillie Bug Creations.  We made our first profit.  A dear friend of mine ordered her son's 6th birthday invitations.  The excitement overwhelmed me until the printer wouldn't work.  I tried to make a perfect invite.  I created especially for her, I printed them up and the quality was awful.  I couldn't get past the flimsy texture of the paper and it was a popular brand paper.  I cried and felt this was the final straw that was going to brake the business back of Jillie Bug Creations.  After running out to get different paper, which turned out to be the name brand photo product of a major office supply store, the quality of the paper was great. With the help of my hero, my husband, he was able to get the printer to start printing straight and in the best quality.  The end product was wonderful and something to be proud of.  In the past I have always felt my perfectionist attitude was a down fall in my life.  Many times I wish I could just let a little glitch go, or a flaw slide by, but not me.  I dwell on it until I changed it to my specifications.  As I go through the process of creating a business I realize, it's not being a perfectionist that is the problem.  That is a quality a business should have to service their customers.  I needed to learn to be patient with the perfectionist part of me.  So, the printer wasn't the problem, the paper wasn't the problem, the need to be perfect wasn't the problem.  My patience was the problem and I will now count to 10, take a deep breath, and brew a pot of coffee.  A Starbucks run may also be needed.