Step 1) Decide your dream
Step 2) Spend a lot of money preparing for your dream, studying and getting all the equipment and materials. You have to do this while you still have a job cuz it’s expensive.
Step 3) Launch your dream/business thing! It’s all happening!!!
Step 4) Spend a lot of money marketing it.
Step 5) Go over your living expenses to determine how much your dream needs to make to cover it.
Step 6) Cry deeply and despair because your dream makes you no money at all. In fact, it’s costing you more money than you actually have and your living expenses are too high to quit your “job”.
Step 7) Try to work on your dream in the evenings and on weekends and with a super limited budget so you can afford your bills. And you know, when you’re not exhausted or trying to perform basic life functions like cleaning house and running errands, seeing friends and family, etc.
Step 8) Read articles that tell you to just work harder and market more.
Step 9) Give up because the market is saturated with people who slap a ridiculous one liner on a t-shirt and call it “opening a clothing line”, people who buy cheap made goods from China and hawk it through Amazon and people who make the same stamped jewelry on Etsy and all of them for an overwhelmingly low price that’s based on their mass production/bulk discounts and not at all realistic for actual artisan products.
*I’m not bitter or disappointed or frustrated or absolutely hate my life. Not at all, why do you ask?
