Business Blues
After owning a health and wellness business for over 10 years and teaching yoga, martial arts, Pilates, about essential oils, healthy living and cooking as well as dipping into more energy healing arts like Reiki and much more we feel we really found our calling in life, all except one rather large challenge, the brick and motor of it all. It was limiting and in many ways debilitating for the new entrepreneur, unfortunately our country though wonderful for many things is not kind to small business owners like it is for large corporations. And having all the overheads of brick and mortar was just too much when you don’t already have large purse strings to hold you up. This country considers a small business that Americans should help support to be one that is a minimum of a $1,000,000 company, and I don’t know about you but we were not that wealthy, and how is that a small business!
New Beginnings
Expedition Good Life started out as a way for me (Amanda Jean) to heal myself, after the business closed and to hopeful inspire others along the way. Ironically my health and wellness business almost killed me. After a strong start with the Expedition Good Life blog, I started medical school for PTA. I was acing all my courses and enjoying myself at school, but my blog of for Expedition Good Life began to suffer as well as my family life. With a then 2 year old, it all became too much and I was needed at home to help support the growth of our son, which is by far the most important accomplishment I wish to achieve and do well in life. However, the problem lies with the fact that I still want to help others too, and I know my mother really did as well.
So, I went to Mimi and told her my idea for Expedition Good Life to continue what I started, and make it even better. I wanted to continue with my blogging on my journey to live in true happiness and health. I wanted to expand that out to all areas in my life.
Challenging Times
In today’s challenging times of economy and expectations, women I find have a lot on our plates, some complications occurred along with equal rights, which I am thrilled we have. However now women instead have been thrown into the work world, yet still expected to hold the full time job of loving mom, cook, cleaner, and the list goes on, oh yeah, and still look sexy. Instead most of us are frazzled, have bags under our eyes from lack of sleep, and feel overworked and under appreciated.
The problem is I, like a lot of woman, want to be and do it all now, I want to work, but I still want to find the best of everything for my family. I want to cook and eat good food, exercise and feel and look great and express my creative artistic side which is another love in my life. (The cleaning part I could do without, but since I have to, I want to at least do it in a way that is safe for my family). Well I am here to say we can do it all, with one key thought to remember, to be perfectly imperfect.
Perfectly Imperfect
Perfectly imperfect you say, that is an oxymoron. Yes, it is important to remember that someone else’s idea of perfect and yours are two different things. Don’t try to live up to others expectations, live up to yours, this is number one. Number two, even our own expectations are often too high. In order to do it all we can not possibly be perfect at everything, but we can be perfectly imperfect. 😉 Find the thing or two that is your ultimate passion and do it to the very best of your abilities and be good at everything else. I am here to share my journey to be perfectly imperfect with you and hope I can help you be so yourself, and find the path on your journey that is lined with happiness and health on the road to your accomplishments. Not waiting for the outcome. Little secret, the journey is the outcome you’ve been looking for, all the accomplishments are just doorways that open new paths up for the next journey.
So lets go on an adventure in perfect imperfection together, with Expedition Good Life.
Until next time, enjoy the good life,
Woman on the Journey