Hey.
Rough week?
Yeah. I feel that.
Monday sucked. I had a total case of what I’m calling “The Sads.”
Tuesday was better. I was busy! Sincerely busy working on a business I love. I had a great call with a bride who might hire me (lol my sales pitch was hella rusty). That call was really cool because it only happened because a week ago? Maybe a week and a half ago I emailed anybody who had ever contacted me about their April or May wedding. I said, pretty much: “Hey, I’m a wedding planner with a certain set of skills and I will talk to you for free because wedding planning was already hard enough and now there’s a pandemic.”
This particular bride responded: “Thank you for your thoughtful email! It has been such a rough couple of days trying to sort this out so your kind words are much appreciated.”
Which already felt like a win. But then! She scheduled a call and on this call — which I thought was going to be me offering loads of free advice and maybe making her feel a little less shitty — instead, she said, “Actually, we had to reschedule and the first planner we hired is no longer free and I found out about that right when your really nice email arrived and I was like, ‘I wonder if Beth is free for our new date?’” And there you are. Now I might have a new client. My first since coronavirus ended events in my state.
Wednesday and Thursday were kinda blah. Some good things but a lot of “What am I doing? Am I doing enough? These couples are so sad. I want to make them feel better but I don’t know how. I can’t fix this. I want to fix this so bad” moments.
And then today. Today is Friday, which for me, often means a rehearsal but not right now. Right now, Friday means trying to figure out how to get my business through the next seven days.
I have ideas: ghostwrite blog posts for fellow wedding vendors, try to get on more podcasts, keep writing stuff for my newsletter because this one woman this week told me that my newsletter makes her feel better and really, I just people to feel better. I want to feel better, too.
I want to wake up on a Friday and feel excited that it’s Friday. I want to go to a rehearsal. I want to do my job again.
See you on Monday.