I have read this article today that really engaged my attention. I could not take my eyes off the screen whilst eagerly reading through it. Jewelry designer Pamela Liou gives us some advice on Keeping your Cool as a Small Business Owner. And as far as I can tell she has a lot of good advice to give. My favorite paragraph is this one, I guess because we all have to go through it at some point during our creative journey: ¨On some level, everyone who goes after her dreams is engaging in glory-seeking, and when validation in all its forms — press or sales — does not come, the whole thing seems hardly worth the effort. But it is! The reason I got that early traction was because I loved the process of creation. It was a meditative distraction from writing my whopping 126-page thesis. I think the love showed through. I wasn’t doing it for my ego, and I had no intention whatsoever of selling my work. It was only until people started stopping me on the street and buying my jewelry off m...