Welcome to April. The first quarter of the year is officially over.  How did you do? Well, I'll tell you how I did. In the month of March, I did a few things. My favorite thing that I did was the launch of my t-shirt shop. This is because I have been wanting to do this for YEARS. I have been postponing  it and finding reasons to not do it, but I finally did it. In spite of all the reasons I gave myself not to do it, I still did it anyway. It's available in size small to extra, extra large, Read More

Welcome to March! By the end of March, we would have exhausted the first quarter of 2016. Isn't that crazy? So, how was February for me? If I have not said it before, let me say it right now: being a business owner is HARD. Operating Verastic as a side gig is a completely different journey from operating it as a business. I have never known that as much as I know it now. There are times that I am giddy with excitement about the future, and then, there are other times that I am one Read More

Welcome to February. New Year, new journal picture. While I was looking for the picture to use in this post, I was excited that for my 2016 journals, I'll be using a new picture. Then I began to wonder why on earth I don't use a different picture for every journal? I mean, these pictures are not free. I actually pay for them. Why did I use the same two pictures for all 2015 journal entries? Anyway, here we are in February, talking about January. The thing about the New Year is that it Read More

Happy New Year and welcome to January. I sound crazy welcoming you to January, considering that today is the 21st of January. Basically, we ended 2016 and I just completely forgot about writing a journal. This is my twelfth journal, meaning that I actually completed one whole year of journaling monthly. Woo Hoo. So how did my December go? Business wise, not much action, but I did successfully make a plan for 2016. I read a quote somewhere that said (I'm paraphrasing) that if your Read More