Water Water Everywhere…

VFJ Pilates | Musings

I am sat in The Studio listening to the rain pouring down outside.

It is loud and torrential and showing no signs of stopping. Which is how my work seems at the moment. Endless, with no finish in sight.

Working from home is HARD. Working by yourself for yourself is even HARDER. And building a new business from the ground up in an industry you have been part of for nearly a decade seems like one of the HARDEST things I have ever done.

There is no gentle way to put it. I feel like I am drowning. The tasks never stop, the lists never get smaller, and everything feels like one big ongoing project.

To give you an idea of what I am up against, let me tell you a story about my website.

I embedded my booking system into one of my website pages so people could book directly through my site. Everything seemed fine at first. Then I ran a paid Facebook advert for a new face-to-face class.

People clicked. People visited. People disappeared.

Eventually an old friend tried to book and told me it was not working properly. On some devices the page would not scroll far enough to reach the booking button.

Simple fix, right?

Wrong.

You cannot properly edit a Facebook advert once it is published, so suddenly one small website issue became:

• changing links everywhere

• editing posts across multiple selling groups

• waiting for post approvals again

• checking every page on the website

• replacing broken buttons and links

• updating bios and posters

• rechecking everything afterwards

And because there is only me running this business, every single task lands back with me.

There are no website fairies hiding in the walls fixing broken links overnight.

So instead I spent hours trawling through pages, checking buttons, testing links, previewing layouts, researching fixes, and eventually rebuilding the booking system another way entirely.

Then came the part where you test everything again.

Sometimes I rope friends into checking the whole website for me. Usually with the promise of beer and the understanding that they will not judge me when something ridiculously obvious is broken.

Even now, every so often, someone still lands on an error page from some ancient forgotten link floating around the internet.

That is the part people do not always see about self-employment.

Small problems are never really small.

One broken link can become an entire evening.

One tiny issue can suddenly spread into websites, adverts, posters, social media, emails, leaflets, and endless lists of jobs that all somehow depend on each other.

So no, I am probably not going to tick much off my list tonight. I am going to sit here a little longer listening to the rain and pretending, briefly, that everything can wait until tomorrow.

The punchline? This was originally supposed to be a blog about why drinking water is good for you.

— Victoria

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Sources:

https://www.vfjpilates.co.uk