I didn't get the "Doer" gene.

I am the daughter of a Capital-D “Doer.” My mom was always doing stuff. Social events and volunteering and working a full-time corporate job and planning my birthday parties and sewing my Halloween costumes and redecorating our house and, and, and …

I didn’t get the “Doing” gene. I tried, really tried, for a long time, to do it all — work full-time and get a graduate degree and buy a house and book my social calendar and plan a wedding and plan a move and have kids and, and, and …

… And, after my divorce, and especially after I got my late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, I decided I didn’t need to be that person anymore. I decided to be exactly who I really was.

What that meant was embracing naps. Slower mornings. Fewer out-of-the-house activities with my kids and more movie nights at home. Jobs that didn’t rush me, even if they paid a little less.

Those were compromises I was willing to make for a life that felt more aligned with who I am as a human.

I’ve taken a similar approach in my business. Starting out with a suite of offers, and then reducing those as I determined what was or wasn’t really a fit for me. Setting boundaries with clients. Not overextending myself financially or energetically.

We are weeks away from celebrating a year of Golden Poppy Digital (!!) and I am so proud of the role I have built for myself.

I wanted to create an easier life for myself, and now I’m running a business that is helping me create an easier life for other small business owners, too. People who have a passion for their work, and might be “Doers” themselves, but don’t have the bandwidth to do everything.

I might not be a Doer, but I’m doing enough, for myself, and for others 🧡

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📺 Watching: I’m back to watching Mad Men, but with more intention than I did back in December. It turns out the whole series is on HBO Max (or whatever it’s called now), so I started with the first episode and am working my way through. I’m loving seeing some of the deeper cut episodes that don’t get aired repeatedly on AMC, and, as with every time I watch it, discovering new layers to the characters and their storylines.

🎧 Listening to: Surprising absolutely no one, I put on Bad Bunny’s DeBí TiRAR Más FOToS the day after the Super Bowl and have had it on repeat ever since. Not being able to understand the lyrics with any level of fluency has actually been a surprising delight — I can leave the album on while I write because it’s not a distraction, and my kids and I make a game out of listening in the car and picking out the words we do understand.

🚶🏻‍♀️ Doing: It’s Girl Scout cookie season! Which means ya girl is helping to move 11,000+ boxes of cookies for our troop, driving my 8-year-old all over the Seattle metro area to deliver pre-orders, and desperately trying to clean out my garage so I can store all the extra cases of Trefoils I accidentally ordered. (But if you need cookies, let me know! My kid would love to be your dealer.)