Wishcasting Wednesday: What Step Do I Wish to Take?

I love Wishcasting Wednesdays.

What began as a blog filler has evolved into an important weekly exercise in my personal growth.  Thank you Jamie Ridler. 

Today Jamie pushes her birdies out of the nest with the  juicy query,
"What step do you wish to take?"
What step?  What step?! 

Geez Jamie, by asking us what step we wish to take is tantamount to asking what ACTION we want to take!  GULP.

Okay.  Here goes. 

The next step I wish to take is to
create an online shopping cart for Liz's Garden Aromatherapy.

This may not sound like a big deal to you, but it is a huge deal to me.   Twelve years ago I created a line of essential oils simply as a service to my students so they would have access to good quality essential oils.  I never had any intention to sell them in mass quantities and certainly never online.  God forbid I should actually become prosperous from something I love so much!.

I called the product line Liz's Garden and my husband runs the business, selling to a couple of local shops and the school where I teach aromatherapy.   It is a very modest cottage business, but seems to be growing in spite of any advertising on our part.   For the past few years, my students,  massage clients and other folks frequently ask why we don't sell our products online. 

And the truth is there's been resistance (read: fear) on my part.  My inner perfectionist wants everything to be perfect before I could possible consider something like selling online.  Also, I've been unclear about where to sell my products,..Website? Etsy? Big Cartel? Blog? Ebay?  I have had concerns that it will be too time consuming to properly set up and maintain and maybe I'll be overwhelmed with the technical side of things or it won't be professional and polished enough or that I might not be able to keep up with the demand or I just won't have enough time with my busy massage practice.  Bla Bla Bla.  Excuses are like...well, you get the picture.

Now, as anyone who reads my regular Wishcasting Wednesday knows, I have been blathering on for weeks about wanting to cut down my massage schedule to pursue other avenues of income, and what better avenue then creating a vehicle for selling my oils online.  The time has come to face this blessed bounty that keeps knocking at my door.

So Jamie, and all my fabulous Wishcasting companions, the next step I wish to take, yes really wish to take (not just feel I should take) is to create a shopping page on my website, Liz's Garden Aromatherapy. 

Thank you Jamie for pressing me to take this next step in my journey.