Month: August 2021

How you sound is how you are perceived.

Voice Types

1. Airy
2. Monotone
3. Blocked nasal  (no air in and out)
4. Nasal – fix? lower adam’s apple
5. Squeaky hinge (no air coming out..run out of air at the end of sentence before a comma or a period…millenial voice..reality show voice…) – how to fix? Only speak when the air is coming out (stomach is coming in)

Etta: southern twang

Fix:

1. Narrow mouth to give more space, drop the jaw more.
2. Higher pitch.
3. Ascending tone

Maddie: lower adam’s apple while using the higher pitch to get rid of NY accent

Mono-tone vs. Mono-resonance (for example can be nasally all the time). Be unpredictable.

Unconsciously competent

Yesterday Ty and I went on a mushroom journey!

It wasn’t huge as we expected, but still fun and a good bonding experience!

Ty had 3.25g, I had 2.5g. Mostly African with some Mexican. We soaked it in lemon juice to predigest it, so I don’t get nausea. We also blended it for most homogeneity and absorption.

We walked towards Stanley Park, and half way there, we put our mushroom cups on top of a McDonald’s trash can and poured some Ener-C into them. Pretty funny haha.

It started off promising. We walked to the Rose Garden, and sat for a bit. We walked to Beaver Lake, and sat for a bit. When I closed my eyes, it was bright. Like my experience on Gillie T. I saw a bright orange shade of rounded geometric patterns (honeycombs, and later trapezoids), kinda like the 70s. On Gillie T. it was pink and pastel rainbow, and more geometric.

Ty said if he focused on the clouds he was seeing a bit of a geometric pattern. We at on the bench by Beaver Lake hoping for more, but there wasn’t more. We could feel the mushroom course through our bodies though.

At one point I almost puked, but didn’t. The lemon juice definitely made a difference.

Still it wasn’t a pleasant feeling. I felt like I had to hold my body together. My legs were jello. Ty’s too.

Then we went to different parts of Stanley Park, which looked like the Pacific Spirit Forest Park, which I liked!

We crossed a bridge that had a warning sign, “Wheelchair Traffic”, and we laughed so much I was in tears! How much traffic did it get that it needed a sign! Ahahahaha

We crossed a tiny bridge and arrived at a more private area. Then we sat down by a tree.

We somehow ended up lying right beside each other. I kinda craved touch, but felt like it was fine enough to lie by each other.

I always find Bunny so hot. While Ty is good looking, it’s not the same level as Bunny. So that helps me from straying haha.

But I still am fond of Ty enough to want to be physically close to him. He isn’t a very sexual person so I wasn’t getting turned on. I kinda know that I have very smooth skin though, and I kinda want him to know that. I kinda like anyone I like to know that. So far only my girl friends know that and the guys I have dated.

We talked about life. Some interesting things:

1. There is no ugly sunset, no ugly forest.. shouldn’t we be able to find all humans beautiful? (Actually, there are some ugly forests, and ugly animals…so I scratch that haha)
2. The moment our ancestors stepped off the tree and touched the ground was a pivotal moment.
3. The moment that someone decided to create weekdays and weekends, also a pivotal moment.
4. Ty asked if we would still be friends if we met at 6 years old. I said sure. But today I said no because I wouldn’t have had enough English yet. Think of all the people we could’ve been friends with, but the speak a different language or live in a different timeline.
5. I came to realize that doing is important. I want to look outwards instead of inward. I want to socialized with ECF, dance classmates, meet more people in general.
6. Ty is still very much into looking inward. He wants to do Ayahuasca. We agreed to do a holotropic breathing class together.
7.  Ty has a more pessimistic view than me in general. He is in search of purpose, and he feels really sad that he doesn’t know what his purpose is. I asked him for an example of someone who has found purpose, and he can’t give one. We talked about how certainty is very similar to purpose. The certainty of the importance or impact of what you are doing.

At one point I grabbed a branch and we used that as a blanket. It was pretty funny.

We were both so hungry by 5pm, we went to Kingyo and had an amazing dinner! We came back to my place, had  half a watermelon on the balcony, and talked about covid too much. He left at midnight. We spent 13 hours together!

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I masturbated 2 or 3 times between last night and this morning. I don’t know if it’s the mushroom making me horny or if it’s Ty. I didn’t fantasize about him though.

At Kingyo he talked about purpose and he teared up. I gave him a hug, and he touched my arm. I guess I was kinda turned on by that he now knows how smooth my arm is haha. Weird.

This was us being more physically close than ever. I do noticed that his hugs are longer each time I see him, and he tried to touch me a tiny bit more each time.

I think what we have right now is perfect. Admiration for each other, some attraction, but not sexual.

I want Ty and Cyn to get back together. I think they are still the best match.

As much as I enjoy hanging out with Ty, I don’t want to date hime. I’m not attracted to him enough physically, and the fact that he mistreated Cyn was definitely a turn off for me. I couldn’t believe that he had been such a bad boyfriend to Cyn. And even if I was attracted to him, he is my other best friend’s fiance! And even if they were no longer engaged, I’m with Bunny!

Ty gave me a laptop stand. That was so sweet.

 

 

 

 

Work flow:

1. In Etsy, VA moves newly arrived engraving orders to from “New Orders” to “Engraving Orders” progress tab. This is for easier reference later on.
2. In App, VA searches “Unshipped” and “Not ready” and “Engraved” orders from the past 3 months. Goes through each order to make it “Ready to Print”.  All engraved orders can be readied in App except for custom image orders.
3. Case: Lost or Defect or Size replacement order – VA searches for the order in App by order ID, creates a spin-off order, edits the order if needed, marks the order as “Ready to Print”, and press “Save”.
4. Case: Engraving add-on – For non-engraved ring order with an engraving-add-on order, VA searches for the order in App by order ID, edit the order by adding engraving info, mark the order as “Ready to Print”, and press “Save”. This order is now an engraving order, even though in App, its “Engraved” property is False. We know it’s an engraving order because its “Ready to Print” property is True. (Or do we create a spin-off order here instead? The advantage would be that the spin-off will have the “Engraved” property, and will always show up in the search result in #2.)
5. Case: Custom image engraving order – In Illustrator, VA creates .ai files for the custom image orders, saves them to a shared folder (File/).
6. Case: Not ready and has an order note – In App, if an order was “Ready to Print”, but Nicole or VA updated it to “Not Ready” and left an order note (e.g. OOS), then now is a time for VA to check if new info has come in to make this order “Ready to Print”.
7. In App, if any “Unshipped” and “Not ready” and “Engraved” order (search result from #2) cannot be updated to “Ready to Print”, VA contacts the customer for alternatives.
8. Now in App, when we search by “Ready to Print” and “Not Printed” and a date range of past 3 months, the search result is the complete list of orders to be engraved.
9. In Chitchats, VA creates ship label for each engraved order and puts it in a ChitChats batch. (This is done by copying and pasting the addresses for each engraved order from Etsy and Shopify). VA also looks for any pending batch (not yet dropped off at Chitchats) to see if the orders can be added to the latest batch.
10. For non-engraved-orders: In a Spreadsheet, VA creates a list of orders (in Etsy and Shopify) to be fulfilled by Nicole.
11. For non-engraved-orders: In Chitchats, VA creates ship label for each non-engraved order (Etsy and Shopify) to be fulfilled by Nicole, and puts it in a second Chitchats batch
12. In Chitchats, Nicole prints ship labels from both batches. Affix onto mailers.
13. In App, Nicole searches for orders that are “Ready” and “Not Printed”. (Date range: Maybe maybe defaults to past 3 months?)
14. Nicole picks the rings-to-be-engraved based on list in App.
15. If a ring is OOS (out of stock), Nicole marks the ring order as “Not Ready” in App. She’ll also enter into the Notes field: “OOS”.
16. In App, Nicole marks each order as “Printed” and she engraves each.
17. Nicole packs all engraved rings.
18. Based on Spreadsheet, Nicole picks and packs non-engraved rings, denote any OOS in spreadsheet.
19. In Chitchats, for the two batches, engraved and non-engraved, Nicole confirms that they match exactly to the mailers that she is dropping off. If an order can’t be dropped off (e.g. OOS), she takes it out of the batch and puts it into a new batch.
20. Nicole drops of the two batches at Chitchats, and within an hour their status at Chitchats will update from “Pending” to “Received”.
21. In Chitchats, VA opens the latest “Received” batches. These are the shipped orders.
22. In Etsy, VA goes to Engraving tab and marks orders as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).
23. In Shopify, VA searches orders with filter “Engraved” and marks them as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).
24. In Etsy and Shopify, VA marks non-engraved orders as shipped (based on Chitchats received batch).

1. August 7, 2021 – Kirin Dim Sum
   1. Pinterest as a selling platform
   2. Brian: Hair products, influencer brings 100% of revenue. Testing many websites with rendered products to see what catches, before committing to the brand and product.
2. August 13 – WeWork, Fairfont brunch
   1. Influencer is hit or miss. Need to try many, and build relationship with the ones that worked well.
   2. Seeding allows the same audience to see the product often and feel the trend. Send out at least 200 products
   3. Jackson: $35K/month ($3 to $4MM per year) revenue. 50% cost vs. price. EBIDTA about 10% to 15%. Estimated profit at 20% if not focusing on growing so much. Spend about $65K/month on ads (20% of revenue). 3X each month.  Not taking a salary. GF in environment (boggs). Focuses on growth in order to exit at $100M. 80% ownership, 70% after this round of investment. Has a product director from Article, who was making close to $200K. Now she makes around $100K. Once TuftandPaw reaches certain revenue target, everyone gets a salary bump.
   4. David Bryant: Current company https://offroading.com/ directs traffic to Amazon. Sells only on Amazon. Has a 3PL geared towards big heavy items. EPIDTA about 10 to 12%. Previous company: https://www.ecomcrew.com/i-sold-my-company-how-to-sell-your-private-label-ecommerce-company/
   5. Ronnie: 35 to 40 staff. $500 Amazon Gift cert contest to get UGC on social share. $10+ million revenue. Spend about $650K/year on salary. Has staff in PH, Africa, Easter Europe, Venezuela, etc. Send rendered designs to email list to get customers to vote.
   6. Bill: Workwear. Sold a business in sports and pet. Now workwear and safety vests, but buy from ready-made. No designers. Sells only online. Walmart.com, .ca, Amazon.com and .ca. FBM.
   7. Roll-up businesses acquiring Amazon businesses (3 to 6x SDE) to sell at a much higher valuation (10 to 20x)

Hello Tanya Super Spacebunny, my dear friend.

41 years old. Definitely wiser but definitely don’t want to be type cast by age.

What a life it has been!

Let’s start with some gratitude:

1. I’m grateful to have my health! Seems like so many people close to me and close to my age are not that healthy. This is not something to be taken for granted!
2. Able to sleep well; able to do all kinds of activities; pain-free; clear mind
3. Sometimes I’m stressed, but it seems that I’m not as stressed as my friends. I work at my own pace, I wake up when I want to.
4. Not waken by alarm
5. Have over $4MM in wealth! $100k/year dividends thanks to Bunny!
6. For the most part I can spend money without thinking about my budget!
7. Biz is doing quite well! Especially Etsy and Shopify. Engraving is kicking ass right now!!
8. Have great friends! Sincere, and always trying to help me. And they are! I’m hiring some of them.
9. Bunny is sincere and grateful and has been helping me make money.
10. My place is beautiful and comfortable
11. My plants are happy
12. Mom and Dad are healthy
13. Dale is a pretty good VA.

So in general, I have love, health, wealth, happiness. I’m very very lucky!

Let’s talk about….things to improve upon

1. Bunny is still not well. But it seems that Dr. Feng has identified something very interesting: his hip is out of alignment! Hopefully this will help him.
2. I don’t know if Bunny and I love each other. I sometimes do wish that I was dating a funny, healthy, happy, adventurous intellectual, someone with lots of money, and someone whom I have amazing sexual chemistry with and can have lots of amazing sex with. There is actually a lot that is lacking between Bunny and I. I feel that I’m just in this relationship because he needs my help (and I’m the only who can help him), he has helped me make lots of money (still not settled, but my wealth was about $1.6MM before, and in 1.5 years it’s now $4.4MM with $100k/year dividends), I’m more driven to grow my biz than to find a new boyfriend, and he is sincere. Also he is so handsome. I can’t even think of a next step with him nor seeking my ideal relationship, just to get his health back first then see.
3. Stocks are not reopening…yet. It adds stress to Bunny and sometimes me.
4. Pandemic continues… This hasn’t bothered me much, until now. Now Vaccine Passport is being implemented in some countries. WTF. I couldn’t believe the ridiculousness of this.
5. I’m getting fat. But that’s ok…just need to exercise more! I’ll take up dancing. At least this is within my control.
6. Ella and Yana still need to get up to speed.
7. Maybe aspects of Knot Theory is still not SODA’d.
8. I wish to have someone do things I don’t like doing. Maybe Anna, or maybe someone who is better with people. Or maybe it’ll require 2 people.

Let’s talk about….desires and living a fulfilled life

1. Pretty awesome that I’m able to give Cyn purpose by hiring her to market Knot Theory. Also able to give Nicole a full time job! That feels fulfilling.
2. I’ve been wanting to grow stuff. Maybe micro greens. I don’t know if I want to grow them myself or hire someone else.  Maybe I just want to eat them. Maybe I just want to control a bigger space, wether it’s a farm or a warehouse. Do something fun on it!
3. I want to make $100MM. How do I do that? I shall manifest often.

Some revelations:

1. When something bad happens, my mind goes to: who to blame. I need to shift that. Shift it to: How can we take care of it? Then, bad or not that bad? Cause? Then, Prevention?
2. I overshare the negative with mom, Bunny, and friends. It’s negative energy offloaded onto them, and it also isn’t good for my image. I want to be transparent and had thought that was the best way to be, but I’m learning that there are some things better kept to myself. e.g. when I find Bunny negative or boring. When Nicole is dumb. Accept and love people. Give more grace. Don’t be so critical.
3. Money is the biggest gift you can give someone. Of course give authentically so it’s meaningful, but in general, money is freedom, comfort, self-worth, options. I learned that from hiring Cyndi and Nicole.
4. Success is attractive. Ty is drawn to my success. Bunny too. Cyndi too.

General improvements I’d like to do:

1. Stop talking badly of people. Or even think it. If you catch yourself doing it, say, “Grace”.
2. Stop complaining to other people; can think it or say it to the void, but no need to offload it. Say, “Gratitude.”
3. Manage stress. Don’t let it get to you. Find tools to deal with / handle stress.
4. When unhappy with Bunny, tell him how I want him to be instead of getting mad.
5. Fast for 1 day, once a week. I think Monday is a good day for that.
6. Dance more, run more
7. Laugh more, socialize more
8. Work hard during the week – track my time and set goals so I can learn to become efficient.
9. Push very hard on engraving. Dominate the market while we can!
10. Think big. How can I make $100MM?

How to make $100MM?

1. On ECF, make friends with people who often contribute smart / helpful ideas.
2. On ECF, research what the $10MM+ entrepreneurs are doing.
3. Once a week, manifest, thinkitate about this.
4. Once a week, evaluate if the things I’m doing are bringing me closer to the goals.

What does it look like to have a $10MM+ business?

1. Have teams of staff, each team has a manager. About 10~15 staff? Finance, Ops, Inventory, CS, Marketing, Design, Programmer.
2. Able to pull some big marketing stunts, innovation stunts, collabs with brands and influencers
3. Have a cool office + warehouse
4. I only focus on high level vision.
5. I can take 2 to 3 weeks off and the business will continue to grow and thrive; lots of free time

This coming month’s goal

This coming 3 month goals

Long term goals

 

product ideas:

high fibre (prebiotics) low cal flour
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