Home Jewelry Business Tips… Compliments of Thomas Jefferson

Make 2009 The Best Year Ever For Your Bead And Jewelry Venture:

When business is good, it can usually be attributed to the rules and principles you live by. This was definitely the case for Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and 3rd President of the United States of America (1801-1809).

I thought that since a lot of us are crafting new years resolutions for our home jewelry businesses, or just for personal reasons, it may be helpful to post the rules that Jefferson lived by. They seemed to have worked well for him, so perhaps we can employ them too.

Thomas Jefferson's Rules For Living:

• Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
• Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
• Never spend your money before you have it.
• Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.
• Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.
• We seldom repent having eaten too little.
• Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
• How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened!
• Take things always by the smooth handle.
• When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

Perhaps if more people had heeded this advice over the last few years, this current recession would not even be an issue. But it is… so let's make the best of it.

For some ideas on what you can do as a polymer clay bead maker and home jewelry business owner to better your future, read these articles:

• Home Based Jewelry Business Owners - Tips To Beat Bad Economy
  
• Bird Pendant Jewelry Trends on Etsy - Make with Polymer Clay
  
• Bird Necklace Pendant | Etsy Tips For Your Jewelry Business
  
• Pricing Jewelry Focal Beads on Etsy - Tips for Polymer Clay Artists

Here's to a bright and stable 2009!