Seriously. 4 years to design some clothes?? It sounds like you have not been too serious about getting getting it done.
Yeah, but, hey, if Cody is only a few years out of high school like his other post implies, I'd venture to guess he had alot of reseach to do on all the other aspects that go into setting up a business. (Organization/registering/filing, websites, bookkeeping, marketing.) There's alot more to it besides just great design.
I'm not saying anything other than with time comes experience and knowledge, maybe Cody aquired a great deal of both over the last 5 years, and isn't giving it the recognition it deserves as an accomplishment.
Do what you can, where you are, with what you've got!
Action is the key, but the OP looks like they have been whining about this issue for a few months. Some people are perpetually writing a screenplay/book, or starting this or that, but nothing ever gets DONE.
"The fact is that people are poor because they have not yet decided to be rich. People are overweight and unfit because they have not yet decided to be thin and fit. People are inefficient time wasters because they haven't yet decided to be highly productive in everything they do"
---Brian Tracey
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response"---Mildred Barthel
"Humans have the remarkable ability to get exactly what they must have. But there is a difference between a 'must' and 'want'
---Jim Rohn
Perhaps he is down b/c he is surrounded by alot of negative people. That's the good thing about this forum b/c others will give you the encourgement you need. I'm almost 40 (only a few more months to enjoy my 30's eek!) and I still get down sometimes from my parents who are always negative about everything. If I listened to them I would never do anything. I do have a sucessfull career and family but when I started this biz they were so negative about it. I haven't quit my day job....yet and although they know I want something different they can only see the negatives. They think I should just be miserable and plug along until I retire like them. Also, people at work think I'm crazy so I just don't mention my biz much. I don't want them to worry that I'll be quiting anytime soon since I'm the only one that can do my job. Just listen to yourself and have the courage to continue along with your dream. Others are just jealous mostly and that's why they bring you down. They wish they had the courage to do something on their own b/c it does take courage and a strong work ethic.
I grew up with a lot of very bad, negative influences. I had an abusive father who badmouthed me all the time and never said one good word about me in his whole life. He told me things like "You're getting stupider all the time" and "let me draw you a picture so you can understand." He also called me names like "sh**head" and "meathead". And then he had the nerve to tell me to treat him with respect and call him "Sir." My IQ happens to be 140. I'm smarter than 98% of all people. The reason I did badly in grade school is because I had him picking on me at home and I had mean inner city kids making my life hell in school every day. The kids in school did everything they could to pick on me and harass me because they thought it was fun. They pulled pranks on me, spit in my face, started fights with me, threw a raw egg on my neck, etc. This happened every day. I wanted to kill myself. They made me depressed and discouraged so I did badly in school. I had people being mean and negative to me 24/7 and there wasn't even one person who was nice to me. My mother ignored me. She's cold and unloving as a parent. I spent years and years being a huge loser because of all these !$@#$% people telling me "You Suck" and things like that. Then I eventually got severe chronic depression that lasted for years. Then I ended up being taken to a mental hospital for 2 weeks for my depression. The depression was really bad. I felt so hopeless, like I could never make anything better in my life. They gave me anti-depressant pills and that made me feel good for a few months but it was only a band-aid. (By the way I really enjoyed the mental hospital and I actually wanted to stay longer. It was the first time I was ever surrounded by people who were nice to me, plus they had great food, arts & crafts, board games, and ping pong) The Zoloft pills didn't cure my depression. So I read a lot of self help books and I started eating really healthy. These two things cured my depression permanently. Getting a lot of high quality nutrition really does a lot to make you feel better mentally and physically. It also helps a lot to make you feel ambitious. Eating junk food is a downer both mentally and physically. Junk food drags you down and makes you be more depressed and lazy. I hear people say depression is often incurable, but I cured myself. After that, I started listening to audio recordings by Brian Tracy and other people to learn how I should think and how I should live in order to be successful. For a few months, I was listening to these people non-stop. I was listening to them ALL day long! I had to do that to drown out all the negative thoughts and angry feelings about how people treated me in the past, and all the negative mental programming. I still listen to them for about an hour each day. Brian Tracy is like my god! I also listen to Napoleon Hill, Harv Eker, and I used Brad Yates' hypnosis recordings. Now I am doing much better financially and I am moving upward towards more and more success while doing work that I enjoy. I'm using more and more of my full potential. I think I have a lot of talent and I had to use a lot of psychological self help work in order to bring it out of me.
Last edited by Bougie; May 13th, 2008 at 11:59 AM.
Jeez, Richard, that is really inspirational - what odds you have overcome! I'm so happy to hear that all your hard work, both internal and external, is finally paying off and that you've managed to replace almost all the negative with positives. A lesson to us all. Keep up the good work!
And thanks, too, Wombat, for taking the time to post the inspirational quotes...a couple really struck home! Funny how sometimes a simple sentence can be so meaningful.
u need a theme guy something crazy kids will buy go to karmaloop.com if u want to know what sells..i am making my own shirts now and have designed a few designs for a couple of these cats by no measn rich but my brand is about to slam the door open
Kudos to Richard! I salute you! Yeah, Brian Tracy and these self-help stuff are really great. I've started to watch lots of self-help videos on youtube.com since last week.
__________________ The hardest thing to understand in this world is not women....it is SEO. **** it!
Brian Tracy said that success is 80% psychological and 20% technical. I totally agree with that. If you don't have your head straight, then you will hold yourself back and sabotage yourself with false limitations, negative beliefs, doubts, fears, procrastination, etc. People think that they mainly need to find technical tricks, secrets, and shortcuts to success. But actually, success is mostly about your character, your integrity, and your work ethic. The technical side is relatively simple to deal with. Oftentimes, people basically know what to do or could figure it out without too much trouble. They just don't take action. That is the big problem: not taking action. If you want to succeed, you have to change your mind. You have to reprogram your mind and free yourself of the things that hold you back. Then you can fly.
So here's my story, from the time I said to myself OK I'm gonna be a designer (summer 2003) to the time my collection debutes (summer 2008), 5 ****ing years I let pass by.
That is sooooo unacceptable.
Like how could I let this happen?
omg.
I'm still doing my collection, but I just have days where I'm like, wow, I've wasited so much life.
You do have to look at it that, u know? U cant get around it.
lol but it's best not to think about it.
And on those odd days when I dwell on my time lost, all I wanna do is get drunk and listen to Amy Winehouse all day.
I believe that Amy Winehouse's cd's are interactive where you get drunk and high just by listening to them.
Re: having thoughts on throwing in the towel 
