What a sunny and nice week we have! I enjoy being in a quiet period both in work life and private life and alternate the days with work and recovery in nature :)
Jag minns många gånger i höstas då jag tänkte “you should never wish that life goes faster, but right now I just want to speed up time and skip all this“.
But now I am here in the time I wanted to jump to! And the sun is shining too! ♥
Kissing meetings (ppersonal udevelopmentssamtal)
We have not been able to have individual staff meetings before because we did not have a staff room at the new salon after the move, you can not sit and talk about such things in the waiting room where both colleagues and customers run;) But now we have staff rooms again so I booked calls with everyone!
Efter alla möten sa jag till Miska “it is easy to have staff meetings when you have such a good team!”And that's how it really felt! Everyone is happy with the new premises and works well together, both the collaboration and the chemistry in the group.
We also talked a lot about the schedule and possible improvements to the autumn schedule. It itches in my fingers to begin with, but I think it's still a bit too early, it's almost six months left and things still have time to change :)
Here I sit with the notes in full swing, waiting for the next colleague to come and settle down :)
Image editing deluxe
Förra söndagen skrev jag att var varit fotograf för en hemsida som Miska håller på att bygga. Jag är ju ingen fotograf så jag gör tvärtom mot hur man “ska”. Riktiga fotografer fixar bra förutsättningar med ljus m.m på plats för att fota så få bilder som möjligt och därefter redigera så lite som möjligt. Jag själv fotar hejvilt och därefter redigerar jag skiten ur alla bilder haha.
Note, I do not take photographer prices for my jobs either;)
Here is one of the pictures I edited this week:
The picture will be quite small on the website so small details do not really matter that much. But since this gang was really working and working, everyone turned out differently in different pictures, so this is really a clip of two pictures.
Here you see before and after editing:
A little difference huh! If an editing project like this takes time for a beginner like me? Answer yes, haha! Unreasonably long time, not at all defensible really. But I think it's fun too, so it's hard to stop once I start!
Reader question about the health journey
“Heeejj! Jag tycker det är intressant att läsa om din hälsoresa du gör. Men det du skrivit är utspritt i flera inlägg, skulle du inte kunna vara snäll och skriva ihop en sammanfattning i nästa söndagsinlägg med vad du gjort för förändringar (i vardagen alltså) och framför allt varför? Jag tycker inte om att följa hälsokonton på instagram för det blir lite för överdrivet för min smak, men jag blir inspirerad när vanliga personer lägger ut tips. Men mest tror jag att det är för att du skriver om en blandning av medicinsk och lite hokuspokus med healing osv :-) vilket gör det roligare. Tack på förhand!”
What luck that you think it's interesting because I'm starting to get scared that you will get tired of me and my throat soon haha :) Here is a summary focusing on the changes as I did:
Problem areas
What problems I have in my body are those that I experience myself and those that I have learned through blood tests and healing.
Feel yourself: Recurrent throat infections with high fever. Has just come out of a stressful period and is not stressed anymore but that kind of thing can sit for a while afterwards. But between the infections, I feel great!
Blood test via Werlabs: Förhöjda blodvärden på röda blodkroppar (inte farligt och beror oftast på vätskebrist) lågt med vitamin b12 (eftersom jag inte ätit kött eller fågel på snart 2 år) samt att jag har bra blodfetter just nu men om man ser på lång sikt så ska jag tänka på kost och träning för att inte vara i riskzonen för hjärt- och kärlsjukdomar. När jag är sjuk så har jag höga infektionsvärden, så det är inte bara “otur med förkylningar” utan högre än så. Jag ligger också utanför referensvärdet på D-vitamin men inte för lågt utan för högt haha! Fast inte farligt högt eller så, men det var intressant tycker jag, behöver inga sådana tillskott i alla fall :)
Healing: I have mercury in my body that I need to clear out. I have an imbalance in my masculine side (right). My sore throat is collective anger and that I have wanted to say no and say what I think but that I have kept it to myself. I also had lumps of energy that stuck like velcro on me because someone threw jealousy and envy at me.
Changed diet
I am already neither very useful nor useless, Miska cooks good food but we also eat a lot of ice cream and goodies;) What I have changed or added is the following:
- Omega3 (for blood fats) both in tablet form and via chia seeds in breakfast.
- Probiotics with good bacteria that are good for lots of things
- Spirulina and blueberries (to cleanse the body of eg mercury) also in breakfast
- Healing water with shungite stones, I have a water purifier so it is very clean water from the beginning and the stones also purify in in the body, from e.g. stress and is anti-inflammatory. In addition, it is good for me to drink extra water for elevated blood levels may be due to dehydration.
- Nettle which I cook myself (dad picks and dries nettles) is good for lots of things, google! In the winter I drank it hot in a mug, now I drink it as a chilled drink in a nice glass :)
Exercise
Jag tycker inte att det är jättekul att träna, men jag har en liten trampmaskin som jag “joggar” på och typ dansar till latinomusik samtidigt :) Och efter gör jag lite styrkeövningar och knipövningar. Jag måste vara lite flamsig när jag tränar, att räkna repetitioner är det värsta jag vet. Sen har jag börjat springa och gå promenader nu i vårvädret också! Det blir inte supertungt för jag tränar hellre lite varje dag än färre hårda pass.
However, it is not possible to get into exercise regularly when you get sick all the time.
Healing & meditation
I have started meditating a lot myself, several times a week, plus I went to a professional healing and am thinking of booking another one. I believe a lot in self-healing, and above all it is science that stress is dangerous and creates diseases (?) And if you can reduce stress with the help of meditation and healing, you get a healthier life from just that!
Just like with training, I do not like to do what someone decides in advance or tells me to do, so I am a little too fuzzy for regular meditation too haha. I can not listen to a meditation with a guiding voice, I just have to have music and run my own race.
Att boka en healing var jättehäftigt tycker jag! I början kände jag mig jättetung, sen blev jag alldeles varm i vänstersidan av huvudet, sen såg jag ett mörkblått mönster när jag blundande (typ som om man skulle gå in i en svart grottöppning med hackiga kanter vid ingången och inne i grottan var det ett mörkblått sken) och sen kände jag pulsen jättestarkt i mina ben i typ en minut. Och i slutet kände jag mig så lätt att jag tänkte tanken “undrar om jag svävar någon millimeter nu?”.
Pure body
I have also taken out my IUD, just for the body to be completely itself. And then I rarely drink alcohol (rarely compared to many) and do not smoke or anything like that. So the body is pretty much itself or what to say, no additives :)
Results?
The throat infections continue, however, so I will go to the Ear-Nose-Throat on 13 May. But I am still convinced that self-care is great too! It is very satisfying to be kind to your body and it is never unnecessary! I will never stop eating ice cream and stuff because I believe in being kind to the soul too;) and I will never be that health junkie who bakes chocolate balls without sugar. But just the thought of being kind to your body and liking it probably makes the body kinder to me too! :)
Here is my nettle tea that I enjoyed this week in the spring sun for a while every day! To live in the country this fine spring is meditation just that, when the hens walk around and peck in the garden and the only thing that is heard is the chirping of birds which is occasionally interrupted by bile from the roosters ♥
Save in mutual funds & shares - adult points
I think I should take some responsibility for my finances and not just have a savings account without interest but actually get some return. I hate risks, but when I go through the options locked fixed interest rate account and funds with super low risk, the return is so small that I can almost have them left in the savings account instead haha.
I have done a lot of research on this because I am a 100% beginner, which was the most boring research I have ever done. Then I just drove!
My distribution of my savings:
- 1/4 in shares with super high risk in a newly started company that I blogged about in this Sunday post.
- 1/4 in shares with much less risk. This company also usually pays dividends, meaning that you can make money if the company makes a profit without having to sell shares.
- 1/4 in three different funds, one with higher risk, one with medium and one with low risk.
- 1/4 remains in a regular savings account as a safe buffer. To some extent it gets huh;)
So in short, everything is varied risk so it is a mixture of security and that you have a chance to earn really well if you are lucky. There are also different industries, which also provides additional risk diversification than if all companies were about finance, e.g.
Mitt mål med aktierna med superhög risk är att dom ska tredubblas och då ska jag ta ut summan som jag investerade – då är det bara “bonuspengar” som ligger och växer. Pengar som jag aldrig har haft.
Den mer säkra aktieinvesteringen har tidigare gått mycket upp och ner och jag misstänker att det kommer fortsätta så. Obs 100% nybörjaranalys. Så min hoppfulla plan där är att få utdelning, därefter vänta in en “topp” och då sälja aktierna med bra förtjänst. Sen väntar jag tills dom har en dipp och då köper jag samma igen! OM planen går som jag tänker mig (vilket ju absolut inte är det minsta säkert haha) så har jag räknat på att jag kan plocka ut typ 30 000 i utdelning + avkastning på kanske 1,5 år.
How old do I not sound now? Miska has been a sounding board but I have done everything myself! Everything from opening an ISK account to finding all funds and shares and buying them. Worst independent right;)
Miska is a little worried about how I will react if I lose money, and it can happen that everything goes to the forest. But it's not like playing the lottery and just being lucky, I've actually thought through this a lot and even if something turns out to be a minus business, shouldn't everything be? You have to take some risks sometimes and I have not invested everything I own and have and do not risk personal bankruptcy or so :)
I was sooo excited after this! First immediately after I bought all the funds and shares and then when I went into my account an hour later and saw that I already earn 275 kronor haha! The future will show how smart or unsmart moves I made this day;)
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people will not, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can not.
You may be jealous of me now but I have otherwise had a very quiet work week!
Monday - A long day in the city with various errands (blood tests, bvc, fix and leave financial data + had customers at the salon) but also had time to practice swimming in the middle of the day! Luxury!
Tuesday - Worked from home and got a lot done. Miska did not sleep at home so then I could be an old ordinary workaholic-Helena and work until late at night. So I checked a lot of things on the to-do list!
Wednesday - Work from home in the morning, then a long coffee break in the sun before we had staff meetings in town.
Thursday - Sunbathed all day and instead worked in the afternoon from 3 pm onwards.
Friday - Worked from home between 8-12 then we went home to our friends Monica and Niklas and hung out with them all afternoon!
Saturday - Worked between 8-11 then free all the sunny weekend!
Being able to set up your work week like this is absolutely amazing! Think I can adapt my working days to the weather? Of course it has its drawbacks too and OJ what we have struggled to get here. And note I can not have it like this every week for the rest of my life from now on;) But still, I enjoy!
Jag och Annika satt och pratade lite om det i veckan, för hon har öppnat sitt schema i maj och juni nu och ska börja ta lite kunder. Då har jag och Miska bebisen :) Men vi måste kolla upp hur det är med skatt och sånt när man både är mammaledig och jobbar, hur mycket lön man får ta o.s.v. Jag sa att så länge det funkar ekonomiskt i företaget så ska hon ta så mycket lön som det går, för jag och Miska tar ju ut full lön (dock är vi dom två som har minst lön i hela företaget hehe) även fast vi också jobbar mindre än förut nu när vi är “bonusföräldrar”. Så det är ju orättvist om hon är den enda som straffas ekonomiskt nu när hon blivit mamma.
Then we got into the topic of conversation to be worth her salary, she thinks that if she does not work 100% then she is not worth a full salary. Because even if she starts to take some customers, she does not work as much as me and Miska. While I think that 1. she has been working 300% for 12 years now so she is definitely worth it. And 2. why should you build a company to get freedom and security if you still do not let yourself enjoy it when you have succeeded?
Nu handlar det ju inte om att vi inte vill jobba alls, det vill vi ju! Men det är skillnad på jobba för att det är roligt och jobba bara för att man måste piska sig själv för att förtjäna sin lön :) Det här är verkligen jag och Annika i ett nötskal, båda tycker att den andra förtjänar ALLT men själv känner man alltid att man inte bidrar tillräckligt. Det enda riktiga problemet är ju att man ska få ihop det i företagsekonomin, sen vem som är “värd” mest är ju ett hitte-på-problem egentligen så länge alla är nöjda, vilket alla är :)
There has been a lot of sun and rest this week! Here I am and Annika's cat Tussen who is 19 years old now! I was only 6 years old when she was born so we are almost the same age haha :)
Hope you had a good week too!
Hug, hug, hug! ♥
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