It is so important to keep learning.

As a business owner, it can be incredibly easy to find yourself stuck in the day-to-day, working through invoices, wholesale orders, timelines, vase shipments, and so on. Sometimes, when you're stuck in those things, it can be hard to remember to dream. And if I never started to dream in the first place, then I certainly wouldn't be where I am now--so why would I allow myself to stop dreaming for the future? 

Becoming stagnant is one of the worst things that a company can do. Take the taxi industry, for example. Every taxi company did all the same things for how many years...until Uber came along. And with one little app, the company is changing the entire industry. Perhaps, if one of those other taxi companies had dreamed a little more along the way, they wouldn't be suffering so much now.

As a business owner, the last thing that I want to do is become stagnant--the idea of offering my brides the same things as every other floral designer, or the same style and offerings that have been available to Winnipeg brides for the last how many years--well, that thought just doesn't interest me at all.

So, how do I keep learning and growing? Well, I'm going to be out of the studio next week, heading down to Dallas to learn from one of my flower idols, Bows & Arrows! I love the opportunity to attend workshops and aim to do so once a year. For the last two years, I've gone down to North Carolina to attend Team Flower Workshop where I've expanded my design skills, studied business applications, and grown my mind in wonderful ways. I've taken online courses on bouquet design, centrepiece design, ceremony design along with wedding styling and the less-exciting topics of taxes and finances. And I've loved ALL of it. 

So, with that, I'll leave you all the promise that I will keep learning and growing, investing in my craft, always with the goal of providing my brides with the best possible wedding experience I can give them. 

Photos by Holly Carlisle Photography from my time at Team Flower Workshop last spring.