After stints in customer service and retail, New York–based designer Rayman Boozer found his creative calling in interiors. Once he reframed his perspective to see opportunities instead of obstacles, he saw big-time results—including a magazine feature that jump-started his career.
When you look back, what beliefs or practices were keeping you from reaching your goals?
People ask me all the time, “How did you get the money to start your business?” But it’s not really about the money, it’s about making the decision to do it and then following through. It sounds simple now, but I’ve had a lot of time to look back, and when you decide you’re going to do something, at some point it’s going to get hard. And when it gets hard, you can’t stop—that’s why people fail. They just stop trying. You have to go another way. If you can’t go through the door, you go through the window.
For a long time, I felt like I was spinning my wheels. At every roadblock, I thought, “Why does this always happen to me?” But I came to the realization that life isn’t happening to you, it’s happening for you. As I started thinking differently, things started to get better.
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