And how true this saying goes… more often than not, we give up just one foot before we reach the gold, surrendering to the trodden path of dismay and peer pressure. It is the few, those who press on in such shitty times, who finally find the buried treasure, and god is it revitalising.
3 months into business, after my departure from the armed forces, it seems like such a short time I couldn’t even begin counting from where I started off. It was all just a concept, a paper proposal and a couple of business models on my laptop, and now, it’s the fully furnished office, ongoing corporate jobs and contracts, and new marketing developments. (Of course, revenue too).
Honestly, while I have been in and out of various ventures, this is the first of such scale, and complexity. And with such complexity comes the painstaking steps of kicking off the operations. I vividly recall the lonely moments of designing the catalogues, the numerous meetings with the web programmer, the excitement of buying furniture, the boredom of typing corporate correspondences, and the downtimes when big deals are lost when you’re a step from sealing it…
The past three months was, honestly, like shit. Orders were crawling, I literally mean CRAWLING! And the many hefty purchases made left me pulling my hair out over revenue and profit. All while having to maintain the cool and calm front in the face of clients and shareholders. Physically, emotionally, psychologically it was a toll, and a great one. The imbalanced schedules and the total lack of exercise.
But this month, everything came back. All the efforts which seemed to pour out into and abyssal space came flooding back in the form of numerous orders, so many I’m finding it a little hard to cope. Not that I should start getting over excited, but do allow me this little bit of time to just jump around in euphoria.
It shows, as I have always said to myself during the shittier times, the universe will reward those who put their heart and soul into pursuing whatever they are pursuing. In such a way, the world is quite fair.
