It’s been more than a week since I last posted on this blog; and I was just uploading articles I’ve been keeping for more than a while inside my desk drawer. There are several reasons for this break – and for a bunch of papers piled up in my room still waiting for me to review them – that I will not bore you with them. The good news is that this hiatus has provided me the opportunity to put my hands and challenge my mind with thoughts in the area of small businesses and start-ups, that sometimes I feel about to explode trying to generate more productive ideas, and come up with effective tasks that will balance my performance on the different projects I’m right now.
Something that it’s being said a lot, and you may not realize till you experience it, is that the hardest parts to make a dreamed work comes true are long hours of combined work, critical decision making, and moments of trial and errors in the beginning phase. I don’t know you but for me it’s exciting to start a new project but it also brings me the uncertainties of what to really expect, what to remember from past experiences, and what it’s worth doing and bringing to the table, that I have to take time and wonder where am I in all this. Start-ups always take too much time – I’ve lived it since I was a child- and let’s be honest most of this time is unpaid; it’s a voluntary situation that I know if I keep looking at it with the same passion I used to talk and think about before, it will make a difference. The feeling and natural intention that define part of me is that thing that helps me go that extra mile to leave my mark and help myself be recognized for what I do. As for the moments of trial and errors, I still remember they are pretty common at the beginning of any endeavor. First because, in my case, I tend to measure myself based on whether or not my strengths or weaknesses fit into a certain activity, and also because any project carries long hours of defining and determining strategies required for it to become successful. Even when trials and errors causes me expenses, at least for the time consumed, right?, I can see it’s money and investment I am pouring into my skills development and professional expertise, hopefully. I’ve always known and been so lucky finding that there is ‘something new’ I could share with somebody someday from these experiences.
From last year, my mind has been busy thinking and helping me to define strategies for sale, exporting goods, and offering some sort of a discount system to my small base clients in South America, and now, this mid year I got involved in two great conversations and projects: one related to vegetarian/raw food products and other related to a multilingual and diverse small business community. I particularly believe that nothing gives you more invaluable perspectives quickly on how small businesses work in the USA than when you try to help running one, participate in one, or find a way to see closer how it progresses. 🙂
Anyway, there are bunch of ideas that still need to be in place but for a fulfilling experiment it’s worth trying to be a part of it. Enjoy your day.