5 Harsh Realities Of Starting A Business

Every successful business owner will tell you about the long hours they put in before their business finally took off. They tell you about the financial and lifestyle sacrifices they made, how many times they traded a night out with the girls/guys for a night in crunching numbers. Yet I only seemed to see the
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I have always been one to do first and think later. There’s no better way to learn than jumping straight into the deep end. I set up and launched Pretty Pickles in a month and have been learning since. The momentum was great at the beginning but now I catch myself using the same excuses
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More often I am finding myself mentoring young people, which I find highly enjoyable (possibly stemming from my one time aspiration of wanting to be a high-school principal). I know being 30 to some is young, but to the people I mentor, I am old and wise. I think I was probably old and wise
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What would you do if money were no object? It’s a common question people ask when they are at a crossroads in their career. I’ve hit this fork in the road and am presently at a standstill. Whilst a lot of my spare time goes to Pretty Pickles, I still hold a day job in
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It’s amazing what we are capable of doing when there is no one to do it for us.

This came to me as I was standing on a chair in my shorts and high-heeled boots in my shop with drill in hand, driving it into a brick wall to mount our beautiful canvas manifesto.

After 18 months of running my business by using a diary and printed out excel spread sheets, I thought it was time to look into something which made a lot more sense and looked more professional to my clients rather then a diary with lots of unreadable scribble and highlights. I had this awesome idea
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