THE BENEFITS OF SMALL
It’s FUNNY how seemingly bad things turn out to be GREAT things and tough times turn to FOND memories.
On leaving corporate land and a monthly salary and starting love Kate, finances took on new meaning. For the first time in my working life, no money was coming in and lots was going out. I was on my own and there was no one to lighten the load.
Everything that was once covered was now a cost - car, computer, phone, right down to the paper in the printer.
To survive the day to day and start paying for a business with no product and therefore no sales, I kept it SMALL.
I worked from the local library and for my first love Kate sourcing trip to Hong Kong, two months in, the hotel room was so tiny I had to stow one suitcase in the shower, the other beside me on my single bed. The width of the room was that of my arms outstretched. A far cry from my BIG, SWANKY digs afforded in corporate life.
But it was NEW and FUN. It was motivating.
I didn’t have a business card, I didn’t have a work email address, and I didn’t quite know what the product would be.
My first exhibit was two months later, four months in, and the stand was 1 x 2 metres. I stood for four days straight as a chair would have taken up too much space.
My first deliveries of stock were stored beside my parents parked cars in their garage. It was scary and I felt fully exposed. But it was EXHILIRATING. I was ON MY WAY and I had SMALL ORDERS from stores I’d ADMIRED for years.
I’d achieved something and life found an EXCITING NEW RHYTHM.
The benefits of SMALL proved BIG.