Starting a Business

SO with the combination of a rainy week, a needy 2 year old, a hard working / late home hubby and a zero sales at the market time I have been feeling somewhat low this week. I struggle to find any time to play in my own playroom and can't get Jack to play in his no matter how hard I try!! I wrestle with guilt at wanting to do my own thing sometimes and then it is hard to justify when things start so slow. So I awoke this morning to pouring rain, but somehow the personal cloud had lifted!! You see 4.5 yrs ago my husband answered an ad in the paper that simply said "Gutter Cleaners wanted" and the phone number. Jay and I had been working a number of crappy jobs since arriving in Canada and he was then working a sales job that he couldn't abide. He said he was going to give this a go and if it was bearable then it was better than where he was. Spring forward 4.5 years and now see a man with a successful window and gutter cleaning company in the Cowichan Valley and today is the official take over of the Victoria area too!! It sounds so romantic and alluring for success doesn't it - but I can now look back and see where and how he has achieved this and how he has made opportunity where for many none would have existed. Jay never once questioned his goals - he knew what he wanted to do very early on and he would talk abt them in an almost mantra way - I guess it is what the secret is all about. He worked hard!! Day in and day out he has been up and down ladders - rain, shine more rain (this is BC) never once did I hear him moan, complain or bitch about the work he was doing - infact I always forgot the dirty type of work he did because he behaved completely professionally and usually had a positive spin on whatever job he was doing from great views, nice customers to not getting soaked through until after lunch this time. The romance of owning your own company and building it to a tangible business really is paved with determination, vision, self belief and head down nitty, gritty work. The days arean't usually full of these "aha" moments they are usually full of the same thing each and every day - but when these aha moments happen, these goal markers, it is good to put your head up for a second just to look back and go "man..look how far I've come!"....but then put your head back down, pull up your collar and get back on that ladder with the biggest smile on your face.

I guess I need to learn from my man how to make a successful business. Stop complaining, doubting and bitching...get my head down, my hands dirty and stop expecting aha moments everyday!