Today marks the end of the second week of the Green Couture ‘in the flesh’ store being open. I also have a Green Couture on-line store – this went ‘live’ in January this year.
The on-line store was another of those steps that happen along the way to the dream being realised.
Who knows that starting your own venture requires investment?
Lots of your time, your effort, your money…
On the subject of finance, ‘The Wait’, catch up here (if you missed last week’s post), also resulted in finance being available to launch the Green Couture website, the on-line store & now the physical store… it’s all about the right timing! Don’t try to make things happen at the wrong time!
It’s so easy to get distracted. I was having coffee with the lovely and wise Amanda Viviers earlier this year and she said something along the lines of ‘don’t compare what you’re doing with what other people are doing’.
Inspiration is great but not when you lose track of your own idea & start trying to recreate someone else’s dream, becoming a rip off of someone else, not the true version of you & what you’re meant to achieve.
If you’re building something stick to your vision; check regularly that you’re on track…
Don’t get sidelined by someone else’s dream…
Don’t be afraid to make adjustments, do something different or entirely can an idea, you can always go back to the drawing board if it doesn’t feel like the right fit.
Being able to adjusting things as we go is very freeing. We don’t have to be slaves to what we’ve put in place, what we thought it might look like.
When something doesn’t work out how we might have envisaged we can
re-set…
re-think…
re-adjust…
One of the things I enjoy about Green Couture is people. Relationships you’re your suppliers, clients & neighbouring businesses.
The myriad of different people you come into contact with who were all there doing their thing before you started your business but now your worlds have collided.
Opportunities!
to relate…
to be-friend…
to influence…
to be kind…
Life is rich!
Hope your Friday is going magnificently,
Images – Krysta Guille Photography, Best in Park, Empirical Style & Ziporah
Dog accessories, wooden pendant lights & towels available at the Green Couture Store Online
I’ll have to make a visit to Albany to see your beautiful store. Thanks for sharing the realities of a start up creative enterprise.
I want to visit too!!!