Not that I am highly successful now, mind you.
After my bitching in the last post, I have finally seen the light. Well, sort of. Just so you know, I am no longer suicidal (or were actually suicidal at all). But the stress and pressure of running our own business, taking care of a young household, doing part-time work, blogging for money and basically doing everything for survival can be rather daunting. In fact, I felt like I was encased in a high tension bubble that felt like bursting any second. The pressure was so high I just had to let off steam and that leads to my previous insane post.
Now that the bubble has sorta deflated without bursting, I suddenly realised that if we had not undergone all these pressure, all these stress, all these tests, how are we to survive when times are really bad? So, it is true what they say. It is when you fail that you can really succeed. For if you don’t fail, how are you going to learn from your failure to improve and then head on to success? Without failure, we would not have known how to fight for success. Without failure, we would not have known whether we are on the right path or the wrong path. Without failure, we would not have grown and matured and become wiser. Without failure, we would not have learnt to make better decisions, to come up with creative ideas, to think out of the box.
After going through our financials (which are not looking all the great) and our options, we found a way to improve our chances. We think out of the box and come up with new ways to improve our business. So, yes, perhaps we need to fall, to fail, to face so much adversity so that we could get out of the rut we have fallen in and start climbing again. Not that we were complacent all these months, mind you. We were fighting hard to keep the business alive but we were not doing anything different.
This month marks the first anniversary of starting our own bridal photography studio business. While we are not wildly successful or earning millions, we are getting by. We are paying the bills (well, most of it anyway). We are not starving and importantly, we still have each other. Perhaps it is time we take this business to a higher level of success. We do not aim to become millionaires but at the very least, we want to be able to pay all our bills, all our debts, everything and still have some leftover for retirement. That’s all we ask for.
So, wish me luck and perhaps next, I will share with you our formula for success.
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