Whether you say you can, or you can’t, you’re right.
This picture pops up in my feed annually around this time every year. For those that don’t know, my wife’s side of the family has run a barbecue catering company and meat market that dates back to 1880. While the barbecue catering business is a good one, what we don’t do is festivals. Well, back in 2018 one of my favorite questions to ask was “why don’t we do festivals?”
The answer I always received was always along the lines of “it’s difficult and who says people will show or buy our food with so many options?”
My stubborn response? Challenge accepted.
For one night and one night only, I wanted to prove that this could work. So among seven other food vendors, we set up to sell pulled pork and Italian sausages at our local Independence Day festival.
By the end of the night, we had sold out of both items. Over 500 orders in 3 hours.
While it couldn’t have gone any better, I understood what was meant by it being difficult once the night was done. This business isn’t easy. And while I learned that lesson, the opportunity to do it is something I’m never going to forget, because in my mind, I didn’t want to believe something wouldn’t work without trying.
Take the initiative, act on your ideas, work hard and everything else will follow.
#mindset #hardwork #ideas
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