It all started about 7 years ago; I had this brilliant idea...Music meets Design, meets merchandising...the perfect marriage! It seemed a lot easier said than done. However the time was not right and the ‘University of Life’ still had a few valuable lessons to teach me. Fast forward 6 years, and a year ago I decided it was now or never, I don’t know why I felt that way...after pondering on it for a few weeks I decided screw it, I’m throwing my balls to the wall and I’m going to do it! And so my journey began. Looking back I am glad I didn’t try starting this project 7 years ago, it would have been a disaster.
It’s taken a year, 4 designers later and here we are on the precipice of printing our first set of designs. It is a triumphant feeling!
So I guess my very first lesson is that I have learned is it take sheer determination and guts to stand up and say I am going to start my own business. In the year that I have tried to get this baby off the ground I have approached a lot of people to assist in some way or another and very few of them have stood up to the plate. Now 1 year later the more people I tell about my little venture the more people want and are willing to help. It would have been easy to give up after the 5th rejection, throw in the towel because no one else believed in what I did or believed in me the way I did. In the end it boils down to whether you have the determination to keep moving and the guts to carry on in the face of rejection, or do you whittle away at the prospects of what other people think? I’m certain that my days of rejection are not over, in fact I can guarantee that there will be many more along this path, but I think I have enough faith in my own ability to know that what others think is merely their own opinion and their opinion doesn’t necessarily make them right. Hey Robert Mugabe has an opinion after all and it doesn’t necessarily make him right!
Here is how I see it...I don't think I'm going to fail, but if I were to fail then all I can say is I was wrong, & the hardened realists who kept their feet on the ground were right. But at least I tried and my life is richer for it!
This blog is my journey, a chronically of doing business my way ...Business according to Thuli. Although I have yet to succeed in the conventional sense I know that with every lessoned learned along the way, good or bad, therein lies the success. This is going to be the wildest ride of my life. I have no doubt that it will be thrilling, exciting, nerve wrecking, exhausting, even terrifying at times...hopefully at the end of it all, I’ll have a great story to tell my grandchildren!
This is Thuli signing out!
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