What's your flavour? Please choose one
When you start your business, you are a one stop shop: you offer everything and anything: you provide all goods and services. You deal with all manner of clients, some pay you, most don't. The quality of services and products is very poor and you are constantly making losses even on the simplest jobs. You don't understand what is happening; you think you need to be everywhere.
More than five years have passed and you have a smaller list of products or services that your business deals in. With your renewed sense of focus, you are an expert in the field which increases customers' confidence in your company, your efficiency is at a high level and you can charge more. The company continuously improves on it's delivery and is able to grow as demand from customers keeps surging.
Are you still drinking all kinds of soda flavours, or do you have just one that you like? Send me an email.
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Growing up, as the festive season drew closer, I'd get excited mostly because of all the food that would be available. In particular, was Chapati which was not as commonly prepared as it is today. I used to sneak into the kitchen at night just to steal a couple of chapatis to hide; it was that valuable. The icing on the cake, for us children, was soda. During the festivities, soda was bought in crates so all the flavours were available: cola, orange, blackcurrant, passion..... all there. The boy in me wanted all of them because this was a once in a lifetime chance (it was a few times in the year but for the 6,7 year old me, 6 months was as long as 10 years).
You get older and you are good enough to eat one or two pieces of chapati and drink just one bottle of one flavour of soda (I don't even drink it now). It is a conscious decision after years of indigestion and other stomach ailments. You get time to enjoy the food, savour it's taste and actually laugh at a story someone is giving as you continue.