Taking the leap to start a business | Business mindset, learning from failures, growing a business
hey guys welcome back to another video today's video is about taking the leap to start a business this video is quite a general video so i'm hoping that it applies to a variety of business types it will also apply to catering and like cakes baking all of that because that's the background that i'm from but i wanted it to be accessible to everyone i recently watched an interview which i really want you guys to watch because it was very very enlightening and i resonated a lot with grace and it is the stephen bartlett podcast um so if you go on youtube and search grace beverly and stephen bartlett you'll be able to find it and it's basically about how she started her business and i think it's called like something like how she became a millionaire i'm not quite sure like for certain but if you just type in their names it will come up straight away and they basically just talk about how she started her business the struggles the mindset that you need to have and i just resonated a lot with it and i really wanted to talk to you guys and kind of share my thoughts and give you my advice for taking the leap and hopefully it will be helpful for you guys before we get into the video i just want to quickly say two things first the merch is now available um so it's now on the website it's now live so you can go and check out and actually buy the merch if you want to there's hoodies t-shirts and there's also art prints so yeah feel free to go and check that out it's www.sweetthingsby.co.uk and the podcast is coming out tomorrow so the introduction podcast is already on the spotify because i wanted to have it available for you guys to go and follow so you can go and follow the podcast ready for tomorrow's episode and that is an episode about business i haven't decided yet because i'm filming it this afternoon but i'm hoping it's going to be about an hour long and we're going to be discussing business related things and there's also going to be a cake dilemma series coming up where you submit your dilemmas and just like experiences things that have gone wrong things that have gone right and then i can just give my advice and thoughts on them and yeah so if you want to go and follow the podcast it is the kate diaries on spotify and i will be on the face of the cover so you'll be able to know which one it is um but yeah so make sure you go and follow that and then there'll be another episode coming out tomorrow which is the first like proper episode the one that's on there currently is just published mainly so that you can see the podcast but also so that you just get an introduction of what it's going to be like but yeah so that is coming tomorrow but we're going to get right into the video because that is all the announcements for today so i have my book here just a quick note how gorgeous is this book it's from wilco's and i feel like i've got my own burn book out of mean girls i absolutely love it but we have our notes there's quite a lot to get through they're all in um bullet points so hopefully you know easy to understand just chilled conversation about starting a business so in order to take the leap to start business there's various things that come into it and they were sort of discussing on this podcast that some of it is due to necessity and some of it is due to um just wanting to do something but not necessarily having the guts to do it so i wanted to discuss this because this is very relevant to me um so for those of you that don't know i've only been running this business since june last year and that was because i was a credit controller and i have trained in accounting so i'm fully trained and aat like qualified all of that but i went to a credit control team when i came back from volunteering in africa and i was in accounts payable before so i paid invoices and it was all sort of hunky-dory easy work and then i went into the debt collecting side and for those of you that don't know it can be very stressful especially when covert hits and no one's got any money to pay you um so it just got very very stressful and um the workplace wasn't that healthy i don't think um but yeah like apart from that um i just wanted to leave basically and it was out of necessity that i was like well i either leave and have no job or i try something and if it works it works if it doesn't it doesn't so that's why when a lot of people say to me i get so many messages saying like how did you know you'd make enough money to survive every month how did you know you'd get customers and it's like i didn't um i just took the leap because i was in need of money and i was so desperate to leave my job because like i wasn't sleeping none of that so i think it really does depend on your situation as to whether you actually take the leap because again i get so many messages from people that say they're thinking about starting a business but they haven't done it yet and some of them might never actually start it and that there's nothing wrong with that um but it really just depends where your mindset is and also your situation because that really plays a part in it so we're gonna work our way through these bullet points so the first one is do you have time a lot of people underestimate the amount of time that starting your own business has or like takes up um i probably work every day like i don't have a specific day off any days i do have off i'm answering um cake inquiries i'm replying to comments on youtube i'm doing other admin um buying ingredients on my days off like there's so many things that come into it and anything to do on my website obviously people can buy stuff on my website again any day of the week so if they have any queries if someone purchases something i need to add it to my order log so i do that all on my sort of days off so it really just depends if you have the time to put into it it also depends what you want it to be because you could have three hours a day to put into your business and it might make a comfortable income but if you want it to be this big business and you've got big dreams for it which i definitely do for mine then i need to be putting in you know 10 hours a day and that's what it takes and it's really like it can be stressful at times and it is a lot of work like i don't leave my phone alone half the time people probably just think like my family probably just think i'm on my phone but a lot of the time it's like looking for new cake ideas um replying to messages replying to emails checking my website updating listings editing photos like instagram posts all of it is so time consuming so you need to make sure that you are fully invested in it and that it's not just something that you want to do because everyone else is doing it because it sounds harsh but bacon businesses especially um you kind of a lot of people have started them i know i was one of them um that started in lockdown and it was the fad like everyone was doing it and i sort of did it for a couple of weeks and then i like while i was still working i was like actually i really enjoy this um it's less of a like i want to just do it because everyone else is doing it was more because i actually enjoyed it and then that's why i started it and i've seen so many people that are now stopping their businesses and i'm some of them i'm not even sure if they registered um but they're all now going back to work which there's again nothing wrong with but they obviously realized that it wasn't something that they wanted to do permanently and it was just for lockdown so you want to make sure that it's like a definite decision because when you're changing your life so much to like leave a job or to put money into this business and register it and all of that you want to make sure that you actually want to do it um and that you have the time to do it the next one is that you've got the confidence to do it this one is really a big player i think in this because like i say so many messages from people that are worrying they're doubtful of how much money they'll make and if i'm completely honest i just wanted to leave my job i didn't really care how much money i earned because i just wanted to leave i was like if i earn like 200 pounds a month it's gonna be at least it'll be less stressful than what i was doing before so it got to the point where i was just so desperate to leave that i would take any wage which some of you might be able to resonate with you might be wanting to leave your job and you're thinking as long as i can pay my bills which mine are only 400 pounds a month i'm thinking well as long as i earn 400 pounds a month i can pay my bills like i'm not worried about anything else and that was out of necessity if there isn't that um like eagerness there then sometimes you will never do it and i think that is um a lot of people's issue is if they're in a job which pays them well and it's not bad they will happily still work there but they would prefer to run their own business if they had a choice a lot of people won't do it because they think to themselves well i'm in a very cushy position i've got a good wage i don't mind my job it's not like i hate it and i'm comfortable i know how to do this job i'm not working 12 hours a day so there are a lot of things that come into it but you need to weigh up whether you want to stay in that job for the rest of your life or you don't it's literally as simple as that and i think that's why i wanted to call this taking the leap because it is a leap like a lot of the time you are making a very big decision especially if you have kids like luckily for me i don't have any dependence if you have a partner if you have kids you do have a lot more to think about in that sense which luckily for me i didn't um so it meant that i could sort of think for myself and not for anyone else which sounds really selfish but um i kind of had to think for myself because i feel like i was going stir crazy um working in my old job but yeah you have to think for yourself but also make sure that you can cover yourself i although i did take this leap and i didn't know how much money i was going to earn i did work out my bills i did cancel things that weren't essential so there are ways that you can cut costs make sure that when you're starting your business you're not spending on unnecessary things and you are buying things that you need to start the business also be smart with how much money you earn um like when it comes to stock you can because it's likely that there is a labor cost so say um something cost 10 pounds and then you charge 20 well that 10 pounds might be the hour of your labor so what you can do is when you make that 20 you can then buy two of the things that you sold and then when those two sell then you can buy four so you spend the profit and put it back into the business so that you continue to grow as a business and that's usually how it works you have to put a lot of money into your business for it to grow and if you want it to stay the same then it can stay the same but um if you have aspirations for your business to grow then you want to be able to have that mindset where you can plan it and put the time and effort into it to make it grow the next thing like i've been saying is necessity a lot of the time if it's not necessary for you to do something you won't i find that my most motivational moments are when i think to myself right i've bought all this stock i need to make the money back from it because i don't want it just sitting around so then i'm sat there advertising it i'm making tick tocks instagram posts i'm you know like with my moulds and things like that whenever i'm like right i've just got a delivery i need to make sure that i'm promoting this because otherwise it's just gonna be sat there you want to make sure that you're getting that money back that you're spending um so and also like if you're leaving your job you're gonna be more motivated to start something because you need the money whereas if you are leaving a job to start something else then you're going to be worried that about that pay decrease but what i would say for that is try and go part-time um if you really want to start a business whatever it is try and go part-time do it in your free time make it your hobby and then if you really like it then you can turn that hobby into a career and then hopefully you'll be earning enough money to actually leave your job and do that without having to worry about it so that's what i'd say in terms of if you're worrying about money if you have a job already that you are happy to stay in it's not like you need to leave whereas for me it was more that i needed to leave so i didn't really mind how much money i earn so it like i say it depends what your situation is the next thing is doubt what i would say to this is do it for yourself like i cannot stress that enough i again i know i'm it's like a broken record but i do get a lot of messages about stuff like this everything that i'm covering in this video i get a lot of messages about and one of them is my family don't believe in me they think that it's just a hobby they don't want to pay me because they don't think my skill is good enough and what i would say is prove them wrong like i'm going to be completely honest my first few cakes were not great like they they looked okay there wasn't you know that much wrong with them they just needed a bit of perfecting but that's completely okay for someone that's literally started like a month before um but honestly like the cakes i make now i am proud of like the ever since probably the new year i've been really like upping my game with decorating and they have just got even better and i know that sounds like i'm really big headed but you have to be able to hype yourself up because obviously not everyone else is going to be able to do that for you some people will hype you up and they'll praise you and say when you're doing really well but you need to know when you are doing well and if you look at your business and you go no i think i'm doing really well with this i think it's going to go somewhere i've got big dreams for it then do it don't worry about what anyone else thinks and if people say that they don't want to pay for your cakes for example because that is the top one that i get then just prove them wrong get customers who will pay and then they'll be shown okay people do want to pay for their cakes and maybe me as a family member or a friend i should be more than happy to pay for their cakes because everyone else is like a lot of time it takes it to prove it takes you to prove someone wrong for them to then realize that you were going somewhere with it it wasn't just a phase especially with lockdown and a lot of people starting various different businesses i think a lot of people do think they're phases so if anyone is in doubt then just prove them wrong because you've got to remember they're not the ones doing the work you are so if they don't believe in you it doesn't really matter because you're the one that's got to put in the work so as long as you believe in yourself to start this business and work it and build it and you know let it grow into this amazing business then as long as you are fully invested in it it really doesn't matter because you're not financially reliant on anyone else because you're starting this business for you this is me assuming but like i'm not financially reliant on anyone so just make sure that you're doing it for you and don't do it for anyone else and that comes also into play with the type of business that you open if you think to yourself i want to open a fashion business but you know like a clothing brand but you think well i think other people would want me to do this well you know whatever business you want to do however big you want it to be whatever dreams you have for it do it for yourself because you are you're only you're the only person that can make yourself do it so as much as other people can support you and say how great your business is they're not doing the work so you really do have to be like your number one supporter and just make sure that you're doing it for the right reasons because yeah a lot of the time no one's going to be there to push you along you have to make yourself do the work so yeah just make sure you're doing something that you want to do and this goes for when you're sat in a job and you think about starting a business i've always wanted to be my own boss always ever since i got an apprenticeship i loved like working at the council and all of that there was nothing wrong with that job that i had um which was before i went volunteering but i just always wanted to be this like free spirit that was able to make my own hours and that kind of started when i went volunteering because as soon as i went volunteering i was my own boss i was you know i was away for three months in another country living there and i was just like you know i'm doing what i want i'm living my life and then i came back back to reality and i was like oh i need to get a job and that kind of was just when i was like i don't wanna i did two different jobs both one was for six months and one was for a year and both of them i was just like i'm not happy i don't want to be doing this and all of my if most if not all of my siblings i think bar one are all self-employed um so yeah actually one of them works for the council but all of the others are self-employed including me so it just shows you we're all very independent people we all like to be our own bosses and we're all starting our own businesses growing them into these amazing things so yeah i just make sure that you're not staying in a job because you think you have to just yeah do what you want to do and also if you've got the qualifications you can always fall back on it like that's what i did i've got my accountancy qualifications so like i always say this to the younger crowd that watch me but make sure that you're doing your gcses make sure you do all the qualifications that you have to do i've obviously left school so i'm not sure if a levels are now compulsory to stay to 18 i think it is but just make sure that you get all of those even if you do cakes on the side whilst you're still in school learning just make sure that you get those because then it means that you've got something to fall back on providing you know something went wrong you do have qualifications to be able to get another job which is what i do i've got accountancy qualifications i can go and get a reasonably paid job um when if well i don't want to say when but if anything went wrong um i would be able to have something to fall back on so yeah make sure that you have some qualifications because that always helps you out in the future next thing is that you have the ideas to put towards the business so i would say that you have to be a little bit of a creative person or you have to be in a partnership with someone creative so some people start businesses together some people start them on their own i am the admin the creative side the cake maker i am everything all in one you know marketing everything if you have particular strengths which you like and then there's certain things which you just can't do then you might find that you need to partnership with someone that is better in those areas and then they can obviously help you grow the business and they can focus on those areas and you focus on yours i personally like this sounds again a little bit big headed but i don't think i need anyone to do any of that for me i think i manage quite fine on my own obviously as i expand i will need to ask for help um but at this point i think i'm all right on my own and some of you may find that you are able to do everything yourself and that is one of the key like traits which is really good for starting a business because if you're able to be self-sufficient because one it saves you money being able to do everything yourself um because you're not having to employ people and and also just outsource it in general um but i find that you learn a lot of things when you start your own business so if you've got the traits where you think you know i'm really creative so i can come up with all these ideas i'm dedicated to putting all the time that needs to be put in and all the hard work then i don't see any issues that you would have because you learn so much along the way like i learned how to create a website i learned how to make things on word excel powerpoint um you know all of these like techy things that i never used to do that much of i've now learned just because i was on my own i had to i wanted to save money and i taught myself how to do it it's completely doable um so yeah make sure you've got the ideas and the skills to actually put into the business but like i say it's all very learnable a lot of the time you can learn a multitude of things off of youtube a lot of the time i just type something in and i watch 10 minute video and i know how to do it it's so easy these days to just find a tutorial on how to do something so one thing that people don't talk about which was mentioned on this podcast um in detail is about failures and it's quite normal to not want to talk about them but i feel like we kind of need to normalize it a bit because it's the same with me um i get people asking how i get my cakes the way that i do and you know how i grew my business to this point and they they sometimes they don't mean it and i don't take any offense but sometimes it sounds like they think that you've um you know you've started at this point and your cakes were perfect from the beginning or you know they look the way they are from when you started and it's like no that's taken um a lot of time and effort to get to that point and i think it is um common for people not to talk about their failures and it is embarrassing you obviously don't want to talk about them um but that's also why i wanted to do that series on my podcast cake dilemmas because i wanted to be able to discuss with people about dilemmas that come up experiences bad experiences and just kind of give my thoughts and advice and hopefully kind of normalize things going wrong because they do go wrong um and you have to be able to learn from them and then make it a better business in the long run um i am i mean i used to be a very um like negative person i would take everything to heart obviously i have my bad days in terms of like my attitude um maybe towards like other people but i mean we all do but in terms of like my business head i will be upset about something for about half an hour if something goes wrong um like the other day here's a good example i mixed up the labels on two postal boxes so bearing in mind the delivery is five pounds so they went to the wrong places um one was gluten free one was an easter tray so completely the wrong things it's not even like they were two easter trays and they could have swapped so they went to the wrong places and the gluten-free person couldn't eat the easter tray because it wasn't gluten-free and the other person didn't want to eat the gluten-free because they're not gluten-free so they both went in the bin which was i hate wasting stuff so that was a little bit upsetting um because you know it got wasted and so that was number one because even if they could just send it back to me and i would eat it because i just hate waste but it's just unfortunate um so that was 10 pounds worth of delivery i had to remake the items and then i had to send them out and obviously there was a delay um two i think one of them went out two days after and then the other one went out a day after um so obviously there was a delay they got them on the tuesday and they were sent on the friday so they had already waited the weekend to get it because it was bank holiday weekend and then i had to send them out again and they took another so it was probably about a week since i posted it and that they eventually got it and you know luckily they got them they loved them that was fine um but that is one thing that went wrong and if you really think about it this was why i was so annoyed it was not even like the orders were wrong i made the right things i just put the wrong postage label on the outside of the box that is it the smallest mistake and it made such a difference it cost me a little bit of money um out of my own pocket um and i ended up having to send the parcels tracked 24 which is also more expensive and obviously it was my fault so that's completely fine to have to spend the money but i just wanted to mention it because a lot of people think that nothing goes wrong things go perfect um and yeah that happened so that was a bit so destroying because um i've never had that happen before and it's just not nice to do that to a customer either but yeah so things do go wrong and that was really annoying for me because it was for the sake of such a small error it's not even like i made someone the wrong thing i literally just put the wrong labels on um and yeah such a small thing but it made such a big difference and i was annoyed for about half an hour and i was like shouting annoyed like not anyone just like at myself i was just like oh i was like really annoyed and i was like oh that's so stupid like why did i do that that's so stupid i always check what happened and it got to about half an hour later and i was like right snap out of it we've got to get on with work we got a you know move on from it and then i sent out the parcels and as soon as i sent them out like the redos i was just like right weight lifted off my shoulders i'm moving on and that was it but one no one talks about failures which obviously they're not going to because they're not great um and two you need to be able to deal with them and i never used to be like that i used to you know something would go wrong and i would be upset the whole day and it would ruin my day but and they would talk about this on the podcast they were saying that we aren't built to take the amount of stress and criticism that we do because time has moved on so much from where we used to be um that you know you've got social media where people can criticize you at any point for doing the simplest of things maybe it was wrong maybe it was right or maybe it was just in between nothing in particular but you can just get criticized for anything um these days and we're not built for that we you know with there's so many areas that can go wrong and stress and anything like that so you do have to build up a tolerance it's not going to come straight away but you just need to if you get stressed about things and if you worry try and make it positive and be make a conscious effort because i never used to be able to take it's not that i couldn't take criticism i'd take it perfectly fine but then in my own space when that person wasn't there like say it was a bad review then i would be upset in my own space i wouldn't be upset at them and this goes for bad reviews it goes for things going wrong in business and yeah it's just not talked about but it's not something that we're built to do so you do have to build up a tolerance and when things go wrong just try and move on straight away from it it sounds like i'm making it really easy um but it isn't easy and yeah it took me a while to do that but i used to have to do a conscious effort to like make a conscious effort to do it like i would be upset and i'd be like right no we're gonna be more positive today um it's just one of those things but then eventually it comes to second nature and you manage to get over things quicker and as a business that's a something that you need to do because the more you grow the more likely you are to get the odd bad review because you're you're never going to please everyone like that is guaranteed even if your products are amazing you will never please everyone um unfortunately that's how it works and yeah you just have to learn to deal with it um and as the business grows you're going to have more customers which means that you're more likely to have criticism so yeah you just need to learn how to be able to take it because yeah that is something that we are not built to do and again a lot of people post on like cake forums and things like that they post you know i got my first bad review i don't know how to deal with it i am planning to do a how to deal with um bad feedback or reviews video because um i wanted to give some advice on what to offer because a lot of people straight away off a full refund don't even ask for the cake back like completely um kind of go really out of their way when it might not necessarily be their fault so i wanted to do a video on that because there are certain situations where if it's say undercut you wanna um be able to give a refund but if it's not your fault then a lot of people as a new business would jump to you know making the customer happy but sometimes you need to be aware that that might not be the best method um because if it isn't your fault then you're going to be out on a lot of money if you do that um every time someone gives a bad review so yeah i plan to do a video on that because i think that that's quite an important topic and a lot of people don't know how to handle it so i will be doing a video on that um the next thing that i've got down is um to learn what works and learn what doesn't and then to capitalize off of it so this is something that i've actually done quite well i would say so you need to try various things and this goes for any business and you want to make sure that you test out different products test out different say cakes and whichever people find popular and they like then just make more of that or do more of that so whatever it is and i do that with my spreadsheets and with um any like products that i sell is that i know that it works and i know people like it and like the spreadsheets especially it took me a lot of time to make those spreadsheets and obviously now i capitalize off of it because it's something that people like and it's a spreadsheet that people buy all hours of the day so in order to capitalize on something the most it needs to be the most efficient way of doing something and but also makes the most money so i will maybe do a video on this because it is a very like complicated thing um but basically things that you make once and you resell are very good things to capitalize off and it doesn't sort of discredit your time because you've spent a lot of time doing it it's something that someone else can't do so even if you make it once or you make it ten times but then you sell it a hundred times that is still your time that you put into that and your knowledge to do that that someone else can't do and but that's something that you can capitalize off because it is something that's very efficient especially things like pdfs digital files i know some people sell art prints which i'm actually thinking of getting into um because i really like all the merch prints and stuff like that um and i'm like creating my own thank you cards so i was thinking about selling those so think of it this way you make that print once and then it gets sold as a pdf file and pdfs are sent automatically you don't i don't do anything when i sell any of my pdfs they automatically go to the customer so that saves you time by doing that and it's something that you can capitalize off because you've already made it before it's sold so it's not like you're making it every time you sell one so yeah you want to have a little think about what type of business you're in because there are varieties to whatever business you're in as to whether you can do this um but yeah you just want to learn what works learn what people like and then try and make the most money off of that um whether that is trying to find cheaper stock trying to make things more efficient um in order to save money on how you make them literally there's so many things that come into it but you want to just be efficient and capitalize off of the things that make the most money because then you're going to make the most money so the next thing is um be taken seriously in the industry by family and friends also um they touched on this in the podcast so it was that sometimes i find this especially not so much now but i did when i first started um not so much my family but more so in the industry i feel like because i was quite young a lot of people would not necessarily expect it to be me um it can be something as simple as when i open the door and give someone a treat box or a cake they're like are you amy um and that's like a normal question that is completely fine but then they might follow it with oh i didn't realize it was you or oh that's surprising something like that and they might not necessarily mean it um but that used to bother me and obviously now i now i don't get it at all which i think is because a lot of my customers they're either regulars or they know who i am um before they order from me um so my work sort of speaks for itself now um but yeah that is something that you do have to get used to whether it's family or friends or people that don't even know you sometimes it can be a small comment that will bother you but you just have to try and not not let it bother you because um a lot of the time you'll prove them wrong like i have i feel like i've managed to prove that my work is worth the money and i don't get any like criticism in terms of how much i charge now people will either pay it or they won't there's no sort of arguing about it so yeah you will get to that point no matter what business you're in um but it goes for things like depending on what role you're in you might not be taken seriously if you're sometimes as a female and being a manager you cannot be taken seriously because you're in that higher role um but yeah as long as you believe in yourself and you know that you're good at what you do then i think you should be fine um but yeah if it's like friends and family i would say like i said before just try and prove them wrong because they're not the one running the business you are um they're not going to do the work for you so whether they agree or disagree with you starting a business no matter what it is they're not the one that's running it so you can that's the whole reason you become your own boss because you are the one that calls all the shots so yeah just try and believe in yourself as much as possible because i find that that's the biggest thing that i see in people when they message me or when they just talk to me about things is that people don't believe that it can become something and there's nothing wrong with it if it doesn't become this big crazy business that you wanted it to be there's nothing wrong with that you can you know continue it as what it is um and like not necessarily have it grow or you can decide to go into a different field and no longer be self-employed there there's other options but i feel like when you want to do something it's really worth trying like there's really no harm in trying um you know you've got to think how much money am i going to lose you know i'm not going to lose that much time like i might use lose a year of my life um and say a thousand pounds for starting the business but am i really gonna lose that much you know it might turn into something gray so that's always my thinking i don't like to not do anything i always do everything that i want to do because i don't like to miss out and it's the whole fomo thing like what if you don't do it and it could be something that's really great so i just think if you want to do something try it because there's really no harm like as long as you have thought it through and depending on who your dependents are in terms of money just make sure that you're covered in that sense but i just think we don't live to work we work to live um so basically if you don't know what that means it's a very common saying but work to live not live to work and that basically means that you're not born to work 40 hours a week in a job that you hate for your whole life like that is not what you're meant to do if that is what you do there is completely nothing wrong with that like i mean um you know i come from a family where my dad worked in the same job for 40 years it wasn't his dream job but he was happy to do it um and that might be you and that's completely acceptable but i mean i got to what 19 and i had been working since i was 16 and already i was sort of like this isn't where i want to be in life um i knew kind of straight away and i'm from a family of self-employed people like pretty much my whole family self-employed um and i'm one of seven so it's quite a few of us and i just decided i want to be my own boss i want to work from home i want to you know be stress to a sense like obviously i have stressful times but i don't bring my work home because i am my own boss i work from home so there's a different kind of cut-off whereas when i was working in my accountancy jobs i would bring it home outside of the office so there was no separation um which is definitely not healthy so i think being your own boss makes a thousand times the difference and i kind of knew that i didn't want to be i mean i don't think i'm probably going to retire until i'm like i mean unless i come into some money somehow or like my business takes off and i retire early um i'm going to be retiring at like 60 70 probably so i don't want to be doing something that i don't enjoy for all that time i mean i get messages from people that are in their 40s 50s and they say thank you so much for your videos i've taken the leap and started my business and i'm 54 and she said you know i've got kids and it's what i want to do and i thought why not because you're doing it and you're a lot younger than me and so they said i thought maybe i'll try it see whether i like it and that is like that makes my day because it's just so nice to hear that people are doing something that they want to do not what they think they have to um because i think it is so common less common now because a lot of the time i think people are self-employed and it's more common to be self-employed now um and like be more kind of like i mean there's influences there's all sorts now but um there's a little bit more individuality i think um but in terms of being self-employed it's nice that people can think i don't want to be here in five years still not enjoying what i'm doing um so that's why i think it's just so important that if you want to do something just do it um yeah you you weren't born to work your whole life in a job that you hate it's just and i don't know how people do it and i praise people that do it because i couldn't um i feel like i'm too much of a like a free spirit to be able to do it um but yeah i it's just so important to me that you love your work and that you get up in the morning and you think you know what i actually want to go to work i want to get up and do this it's something that motivates me and you'll find that your mindset is a thousand times different if you're doing something that you love um and i know that's not very common for people because i mean i remember when when i was really young and i was trying to figure out what i wanted to do and i would say to my parents like oh i want to do this i want to do this and i had no idea um this was years ago and they'd say like oh just just get a job just you know do something um and i'd be like no but i want to enjoy my work and they used to sort of say well obviously that would be nice but it's not essential because it's just not very common but i feel like in the current like generation that we're in you do have the option to do pretty much anything you want to in terms of a career so i just think it is why not like if you have the choice to do it then why not like get your gcses get your a levels so that you have something to fall back on and then do something that you want to do because i see some people like on tick tock on youtube that have these businesses and it's something that you'd think that you couldn't necessarily have a business from um it could be literally anything to designing homeware like making homeware i saw this girl who made stuff out of resin um and she makes a lot of money off of it and you think to yourself that's not a typical job but she enjoys it and it's something that is artistic and creative so yeah just do whatever you want to do basically um if you have the means to like have the freedom to be able to do it then i would 100 say do it um yeah i think that's pretty much everything um i think that's all of the points on my list um so i covered everything but yeah i just wanted to i know this like was a bit messy in terms of how it was but i kind of just wanted it to be a chat um i mean i covered everything that i wanted to cover um but yeah i just wanted to discuss it a bit more in less of a like formal way um because i know like my start in a business video was very specific to baking and it was also how you start a business rather than just the mindset that you need to be in and the things that you want to think about so yeah i just think take all these things in consider it all and just work out what you want to do if you're thinking of starting a business then i would say do it like work out your costs work out how much you need to earn and then if you have the means to do it then try it if it doesn't work out it's not the end of the world and if it does work out then that's amazing so yeah i i hope this was useful um and or just even if you resonated with some of the things i said then let me know down below um but yeah i just wanted to kind of have a chat to you guys and discuss my thoughts on taking the leap to start business because i felt like when i watched that podcast because it even though it's a podcast i was watching it because it was on youtube um i just felt like i resonated with the situation a lot of the things that they were saying is a common reason for people starting a business which is you know leaving a job um or maybe being fired or made redundant anything like that they were saying that that is a common reason for people taking the leap because they kind of have nothing else and they either get a normal job or they start this business whereas if you're in a comfortable position then it may be difficult for you to leave that position but this is me coming to you saying that if you want to do something and you've thought about it for a while then rather than kind of wishing that you did it which is what i hate i hate that feeling i hate the feeling of regret when you haven't done something that you really wanted to do and if you think that you're going to regret it in five years and you think to yourself right when i'm 30 i you know wish that i had done that business that i was thinking about doing when i was 20 just do it you might as well try it see if you like it if you don't like it if you don't like being your own boss then just go back and get another job um you know there is always an option um it might not be you know i'm not just crediting the fact that there might not be your dream job out there to go back to but you will be able to find something um and it might just not be what it might be a temporary job but there will be something if you had to fall back on something other than your business but hopefully you wouldn't need to hopefully it would go well and you wouldn't need to have anything to fall back on um but yeah let me know if you guys are starting businesses and if you've found my videos useful because i get loads of messages from people saying that they're starting a business so yeah let me know if you're thinking about it or if you have already because i'm just nosy and i like to know um but yeah i hope this video was useful and you just liked hearing me chat about my thoughts in order to take the leap to start a business um it's kind of just like an open conversation and if you have anything to add again comment down below because i'd love to hear your thoughts um in regards to starting businesses and your kind of um mindset behind it and like your views so yeah let me know what you're thinking and i will see you in my next video bye guys
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