No one likes to feel stack, especially by your cloud, but the IBM cloud is the most open and secure public cloud for business. It can manage all your absent data anywhere. Smart loves problems, IBM, let's put smart to work, visit, IBM dot com, flexible I often talk about celebrating your small victories gets really important is celebrated, recognised and accomplishment achievement. Do those things don't seem like a huge deal? Typically, what I mean by those small victories, our things like your first sale or your first signed pilot or achieving some others, Never get milestone, but today story reminded me that when you're starting a new project- especially this is your first sight, hustle or otherwise it somehow significantly different. It's bigger. It's more daunting, then something you ve done before.

There are actually lots of small ones that happened along the way for you to get those sales or those signed clients shut. When you set up a website for the first time, you never done it before that's a victory when you add a button or a payment option or a plug it into your site, and it actually works again. Small victory in the story. I'll tell you about today that person had to get a food licence, so that takes some time it takes in process and receiving that licence. When she ultimately got it, you know that was a victory.

But she mentioned us. It wasn't just the final outcome, the phone call to the county or she had to learn how it works, and what you need is a do. That was a victory when she actually went and paid the feet. That was a small victory. So I like this perspective, because there are all kinds of steps along the journey and you might as well congratulate yourself. Maybe you cross ever any of them and then, of course you know you don't stop there, you keep going you keep going on the small vectors and hopefully to even bigger ones, are at this story is about a mortgage specialist who whisks up a profitable bakery, mixing her love for cookies and other treats into a happy. Then a small operation based out of a church kitchen and finally, to a retail store front in upstate New York, lots of small victories along

and I want to encourage and challenge you to think of yours as well Shut will come back to that. At the end, there is a message on behalf of our sponsor. I appreciate them allowing us to bring the showed you completely free and then I'll tell you about this mortgage baker. We ve all heard of mortgage brothers. Have you ever heard of a mortgage baker? You know the ones who spend their day supporting people buying homes and then fill those homes with warm baskets of cookies. Well, for a man to burn or Genie and Buffalo New York, it's not too far off from the reality, Amanda or Monday, as her family inference call her spent much for childhood. Kitchen. She would watch her. Grandma mom create the perfect baked goods from italian wedding cake to rich buttery sugar, cookies, getting hungry already as their little Suchet. She learned and developed a love for the art of baking,

passport. The present time and you're still find a minute in the kitchen baking as a morbid specialist. By day she uses her. The little mind in a focused setting baking serves as a more creative outlet for years. She would show up at parties with a plateful of those perfectly made sugar, cookies friends would rave about how yummy and artfully design those cookies work and she began to receive requests for birthday parties and other special occasions. She soon discovered she could make money from custom orders at first reading see those orders from friends and word of mouth referrals. When a man is borders and popularity began to grow, she knew it was time to take it to the next level. She partnered with a local church who offered up their commercial kitchen, prefer to use now tat. She had a space. Her custom orders continue to melt in should receive baby shower in birthday, party requests and even a batch of let's get naked Valentine's day cookies. She soon found herself whisking in about four dollars a week while it was profitable in fine. She was working way too much

something had to sift. She had a bigger vision for what she called Monday cakes and wanted to open her own bakery. So she switch to a part time Reuter Mortgage Company and use the rest of her time to find a space to rent address Searching Amanda found a great spot where there would be lots of put traffic, especially in the summer, but the space needed some renovation and equipment are afforded hours a week and profit wasn't enough to rent that space and cover other start up costs. So she decide to take out a small business loan of twenty five thousand dollars to help with her vision in November, twenty eighteen, store front doors of Monday, cakes opened, seeing her vision come to life was exciting. She had no idea when she started feeling those custom orders for family and friends that it would lead to her actually owning a real storefront business. Like many adventures, it hasn't been completely smooth. It was a big decision to take up that alone. There are challenges with renovating that space and then making sure enough business was coming into higher part time. Employees who run it, but she did it

She figured it out. Money cakes has now been in business for just a few months, and Amanda has already made back half of that business lung. She has what she calls two and a half employees working for her. One of those employees happens to be her mom they support or in a business while she's working the day job in mortgage services. She has no plans to leave that job in his happy for Monday, cakes to remain aside hustle a few months in it sounds like there's a lot more to come, she's looking to add ice cream to her shop in warmer months, collaborate with local event planners larger events and, most importantly, neither side hustle prepare for the birth of her first child. It's been a year of big change and she's class. She felt a dream. A Reichenbach

relations to Amanda Monday, cakes, if you are in the Buffalo New York area, where you happen to be visiting, maybe going to Agro falls, going check it out and on that topic of small victories of trying to think like what are my small victory today and the first few things I thought of we're tasks like ok, I prepared this episode soon. I will have completed a separate vote. I finished in outline for something else in doing I prepared for a conference call etc, and then I thought well- and these are all things that have to do now. There are things I signed up for its part of my work. By do they really count as those small victory, because this is my normal workflow. I thought well who's to say what Europe's small victories aren't. You can decide for yourself. You know course nobody's doing that for you, but I do think there's something to be said with the idea that these small victories for, like when you're working towards something that is new.

Different or challenging for you. So all the things I just mentioned even other important for me to do them, but not necessarily challenging Avenant, necessarily like bringing me closer to something. You know what I'm actually like working on my business, not just working in the business. Small victory is when actually think about business development, take a step backwards or I do some more development of our team or, I think we're not what's the next thing we need to do for our community inside us all society, maybe those like the things that fit better in that category, because I tender naturally not do those things all the time at international. Just like have my head down and do what's in front of me and in some ways that's good, but in other ways I want to make sure that I continue to grow and challenge myself. Just like I'm encouraging you to do so, and I think more about that as I go forward. So what are your small victories? What are you working toward? How are you taking steps to get closer to a dream, a goal, a vision, that's important to you I'll leave you with that. For the day, the show notes are its autism school

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