“Wow! You sell crepes AND pajamas? Are you a millionaire?”
It was the end of the day on Friday and I was cleaning everything up with my group as we had just finished selling crepes in Elementary. Coincidentally, it was pajama day, so I was drying out the crepe pans with my pajamas on when three little 4th graders approached to me and started asking me a bunch of questions, as curious kids typically do. “Are you the one who sells crepes?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Can I reserve 5 crepes for next week?” I was kind of overwhelmed after the demanding cleaning and with all the cleaning, but the questions and excitement of these little girls made me smile and feel glad to be cleaning those pans. Noticing how much they loved the crepes and the company and their excitement for next week’s sale was truly gratifying.
It was when I kept answering their questions and sharing laughs with them when one of the girls noticed I was wearing pajamas and eulogized it. “I love your pajama, it’s beautiful!” I was already smiling before she said this, but this made my teeth show even more and the curve of my smile lift even higher. “I made them” I replied. My answer made the three girls open their eyes and their mouth at the same time and gave birth to a million more questions. It was then when one of them asked “Wow! You sell crepes AND pajamas? Are you a millionaire?”
Yes, I am currently running two businesses at a time. But no, I’m definitely not a millionaire.
If I were a 4th grader and heard that a senior was running two businesses at a time, I would definitely be amazed and also expect that person to be a millionaire. The world and how things work seem perfect from an innocent mind, but it is when you grow and actually get in the field when you realize it isn’t; it is much harder than what we expect. These pasts months I haven’t stopped working hard and being involved all day in something related to either school, CrepeZ, or my pajama business. Indeed, last week I had a kind of panic attack as I was overwhelmed with too many things: a math test, the photoshoot of my pajamas, the CrepeZ sale, an essay for spanish, art classes, and a meeting. I was attacked by intense anxiety, stress and tears.
All of this hard work and stress is something natural and unavoidable and part of the process that I’ve started to accept and even welcome. I took the decision to get involved in so many things and although at moments everything might seem like a blur and cause me a lot of stress, it turns out being worth it. All of the hard work always turns out giving back amazing outcomes. With CrepeZ, we’ve already experienced many of this incredible outcomes which motivate us to keep on going and to work harder every time. And with Quiero, I’m still in the part of all the hard work, but I’m excited to see all of the outcomes once I launch the pajamas.
I might not be a millionaire, but the smiles in the kids faces, the awards for being the company of the week, the feeling we get when we exceed our revenue goals, and all of the outcomes I’ll start taking in once I launch my pajamas, are more than enough.
It was the end of the day on Friday and I was cleaning everything up with my group as we had just finished selling crepes in Elementary. Coincidentally, it was pajama day, so I was drying out the crepe pans with my pajamas on when three little 4th graders approached to me and started asking me a bunch of questions, as curious kids typically do. “Are you the one who sells crepes?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Can I reserve 5 crepes for next week?” I was kind of overwhelmed after the demanding cleaning and with all the cleaning, but the questions and excitement of these little girls made me smile and feel glad to be cleaning those pans. Noticing how much they loved the crepes and the company and their excitement for next week’s sale was truly gratifying.
It was when I kept answering their questions and sharing laughs with them when one of the girls noticed I was wearing pajamas and eulogized it. “I love your pajama, it’s beautiful!” I was already smiling before she said this, but this made my teeth show even more and the curve of my smile lift even higher. “I made them” I replied. My answer made the three girls open their eyes and their mouth at the same time and gave birth to a million more questions. It was then when one of them asked “Wow! You sell crepes AND pajamas? Are you a millionaire?”
Yes, I am currently running two businesses at a time. But no, I’m definitely not a millionaire.
If I were a 4th grader and heard that a senior was running two businesses at a time, I would definitely be amazed and also expect that person to be a millionaire. The world and how things work seem perfect from an innocent mind, but it is when you grow and actually get in the field when you realize it isn’t; it is much harder than what we expect. These pasts months I haven’t stopped working hard and being involved all day in something related to either school, CrepeZ, or my pajama business. Indeed, last week I had a kind of panic attack as I was overwhelmed with too many things: a math test, the photoshoot of my pajamas, the CrepeZ sale, an essay for spanish, art classes, and a meeting. I was attacked by intense anxiety, stress and tears.
All of this hard work and stress is something natural and unavoidable and part of the process that I’ve started to accept and even welcome. I took the decision to get involved in so many things and although at moments everything might seem like a blur and cause me a lot of stress, it turns out being worth it. All of the hard work always turns out giving back amazing outcomes. With CrepeZ, we’ve already experienced many of this incredible outcomes which motivate us to keep on going and to work harder every time. And with Quiero, I’m still in the part of all the hard work, but I’m excited to see all of the outcomes once I launch the pajamas.
I might not be a millionaire, but the smiles in the kids faces, the awards for being the company of the week, the feeling we get when we exceed our revenue goals, and all of the outcomes I’ll start taking in once I launch my pajamas, are more than enough.