Starting a bookstore is hard. Starting any kind of business is hard. The business plan and reality never align perfectly.
I cry a lot. Sometimes I wonder why I chose to do this. Sometimes I want to sell this wholesale lot and stick to a hobby farm and homeschool. A lot of times I think I’m going to fail and no one will want to buy anything from me.
It’s messy. It’s exhausting. Going through old books, cleaning, and organizing them takes longer than expected.
But then I’m reminded by Andy Frisella and Alex Hormozi that you should start the business that you want to shop at. I’m reminded by Codie Sanchez that we need the most basic of businesses to thrive – and everyone needs to be educated.
And I had my third buyer tell me that a local bookstore would be lovely in our area. I had another ask me if I do book binding, because not only does she have books that need to be fixed but she thinks that would help my goals and purpose of sustainability. My husband encouraged me to buy the remainder of a small bookstore’s wholesale lot after closing.
Keep going. Whatever it is, keep doing it.
Because we need more business owners in this country. We need to start the hard things, keep doing the hard things, and do even more hard things. We’ll win this way.
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