#DEMYSTIFYINGeNTREPRENEURSHIP #17

So, we have a deal. Me and my partner now on mission catering. It makes such a difference when you have a partner in first times. At that moment you Unalone..

Anyhow, we get up at 4:00 in the am. Dressed in white and black. He he he, like in the movies. Yusuf is at house by 6:00. First, slept at midnight on a mission to impress em, baking cakes, wiping our stuff, arranging .

And now couldn’t even sleep too well thinking about the day. Our hearts beating, can we really do this? But there is a first time to everything. So we start to prepare and before we know it, we are done, we have everything. Carrying amazing breakfast in our car. Rushing to be on time. And the voila, we reach destination, and  our hearts are settled for a minute. Laying the table and decorating the space, so that it looks amazing. It really feels great. We start to wonder why haven’t we done this all our life.

Everybody comes out and they have this breakfast, they are smiling. Meanwhile, we are watching them as they sip every cup and take up everything. When the plate were empty, we are too happy. And the she finally said it “That was good. “Weh, I had my first Hallelujah moment .

So now, we had to wait for lunch. Sitting around the compound, and walking up and about, really reflecting on how this was so much fun. WE LOVED IT. Though it was too soon to speak, we had to wait for lunch. It meant we were coordinating from here, to the team at home. That is where Paranoia checks in. You are not at home to put peer pressure on others to rush the process. You are out here in the middle of nowhere, miles from home, in the forest waiting for food to arrive. It is now 12:30 Guys are still at home. You imagine they are gallivanting aimlessly, but cant do nothing about it.

It is when you learn the art of surrender, to keep calm. You cannot be shouting on one end of the phone to people who were doing their stuff back home.  So we went on telling stories. When it hits 12:45, we start o have butterflies and now on panic mode. Walking to and fro checking at the corner. Is the food coming? Have the members been hijacked with the food? Why are they not picking their phones?  Have those people even packed the spoons and knives? Are they carrying anything at all? All this is running in our minds, but we are still trying to look calm, lest everybody panics.

At exactly 1:00, we see a car arrive. We peep. It was not the one. Now butterflies are jumping and our eyes are red. Maybe the food is not coming?  And then it FINALLY arrives. We have never been more happy to see food. We want to jump and hug the team.  We start to set up everything, and just when we are done people get out for lunch, they find us smiling J . In the evening we got money in our pockets and praises of  how wonderful we are. WE MADE IT!!!. It is such a refreshing feeling. We clap for selves and not long later, they refer us to the our second. And we kept doing it and doing and doing it. I learned opportunities present themselves often and you just take them. There is many things we can apply ourselves to do, and would be surprised how amazing those things are.

And as they say, missing an opportunity is like a monkey missing a branch. This one we had found something  that would redeem us. And very impressed by how much we could make J