29th Dec 2016

The life of an entrepreneur… You enjoy working so much.. It’s almost all you can think of… I have almost no social life to speak of for the past one year or so. Damn it.

Though I did manage to take a 4 weeks epic trip this year. And I was the main planner 😉 I guess if something needs to get done, it will get done?

Recently, I also discovered something else. You know you are an entrepreneur, when you cannot differentiate between just being exhausted or actually falling sick. I had Christmas Eve Lunch with my frens and then head home, and knocked out until evening. I thought I was just exhausted.

Two days later, when I head back to work, I was so exhausted, I could barely keep myself awake in office. Still I thought I just needed more rest.

The next day, I woke up feeling sick like crap, and realised I’ve probably been sick since Christmas Eve. Awesome.

I guess, if you don’t rest, your body will eventually force you to rest.

I barely touched work since Christmas. Mostly because most companies are closed due to the Holidays. But I need to get started soon. Holiday’s almost over. A lot to be done.

1st Dec 2016

Another one of those morning, where I woke up wayyyyy before I should. And the first thing I do, I usually on my phone to check my sales and emails. Life of an entrepreneur. Lol.

Once again, another supplier problem pop up on my email. I have so many of those. Varies from sending extra items, missing items, wrong items, sending to the wrong address, charging the wrong credit card, charging the right credit card twice O.o

Then there’s the prep company problems, which are even more spectacular

Then recently, there’s the paypal problems which I kept encountering.

But these are just speed bumps. If it doesn’t kill you, it just slows you down but trains you to be better. Lol.

It’s been about ten and a half months since I started my Amazon Journey. I started somewhere in mid Jan this year. It’s been an amazing Journey 😉 One that I never thought I would find myself on.

Nov is a spectacular month. I had my first over 1K sales day. I ended Cyber Monday with more than 1.1K daily sales! I also hit 10K monthly sales for the year on Cyber Monday as well 😉

If you were to go back in time, 2yrs ago, or even just 1 yr ago, and tell me I’m going to become an entrepreneur, running a business all on my own and loving it? I would think you have gone nuts. The sheer amount of effort required to run a business is enough to deter me. Lol.

Fast forward to now. I love love love doing this business. I love finding suppliers, sourcing for items and finding profitable stuff to sell. I love brainstorming for product ideas and bundling ideas. And oh, I love seeing the sales go crazy and realise I’m running out of stock and it’s time to replenish 😉

However, I have no love for bookkeeping and accounting part of the business. This can get especially tricky and tedious because of the different currencies involved as well. My company is located in Singapore, so my base currency is SGD. But my sales and everything else is in USD or Pounds in some cases.

Then there’s also the admin part of the business which I dislike as well. Never-ending emails, invoices to track, never-ending to-do list, creating shipping plans, creating listings, tracking your inventories which Amazon love losing, tracking returns, tracking reimbursements… This list goes on.

My stress level’s been all time high this year. And I’m constantly busy. Yes, every single day.

But I don’t work everyday. Not because there’s nothing to do. But because sometimes I get so tired and even depressed from having so many things to do, I simply had to stop and do nothing for a few days. Even as the urgent stuff keep piling up.

Nowadays, my favourite time off after working hard for hours (or days) is staying home and binge watching drama or movies.

But I’m strangely delirious with happiness and extremely motivated. I feel like an upgraded version of myself. And my firmware is constantly getting upgraded. Lol.

Nowadays, when I have 3 offdays from my fulltime job, my reaction is : “Yay! 3 days to work on my business!”

Honestly, I don’t love all aspects of the business, but I still love love love it.

Kinda feels like loving a person or a pet, don’t you think? 😉 Everything (Everyone) have their flaws, but love them anyway 😉