Journey To Building a Body Care Business as A Solopreneur #01

 

Its 6.23pm and I have just had my first meal of the day. For the past 2 weeks I’ve gotten used to having one meal a day, ‘why’, one might wonder. Well, it started off as a family challenge with a 72-hr fast which I enjoyed so much because my body ironically loved not having food to digest every 3-4 hours.

This filled me up with so much energy and mental clarity that I decided to somewhat extend the fast, albeit modified. So now I eat once a day at between 4 and 6pm, and I love it.

Today also is the first time, I finally finished what I consider the first really good version of a product I hope to release in January, 2024. After over +10 formulation revisions and unnumbered all-nighters over the past 3 months I can comfortably say that, this new product is 95% at where I want it to be.

Creating personal care products in a loaded industry for a problem-unaware market is a whole new beast. But formulating, making mistakes, learning and trying again over and over gives me such an unprecedented feeling of accomplishment especially when something finally clicks or when my creations turn out great and I learn something new.

And then when inspiration and all sorts of ideas begin flowing in my head, I get excited because I know I am ready to bring them to life, and this wipes away all the fatigue away and replaces it with hope.

Later today as I shared my little triumph with a close family member and her singular response was “….do you have to work so hard”, but where she sees work, I see self-expression and stepping stones to a dream I have had for years.

I guess it’s true of the saying “when the ego weeps for what it has lost the spirit rejoices for what it has found”

Now it’s Sunday morning and am planning to have a slow mindful day harvesting lavender, basil and Comfrey from my small home garden. My Lavender is getting damaged by the heavy December rains, and now I realise that I should have planted it in well drained soil. It hurts my soul to see the leaves curl up and wither so I’ve got to do something about it, just not yet sure what exactly. 

I am planning to make a poultice from the comfrey leaves for my son’s ankle which he sprained while skipping at school. I’ve never made a comfrey poultice before, so I am not sure how it will turn out, but what better way to learn, right?