Waiting

I am in limbo. After months and months of living and breathing my new business, I’m now waiting for the website to be ready. It’s not overdue or anything, just not ready yet. I’m both anxious to get started and nervous about it.
That’s all I want to say today.

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A Story About Wolves

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said; ” My son, the battle is between two ‘wolves’ inside us all.
“One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealous, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
“The other is Good. [...]

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Starting A Business

Since I didn’t start this blog in the beginning, before Boutiko had been invented, (and when the world was a considerably poorer place,) I thought I would instead attempt to condense the last eight months to give some idea of the process which brought me here, to the edge of the launch.
People always ask [...]

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Testing The Water

As a way to see what products might be popular, which less so, and also of course in the hope of making some sales, I decided to hold two ‘pre-website launch’ sale evenings in my home. I invited family and friends, and encouraged everyone to bring someone to help spread the word.
In preparation I wrote [...]

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Books for Business and Life

These are some titles I’ve found useful and/or inspirational.  I’ve chosen them because they are useful on a practical level with exercises, activities and advice, or because they are full of beautiful truths about life and love. I’ll add to them when I come across new ones….

The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
The Good Small Business Guide; [...]

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Some Things To Know About Starting A Business

~ It’s all consuming. And if you don’t love that, you shouldn’t be doing it, because it’s going to become your life for a while. Probably a long while. Besides, why would you start something so huge if you didn’t feel passionately about it?
~ Some days you wonder what the hell you’re doing, and why [...]

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New Link

In the blogroll you will find a link to Only Fair, a new online fair trade store.
As Kate, the founder puts it;
 “Only Fair is on a mission to make fair trade accessible to everyone! They have a wide range of affordable fairly traded gifts from around the world. From chocolate to coffee, jewellery to items for [...]

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Hello world!

Well I ummed and ahhed about it, took advice, read other blogs, and decided I definitely wouldn’t give in to this strange and narcissistic compulsion to share one’s all important views with a probably indifferent world.
Then I spent the last hour setting it up. This blog is to run concurrently with my website, www.boutiko.co.uk, which as you will see [...]

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