Stop Dreaming

As I'm looking at the calendar I see may 2017

My memory flashes back to ten years ago may 2007

I was 29 years old, working full time making 16.50$ an hour being a manager at a Socks store.

One Friday afternoon as I was browsing mindlessly on my lap top (pre smart phone times , at least for me).

I came across a site that was selling Swarovski pendants at wholesale prices, being that I was working at an accessory store at the time, I knew it was a good item like a fad that everyone was buying this, I took a chance , a 100$ risk and bought 7 pendants or so, and converted them into necklaces and went to my boss and asked if I can sell it to him at wholesale and we will sell it at the store, at first he was hesitant and said he prefers not to do business with his employees, but when I told him, that's not a problem will sell it to his competition , he agreed to let me sell it at his store after a month or so of selling these, my weekly payment for the product I was selling to him, was more than my paycheck...

I then started selling him more items that I didn't offer him exclusivity to, and hired my neighbor to go show my collection to stores around the tri state area, as I was working 11 to 7pm at the time 6 days a week, there was no time for me to go sell my own product, and at night I would invoice, prepare, shop for beads etc. and when I worked I would have a woman sit at my house and create the product that I would then ship to customers world wide,,,

after couple of months I was doing so well I wanted to quit my day job, my boss however did not want to let me go, he offered to cut my hours almost by half and pay the same, which came out to 30$ /hr after taxes, an offer I was not brave enough to refuse, this went on for almost FOUR years ! 

Working part time and running a growing business! I was then asked to give more hours and I didn't want, we mutually agreed it's time for me to leave, and that's when I started growing really well, put my items on websites such as amazon etsy and eventually my own website, 

I always knew I wanted to make money I just never knew how that will happen, and here I was growing every year and being successful but one thing always bothered me I never got the validation of my parents, to the contrary my mom would see me at the beginning when I started when I was still doing a lot of the work myself and she wanted me to go out with her (when she visited NY) and I would say I can't I need to prepare orders, she said, what's this garbage anyway, who buys it and why are you wasting your time with this, at that moment I was thinking to myself, Dear mom (ok that's not true, I was thinking " bitch" ) I will show u what that garbage is, and put even more effort into it, and I'm blessed to say, my work paid of and we just kept on growing, I started with 1 employee, we now have over 12 people working for us , 

I notice I switched to we, because I also later partnered with my dear Husband and we're now doing this together... 

I'm still bothered that I'm not validated from my parents for my accomplishments, but I know that's not really what matters, (besides I bet some of u here will give me some love ) 

so to all the dreamers out there, stop dreaming, take action, go after your dream, and never ever ever give up