"This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything." ~Scott Reed
I love goals. I could set 100 goals no problem. My struggle is sticking to it. There have been many times during baking projects that I have wanted to give up on my goal to open a bakery. In fact I'm pretty sure that while we were working on the wedding cake a couple of weeks ago I decided to quit baking.
It was late and I was tired and things were not going well. I remember thinking "why am I doing this?" Of course I couldn't quit right then I had a cake that needed to be finished and delivered so I decided that after it was finished and delivered, I was done baking. I even told Bob this was it, I'm done after this cake. He just looked at me and said nothing.
He knows me all too well. Once the cake was done and I had gotten some sleep, the idea of quitting was gone. We've had a lot of challenges over the last couple of years as we've decorated cakes, learned about donuts and worked to learn the "tricks of the trade."
We've gone from our first cake:
To our most recent:
The best part is that I feel we've made some improvement and while there's still lots to learn and overcome, I plan to stick with it.
