When I decided to own a health food store, running the store has proven to be an even more challenging enterprise than being a floor trader on Wall Street. On Wall Street, the action is fast and furious, and if you know your market, you can make good, fast decisions. In retail, if I make mistakes on an order, I can annoy customers, skew inventory, and lose sales quickly. If I don't keep track of when bills are due, I can damage relationships with suppliers.
Retail is detail, and I'm ADD as can be. Taxes and bills and no bookkeeper for three and a half months have left me a quivering pile of nerves. Only my sense of mission keeps me working on improving my business skills, as I much prefer research to paperwork. My diary today discusses why I persist.
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