Can a Small Business Idea give you Overwhelming Success?

My name is Scarlett Butler, and this is my story.

I am 29, and until a year ago, I was just a housewife.

It’s not like I did not have dreams, or I did not want to see them come to fruition, or I lacked the will to make them fruitful.

I had all of these, yet I didn’t.

To understand my story, you have to follow my personality trait. So, let’s delve right into my tale.

 

The Introvert Seeking Independence

I have a very muted personality. I have been the outspoken and free-spirited human. I did what my parents told me and never question them.

It is hard to believe that someone like me exists in the present, but they do, especially in the upper-class British daughters. We have to ensure that our family’s status does not get tarnished by our actions.

 When I wanted to pursue culinary school, my parents made me study literature.

When I wanted to establish my own business, I was asked to learn to take care of our estate.

When I wanted to make my career, I was asked to marry a man I had only met at a couple of events.

So yes, I was married at 26, because that was the ideal age to get married. Nobody asked me what I wanted. Not that I could tell them because all my life, I had never once gone against what my parents wanted.

I was staying at home, going to or organising parties, and looking after my husband's needs was the entirety of my life.

But I wanted more, so much more.

I craved independence.

I craved success.

 And I craved to have a backbone.

So I developed one, I told my husband that I would start baking and I might make it a business that would want to run fulltime. And to my utter surprise, my husband did not deny me.

 

The Introvert Working For It

So I started baking. I baked everything, from bread to croissants to English muffins and even cakes. My signature dish was the blueberry tart; the soft filling and the crumbly base would melt into your mouth once you tried it.

I knew my high profile friends would not like the idea of buying my baked goodies. So, I did not even tell.

I started venturing out to small bakeries in London to give them a few samples of my dishes and see if they were interested in working with me, and two of them were.

So I started there.

I used to wake up at 3:30 every day to make my batch of desserts from scratch without anyone’s help.

I did not even take a penny from my husband; however, I did make use of his full pantry. But that was because I did not have any other option.

The first few months, I worked like a maniac.

I baked batches upon batches of desserts that I personally delivered to five different bakeries all over London.

I looked up new dished every day and tried baking them to see if they would work.

I also started scouting catering businesses that might need a baker.

Eventually, I found my chance.

 

The Introvert’s Success

About half a year of sleep deprivation and constant running around, I got a call from one of the bakeries asking if I would like to do a bulk order for an event their client was organising.

Their client specifically asked for my blueberry tarts to be on the menu. I told you they were my specialty.

Their order was for about 250 guests the week after that, and apart from the advance, the entire payment would be given once the event was over.

I was over the moon after hearing the news. My husband said that he felt like I was walking on the clouds, but I was; I was so euphoric.

I knew I would need help to make an order like that. I asked our maid, her daughter, and our chauffeur's wife, to help me out. And they so generously agreed.

I would need financial help as well because the ingredients were quite costly. Asking from my business would defy the purpose of being independent. So, I decided to apply for doorstep loans like Provident, and the financer actually came to my home to personally give me the amount.

So, we took on the kitchen and made the five desserts and two savoury starters two hours before the event.

Can you guess the reaction of the guests? Of course, they loved each of my dishes.

 

The Introvert’s Future

The event was the turning point of my life. I started getting more orders due to that event and the spread of the word about my baking.

I wanted to establish a quaint bakery, but now I am almost finished with the legal formalities of opening an office for my catering business.

My dream of being independent has finally come to fruition. And I love every moment of the same. It has been over a year since I asked my husband for money. Instead, I shower him with gifts I buy on my own.

Every time I give him something, I see the joy and pride in his eyes enough to make me push myself even more.

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There are so many women in our world who give up their dreams for their families. I was one of them too, but I changed my destiny with a business idea I thought was inconsequential, yet it became my ticket to freedom.