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June 7^th 2018

            I’m back again! Surprisingly still alive with midterms here. I loved learning about how to deal with customers this week. I have always found it fascinating learning about how to work with people but have studied little about what it means in a business context. But people are the same in most contexts and have the same basic needs, such as feeling important and needed. As a customer, I don’t know about you, but I like to walk into a business and know that they want me there. Since I love the outdoors most of the businesses that I’ve loyal to happen to be outdoor shops, but the best ones are those run locally by some guy who you’ll see out climbing when his store says closed. Those are my favorite because you realize that he doesn’t just have this business to make money but because he loves what he does and what it allows other people to do.

            Business should be something of passion or at least that is my opinion. When I own a company I plan on it being something that I fully believe in and want others to believe in. You can tell the difference between companies that believe in what they do and the ones that don’t. Because the ones that don’t don’t care about you as a customer nor do they worry about the state of their products. Allow me to state that there are incredibly “successful” companies that may not exactly believe in their products. Success is a matter of opinion and mine is that if you and the people around you aren’t happy then you haven’t found success.

            One last note about what I learned from our Acton hero this week; It doesn’t matter what the circumstances you came from are, it only matters where you go from here. Stop using your circumstances and environment as an excuse to fail. It’s your life take control of it because you’re the only one in charge of where you end up and you are the only one in your own way.

            $100 dollar challenge update! We are getting there my friends, yes I am a bit behind I think. But we push forward always. I’ve begun designing and researching how to make my Lucifer’s Straps. I am currently playing around with two different ideas on how to make them and I will update you shortly, hopefully with pictures of where we are at. I also have to people who want to buy some already.