21/12/2023
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We left our jobs to escape the corporate world of dog eat dog, always satisfying someone else’s agenda…to do something that meant something….really something.
We’re not corporate giants and we don’t want to be, never will be, and sometimes that’s hard when all you see is competition…people fighting for more likes, bigger pictures, slicker videos, fresher content, newer trends, whatever!! When I’m feeling that way, I love to go back to basics. Talk more, walk more, focus on the small details, on the things I love about the job, because that’s the heart of it.
And it’s amazing how good you feel when you do these small things - even for a day - having longer conversations, making someone smile, making someone’s day…even if it’s not for yourself, but to recommend someone else, another service, or be honest with what that person needs…without benefit, without agenda, to be good and kind and helpful and honest.
It can be easy to get so consumed with the ‘gloss’ of what we could or should be. That’s not healthy or the point. What drives me is how our friends, family and complete strangers are amazed at our determination and pure passion to make this business work for us…but only for us, in our own unique way. And boy do we work for it.
Competition is ugly…unkind for the mind, toxic for the soul, maybe good in small doses but definitely not the core focus. The focus is us…our beautiful tents, our passion to share them and create epic events. Our jobs are incredible, the product is impeccable, we all do an amazing job…all of us. And we can’t do it alone…we could…but not as well and I’m truly thankful for our fellow Tipi & supplier friends…their support is undeniably invaluable.
Someone once told me in this business; ‘come on guys…the tents are enough’ and I couldn’t agree more.
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