Dirty Hands

Sometime this noon, I was with the woman we will be hiring to sell our ice cream. We asked her to come so that we could train her. While I was dismantling the front end of the Machine and cleaning it piece by piece she asks me why I did not hire someone to clean it for me.

With my limited Bahasa Indonesia, I simply told her that because I OWN IT.

I did not really know how to explain it fully but basically I wanted to tell her that I need to get my hands dirty. This is my business and its personal (as my boss would say). I want to experience first hand every aspect of it no matter how tedious or trivial at least once. May it be removing grease from the feed piston to marketing the brand, I have to be completely immersed in it. The last thing I would want to be is an ignorant business owner (especially when this business grows to extreme heights).

Don't be afraid or lazy to get your hands dirty.