“Spending” helped me earn more

When I birthed AccessLoop, my intention was to deliver a service so good, phone style would be defined by everything in the store. Although I had no capital, my unfair advantage was my parents who propelled me to where I wanted to go.

August 2020, my sister helped me draft the plan and this was the first time I realized , business is business even if the family is funding you. My dad read through it, got impressed and we got the capital! Mom covered shipping expenses, it was a lesson in seeing how much belief means to building especially as a family.

My personal brag, this was the last time I asked for money from these two to cover my personal needs, from there on their parenting finances would only be for essentials. This investment ignited a spiral of loaning each other money, spending on each other, owing the business a lot, considering closing it off and spending it all on myself, among several other emotional and financially illiterate considerations.

Upon posting for the forth time on the business page, my first customer came through. During the first week, business was booming! We made so much money that by the end of the week, my sister and I were back doing product research, looking for what to entice people with again. I spend all my earnings on the next order, I was faithful. Over the following weeks, business would slow down, income wouldn’t flow in as it did in the “cocaine” week we had before, but mom’s birthday was approaching. There was nothing more pleasing than showing her that she has raised business tycoons. Instead of saving or using the profits to pay for shipping, I shifted its purpose to paying for her birthday gift. Risky right? The gift was so big it would make her cry so I guess it was worth it. My sister, through Wawie Connect, put in funds equaling mine and we set foot on a path whose destination we neither saw nor set.

AccessLoop products were on their way to Zimbabwe, I was prepping for school and had zero dollars to cover shipping expenses. The agency would charge us more if the products landed and we didn’t pay in due time. A deathwish, but like the three GTA V characters, we would survive against the odds. There is no path if you decide not to walk.

The following days had me at my peak. I met more strangers than ever, turned my instagram into an advertising agency and went all out in efforts to make more than needed, we moved, sometimes walked for deliveries and did everything just so we could check the boxes. But in all, it wasn’t the money I needed, it was the value it would bring when I used it well. By the time the next shipment arrived, we had enough to order the third. Targets were destroyed, business was booming!

That one spending encounter served as the greatest work boost I’ve ever had. It was not about “more spending=greater work motivation”. It was simply spending so wisely that I got to enjoy life while keeping in mind that I was holding a knife on my own chest, one false move and I could go back to being normal and feeling unfulfilled in my business. Over the last 20 months AccessLoop has been live, nothing has given me more drive than the money I purposefully spend.

I started setting targets based on purpose of. Every dollar has a life that needs to be rightfully lived, not wasted. I spend with purpose because spending gives my profits purpose. It is a paradox that the two of them need to deal with. I’m just a god deciding to do with what he creates. Like that, I keep earning because I predetermine purpose and I believe purpose will help me work, and to some extent bring what’s needed to me.

The next purpose, maybe collaboration with other businesses. How much I will spend towards that? The purpose will rightfully decide.