28/052026
07:29:
I am from the natural 5 AM club, sometimes the 4 AM club, so when the sun is up, it’s my lunch time already.
I created this Substack to document my business journey because I am now creating a micro-entrepreneurship in France, and I am going to create my clothing and accessories.
I initially started to document this journey in the video format on Instagram, but honestly, it is probably impossible to find a more ungrateful thing to do. So I am upgrading my level, and I am coming back to Behance and starting my path on Substack.
For the context: I am a workaholic. It is a gift, but it is not nice in a world where you can easily become exploitable. People have no limits.
So to protect myself, I prohibited myself from touching my job before 9 AM and after 7 PM. Which is funny, because I am only paid to work 10-6. And this is already a big step for me to only overwork 2 hours. Yes, people like me exist 😕
But I have an unsupportable, lazy, sneaky colleague who is bringing the whole team down, so I don’t want to be silly and do her job just because she is lazy and I am a workaholic. So I literally installed Toggl Track (time tracker on a laptop) to avoid overworking.
AND NOW I HAVE THE EVEREST OF ENERGY TO DIRECT SOMEWHERE
Where?
Right, into my own business.
Wow, what a nice outcome, after all.
So, now it is 07:36, I still have 2,5 hours when I cannot touch my work, what do I do? Where do I start? Let’s write a to-do list for today together.
I have a storefront I am creating in Lovable and a back-end on Shopify. I need additional credits for Lovable, which I cannot pay for at the moment, so for now, I will need to work on the back-end, since Shopify is on a 3-month free trial.
Hey hey hey Wait a second Before doing useless random actions, I will actually get some additional knowledge. Some mistakes have already been made by other people multiple times and can be easily avoided. I have that course on Udemy that I bought 2 years ago about starting your business on Shopify. It’s about dropshipping, so not really my niche at all, but the basics would be the same. So yes, it’s 07:52, and I put a timer for half an hour to study my course. Let’s go.
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Okay, I’ve actually done almost one hour, in the end. It’s 08:43 now. I’ve added a background photo on my Shopify store, explored personalized domain options, and then renamed the store categories into something hilarious. For example, I do not have a “Contact us” page in my Shopify store.
But I have a “I WANT TO SPEAK TO A MANAGER” page, and I laugh at it every time I see it.
I started to realize that I am launching this business not for the profit at all, but for my own pleasure, for humour and self-expression. Everything is funny there, and everything is so confusing that it doesn’t make classic sense anymore. Yet it makes my proper sense. And I love it.
Since it is 9 AM in 13 minutes and I am going to jump into my regular job for a few hours, I will use these 13 minutes to dance and to sing.
Because I am certain that it releases the energy and activates incredible things in your body.
Let your energy flow!
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