29/10/2024
Last night I listened to a playlist I hadn’t listen to in years and it put me in the front seat of the Time Machine. 2005 was the first time I had ever lost someone so influential in my life. My Oma Poortman. (Mom’s mother) she was impactful in so many peoples lives, but for me, she was a hero. A strong, brave woman. Someone whose story includes years of imprisonment in a concentration camp in Indonesia, pushed out of her homeland, was a minority in Holland, and then immigrated to the USA. When she passed, my brother made a picture montage and one of the songs was the one I linked to this post. “Go Do”. It’s funny how much I live by these two words which I now realize, my Oma was a big reason I just “go do”. She was a doer, and laziness was not in her vocabulary. I owe a lot to her and how I continue to work hard and constantly reach for more.
I started De Bloem Co shortly after we lost my mom in 2019. I had flowered for years leading up to opening the business, so it was time. And we’ve never looked back.
Are you blazing your own trail but feel like you have no idea what you’re doing? Whether it’s a business, hobby, project…. Just “GO DO!” Fail, trip and fall, but get back up and find other ways to get to that goal. Don’t worry about what “they” will think. They ain’t paying your bills 😜
Message me if you need some encouragement, advice, or someone to just listen.
