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Took a lot to put this up as I'm not much of a writer/talker but a doer & a results/data driven person. So, here's an excerpt from the original.
The journey to this achievement was long, with many obstacles, but after countless challenges, it has finally come to fruition.
After a year of shutting down my business, I started again in 2019, this time, a small yoghurt shop just two streets away from my house.
We sold Greek yoghurt, drink yoghurt, yoghurt and fruit Parfait, grilled fish, and chicken shawarma.
The business picked up.
But there was a problem…
Stealing. Stealing. Stealing.
Then I remembered that boy
He was working at a hotel at the time. I brought him in, partly because of proximity, and had him stay with me.
I took him to the shop and introduced him to the manager as someone looking for a cleaning job.
Quietly, I pulled the manager aside and said, “Please be careful with this new boy—he might be a thief.”
Then I left.
That night, the boy came back and told me everything.
They drank yoghurt freely. Ate shawarma. Shared money among themselves. He showed me his own share of money.
Yet, whenever we asked about sales, the manager would say, “There was no market.”
My wife was understandably upset and wanted to confront them immediately. I told her, “Not yet.”
Instead, we asked the boy to stay, observe, and learn.
Within two weeks, he had mastered how to prepare the fish, shawarma, and everything else.
Then one day, I walked into the shop—calm, joking, almost playful.
I laid out the facts.
And then… I fired the manager.
But more importantly, we fixed the system.
That small decision changed everything.
From that same shop, we expanded:
first into a proper office,
and eventually into a factory.
Sometimes I wonder…
If they had any idea what that business would become, would they have acted differently?