Balancing your own terms

When I do stuff like baking or making coffees for other people, I start to imagine life as a cafe owner or even just a staff member. But to be honest, I don’t know if I’d ever be able to do that, unless it was entirely on my own terms. However, if something is entirely on your own terms, if you’re doing it entirely for your own purpose, your patron could lose out, and you could even lose business altogether.

I think it’s about finding a balance between the two. It’s about being generous to both yourself and your patron. This is by no means limited to hospitality as well.

This blog, for example, I originally started only for purely selfish reasons, but I’ve been slowly trying to make it more for other people. Which then leads to the question who’s it for, and why should they care, I guess that’s where you should start from.

ENJOYED THIS? HAVE MORE.

MOUNTAINS OF WISDOM

Subscribe to my yamabushi newsletter

RECENT BLOG POSTS

Tim Bunting AKA Kiwi Yamabushi on Zao-san
The Uninspiring Counts
Tim Bunting AKA Kiwi Yamabushi on Zao-san
Rest for the wicked
Tim Bunting AKA Kiwi Yamabushi on Zao-san
Get back to it

YAMABUSHI BLOG POSTS

selective focus photo of airplane window
It does what I says on the box
landscape photograph of body of water
Conflict of ethics
body of water during golden hour
Appreciating without adversity is the holy grail

RANDOM POSTS

Continuity
man wearing black cap with eyes closed under cloudy sky
Some feelings you can’t outlogic
When you feel the happiest, what are you doing?
Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi

Tim Bunting Kiwi Yamabushi

Get In Touch

Sakata City, Yamagata, Japan 

tim@timbunting.com

Share this:

Like this:

Like Loading...
Scroll to Top