Honestly, it’s very tough for a nineteen year old to balance a business
and studies both at the same time specially with my A/L’s around the corner but
multitasking and time management is key. I have limited taking orders during
weekdays since I’m in school. Most of my orders are done during the weekend and
studies during weekdays. So I don’t neglect either, I balance both at the same
time at least I try balancing both
_Aalia Junaid_
I am glad that I found the sweetest person with nice qualities, especially in cooking and baking. My friend Aalia would say what is our relationship. “I met Hafsa when doing my A/Ls, she is studying with me in the same class. Hafsa is a humble, down to earth girl and is always a friend who is ever ready to help”. This made me sweet and I loved this indeed. Aalia is a self-motivated girl who is passionate about her work. She makes the amazing recipes mouth licking. She customizes the menu per the customer's desires, which is a fast-growing self- business.
Aalia had
the motive to move with bakery because she genuinely loves trying out new baked
goodies; it is very therapeutic and makes her so gleeful, she is uncomplaining
with the result of how she baked goods look and taste, it is a priority and
once the whole thing comes together, it’s the best kind of happiness. The next
content is, in our life, we may want to do something or achieve something to be
successful yeah! So likewise, Aalia too had the motivation behind her lovely
and yummy bakery self-business. Let's look at how’s going to be and she states,
”The one thing that motivated me to start my own baking business was the love I
have for baking. On the other hand, I love experimenting with new flavors and
trying out new dishes, so whenever I try a new dish I wait for my family to try
it out and give feedback and that positive feedback eventually made me want to
give outsiders to try my food and that motivated me to start this!”
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In my experience, Aaliya mentioned me she also
manages with the home objects as a solution. For Example : instead of buying
icing sugar, we can grind the sugar at home using a Mortar and pestle, if
not a grinder. Today, the tradition plays a vital role in order to achieve
minor tasks.
To order your best food
at any time per your own desires, click the follow button on instagram @lias.bakes. Give
your likes, comments and shares to our Aaliya!
I love this segment before I pull out the topic,
every individual is unique and yes it is very well-known. So likewise,
creativity is something contrasting on comparison to others, I found myself
with Aalia as something special in term of creativity, she has a different
style of pursuing things. While speaking
about her creativity she thinks that she is very creative also especially when
it comes to certain things including baking and other stuff. Aalia is having a creative
eye for things like colour, shapes, designs etc.
That creativity helped and still
helps her a lot to grow her business and stand out from other bakers. She also
like to do things differently and think out of the box. She gave an amazing and
fantastic view about her creativity which really gave a nice flavour in my
mind! Indeed, this brings out the line where it says that,
enjoy every
second in your life, to know what is your life about.
I asked Aaliya , “How and why did you start your business?” She said me
that,
“From a very young age,
I always wanted to start my own business and baking was something I loved doing
as a hobby. It all started when I first got my kid's recipe book when I was 8
years old and I started baking for my family. I used to love getting their
comments and feedback, and since the response was positive and kept getting
better and better I started exploring more recipes and new flavours. I also
wanted to share the food I make with people outside my family and get their
comments and feedback as well and that led me to start Lia’s Bakes.
I’m very thankful for
having a very strong support system and it has always been my family that
encouraged me to start this!”
Learning by ourselves is immense and it gives us
the potential to be independent and to do our tasks according to our desires.
Learning by ourselves gives us more inquisitive to learn and practice. Why I
wanted to say this was, that Aaliya is a self-made baker. She said to me that
enjoys cooking and when you do that you will end up with a perfect dish.
As a young girl, she manages her studies and
extracurricular activities and she said me that, “Honestly, its very tough for
a nineteen year old to balance a business and studies both at the same time
specially with my A/L’s around the corner but multitasking and time management
is key. I have limited taking orders during weekdays since I’m in school. Most
of my orders are done during the weekend and studies during weekdays. So I
don’t neglect either, I balance both at the same time at least I try balancing
both”.
Something fantastic to hear. She has been
practicing her customers about her working hours through her social media
platform and that is really great in order to get information about the
availability of ordering.
Time management is really important to finish a
task in a specified period slots. Aalia said me that time management is a KEY.
Having a proper plan and allocating times for the work and working according to
the plan makes things easy and manages your time beautifully. Although she said
she is very bad at time management. She have tried the above method a few times
and it worked out perfectly for her. Yet, Aaliya never get de motivated about
her passion.
“What would be the message you would
encourage, motivate our younger generations?
I strongly believe
that it is never too late for anything. Never fear to follow your own dreams.
Sometimes, we may have to step out our comfort zone to realize that there is
opportunity and potential out there.
If you have a dream to
start a business, stop waiting for a sign, just go for it and it's okay if you
have some fails along the way. Everyone does!
If anything, I am proud
of my small business and everything I have accomplished along the way and you
will be too of yours!”
Being natural and
finding alternatives is super duper! Let’s us look into how Aaliya buy and make
the products for her bakery. She has her supplier that she get her
ingredients from and a separate supplier to get bags and all her packing
material from. Her cream cheese is sourced from another home business and its homemade
– supporting another small business along the way in order to make my product
makes her so happy.
The way of managing the products goes as, at the beginning of
Lia’s Bakes was honestly a bit difficult especially for a one-woman run business.
Eventually with time she learnt how to manage this and now it’s not that hard although
things go out of her control at times.
There are people behind ourself who act as a backbone and Aaliya’s
backbone and strength would be as :” My biggest support
system is my family, they’ve always had my back through the hihs and lows of my
business and helped me a lot, to grow and bring my business to how it is today
and I’m proud to have an amazing and a strong support system.”
The Menu’s at Lia’s Bakes are :
Regular menu
for profiteroles, cupcakes, mini cheesecake and cheesecake jars.
Taking custom orders and catering for
her customers needs.
During festivals and celebratory
special days (eg: Mother’s Day, Christmas, Father’s Day etc.)
“I put out special range items that
will be available only on those days but if the demand is high I consider
adding them to our regular menu.”
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