The ENTREPRENEURSHIP Journey #02: BABY STEPS

Hi, welcome back to the second article that I am writing about my entrepreneurship journey. In this column I am sharing my entrepreneurship journey with you, including all of my wins, mistakes, lessons and experiences.

The Struggle is Real

I am currently in my fourth week of entrepreneurship and the struggle has been real, especially last week. I knew that there was a lot of mindset work and personal development to be done, yet I did not expect that it would show up as quickly as it did. All of the things that I had told myself that I would not do were thrown out of the window and I had a major breakdown on Monday evening. I got overwhelmed.

In the last week I got overwhelmed by the amount of work that was ahead of me, the expectations I had of myself of how many hours I should be working, how much work I should be doing in that time and how I felt that was losing my potential by being stuck in the feeling of not being good enough. I had expected myself to already be making a profit regardless of the fact that I do not actually have any services or products that I am selling at the moment. I felt that after my first two weeks I should have more to show, should have more to show others. I felt that I needed others to tell me that I was doing the right thing.

Am I failing already or am I just not succeeding yet

I have been working hard to rephrase this in my mind. At some moments I could not even believe that anything was ever going to succeed. My mind was already giving me evidence for this. I have already failed in writing this very column on a weekly basis, I was falling behind on making a website, and was working on a product that I felt like I was not doing justice. My brain was already deciding that I was failing.

I also kept telling myself that I could learn anything I wanted, if it failed the first time I could try again, and try again after that, but I knew I would improve every single time. I just wasn’t succeeding yet, but success would be inevitable.  

I am going all in on myself

Apart from already doing some mindset work, I have also took the leap of faith and decided to invest in business coaching. I have known for a while that I wanted to get business coaching from Fast Forward Amy, and last week the pre order opened so I went for it.

I just knew that this would be a chance to really propel my business, Passion Spotlight, forward and give myself the best support I could ask for. I wanted to invest in myself, because I know that if I grow, my business would grow with me. I wanted to invest in myself because I knew that I would feel that I was not doing this business thing by myself (which I am not to begin with, I have an amazing support system around me), but I would be doing it with other entrepreneurs with the support of a whole team, that would be invested in my success. I am in this for the long run, I am doing this because I want to become better and create my dream life.

I want to create my life of passion, and building my business is a huge part of that.