Today we’re talking about what my first 3 months of self employment were REALLY like so that I can help you avoid some of these pitfalls that I encountered
Yesterday we talked about how I was missing a crucial step in my planning process that was leaving me feeling overwhelmed and like I was winging it all the time, even though I didn’t have a day job taking up 50 hours of my time a week.
I was resisting creating a detailed content calendar, and it’s not because I didn’t know it was a thing, but it’s because I didn’t BELIEVE that I needed one.
This is super important, you guys.
WHAT I BELIEVE DETERMINES WHAT ACTIONS I WILL TAKE
Not how much time I have. Not how much money I have. But what I believe to be true.
If you tell me to do something and I’m already bought in, you can bet that I’m totally going to do it. I’m going to take massive action and I’m going to execute.
But what I’ve discovered about myself throughout this whole journey is that if I don’t fully believe something, deep down in my bones, I’m not going to do it.
You know how when you really want to do something different, and you know all the reasons why you should do it and you have this desire inside of you – but you still don’t take the actions you know you need to take to get the thing?
That’s because you don’t really believe it.
And the challenge for me is that I don’t always realize when I don’t believe something to be true.
This, my friends, is called a BLOCK, and this is why we hire business coaches and mentors – to help us identify these blocks and help us to change our beliefs.
I might have to hear something several different ways, multiple times, from different people, and then experience the pain for myself before something inside of me shifts and I believe it.
And the belief that I’ve had up until very recently is that my day job was getting in the way of me having the time to be organized and having a plan.
And that’s why no matter how much my business coach explained to me how to get organized and how to create a content calendar (not the exact words she used, but essentially that’s what she’s been telling me to do), I just couldn’t wrap my mind around it.
I didn’t believe that’s what I needed – I believed more time was what I needed.
I had to go through three months of not having the excuse of having a day job taking up 50 hours of my time to realize that I what I was doing was not a plan.
So I hope what you take away from this is that if you believe you don’t have enough time for your side hustle, you’ll never have enough time.
If you believe that you aren’t techie and you don’t have what it takes to build a business online, you’ll never take the first step to even find out.
If you believe that it’s possible and that you will be successful, then you will be. You’ll have some ups and downs along the way, sure. But if you believe that success is your outcome, then you’ll just keep getting back up until you reach your goal.
And that’s what I want for you. To believe that it’s possible.
So thanks for listening, and I’ll see you tomorrow with the final lesson I learned from my first 3 months of self employment!
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