I almost gave up. I almost lost hope. But I want you to know that YOU don’t have to. I want to be your real-life testimony.
I wanted to build a business out of something I loved. But I didn’t know how to. I read countless articles, stories, podcasts, watched YouTube videos, downloaded and listened to audiobooks on repeat. Whatever I could to understand and learn HOW to make something of myself and make a living. And one of the biggest common threads that I kept seeing and hearing was about doing the work. Applying yourself and committing. How do I commit without time? Always feeling tired when I was home from traveling around. Making a living from traveling and with great benefits was not just a dream but exhausting. Basically always living in my comfort zone.
When you’re comfortable, there’s not much room for growth. Comfort takes up almost all of your space to grow. That’s why it sometimes takes for you to be made UNCOMFORTABLE to force you into doing what you need to do to succeed. I wanted to avoid having to get to that point. Avoid the rock bottom push, and just taking action now.
And that’s just what I did. I’m sure you’ve heard this a million times: Write down your goals. Write out a list of goals that you want to achieve. Set a timeline for each goal. I finally did that. I finally set my mind to a set of goals, wrote them down in multiple places and began the Journey.
There were thousands of times where I felt discouraged. Felt like what was the point. But I wanted it and it would come back and haunt me if I didn’t give it a genuine try and succeeded. Every day I worked at it. I reached out to brands, sent DMs, emails. Did something weekly that would go towards my goal. And I’m so happy I did. SO happy I removed the fear and kept going.
I encourage you now, to grab a pen and paper, pull up notes on your phone, and write out a list of goals. Make a timeline of when you want to complete each goal. Write out a list of actual steps you can take towards these goals. Put a set of steps under each day in your calendar. Remove the fear from your heart and GO. Do not turn around to look back, don’t watch what anyone else is doing, look straight ahead and GO.
I invite you to share with me a time when you set a goal and achieved it and how you got to your success? Whether its something big or small, I want to hear it. I love hearing people’s Journies. How they get to where they got to.
Thanks for reading and coming along for the Journey!
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