The First Year of being an Entrepreneur

Mind
Sep 07
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So here I am a year and a half later after my self proclaimed entrepreneurship. I wish I could tell you it played out like one of those movies where (cue inspirational music) there was an epiphany and a sequence of successful activities ensued and I ended up on the cover of Forbes magazine in an amazing Celine outfit. Nope, fast forward to today and I am exhausted trying to figure out WordPress and trying to post using Elementor (apparently yet another plugin amongst countless other plugins the world recommends for my website). The great vision is still there most days, the drive is on neutral, the want is here but the body and mind just wants to watch Netflix and chill out with my family. To work a full time job and to try to get this side hustle going was a lot harder than I had imagined.

I wished that was me on the left. My face was literally stuck in the ‘I dunno’ mode all year.

Enjoy the Journey

Everyday I try and meditate on ‘Enjoy the Journey, not the Destination’, I even say it through gritted teeth over and over again when I can’t remember yet another password for my various accounts I have accumulated in building this business. But as I look back I have to pause and wonder if the universe is indeed trying to teach this Type A personality a thing or two about ‘Letting Go’ and building things slowly, and appreciating things that I wouldn’t normally count as successes. Even pausing to acknowledge these successes is not something I would do ..so here goes. I give myself credit for; wanting and taking yet another project in my life, figuring out how to establish my business (inc. vs sole proprietorship..who knew the difference?), setting up Paypal, navigating company names and domains (who knew so many Lotus things existed??), finding one that mostly worked, paying for this website, figuring out how to use Fiverr and Upwork to create this website, figuring out how to populate this website with listings, reading blogs and blogs of how to navigate WordPress (I still have no idea) and last but not least, recognizing I need an entire village to help me execute my vision.