Many people make the mistake of constantly searching externally when they have a need. If you truly want your needs met, look inward because everything you need to succeed is already inside of you.
That sounds like complete bullshit after writing and now re-reading it. But it’s true.
After becoming an entrepreneur, I started to ask myself why this is the dream of millions of other people. Individuals with this aspiration want financial freedom, to work on their own time, to set their own rules, and most of all to be their own boss.
Many people want all the benefits, but forget the price it costs to secure this freedom.
What’s the price? Sleepless nights, living penny to penny while you get your business off the ground, working allll the time, and BEING YOUR OWN BOSS. I can honestly say I’m the toughest boss I’ve ever had. I set high expectations for myself, and when I fail to meet those expectations, I feel sooo low.
Back on November 4th 2017, I hosted the Get Shit Done Summit in NYC. It was a great event, but after the event, I felt like shit. I felt unaccomplished, disappointed in myself, and most of all like a phony. How am I hosting an event called the Get Shit Done Summit and I’m not getting everything I need to get done….done?
If you decide to take the path to becoming an entrepreneur, please, have a support system, don’t be too hard on yourself, and have a method of getting yourself right mentally physically , spiritually, and emotionally. It is most essential that you take care of yourself.
You got this.
Here’s a short story about epic failure.
In 2017, I made the mistake of constantly over committing and under-delivering. I was working on a digital accelerator, while having a newborn and 5 Year old in the next room. While pregnant with my second child, I was overestimating myself because of all the things that happened with my first pregnancy, and I truly thought I could be SuperWoman. When I had my first-born, I stayed home for 8 weeks, and just like that, I went back to finish my senior year of High School. I had help from my grandma, as she took care of him while I was at school. I went to classes, completed homework on time, went to prom, and graduated with my peers. Everything I planned pre-baby just fell into place post-baby, and I felt unstoppable. With this mindset, I was using the experience that I had as a teen mom of 1 to set up expectations for myself as a married mom of 2. Um, yea think…AGAIN.
For baby number two, my entire life dynamic changed! Now, I not only had a toddler, but also a husband, the responsibility of finishing up my senior year of college, running a startup, working for a tech company and being president of a school club. While balancing all of these things on my plate, I still made time in between for other tasks and projects. I became the definition of a startup workaholic: constantly immersed in the hustle and embodying the get shit done mindset. Everyday when I woke up, I set the intention to create value and impact for everyone I came across. Minutes before and after giving birth, I was on Slack with my team letting them know that our weekly team meeting was postponed because I just had a baby. Re-read that last line. Do you see how crazy I was?
Post-delivery, I put up an email responder that said I was away on maternity leave. I included the names of my team members so that conversations would be passed on to them. Everyone said, “take a break Georgie,” but I was not in any way trying to hear that. “I’ll take a break when I get where I’m going,” I thought to myself. The email responder was on, but I replied to practically every email I got (sometimes even instantly after they came in). I was already addicted to my work , but all I was doing was making it worse.
The Georgie that I’ve become today has a few words of advice for you:
Just do the work.
Pace yourself.
Be patient.
Take breaks.
Be honest.
Slow progress is always better than no progress.
And don’t believe the hype. The things that I get done perfectly today are things that I FAILED at in the beginning.
However, what kept me in the game was turning those L’s into lessons.
I constantly said to myself “That didn’t work out so well when I did it that way! Maybe I’ll try doing it this way next time.”
That’s exactly how I got to where I am now. That’s exactly how you’re gonna get to where you want to be.
JUST START AND DO THE WORK.
by Georgie-Ann Geton © All rights reserved