My one year journey online
Everything I have ever done online started last year September (September 2022).
I was a curious 15 year old girl who wanted to try out everything. I studied a lot of courses, and YouTube became my buddy.
Each time I study a new course, I often get fascinated with the way things go with the business. For instance, I wanted to be a video creator after studying courses about it. I wanted to be a copywriter, a coder and a lot more.
I realized something - this is one lesson that I would not have learnt if I didn't try a lot of things out - I cannot be everything, I cannot do everything. It is either I do one thing or I don't do anything.
The more courses I took, the more confused I was on what to do. Obviously, I mean, we all need money. I wanted to do something that would not only be interesting, but will also bring in money.
I tried coding. Hit a dead end.
I tried being a copywriter. Where on earth am I supposed to get clients? That major problem helped me give up the idea very fast.
I tried affiliate marketing. Boom! I dropped it many months later. I hate the idea of chasing after people and trying to convince them to buy a course.
I wanted to be a graphic designer. That😂 It took me months to learn to be a graphics designer even though I didn't complete any of the courses I had for it. I realized later on that it was too competitive (an excuse for me to drop it). I gave up being a graphics designer. (Low energy to get clients).
Tried video creation. It didn't work.
I was really frustrated after trying all these things. I wasn't patient, maybe if I was, I would have improved over time.
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I decided to take a break off social media to cool my head off and think. But there was a major problem. I was "how am I gonna go offline? I can't." I thought about it back and forth, prolonged it, and made numerous excuses. "I will lose clients if I go offline." What clients anyway?😂
It happened somehow and I finally went offline. I read books and thought. I let things off my head.
I read Dan Lok's eBook (FU Money) and something stuck there. "To get what you want, you either sacrifice your time or your money or both."
I thought about it. "How much time am I willing to sacrifice to get what I want?"
A month? Forget about it.💅
Two months? Forget it!!!
Six months? Yah good.
I am not that patient, but I am learning it little by little.
I realized it takes nothing but passion to do something for six months even if I am not getting results.
I found out what I am passionate about and went straight to it.
The truth is, I might decide to go back to any of those things I have tried before and get serious with it later on, but now, I don't have passion for any of them.
If I had not gone offline, I would not have realized all these. Because I was getting courses almost everyday - free courses.
Bottom line of my story is, you cannot be everything, and everywhere, you are either this or nothing.
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