Website Launched and Cannot Look Back

byFit4Twins

308 followers

Updated 8 years ago

Hello, WA community! It feels like years since my last post, but it has only been about a month. In that month, I have felt some of the ups and downs related to starting a non-traditional business like this. Right around the time I completed one of the first lessons of the second course, the one that tasks you to write a keyword-rich post, I became a bit paralyzed in the creative process.

Although I had multiple posts partially drafted, I could not finish a single one. I started feeling like I needed more time, more resources, more knowledge, more friends, more contacts, more of everything if I was ever going to be able to manage this online endeavor. I watched, sadly, as my site health started going back into the "red" because I was not writing enough content. I had yet to make it to the comments platform, so those numbers were still unchanged at 0%.

In the middle of my first month, I went on a family vacation, which had been planned months before I had ever heard of WA. At first, I saw the break as another hurdle in my race to complete these courses and get my website up to a healthy state. But what I returned with was a more relaxed outlook and some inspiration for an entirely new post.

In the nights that followed my vacation, I could not stop thinking about the things that kept me from moving forward on my website. As if my prayers were being answered in my dreams, I began to wake with solutions to some of the problems in my mind. After a few days like this, I realized I was finally at a point where I felt comfortable telling my friends and family what I was up to. Last week was my official website launch, and I can no longer turn around.

I received some very positive feedback from my first non-WA audience, which helped me feel more comfortable with what I had developed thus far. Understandably, there are also many people in my network who did not and will not respond to the announcement. I am learning to accept that; I have to remember I am doing this for me and not for anyone else's approval. I also look forward to the successes in my future because of what I have chosen to do.

My main challenges now involve finding the time to write content regularly, absorb and apply all the lessons and advice, and balancing out my personal obligations and hobbies. I think the more I focused on trying to get things related to WA done quickly, the less time I took for self-care, which is completely against what I believe is best and what I planned to blog about to other busy moms!

I accept that I am in the early stages of a dream, an enterprise that has not yet been fully explored. I am learning to see success in small increments and have taken care to pay attention to the less obvious signs of progress. For now, I am the only person standing in my way, and I have chosen to stop being a roadblock to my own progress. Now if I could just figure out how get more hours in the day...