Reflections of my first premium week

byJoConnection

160 followers

6 years ago

This past week and a bit has been quite exciting for me, and has been a week of major breakthroughs.

Just to give you some background, I have been in the process of trying to grow an online business for the past 5 months already. This post could be extremely long if I go into detail, and there is even more of a background story to the past few years before these last 5 months. I definitely have not been making near as much progress as I would ideally like to. Two of my main challenges have been my mental health (recovering from and learning to manage type 2 bipolar), and low cash flow. These two have a tendency to feed each other. My progress has come to a standstill for the last 2 months or so as a result of that (the cash flow mainly).

The beginning of this recent breakthrough came when a friend who I've lost contact with for a while asked me to look after their home and pets while they went away. I have occasionally done that for some extra income in previous years. I haven't actively been trying to get new clients for that since a traumatic near-death experience I had while doing that about a year and a half ago. I have still occasionally done that for some repeat clients, but not consistently at all. This person didn't know about my bad experience, or that I stopped doing it. But when they asked, I almost instinctively said yes. I really needed the money, and I have mostly overcome my fear of new clients- because I sort of did know these people even though I haven't done housesitting for them before.

As soon as they confirmed the booking, I knew that I was going to use the cash from that to upgrade to the Premium membership here at WA; and I was going to spend my time there working on getting my business going again.

Well, I did upgrade on Monday and I must say I'm glad I did. I have completed Phase 1 of both the Entrepreneurs certification training and the Affiliate bootcamp. Doing that has given me some clarity on exactly what I need to do, and focus on, going forward.

A giant leap forward for me is actually setting goals. It might seem basic, but it has been one of my impossible tasks. It's something that both my psychologist and psychiatrist have been trying to get me to do for about the past year in therapy. I have been completely unmotivated to set goals since the end of 2016. Something that isn't spoken about often in relation to mental health and recovery are the impossible tasks. Almost every person that struggles with depression and anxiety has at least one seemingly basic task that they simply cannot and don't want to do. Setting goals, especially long-term ones, has been mine.

While going through the training I didn't think much of it, and just did it so that I could check off those tasks to carry on to the next lessons. Only now when looking back am I realising what a big leap forward that is for me. I have had some hypomanic phases earlier this year just after making the decision that I am going to start my own business and follow through with this decision. I was a bit delusional and set some over-ambitious, unrealistic goals. The rest of the time I have had no ambition and very little motivation at all. Right now I feel like my goals are actually realistic, and the training has shown me exactly what it takes to achieve them. Seeing what is required, and realising that all the steps are things that I can do, has given me some peace of mind and clarity.

Shoutout and thank you to everyone who has followed and welcomed me so far! I really do appreciate it. I look forward to seeing and sharing more success stories on here, both mine and others'.