The Newbie's Greatest Challenge!
Published on October 16, 2019
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Hey there you!
What is / was the greatest challenge for you when you first joined WA?
It's probably different for everyone, but this is day 5 for me and I'd like to share my greatest challenge with you so far:
HOW can I FOCUS on my TRAINING when are are just so many LOVELY PEOPLE here to connect with???!!!!!!!!!......... (I'm not joking!)
This is how my training has gone so far:
Day 1: Lesson 1 - Complete! ... HOORAY! ... Now let's meet some people ...
Day 2: Lesson 2: Complete! ... WELL DONE ME! ... Who else can I get to know? ...
Day 3: Lesson 3 : Started ... Ooh every one here is so AMAZING! ... Hello!!! ...
Day 4: Lesson 3: Must get back to this ... wait, I'll just reply to this person first ... Ooh they followed me, I want to follow them back ... I'll just look at their profile first ... Ooh they have a website too! ... Ah wow, what an amazing person! ... Hello!...
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Day 5: Exactly as days 3 & 4 so far!
Don't get me wrong: I LOVE connecting with you!
In fact, I am so happy to have found you all that I actually feel quite emotional about it at times! It's a beautiful thing to find a community like this, which genuinely feels like a family. People here are helping each other out left, right and centre. Everyone has different skills, interests and passions, and we're all here to learn and grow and develop ourselves.
I don't regret any of the time I have spent so far in communicating with all you beautiful people and I will continue to actively engage with this amazing community. Sharing our skills, knowledge, interests, challenges and joys with each other is what it's all about. And a big thank you to all the people that have already helped me out personally with various things. You know who you are! I appreciate your help, I really do.
I'm also aware that I'm gonna need to plan some definite time for myself to actually focus on the training and get properly into it, or I won't make the progress I want to make.
How do you balance your time between your own training / business and networking? Do you do both simultaneously or do you carve out specific time-slots for each? What proportion of your time do you spent on each? Are you happy with that proportion?
I imagine these may be useful questions to ask ourselves from time to time, whatever stage of the journey we are on. Focusing on ourselves and focusing on others are both vitally important. Let's get the balance right and make it work.
One thing I've been doing is aiming to follow everyone who follows me (as well as others), take a look at their profile, and introduce myself with a short message. But I just can't keep up!
So I have just begun following people who follow me WITHOUT messaging them. I wish I could message everybody, but I need to get on with the training.
If I have followed you (or even if I haven't yet) and I haven't sent you a hello mesage yet, then please consider this a friendly greeting to YOU personally. I do hope our paths cross at some point on this journey. I value your presence here.
And I wish you the greatest happiness and success with whatever you choose to do.
Your friend,
Woodsie
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