I've hesitated writing this due to my own self-confidence issues I have when I'm in a room with people I admire. I'd read Fastlane about a year ago and found Unscripted on my bookshelf last week, which for whatever reason I'd never started. I've spent the last few days doing nothing much but studying the book and making notes.
There's a section that's given me the courage to speak up, page 334 "Environment is everything" "You are free to choose - not choosing makes you a victim to your circumstance" So, here I am in this wonderful room of people I aspire to, and I have to choose to get involved. I really hope that everything I learn on my journey, and as I share it, may just help others in turn.
The past few years I've spent trying varying business ventures, some were not so good decisions but one seems to have taken a little more shape and progress, and that's what I'm moving forward with now. It simply started by making one website, for one lady I met in a FB group. She asked for help, and I knew how to help her. It all seemed far too simple! There's also an annually recurring cost which feels so great because I can forecast ahead for my income next year.
I've a few more websites created now from her recommendations, and from promoting my services. I could feel things picking up steam for me, which is when I realised I needed some guidance, and dusted off Unscripted .
As I've been making these websites, my customers have started to trust me and ask for help with other things. These are things that are so super simple to me - setting up a business email, social media templates, sales and marketing (my Slowlane background is in sales) - but these are things they don't want to, or can't do. I've just been charging a little bit extra, case by case, and doing the work.
At the moment, I've created myself a job where I'm trading time for money - but as I'm doing this, I'm recording content to educate them on how to do these things themselves. Fastlane goal is to turn into a membership site / online courses, plus the recurring income from the websites. I'm personally a member of some such memberships, and see how I can put my own take on this, to make it better. Yes, it will take time to grow, time I'm committed to give now, in exchange for the future I want.
The business brand is aimed at career mums. I'm having difficulty deciding if I'm too niche, or should open out to all women in business.
Task: Search the forum for topics about niching.
Other opportunities I can incorporate
Thoughts I've noted down while reading Unscripted
Uurrgh this is so horrible to see in the cold light of day, but I can't fix it if I don't face it head on.
With minimum payments will take me 3.5 YEARS! to clear. No way am I going to let it take that long!
Income over the past couple of months has been steady, but goes straight to paying off debt, so I don't see any of it. I'm okay with that, but I do need to track my income a lot better so I can celebrate the progress.
Pretty sure I've gone on long enough now, thanks for having me
I intend to update daily - I promise not to be as lengthy as this! - but I'd like to at least declare what action I've taken so I can keep my momentum going.
Rebecca
There's a section that's given me the courage to speak up, page 334 "Environment is everything" "You are free to choose - not choosing makes you a victim to your circumstance" So, here I am in this wonderful room of people I aspire to, and I have to choose to get involved. I really hope that everything I learn on my journey, and as I share it, may just help others in turn.
The past few years I've spent trying varying business ventures, some were not so good decisions but one seems to have taken a little more shape and progress, and that's what I'm moving forward with now. It simply started by making one website, for one lady I met in a FB group. She asked for help, and I knew how to help her. It all seemed far too simple! There's also an annually recurring cost which feels so great because I can forecast ahead for my income next year.
I've a few more websites created now from her recommendations, and from promoting my services. I could feel things picking up steam for me, which is when I realised I needed some guidance, and dusted off Unscripted .
As I've been making these websites, my customers have started to trust me and ask for help with other things. These are things that are so super simple to me - setting up a business email, social media templates, sales and marketing (my Slowlane background is in sales) - but these are things they don't want to, or can't do. I've just been charging a little bit extra, case by case, and doing the work.
At the moment, I've created myself a job where I'm trading time for money - but as I'm doing this, I'm recording content to educate them on how to do these things themselves. Fastlane goal is to turn into a membership site / online courses, plus the recurring income from the websites. I'm personally a member of some such memberships, and see how I can put my own take on this, to make it better. Yes, it will take time to grow, time I'm committed to give now, in exchange for the future I want.
The business brand is aimed at career mums. I'm having difficulty deciding if I'm too niche, or should open out to all women in business.
Task: Search the forum for topics about niching.
Other opportunities I can incorporate
- Expand the web design side into a franchise
- I'm learning to code as have ideas for an app that would serve my audience well
- A yearly goal setting/focus journal
- Annual in-person conferences / family events
- Networking / Mastermind groups
- Business introduction service - accountants / VA's / lifestyle help such as childcare, travel agents...anything that helps an entrepreneurial mum (or women in general, if I don't niche on mums)
Thoughts I've noted down while reading Unscripted
- Named days of the week: I 100% agree with what's written, but my life is structured this way with 2 children, school is Monday-Friday, family activity is weekends, although I can still dedicate weekend time to growing my business.
- Page 84: Fake FTE, yeah - I think this was me with a previous employed situation I was in. Although, apart from that I don't feel like much else has changed, just my own firm decision to finally prove what I'm capable of. I've said this many times before. I have to choose that this is it.
- Husband: Worry's about money, but supports my ventures. He's Slowlane and we've talked over the books and my goals, it's taken time because he's a natural worrier. He feels trapped in his job and after all these years of him supporting me, it's going to pay off.
- My purpose: Is much more important than I'd realised. I want to help women like me that have felt so stuck, so alone, wanting things but not knowing how to get them! I can do (or outsource) the techy stuff for them. They need to bring their own ambitions. I've made notes of the emotional journey she goes through, and this needs to come across in my messaging.
- Perhaps selfish - but yes, while my love for helping is very real, I do want to live a financially great life. Watching a programme about the wealthy in Monaco last week reminded me of this. I used to get jealous. Now, I see possibility. Besides, I've pinkie promised my family a few nights in the Hotel de Paris.
- Female focused entrepreneur groups I'm in are not always the best environment for me. There's a lot of talk about 'money blocks', 'work/life balance'. I feel like an outcast, they tell me to slow down, but there's not enough talk about action and it just doesn't inspire my growth. I can be shy in male dominated environments, but I also know they support me and push me to achieve.
- Page 224 - It's okay to fail. I am learning. This brief chapter made me feel so understood.
- Get debt free, asap
- Build a Fastlane business
Uurrgh this is so horrible to see in the cold light of day, but I can't fix it if I don't face it head on.
- Overdraft: -£1691.37
- MBNA: -£5244.28
- Virgin CC: -£10,630.84
- Halifax: -£11,100.39
With minimum payments will take me 3.5 YEARS! to clear. No way am I going to let it take that long!
Income over the past couple of months has been steady, but goes straight to paying off debt, so I don't see any of it. I'm okay with that, but I do need to track my income a lot better so I can celebrate the progress.
Pretty sure I've gone on long enough now, thanks for having me
I intend to update daily - I promise not to be as lengthy as this! - but I'd like to at least declare what action I've taken so I can keep my momentum going.
Rebecca
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