Love Learn Lead September 13, 2018

When was the last time you were the “new kid?”

Recently, in my life, I have been the new kid. The interesting thing about this for me, is that I haven’t moved towns, changed jobs, or joined a new organization. In fact, the place I have felt most like a “new kid,” has been in our dinning room turned office.

Over the past few months, I have spent hours working on all that is involved in beginning my life coaching business. And the scariest, most challenging part has been learning how to build both a brand and a new website. Not knowing anything about computer programming, the latter was the most challenging.

Thankfully, I have an amazingly creative husband who has been a major player in not only designing my website, but also in figuring out the back end of things as well. Only, I have to tell you—there were so many afternoons or evenings where it felt impossible to figure out even the tiniest of details. Not knowing computer coding at all, there were hours of googling youtube tutorials, and both of us searching on two different computers trying to find the right setting. It was exhausting and there were days that I wondered if I would ever be able to share this new site with you.

Being new at something—even something you want or believe in—is so hard. Whether it is a job, relationship, hobby, or something you’re creating on your own, there are moments of doubt. Times when you feel awkward. Days, when it feels like nothing is working. But all of this, is normal.

Not only that, but it is in these times of being the new kid, that we learn so much about what we are capable of. We learn what we truly want. And we grow in confidence.

In so many ways, I am very much a new kid when it comes to being an entrepreneur. I probably will be for a long time. But just as I said on Monday, someday this will be old news. If you too are a “new kid,” let’s keep fighting together. It’s the only way we’re going to get where we want to go.

Love

A few months ago, Emily P. Freeman talked on her podcast about the importance of being a beginner in life. It is incredibly encouraging for us “new kids.” Check it out here.

Do you ever struggle with being a beginner?

Learn

One of the things I am learning from this journey, is that just because you don’t know how to do something, doesn’t mean you stop. In this digital age, you look things up. Or you think of someone you know, who you can ask for help.

Whenever we’re on a journey to succeed at something, there are bound to be obstacles, skills we need to learn, and questions we need to answer. All of these can tempt us to give up. But we have to remember why we’re doing what we’re doing, and never allow “giving up,” to be our answer.

What obstacles are you facing right now?

Where do you need to look for help to overcome?

Lead

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”