08/01/2024
This anniversary hits home – on August 1st, 2021, I quit my corporate marketing job to go work for myself.
I’d like to share a bit about my reality on this path and some realizations that helped me keep going.
In Fall of 2021, I started building out my own design business – deciding what services to offer, learning new platforms to use for design, admin, finances, etc., and reaching out to every adult / business owner / professor I knew for advice and work. I designed a very basic logo and got a website up as fast as I could.
✧ I launched Fell Creative in January of 2022 ✧
I poured all my energy into creating a sustainable business every [week]day since (setting boundaries has been tough but critical to sustain this solo).
It has been exciting, terrifying, fulfilling, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding. I considered quitting and going back to a corporate job almost every single day.
A flip switched for me when I made these two mindset shifts:
⋆⟡ I realized had to become [very] comfortable with uncertainty. I had to overcome the *fear of uncertainty* because it’s the only way to allow opportunities to come your way.
⋆⟡ I learned about Holistic Success ~ the idea that success can be found in all aspects of life, not just in career and finances. It’s up to you to define what that is for yourself. Holistic Success to me means feeling happy, confident, and fulfilled by what I spend my time doing. I did not feel “successful” or confident in what I was doing with my life until I realized this (last month lol).
This helped prove to myself that even though I haven’t yet achieved every goal I’ve set for myself (impossible in the short term), I am still successful currently – and I CAN continue down this path I’ve built for myself.
I hope some of this resonates with you even a little as I believe it’s applicable to all life paths.
Ok soap box over xx
