Today's post is something a little different and personal to me, so I thought why not share with my readers to give you all the inspiration you need to success either in your career, health or relationships. This could be a long read so I suggest you grab a nice healthy green tea to start those fitness goals ;-)
I have created three
of my favourite quotes in Photoshop to share with you all and these quotes are
ones I always relate to when I feel somewhat lost in a difficult situation. I
just received my fabrics yesterday to start doing my practical work for my design
course and I will admit I have been putting the concept off, purely because I
have no idea what or how I am going to make two pieces of clothing from flat
fabric into a Three Dimensional shape!
It’s a scary concept
right! And it does not matter if you are in the same position as me with
exams/deadlines or focusing on getting up the career ladder or wanting to get
that quick fix toned body for summer whilst working your butt of in the
process! And stuffing as much fruit smoothies down as possible. What I am
trying to say is whatever your dreams/goals are you can make them happen! As
the title of this post quotes "Believe in yourself because no one else
will" This simply means only you can make the change you want to see in
yourself.
I will begin with a
quote that really explains a huge amount in my life to this very day and one
that I really relate too.
Failure, that dreaded
word you hear from time to time that can really put a damper on anything you
are working towards, but this is not always the case if you have a positive
attitude towards it! Failure can really push
you to try harder next time or make you a stronger person once you pin point
the errors that brought you down in the first place. We have all been here at some point in our
life where we really want something so bad but then fail to achieve it.
MY PERSONAL BUSINESS
EXAMPLE
I have a little story
I will share with you all about my failure process and a very large one at
that. Around 3 years ago I left college unsure what to do with my life career
wise as I wanted more and decided to set up my own small business through eBay
as a hobby, however this hobby started to make sales everyday and I was really
enjoying it! However I was not making any profit what so ever in fact I was
losing money out of my own pocket, and this is when I realised things need to
change as no business can succeed if it is failing from the start and I put so
much effort into setting everything up. After this period I then went on to
opening up my own website, I paid for everything from the monthly subscription
fee to the SSL certificate costing a huge amount of money but I was dedicated
to see this go through, so I ploughed on through as I do. After spending weeks setting
everything up and designing the website I soon realised I was not making any
sales or traffic, long story short, again another failed business idea and more money
wasted.
These two business
mistakes have made me grow as a person and at the time it did make me very
depressed and feeling like a failure, but now I am very grateful for these
mistakes and opportunities as I have learned from them and built on my skills. I have learned to
control money better, instead of money controlling me. I have learned to be
patient and think things through before diving into a project that was set to
fail from the start by planning out my motives and what I want to achieve from
the situation. I have also learned most of all that I have taken these
experiences into my future and they are great tools to have for new projects
and to not make the mistakes I did before but to build on the foundations. I now run a small shop through ASOS Marketplace and keep spreadsheets of
in-goings and out-goings so I am well organized and understand the
fundamentals to creating a successful business. However I'm no expert don't get me
wrong but I enjoy what I do as a hobby on the side for extra income whilst working
and giving people something unique it also helps to improve my mathematical and communication skills.
I feel the business
example was a great example to tell you all about failure and building on
failure to make a successful outcome of every situation but you can relate this to any area in your life even your blog. I feel business was
the only strong example I personally had as I always strive to achieve better
and would love to one day design my own clothing and that is my dream and my
passion but right now I should really be practicing to make this dream happen
others wise I will have failed myself. You should always remember that even if you fail more than once like I
did, at least you tried, all anybody can do is try; otherwise you will never
have known what could have happened or experienced amazing things.
Think of Inventors or
people in the creative trade, whether your creating jewellery, magazines, games,
clothing or you’re an architect, whatever your career involves everything to
create that has been an idea. Ideas are what makes people think about something
unique and start to design this into a physical thing. Achievements on the
other hand are the things we get pleasure from, for achieving these ideas and bringing
them to life. We all have dreams or prospects we want in life, otherwise life
would become very boring and unproductive, if we get these dreams then that's amazing if not at
least we thought about them or inspired to be them. Achievements are small
rewards to success they are fundamental in every aspect of your dream, without
achievements things would not build, mentally the building would just collapse as
we need solid ground to build on, that's the main reason why people set goals.
Goals are what we work towards in tiny baby steps, these baby steps make a huge
difference in the bigger picture as these build and grow as we go on, creating
the perfect platform for our achievements and to make our dream a reality. If
you want to live a healthier life you will need to set out goals, starting small
and then working to bigger tasks and when you reach these you will feel amazing
and confident and will believe in yourself that you really can make the
difference you wanted to see as the overall outcome.
My Achievements started as an idea, In fact my head is overloaded with
ideas sometimes I can't even sleep, I have so much ideas going on up there. Ideas can be
anything from business ideas maybe you have always wanted to create your own
jewellery or start card making maybe even buy a house to reconvert and rent
out, these ideas can be small or big depending on your dream. They could also
be to progress in your career or invent a new dish to try for dinner, ideas are
a productive way to think and really keep you active and in control. I always
find it best to jot down ideas as in the future they could maybe come in useful
for helping you if you are stuck for inspiration.
And last of all my
most favourite quote, this signifies me in so many ways. At some points on my
journey I have thought about just giving up as so much work goes into creating
an idea you feel passionate about to just see it all fall to pieces before you
can be gutting to say the least, but fear not as once you learn what made this
happen i.e. the weak points in the creation you will soon learn to point these
out and quickly alter them creating that perfect foundation for success. Every
time I fail I have learned to write about the experience so when the next time
comes to do any task that may involve the same process I will be prepared and
confident to take it head on.
I would now like to
focus on blogging, we are all to familiar with as an example, blogging is
done solely by one person if not two or a group if you are very successful and
need extra support when it comes to creating posts and photography. If you are
a baby blog like me and just doing it as a hobby to meet new amazing people and
really build on your grammar, photography skills then you should have no
problem and just enjoy the process, however for more experience bloggers who
one day wake up to notice vast amounts of traffic and need to deliver fresh content
for their readers, need that extra help to get things going. Every blog needs
good photography if you really want to stand out, I also feel photos are
personal to every one of us and gets our personality across, but if you are
strapped for time you will realise how much time tasks to get everything perfect for your new blog post. Every
blogger who uses photos will need to edit these and but effort into creating a
nice user friendly atmosphere for readers and for personal use so this in
itself is a task an idea!
Even typing up a post
can take a few hours at the most to get it as perfect as can be, even as a
hobby or professional use a blog needs to be perfect. Blogs also need goals,
fresh ideas, and an active mind to bring excellent content or content you feel
passionate about so again this is another road to success. If you are sitting
reading this you may be thinking, "my photography skills are not that
great", "my editing skills need brushed up on", "my grammar
is not so great", "how can I get people interested in my
content", these are all questions asked that then set about the idea to
then change these things you feel you need to build on, for example if you want
to get better at photography then go out and practice, enjoy the experience get used to settings and different lighting techniques and
if you fail try again. Photography either basic or professional is not easy, there are many factors to consider when producing a good photo, these being lighting, background, camera
settings. You will fail to begin with but failure = success by learning from
these mistakes.
Well I hoped some or
most of you liked this post or felt it was relevant to areas in your life and
to have the courage to keep going with dreams you may have for the future, If
you have questions please feel free to share them below
What are your dreams/goals?
And have you had a similar experience before?
