- Hey, it's Q&A day,
and today's question comes from Jus Tin.
Jus Tin says, "I want to start a business,"
yes, "but where do I start?
"I don't know what kind of business to go into.
"I see so much opportunity to work online,
"but don't know what is the best avenue
"to go down or where I should focus my time.
"I know that I want to work from home
"so I can be with my family and make more money
"than I do in trades right now.
"Where do I start?"
Okay, great question, and I have been there.
I know the struggle of being like,
"I wanna do something, I don't wanna work
"in this 9-5, I wanna do something on my own
"that I'm passionate about, but what is that?"
And I'll share with you some of my story,
I was a dental hygienist before.
I used to clean teeth all day,
which isn't that creative and not that exciting,
I mean, it's quite the conversations you
can have with people, but it's a little bit one-sided
'cause, you know.
So, I knew that I wanted to have a business,
but I didn't know what it was.
I knew that I was passionate about teaching
and about speaking with people,
and about learning their stories
and about sharing my story, but I didn't know how
to turn that into a business.
I also knew that I was passionate about singing
and about acting,
and some of my hobbies were in the performance area,
but I didn't know how I could turn
that into a business, something that I could do
and serve the world and be passionate
about every single day, and make a good living
while doing it because as much as we
wanna follow our passion, we also need to,
you know, pay the bills, have a roof over our head, eat.
So, what I would suggest is, work backwards,
and you have a great start here, Jus Tin,
by saying, "I know that I wanna work from home.
"I know that I want to make more money
"than I do right now," and you wanna be
with your family, and that's kinda where I was,
too, that I was in my 9-5 as a dental hygienist,
which I always knew was gonna be a temporary thing
and I do think that it's important
to have something that, whether it's a plan B
or something to fall back on
while you're figuring it out, but then when you do
have that idea in mind, go all in.
Like, some people will say, "Don't have a plan B
"because it holds you back from your plan A,"
but this is where I would say,
if you don't know yet what your plan A is,
have your plan B to sustain you
while you're figuring it out,
and then when you're ready, go all in on plan A,
and I'll tell you my personal story about that, too,
because I understand the fear of taking that leap,
and my story was scary, but worth it,
so just wait, and I'm gonna get to that in a bit.
So, I was in a very similar situation,
that I was working in my 9-5,
knew that I wanted something else,
and I had this idea of what I wanted that to look like.
I knew that I wanted to work from home,
that I wanted something that was location-independent
so that I could be anywhere in the world
and still be serving my clients.
I knew that I wanted to make a certain level
of income or more, that I wanted to work
with people all over the world,
that I wanted to be able to work
from my laptop and do things that I knew
that I had the skills in.
I believe so much in setting an intention
of what you want, but then letting go
of the attachment to how, and letting the opportunities come
to you in an organic way,
and I'll share with you my story,
that I was working in that dental office,
cleaning teeth everyday,
and I found myself a little bit bored,
so in between patients, I was working on their social media
and I worked on their website just for fun,
just because it was something that I was good at,
and their IT guy noticed and said,
"Hey, you're good at this.
"Can I refer you to another client of mine?",
and I said, "Sure, I guess so."
And so, that referral became another referral,
became another referral, became another referral,
until I realized, "You can do social media for a living?
"Like, you can make money doing this?",
and, "I'm good at this?"
And that was pretty exciting to me
because I was, like I said, a dental hygienist,
cleaning teeth and didn't realize
that doing social media for other businesses
was actually something that could
make a very profitable living,
and also provide value for another company.
So, when I look back on my journey,
and I know it's so much easier to connect
the dots looking backwards, but when I look back,
I think, if those opportunities hadn't fallen in my lap,
and if I had the idea of,
"I wanna do social media management,"
I wonder which way would've been easier.
If I had my vision set on, "I wanna do social media
"and I'm gonna learn things for myself,"
or the way that it came to me,
that the opportunities fell in my lap so effortlessly and,
of course, we love to hear effortlessly,
but when you have the idea of what you wanna do,
the first thing to do is start to follow that passion,
whether it means taking up some free opportunities
where you can just dip your toes in the water,
working for other companies
or helping a friend or family out.
Learning from people.
The biggest thing that I can tell you
is also to get a mentor.
Find the people who are doing
what you want to be doing, and learn from them,
surround yourself with those kinds of people.
And I wanna share with you, you know,
the story from an experience that I had
when I had to take, I had to make a choice.
Was I gonna stay in dental hygiene
where I was making $45 dollars an hour
and it was a great wage, or was I gonna
go all in on my business?
Because now, I knew that this was something
that made me happy and this was the lifestyle
that I had designed, that I had always wanted,
and I do believe in spirit, in divine intervention,
in things happening that were just meant to be,
and I was in a position where I was just on the fence.
I was like, "Do I leave, do I go all in?
"Do I leave my 9-5?", and the decision was made for me.
My husband had a very bad dirt biking accident.
He fell off, he scraped his butt right off,
he fractured his tailbone, he had his arm,
two arms, both of his arms in casts
that he could, like, hardly even reach his mouth,
and I was in a position where I couldn't
go back to work, he needed me to take care of him,
and it was also two months before our wedding,
so perfect timing that he couldn't go
to work because of his injuries
and I couldn't go to work because I needed
to take care of him with his injuries,
and that was go time.
It was peddle to the metal,
that there is no choice but to make this work
because not only do I have a wedding
and honeymoon to pay for, but we need to make
this work so that we can survive,
and that was the turning point in my business,
that I wasn't going all in,
I wasn't ready to make the decision for myself
and that was my big sign to go ahead and do it.
So, when you're in that position where it's,
"Do I go all in, do I take the leap,
"do I do this?"
Decide for yourself what it would cost you if you didn't,
that how long do you wanna stay in your 9-5
and not be fulfilling your potential?
Or, do you wanna have that what if of,
"Could I have reached a further potential?"
And I know, I know, there's things to worry about
like money and bills and, "Who's gonna pay for this?",
but here's the thing, we live in a time
where we can get loans, we can be late on our bills,
and I'm not recommending that,
but the worst that can happen
is paying a little bit of interest
while you're growing your business.
I don't want you to get mad at me for saying that,
but when you're ready to go all in on your business,
that could be the leap that you need to take,
and I don't want you to be so worried about
the material things and what else could
be holding you back and keeping you in excuses
from going all in.
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