Ok, I am doing a gut check on myself and maybe some of this can help you too. In life, we have to make difficult decisions. This happens in every area of our life including with our relationships, our health, our money, jobs, businesses, and the list goes on. For this purpose we are talking about making difficult decisions when it comes to money and business.
Many of you know I have been writing and blogging for over a year, but what some of you don’t know is I am going full force with my business. It is growing by leaps and bounds and I declared 2013 would be the year I would walk away from fulfilling other people’s visions and start fulfilling mine. I decided any and everything in my life that I was not passionate about I would set down by the end of 2013. My goal is to do Liberty Educational Group fulltime and take The Di$count Diva brand to the next level.
I know in order to do this will take commitment, dedication, and hard work, but I also know it will take turning down some opportunities to do some things I want to do, making some sacrifices, and putting my business before my own pleasure. In saying this, I am having to make some difficult decisions.
I have some things that I have planned on doing in 2013, even one this very weekend. I have been planning it for a long time and it is with a group of friends. I was determined to go, even though it is not in my budget and I have lots of business things to work on. It’s not in my budget not because I am broke, but rather because I am putting all my discretionary income towards my business and with Corporation fees, Corporate Compliance fees, Trademarks, PR, Websites, etc. my priorities have shifted.
After listening to Dave Ramsey’s, “Financial Peace University” and being checked by my accountability partner I was still on board to go. Then after being at two networking events last night, I got invited to a promising event Saturday night. The event is an awesome opportunity to grow my business, is in line with one of my goals, and requires no money, but…it’s Saturday night, and I am supposed to be out of town this weekend. I thought about telling her, “No, I can’t make it,” but I had a gut check and after getting over the nausea and dealing with the reality that I could go, but I didn’t need to go, I experienced a moment of growth.
I went to a higher level of adulthood. I made the difficult (to my inner social butterfly persona) yet right decision. I rededicated my life to accepting responsibility for my financial future and I began accepting responsibility for the success of my business as well. It’s not rocket science. I have to do today things others won’t do to have tomorrow things others won’t have, Les Brown.
It used to be all about having fun, but I have matured, and now it’s about building my business because building my business will allow me to do what I love to do full time. Building my business will allow me to walk in my destiny and fulfill my purpose. Building my business will allow me the freedom later to do everything I want to do.
I can keep kicking it, hanging out, spending money, and achieving temporary happiness or I can press towards the mark and stay on my grind so I can have long term happiness and success.
The moral of the story…I’m not going to my planned weekend event and all though some of my girls may be mad, “I have to live like nobody else, so later I can live like nobody else,” Dave Ramsey.
So now, what are you gonna do?
