When COVID-19 became a global pandemic and we all started to work from home, I faced a really uncertain future. Prior to the outbreak, I had expressed a desire to leave my current company stating that I no longer believed I delivered value whilst stating my role wasn't needed.
You read so much about how you should never quit your job without having one to go to and I did have periods of doubt. I called my Mum & often asked, "am I doing the right thing and what if? ". Then COVID hit, & it made the inner voice of self-doubt get even louder.
But then something amazing happened...
Lockdown gave me time to think, build, and also plan. Instead of panicking about "the what if," I started work on "the what will be". I took inspiration from one of my friends, a female entrepreneur, who walked away from her c-suite career to start Movement for Mums -
And the results have been life-changing.
So I'd like to share with you what I did and why I face a very different future as a result:
I chose to invest the time in the future "me". By this I mean I built a website and started blogging.
I started to think about what is possible & I sent those thoughts out into the universe
I started to build the foundation to achieve the possible and ramped up my Linkedin activity.
I reached out to the business community & started to build a network and the response has been overwhelming. THANK YOU
I helped my friends in their businesses believing goodwill pays back in goodwill
I continued to learn. I've read articles, done courses and fed the knowledge monster in my head
I worked evenings and weekends to achieve this future.
I created a logo, decided on my company name and started building my brand toolkit
I started talking to some incredible entrepreneurs & one of whom is my very first client.
I got my ambition back & feel alive again!
So COVID has been pretty incredible for me and my advice to anyone is that you should spend this time investing in you and your future. Dare to dream and think big & be prepared to do the work to make it happen. It's early days for me but I haven't felt this excited about the future in a long while and all I can say is "Thank you COVID, you gave me the space to gain the clarity that I needed to make the changes in my life I wanted - at long last"
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