Let me start with a personal note that my dad's wife passed away, so my real life has been full of those feelings and also getting ready for a trip (I live in Arizona; funeral is in Idaho). The rest of life including the SFM work has been stuck in the pockets of time besides all that. I also contemplate a week out of commission for this trip. But it turns out that I am finishing the learning modules just in time and the basic setup, so when I get back I'll be able to take a deep breath and get my ankles muddy for real. I'm excited.
I also want to mention that my adult children this week basically were dismissive of what I was doing plus some other of my life choices, with advice coming from them basically that came down to "get a job". They were trying to do something of an intervention. So I had some moments of depression feeling their unsupportiveness. (So I called *my* mom, ha ha. She is endlessly supportive.) Like all advice like this, it comes from concern, so I try to get that. And I know they see me struggle which they don't want their mom to struggle. And I don't necessarily recommend my choices to others (i.e. not to be employed at this time), because things have been super tight financially. My decision is based on a lot of things I won't go into here, but it's hard that no one thinks I put any thought into it and might actually know what I am doing and am handling it even though it is difficult. Well, they are my kids and I love them and they haven't been through everything I have so they see the world a certain way. Also they have been the ones who have seen me and lived with me in all my weaknesses, so they have no reason to believe I could be a different person, whereas I know that I am leaving my past behind. So I tried to take it in the right way, but on the other hand, it sure feels alone that I have to believe in myself by myself, because no one is going to do it for me.
But in any case, over the last few days I have had a few more of those mercury retrograde glitches of life including SFM website stuff, so frustrating. But again I have a lot of patience. Til now when I have finally completed all of the initial learning and set up modules as of ten minutes ago. I have an email list with follow up series ready to go. I have an authority/blog site. I even placed my first marketing banner on some other online "property" I have. I don't necessarily expect much to come from that but it was mostly for me to feel that I did one thing for marketing. Because my focus is now to market and generate leads and build my list.
And there was something that switched in my brain/heart. That I am not a student any more but I have been handed it. Now I have to make the decisions for me that are right for the community I will be building and the business I will be doing. I am also bringing to the table all of the learning I did in the project previous to this one, so I actually feel a little powerful. I can do this.
Not that I know everything, of course. Learning is going to be a part of every day. Continuing to tweak the website, add value and content, put marketing out there. There is plenty of live training and recorded courses at SFM, so I will be learning for a while. But now the decisions are mine instead of being directed down a training path. SFM also encourages independent research. It's an education platform, not really a company that you exclusively have to belong to. So when I get back from the funeral trip, I am going to sit down and design the workflow of my day and what needs to be done and then go for it, work hard, and enjoy it.
My goal at this point is to generate my first 10 leads. They teach a focus on leads rather than sales (at least at this point). So that means making marketing decisions and actions.
Oh, one thing I wanted to say--I pay a monthly fee to SFM to use all of their tools and stuff and I just have the Basic, and really it is great. There is so much. And the website didn't cost any additional money like for hosting, because that is included. (The domain registration did--$20.00.) Just sooo much stuff included that makes everything work very well in all the things I could possibly want to do, plus live training, motivation, an internal social community. It's great.
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