by Eldari Visser
After a year or two of just waiting, many entrepreneurs are wandering around with a sense of despair and even guilt. Waiting for the world to get back to some normal. Let’s be honest here. During a world full of turmoil many sat staring at a screen hoping for a call to action. Any action and any type of income - whatever the contract entailed, were welcomed. Many also sold their hours for way less than their worth. Others sat in awe as fellow business ladies invented new strategies that made you cry and your mind struck panic buttons often. Red flags and sleepless nights formed part of daily rituals. Your inner voice was the biggest enemy. Where was the surplus budget? Why didn’t I invest more, save more, buy less, and how did the cashflow dry up? A voice of reason wasn’t part of your thought pattern, no, mostly you had a feeling of kicking yourself and being ridiculous by blaming yourself to a point of utter destruction.
I know what dry land feels like. I understand the doubt and fear. I also understand the downward spiral of thoughts that show no mercy to yourself or your business. I know of many that closed down or sold everything to survive. I know of those to whom life was not good enough anymore. In the wild, the ebb and flow of abundance is very natural. It creates new pathways, always. It was made to die and to get reborn…if I can use such a term. Rebirth of areas that were barren for years.
Here is the key though.
Nowhere do you see an animal giving up. Nowhere do you see an animal not constantly searching for a way out of the dry land. Nowhere do they stay at the place of death.
You do see many a pact or coexistence, call it coalition patterns forming. You see patience in elephants walking miles to find water, a leopard searching many new territories for another hunting ground. Even birds migrate for a season when necessary. They have an instinct to keep pushing.
What can we do?
Wait?
Worry?
From my personal experience I can declare that I can help by saying that once I got calmer during the dry phase, and once I just spent time on being kinder to myself, mourning my business, saying goodbye without feeling like a failure… once that happened only then did I notice the small pathway in the grass. A way out, a new possibility and a way towards a greener pasture.
I got up and with my head high I no longer felt that I failed as a businesswoman, rather I knew that in a lifetime of any entrepreneur this might and will happen more often.
Learn from each season. Be prepared for the next dry patch as this will be part of your life. Learn and keep on learning. Reinvent. Maybe birth something new.
My wish for you is to look up and see your new pathway to a brand new future. As in nature everything has its season. This too shall pass.
Walk on Lionesses of Africa, you’ve got this.
Jungle love!
Eldari Visser and her unique company, Picketfence Life, is providing access to information, advice and a powerful network of experts to help consumers find solutions to various serious issues. The company focuses mostly on easy blogs written by financial coaches, lawyers, accountants and tax practitioners, life and business coaches, and even psychologists. It gives practical tips and help and is the expert on your side of the fence. --- You can contact or follow Eldari at www.picketfence.life | Facebook | Twitter | #Junglewealth series
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