Hey guys this one's gonna be a bit long but I would appreciate it a lot if you guys read it all because I feel like you guys could actually help me with your past experience.
I feel like every thing that I try to do fails. I'm currently 17 y/o and last year I tried opening a business/niche of wordpress web development that did not succeed much to say the least, I was super motivated at first- going through hundreds of articles, spending hours upon hours learning how to develop design and create websites, then spending hours upon hours on learning how to market myself properly and all of that did not work.
But to be honest with myself I'm not sure that I had tried hard enough. I only did like overall 20 cold calls, around 60 Instagram DMs, and around 15 cold e-mails. I wanted to try harder but just didn't feel it was right to do so and immidiatley lost motivation to do so, I am not sure why.
I had no problem spending hours upon hours on learning all of those things and becoming an actual expert in creating a website while creating around 10 perfect allaround websites just to train myself to be good enough for other business-owners, but when it came to actually closing deals, making the calls, and actually trying to make money- I failed and quit for the day after 5 cold calls that did not close a deal while feeling like a failure for the rest of the day.
I'm not sure if something's just wrong with me, or is that something that might lay in my unconscious mind that stops me from continuing but I've been through countless cycles of saying to myself something like "OK, this month Imma do nothing(which means no parties, not going out etcetera) other than doing X cold calls a day, emailing Y businesses a day" and 90% of the time I quit after 2 days and go to a party in the evening to feel a bit better and to "live my life" because I'm only 17... while "forgetting" the goal I set the day after. Then feeling the urge to try and succeed again ater a week of doing nothing related to this business. (And the cycle repeats..)
I wanted to write this post here in a hope that it'd make me feel a bit less confused, but TBH it makes me even more confused of why I always make it happen. Because I don't think I do this due to lack of self discipline-(In the past I've spent countless of hours on learning, training at 5-6AM every day just to win a national championship that was important for me. And when something's important enough for me, I do everything for it.) Or maybe I do, that's why I want to consult with you guys and hear your opinion because I feel a bit lost and confused while you guys might have felt the same in the past and might know what to do in my place.
I want to make money, I want to help businesses and create them beautiful websites and help them get more sales and I also quite like it. But for some reason I have a barrier that seems transparent to me that won't let me get past it.
I feel like every thing that I try to do fails. I'm currently 17 y/o and last year I tried opening a business/niche of wordpress web development that did not succeed much to say the least, I was super motivated at first- going through hundreds of articles, spending hours upon hours learning how to develop design and create websites, then spending hours upon hours on learning how to market myself properly and all of that did not work.
But to be honest with myself I'm not sure that I had tried hard enough. I only did like overall 20 cold calls, around 60 Instagram DMs, and around 15 cold e-mails. I wanted to try harder but just didn't feel it was right to do so and immidiatley lost motivation to do so, I am not sure why.
I had no problem spending hours upon hours on learning all of those things and becoming an actual expert in creating a website while creating around 10 perfect allaround websites just to train myself to be good enough for other business-owners, but when it came to actually closing deals, making the calls, and actually trying to make money- I failed and quit for the day after 5 cold calls that did not close a deal while feeling like a failure for the rest of the day.
I'm not sure if something's just wrong with me, or is that something that might lay in my unconscious mind that stops me from continuing but I've been through countless cycles of saying to myself something like "OK, this month Imma do nothing(which means no parties, not going out etcetera) other than doing X cold calls a day, emailing Y businesses a day" and 90% of the time I quit after 2 days and go to a party in the evening to feel a bit better and to "live my life" because I'm only 17... while "forgetting" the goal I set the day after. Then feeling the urge to try and succeed again ater a week of doing nothing related to this business. (And the cycle repeats..)
I wanted to write this post here in a hope that it'd make me feel a bit less confused, but TBH it makes me even more confused of why I always make it happen. Because I don't think I do this due to lack of self discipline-(In the past I've spent countless of hours on learning, training at 5-6AM every day just to win a national championship that was important for me. And when something's important enough for me, I do everything for it.) Or maybe I do, that's why I want to consult with you guys and hear your opinion because I feel a bit lost and confused while you guys might have felt the same in the past and might know what to do in my place.
I want to make money, I want to help businesses and create them beautiful websites and help them get more sales and I also quite like it. But for some reason I have a barrier that seems transparent to me that won't let me get past it.
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