Hello all ladies of Hive, I trust we are all doing good this morning. Meanwhile, how are you coping with the weather of the season?
In Nigeria, we are currently experiencing the harmattan season and I'm sure that outside Nigeria like in the US, it is winter that is being experienced currently, that's one of the packages that this season comes with and it's one of the things that makes this season unique and refreshing and just what it is.
For a long, while now I've always had this feeling in my mind, I don't know if I should call it fear or something else.
Maybe it's self-doubt I just don't know but this feeling has succeeded in the past years making me feel discouraged about doing something which I honestly should be doing and that's why for my new year resolution this is going to be the first one on my list because I know I have to overcome this not just in my mind alone, I need to overcome this in Action too, in reality.
So this is what I'm talking about, I've learned several skills and I've always dreamt of being established in my business. (I wanted to classify it as my business offline) but I wouldn't use the word offline because of the age we are in now, almost everything is done online getting customers, advertising goods and services, and doing a lot more things are all mostly achieved online.
For instance, as a hairstylist, a makeup artist, and someone who sells products, you get to advertise these things online.
For someone like me who hasn't gotten a place of my own yet (a shop), what helps me in making sales is my adverts online, on my social media platforms, so that is the reason why I won't say it's my offline business because it's not. (It's a bit, offline&online)
This feeling of fear or self-doubt come this way to my mind; when I get a shop of my own, I've gotten more product to sell, and I'm there waiting to be patronized, will I be able to manage it well, will I even have customers, will I succeed in it?
I don't know if it's normal but these are questions that just run through my mind and I wonder if it's normal, I wonder if I'm the only one who feels this way.
I'd like to know, when you're trying to start something new like this, (for me, this is something new) even though I've been advertising online and all that, getting a shop is something new because I've never owned one before. Come 2022 I plan to get a shop, stock it with products and make myself available for services that I will be offering. So is it normal for me to have this feeling, wondering if I will make sales if I'll be getting customers if I will succeed in it?
I'd like to know people's thoughts on it, have you ever been in a situation like this, how were you able to overcome it please do share our experiences with me.