Biz Notes: Just Keep Going

Wooooh sorry for the delay here friends on today’s post! When I started thinking earlier this week about what I wanted to write for this week’s Biz Notes addition I was a little stumped. I had a couple ideas floating around in my head, but nothing that really stuck out.

I got up this morning and checked my email and sadly, the answer to this week’s post was sitting in my inbox. I say sadly because, well, a client fell through. Yep. Fell through. Completely. And it was out of nowhere- nowhere as in we had a launch call scheduled for today. I know this is par for the course. This is all part of what I’m doing- what I signed up for- and what I need to learn to deal with. But it doesn’t make the sting of that first one any less hard. Truthfully, the hard part has hardly anything to do with the client (thankfully the reason the project fell through was completely out of my control), and more to do with the challenge of picking myself up, moving on, and convincing myself to just keep going. It’s scary!

After the initial shock of this morning’s events wore off a little, I was able to step back a bit and reflect. Did this loss make me a complete failure? No. Did I still have work to keep me busy? Yes. Wouldn’t this change in my schedule free up the time I was craving to focus on all the other projects I wanted to pursue? Yes! Was I at a complete loss for ways I could continue to grow my business? Hardly. Despite this loss, do I still want to be doing what I’m doing? Honestly, if you had asked me that up until about 2 pm today, I might have said no. But after I had some time to let the situation settle in and I started thinking about all that I’ve already accomplished and all the great things to come- I still have to say yes. Yes, I want this business, and yes, I’m willing to work really really hard for it. So with that, in the words of Jess Constable, I’m just going to keep going.

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