You Don’t Have to Know Before You Begin
I was out to eat with some friends last week, and they were asking me about the new business and life in general. They made a few comments about how much I was doing and were genuinely curious about how I knew what I was doing.
“How do you know how to run a business?”
“I don’t.”
“Do you have someone helping you?”
“Sometimes.”
“What do you do when you don’t know what to do?!”
“I take a guess!”
I wish I could say I’ve always had this level of confidence and faith in myself. The truth is, it took a lot of time and practice to trust the process. And even now, I still have moments of doubt and fear. That’s not a bad thing…it’s a human thing.
I’m sharing this because I absolutely do not know everything I need to know. What I do trust is that I’ll figure it out and ask for help when I need to.
It’s been over a month since I opened my practice, and I learn at least five new things every single day.
Yes, it can be exhausting.
And it’s also incredibly empowering to make new discoveries as I go.
Confidence, for me, comes from congruency.
When my thoughts, feelings, and actions are aligned with my values and my highest self.
I don’t always make the “best” choice. But I do my absolute best to learn from the choices that don’t land the way I hoped, so I can do better next time. And I try to celebrate the moments when I make a good choice the first time around, too.
Running a business is hard.
Life is hard.
And no one — truly no one — has all the answers.
If I could offer you my Christmas wish, it would be this: take the leap anyway.
Trust that you’ll figure out what you don’t know. Challenge the all-or-nothing thinking that says you have to have everything figured out before you begin, or that you can’t start until it’s perfect.
Messy works.
This is my 11th issue, and I still don’t know if I “know how” to write a newsletter but here it is, sitting in your inbox.
So please don’t let “I don’t know” quietly turn into “I’ll never know.”
With hope and crossed fingers,
Candice
