Reader, today we hit 31k on Threads and over 270 of you have joined this diary in ONE week. 😲
I have been sitting with that feeling all morning. Just really grateful.
Then this notification popped up on my phone.
And I immediately knew what I wanted to write about in today's diary.
Because hitting this milestone made me think about everything it actually took to get here. The years before any of this existed.
The fear I carried the whole way through. 😅
So, that is what I want to talk about below...
During the hardest months of building this business I used to have nightmares that it had all fallen apart.
That I had to move back into my old tiny studio, alone, and go back to night shifts at the hotel reception desk.
Sitting there by myself in the dark with the feeling of my life just passing by.
I still get those dreams sometimes. Even now. 🥴
But here is what I know after all of these years of building.
Your dream life is 90% mindset and 10% strategy.
I really believe that. Because mindset drives everything.
You can hand two women the exact same strategy, the same playbooks, the same tools, the same tactics.
Only the one with the belief, the discipline and the emotional commitment to her vision will actually turn it into something real.
I know because I was that woman who had nothing but belief.
I was a hotel receptionist with no handouts and no fancy degree, building this in my second language. No head start, no safety net, nothing. 😐
But I went ahead and started anyway.
And every single hard month I just kept thinking... well I already started. I might as well become insanely successful now rather than quit.
I never had a quitting mindset. Not once.
Things can be hard and building a business takes time and achieving any kind of dream in life takes longer than you think it should.
But you can only master your goals by doing, improving and becoming 1% better every single day.
And if there is one thing I want you to take from my story today it is this.
It is just as easy to imagine yourself wildly successful as it is to imagine yourself failing.
Both take the same mental energy. One of them is just far more interesting.
That said, you can have the laptop lifestyle and the travels. The mornings without an alarm.
A blog that pays your bills while you sleep. Working from your sofa or a beach cafe or wherever feels like freedom to you.
These are not for some special category of people Reader. They are for you.
And the belief that you can actually do it? That part is yours to choose. 💛
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Ps. 💌 If you are one of the 300 new faces who just found me - hi, I am so glad you are here!! Hit reply and tell me where you are reading this from.
I went from hotel receptionist to writing weekly email diary entries from Bali cafes and European cobblestone streets that actually pay my bills. I show women how to turn their writing into income through their own dream blogs + email storytelling instead of performing for reel algorithms. Join 2,500+ women reading my Saturday diaries where I share the real behind-the-scenes of building this life.
