Start Talking About Your Struggles To Inspire Beginners

We all want to be the person who has reached their Instagram #vacationgoal #summerbeachbodygoal #relationshipgoal or #wealthgoal.

We are all inspired by the Stories of other people. But Only a few dare to share their struggles.

Emotions are not easy to deal with.?

We live in a society where talking about how we feel or what we’re struggling with can be seen as vulnerable, which then leads to being weak. This is why a lot of people are used to hiding their struggles and dismissing their emotions.

In the creative community, we see this a lot. From freelancers to big brands, we only focus on celebrating our wins—the ad that tripled the business revenue, the first premium retainer client, hitting 10k in a month.?

If it’s a good story, we are so eager to share it with anyone who’d listen. But if it’s a roadblock we can’t seem to get past though, if it’s a nagging question we cannot find the answer to, if it’s a failure eating us alive, we are dead silent about it.

And that’s a problem.

For starters, it’s a problem because we’re giving the wrong idea to aspiring starters that this path is all good news and sparkly wins. But (and this is more important) it’s also a problem because if we don’t talk about our struggles, how can we get them off our chest?

How can we open ourselves to realizations, new perspectives, and wise suggestions?

We’ve been in IT Business since 2010. It started growing in 2015. Why? Because we spent the first years playing small, settling for less, and the most destructive of all, keeping all struggles to ourselves. Today, we can talk about it all the time - and here’s why you should too!

It will open you to peoples’ suggestions and words of wisdom

For obvious reasons, sharing what you struggle with opens you to endless words of wisdom and suggestions.

When you share your career-related problems and struggles, you open yourself to other peoples’ perspectives and of course, to helpful tips and advice.

Many just gather a lot of information and don't take the necessary action.

If you have friends who say “I will invest in the self-development online program I’ve always wanted to take.” It is always when I “get something X,”?then I will “do Y.”

Your response should be the same as mine to say?“Why don’t you do that now??Why is something else standing in your way?”?

Encourage people to Start instead of lengthy process for taking step one.

It will keep things emotionally lighter and easier for you

When there’s a problem, there is also anxiety, irritability, and even hopelessness. If you’re a creative entrepreneur struggling to make things work, you might find yourself wanting to go back to corporate. I know I have.

Talking about what’s bothering us or holding us back is a good way to make things lighter and easier. Expressing emotions and unloading those problems helps clear our minds.

It will help you practice courage

It takes a lot of courage to be an IT Professional. It takes a lot of courage to pursue your creative aspirations. But that’s just one thing. To stick around and to stay even when things get tough—that’s another load of courage you need to have.

As unrelated as it may sound, talking about your struggles helps you practice courage because it’s not easy to say you failed or that you don’t know what to do next.

It will give other creatives a more realistic look

One of pet peeves in this work line is when people only talk about their wins. I have nothing against celebrating your wins, but if it’s only what you focus on, you’re not giving your community a realistic view of what freelancing is.

Truth is IT sucks sometimes. It’s challenging and it requires a lot of self-discipline, more than anything else. All-time online connectivity and no day off for the starters.

I have no words to express how much my perspective changed after reading what other fellow professionals have struggled with. When I thought I was the only one, I’d meet these people who also have the same problems as me. If that’s not giving a more realistic look, I don’t know what is.

It will instill humility in everyone

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, behind every successful business is an ordinary human. Talking about our struggles instills humility.

In my case, it helps to remember it’s okay to fail or to be unsure of things. It’s okay to ask for help and it’s definitely okay to not know everything.

Part of being a success is being kind to yourself. Another part is staying humble and being there when new IT enthusiasts need a piece of advice or two.

It will show that vulnerability isn’t such a bad thing

In an industry where?“positioning yourself as an expert”?has become a rule of thumb, we’ve made it difficult for people to be vulnerable.

To say,?“I’m not an expert on that but I can collaborate with a colleague who is.”?

The more I talk about my struggles, the less I put?experts?on a pedestal and the more I see that vulnerability isn’t such a bad thing. Because it isn’t.

It’s simply being human.

Start Sharing Your Stories too.