Are You in a Time of Transition? 2024 is Your Year of Growth. Here is why.
Christine S. Ntim
Helping Entrepreneurs Launch A Profitable Business and Personal Brand With Technology| Global Motivational Speaker| Entrepreneur| Tech Ecosystem Leader| Featured in Forbes, TEDX, Inc, Essence, Ebony, Black Enterprise,HBR
This newsletter edition might hit different. Hopefully it hits you in the right places.
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I've received several messages regarding my shift in content lately and I want to address it because it's important that we understand the fundamental power of Transitions.
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First, as a community we easily recognize immediate signs of transitions in the human experience such as the first time you go to school, or when you get a new job, losing a loved one, when you get married, welcoming a new child to the family, etc. These are all life chapters that are part of the human experience that we can all understand makes a fundamental shift in your thinking.
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Yet what about the life milestones that probably don't receive the same level of praise and celebrations.
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Such as the first time you experienced depression, or the first time you experienced your parents in their truest form with their mistakes laid bare to analyze, or experiencing financial hardship or failing to accomplish an important goal for the 17th damn time!
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Some of these are silent battles and some are loud and embarrassing.
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Regardless, all of these are part of the human experience and when you experience such things, you change, you evolve, you grow.
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I hope that it is for the better. But sometimes these experiences can become setbacks.
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Setbacks are not always bad. Sometimes you need to go back to the beginning again to evaluate who you once were in order to figure out who you need to be going forward.
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So why am I saying all this?
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Well, because I too have evolved. And there were internal and external pressures that led to this so let me just share a brief highlight overview.
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I will start with 2014, the year I launched my first startup company. Many of you who have been with me from day 1 remember my hustle- of pitching at different startup competitions, closing deals with corporate stakeholders, building a consumer base of travelers via social media and traveling to universities to share my story. It was a crazy time and my passion and dedication was working because within 6 months I closed a quarter million in funding, closed major corporate details within a year and made the Forbes list and Harvard Business Case Study list within 2 years. I officially left corporate life and launched my career as an entrepreneur and global speaker.
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Fast forward to today, where in the past 10 years, I not only launched several more companies (such as Global Startup Ecosystem, initiatives (such as Haiti Tech Summit) and programs such as the Personal Brand Accelerator, but I also built a whole family yall with my husband (4 beautiful kids). Heck last year I started a damn farm!
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A lot has happened.
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Which means I experienced a lot of unique things along the way and also learned many new lessons too.
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So here are 3 takeaways that I hope brings you insight if you too are going through a major transition.
Don't give a f$%ck about people's opinion of you. Seriously stop it! There was a time when people provided perspective with the truest of intentions but in this narcissistic world - many only give you opinions based on the benefit it will only bring them Keep doing you because it's you and those you love who will have to deal with the outcome of your decisions.
Take incremental steps if big life decisions are hard to take on. Moving forward even at a slow pace is still moving forward. I can't stress this enough. In a world where everyone is promising to give you results within 24 hours, we forget that the years do go by. So even if you spread the load of a big goal over several months or even years- you will reach the finish line.
Please have faith in your future. I know this one seems cheeky but notice that I didn't say I have "confidence" in yourself. I said the word "faith". By definition the word "confidence is the feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something. But the word "faith" means "complete trust or confidence in someone or something" vs the word "confidence". Confidence is a temporary emotion where faith is finite. There is no stronger person in the world than the one who truly has faith in his or her destiny. Be a person of faith and go forward with your convictions and know that your dreams and desires will manifest once you set your mind to it.?
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Let me know if you feel the same.
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Would love to hear from you. Stay in power.
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Best,
CEO at Global Startup Ecosystem?
Serial Entrepreneur| Global Speaker | Personal Branding Expert
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