Being Told "You are going to fail" To Creating A 7 Figure Company Within A Year
“You are going to fail” - “I give you 6 months”
"A woman who is told she can’t do something is one of the most feared individuals on the planet" - a quote every woman should remind herself of.
In Jan 2020 I was told by a male that I was going to “fail” when I told him I was going to start my own business and that females don’t belong in the world of running fitness businesses. This individual was someone who had up until then help shape me as a person and someone I learned a lot from, someone I had foolishly believed supported me in bettering my life.
In Feb 2020 when I decided to leave my full time job in Finance I was met with the comment from a male colleague “We will see you by the summer, I give you 6 months”
Typically these types of comments would be enough to stop someone in their path, enough to make them doubt their dreams, enough to make them second guess what they were about to do. But I had been working towards this step for 18 long months
I had put in the hours, I had watched pretty much every single sun rise and sun set from behind my laptop, I had sacrificed endless weekends to sit in a cafe and work, I had exhausted myself on the relentless pursuit of getting to this very step. I watched myself give up more and more free time to study, attend courses, work on my coaching skills. LOTS of people thought I was ‘crazy’, ‘obsessed’, that I was working for something that would never happen - they called it a hobby. But silently, I knew what was coming, I knew what I was working towards and i had unwavering belief in myself
I had worked on MYSELF; I spent every single morning for 18 months reciting affirmations and doing mindset work while everyone else slept, I had pounded the road to my day job in the dark wet early hours listening to podcasts already having done a few hours coaching work, I had read endless self help books and became brutally honest with myself until I got to the point where I could look at myself squarely in the eyes and say “You’ve got this”
It takes a lot to convince YOURSELF you are capable of doing something. To get clear in your head of what you are going to do and then to build the strength to go for it. Don’t waste time trying to convince others of that too, stay silent then SHOW them
By the stage I was ready to start my own coaching business it was appearing to others as an “overnight success” story but I had already put in 547 days of work into it and had already transformed who I was as a woman. I had already blocked out the noise, the only person who could stop me at that point was ME and I was prepared to walk through walls to make my dream a reality.
So I welcomed the doubt, the hate, the stereotypes of a woman starting a ‘small’ business as I knew what I was capable of creating and I was ready to show exactly what a woman who believes in herself was capable of.
I wrote the two quotes at the top of this at the very front of my journal and every time I felt tired at the end of a long day and wanted to lie on the sofa, I read them. Everytime I had a setback, I read them. Everytime I felt that wave of self doubt or anxiety, I read them
Some people want to build the biggest building in town by tearing down everyone else’s building, while others just want to build the biggest building.
Fast forward 13months from the day I walked out of my corporate life and I have built a 7 figure company with clients in over 14 countries and a full team working for me.
NO ONE can define YOU except YOU
NO ONE can tell YOU what you are capable of, that is for YOU to determine
Want something? Go get it!!
Quit stopping along the way to throw stones at each barking dog. Decide what you want, how you are going to get there then go after it with everything inside of you
When I decided to leave my job in finance in Nov 2018 I put an exit plan in place and worked tirelessly on it getting myself ready. 18 months later I walked out of the office the happiest I have been in my entire life, I pretty much floated out of there. I had zero business experience prior to creating my own, I didn't even own a laptop - I started my working on my dream in an internet cafe in London down some strange side alley. But i was determined beyond words can describe
I had spent years living a life that I didn't feel happy in so chasing my true purpose was something that set my soul alight and still does. I have had endless doubters along the journey but they aren’t ME - they don’t know who I am behind doors, they aren’t there when my alarm goes off, they aren't there to see me work tirelessly, they aren't there to see me push forward when i have a setback
It is the easiest thing in the world to stand and doubt someone, to tell them they are going to fail. When I finally realised the ONLY person who is going to make it happen was ME i became unstoppable
I am prepared to do today what the doubters are not
I am prepared to do whatever it takes to make my dreams a reality
The ONLY thing that can stop you is YOU
Will it be scary? YES
Will it be hard? YES, harder than anything you can even imagine
Will it be worth it?? YES!!!
So, I am the RESULT of a woman who decided to go for it. I stand here today on the other side of the risk, the other side of the hard work, the other side of battling the doubters to say YOU CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT!!
There is nothing special about me - I simply decided to go for it!!!
"what if it doesn't work?"
What if it DOES?!! Allow yourself to exist in that thought and go change your life
Laura X