The way forward? Trust your guts, not others.

Maurille de Smalen, MA
2 min readOct 22, 2020
Photo by Volkan Kaçmaz on Unsplash

Getting started is a good thing.
Even if you take small steps.
The first one being the most important one. Start momentum.

Once you have gained momentum you have to keep going, take small steps everyday to get to where you want to go.

You have a business and what so solve things your way, not the standard way. not according to the Status Quo, because you have a different business. You serve people and you want to do things your way.
Maybe you need to solve things the unconventional way because you have lack of funds.
Maybe you just want to do things your way, just because you think the old way does not work anymore.

For all this you need great ideas, solutions that rock and solve your problems.

But great ideas don’t magically overnight.
Great solutions take time, they need a good base.
They need all your creativity, but the good news is that creativity is something given to you and is always there for you.
Everybody has it.
But it takes courage to use it.
And in order to get to your creativity to work for you, you need to let go of a lot of elements that are holding you back.

First and most important is that no matter what other people tell you, you have to be confident in your thought process.
‘Say thank you, but no thanks’.

Re-connecting to your creativity is a major thing. trust it. The more you trust it the more it will do for you.
Give it space to try things out.
Feed it new experiences and take care of it.
It will serve you when you need it the most!

Unlearning the things you have been taught.

Unlearning the ways you should approach a problem.

Unlearning the way you ideate to solve.

Unlearning all to gain the new, the unexplored.

And the wonderful thing is we all can do this.

You start with one simple thing:

Stop following everybody else.

Once you decide that it is time to stop following, you will feel yourself in a totally new universe. One that relies on you to make the decisions.

Is this scary, yes it is. Fun? Yes it is. Will your life look different from this day on. yes it will. most certainly you will now make decisions that will be from your inner beliefs and not others. From now on you will find that you connect with your heart and make more honest choices.

Everything will look different from this day forward.

Because you decided to stop following.
You can do anything, solve anything, build your dream business and life on your terms.

love Maurille

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