Should I Bother? -Webinar Q&A

 

I get this question so often from emerging wedding planners and I can totally relate. I hosted a webinar in January of 2020 on “4 things you need to know before starting as a wedding planner.” This question came up again, so I decided to write a blog post about it because I feel it is such an important topic to address (you can watch my video response to this question from the QandA session on the webinar).

Believe it or not, a lot of people who want to start out as planners feel the exact same way. In your heart, you really want to do this, but your mind is saying, “no, there are so many other people who do it so well so why bother?” I get it, but before you rule yourself out, come with me on this journey.

Close your eyes with me for a second and think about the major restaurants in your area (you can open now so you can keep reading lol). For my area DC, Maryland, and Virginia there are a lot of fast-food restaurants like McDonald's, Burger King, Chick-Fil-A and most times these various restaurants and many others co-exist in the same shopping complex. They don’t care that they all offer food, which is what all their clients want. Instead, they are focused on providing the food they know how to make best and serving the customers that “choose” to walk into their establishment. This is what I remind my mentees of when they start to feel small or irrelevant when thinking of starting their company.

(photo by Dotun Ayodeji)

I know it is hard, especially in the era of social media you see other successful people and doubt your worth, but you have to choose to say no to comparing and get focused on who you want to be as a planner. Decide on what services you will provide and channel all that energy into working hard at starting your business. At the heart of this feeling, I know is the looming question is “will I ever be good enough?” The answer to that question is up to you, I believe you can be, but you have to apply yourself to make that answer yes. Look up in the sky, all birds fly but don’t collide; so there is room for you.

If you take nothing away from this, my message to you for today is "believe in yourself and give yourself a chance to do the thing your heart dreams of." In the webinar I mentioned four essential things to think about when starting out as a planner-{Shadow, Define your why, Invest in yourself, Count the cost} if you missed the webinar you can catch up on the summary of this on the Tip of the month section on the ”free resources” page. After you have applied all the steps and you are certain you want to do this, then I say, “go for it!” Remember you owe it to yourself to try, so do me a favor and silence that voice in your head that keeps telling you otherwise and go for it, I believe in you.

Until next time……Relax And Enjoy

Shile Bello

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