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WHAT DID YOU LEARN FROM LOCKDOWN?
By Alison Quinn
What did you learn from lockdown? Did your life
change in an incredible way or did you just have to carry
on as normal? I think I have literally spoken to at least
one person with every conceivable version of events over
the last 3 months... I would love to hear from you!
For me I learned that I have business survival skills, being
self employed and in the beauty and wellness industry, my
daily business of meeting with clients literally disappeared
over night!
Of course I panicked and worried for what the future might
bring for me and my lovely business that I have built over
the last 21 years like so many business owners did at that
point in time, but do you know what I had a good old think
about it and realised I’d just have to get on with it... being an
entrepreneur runs in my family, if you are a regular reader
of Wirral Life you will have seen my brother Jonathan, and
his many innovations he has introduced over the last few
years. We work with what we have available, we search for
the people who can help us achieve our goals and we work
hard to achieve them.
Now what did I have at my disposal?? An internet
connection, free time and my phone!
It might not have been rocket science but it 100% enabled
me to focus on the online parts of my business, skincare,
haircare, makeup, suncare, all vegan, cruelty and toxin free
(very important in the current climate where people are
looking after their immune systems and are concerned
for their impact on their environment both at home and
globally!), crystals and chakra balancing products and
services. I was able to connect with the 1000’s of people
I have met over the last 20 years doing a job that I love,
I never use or promote something that I wouldn’t use or
didn’t love myself, and my contacts and customers know
that I am sincere, honest, loyal and true. That in itself
led so many people to contact me to see if I could help
them with their own business ideas, I love to help people
get off the ground with either the tiny idea of a business
that they have just formulated or something they have
been nurturing for years and just not had the right time,
advice or confidence to reach out to someone to help get
them started. Luckily for me I have in my network a whole
host of business experts whether you need help with the
practical side like building websites or how to use social
media most effectively, branding, accountancy, all the
bricks and mortar bits of a new business but also one of
the most important things you can learn when starting or
developing any business is mindset, how you feel about
your self can spur you on or hold you back!
For me I have stepped out of my own comfort zone and
gotten to grips with Facebook lives and Instagram story
videos! Not something I thought I needed to do 4 months
ago, now I use them daily to enable me to interact with my
audience and connect with more people that I ever could
previously!
I love them, it might be me looking a bit daft on the other
side of the phone screen but I am getting the loveliest
feedback from people saying it’s given them confidence
to push themselves out of their comfort zones, my great
friend Amy Kenyon always says ‘nothing ever grows in a
comfort zone!’ And she is so right, you need to stretch and
grow, remaining stagnant and static in this crazy period of
lockdown would have driven me to distraction.
Instead I utilised the time to grow and progress my business
online so it will support me more once I’m able to get back
to my wonderful clients and my business of holding hands
for a living and making people happy in many way but
definitely including beautiful skin and nails.
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