TheOtherSideOfAlex
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Saturday, July 23, 2016
I'm Scared Guys!! Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
I am so afraid of launching this channel and still failing at it!! I have a lot riding on this succeeding. I quit my day job when my daughter was about 2 months old, so that I could pursue building up my own company. I have so much support from my husband and my family and friends and I don't want to let anyone down. I especially don't want to let myself down. I am mostly afraid that my AADD, (Adult Attention Deficit Disorder), brain will stop me from doing my best. I am not sure if I really have AADD or what, but it sure feels like it and it has my whole life. Struggling with the idea of this just being a procrastination technique I use on myself or if it really is AADD. Either way, I would like to learn to rise above it and train myself to be more productive without seeking medicine. I would love to get advice from any of you that suffer from this or if you think it is just me getting in my own way!! Haha, because I myself am not sure. That is where I will leave you, don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube Channel and follow me on my social media platforms if you want to hang out with my throughout the day! Link as always are on the side bars!
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Relaunching my YouTube Channel?
Since I gave birth to my daughter last Fall, I have been toying with the idea of relaunching my youtube channel. It has been the last 6 months or so that I have actually been filming and getting ready for it. My channel has never been a consistent flow of videos. I have never fully committed to it and because of this, it has never really gotten anywhere. Moving in the direction of true business ownership and making a living on my terms means pulling in income for solid places. I am working everyday without fail on my Etsy business and now it is time to couple that with my youtube channel.
The first step in doing this was letting go of my MCN, which is a Multi-Channel-Network. This network was StyleHaul and I think I was just too small only having 2,000 subscribers for them to be able to further it at all. That and the fact that I have always been so inconsistent means it made no sense for them to take 30% of my earnings when they were abysmal at best.
Next step in my relaunch was to assign a freaking point to my channel and what I offer to my viewers. This will become the driving force behind my channel and it's sustainability. This point is of course my Etsy Shop. Nothing else has ever had me as motivated to succeed as this business and why mess with what I am already doing. It makes sense to expand on it rather than trying to make multiple ideas happen all at once.
Now, what are my plans moving forward?
Share my shop items.
Business updates as well as major milestones.
Etsy will not be the only thing on my channel, but it is going to be the headliner.
I will be turning 26 and want my channel to move forward with me through this new chapter in my life.
So don't miss a second of it.
Subscribe to both my blog here, and my YouTube Channel here.
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Thanks for reading,
-Alexandra
Monday, July 4, 2016
I am an Entrepreneur! ~ Aava's Best Kept Secret First Big Sale!!
So this is my beautiful logo! This is the culmination of nearly two years of researching and dreaming of owning a business that would catapult me into the next phase of my life. That phase of course is having a forward moving direction in life that keeps me passionate for my work and feeds my hunger for knowledge in business itself. The craving for earning not just monetary gain, but true success that was built from my own two hands, is something I have been battling with my entire life. I have always had the spirit of an entrepreneur, wanting to work hard and earn money my way.
This idea of creating this business came about when my husband broached the topic of wanting to start a family. I was stunned, thinking wow out of nowhere he felt compelled to say, "hey, I think I am ready to try to start a family with you." That was a big night for us, needless to say, and for the next week he felt more strongly about it than he did initially. My husband has never just tossed around big ideas or made light of big decisions. We as a couple have always taken our life choices seriously and have put much thought and effort into what we do and don't do. So the prospect of trying to start a family had me thinking, "what the hell do I bring to my potential child's life?"
Part of being a good parent, for me, is passing on knowledge and wisdom to your children. Your flaws, your weaknesses, as well as your strengths and successes, is what I feel we give most to our children. So what knowledge will I have to impart? What do I bring to the parenting table? I have a lot of child care experience so the fundamental stuff, changing diapers and feeding isn't what I mean here. I am talking about both the tangible and intangible knowledge my potential child will gain from me as a mother. What do I have to show for myself, what have I done with my freaking life so far. This answer is vastly different for everyone, please remember this is my blog not yours. And to be totally straight up, I feel that up until I started on this journey of opening a business and growing into a majorly successful shop came about, I have done virtually NOTHING with my life. I can hear my Mother now, "that's not true, you are a great daughter and wife and care giver." Yes that is true, but it isn't enough. Plain and simple, it just isn't enough, not for me anyway. Also thanks Mami, I love you.
I don't want to just be an amazing support to those in my life, I want to be more. I have always wanted to be more, but I have failed at it so many times. I know I have such potential, but for some reason I have always just failed. I am not afraid to say that I have failed in my past, because who hasn't? I don't view it as a negative thing, it is the only way you will ever succeed. So yeah I have messed up and wasted opportunities for many different reasons and you know the old blah blah blah excuses excuses story. I am not going to tell it, because you know what that is like. Fast forward to today, I just printed a shipping label for Sprouting Threads, a children's clothing and accessories subscription box service, (will be linked down below) for nearly 200$. Like for real, just now. How amazing is that, that even me the most procrastinating, scatter brained, ADD, all over the place woman of 25 years of age, is finally truly succeeding at something that is self made. I couldn't be more proud of myself, my drive, my determination, my will to succeed.
This whole thing is not just about me or just for me it is so much more about my family and the people that brought me up and the siblings that I have, my husband, daughter, my sister and father in law. Every single last person that I am close to, has supported me, has believed in me, has cheered me on.
I am a successful sister, daughter, wife, mother, and entrepreneur.
I love my life, I love my family and friends and I just wanted to make sure that I took note of that right here and now.
Support me and others like me.
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Thank you for reading,
-Alexandra
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