What Happens in a Year?

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Confidence
Growth
Opportunity
Wisdom

 

Each of those things describes what happened since BrittneyOliver.com was launched a year ago.

Last Monday I attended GeenieBox’s Magic Monday series where I heard Whitney Johnson offer tips on how to disrupt your life based off of her book Disrupt Yourself. She told us that the very thing that you are most shameful of will be the golden nugget to set you apart from the rest.

 

It’s endearing to overcome shame and embarrassment. It’s the step that I took that led to the beginnings of Lemons 2 Lemonade.  It wasn’t easy getting over the things that I was embarrassed by but with age, time and the experience of life helped me let go and speak out about the things that I was too shy to say or reveal.  I’ve learned a lot this past year about myself, but what I’ve to gain the most out of this year is clarity towards my purpose. I use to wonder why I went on 100 interviews with no job offer. I often wonder why my career trajectory didn’t work out like most, but without the roadblocks I would not have a testimony (my lemons) and there would not be a BrittneyOliver.com, L2L Mixers or L2L Chats. Think about it? If life happened according to the plan in your head, would you be where you are now?

 

I’ve come a long way from shame. I thank God for it.

 

There was more magic that I discovered at the GeenieBox event as Whitney shared how the S-Curve (a popular framework used to describe disruption in business) is useful for thinking through personal and professional growth.  While she went through the steps to determine if we were disrupting our lives, I thought about the journey launching this website has taken me on and the small milestones that I achieved throughout the year.  I asked myself the

I asked myself the 4 questions to ask to determine if you’re disrupting:

 

Am I playing where no one else is?
Am I playing towards my strengths?
Is the work that I’m doing hard, but not debilitating?
Am I gaining momentum?

 

 

I checked yes to all four questions and my eyes watered just a little bit because just a year ago I would have said no to all four of those questions.  My day job wasn’t providing any of that for me and I knew that I had to create a space to fill that void, use my voice and help others find a way to turn their lemons into lemonade.
So today, November 17 marks one year that I launch BrittneyOliver.com. I didn’t expect any of it. I had been holding off and pushing back d, but signs just kept pointing me and leading me to launch my own website. I had hope, but my expectations were low. I told myself that I would just enjoy it and not put any pressure on myself, but what came forth exceed my expectations.  From the website views to the participation of the Twitter chats to Beyonce unknowingly assistant with marketing and to all the love and support that showed up to the first L2L Mixer, it’s been all a dream come true.

 
Thank you to every speaker, Twitter chat participant, and mixer attendee. Your kind words and participation made this all real, valuable and effective. Thank you to my friends and family who kept me accountable and helped me not falter on the things that I said I would do.

 
I’m so excited by what year 2 will bring and I hope you all stay along for the ride!

 

Click here to read my first post on BrittneyOliver.com and see how this journey got started!

 

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