How to Move Forward

TAKE A PAUSE, BUT DON'T STOP!

   In moving forward, there are times that the universe will challenge our patience. Sometime you will think that it is still good to continue what you are doing or it is better to give up especially if you didn't see any great result about it. It's hard and tedious, but it's normal if we feel like losing interest on the things that we repeatedly doing. We're humans and not robots. Not all the time we are in high energy. Sometimes, we're in the low level of energy, but it's not enough reason to stop or give up.

   Sometimes, we need to stop for a while. Analyze all the things that is happening around us, and the problems that we're facing. If you are in a low level of your life, remind yourself that "this too shall pass". If we easily give up in life, it will become permanent, but if you take a rest for a while, the time will come that your energy will back again and it will push you to continue your goals in life.

 I also experienced to stop for a while in my life. I stopped from studying at school in year 2020 due to the pandemic that I experienced. I stopped because that time I am going to college, and we all know that college is hard and there's a possibility that the money of my parents will be wasted because there is no possibility that I will learn something from online class. It's fine for me, but at the same time it's sad because I know to myself that I can do self-study. Accountancy is the program that I am planning to take in college, but while I stopped, some of my classmate before experienced difficulty in accountancy. My attention also turned to arts, in writing poems, and drawing, because of that I like art even more. My mind got confused on the things that I really wanted to take in college, if I will take accountancy program or I will focus on arts, on designing. I feel like it's the reason why I temporary stopped in studying, to think what program I am going to take in college.

While I paused in studying, I am also thinking on how I wil make money. Pandemic had a huge impact in my life, and in my job as a service crew, therefore, our store was forced to close temporarily. As the eldest daughter in family, I really think on how I will provide some basic needs for my family. I've decided to start online business. I re-sell clothes, shorts, face mask, and shoes, but it didn't boom, and it's just very few people buy from me. I want to become an entrepreneur, and I want to become a boss at the same time, therefore I start online selling. I've decided to stop for a while, take a pause because I know that there is wrong on what I am doing, there is wrong on my strategies and I need to change it. I searched on YouTube on how to increase my sales and what is the proper way of selling.

Because of the reason that my attention was turned into arts, I try to use my talent in significant way. I try to make designs for shirts and planning to sell it online. Year 2021, I came back in online business. I apply all the lessons that I've learned from YouTube on how to make sales online, and how to market it. At first, I was afraid to start my business again because my parents and my friends didn't know that I'm going to execute a business again. I just my post my products in my Facebook story so that some of my Facebook friends will see my products howsoever. I chat my guy friend named Christian, He is taking an accountancy program in College, and show to him the way how I market my product because after four days I posted my product, there is no customer buy my product. I told him that I am doubting myself again that what if it will not work, what if there are no people who will like my designs. I cried that day because I know to myself I really did all my best, I already used my talent, and I also apply the things that I've learned. Until next morning, I saw some video at YouTube, a priest that is preaching and said that "just continue what you are doing, continue to the path that Lord given to you because one day will come that you will inspire other people." When I heard that message, I was feel like back in my high energy again, I feel relieve. I decided to try again, and change my strategy. After several days, boom, 19 pieces of shirts sold and all of my customers are not my friends on Facebook nor my relatives.

As what you have read before, God moves in mysterious ways. In the season that you already did your best shot, it is also the season that you need to trust God. Trust His actions. You cannot make it alone. You are just His instrument to inspire other people, to help other people. Always appreciate and enjoy the time of waiting, the time to pause, because that is the perfect time wherein you can contemplate your next move, and that is the perfect time of your progress. Not all the people who stop are giving up, some other people are just making move.