Imagine you wake up one day and suddenly you see that you have become the opposite type of person. It is not a dream or a nightmare, it is the reality. How would you feel?
For the last 11 days, I have been seriously trying to transform myself from a platform maker to a solo professional. It is not an easy journey, and I have been struggling a lot. Here in this post, I am going to write about some lessons that I am learning from this transformational journey.
I know that there are many people who are in a similar situation like me. They are on a transformational journey from one type of personality to another. It's not easy. I'm sharing my experience and some lessons so that it may help you.
Life of a Platform Maker
For the last 10 years, I tried my best to become a platform maker. I was the president of an e-commerce association and also an admin of several large Facebook groups. One of my groups has 3.3 million members. It is one of the largest groups on online learning.
My challenge was to involve many people at the same time. Use the strength or power of Facebook towards the common goal. In the life of a platform maker, I was always concerned about the success of other people. There was hardly any scope to think about my own personal development and success.
It’s a Very Rough Beginning
I had to totally change my thinking pattern and goals. I started to think about my own personal development, my own success. I have to now think of doing the work that is related to my improvement.
It's like taking a U-turn in life and doing everything in the opposite direction. In the first few days, I could not believe that it was possible for me to just move towards the opposite direction. I simply cannot think in a totally different way all of a sudden. It seemed impossible for me. It was a very rough beginning, no doubt about that.
To Be or Not to Be: The Inner Conflict
I had a terrible inner conflict—I simply could not believe that I could be able to think of my own personal benefit all day. It seemed to be almost impossible and very difficult and sometimes a heartbreaking idea.
I tried to think about life and my daily activities from a different perspective. I started asking myself whether this will bring benefit for me, whether this is the thing I really want, such things. The most important lesson that I have learned is that you have to face the inner conflict and you must not give up.
Ambition Is Not Bad
As a platform maker, I used to think about achieving some goals that would be beneficial to thousands of people. I created some ideas that touched the lives of many people not only in my country but in different countries through Facebook groups. Now I have to think of becoming a successful person, and I learned that I must have some kind of ambition. Ambition is not bad at all as long as it doesn't harm any other person.
I have started to find some positive aspects of being an ambitious person. It helps us to find our mental peace as well as move forward in life.
I Wanna Grow Old with You
There is a feeling inside me that I am becoming a new person. I am now just thinking about my work and how to improve, how to make myself a more skilled professional, how I can get success or become more successful, etc.
I want to continue this journey. I want to grow older with this personality or personal traits. I want to keep moving ahead with this mindset in the coming months and years.
Face Your Inner Fears
The most important lesson that I have learned in the last few days in this transformational journey is that I must face my inner fears regularly. Often, I feel nervous about the change in my thinking pattern. It is really sometimes nerve-breaking, and it puts a lot of pressure on my mind. Am I becoming self-centered? Am I becoming totally selfish? Who am I? I hardly recognize myself.
Tomorrow Is a New Day
Because of this inner fear and inner fight, I lose many hours. Sometimes I cannot get things done, I cannot do my work properly because now whatever I do is related to my improvement and my personal benefit. In the past, it was just the opposite. It had nothing to do with my personal benefit.
I try to tell myself that tomorrow is a new day and it will become better. I will become more productive, and I will have more peace in my mind.
Trust the Process
I am at a transitional stage in my life. I am no longer the platform maker, but yet I could not become the solo professional totally. So there is a lot of conflict, and I am struggling a lot. There is no problem in admitting this problem.
I know that anyone who wants to show this kind of transformation where he wants to become the opposite type of person then it creates a lot of conflict. It's not that I do not have the necessary knowledge or skill to become a solo professional. What I am lacking now is the mindset, and it is actually keeping me from moving forward.
I have to trust the process and let things move forward in their own style and at their own pace.
Conclusion
To be honest, I feel much better after 11 days compared to day one. It's like that I feel I've changed a bit, and now I can regularly write in my blog, which I couldn't do before. I am hopeful that within 100 days, the transformation will be complete, and it will be total.
I am interested in your journey of transformation. How did you fare in such a journey?
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