First blog post — Finding Your Place As A Young Entrepreneur | Brianna Faith

I figure this would be a good place to start, I mean, what is an entrepreneur without a blog? So I’ll get right into it!

It’s quite difficult to figure out your place when you’re a teenager AND an entrepreneur/business woman. I was at one point surrounded with a large amount of people and I felt like my life had substance and this past summer has been a huge wake up call for me.

I realized that there are a lot of people out there who are only with you to reap your benefits and I learned that there are a lot of people out there who don’t want to see you succeed because it makes them feel bad about themselves.

One of the biggest things I learned is that it’s okay to cut off people who aren’t making you a better version of yourself or are adding negativity to your life. I realized this when the summer came around and I was alone, not just ‘lonely’, but alone. For me that was really hard as I am such a huge people person. I love absolutely everyone until I am given a reason not to and then in that case, I don’t hate them but I just stay clear of the negativity.

Anyway, I decided to completely start over this time by removing people off of my Facebook who would never acknowledge my existence nor give me the time of day or who are only around when it’s beneficial to them, etc. I thought, “If people mainly want to be around me to watch what I’m doing or get to know who I know or on top of that say hurtful things, why would I want them in my life?”

This is when I came up with one of my favourite sentences:

“You deserve people who are sure of you.”

A lot of people said to me, “why would you say people who are sure of you and not say you deserve someone who is sure of you?”

My answer to that was; “you deserve people who are sure of you. Not just one person, not your partner, not just one of your friends— every single relationship you have in your life should be sure of you.”

What do I mean by ‘sure of you’? Well, sure of your accomplishments, sure of your capabilities and sure of the fact that they want you in your life, no matter what.

I realized that I didn’t have many people in my life like that, but I also realized how many I did — that I never even noticed. Since then I have definitely started appreciating more of the kindness people have shown me and all of the little things that come up in my day.

Now that I have filtered out people who aren’t sure of me I have been able to post what I want on my Social Media’s freely. I mean — I was always able to but now I don’t feel the judgement from my peers and on top of that, I have found people who are more like me.

In conclusion, finding the balance as a teen in entrepreneurship can be difficult as I’d rather stay home and make a website instead of going out and partying every night. That aspect can add to the difficulty in finding people like myself, but that’s another story.