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5 Tips to Stay Patient while you Grow your Audience and your Business

Lateefah Messam-Sparks
4 min readNov 9, 2023

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I have been tough on myself this last year. I’ve found myself setting high standards and feeling somewhat disheartened by my perceived lack of professional achievement. It’s been a challenging journey, as I’ve often grappled with the feelings of lacking. Not feeling enough. I haven’t been focused enough, driven enough, successful enough. These feelings were only exacerbated as we transitioned into the winter months, and the gloomy weather seemed to mirror my internal struggles. However, upon closer inspection of my accomplishments over the past year, I came to a pivotal realization. What had been missing from my journey was a healthy dose of patience and a touch of realism. I was in a slump but no more. As soon as I reframed my achievements and looked back at what I had achieved in this year I realised that I had done the best that I could and what was necessary for me at that time.

At the time of writing this, I have been fortunate to accumulate the support of six dedicated followers, to whom I’d like to express my heartfelt gratitude with a warm “Hello and Thank you!” Additionally, I’ve managed to generate a total of $1.52 in earnings within my first month on this platform. Both of these achievements are significant, and if I can incrementally increase my earnings to $1.53 next month and gain even one more follower, it should unquestionably be recognized as a triumph well worth sharing with our ever-supportive community. In a world saturated with social media success stories, it’s undeniably…

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Lateefah Messam-Sparks
Lateefah Messam-Sparks

Written by Lateefah Messam-Sparks

Expat building a Chess and English business in Madrid and wanting to share my life, stories and other musings with you along the way. @safsparks

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