New Territory

The Second Post

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will — Karim Seddiki

I’ve thought of this moment often — what I would say in my “second post." I guess part of me always wanted my digital narrative to be just that — a narrative, but again, that’s the novelist in me. Nevertheless, I have you here and I hope you’ll be able to take something away from these 500(ish) words.

I was talking with a friend the other day about my journey as an entrepreneur. I was drowning in my sorrows of the unknown and expressing my concern in this adventure; she patiently sat, nodding her head along to my woes. Eventually when my words died down, she observed this fact: the Lindsey Nix that graces your presence on a normal day carries herself with the utmost confidence. That Lindsey Nix, well known to her friends and close confidants, fears nothing (ok, almost nothing). But the Lindsey Nix that is typing before you today, is the business woman who second guesses her every move. To my friend, this dichotomy in my personality, was at the center of my inability to grow my business.

The question is how will I move from a woman crippled by fear to a woman on fire? I realize that it is true, my self could be the cause of my failure — but only if I allow it to be. Somehow I need to transform the Lindsey, who is good at relationship building and who preaches putting yourself out there and building your “personal brand” to her coworkers, into someone who follows her own advice.

I hope you’ll stick around for the personal and professional journey of Lindsey Nix!

Hello World

Intro: Me.

“Never forget, how wildly capable you are” -Lauren Frontiera

I’ll never forget the first time I was introduced to the concept of blog writing. It was 2012 — not even close to the date when blogging first came on the scene, but you should know I’m not always the first to know what’s “trending.” Anyway, I was in college taking a drawing class and my professor, Beverly Rhoads — who I do hope reads this one day — insisted that the way to become a famous artist was to keep a blog. As any great professor would, she attempted to get us all to keep a blog. We had to write at least one post, comment, like, and share other people’s content in the art world. Did I do this? No. In fact, I thought she was wrong, and that blogs would just be a fad. Ha. Ha. Bev, you were right.

Here we are almost a decade later and blogs are not only thriving, but they are an integral part of marketing, business, and SEO. And blogging can even turn into a full-time career.

So, as we embark on this blogging journey together, I feel as if I should start by sharing a little bit about me. People say they don’t actually enjoy writing about themselves, but I think we all have a small dose of narcissism — so here goes nothing!

Five facts about Lindsey Nix in (no particular order).

  1. This is probably the eighth blog post I’ve written (first published), but I seem to like this one so far.

  2. I’m a person who uses all the words to compose my sentences. Verbose, loquacious, talkative — you pick the adjective it doesn’t matter, I’m all of them. The point being, I’ll try to keep these concise although the creative writer in me will have a hard time.

  3. I always need to be doing more than one thing. I get it from my mother, the queen of all crafters. You name a craft and she’s done it: scrapbooking, woodwork, quilting, painting, cross stitching, etc. I’m also to tinker, a trait inherited from my father.

  4. My world wouldn’t be the same without my little community, or as the cool kids say — my tribe. Either way, my people, the ones who get me, start with my husband. I won’t make this an Oscar speech and name them all out, but you know who you are.

  5. I don’t actually know where I’m going with this blog yet, but as the aforementioned quote states: I am wildly capable and it’s time to take the leap of faith in myself.