In 2012 I started my business while I was homeless, sleeping in my truck and on friends couches, working 3am-11am at a factory and 9pm-1am as a bouncer.
When I got my first “big” ($7,000?) project I quit both of my other jobs on the same day and everyone I knew told me I was crazy, because there was no guarantee that I would get more work after that job was done. My friends and family tried to talk me out of it and it really bothered me how they didn’t believe in me.
I wasn’t crazy, I just knew something they didn’t. I knew in order to do the first big job properly, professionally, and in a timely manner, I had to put everything I had into it and hustle harder than I already was working 3 jobs, on one. I had to believe in myself even if they didn’t.
I did such an amazing job, that first project referred me to my second, which made me enough money to advertise, which got me my third job and many more.
14 years later, I don’t even have to hustle anymore, but I still do, because I’ll never forget how amazing it felt proving everyone wrong, and I chase that feeling every day.
Believe in yourself, great things will happen.