Being an entrepreneur is my favorite thing, but I’d be lying if I said it was easy or that I feel like i know what I’m doing all the time. I’m so blessed to have the education and experience and community support that I do, and the uncertainty of basing my income solely on myself has been at times much more challenging than I expected. The thing that has made it easier to trust myself and my ideas is basing my decisions on actual data instead of throwing darts at a wall full of ideas and hoping for the best.
In this spirit of honesty, though, I didn’t always look at data when I first started.

Yes, I can give myself grace for not knowing what I didn’t know, AND, sometimes the data was there and I just had no idea how to find it nor the executive function to pull together all the many different reports. Hoping for the best took much less energy than tracking down CSV files and crunching numbers, and I knew that if this was really important to me I would need to make it much easier in order for it to be an option for me. I wanted to be making informed and self-compassionate decisions, which meant I needed to know myself and my needs, and I needed information about my experiments and my actions.
So I built the business hub piece by piece, adding in databases and templates and automations as I needed them, and slowly but surely, I was able to see my data in a way that made sense to me. I was able to include my own actions and observations and feelings with the same priority as my sales and campaign engagement, I let Notion do the math for me so I no longer had to triple check numbers because I wasn’t confident in my own skills, and I could see at a glance every experiment I’d tried and the results, whether that was numbers or my own notes on how it felt and what I liked or disliked.
I’m confident now that I know exactly what’s going on in my business and most importantly, why I’ve made the decisions that impact myself, the business as a whole, and my customers. My work is so much easier and more confident as a result, and I’m so excited for you to feel the same. The Complete Notion Business Hub is now available for purchase, with every resource I use myself in my business and few extras that have been most requested by clients in their own systems. Now you can get started organizing your business independently for half the price of custom help – and if you purchase yours before the end of September, you’ll even get a discount code for 10% off a one on one session with me!
I can’t wait to see you and your systems grow,
Ela
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