Chapter #1: An unstructured introduction to myself

in introduceyourself •  7 years ago 

Hello world!

Or maybe I should narrow it down to Hello Steemit-World?

Whichever applies, I just want to say hi to everyone who reads this and I want to say “Welcome to my first ever post here!”.

I must admit that I´ve registered my Steemit account for almost 2 months now without ever starting my first post.
The reason for this is that I was debating with myself what I wanted to write about, and how I wanted to write it, and who should read it, and how they should perceive it and so on and forth…

In the beginning, my first motivation was to write a blog about how to do business and start-up a company in China. The reason why I wanted to do this is because that´s what almost all my daily activities are centred around at the moment. So, there you have it, the first info about me is that I´m an entrepreneur in China.

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(Here´s a really blurry picture of me at a contract-signing ceremony)

A big motive for that idea was that everyone of my friends and family always ask me what I´m doing here, which was and is hard to describe and also a little bit tiring if you have to tell the news over and over again. So, I wanted to put it into written form for my friends, family and everyone else on the internet to read.

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(This is a picture of me visiting the construction site of our coffee roastery)

This was also meant to be a help or guideline for people who also want to do business in China but in the end, I discarded that idea because I just didn´t feel like I´m in the right place at this moment to give tips and advice about what I´m doing here.

It´s like giving advice on punching while being in the midst of a heavy-weight boxing fight. (btw, I watched the movie Southpaw yesterday, which I really enjoyed and can recommend. It´s just very sad, so you´re most likely going to cry).
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In the boxing fight, and in my own situation right now, I decided it´s better to finish the fight, take a rest, replay the slow-motion pictures over and over again, draw conclusions and tactics from that and THEN pass it on to other fighters.
This is how my great idea went downhill and I had to find a new topic.

Another big topic in my life is self-improvement and learning to be happy and content in my own skin and with my life in general.

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(Me, being happy haha)

However, there are sooo freakin many books, blogs, podcasts, videos and guides on this topic and I just didn´t want to be one of them. Because at this moment, I feel quite saturated with all the life coaches and motivation guides and gurus always telling me what to do and giving me the next big and tremendous mindset that I need to follow to finally become happy and content.
I just feel it´s draining to constantly think about being happier, better and more successful.
I mean that´s basically like a full-time job so I really think there should be time for living next to all the improvements and happiness exercises.

Let me tell you all the other topics I could write about exclusively but have decided not to make them the main and sole topic of this blog: veganism, atheism, self-esteem, yoga, rhythmic gymnastics, owning and training a dog (a pug to be precise), cooking, meditating, traveling, learning Chinese, having a happy relationship, beauty and make-up, minimalism, importing from China, importing to China, speciality coffee, having a successful career, being half-German half-Chinese, motivation, improving ones charisma and productivity, painting, being funny and many more…

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(That´s in China! Crazy, right?)

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(if you haven´t noticed by now...I´m obsessed with this girl! But it´s obvious why I mean just look at her...)

I hope the paragraph above can tell you a little bit about myself.
In the end, I want to write this blog for the people who enjoy what I write and who might relate to some of the things I´ll share here.

To be honest, I´m so structured and efficient in my daily life that I just want to have this blog as my little getaway, where I can write what I think without a real structure, story-line…. or purpose really.
Of course, I´ll try to keep it entertaining and I want to encourage you to think about new thought impulses, feel good about yourself, have fun and be inspired.

But I don´t want it to be forced or annoying and I just want to share what I feel that you might connect to and that we could enjoy talking about and elaborate on when we meet one day.

So, I invite you to follow me and explore my mind together in the future posts that will come. I´ll title each post chronologically as chapters because one of my goals in life is to write a book and maybe one day I can simply print out all my steemit articles and et voilà! There you go, Isa! Here´s my book.

I can´t tell you right now how often I´ll be posting because I just want to be free and not be pressured by deadlines and be pressured to find topics or content to blast out there.

I´ll just go with the flow and post whenever and whatever I want.

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Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed it somehow and I hope you have a wonderful day wherever you are!

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Hello, Welcome :) Am Robert's friend and am happy to meet you and see your intro post. I dig your style and you have an awesome Pug there, love pugs :)
b.a.

Hi there and thank you :)
I´m glad you like it and I´ll check out your page now, too!
Have a lovely day :)

Welcome to STEEM! Hope to see more from you :) and that pup of course

Welcome to Steem @isabelfiona I have upvoted and sent you a tip

thank you! :) Best regards from Changde

Nice to meet you, @isabelfiona! Welcome to the Steemit Community, wish you good luck and a good start, ive send you a small tip and followed you, hope you have an amazing day! :)

Thanks so much for your warm welcome :) I´m glad to be part of this community now! I had a great day indeed yesterday so I wish you the same! Best regards from Changde

Hello isabelfiona, welcome to the community. I do hope you will share more of your business ventures and perspectives, I think many people would like to learn more about Chinese business culture.

Hi there, thanks and nice to meet you freedomexists!
Yes, I definitely will share more information about chinese business culture and tips and tricks in the future!
Have a lovely day

welcome! to the steem room!

Thanks lopezdacruz!

I bims eins Bellkartoffel! Willkommen im Blockchain Wunderland. Take a seat and enjoy the ride!

hehe hallo 1 bellkartoffel und danke für den tip, fühle mich hier schon ganz schön wohl! Liebste Grüße aus dem Büro :p

Welcome to steemit Isabel, Have a great ride, i'm new as well good luck to you.

Hi trixi, thanks so much and glad to meet you! It´s funny because the two 8s in your name are a great lucky number in China so I wish you a lucky day!

Wow you sound like such an incredible human soul.

Steemit is an incredible place just to be yourself and flow. I try not to over think anything on here just go with my gut instinct and write whatever flows to mind.

I think you will find it very rewarding :)

God bless.

Namaste

What a lovely comment, thanks chiefmappster!

Yeah, I´m really glad I joined and I want to create content here out of pure inspiration, love for life and creativity and hope to connect to people who want to share their views and thoughts.

I´m also looking forward to reading a lot of cool new stuff to be inspired.

Best regards and have a good time and a lot of positive vibes coming your way :)

You're welcome :)

And wow sounds like you are going to do epic things here. Can't wait to see what you have in store for the community.

That's one of the things I love about Steemit is all the inspirational and knowledge laced content.

And thanks for those positive vibes, sending them right back your way.

Namaste

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@isabelfiona wellcome to steemit girl or i should say ni hao and southpaw is great movie and that song m a mofu beast 🖖❤❤

Dont forget to join steemspeak.com

Thanks @satfit :)
Hehe yes or you could also say "Guten Tag"

Wow, your emoji reminds me of another great movie I watched recently which was Startrek. I´m not sure exactly which one it was but it was really nice!

Best regards

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star trek or star wars by the way both are awesome

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wow, thanks!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Steemit isabelfiona! Great choice of photos for an intro post. Looking forward to your future blogs, especially the ones about rhythmic gymnastics :) Don't think I've seen anybody write about this topic yet.

Thanks @osm0sis! :)
To be honest it was a very busy week here in China so I´m already delayed with my posting schedule which I set for myself but I´ll post again soon.
Yes, I´m looking forward to write about the sport that first got me into actually moving my body and became a passion.
Have a nice weekend, hope you have a wonderful day!

This is an awesome introduction :) Would love to read your future posts

Thanks @willheard :) Looking forward to exchanging my thoughts and ideas with you in future posts.

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Welcome to Steemit! You made a great choice joining this awesome community. You’re going to have a great time here.If you have any doubts, you can always join Steemit.chat and ask for #help.

Thanks a lor firepower!
I wish you a wonderful happy day and hope you smile a lot today :)
Best regards!