by Cassie Howard | Aug 24, 2016 | Goals |
Every day you have a choice. You can continue to sleep in your warm, cozy bed, or you can wake up and chase your dreams. Chasing your dreams isn’t fun. The end goal is fun, but the process is a real bitch. You struggleYou failYou loseYou hurtYou’re tiredYou’re scaredYou’re always ON But that end goal, that destination you want to end up, THAT is what you need to focus on, because the process won’t get you out of bed in the morning. The end goal will. And if it doesn’t, it’s not the right goal. Each person on this earth was born with a gift they’re supposed to share with the world. The sad reality is that most people not only avoid sharing their gift, but avoid living at all. They’re just surviving. Going to work at a shitty job you can’t stand, missing out on time with your family, living somewhere you don’t love, and even more, HATING your life most of the time. This is the unfortunate reality for some people and it no longer makes me sad, but instead it makes me angry. Really fucking angry. I’m angry that you’re not putting yourself first.I’m angry that you’re complaining all the time.I’m angry that you’re only just EXISTING. I’m angry that you’re throwing your hands up in the air and saying “oh well”, instead of trying to figure out how to get what it is you actually want. I’m angry that you’ve given up. It pisses me off that you don’t think you’re worthy enough to live your dream life. I’m really fucking mad about that! Your...
by Cassie Howard | Aug 23, 2016 | Work At Home Mom |
When you look back over your life for the last.. let’s say 10 years - have you done everything you wanted to do? Or did you hold yourself back? Not allowing yourself to indulge in certain purchases or experience because – They were too much moneyYou didn’t think you were readyYou were way too busy Or you simply didn’t know if you SHOULD? Most people deny themselves of pleasure, deny themselves of things they want, because they simply don’t ALLOW themselves to have it. They are constantly denying themselves of what they want, what feels good. But listen,You DO have the money.You ARE ready.You AREN’T too busy. What you don’t have, and what you NEED to have, is the ability to tell yourself YES. Practice saying yes to yourself over and over and over again. Because YOU are important, your needs and your wants are important, your feelings and desires are important! Let yourself indulge. I’m not saying to raid your savings account and go buy all kinds of shit you don’t need. I’m not saying to quit your job to lay on the couch watching “Gilmore Girls” all day. And I’m most definitely not saying to ignore all of your responsibilities and go run away. What I AM saying is that you need to stop saying no to YOU. When you feel that twinge in your gut at the thought of something, you need to stop ignoring it. Take action on that NOW. Your gut never, ever lies. If it’s telling you that you need to buy something, work with someone, travel somewhere, eat something, say something – DO...
by Cassie Howard | Aug 21, 2016 | Making Money |
Sometimes I wonder why everyone isn’t an entrepreneur. I get mad that my non-entrepreneur husband has to go to work every day, and I whine to him and ask “why can’t you just create your own business so you can stay home?”, because I’d like the company. Entrepreneurship is fucking LONELY. But I know that being an entrepreneur is something you don’t get to choose. You either ARE an entrepreneur or you aren’t. You can’t learn how to be one. You can’t TRY to make it work, because it won’t. The thing about us entrepreneurs is that we LOVE the grind. The set-backsThe money lostThe mistakesThe late nightsThe early morningsThe missed partiesThe working on vacation & holidaysThe confusionThe stress A true entrepreneur LIVES for that shit. Believe it or not, we love it when things feel “hard”. We like the struggle and the push and the pull and the “what the fuck am I going to do?” issues that come up on a regular basis. We love it because we have the drive and the PASSION to make it big, to keep moving on, to prove ourselves, to do better, and ultimately, to survive and succeed in ways that others never could because they aren’t willing to take the risks and put up with the stress, money lost, late nights and early mornings. I remember once I heard Gary Vaynerchuck say something like “I used to secretly wish I lost all of my money, just so I could make it all back again and rise like a phoenix“, and I totally resonate with that, because I have the same...
by Cassie Howard | Aug 18, 2016 | Making Money |
Putting in the hours. All hours of the day.All hours of the night. Never stopping, no matter what my head is telling me. No matter how tired I am. No matter how much I feel like giving up. Running the days into nights, the nights into days, hustling like my life depended on it. Because the reality is, it does. If I want to support myself, my family, my business, my community, my team - the hustle never stops. Ever. Do I sleep? Hell yes I sleep. I love my sleep. But do you know what I love even more? MONEY. Freedom. Getting to do whatever the fuck I want, whenever I want, in whatever way I want. And you don’t get that with mediocre action-taking. I used to be one of those people who believed you needed to have set work hours and separate your business from your life. I quickly started to hate that idea and realized that my business WAS my life and that I had to find a way to mesh the two together. I was never going to find balance. I was never going to “shut off” at 5pm. I didn’t even HAVE an “off” switch at all! Once I realized that, my life changed forever. I soon came to understand that I wasn’t really selling my programs, my courses, my packages - I was selling ME, my message, my lifestyle. That’s what people bought into. That’s what they wanted to see. So I started to infuse more of myself into my work and what do you know? More money. More freedom! Freedom to...
by Cassie Howard | Aug 17, 2016 | Planning |
There’s a difference between SAYING you hustle, and actually putting in the work and doing it. So you think you hustle? Fucking prove it then! Show me your calendar, bursting at the seams, overflowing with appointments, calls, meetings, creating time, selling, traveling (for business AND pleasure, duh). I want to hear you brag about how little you sleep, how much you’re in front of the camera. I want to know exactly how you spend every second of every day. Tell me. Show me. PROVE that you’re a true hustler. You can’t, can you? It’s okay, I was in the same tight spot you are right now. I thought I was hustling. I thought getting on the phone with 4 clients a day was a lot. I thought selling every morning was enough. I thought writing one email a week would do. Boy, was I ever fucking wrong. Here I was talking about how damn important the hustle was, and totally slacking on my very own hustle. There are going to be times you’re sick, you don’t feel like it, you’re tired, you’re feeling over-worked, you’re just DONE. And you’ll want to quit. You’ll want to rest, take a break. And maybe you will. And maybe you won’t. But if you’re even THINKING about stopping, don’t tell me you hustle. Because you really only hustle when it feels good to you. Those that are anti-hustle and anti-grind are anti-living. Listen, there are going to be times that you have to GRIND and do shit you don’t want to do. In fact, there’s a lot of grinding necessary if you ever want...
