by Cassie Howard | Dec 8, 2016 | Making Money |
There seems to be a lot of resistance around wanting to accept more than what you already have. I was speaking with one of my rockstar clients yesterday, right after she’d closed her BIGGEST MONTH EVER ($30K!), and I asked her what her goal was for December. When she told me it was $30K again, I asked her why. She didn’t know. I asked her if she would be happy to continue to receive $30K every month, or if she wanted to make more. She mentioned the things she would do with the money if she made, say, $50K a month and decided that NO, she would not be happy with just $30K a month forever. Not that she was ungrateful for the $30K she’d already received (she most definitely was!), but because in order to live her dream lifestyle, she was going to have to up the ante. But she had reservations.. she was scared to even make more than $30K in a month.. “What would I even DO with all of that money?” “Who actually needs $50K in a month anyway?” “What would my boyfriend think of me making much more money than him?” “What if my friends or my parents get mad at me for making more than they do?” We talked through this, and at the end, she realized that she wasn’t going to SETTLE just to make other people happy. She wants to grow, to expand, to reach more people, to make more MONEY. And so she is! Sometimes I’m confused when people don’t want to make more money. I’m like “don’t you want...
