by Cassie Howard | Mar 13, 2017 | Business Basics |
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I wasn’t being professional and to “tone it down a notch”, I’d have a massive pile of loonies right now ($1 coins, for my non-Canadian friends!). A few years ago, it would have bothered me to hear someone tell me I wasn’t technically “doing it right”, when it came to their idea of running a business (and living life, in general!). Being a self-reformed people-pleaser, it was always a hard pill for me to swallow when someone shot me a comment about being – Too loud Too abraisive Too bitchy Too arrogant Too WHATEVER I always hated when someone didn’t agree with the way I chose to do things. And the more I was ME, the more I showed up and was truly authentic about who I am as a person (after years of faking it and trying to please everyone got the best of me), the more the haters reared their ugly heads an started to judge me. Started to assume they knew better. Started trying to tell me how to run my business. To which, of course, I gave them the finger and went along my merry way – Being ME. Speaking my truth. Saying what I feel called to say. Doing what feels right. And that won’t always resonate with people. In fact, it POLARIZES most people and doesn’t resonate at all. Which is exactly what I want. 🙂 Because spending time with, supporting, working with people that just don’t like me for me and who don’t agree with the way I think? Are not really...
by Cassie Howard | Mar 12, 2017 | Making Money |
Listen, I get it. You’re scared. Overwhelmed. Frustrated. Running around like a crazy person, doing 10,000 tasks a day, putting out fires, and hitting the pillow at night wondering what the hell you actually accomplished that was meaningful. I get it because I’ve been there myself and I KNOW what that feels like. I know how stressful it can be to live your days in a constant rush and blur, always dreaming of the day you don’t have to feel that way anymore. The stress CAN and WILL go away. The first step? Letting go of ALL the crap that’s causing you stress! Seems simple enough, yes? The problem is that you likely don’t even know everything that’s making you feel so stressed every day. And for the stuff you DO know is causing stress, you don’t know exactly HOW to let go if it! Here’s how: STOP DOING THINGS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL STRESSED. Fix the situation. When stress happens in your life, it’s often because you’ve lost control. It’s time to get back in control of your life! Do you agree? If you’re serious about making big money in your business, you need to take back control. Starting NOW! HERE ARE 6 WAYS TO TAKE BACK THE CONTROL IN YOUR LIFE & BUSINESS #1. Get help. It’s not a weakness to ask for help. And it’s certainly not a weakness to get as much help as you can find when it comes to improving your life and business. Mentors, programs, software, tools… whatever it takes! No one has ever built a highly successful ($250,000 a year or...
by Cassie Howard | Mar 11, 2017 | Making Money |
If I could go back and do one thing differently in my business, and in my life as a whole, it would be to stop thinking and start taking more action. A lot of the time we fear that we might make the “wrong decision”, and so we think and think and think and try to figure it all out and plan everything out down to the very last tiny little detail – And for what? So we can feel “confident”? So that we have a step-by-step strategy in place? Fuck that. That shit RARELY ever happens. Because life changes, situations change, people change, ideas change, YOU change. And you can’t change the PLAN or else the plan might fail, right? So – Back when I first got into business for myself when I was 18, I did it for FUN. I didn’t do it for the money, it was because I actually enjoyed what I was doing. So I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have a strategy. I just showed up every day and said and did whatever I want. And what do you know? I made REALLY good money. I didn’t have to follow anyone’s rules, except my own (and I would often break my own rules if I felt like it!). I didn’t have anyone telling me what I SHOULD be doing, I just did what felt good to me in the moment, and fucking hell did it ever pay off. At 18 years old, I was making thousands of dollars a month being myself, which was A LOT for someone who didn’t have many...
by Cassie Howard | Mar 10, 2017 | Blogging |
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed with something that you just wanted to shut out the world, hide under your covers and just completely disappear for awhile? That was me yesterday. As much as I DO love chaos – I love uncertainty – I love the game of figuring shit out – There are some things I definitely want to have under control. And I’ve been putting a bunch of them off, which has been adding a thick layer of stress to my life lately. I’ve even been having heart issues again, which is scary (I’ve had issues with heart palpatations for a lot of my life, but lately it’s been pains in my chest as well) and something I refuse to let continue. So yesterday I shut out the world. I crawled into bed after a full day of client calls, passed out by 5pm and just let myself ESCAPE. Because sometimes that’s necessary. I woke up 12 hours later feeling so much better, physically, but also, emotionally. I knew that I needed to get SERIOUS on the stuff that was making me feel so stressed before I have a fucking heart attack. It’s so easy to get consumed in the day-to-day It’s so easy to avoid the things that feel tedious, hard or scary It’s so easy to give in to the “eh, I’ll do it later” temptation And for a lot of things – For MOST things, actually – That’s okay. That works. You can do that. Because a lot of the stuff you do every day is probably not worth your time at all. But some stuff...
by Cassie Howard | Mar 9, 2017 | Goals |
I remember when I first got into coaching and mentorship. I was stubborn as fuck. Opinionated. And not willing to let anyone tell me what to do. I liked to try and do everything on my own. Mostly to save money because I was cheap as hell. But also because I’m a control freak. But I was smart enough to hire a coach straight away because I KNEW it would accelerate my growth. And it did. Things moved VERY fast because I got over my shit and allowed someone else to steer me in the right direction, instead of floundering around, trying to figure it all out on my own. It was the one decision that changed EVERYTHING. It changed not just my business, but my life. I’ve since gone on to make over $750,000 in cash in under 2 years, in an industry I was brand new to, and where NO ONE knew who the hell I was. I grew my community to over 25,000+. I worked with dozens of soulmate clients that are now great friends and many who, they themselves, have gone on to make hundreds of thousands of dollars combined. It’s been a wild ride, and I am NOT slowing down any time soon! I know that there is only MORE for me to have. More fun, more freedom, more clients, more impact, more love, more money, more support, more LIFE! And I am ready. But what about YOU? I hear it all the time: “I really want ______, but…” I’ll just WAIT. I’ll just try to do it MYSELF first. I’ll just take some...
