by Cassie Howard | Apr 23, 2017 | Business Basics |
Sometimes I wonder how the hell everything got to be so easy for me. How am I able to just wake up every day, do what I want, say what I feel, and get paid extremely well to essentially just show up and be ME? I’ll tell you how – I learned how to do what felt RIGHT. I learned to ignore the rules that others tried to tell me to follow. I learned how to trust my gut, believe in myself, and speak from the heart. I just learned how to be a better version of me, really! 🙂 Because here’s the truth that will really set you free: You do NOT have to be like everyone else. In fact, if you attempt to do so, you will fail (because you can’t be anyone but yourself), and it will be a painful crash and burn experience that will leave you wishing you never tried to conform to in the first place. You and me? We’re different in the sense that although we love to plan and we love to strategize, we just don’t like to follow a script, a play-by-play, a guideline.. unless the guideline is to show up, speak your truth, share your message, and just be you. 🙂 We’re different because we break rules, not follow them. We’re different because we run TOWARD uncertainty and fear, not away from it. We’re different because we know deep in our SOUL that we were born to change the world with our words and that we were put on this earth to do so in a way that feels...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 21, 2017 | Blogging |
Isn’t it time? Just SURRENDER. You know those things you keep saying you want but then deny yourself of? Do you rememeber all the things you promised yourself you’d have but still don’t? And what about how you dreamed your life would be at this point but still, it isn’t? Just surrender. Allow yourself to finally start RECEIVING everything you say you desire. You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to do X, Y, and Z before you’re finally WORTHY of being, having and experiencing what you want. You can have it all NOW, as soon as you simply ALLOW. Stretch out your arms to receive. Surrender yourself to fear. Surrender yourself to uncertainty. Surrender yourself to temptation. Just SURRENDER. I see so many people saying “I want I want I want I want”… and that’s great! But – What the fuck are you doing to actually HAVE what you keep saying you want? I have friends that have been saying they WANT something for yeaaaaars. And guess what – They still don’t have it! Because they haven’t surrendered what they need to surrender in order to HAVE it. Which is – The fear that it won’t work The fear that you’ll fuck it all up The fear that you’ll look stupid The fear that it won’t go as planned The fear that people won’t understand The uncertainty around your investments and the money you flat out MUST invest if you want to get what you want (especially if you have big financial goals) – What if it doesn’t work for me? What if I lose this money? What...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 20, 2017 | Goals |
I was talking to one of my clients yesterday about goal setting and how she wanted to be making more money in her business. I said “of course you want to make more money, but WHY?“, to which she responded with a list of things she had to pay for, one of which was a tax bill. I shuddered. Ew, taxes. No one likes paying taxes, which is why most people who work for themselves tends to get behind on paying them or just gets really fucking annoyed about having to hand over their hard-earned cash to the government. It’s no wonder I had a bunch of money in back-taxes due when I was in debt a few years ago. Again: ew, taxes. As much as I hate paying taxes, and as much as I’m sure YOU hate paying taxes, that’s what we have to do. That’s one big way that we contribute to the area that we live. But here’s the thing: Paying taxes is boring. Paying off your mortgage is boring. Paying off credit card debt is boring. And let’s face it – If it’s not fun, we don’t want to do it, and so we RESIST RESIST RESIST, and the debt continues to pile up until it gets to the point that we can’t ignore it anymore, which is when we get super pissed at ourselves for letting it go as far as it did.. And then we do it all over again anyway – Because paying off debts is fucking BORING. So what the hell do you do? How do you pay off the debts you owe,...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 19, 2017 | Blogging |
I’ve been thinking a lot about how my life is so different from how it was just a few short years ago. Everything has changed. Everything has improved. Everything is better. And I’ve just been reflecting back on how quickly that all shifted for me. Not very long ago, I used to be of the mindset that money was to be saved, and held on to for dear life, and that you needed to try to get a deal on everything, otherwise you were a sucker. I remember doing an interview one day for the local newspaper (about my frugal living/couponing website), and they asked me if I would still clip coupons if I won the lottery. And I said YES. Except, that would never happen because I don’t play the lottery. But also, how the hell would I know just how exactly I would respond if I ever somehow came into a large sum of money? But because all I knew at the time was frugality and stingy-ness, it’s no surprise I said that I would totally continue being an extreme couponer if all of a sudden a wave of money fell into my lap. It’s funny how things can change, isn’t it? It was just over 2 years ago that I stopped clipping coupons (I was still super frugal, though!). I’d switched to eating a plant-based diet and was eliminating shitty foods, and also chemical-ridden household & personal products, from my life. And can you guess what the majority of my coupons were for? Yep. So, after 7 years of being an avid couponer, I gave up...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 18, 2017 | Making Money |
I used to think that setting monthly goals was enough. I’d happily sit down and write out my financial goal every month and would confidently proclaim – “This is now how much money I make every month!” But… Then I wouldn’t. Make that much money, I mean. It wasn’t because my goal was unreasonable. It wasn’t because it was out of reach. And it certainly wasn’t because I didn’t do the work. It was because I was focused on the MONTHLY goal, instead of the daily and weekly goals that needed to happen before the big monthly goal could be achieved. I often would set goals and at the end of week 1, be all “oh, I have tons of time, so it’s okay that I’m super far away from my goal!”. At the end of week 2 is when I’d start taking things more serious because “holy shit, it’s already the middle of the month and I am not even CLOSE to my goal!”. By the end of week 3, I’m having panic attacks and beating myself up about being a terrible business woman. And by the end of the month, not only habe I not reached my money goal, but I haven’t even REMOTELY come close to hitting it! … At least, that’s how things USED to be when it came to setting my money goals. Last year, I noticed this patten and decided to shake things up. I made a committment that I would do whatever was necessary to make money EVERY day, which meant it would be easier to hit my monthly goals (I also decided...
