by Cassie Howard | Apr 17, 2017 | Business Basics |
I’ve noticed that I seem to have a fascination with male entrepreneurs more than I do female. There aren’t many female entrepreneurs I look up to and go “that woman is brilliant and I want to be just like her when I grow up!”. It’s crazy rare. Male entrepreneurs, on the other hand… there’s a whole group of them I absolutely adore, look up to, and I hang on every word they say! Mark Cuban Grant Cardone Gary Vaynerchuck Tony Robbins Kevin O’Leary .. just to name a few! I wish that there were more women out there that inspired me as much as these men do, but those women are few and far between, unfortunately. There are SOME, though, and one that I really admire and look up to is Barbara Corcoran. That is one determined, over-the-top, super savvy, badass motherfucker, that Barbara! And yesterday, she wrote the following on social media just minutes after I followed up with the realtor for the 5,973rd time, about the home I’m manifesting: “At the end of the day, I don’t care how talented someone is but I do care how persistent they are.” And it made me love her even more because she is SO FUCKING RIGHT (about a lot of things, but especially about this thing!). Talent helps, but having it doesn’t mean you’ll be successful. Because where success comes from is persistence. Being persistant in getting what you want. Being persistant in reaching the right person. Being persistant in selling what you want to sell. Being persistant in getting people to notice you. Being persistant in doing what you know you...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 15, 2017 | Blogging |
Yesterday I decided to take a day off of technology. No laptop. No TV. No phone. I don’t know why I decided to do it. I guess I thought I was “supposed to”. You know, you hear people talk about how important it is to take time away from technology. To be one with nature. To avoid talking to people online and instead talk to them face-to-face. And I always felt guilty that I never did any of these apparently much-needed “technolog-free days”. Like, am I failing at life or something? Am I making a huge mistake by being online and fully connected at ALL times Am I going to crash and burn and see my life crumble all around me? These are the questions I would ask myself. A lot. And I’d hear other people be all “OMG I’M TAKING A DAY OFF, THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER!” and I’m like.. “maybe I should do that, I’m probably gonna die if I keep up like this, or at least that’s what people keep warning me about”. And so yesterday when I woke up with the head cold of all head colds, I was like “perfect! This is the universe telling me I should DEFINITELY take a day off!”. So I turned off my phone. I put my laptop in a place that was inconvenient for me to access. And I did the same with the keyboard for our TV (our TV is hooked up to a computer). And then.. I twiddled my fucking fingers all day long and wanted to die. Ok, so it wasn’t that extreme...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 13, 2017 | Work At Home Mom |
I woke up at 4am this morning because I knew I needed some extra journaling time, as I have a lot of deep shit going on that I’m working through, and a bunch of things I’m calling into my life this month. And as I started writing, my usual stuff came out – Expressing thanks for everyone and everything in my life. Calling in my dream life as if it’s already DONE. Money mindset work (affirmations). Brain dump of everything that was sitting in my head overnight. And as I did my brain dump, a question came up for me. One which I haven’t asked myself for a few months now, but one that always gets my creative juices flowing – “What would I be doing if I knew that I was going to hit all of my goals this month?” In other words: If you no longer had to worry about whether or not something was going to happen, and you had a GUARANTEE that it was already a done deal, what would you do? How would you then spend your time? And when I asked myself these questions, I was able to feel a sense of relief. A sense of accomplishment. A sense of pride. It got me into such a high-vibe state of KNOWING that what I want is a done deal that it I started to get goosebumps. I should start asking this question more often. 🙂 Anyway – Here’s what came out when I asked myself this question in my morning journaling today: I would be planning more travel. I would be breathing a...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 12, 2017 | Making Money |
Yesterday all I wanted to do was watch Netflix and chill. Like, completely ZONE out and just laze around all day, sipping hot drinks & lemon water & kombucha, surrounded by candles and essential oils, with my journal on hand, and Suits on the TV in front of me. All I wanted to do was not DO anything. But, I did the work anyway. And I felt 100% better because of that decision. I don’t have these days often because I actually LOVE LOVE LOVE the work. I love the chaos. I love the hustle. But when I do have these days, the ones where I just want to shut out the world and go into my own little cocoon, I have to remind myself: SUCK IT UP. IF YOU WANT THE RESULTS, DO THE DAMN WORK. I do take full days “off” sometimes, but I don’t actually laze around and do nothing. I will usually take a day off from being online, but will still share my message, will still SELL in some way (both tasks would only be about an hour or so of my day), and then will spend the rest of my day doing mindset work and self-care activities. But this is rare. Because I LOVE the work. However, sometimes? The work doesn’t love me. And it tells me to fuck off. It taunts me. It dangles new Netflix shows and cozy, stormy weather in my face and tries to convince me to take a day off. I’m pretty good at resisting because I know that I truly don’t WANT that (I HATE not having anything...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 11, 2017 | Blogging |
I was just now reading a post on Facebook from one of my mentors talking about what it’s like to work from flow, and I realized that my idea of flow is when I’m constantly taking big risks. I take big risks often and unlike most people, I LOVE the fear associated with taking those risks. I was having a conversation with someone the other day about how I need (no seriously, NEED) to put myself into a really risky situation, money-wise, to the point of us possibly losing our home and living on the streets, before I’m willing to commit to doing what is necessary to increase my income substantially. “That’s fucked up”, they said. “I know”, I replied. But the thing is, I also know myself and I know that I produce better under pressure. Give me a deadline and I’ll leave it forever, right up until the last hour, when I’ll finally say to myself “okay, I guess I should get this done now…”! And then I can hammer it out in under an hour, usually. But if I started working on it right away and gave myself days or weeks to get it done, the process would be slow and painful and the work produced likely wouldn’t be very good because I wouldn’t be working from flow (under the pressure). It’s like when I hired my last publicist. I just straight up told her to send me the bill so I could pay it right away. I didn’t have the money to pay her that month, I’d already spent it on mentors, my team, and other...
