by Cassie Howard | Jul 31, 2017 | Business Basics |
Here’s something for you to imagine – WHEN YOU GET TO THE PARTY AND EVERYONE’S LIKE “UH, WHO IS SHE?” Dun dun dun. No one knows who you are. Which makes you unapproachable, which leaves you broke. You don’t want to be the person who shows up to a party (online OR offline) only to be completely ignored because no one has a damn clue who you are. Now, I’m not saying that if you’re new to the scene and you start showing up that people will ignore you. There are nice people in the world that will welcome you with open arms. But those open arms don’t translate to fists full of cash. Not right away, anyway. That’s why it’s so important to practice the ART of showing up. When I first started coaching, my initial plan to was to DOMINATE the industry. I wanted to be on every social media platform, in every group, in everyone’s inbox. The goal was to FLOOD their screens with me and my message. Did I do that? In a sense. But I lost steam because I didn’t know how to show up properly. And so, I spent over a year trying to figure out how the hell to show up as ME, and make money from doing so (instead of just giving all my shit away for free and then asking people to hire me). Thankfully, I’ve figured it out. You don’t get to choose when to show up if you want to make an impact. You don’t get to choose when to show up if you want to make amazing money. You don’t...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 30, 2017 | Goals |
I’ve been thinking lately about what happiness looks like to me, and it’s nothing like what I THOUGHT it was back when I was a kid, looking at others and observing what appeared to make them happy. Happy is not having a “well-paying job”. Happy is not having “good kids”. Happy is not living in your “dream house”. Those things can be a PART of your happy, but just having one or two of those things is not, can not, will not ever make you happy. Because in fact, MANY things make you happy. Many things contribute to your happiness. You’re just not noticing or acknowledging them. But one thing I’ve learned, and what I really want you to remember is that nothing can make you happy unless you know how to observe and acknowledge the feeling of what happy is. So before you can even consider what PEOPLE make you happy, what THINGS make you happy, what EXPERIENCES make you happy, you first have to recognize what happy actually feels and looks like. To me, happiness is when your face changes from somber to “HOLY FUCKING SHIT, IS THIS REAL LIFE?!”. To me, happiness is when you hear or see someone do something negative, and 0.1 seconds later you’ve forgotten about it because you are surrounded by so much HAPPINESS, that your brain immediately dismisses everything but that. To me, happiness is when you wake up feeling EXCITED, looking forward to the day, practically jumping out of bed, instead of feeling anxious and overwhelmed before your feet ever even hit the floor. Do you know what happiness looks like...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 26, 2017 | Blogging |
Take some freakin’ responsibility for yourself and your actions (or lack thereof). You KNOW you haven’t been doing the work that’s necessary. You’ve been holding off, waiting, slacking, and all out – Not giving it your all. You’ve been waiting for a sign, or a helping hand, something or SOMEONE to help you, but you know what? It’s not coming. They’re not coming. You have to do this on your own. This, meaning “going after your dreams and living your FUCK YES life“, of course. 🙂 You simply have to decide that you’re in it to win it, and act accordingly. Because I’m sorry to tell you, but – No one is coming to save you. You absolutely MUST do what it takes, which includes showing up, speaking your mind, creating and selling, working on your mindset, doing a full-out HUSTLE every day, and calling it in, repeatedly. If you asked me what I would do if I had to start a business all over again, it would be this: Decide what I want. Repeatedly ask for what I want. Show up DAILY and be visible. Grow my email list from DAY 1. Start a Facebook group and be super engaged with it. Write every single day. Communicate with my tribe constantly. Sell whatever I feel like selling (not what I think will make me money). Speak from the heart; unfiltered. Have daily brainstorming sessions. Hire a mentor straight away. Hire more mentors as I go (never stop learning). Hire a team (or at least an assistant) from the beginning. Read mindset books, watch videos, listen to audios… TRAIN MY BRAIN FOR...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 24, 2017 | Blogging |
I’ve felt resistance to sharing what I’m about to share for a long time now. I feel guilty. I feel like a fraud. I feel shame. I feel stupid. And yet I know, it needs to be said. Anything you keep inside yourself just builds and builds and builds and you get to the point where you just EXPLODE, and often not in a good way. I don’t want to explode. I’ve been exploding for years and it doesn’t make me feel very good. I made a commitment to myself this year that I would share what I needed to share instead of letting it build up inside. This is the kind of thing that has made me fall asleep crying. It’s stopped me from talking to people I want to talk it. It’s had me avoiding events and even PHONE CALLS with others that I don’t actually want to avoud. This is the kind of thing that makes me want to run away and hide. This the kind of thing that honestly (and I know this sounds really fucking ridiculous) just makes me want to quit everything. Drop it all. Forget it ever existed in the first place. I think to myself: “Who the hell do you think you are?” and “You’re doing it wrong!” and “No one likes you.” and “Everyone is talking shit about you behind your back.” And it keeps going – On and on and on and fucking hell, I just need to get it OUT. It’s been eating me alive for months now. I was triggered this morning by my friend Phillipa, when she...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 20, 2017 | Business Niche |
Sometimes I know what I want to say. Most of the time I don’t. Because the actual truth is, I have SO MUCH to say. My head is filled to the brim with things I want to say to you, with new things being added all day long. Every time someone says something stupid, every time I witness a situation in the grocery store, every time I get a message from a client. I WANT TO TELL YOU ALL THE THINGS. I want to SHARE all the things. I want to help you with all the things. But – I don’t. Because if I did, I don’t think I would ever, EVER be done. And so I must stop myself and ask “do I really need to say this?” before I share anything. As if I didn’t, well.. Facebook might blacklist me for all the shit I’d be throwin’ down over there. The sad thing (or maybe a good thing?) is that I am triggered ALL THE TIME. Something can set me off and fuck up my whole day in an instant. I’ve had to work really damn hard on myself to get to the point I’m at now, where I’m only pissed off/annoyed/irritated AF for a few hours instead of all day long. I see lessons in every situation, both good and bad. I see lessons for everyone. I see lessons that I feel called to share. Because my mistakes are lessons for others. Mistakes made by others are lessons for me. And I’ve honestly felt some shame about the sheer lack of lessons I’ve shared with you. As...
