by Cassie Howard | Feb 24, 2018 | Blogging |
This morning was one of those mornings where I felt like I was alone. I didn’t want to do anything. I didn’t want to talk to anyone. I didn’t want to be anywhere. I was just alone. After I dropped the kids off from school, I sat there in my truck for awhile and just checked in with myself. I asked “body, what do you need from me right now?” and “universe, what am I meant to be doing right now?” and even “what the fuck do I even just WANT to do right now?”. No answers. I sighed a long sigh and drove home. Watched the Canadian hockey team lose to Germany in the Olympics. Another long sigh. And then I felt pulled to start planning a menu. I haven’t planned a menu in ages; I’ve been just throwing random things together and also getting meals delivered to my home. Okay fine, let’s make a menu. Decided that this week I’m going to make: - Loaded Vegan Nachos - Blackberry Lime Chia Elixer - Butter Cauliflower on Rice - Loaded Lentil Salad - Vegan Mini Veggie Frittatas Planning this all out got me SO excited I had to run to the store straight away. Off I go to load up on veggies, coconut milk, nachos, berries, and OF COURSE more kombucha. #addict Drove home and cranked the music on my playlist. Pulled over and sang really fucking loud until I felt my soul ignite. When I finally made it home, I whipped up a giant bowl of vegan mac and cheese, and ate way too much while watching the new season of...
by Cassie Howard | Feb 15, 2018 | Work At Home Mom |
It’s easy to say you’re ALL IN! You’re ready! You’re gonna do it this time! This is YOUR YEAR! And it’s another thing to actually.. ya know.. do it. Because shit comes up. Feelings. Thoughts. Fears. Obstacles. Concerns. And you freeze. You stop moving forward. You take a step back so you can what? Figure it out? Pffft! Wanna know how to figure shit out when it all hits the fan? You be IN IT. You don’t stand back and observe it. You be in it, feel whatever you need to feel, get out whatever you need to get out, ask for what you actually WANT to have happen, surrender to the outcome, and then get the fuck back up and move forward. Nothing will slow you down faster than taking a step back to observe. Whaaaaaat?! No! Stay in it, ESPECIALLY the hard parts, because the hard parts are where you receive the biggest lessons and downloads, and those downloads have the potential to change everythaaang! Every day, you’ve gotta be on the prowl. On a mission. To do what you came here to do. That means – One foot in front of the other. One foot step at a time. One action in each moment. Daily. Over and over. On repeat. Until it fucking STICKS. Which may take years. Or months. Or weeks. Or even days. And that’s the thing.. you just never know how long it will take. Which is why you need to keep pushing until it’s DONE. The universe response to action, and this is a truth I really want you to take to heart, because...
by Cassie Howard | Feb 11, 2018 | Business Basics |
If there’s one thing that’ll get me hittin’ the BLOCK button at lightening speed is if I hear you complain about how your life is so damn hard. BOO-FREAKIN’-HOO. We all have hard stuff that we go through; doesn’t mean that life overall is hard. The truth is that life is only as hard as you decide it is. Which also means that life can also be as EASY as you decide it is. Just a few years ago, I was one of the most bitter, angry, negative people you could ever have the misfortune of bumping into. Everything set me off. I was angry all of the time, and people noticed and would ask me why I was like that.. to which I honestly didn’t have an answer. It was easier, I guess? Easier than figuring out exactly why I WAS that way, and what I needed to do to turn things around. It was so much easier to just stick to my guns and complain, than it was to do something differently. Plus, doing something differently would mean I was doing things wrong, and I don’t like to be wrong. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon the coaching industry and found my first mentor, which was (and is) the most positive, upbeat person I’ve ever met in my life. She turned things around for me - just being around her and in her energy changed me as a person. I’ve since met SO many other people who are similar. Happy. Positive. High on life. And want to know something funny? I didn’t even have to learn HOW to be...
by Cassie Howard | Feb 7, 2018 | Blogging |
Sometimes I sit here and ask myself “what do I say?” and end up getting the same answers pretty much EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Talk about this! And this! And this! And this! But I already DID! Yesterday! And the day before that, and that, and that. I worry that people are surely getting bored. I mean, how many times can I tell you to trust, believe, do the fucking work, sell like a motherfucker, hustle HARD? How many times do I have to scream it in your face before you finally listen, and take ACTION? A lot, apparently, because the fact of the matter is, if I’m being called to do this work, say these words, again and again, they are still very much needed to be said. And so here I am, again, screaming in your face to please – PLEASE! Stop wasting your life. Stop doing shit that makes you want to claw your eyes out. Stop making everything feel so damn HARD. Stop buying into the bullshit lies that life needs to be a struggle. And JUST. STEP. THE. FUCK. UP. And do it all, all of the magic that is necessary to have, be, do, experience ALLLLLL that you could ever desire. Okay? Okay! So the question is – Why haven’t you made the leap? Why haven’t you thrown your LIFE on the line to make this work? Why haven’t you taken this seriously? All I hear is complaining. “It’s not working!” “I don’t know how!” “It’s so hard!” And as I plug my ears and “BLAH BLAH BLAH, I CAN’T HEAR YOU!” as you say it, I am screaming...
by Cassie Howard | Feb 5, 2018 | Business Basics |
Let’s get one thing straight: You are here for a reason, and I promise you, that reason is NOT to sit around and struggle for every fucking thing in your life. You weren’t put on this earth to have a shitty time. The world is not out to get you. In fact, you are here for a reason greater than yourself. You are here to do MORE than you ever thought you were capable up. Maybe that scares you. Maybe the not knowing what IT actually is that you were born to is frustrating you. Which I get. Totally. Understand that. BUT! What I don’t understand, or accept, is you doing NOTHING because of those things. It requires a load of self-reflection, a whole heap of inner work, so much THINKING work that I couldn’t even give you a number to measure by… it’s that big.. but that work is NECESSARY. AND? It’s life-long. Meaning! There will always be more for you to do. More for you to discover. More for you to accept and release and shed and call in and BE. Let me say that again: THERE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE FOR YOU TO DO. The truth is that the work is never, ever done. There is always more. What? Were you hoping I’d tell you that all you had to do is A, B, and C, and then you’d be able to fuck off completely and live happily ever after? Nope, you ain’t gonna find that here. #sorrynotsorry You’ve gotta go DEEP if you’re in my circle, and you have to be committed to that constant deep work, the...
