by Cassie Howard | Apr 25, 2018 | Blogging |
I used to feel ashamed if I felt bad about something. If I felt fear or sadness or guilt or jealousy.. I would then feel ashamed for feeling that way. Because those were “bad” feelings and bad feelings weren’t allowed. I don’t know why I ever felt this to be true, but I did, and so for years I would filter myself and not allow myself to feel anything other than HAPPY! JOY! EXCITED! PERFECT! Even though I, of course, didn’t always feel like that. There were (and still are) days when I feel fear. Days when I feel sadness. Days when I feel guilt. Days when I feal jealousy. And even days when I feel ashamed. Only now, I allow myself to feel those feelings because I’m human (read: NOT a robot) and humans sometimes don’t feel awesome. And that’s okay. It took me a long time to be okay with ocassionally not being okay. I now have one simple rule that I live by: Allow yourself to feel the way you feel. If it is not a positive feeling, you are allowed to feel it for one day. You can scream, kick, cry, be angry, feel sorry for yourself, and do whatever you feel that you need to do. After one day, you snap the fuck out of it and move on. Consciously choose to look for the light. Seek out the positive and the positive will appear. And this is true in so many ways, for all of us – If you seek sadness, you will find it. On the other hand, if you seek happiness, you will find...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 25, 2018 | Miscellaneous |
I’ve been thinking lately of how different my life is to back in 2015 when all I did was clip coupons, chase deals, and talk shit about rich people and how “unfair” it was that they had it so easy. Turns out rich people don’t necessarily have it easy. It also turns out that most of them aren’t selfish jerks (not the ones I’ve met anyway). Back when I was Canada’s Most Insane Coupon Clipper (meaning I always had a full ROOM in my house dedicated to my stockpile, and always went shopping with 2 binders packed full of coupons for dedorant, canned sauces, and mouthwash), I had this riduculous idea that in order to be “rich”, I had to save money. I believed that saving money was the only way for me to increase my wealth and join those rich folks living the easy life. And although I do believe that saving money is important, what’s more important is what I do with the money I’m not saving. In other words, how you SPEND money is critical. Over the past 3 years, I’ve discovered that I do a lot of spending to “show off”. I want to impress others. I would tell myself that I was “inspiring them” to make it seem okay, but it wasn’t okay. I was buying things and doing things just because I knew those things would look good on Instagram. Or they’d boost my “credibility”. Or some other lame shit that doesn’t really matter. I’ve spend hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for STUFF that I didn’t necessarily WANT to pay for. Stuff that I thought I HAD to...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 21, 2018 | Business Basics |
What you do daily MATTERS. What you DON’T do daily also matters. Whether or not you get the dream life you want, that’s your call. That’s your choice. That’s your GIVE. Your pull. Your push. Your shove. Your EVERY FUCKING THING. You showing up doing the DAILY You showing up doing the HUSTLE You showing up doing it ALL There is no magic bullet. Success? It comes from hard fucking work. If you’re trying to separate life and business, what kind of business do you have? Is it a JOB or a LIFESTYLE? And which one sounds more appealing to you? The hustle happens because the hustle can’t NOT happen. You LIVE FOR IT. Because the hustle doesn’t just equal results and success, but the hustle also equals living LIFE. What most people don’t realize is that “hustle” isn’t a bad word. It doesn’t mean you grind 24/7 on “building” a business, it means you’ve learned how to monetize YOU and your LIFE and therefor, you never really “work”, but instead LIVE, and get paid for it. So the hustle is gonna happen anyway because that’s just what you do. That’s just your LIFE. So fuck the naysayers and get your hustle on, daily, and focus on the DAILY DO’S. This is the stuff that YOU need to do for YOU, for your life, for your community, for your lifestyle, for everything. For me, that’s the following – Daily, I show up and do the work. Daily, I sell from a place of service and integrity. Daily, I insist on selling. Daily, I insist on results. Daily, I grow and expand. Daily, my...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 17, 2018 | 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 .. 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 not long ago, she wrote the following on social media just minutes after I followed up with the realtor for the 5,973th 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...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 16, 2018 | Blogging |
Whew, what a weekend! Even though the snow/rain/ice/whateverthefuck tried to kill us, we survived. Even though we had to deal with lots of scraping and shoveling and multiple power outages, I am grateful. Grateful for the time spent with my incredible clients. Grateful for the upgraded Shangri-La suite I got to live in for 2 days. Grateful I didn’t die on the drive home from said hotel. Grateful I got to spend some extra time with my awesome client Courtney, who was stranded here with me because the roads were so bad. Grateful for the work I do. Grateful for it all! Even if it feels like winter is trying to make a comeback and spring is being a real pushover about it. I was talking to a friend this morning and said that I was so happy about the fact that I didn’t need to drive in to work. That I can stay home if I want to (or need to in order to stay safe!). She said she had to go in no matter what, and it reminded me of why I started doing what I do in the first place – To show people how to live a life that they love, on their terms, following their own rules (meaning: no more taking orders from others). I’m so damn passionate about seeing other people live their best life. About getting them to understand that it’s all possible for them. It’s possible for YOU. I hope you know that. You really, TRULY, can be, do and have whatever it is that your heart desires. Including the ability to stay home...
