by Cassie Howard | Jun 24, 2019 | Miscellaneous |
People ask me all of the time what my daily schedule looks like. Truth is, I don’t have a schedule that I follow. I just do what I want all day long. What I do have, though, is routines & habits. There are certain things I tend to do at certain times of the day. Not because they should be done at certain times, but just by chance, I always seem to do ’em at the same time.Take my morning routine, for example (my favorite part of the entire day): - Wake up around 5am. Make a hot drink.- Journal for as long as I feel like. Usually 30-60 minutes. Sometimes more. - Meditate. Often just for a few minutes because I’m impatient and my brain won’t shut up. But I like the stillness.- Messaging/content creation. Usually based on something that came up during meditation or journaling.From there, things vary a bit, but those are the things that I do straight away, before I do anything else. 99% of the time, anyway.The other 1% of the time, I scroll social media/email first. Which always ends badly, so I don’t recommend it. 🙂 My evening routine is pretty structured, too. - Make dinner, eat dinner, clean up from dinner. - Homework with kids. Or play with the kids. Depends on how much work they left until the last second, which is usually all of it. - Feed the cats. - Showers every other night for the kids. - Make a Four Sigmatic hot cacao or a tea, and/or my CALM magnesium drink and try to drink it in peace, which rarely happens. - Brush teeth, wash face. - Get kids in bed. Read...
by Cassie Howard | Jun 24, 2019 | Miscellaneous |
So let’s have a little Sunday pep-talk shall we?Yes? Okay good. ‘Cause I’m ready. 😉Here’s the thing – Right now, I know that you’re feeling restless. Like you KNOW you were born for more –You’ve ALWAYS known you were born for more – But you’re just feeling so blah, somewhat worn out and a little DEFLATED. You’re sighing your way through life because you’re just not satisfied to the level you want (and expect) to be. Not that you’re not happy & grateful for where you’re at. You most definitely are – And you’re in a MUCH better place than you were last year, that’s for sure! #gratitudeBut.. If you’re being honest, it’s just not enough. You feel a bit selfish thinking it, but think it you do. You want more. Much more. And right now, instead of feeling like a winner, and like you’re getting alllllll that you desire, and with complete and total EASE, you just feel – Bored. Tired. Overwhelmed. Stuck. And let’s not forget – FRUSTRATED. You’re so damn frustrated that it’s taking longer than you want it to, for you to have the things that you desire in life (both physical things and otherwise). You’re frustrated that the people who started their business after you are now (apparently) making more money than you. Even some of your CLIENTS are making more than you!You’re frustrated that everything feels so hard, and every goal you set never seems to get checked off. You feel like everything is taking so long and that you’re just not going fast enough. So you pile more to-do’s on top of your to-do’s. You think that if you do more, you’ll have more. You assume that those who are doing “better” than you,...
by Cassie Howard | Jun 24, 2019 | Miscellaneous |
I’m going to tell you something that you may not want to hear. I definitely didn’t want to hear it when I was first told.Yet - it needs to be said, and it needs to be HEARD. By you. By everyone who is either working with a coach currently, or about to hire one. This is the absolute truth: Hiring a coach is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for attaining the things you want in life. Hiring a coach because you think that by doing so will somehow magically SAVE you, is a mistake. A costly one. Your coach? Her job is NOT to save you. It’s not to give you a little map to follow and if you do so, you will 100% guaranteed get the result you want. This is not possible, because your coach is not you. Only you can do the work. Only you can fully commit. Only you can believe in yourself. Only you can trust. Only YOU can get the results. I used to be so terrified when I’d start working with new clients, because I would accept responsibilty for their results, when it was not my job to do so. I now see that I was doing these clients a huge disservice by not giving them what it was they really, truly needed - which was motivation, encouragement, and support. I didn’t need to tell them how to do THEIR work - THEY ALREADY KNOW. I also didn’t need to give them a list of stuff they had to do in order to GET _____ result because some of those things wouldn’t have felt in alignment for them, which of course means...
by Cassie Howard | Jun 24, 2019 | Miscellaneous |
It matters not what others think you’re capable of, but what you know in your soul you’d be crazy not to do. There are many people who will try to stop you – Who will warn you just how “risky” what you want to do is.Who will tell you stories about their friend of a friend that tried to do what you did and ruined their whole life.Who will caution you to do what’s safe, what’s responsible, what’s normal. And you – My badass, rebel friend, need to IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE. The thing about those who are NOT LIKE US, are that they can’t even FATHOM the idea of your “crazy idea” actually working out. They genuinely believe that they’re helping you by warning you of the “dangers” of following your soul and doing the big things you’ve always known you were born to do. This is because they are a different breed. They are nothing like us. They can’t rationalize what we do. Don’t even bother trying to explain your side of things. Just not your head and immediately ignore their suggestion to stop, to go slow, to be “careful” (LOL!), to be responsible… You, and me, and those that are just like us? We know what we’re meant to do in this world. The thought of taking things slow, of doing what The Normals do each day, makes us nauseous. Deep down inside of you, there’s a fire that burns so fiercely, it’s impossible to put out. People will try to throw water on it, try to keep you small…But it’s a fire that always burns. It will never go out.You will either continue to your life trying to engulf...
by Cassie Howard | Jun 24, 2019 | Miscellaneous |
They call you irresponsible because you go after your big deams instead of playing the mediocrity game of life. They throw around words like “crazy”, “reckless”, and “ridiculous” when they refer to you.They tell you that you need to “grow up”, to get a “real job”, to stop being so “childish” because the ideal life you’re chasing is far too grand than they could ever fathom for themselves. You may feel like you’re alone – Like you’re the only one who dreams as big as you do – Or thinks the way that you do – But you’d be far from the truth. ‘Cause hey, what’s up, I’m here. Let’s be besties. Us crazy, childish, irresponsible, ridiculous, REBELIOUS motherfuckers, we’re one. You and me, me and you, all of us, together. Everyone else can get fucked. The thing is – They just don’t GET us – They can’t understand why we are so obsessed with writing and creating, and posting on social media every day, and speaking our mind (with no filter, ever), because they aren’t one of us. It’s no wonder they can’t understand our ways. Nor should they try! You’re in love with the hustle, you can’t stop, won’t stop, when it comes to doing the work that you love - the work that you know you were born to do.You actually enjoy getting out of bed each morning and hitting the ground running. Who TF are these people that love to sleep in? These people who actually enjoy living such a SLOOOOOOW life? What even is that?How is that a thing?Your passion is so strong, it’s such a FORCE, that you can’t NOT show up and do the work every...