by Cassie Howard | Oct 23, 2018 | Blogging |
Risk is a NECESSARY piece of the puzzle. It is a requirement for true success, especially in the land of entrepreneurship where we live. 😉 I’ll never forget making that first big risk in my coaching business, which was simply to quit my previous business and go ALL IN on this new venture. I had minimal money (maybe $1,000/month coming from my previous business), but since I quit the last business, I had a lot of time. So I invested it. All of it. 12+ hours a day. I also invested thousands of dollars which quickly escalated to tens of thousands of dollars. At this point, I’m well over $100,000 in making investments in my business mentorship. On top of that, I’ve invested MULTIPLE hundreds-of-thousands of dollars on employing my team, paying for things like website design, accounting, bookkeeping, business travel, and the ocassional Facebook ad. The risks are huge when you have big dreams. But - so are the rewards… so I’d say that the risks are worth it. Yes. The risks are ALWAYS worth it. No matter how big, no matter how scary, no matter how “reckless” they appear to be. They are always, always, worth it. Every time. So this morning while I was journaling, the topic of TRUST came up. More specifically, the following question: Are you acting from a place of trust or from a place of fear? Oooh shit. I’ve for sure been acting from a placr of fear in regards to this one thing. This one thing I’ve not been able to bring to life for awhile now. That I’ve very clearly been...
by Cassie Howard | Oct 22, 2018 | Planning |
It may mean hiring someone to help you. It may mean leaving someone or something behind while you elevate to that next level. It may mean studying something new. It may mean spending more time journaling. Or it may mean spending more time HUSTLING. EITHER WAY – The reason you don’t currently have what you want, aren’t at the level that you want, is because you haven’t fully decided and then acted from that place. Can we talk about “deciding” for a minute? A lot of people give shit about this… “Okay, I decided to be a millionaire, where’s my money?” and say that they would prefer to just have the PLAN to make the million dollars. They say the “deciding” strategy is pointless and doesn’t work. That’s because they are treating it as the ONLY thing to do, when the fact is, there are MANY things to do. Deciding is one piece to the puzzle. There’s also consistency in your visibility. There’s also having a strategy to bring what you want to life (deciding is great and all, but it ain’t gonna do shit if you don’t DO THE WORK, too), and taking action on that. There is a formula that I use for attracting things into my life: D = Decide. Decide on exactly what it is that you want. A = Ask. Ask for what you want. Make it clear. Write it in your journal, say it in your head, whatever works for you. D = Declare. Declare (to yourself, to others - it doesn’t matter) that what you want is a DONE DEAL. Do not be...
by Cassie Howard | Oct 18, 2018 | Business Basics |
I have this friend. Let’s call her Betty. Betty really wants to grow her coaching business. She currently makes around $6,000 per month and has been stuck around that mark for over 8 months. Whenever we get together and talk about our businesses, she mentions that she really wants to get to $30K months, as that is enough to pay all of her bills, travel, put money in savings, and buy furniture for her new house. She has mentioned working with a particular coach at least a dozen times. She is always commenting on how this coach always says what she needs to hear and her free content is “so valuable”. I encouraged her to do whatever she had to do to invest in working with this coach. And she always said “you’re right, I really should, but _______” (insert excuse of your choice). I don’t make enough money yet. I have to pay my credit card bill first. I don’t know how I would make that money back. It feels too soon, I should wait until January. I don’t know if I’m ready for a coach. Every time, there was some kind of excuse as to why she couldn’t hire this coach that she obviously loved and wanted to work with. I eventually got to the point where I stopped mentioning it because I didn’t think she’d ever pull the trigger and take a chance on herself and hire this coach. But it kept coming up. Every time we’d get together and work on our businesses, she’d say “I really feel like I need to hire someone to...
by Cassie Howard | Oct 16, 2018 | Business Basics |
The right things, meaning, the things that move you forward, get you what you want, and make you feel alive. Wanna feel happy? Wanna feel confident? Wanna feel abundant? Wanna feel energized? Yeah? Then, what you need to do, of course, is take actions that get you to those feelings. You know you can just CHOOSE to feel a certain way, right? You can choose to feel happy. You can choose to feel confident. You can choose to feel abundant. You can choose to feel energized. And by FEELING, you start BEING. Your feelings lead to your ultimate reality. Let me say that again so it [hopefully] sinks in: YOUR FEELINGS LEAD TO YOUR ULTIMATE REALITY. If you want to be a confident person, CHOOSE to first FEEL confident. Every day, over and over. If you want to be wealthy, just do yourself a favor and CHOOSE to first FEEL wealthy. It will feel weird at first. It will feel like you’re just lying to yourself… because, uh.. YOU ARE. Keep doing it. Keep choosing to feel a certain way. Feel the feelings. Feel the feelings. Feel the feelings. Over and over, again and again, day after day. And the next thing you know, you actually believe it. You BELIEVE that you are confident. Wealthy. Energized. Abundant. Happy. And from that place – That place of true BELIEF – You’re able to make it REAL. You actually ARE happy. You actually ARE abundant. You actually ARE energized. You actually ARE confident. The whole “fake it til’ you make it” thing? Yeah. That. It feels bizarre. But it works. I’ve...
by Cassie Howard | Oct 15, 2018 | Work At Home Mom |
If you want to create something in your life (making more money, moving into your dream home, whatever..), you can’t just sit around and wait for it to happen. It’s gonna require more than you meditating and visualizing and journaling about it being real.. You also need to MAKE IT HAPPEN. Meaning: You also need to do the work. Although meditation, visualization, and journaling, are all great tools for manifesting, they are not the answer. They will not get you what you want, unless you combine them with some good ol’ fashioned WORK. There are coaches out there teaching you to “let it be easy” and ease this, ease that, and YES OF COURSE IT CAN FEEL EASY.. but that doesn’t mean hustle-free. That doesn’t mean you sit around, watch TV, and eat tacos all day (most days, anyway… ). Success, getting what you want? It comes from WORKING. It comes from DOIN’ STUFF. It comes from taking ACTION. Yes - do the mindset work - definitely do the mindset work - but do not, I repeat, DO NOT stop there. Journaling is a TOOL. Meditation is a TOOL. Doing “what feels good” is a TOOL Visualization is a TOOL. Listening to your gut is a TOOL. But that’s just it – Those things are tools you can use to help you achieve what you so desire, but they are not the ONLY tool. Journaling is not the only tool. Meditation is not the only tool. In other words: You are focusing on one piece of the puzzle, when you need to be focusing on ALL of the pieces. It’s...
