by Cassie Howard | Jul 16, 2017 | Blogging |
I think it’s time we own a cottage on Muskoka. Not only will it make us a fuckload of money in the summer (hello, crazy good investment!), but moreso, I just like being here. The vibe is so different than I’ve had anywhere else in the world, even places as beautiful as Paris and Nice. I feel calm. I feel at peace. But at the same time – I feel SUPER high energy. Creative. In the freaking ZONE. I have no issues waking up early here, regardless of whether or not I went to bed at 2am (not that I ever stay up that late or anything…. ha!). I just NEED to be here. I just NEED to capture this flow state and be IN IT forever. It just feels SO GOOD. This morning, as I was brewing in my coffee (in an actual coffee maker, not a Keurig, hallelujah!), looking out the kitchen window at the glow of the sun coming up over the water (creating the most beautiful sunrise), I was reminded of how Muskoka makes me feel. It’s been over a year since I last felt this. And it feels amazing. When something, someone or some PLACE makes you feel amazing, you should surround yourself with it as often as possible, because let me just say, the things that happen when you FEEL amazing would blow your freakin’ mind! I’ve been here less than 24 hours and already I’ve – Journaled (multiple times) Blown up my Snapchat with behind the scenes Written half a dozen emails Planned out my week ahead Emptied my inbox and Facebook PMs Created more content for my...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 14, 2017 | Business Basics |
There is power in the ability to make your own decisions and then follow through with them. Fully, all the way, and not procrastinating any longer, just – GETTING. SHIT. DONE. Deciding to get the work done. Deciding to message that person. Deciding to go to that event. Deciding to eat that broccoli with dinner. You make hundreds, if not thousands, of decisions every single day. Don’t you think that this is something you should probably be pretty good at by now? I mean, you’ve been doing it for over a decade or two (or three or.. you get the idea). And that’s the thing.. You ARE good at making decisions (meaning you know HOW to make them). But that’s just it, you know how to do it. Just like you know HOW to exercise, yet you don’t do it as often as you know you should. You know HOW to brush your hair, but that doesn’t mean you don’t miss a day here and there. Of course you’re good at MAKING decisions. That’s the easy part. What you definitely could stand to improve, though, is what those decisions actually ARE. I mean, let’s face it – You’ve made some pretty shitty decisions lately, haven’t you? You’ve done things you didn’t want to do, or you didn’t allow yourself to do something you truly DID want to do… Or maybe you bought something that didn’t feel aligned, but you bought it because someone else told you that you should. It could even be that you bit your tongue about something you REALLY wanted to speak up about. My point is: Although you...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 12, 2017 | Blogging |
I was just doing some journaling around fear, and something in particular that I am really afraid of right now, that I’m worried about, and that I’m trying to process. It’s something so big, so scary, so “omg, what if?”, that it made me feel physically ill. And as I was writing, I realized that I was ALLOWING the fear to take over, I was allowing it to hold me down, and I was not allowing myself to move past it. I was holding on to past beliefs around it, letting them consume me and take over, instead of saying “OH HELL TO THE NO, YOU ARE NOT!” and stopping them dead in their tracks. I was journaling for just 15 minutes or so, when I had this big breakthrough: “Choose something different.” Something so obvious. So simple. So BUT OF COURSE! But something I wasn’t seeing because I was filtering out. All I was seeing was the fear, and so that’s what I focused on. Which meant, of course, that I wasn’t able to properly heal and move forward, and yes, choose something different. It didn’t take long for me to realize this sabotaging thing I was doing to myself. And once I realized it, I was easily and quickly able to choose something different; something that would make me feel EXCITED and not afraid. The process for changing a belief is like so – When something feels off, something IS off. Identify it as quickly as you can. This may require journaling, meditation, someone else asking you deep questions or YOU asking yourself those questions, thinking/quiet time, or...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 11, 2017 | Business Basics |
Stop living in the past. Stop giving yourself crap for all the shit you’ve done before that didn’t serve you. It’s over. Done. Finished. Hasn’t it been hanging over you long enough? Aren’t you ready to just let it all go? I know you’re feeling beat up right now. Torn up. Not enough. Worried about everything. Scared of failure. Unsure of yourself. Maybe even pissed off at your past decisions. You’re getting to the end of the day wondering what the fuck you actually DID? How is the day over already when the only things you got accomplished were a blog post, watching Ellen for an hour, and journaling about that new house you wanna buy. And you see all of these other people who do what you do, and they’re having SO MUCH success (or at least, that’s how it APPEARS, because that is what they SHOW online), and you’re so MAD at yourself for wasting time, for screwing up again, for being so damn lazy and not doing the work to have the same success that you WANT to badly! So you snap out of it. You open up your notebook and you make a plan. This time will be different. This time you will actually do what you say you’re going to do. No more messing around; you’ve had ENOUGH! You make a plan for the week, the day, the month, whatever – You stick it in your calendar. Everything is perfect. You feel so accomplished. You tackle today’s tasks, and tomorrow’s, too. It’s amazing!! You are loving it. You get everything done the third day, the...
by Cassie Howard | Jul 9, 2017 | Blogging |
What if? What if you could do anything you’ve ever wanted to do, with ease and total FLOW? What if you could say what’s on your mind without ever worrying about what others will think? What if your life was filled with beautiful people, beautiful things, and beautiful experiences? What if you didn’t actually ever HAVE to do anything, but instead were able to let your day flow the way it wants to? The way that feels GOOD? What if you could wake up and just be YOU and get paid for it? What if you had a waitlist of people practically begging to hire you and work with you on everything you do? What if you were able to create from the heart, get it done in under an hour, and create something truly fucking epic that would take most people days, weeks, or even MONTHS to throw down? What if you were able to make money as quickly as waving a magic wand and demanding the money be placed in front of you? What if you were able to be fully supported in every area of your life and business for ever? What if you had someone who always made your bed, cooked your meals, cleaned your kitchen, took care of your vehicles, bought your groceries, and fed your cats? What if you could book a trip around the world right now, just because you felt like it, totally on impulse, and not even have to bother looking at the cost? What if whenever you asked for something, you received it instantly? What if you simply opened your mouth and immediately...
