by Cassie Howard | Apr 24, 2017 | Blogging |
I find it humorous that over 2 years ago, I used to think the idea of journaling was ridiculous. “Isn’t that what you do when you’re in school and you like one of the other kids in your class, so you write about how much you love them and then doodle hearts and shit all over your book?” At least, that was my understanding of journaling because that’s the only kind of journaling I ever did. So I thought the idea of doing it as an adult was pretty stupid. But I did it anyway. Because I will always at least TRY something before I write it off completely. Journaling wasn’t easy for me in the beginning. I remember seeing it on my to-do list (yeah, I treated it as a “to-do” instead of something that MUST be done each day) and would put it off, put it off, put it off, until it was the end of the day and I was all.. “eh, I’ll do it tomorrow”. And when I WOULD finally sit down and journal, it would feel terrible. Like I was wasting my time. There were 8,267 other things I’d much rather do then sit down and write about how awesome my dream life is (when in fact my life was average at best). I would often write things like – “This is so stupid.” “I hate journaling.” “This makes no sense.” “I have no idea what I’m supposed to write.” “I hate this.” “I can’t wait until this experiment is over.” And so on and so forth.. But I kept pressing on. I’d heard...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 23, 2017 | Business Basics |
Sometimes I wonder how the hell everything got to be so easy for me. How am I able to just wake up every day, do what I want, say what I feel, and get paid extremely well to essentially just show up and be ME? I’ll tell you how – I learned how to do what felt RIGHT. I learned to ignore the rules that others tried to tell me to follow. I learned how to trust my gut, believe in myself, and speak from the heart. I just learned how to be a better version of me, really! 🙂 Because here’s the truth that will really set you free: You do NOT have to be like everyone else. In fact, if you attempt to do so, you will fail (because you can’t be anyone but yourself), and it will be a painful crash and burn experience that will leave you wishing you never tried to conform to in the first place. You and me? We’re different in the sense that although we love to plan and we love to strategize, we just don’t like to follow a script, a play-by-play, a guideline.. unless the guideline is to show up, speak your truth, share your message, and just be you. 🙂 We’re different because we break rules, not follow them. We’re different because we run TOWARD uncertainty and fear, not away from it. We’re different because we know deep in our SOUL that we were born to change the world with our words and that we were put on this earth to do so in a way that feels...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 21, 2017 | Blogging |
Isn’t it time? Just SURRENDER. You know those things you keep saying you want but then deny yourself of? Do you rememeber all the things you promised yourself you’d have but still don’t? And what about how you dreamed your life would be at this point but still, it isn’t? Just surrender. Allow yourself to finally start RECEIVING everything you say you desire. You don’t have to wait. You don’t have to do X, Y, and Z before you’re finally WORTHY of being, having and experiencing what you want. You can have it all NOW, as soon as you simply ALLOW. Stretch out your arms to receive. Surrender yourself to fear. Surrender yourself to uncertainty. Surrender yourself to temptation. Just SURRENDER. I see so many people saying “I want I want I want I want”… and that’s great! But – What the fuck are you doing to actually HAVE what you keep saying you want? I have friends that have been saying they WANT something for yeaaaaars. And guess what – They still don’t have it! Because they haven’t surrendered what they need to surrender in order to HAVE it. Which is – The fear that it won’t work The fear that you’ll fuck it all up The fear that you’ll look stupid The fear that it won’t go as planned The fear that people won’t understand The uncertainty around your investments and the money you flat out MUST invest if you want to get what you want (especially if you have big financial goals) – What if it doesn’t work for me? What if I lose this money? What...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 20, 2017 | Goals |
I was talking to one of my clients yesterday about goal setting and how she wanted to be making more money in her business. I said “of course you want to make more money, but WHY?“, to which she responded with a list of things she had to pay for, one of which was a tax bill. I shuddered. Ew, taxes. No one likes paying taxes, which is why most people who work for themselves tends to get behind on paying them or just gets really fucking annoyed about having to hand over their hard-earned cash to the government. It’s no wonder I had a bunch of money in back-taxes due when I was in debt a few years ago. Again: ew, taxes. As much as I hate paying taxes, and as much as I’m sure YOU hate paying taxes, that’s what we have to do. That’s one big way that we contribute to the area that we live. But here’s the thing: Paying taxes is boring. Paying off your mortgage is boring. Paying off credit card debt is boring. And let’s face it – If it’s not fun, we don’t want to do it, and so we RESIST RESIST RESIST, and the debt continues to pile up until it gets to the point that we can’t ignore it anymore, which is when we get super pissed at ourselves for letting it go as far as it did.. And then we do it all over again anyway – Because paying off debts is fucking BORING. So what the hell do you do? How do you pay off the debts you owe,...
by Cassie Howard | Apr 19, 2017 | Blogging |
I’ve been thinking a lot about how my life is so different from how it was just a few short years ago. Everything has changed. Everything has improved. Everything is better. And I’ve just been reflecting back on how quickly that all shifted for me. Not very long ago, I used to be of the mindset that money was to be saved, and held on to for dear life, and that you needed to try to get a deal on everything, otherwise you were a sucker. I remember doing an interview one day for the local newspaper (about my frugal living/couponing website), and they asked me if I would still clip coupons if I won the lottery. And I said YES. Except, that would never happen because I don’t play the lottery. But also, how the hell would I know just how exactly I would respond if I ever somehow came into a large sum of money? But because all I knew at the time was frugality and stingy-ness, it’s no surprise I said that I would totally continue being an extreme couponer if all of a sudden a wave of money fell into my lap. It’s funny how things can change, isn’t it? It was just over 2 years ago that I stopped clipping coupons (I was still super frugal, though!). I’d switched to eating a plant-based diet and was eliminating shitty foods, and also chemical-ridden household & personal products, from my life. And can you guess what the majority of my coupons were for? Yep. So, after 7 years of being an avid couponer, I gave up...
