by Cassie Howard | Jan 18, 2017 | Blogging |
Do you know why most people roll their eyes when you tell them you’re an entrepreneur? Because phony entrepreneurs give entrepreneurship a bad name. They are not TRUE entrepreneurs, which means they consistently fail at everything they do, over and over, because they’re just not cut out to be an entrepreneur. And THAT’S OKAY. We weren’t all born to be awesome. 🙂 So when people hear the term “entrepreneur”, unless they’re a true entrepreneur themselves, they believe the word “entrepreneur” is another word for “unemployed”. Which is annoyoing as fuck, but I digress.. I’m so sick of the phonies, the pretenders, the wannabes, totally messing with my vibe on this. I am begging them to shut their trap and STOP saying they’re an entrepreneur when in reality, they are far from one. Please stop saying you’re an entrepreneur. You’re not! UNLESS – YOU LIVE FOR THE HUSTLE Nothing makes you jump out of bed faster than knowing you get to work on making your dreams come true. You LOVE not just the results, but you love the PROCESS as well. You love the hustle, the grind, and getting what you want by being super proactive. You’re happiest when you’re working. Even though you’ve TRIED to be a “normal” person and do the things you “should” do, you can’t focus. You just want to get back to the hustle. This is the #1 feeling that all TRUE entrepreneurs have about their life. YOU HATE TO “TAKE IT EASY” AND “RELAX” Here’s a great way to piss us off: tell us to take it easy, have a break, relax, or any...
by Cassie Howard | Jan 17, 2017 | Making Money |
$750,000 in cash. That’s how much I made in less than 2 years from my business. My “itty-bitty” little coaching business that “won’t go anywhere”, according to the many people I sought support from. $750,000 cash received. And the majority of that? Came from social media. Of course, there was some skill involved in making that amount of money in such a short period of time. I kind of needed to know about the industry I was going into. Luckily I have over 11 years of experience there. 😉 But other than knowing my shit about business, I didn’t know much of anything. I didn’t know what an “ideal client avatar” was I didn’t know anything about the coaching industry I didn’t know how to sell, yet alone sell ALL THE TIME I didn’t know how to write (or so I thought( I didn’t know how to stand out in a crowded space But what I did know? Social media. I KNOW how powerful it is I KNOW how huge it is I KNOW how much of an impact it can have I KNOW that it can, in all seriousness, change your life forever In my last online business, I grew my Facebook page to over 40,000 likes, with minimal advertising. I grew my Facebook Group to over 20,000 with a tiny little link on my website. I grew my Twitter account to over 5,000 followers with ZERO promotion! And the bulk of the money I made from that business came from – You guessed it – Those social media accounts! In fact, I don’t think I really ever...
by Cassie Howard | Jan 16, 2017 | Planning |
I’ve noticed a trend. A trend where a bunch of people are super pumped up at the beginning of the year, eager to go after their goals, but then never REALLY pushing that hard to achieve them. They’re all “RAH RAH RAH I’M SO AMAZING” for the first 2 weeks of January, and then they start to fizzle out, like “fuck it, this is way too hard, I’ll set some more realistic goals instead”. And so thet do. Or they give up altogether and affirm that NEXT YEAR they’ll do it. Next year they’ll REALLY give it their all. But you and I know that’s a load of crap. Because if you REALLY wanted to do something, you’d do it now. You’d make it happen, regardless of how “unrealistic” it seems. So while just 2 weeks ago there was a lot of RAH RAH RAH-ING, there is now a lot of silence. Did you notice? If you were one of those people that went quiet, let me tell you this: Silence won’t make you more money Silence won’t make your life easier Silence won’t allow you to make a difference Silence won’t make you happy What will ACTUALLY happen is you will start to beat yourself up inside, give yourself shit about how you “suck” at this goal-setting stuff, maybe even try to make yourself feel better by throwing out all kinds of excuses as to why you gave up, why you slowed down, why you’re now questioning your abilities – And it will start to eat you alive. You will start to actually BELIEVE all of the negative...
by Cassie Howard | Jan 15, 2017 | Making Money |
Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only person who feels the way I do. That insatiable PULL from inside of me. That gnawing at my insides to release what I feel. When I watch other people living their lives, I notice that it usually goes a little something like this – Wake up (unwillingly) Eat breakfast (sometimes) Go to work (again, unwillingly) Hate your life for 8+ hours Come back home Make dinner (boxed Mac & Cheese, anyone? Mama’s tired!) Veg out on the couch for a few hours Go to bed later than you probably should Wake up and do it all over again I’m not saying EVERYONE lives like this, of course, but MOST do. And I’m sure there are some people who actually LOVE their job and LOVE that this is what their life looks like. And if that’s the case, AWESOME. I’m happy for those people. If that’s what success looks like to them, they should keep it up. But for me – And this is where I often feel like an outsider to most people – That’s simply not enough. I want MUCH more than that. I want the multiple $100-Million dollar company. I want the private jet and luxury travel. I want the reality TV show that gets picked up for 5+ seasons. I want the family business. I want the high-end team that works with me. I want the gorgeous house on the beach. I want the sexy vehicles in my driveway. I want the animal sanctuary and charity. I want to big the biggest donor to my other favorite charities. I want...
by Cassie Howard | Jan 13, 2017 | Making Money |
On my 31st birthday (today!) when my husband asked what I wanted to do, I immediately said “GUNS”. He was less than enthusiastic about it, but he humored me and we went to the shooting range so I could fire me some weapons. And from the second I held the pistol in my hand, I knew it was a match made in heaven. Is it strange that even when I was really young, I knew I wanted to own a gun? At first it was “just for protection”, which eventually graduated into “because they’re fucking sexy and badass - and also - for protection!”. And today, yep – Solidified that! It’s a shame that it’s so difficult to own a gun in Canada. Which makes my dream of living in Cali that much more appealing and on the radar with what I want in life. 😉 On the way to lunch, my husband and I were talking about our experience at the shooting range and he commented that, although he thought it was fun, he didn’t see why some people loved it so much and wanted to do it all the time. To which I asked: “you mean people like me?” because now that I got a taste for it, OF COURSE I want to go back and do it again. Maybe I’ll even get my license and become a member, a regular, someone they end up seeing all the time! Sounds like my idea of a good time. Anyway – I didn’t intend to talk to you about guns today, what I really wanted to talk about is doing...
