You’ve seen it - that random friend request from some stranger in the marketing industry. Or that comment on your insta to “collab.” You feel it… You know it’s coming… And you think... “AAAAAHHH! I'm about to be hit over the head with another bad sales pitch in my DM's! No, not again!” Discover your sales relationship and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
Don’t like being manipulated? Ugh, me neither. So, stop hiding ALL of who you are. Authenticity is the antithesis of manipulation. Faking it. Pretending. Trying not to make waves. Not wanting to rock the boat. Playing nice so that people will like you. Hiding your truth. Discover your authenticity and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
“Do you fling yourself off a cliff and expect to fly to Hawaii?” I asked my client.She stared at me perplexedly, “Um...no...I would die.”“Exactly!” I exclaimed.You see...Having worked with 5,6, and 7-figure entrepreneurs for the past 4 years, and having been an entrepreneur for the past 12 years, I’ve found the number one reason why people start their own businesses - freedom. Hey, it was my reason too. Discover your freedom and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
The number one thing most of my clients come to me for is not to build their business, or boost their productivity. Ultimately... It’s to have FREEDOM. Freedom inside their empire... ...Instead of being a slave to their laptop. ...Instead of being beholden to some other boss. ...Instead of being trapped in their mind of frustration, guilt, anger, and all the “shoulds” other people have projected onto them. Discover your true freedom and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
I took a french fry from Declan’s plate. He looked at me with a combination of determination and fear, “No mama. That’s my fry.” I smiled. He’s been going through this “my” phase. He thinks me sharing with him is him sharing with me. Is three the age that the ego comes into play? Discover your abundance mindset and tap into your reign. Click to read the full blogspiration.
“You wanna grab coffee, sometime? I’d love to pick your brain.” Would you ever say that to a doctor? Or a therapist? Or a lawyer? “Hey, doc! I’ve got this thing going on in my stomach? You wanna grab coffee, sometimes? I’d love to pick your brain about what it could be.” No! You’d make an appointment, pay the bill, and go have the freaking doctor check out your issue. Yet, so often, I’ve seen service-based entrepreneurs, especially when we first start out and are hungry for clients, we allow ourselves to be deluded by the “pick your brain” verbal opt-in thinking that it’s going to lead to that person becoming a client. More often than not, I’ve seen the “pick your brain over coffee” really be - you doing the coaching, pouring your heart and soul out, and divulging your years of information and experience onto the table...for the price of a $5 cup of coffee. Ouch. If you’re lucky it’s an $8 venti with whip. But still, it ain’t your normal coaching rate. And, sadly, both of you get what you pay for.
“You gotta want kids if you want to be with me.” He was 19 years older than me. In his first marriage, they had agreed not to have children. I was falling in love with him. I also knew I wanted kids. And I knew he would make a fantastic father. I wasn’t about to compromise on what I wanted. But, I was willing to walk away if I couldn’t have it all. So, I figured I’d come right out with it. Why beat around the bush, right? Yet, so often in our communication, we speak implicitly. We hint. We imply. We drop clues. But, come right out and say what you want and that you want it… To be totally and brutally honest, well that’s just brutal, right? Or is it or is it brutal to pretend you want something you don’t want, dance around the topic for years and then get your heart smashed because it didn’t happen. To me, the latter seems far more brutal with time, effort, and energy lost. It’s much easier to rip a bandaid off than to unstitch a gangrenous wound of implication. Being direct, candid, explicit with your communication allows not only you to know exactly where you stand and what you want, but others as well.
