YOU Are the Expert of your Experience

Don't Do What Every Expert Tells You To!

Present author included, of course. Some resonates, take what works for you and make it your own.

What is authentic and feels right to me?

First and foremost: think for yourself!

I cannot tell you how many I see sitting in the corner uncertain of their own inner wisdom and abilities.

Clinging to every word of someone they perceive as “better” than them, so many young entrepreneurs become cookie cutter clones of the people they look up to.

News flash: those people you hold as better than you have already achieved what you want to achieve.

To do it exactly their way will lead you to their results perhaps—but they will have lapped you many times over by the time you reach where they were years ago.

Not EVERY suggestion is useful to you.

In fact, some suggestions (certainly mine included) might seem so assinine to you that you will do the OPPOSITE to spite their suggestion.

For instance, many successful business owners clamor for the NEED of a free opt-in, download, or product.

They are definitely not wrong.

You can see my own success story of putting these strategies into practice, and certainly, the results are vast!

But if you are emotionally intuitive (interested in connecting to the hearts and souls of your readership, not just pandering them to make your next paycheck) you can get hundreds and thousands of subscribers without pitching ANYTHING but yourself.

What? How? Impossible!

For years, my “business” was naught but a passion project. I had zero products for sale on my website and legitimately wondered how I had managed to not make a profit. (I too am shaking my head. The fuck?)

With no products for sale, how in the hell could I expect profit? Obviously, I couldn’t.

2. And then something else occurs.

Duh.

Duh.

And more duh.

Don’t be like me in that arena, folks.

If you have a dream to make a profit, you damn well better have something for sale. (Says the artist turned businesswoman with a laugh and a :| face.)

Derp.

But! In that time, I still managed to achieve my dharma and purpose, even though I was poor and delusioned.

How?

I wrote monthly newsletters consistenly. I delivered what I offered: a wide array of inspirational quotes, lectures, comedy, books, and playlists that brough me inspiration, hope, or motivation.

I gained over 1,000 subscribers before I ever created a single product.

Though in hindsight, one of the most scenic and stupid routes to take: this wasn’t a total lost cause.

What do you need before you make sales?

Trust.

I hate to be sold to. I hate to be pitched to. I hate to be pandered to.

I hate schomoozy people telling me how great and smart I am, only to plea for me to buy their products.

I see through you, salesperson.

Thanks for inflating my ego, but I’m good on my own, bruh.

Tranparency in business is the way to play, or at least is my greatest recommendation if you are like many of my clients and readers: people with a great desire to help people from a place of being genuine. Doing your duty and giving to others with a big heart.

Also wanting to sustain yourself and your family with food, shelter, and a savings account. Wanting financial security is not a sin.

So many “spiritual” people wanting to live their best lives are inadvertantly self-sabotaging. I see this over and over and over.

Massage therapists, meditatino teachers, yoga teachers, fitness instructors, motivational speakers, artists, writers, the list goes on and on… we seek to make meaning in our lives and careers, and seek to help others while forgetting to help ourselves.

That’s valiant and great that you are so selfless as to give yourself away for free, bending over backwards to become a greater and greater martyr… but eventually I suspect you will smack straight into a brick wall of “enough’s enough”.

There is nothing spiritual about poverty, about lack. In fact, this reality of no income, rising bills, and the insecure feeling of not knowing if you can sustain your security: your home, your shelter, your grocieries, your bills, your loans… this leads to desperation.

Desperation is not an ideal state for creation, or success.

Calm confidence is the key ingredient.

I know from experience that scrambling to make ends meet and waking up with next to nothing in your bank account can cause a very real sense of panic and lack.

I have absolutely been there, and know how close one can come to giving up, to submitting to the sense of being an absolute failure.

I too have almost given up on my dreams. Many times.

A year into my “business”—my productless passion project—I gloated and said with such naitivty, “I can’t believe so many people give up! There’s nothing to this! Entreprenuership is EASY!”

Followed by a year of sustaining my passion project with little to show in financial growth, lots to show for debt and fear and insecurity. I felt like a huge failure.

I was two years into my startup and I knew that I had blew it. I would never make it. Entrepreneurship was IMPOSSIBLE!

Oh, the highs and lows.

I knew this was part of the path, but I hated every second of the scary sides.

The rising and falling, the leaping and praying for the net to follow.

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