When you do transformational work, your main goal is helping people.
In your practice, as a coach, healer or holistic practitioner of any kind, you support people who want to change their lives.
And you probably think that your work with a person begins when she shows up, when she says “yes” to working with you, and she officially becomes a client.
What if that wasn’t the case?
This is how I see it…
Ever thought of creating an online course?
It’s one of the best things you can do for yourself and for your clients.
I’m not exaggerating when I say online courses have saved my sanity many times over.
When my father had to stay at the hospital for months, I had to stop working with clients…
What did I do to overcome my frustration?
Imagine for a minute that you’re at a neighbors’ barbecue and have to introduce yourself to a group of total strangers.
Say you’re a surgeon. Say you’re a lawyer. Or -like me years ago- say you’re an architect.
People understand that.
They will picture you in a green gown, surgeon knife in hand, ready to do your thing. Or they’ll picture you in court talking to the jury, defending a case. Or they’ll imagine you sketching a house on a drawing board full of rolled blueprints.
People get that. It’s easy. They’ve already seen it.
But tell them you’re a coach and notice the confusion in their eyes. I never got the blank stare when I introduced myself as an architect. But…
Words can hurt and words can heal.
And because words matter so much, folk stories have taught us exactly that.
Remember the story of Rumpelstiltskin?
Once upon a time, a greedy king asked a peasant girl to spin a bunch of straw into gold or he would kill her. In her desperation, she accepted the help of a weird-looking, little man who would do the magic for her, as long as he could keep her first-born baby.
50 years. We’ve never seen anything like this in 50 years. One has to go back to 1971 to find any records of a snowfall like this one. And still, it didn’t create half of the chaos this one has.
So I’m stuck at home again.
For almost 48 hours, one of the biggest blizzards in history hit Central Spain: leaving not just the city of Madrid but the whole state, with a 2-feet, crispy cold layer of snow. And paralyzed it completely for days.
2020 is finally gone.
Au revoir. Auf Wierdersehen. Adiós.
I’m well aware that 2021 can be to 2020 what Rogue One was to the Star Wars Saga: one of the most expensive films ever made, and profoundly disappointing nevertheless.
But what if it were more like baby Yoda in The Mandalorians? So cuddly that I can’t stop smiling every time I see him?
Most probably, 2021 will bring a bit of both.
So the question is, what can we do to make the most out of it?
Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave, you’ve probably heard about the great conjunction and the few other astronomical events that are currently taking place.
First the solstice, the darkest time of the year in the northern hemisphere.
And second the Jupiter – Saturn conjunction in which both planets, from the Earth’s perspective, seem to be a single star, the brightest of the winter night sky
“-But what does all this have to do with me and my business?” – you may ask.
Let me ask you something.
Are your content creation efforts paying off?
If you think the name of the “content creation” game is just to build an audience (or a chore you have to put up with)…
…I have good news for you.
Because building your audience is not all you get from your hard content creation work.
You get something much more valuable.
Money has never been the main reason I do what I do. I would continue building houses if that were the case.
But the “Do what you love and money will follow” approach totally failed me.
“Out of sight out of life” would be a much more accurate way to describe my situation for many years.
Running a business involves making decisions. A lot.
-Will it be good to participate in this giveaway?
-What product should I offer next?
Most times deciding it’s not easy. Either we lack enough information, lack enough objectivity, or talk ourselves into something …only to regret it later.