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.
Do you find it hard to charge for your services?
Do you find it hard to talk about money with your clients? or
Are you uncomfortable receiving money in exchange for your work?
In this interview with Liesel Teversham you’ll learn:
* The 3 principles of why we struggle with money.
* How our sensibility influences our relationship with our clients and charging for money.
* The role of conflict and our way of dealing with it as sensitive people
* Why understanding our strengths is so helpful.
* A tapping sequence to release the fear of charging for our work.
(And in case you prefer to read, here you have the main takeaways from this interview)
The noise from four active children -my neighbors in the upstairs apartment- woke me up this morning.
I don’t blame them.
No doubt the argument was about very important to four children who’ve been in lockdown for three weeks in a row.
(Sigh)
We are starting our fourth week of confinement, and the government has approved this week to keep it two more weeks. Let’s see if that’s enough.
I’m homebound in my city, a few kilometers south of Madrid, while I write this. All of us in Spain are staying at home to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.
The whole world is on alert, trying to stop the Covid-19 pandemic as best we can.
Most of us have never seen anything like this in our lifetimes, right?
At least not in the developed countries.
I usually don’t work on Sundays, but last week I was watching one of George Kao’s videos that made me stop in my tracks, pick up my notebook and start writing this article like crazy.
George is a business coach, and my current mentor by the way. He was talking about how our lack of confidence influences our capacity to make an income in our business.
And then he said something about the imposter syndrome:
Having your own business is an exciting adventure: You’re following your schedule, you are posting your content, you’ll soon run a promotion for a workshop … and then, something happens. Life gets in the way.
Because life is unpredictable.
And has the bad habit of not following our plans.
So from time to time, all of us will have to keep up with our business while navigating the rough waters of life.
Your goal?
It’s very common to feel bad about putting ourselves out there.
We know we have to spread the word about our work but we fall into the trap of comparing ourselves with the big names in our industry and end up thinking we’re not good enough as we are.
When I created this blog back in 2013, I was full of doubts, even though I had been in business for several years with another blog.
I had thoughts like:
Are you afraid of talking about your work?
Well,… as solopreneurs we don’t have a choice.
We have to put ourselves out there, share our message and spread the word about our work.
And when you do, guess who else is also going to show up with you?
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This may come out as a surprise to you, but way too many coaches and healers who are great at what they do, secretly fear they are not good enough.
“ Who am I do this?” -they wonder.
They get credential after credential, go from class to class and yet, they never feel like they are ready to do the work they do.
And that keeps them from taking the actions that would make them Continue reading
In my years as an Architect, I supervised the construction of many different buildings. I built many single family homes and a few multi-story ones. Some were conventional, and my favorite ones were eco-friendly and sustainable.
But no matter how different they were from each other, they had something in common: all of them were built upon a solid foundation.
I’m sure you get why it’s important to build a house on solid ground. Common sense -and a ton of regulations- made me pay attention to the quality of the foundations underneath those buildings.
But when it comes to building a business, many of us seem to have lost our common sense, and we create the business Continue reading