When Was the Last Time You Felt On Point?

When was the last time you felt on point?

Like you could take on ANYTHING?

Like the world was your oyster?

What were you thinking then? What were you doing?

What if you thought and did those things today?

How to Make the Right Decision (Stop Waiting for a Prince)

There might never be a sign or a magic mirror on the wall that tells you THIS IS THE WAY to making money/building followers/getting the book deal.

I was full-on waiting for that sign for two years.

I had no clients.

No Facebook group.

No blog posts.

No sales.

I was waiting for a prince in the shape of a marketing plan to come and save me.

(“Princess! Here is the magic pill that will solve everything. Sorry to keep you waiting for years, traffic was a nightmare.”)

I didn’t start creating clients or growing my group or blogging until I decided that I am my own magic pill.

I started building success when I decided that whatever way I chose was going to work, as long as I committed to it 100% and stopped changing my plan every 5 minutes.

Because here’s the thing about success:

There is never a right decision.

There’s only the decision that you make right.

Just Do the Thing

You know exactly what you need to do.

Do it.

Oh, This Bit Again

I'm learning to observe my experience of goal getting as a neutral pattern.

Instead of freaking out when nothing is going right, I'm able to observe my brain and think “Oh this bit. This is the bit where I feel like giving up. I always go through this bit. It's just one of the steps for success.”

Stay with the process. Don't panic. You'll pass through this level soon.

Another Note to My Past Self

Note to my past self.

Here's why you're not making progress towards your dream:

You’re fluffing.

Talking without really saying anyting.

Taking action without really doing anything.

Your entire to-do list is total rubbish.

It’s just stuff that makes you feel important.

• Designing logos.

• Editing fonts.

• Perfecting your message.

• Re-planning your launch. Again.

Stuff that seems legitimate but is actually holding you back.

It’s procrastination in disguise.

Cut it out. All of it.

Because if you’re honest with yourself, you know what you actually need to do today.

It’s not the thing you want to do.

Do it anyway.

Your future self will thank you.

(Thank you.)

What would you tell your past self?

Girls

I want girls to know that they are enough.

And that they can stand up for what they believe in. 

And that they can talk about money.

And that they can want big things.

And that they can be ambitious as hell.

And that none of those things make her wrong or bad.

They just make her one of the ones who are changing the world.

Happy International Women's Day!

In honour of International Women’s Day AND my Grandmother’s birthday, today I’m reposting this, one of my favourite posts on my blog:

Sometimes people ask me why I am such an ambitious woman. 

Why do I need to go after impossible dreams? Why not just be satisfied with the way things are?

And I'm like, GIRL. We need to talk.

You and I are some of the first women in history – and still in the world today – to have the freedom to even TRY to fulfill our potential.

And that is only because we are standing on the shoulders of generations of women who fought for us to have the opportunities we have. 

My heart breaks at the thought of all the women with brilliant ideas and dreams who never got a chance to attempt them.

Thanks to ambitious women fighting for our rights – to vote, to go to school, to have bank accounts, to have reproductive choices – you and I have the chance to go after our dreams.

Ambitious women changed the world for us.

And now it's our turn to be an example of what is possible for the next generation of women.

I will never, ever, apologise for being ambitious.

I owe it to my grandmother.

Untapped Potential

Energy stored in an object due to it’s position is Potential Energy.

Energy that a moving object has due to its motion is Kinetic Energy.

Every person in this world has the Potential Energy to hit their goals within them.

The key it to turn it into Kinetic Energy, and actually get it moving.

Don’t let yourself be unrealised potential.

What are you doing today to move closer to your goal?

Your Effort is in Your Control

However much effort you expect it to take to hit your goal, 10x it.

If you think you need to talk to 5 people a day – find a way to talk to 50.

If you think you need to get 10 people in your Facebook Group each day, find a way to get 100.

If you think you need to write 200 words of your book a day – imagine what would shift if you committed to 2000 words a day.

The beauty of increasing your effort is that nothing else needs to change.

No one needs to give you permission.

You don’t need to wait for anything.

You have total control.

No matter how crazy the outside world gets, you always have the power to put in 1000% effort.

And it doesn’t have to mean putting in more time or hustling yourself into the ground.

You can win or lose a game of tennis in the same 90 minutes.

You can write 100 words or 1000 words in the same 60 minutes.

You can send the same email to 5 people or 50 people in 10 minutes.

I learned this lesson because of the wild ride that 2020 threw at us all.

I didn’t have a choice but to put in 10x more effort than ever before. Not 2x. Not a bit more. 10x more.

• I went down to the mall and asked strangers to subscribe to my YouTube channel.

• I posted in over 250 other Facebook groups.

• When I first started my Facebook group, I’m not kidding when I say I spent 3 hours a day, every single day for a month to grow it to 500 members. (I’ve got the excel spreadsheet of my effort if y’all want to see!).

I started believing in my ability to control my own results. Because I control my effort.

How will you put in 10x more effort for your goal this week? 

Everything Can Change in A Year

I was doing my taxes today and I realised that this time last year, I was still making £7 an hour answering calls about lost cats at a call centre.

For real.

I had to double-check the dates because so much has changed since then.

I had one coaching client at the time. I had already quit two other jobs to go after my goals - and failed at my coaching business for two years straight. I slept on a mattress on the floor and did coaching calls at 11pm while my boyfriend was asleep in the same room.

Today, I have 17 clients and an epic Facebook group of almost 4000, and I got accepted into an elite mastermind as one of the youngest people they’ve ever taken. I'm my own boss and I'm the only one who pays me. I get to create my own schedule and take time off when I want to.

I’m absolutely bursting with gratitude for all of you who have been with me on this journey, and for my past self for believing in me even when it seemed like a pipe dream.

If you are where I was this time last year, this is where I tell you to keep going. Do not stop. YOU DO NOT STOP.

Even if it feels like it’s just ridiculously hard work to achieve your dreams right now.

People are gonna tell you that you should give up. I can't count how many times I heard the backhanded compliment “wow, if I were you, I would have given up by now.”

I remember reading transformation posts like this from other people – I’ve still got them saved on my computer.

It did feel possible. But also, it felt ridiculously far away with no pathway and no roadmap.

All I did was keep taking the next clear action.

Each small step is easy to reach from the one before.

It’s when we try to get to the top in one go that it feels impossible and want to give up.

All you have to do right now is take the next clear step.

That's what I'm doing to reach my next impossible goals.

Because if you never ever give up, you’ve got no option but to succeed.

I know it’s a cliché. But that’s because it’s worked for so many people that it has become one.

Never, ever, ever give up.