GOT GOALS?
I help people achieve impossible goals.
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Entrepreneurship
✔️ Blog every day for 2 years
(Completed July 2021)✔️ Become my own boss full time
(Completed Sept 2020)✔️ Build a 6 figure/year business
(Completed July 2021)⚪️ Build a 7 figure/year business
✔️ 1000 subscribers on YouTube
(Completed Nov 2021)⚪️ 5000 subscribers on YouTube
✔️ Become a Certified High Performance Coach
(Completed Nov 2018)✔️ Coach an Olympic Athlete
(Completed Aug 2022)Health
✔️ Do 20 push ups in a row
(Completed October 2019)✔️ Do 50 push ups in a row
(Completed Jan 2020)Adventure
✔️ Climb Mt Kilimanjaro
(Completed Sept 2011)✔️ Hike to Everest Base Camp
(Completed May 2007)Personal
✔️ Speak on stage
(Completed Nov 2022)⚪️ Do a keynote on stage
✔️ Get a Psychology degree
(Completed Oct 2017)✔️ Dance in an on-stage Salsa Performance
(Completed May 2024)⚪️ Do a breakdancing windmill
⚪️ Master the moonwalk
⚪️ Compete in a Salsa competition
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Updated 19th January 2025
I recently opened the doors to my brand new membership, GET IT DONE. I couldn’t be more excited! This offer has been something I’ve wanted to create since the very beginning of my business (and actually tried to create in 2019, but my business wasn’t at the level to handle it yet). We’ve had 80 incredible members sign up in the first month and I’m just having so much fun.
Goals I’m working on right now:
Creating a simpler day to day
7 figure business
Building a community in Sydney
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Hey! I’m Sarah.
I set goals to feel alive.
Sweaty palms.
Racing heart.
Can’t think of anything else.Combining my background in Psychology with my training as a High Performance Coach, I help ambitious entrepreneurs, creatives and athletes achieve their goals.
l created this blog to share behind-the-scenes of my own goals and help you push your limits. I'm creating what I wish existed for me to consume.
People often ask if I’ll climb Mt Everest like my parents did in the 90's (as depicted in the 2015 film, Everest).
While I’ve done a little bit of mountaineering (Kilimanjaro in 2011 and Everest Base Camp in 2007) what most people don’t know is that my late dad was also an entrepreneur. I feel most connected to him through our shared love of entrepreneurship and attempting the impossible in all areas of life.
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Choose Your Own Danger
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Hellen Keller
Oh, girl. You’re speaking to me.
There’s danger everywhere.
So why not go after you’re wildest, craziest, most impossible dreams and experience the danger that comes with that?
What’s the alternative? Experiencing the danger that comes from regret.
That sounds way worse.
Go wild. Go bold. Take the leap. Do the crazy thing.
People don’t become great by passing up opportunities to develop greatness.
Choose the danger that comes with being bold.
It’s more fun that way.
Note: this was just me pep-talking myself into making a bold decision right now. Done.
How to Overcome Self-Doubt
Impossible > Possible > Probable > Inevitable
This is the scale of belief.
When you first set a massive goal, your brain won't even believe it's physically possible. You're stuck in the impossible stage. Total self-doubt.
The idea is to make the switch from impossible to possible.
Then possible to probable.
Then probable to inevitable.
So how do you get from impossible to inevitable when your self-doubt is raging?
By building trust with yourself.
That means showing up for your goals and habits every day, no matter what.
Before, I used to spin in self-doubt.
But for the last 459 days in a row, I've posted on my blog.
Before that, I meditated for 365 days straight.
I've also asked strangers at the mall to subscribe to my YouTube channel.
And trained daily until I hit 50 push-ups in a row.
Now when I set a goal, I trust myself to hit it.
It feels inevitable almost instantly.
It doesn't even matter how big it is.
Because now I believe myself when I say I'm going to do something.
I've got proof.
Even if I don't know how to do the thing yet. I know I'll do what it takes to figure it out.
I'll stay up late.
I'll get up early.
I'll put my goal ahead of my in-the-moment desires.
I know I'll do whatever it takes.
Because I've done whatever it takes before.
Self-doubt is just a symptom of inaction.
And here is the cure:
Show up daily
Be willing to do whatever it takes
Then your brain won't doubt you anymore.
What are you doing today to build trust with yourself?
Three Questions to Ask Yourself When Nothing Is Working
1) Are you working?
I’ve experienced many times when I thought “it” wasn’t working. But really, I wasn’t working. I wasn’t doing any work!
2) Is the action you’re taking directly linked to the result you want?
I spent years doing actions I hoped would bring results. But I didn’t actually know if they would.
Find out what will guarantee your result if you do it. Do that.
3) Am I believing it is working?
Choosing to believe IT IS WORKING is so much more powerful than telling yourself, “it’s not working“. When you tell yourself “It’s not working” your brain will try to search for new solutions, instead of sticking with it.
It IS working. Keep going. You can do this.
Implementing Systems
My business has never been big enough to implement “systems” before, but now it’s getting to a stage where if I don’t put systems in place to support me supporting my clients, something is going to slip through the cracks.
I also believe that in order to step into the next level business owner, I need to prepare my systems so that I can handle the next level of success without a big commotion. This is an exciting time!
Here’s what I’m working on:
Streamlining my client onboarding process
Creating a system to stay up to date with where all of my clients are at
An easy system to connect with my clients so they’re not all communicating with me on different platforms
Potential solutions I’m looking at:
Dubsado – for managing everything all at once. I don’t have a lot of documents with my clients but I’m considering it as a way to manage everything since I’m currently using google spreadsheets and I don’t know how long that will last!
Telegram – for client communications so they could be all in one place (instead of messaging some people on email, some on Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, text message… ah!)
Scheduling systems – I prefer to schedule with my clients personally, but now that my current client list has grown beyond 15 I’m considering having it done automatically including auto-created Zoom links.
What do you use for your client systems? Let me know in the comments by clicking the title of this blog!
Accepting Total Imperfection
You know when you do something for the first time and you just realise how far you have to go?
That happened for me today on a livestream – even though it wasn't my first time.
I rewatched it thinking, "Wow. That was rubbish."
I thought I had livestreams sorted. But it was clunky, awkward and totally unnatural.
Clearly I have a lot of work to do.
I even considered taking it down.
But I didn't. Because I think there's a kind of beauty in being a beginner and allowing yourself to suck.
Accepting not just imperfection, but total imperfection.
I am okay being new. I will get better.
Keep going, self.
Everyone sucks in the beginning.
Things I'm Learning From My Goals This Month
Things I'm learning from my goals this month:
I'm never going to "feel like it." And that's okay, that's not a problem. Just do the thing anyway. I'll feel better after.
Stretching myself beyond what I originally thought was possible has brought up all the fears I thought I'd handled already. Turns out, I'd only slayed my fears and monsters at level 1. Now that I'm upleveling, there's another level of fears and monsters to handle.
Fear shows up in sneaky ways. This month, fear came in the disguise of new opportunities that I could take instead of sticking to my goal. They seemed like an easy way out, a justifiable way out.
I have to live in the energy of it already being done. Whenever I step out of that energy, I step into TRYING to make it work, instead of COMMITTING to make it work. I have to remind myself every day that I'm willing to do whatever it takes – and then do it.
How to make sacrifices in a helpful way. Am I willing to sacrifice sleep? Or time with family? We each have our limits. For me, one day of sacrificing those things isn't a problem. But what is my limit? I'm still learning.
There is no actual real-world stress. The stress is only in my mind. There is only the task that is right in front of me. I am the one who is coating the experience in stress. Let the stress go.
What are you learning from your goals this month? Let me know in the comments!
What Changed in My Business
It took me two years to figure out how to make enough money doing what I love to support myself full-time (and not be eating pot noodles for every meal).
Two. actual. years.
Not two years of considering starting a business.
Two years of being in the thick of business, day in and day out.
Getting rejected.
Feeling confused.
Investing tens of thousands.
Being a starving artist.
Being told no. Again.
Sometimes, not even being told no.
Just hearing... nothing.
Here's the thing:
Making your first dollar with your passion isn’t rocket science.
1. You offer something
2. Someone buys it
You're in business.
But making consistent money with your passion?
Money you can rely on coming in the door each month?
Never having to go back to another job?
That‘s a whole other ball game.
It takes something more than just passion and persistence.
It takes insight.
Trying to figure out what isn't working with your business when you're nose-deep inside it just doesn't work.
Because you can't read the label from inside the bottle.
That's where I was.
I was doing everything right. Showing up every day. Doing the work. Being persistent.
I was just persistently headed in the wrong direction. And I had no idea.
So what changed for me?
I got a mentor.
Someone who was exactly where I wanted to be.
Someone who could map it out for me.
Someone who could show me all the things I couldn't see. (There was a LOT).
If I could go back in time, I would tell myself to get a mentor sooner. Asap.
Not a freebie course or a one-off chat.
Someone who will actually talk with you.
I'm a coach and I can help you make consistent income doing what you love.
But it doesn't have to be me.
It just needs to be someone you truly believe in.
Someone who is where you want to be, and can genuinely help you get there.
Not someone claiming they know. (Don't get a mentor who is secretly struggling with the same things as you).
This is possibly the most important thing you can do if you want to make consistent money doing what you love.
Don't make the same mistake I did and wait two years to make your business work.
Do it now.
Your Mind Will Accept Anything You Tell It Enough Times
Brainwashing. It’s not just for cults.
(Now there’s a tagline).
But really. We’re all brainwashed. We brainwash ourselves.
Because our minds will accept anything that is repeated enough times.
On a neurological level, a thought is a particular pattern of neurons firing.
That thought becomes a deep-rooted belief when that pattern of neurons has been fired so many times it becomes the automatic pathway that our brain wants to go when a certain situation arises.
The only difference between something we believe and something we don’t is the number of times our brain has fired that neuron pattern.
Each thought has its own neuron pattern.
The more times you think that thought, the stronger that neuron pattern becomes, and the more easily it gets triggered.
And how do you get a neuron pattern to be stronger? Practice.
Like basketball, swimming or piano.
Choosing new beliefs is about practicing them until their neuron firing pattern becomes stronger than the competing neuron firing pattern.
In other words – if you want to believe something new, keep practicing the thought until you believe it more than the old belief.
Say it again.
Journal it on paper.
Find proof for it.
Tell it to your brain again and again.
Your mind will eventually accept anything you tell it enough times.
Goals vs Learning
Goals are not important in and of themselves. You set goals for the purpose of learning. – Will Smith
I heard this quote on a Will Smith video today.
It grounded me.
Note to self: Don’t forget it.
The Middle is the Trickiest Part
Right now, I'm in the middle of creating several goals.
The middle is the trickiest part.
The beginning has motivation from the initial spark of excitement.
The end has the final push "almost there" feeling.
The middle is like being alone on a desert island – that I CHOSE to go to 🤦♀️ 🌴
It's the grind.
The hustle.
I know I'm being tested to see how bad I want it.
To see if I'm willing to stay up late and get up early.
To see what I'm actually made of.
If I'm going to walk my talk.
(And y'all know I talk a lot of hustle-grind-keep-going-whatever-it-takes-never-give-up)
But it's one thing to say it.
It's another to do it on the days when all I want to do is anything but working on the goal.
Today's pep talk to myself:
Do not give up.
DO NOT GIVE UP.
You can do this.
You WILL do this.
It's decided.
It's already done.
Now make it.
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