You Can Have Anything You Want If You’re Willing to Do This One Thing

Asking.

You can have anything you want if you’re willing to ask 1000 people.

Most people just aren’t willing to ask.

It feels like too much.

It feels scary.

We don’t want to bother anyone.

What if you asked, though?

Imagine asking 1000 different celebrities to be on your podcast.

Or asking 1000 TEDx organisations to do a talk.

Or asking 1000 connected people on linked in if they will introduce you to Rihanna’s record producer.

Or asking 1000 magazine editors to get you a 15 minute chat with Anna Wintour. 

It would probably work, right?

Someone would help.

And most of the time, it doesn’t take 1000 people.

Sometimes it just takes one person.

Because people want to say yes. We’re wired to say yes.

When I was starting out coaching 3 years ago, I asked a well-known entrepreneur if I could coach them for free in exchange for their $1000 online course. It worked.

Last year, I asked strangers at the mall to subscribe to me on YouTube – and long story short, I got 40 new subscribers in a day.

What if asking is the only thing standing between you and massive success?

What could you ask right now for that would move you closer to your goal?

May 2021 Goals

1. Complete the back healing work by Dr Sarno

2. Mindset journal every day in May

3. Implement steps to make my daily work tasks more effortless

4. Start tap dancing (excited about this one because I danced for 13 years as a kid!)

April 2021 Goals Review

I’m stoked with my progress this month. I don’t try to control the uncontrollable, but thanks to my goals in April, the things I can control do feel in control, which is an amazing feeling (because it’s not always the case!). Here’s my rundown of April:

1. Time-block all of my activities – and really, genuinely stick to the time I said I would do them.
   DONE
   I didn’t write a SINGLE to-do list the entire month. Whaaaat?! That might have been the longest I’ve ever been in my LIFE without writing a to-do list. I simply put all of my to-dos onto my calendar and found time for all of them. Loving this system. I never feel stressed about lots of things to do, because each task has a designated time it will get done, pre-planned on my calendar. So freeing!
   

2. Take my evenings and weekends fully off.
   DONE
   I have been SO much better at this. Not perfect. But waaaay better. The only time I have worked in the evenings or weekends was if there was something genuinely urgent that needed to get done.

Why you should be in it for the money

When you’re in it for the money, you’re in it to have choices.

You’re in it to have healthcare.

You’re in it to support your family.

You’re in it to give back to your community.

You’re in it to be independent.

You’re in it to donate.

You’re in it to create employment for others.

You’re in it to make an impact.

You’re in it to vote with your dollar.

Being in it for the money IS being in it for the right reasons.

Because money creates more opportunities to help the world.

When we say we don’t care about the money, we create a ripple effect that puts all the buying power in the hands of people who don’t give a damn.

The kind of loving, generous people who say they’re not in it for the money are the exact people we NEED to be in it for the money.

Because we need more money in the hands of the good guys.

Let’s be in it for the money so we can create the world we actually want to live in.

(Can we get some more money in the hands of the Malala’s and the Greta’s of this world please?)

What To Do if You’re Worried About Running Out of Clients

One of my clients said this to me today: “What if I’m running out of clients? What if they've already all hired me?”

So we broke it down in an exercise that I fully recommend you do if you’re having these thoughts:

1. How many people are there in your orbit right now, that could contact you TODAY and say they’re ready to work with you? She said “at least 5.”

2. How many people could be about to find out about you through a friend/a recommendation/a referral? 100.

3. How many people will you connect with in the next month? 50.

4. How many people in your city have the problem you solve? (Quick google search: 14,000 in her city).

5. How many people on your continent have the problem you solve? (Quick google search: 40 million)

6. How many of those 40 million people would be prepared to pay you to help them? At least a million.

7. How many clients do you need in a year again? 24.

Y’all. There are SO many people who want to buy from you.

There is literally an abundance of people on this planet, and those people just keep making more people.

All you have to do today is meet ONE.

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.

There's No Right Way To Hit A Goal

There’s no right way to hit a goal.

Some of my clients adore the law of attraction and human design and surrendering to the universe, and some of them get excited by scientific research and habit trackers and pushing as hard as possible.

And you know what? They ALL hit their goals.

So I’m celebrating all you science-based tech-heavy goal getters AND the woo woo energy you-do-you-boo manifesters.

Some days I take a truck ton of action and tick everything off my list and other days I sit still and meditate, reminding myself I have done enough DOING and now is time to BE.

What if it ALL works?

What if really, anything will work when you commit to it 100%?

Gratitude in Advance

Recently I’ve been practicing gratitude in advance – being grateful for the things I want to create in my life.

I’m grateful for the healing my shoulder will receive.

I’m grateful for the new creative ideas that are coming my way.

I’m grateful for the friends I haven’t met yet.

What are you grateful for in advance?

What if it was actually easy?

Difficulty doesn’t actually exist as a thing in the universe.

Our experience is what makes something feel hard or easy.

A mountain might seem hard to summit.

But with a helicopter it’s is pretty chill.

(Enter the invention of heliskiing) 

It’s the same with any goal.

Our goals aren’t just sitting around looking at us smugly like “I’m super difficult, you’ll never achieve me.”

Goals are neutral.

We get to decide if we experience them as hard or easy by how we approach them.

Sometimes we think they’re going to drain us. Exhaust us. Take YEARS of effort.

But what if getting fully booked in your business was as simple as putting out short videos on Instagram? (True story about my client Niamh).

What if becoming a professional fashion model was as easy as taking another model out to lunch? (True story about my client Chloe)

What if becoming a paid writer was as easy as putting your writing out into the world for people to see? (True story about my client Julia)

What if you decided your goal was actually super easy?

How would that change the way you approach it?

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I was recently featured on Shawna Patruno’s podcast, where I broke down step by step the mindset I had to be in to achieve my goal of blogging daily for two years in a row. Listen on Shawna’s Instagram!