Write Your Way To Clarity

Writing Your Way To Clarity In Your Online Business

True confession. This is the second time I’ve written this post on writing your way to clarity and the second time I recorded my YouTube Video.

Even though my mantra this year is…

Business is easy when I take messy imperfect action.

I did it anyway and here is why.

Journaling to Clarity 🦄

Journaling to clarity was my topic this week that I felt called to talk about. I recorded the video during my blocked scheduled time and the next morning during my own journaling practice, my message from the day before just didn’t feel right. Something was missing, so what did I do.

I continued to write my way to clarity. I asked myself all the questions, why didn’t feel right. If I did it again what would I say differently? If I record it again, will I still feel integrity with my mantra for this year? The more it poured out the more I knew that I need to do it again.

Why journaling taps into your inner passion

How can it really be that powerful, it’s just writing stuff down? When you do what is called stream of consciousness journaling it taps into your inner passion. It doesn’t matter if you can read it, just get everything out of your head onto the piece of paper.

When I was laid off from my sales job. It was the first time in my life that I started to journal. This was long before I listened to anything about journaling.

I had way too many things going on in my head and it was the only thing that I found that cleared them all out. Little did I know that it has been coined steam of consciousness. It was just writing stuff down that was filling up my head.

That is a time of true self-discovery. At this time, I had A LOT of feelings that I needed to work through, more than I ever could have imagined. It helped me to heal buried emotions from childhood. It all came out, and that was good.

Writing Your Way To Clarity In Your Online Business

Through all the deep journaling it gave me the clarity that I needed. Once I became clear I stopped.

Until I began to feel like my wheels were spinning in my business. I headed back to my deep journaling to get all the thoughts out of my head.

Funny, when I started journaling it was on the things that I knew I didn’t want. As I was frustrated with the direction I saw myself headed.

This came to me from repeatedly attracting clients that I didn’t want. Because on the other side of the thing that you don’t want is the thing that you do want.

For me, it was really easy to pick out the things that drained my energy and didn’t bring out my best self.

But, now journaling is different for me.

Journaling is planning from the place of where I want to go

It’s writing out my dream week or my dream project. Future scripting what I’d like to bring into my life and business. It’s about becoming the person my future self loves.

Journaling can be as easy or difficult as you choose

If you’re thinking too much about it. I think journaling can become difficult. If you’re lost on where to start with journaling, here are a few clarity prompts to get you started.

The mack daddy of them all – Why do I want my work from home business to be successful? This is the thing that keeps you going when it gets hard.

What would my dream business be?

If I would be guaranteed to make money, what would I do?

Here is take two of my video. I’d love your questions.

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Little Side Note

“Journal writing, when it becomes a ritual for transformation, is not only life-changing but life-expanding.” Jen Williamson

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

Writing bring out things that you didn’t even know were there.
Start from what you don’t want if what you want seems difficult to come up with.
Journaling is just asking yourself questions you’d ask your best friend if they were struggling to know what to do.
What to know more about the stream of consciousness writing? Check out these two YouTube videos.
- From Lavendaire
- From Megan Minns

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What is perfect anyway?

by Michele | Online Business

What is perfect anyway?

“It’s not perfect” my daughter exclaimed to me. My response was sometimes done is better than perfect.

Really, what is perfect?

Our idea of perfect is based on something in our heads this could be very different than the perception of what our dream client may feel is perfect. Because perfect is really a perception of the beholder. It’s different for all of us.

This got me thinking about all the undone projects that I’ve come across when onboarding new clients.

Really I'm not a fool

While I’m not foolish and know that this undone work could too have something to do with the shiny objects syndrome that so many visionaries have.

But this halt in work may have been brought on because they got hung up on something that wasn’t perfect and they stopped in the messy middle and moved on before the project was brought to completion.

In the book Big Magic Elizabeth Gilbert refers to “Done is better than good.” this is something that she heard from her mother growing up. This is solid gold. Carole Gilbert understood the importance of time and that sometimes you just need to get it done, out the door, and let it go.

Why put something out that is not what you feel is perfect? Again, I’ll ask what is perfect anyway. When a done but not a perfect course or service is put out into the world it will allow you to gather data and establish a benchmark. Oh man, I love me some benchmarks.

This is why you’ll see online business owners putting out beta courses or services. They are asking people to come along for the ride with them. This is really a fantastic way to make sure that you’re providing your dream client with what they really want. Cus’ sometimes that vision in our head of what we think they want and what they really want are two totally different things.

Circling back around to what is perfect anyway. If you spent all your valuable time working to achieve your perception of perfection but that perfect is off from what your dream client’s actual needs are, you’ll receive the same results from your launch. Crickets.

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Little Side Note

Are you stuck in the hamster wheel?

Read this post on procrastination, it will help.

The sound of crickets can be good

These crickets aren’t bad, they set the benchmark that you need to do some tweaking to align yourself with the actual problem that you’re trying to solve for your dream client with your course or service.

And…

Friend, remember that done is better than perfect and I encourage you to just launch it, tweak it, and launch it again. But with a launch plan and warming up your audience of course. Don’t forget those steps.

Do you need an extra push?

Do you feel stalled in your business? Are you struggling to get your big ideas out the door? Do you wish that you had a map to follow on all the action steps needed for your next launch?

Stop wandering around your day not doing the right things! Put a little skin in the game and schedule a Breakthrough Session.

Breakthrough Sessions are 90 minute Zoom Calls where we create a map of your next 90 Days so you know exactly what you need to do each and everyday to finish your big idea and generate more money.

Do It! I dare you (:

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Money and Your Online Business

by Michele | Online Business

Money and Your Online Business

Let's talk money and your online business. I know scare subject right? We all would like to have more money in our lives, but we can be scared to talk about it openly mostly for fear of judgment. Or maybe you were taught it's not polite to talk about money, because I sure was.

But Friend if you are starting out on your business journey this is one of the first things that you need to know in your business.

It’s okay to discuss money and what you think about it

Matter of fact you really should think about money and how you view it. You’ll hear so many people talking about money mindset along your business path.

Call it to woo if you want but, it’s a thing. If you truly believe in your heart of hearts that you have to work hard for money or it’s selfish to make more money. It will be.

Get to work on journaling how you really feel. Don’t follow in my super resistant footstep here friend, give in early and do the work.

I wish I could remember where this trick came from, but when I’m stuck journaling. I just write random stuff until something pops into my head that has to do about my thinking. A lot of times I will write things I’m grateful for, it helps. Another key tip here, either set a goal of journaling for three pages or set a goal of journaling for fifteen minutes. I just pulled those numbers out of thin air, feel free to pull your own numbers out that feel right to you.

Ann Bellow, my Mastermind Girl, has a Triple Your Income Journaling mini-course and she has so kindly given us a discount code Michele for a $12 discount if you’d like to check it out!

Ann has made money mindset a priority in her business and has had massive growth because of it.

Here’s another doozy

Do you set your rates at the right amount? Yes, I know this is also another really difficult topic. Man, I’m hitting on all the points today.

You’ll hear to charge your worth. Well, yes and no. You need to take into account a number of factors with this one.

Do you know what the market is charging?

This is a good indication of what people are willing to pay for this service. This one does take research, not everyone puts pricing out there, but some do. Start looking at the numbers.

What is your experience?

Do you have a ton? Just starting out? This will be a fact too. If you are able to provide a really good result in a short period of time, you can ask for more. How long will it take your client to get a return on investment from working with you?

What are your goals?

You can either set three goals such as good, better, best goals or you can set two numbers a bottom-line must reach this number to breakeven and dancing in the streets goal. I tend to set a good, better, best goals for myself and my clients.

Circling back to the mindset for a second on your goals. What is in your heart of hearts do you feel you can achieve? Because if you don’t believe you won’t receive it’s that simple. You must believe you can hit your goals.

Now that we’ve tackled the hard stuff

Let’s talk about money in your business. What makes your business a success?

If you have a profit.

Profit is all your expenses less than the amount of money that you make. Sounds easy peasy right?

Are you tracking your profit?

It may sound super simple but are you actually tracking your profit and how much you have coming into your business?

Are you budgeting your expenses each month so you really have a forecast of what you must make to cover your expenses?

As a business owner, your revenue will ebb and flow it is what it is. It’s important to forecast how much you will be spending each month.

In case you need this, make sure you include in those monthly expenses how much you will be paying yourself.

It was somewhere during year two of my business that I pulled my head out of the sand and started to really look at my numbers and what I was bringing in each month.

Where do you start?

It starts with knowing how much you bring in to your business and how much you have gone out of your business.

This will tell you if you can add that new application or if you can afford to invest in another course.

I personally like to keep this information in a Google Sheet.

Want my super simple easy-to-use money tracking template? The sign up is below. Is it time to make profit a priority in your business?