In sifting through emails from a recent R&D survey I
launched, I read the responses, and honestly, I wanted to
cry. Don't get me wrong. It's not that I haven't been aware
that most solopreneurs have very low expectations of what
could be made in self-employment (I've been at this for
almost 9 years after all!), but I just didn't know how LOW.
Until I got the responses to the following question: "What
is the most amount of money you see yourself making as a
self-employed person?" Not just this year, but EVER.
Close to 200 solopreneurs (mostly female) wrote in and
shared with me their "Most-I'll-ever-make-in-a-year"
numbers. What shocked me was that the number itself was
really LOW and the majority of people wrote in numbers
within a short range: between $50,000 and $75,000. Sure, a
couple of them wrote in $150,000, but even THAT seemed like
a far cry from what I *know* is possible, when you shift
the way you work, get good marketing in place, create
systems for everything, outsource, and set up leveraged and
passive streams of income.
But what really got me choked up was they didn't BELIEVE it
was possible and worse, some didn't feel they deserved it.
Their MINDSET wasn't accustomed to thinking BIG, and
truthfully that made me very sad, almost depressed. So I
went about adding it to my Client Attraction coaching
curriculum.
I had to find a way for them to stretch their thinking of
what might be possible for them. Then I thought of an
assignment I'd gotten years ago from my very first coach,
Talane Meidaner, author of Coach Yourself To Success. Back
when $3,000 a month seemed like a BIG goal for me to reach
in my private practice, she asked me to pretend I was an
instant billionaire. The goal was to expand what I believed
was possible for me and to do it in just 5 minutes' time.
Essentially, this Billionaire Game was about tapping into
my every wish, desire, dream, and hope I've ever thought
about. Where I wanted to travel, what I wanted life to look
like, what I wanted to have, how I wanted to set up my
business. What I liked about this exercise is the 5 minute
limit didn't allow me to think too much and instead to just
do it.
So, I set my timer and frantically wrote down all the
things I wanted for my life, and my business. It was a LONG
list, and when I was done, it felt actually freeing to see
what I'd written down. What I realized is many of the
things on the list weren't that far of a stretch, and I
could live many of them NOW, if I made a few changes. But
it also got me to start dreaming and imagining BIGGER
things for my life.
The coolest part is it helped me expand what was possible
for me. Things aren't THAT out of reach and you can live a
billionaire lifestyle now, which then feeds your mindset
even more that you DESERVE to make mo.re.
When I look back at the list I wrote back then, it's really
cool to see I'm pretty much living that exact life now.
(Although I still don't have a live-in spa chef and haven't
traveled to India and Vietnam for a month each yet, but
those will come.) :)
Your Assignment:
Give it a try. This game will help you get past your
restrictions around money. Grab a paper and pen. Imagine
you've just become the billion-dollar lottery winner. Not
just a million. You now have more money than you'll ever be
able to spend.
The condition of winning; however, is you must write down
100 different things, whatever you want to be, do, or have
on a piece of paper, and you have only 5 minutes to do so.
So write fast, without over-thinking. Remember to write
down every wish, desire, dream, and hope you can possibly
think of.
Set the kitchen timer and see if you can come up with 100
different things. Don't worry about any practical
considerations of your list. Don't let anything limit or
stop you. You can do, be, or have anything you want. This
is about expanding possibilities. Most of us start out way
too small.
I promise you one thing. This will not only affect your
mindset about what's possible for you, it will also affect
your Client Attraction. The more you begin to LIVE like a
billionaire (on whatever your budget is), the more Client
Attractive you will become. Try it and let me know how it
goes, OK?
Having trouble staying in the Success Mindset and believing
you CAN make a whole lot more being self-employed? You're
not the only one. The good news is, once you're shown how,
it all becomes easy to implement, especially when all the
tools, scripts, templates, and examples are handed to you
on a silver platter.
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I will be diving deep into both the MINDSET and the
MARKETING necessary for you to finally succeed, and it's
all in my upcoming Client Attraction Marketing and Mindset
Breakthroughs Workshop. Why struggle when you can just
model a system that already works? Read the success stories
here: http://www.ClientAttractionWorkshop.com .
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