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“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.“ -Tony Robbins
Here are 10 things I learned from Breaking Open. If you have no idea what I am talking about … you should probably read this post first.
“Fear is a feeling, not a fact.”
I am not one who is often paralyzed by fear. I am not a perfectionist. I don’t feel like I need to have all my ducks in a row before I move forward.
I am however a compulsive do-er.
Often times we are so busy doing that it doesn’t leave any room for new opportunities to find us. We are simply too busy doing things we don’t really want to be doing anyway.
I always ask my clients what they do and inevitably they tell me how they do it. While this may seem like semantics at first, the heart of what I am asking is completely different.
I want to know WHAT you are helping people with not HOW you are helping them with it.
It normally takes about three rounds of re-asking my question before we figure out “what” my client is doing. I was recently having a conversation with the life changing, fabulous John Muldoon and he flipped the question on me.
Uh-Oh, I was about to get a taste of my own medicine.
You can never have enough examples of the cool things people are doing with their marketing. What can you do with your business to …
get creative & create conversation !!
Don’t be afraid to get creative with your marketing … Look how these companies used guerilla marketing to make a splash and create conversation !!
I’ve dabbled in my fair share of downward dogs, but getting my butt to yoga is more of an emotional hurdle than a logistical one.
Sound like your marketing? An emotional chore and somewhat inconsistent.
Regardless of whether you prefer Vinyasa Flow or Bikram … Social Media or Traditional Marketing, here are a few things you can learn from some challenging yet oh-so-simple yoga poses.
As kids, my sisters and I didn’t exactly like eating our veggies (shocker right?). With a little creative thinking, my mom started giving us those bad tasting but oh-so-good-for-you foods in a way we would eat them.
Instead of force feeding us tofu and brussel sprouts, my mom would melt tofu into her sauces so we never even knew it was in our food.
So many companies have a fabulous message that they are “force feeding” to their clients. It doesn’t do you any good to have a great message that your clients don’t want to “eat.”
I was recently having a conversation with a good friend who just launched her own business. I NEVER would have survived my first month, let alone my first year without my “Dream Team.” As we chatted about the ups and downs of starting your own business I remembered those first few months.
Here is what I have learned: with the right plan, the right people, a little (or a lot) of patience, and some persistence you can achieve more than you ever imagined for your business.
