Confession: It’s easier to make MORE money than less!

Confession: “It’s easier to make MORE money than less. When I wrapped my head around this, my entire business shifted.” - Tara Travis, Master Coach + Feminine Leadership Mentor

Tara Travis is the leading authority on women entrepreneurs' personal and money mastery. As a master coach and feminine leadership mentor, she has a proven track record of coaching women around the globe to create high 5-figure months in record time (usually in less than 30 days!) and sustainable 6-figure businesses with elegant ease and grace. She teaches women how to master their inner game of abundance, transform their money story and attract ideal, committed clients at premium fees so they can do meaningful, deeply transformational work in the world. Above all, Tara takes a powerful stand for women creating lives and businesses that are spiritually and financially liberating.

Tara is a passionate powerhouse, and I thoroughly enjoyed our interview together (as I’m sure you’ll be able to tell!). There is so much good stuff in store for you, and I have no doubt just watching will instantly elevate your energy.

Dive into this month’s Clarity Confession with Tara Travis to learn why…

• It’s essential to to give yourself permission to evolve (and what that evolution looked like for Tara)

• Her 1st year of coaching was so unnecessarily HARD

• We need to value ourselves & our gifts before clients will invest in us

• It’s easier to make MORE money than less

Watch Tara’s Clarity Confession now. 

After you watch Tara’s Clarity Confession, we want to hear from you!

Listen until the very end to learn how to get a free copy of Tara’s transformative Wealth Activation Kit. And, be sure to join in the discussion about this interview in the Facebook Group #ClarityConfession. I’d love to know what you think and what your takeaways are.

Loved Tara’s interview and want to know more? You can download her free Wealth Activation Kit at www.TaraTravis.org.

With love,

I Stopped Weighing Myself & My Business Quadrupled

February 2016 was my best business month to date. I brought in nearly $23K in business while working just 3 days a week.

The whole month felt great and, to be the completely truthful, it felt like the least amount of work I’ve ever done to make money! It felt in flow, nearly effortless, and totally grounded and aligned. So good.

On the other hand, the logic-based thinker in me wants a strategic way to replicate this for myself and also teach my clients how to do the same, so I started looking at all the things that made this month different.

And something very interesting came to light…

I stopped weighing myself this month.

Hmmm….

That got me thinking. Was this related? Or unrelated?

An answer quickly came. As a woman who tends to think EVERYTHING is connected, I believe 100% that there is a correlation here. (I’ll dive into my theory about this below.)

I’m not saying that not stepping on the scale contributed to every single dollar that found its way to me this past month, but I think...no, I know...it’s a key player.

I’ll speak for myself here, but I believe most women can relate: my relationship with my body is always in need of more loving kindness. Always.

As women, even when we’re feeling great about ourselves, our businesses, or our lives, a few pounds on the scale, an overindulgent night out, or a pair of jeans that no longer fit “just right” can totally shift the way we’re thinking and feeling about every single aspect of our lives.

Throughout my pre-teen and teen years, especially, I had a tumultuous relationship with my body and food and too often allowed my happiness and self-worth to be determined by the numbers on the scale.

Lower numbers = Yay! I’m allowed to feel good.

Higher numbers = I hate myself.

I felt I was always battling against my body, instead of working with it.

Luckily, over the last decade a lot has changed for me, for the better. Through heaps of personal development, yoga, meditation, and surrounding myself with positive role models, I’ve come to love, appreciate and honor my body (most of the time, which is all I think any of us can ask for).

But...I was still weighing myself. Every week. A few pounds up, ugh. A few pounds down, yay!

Over the last 10 years my weight hasn’t fluctuated more than 8 to 10 pounds - except when I was pregnant of course! - but I felt I had to have that weekly check-in to keep me “on track.”

I realized that I was still in fear mode around my weight. Yes, after all these years -- the fear was still there! I thought I needed the scale to tell me if I should eat a little more or a little less. Fit in some extra movement or give myself permission to indulge.

So, I decided to do a short-term experiment. No weighing myself for the month of February. If it totally derailed my healthy-ish lifestyle, and I felt like I was ballooning up, out of control, I told myself that I could always go back to my weekly weigh-ins.

Well, I’m here to report that not only are my jeans still fitting just right and my entire relationship with my body and food is feeling even more loving and kind, but I also had my BEST month ever! Making $23K in just over 3 weeks.

Here’s my theory behind no weigh-ins = 4x business.

:1: I was focusing on smaller (or at least unchanging) numbers. Every single week I’d reinforce that smaller is better. Smaller numbers are what I want. Do you see how this might hurt your bank account?

:2: It put my happiness in someone...or should I say something...else’s control. I’d have a great week and then step on the scale and be a couple pounds up, and inside my head I’d hear “ugh”. I want to feel good, not crappy. Stepping on the scale was making me feel crappy, so why keep doing it? Or, it was giving me a momentary “yay!” because of my smaller number (see #1).

:3: I was in total fear mode. I felt that I had to keep my body in-check otherwise my health, weight, sanity would “get away from me”. Fear constricts us, it keeps us (and our potential) small. I don’t want to be small -- I want to be BIG (energetically speaking ;-))! Again, can you see how this would affect your income?

:4: It forced me to trust more. Trust my body, trust my hunger, trust my intuition, trust that I wouldn’t go off the rails if I loosened my perfectionist grip just a tad. And, I’m here on the other side of it still in one piece, still in the same pants and with $23K in new business! Brilliant.

:5: That weekly weigh-in bled over into others areas of my life, and made me think about food/my body/weight at times that I didn’t want to be thinking about those things. It even, at times, would lead to totally unnecessary negative self-talk. Essentially, it took up too much valuable mental real estate. Without that weekly reminder of my “goodness” or “badness”, I freed up space for creativity, joy, inspiration, mindfulness and guilt-free celebration!!!

When you’re constantly sending out signals of fear, saying to yourself “I want small numbers”, and letting negativity chirp in your ear, it’s going to have an effect. It has to. There is no other option. The thoughts we think, the things we do, the words we say become our lives.

I wholeheartedly believe in the connectedness of all things, but somehow I didn’t realize that I was sending out beacons that were totally misaligned with what I truly was after. Ahh...the clarity of hindsight.

I was stuck in a deep groove that I’d been digging most of my life up until now, and finally (after 10 years of reading Geneen Roth books) I was ready -- I am ready -- to opt for trust instead of fear. Growth instead of shrinking. Abundance instead of restriction.

Join me. It’s so much lighter on the other side ::wink wink::

With love,

P.S. Want to read more about how I made $23K in 23 days? I wrote an entire post about what it took to reach those numbers here. 

There is No "Magic" in Wealth Consciousness

There’s a new age of business upon us.

I’m sure you’ve felt it. There’s been a shift -- and you are a part of it.

It’s no longer about scare tactics and hard-selling to make a buck.

It’s about giving, being of service and offering value.

Trust me, I’m all about this evolution. I am this evolution. It completely resonates with me.

But, it can feel a little woo-woo. A tad hard to grasp. And, dare I say it, how will this approach affect my bottom line?

I find myself saying YES to expanding my wealth consciousness, YES to studying the law of attraction, YES when Danielle LaPorte says life is about feeling the way you want to feel, and then I’m hit with....

BUT

...how do I find clients, make money, get the work done, market myself effectively?

How does all this feel-good belief move me forward with some organization and strategy? How do I build my empire without some tangible plans?

Here’s what I’ve come to realize: There is no magic in wealth consciousness. [click to tweet this Truth]

It’s a simple formula. It is strategic.

Your beliefs become your thoughts, and your thoughts become your actions.

Or, to put it even more simply…

Beliefs → Thoughts → Actions

Our core beliefs around money, finances, abundance (or lack thereof) inform our thoughts. And, since about 98% of our daily thoughts are on auto-pilot and the same ones appear again and again, when our beliefs center on lack, scarcity, worry and “not enough” our thought playlist is mighty grim.

Then the actions we take reflect that anxiety. We pinch pennies, stress about bills, don’t take the chance, don’t make the call, don’t put ourselves “out there”.

On the other hand, if we start planting new beliefs about money and abundance in our fertile minds, we can begin to incrementally expand our wealth consciousness and open ourselves up to new opportunities.

We feel more open, full of potential. We make the pitch, make the call, start the business, ask for what we’re worth and believe we are worth it.

Wealth consciousness isn’t magic. It’s cause and effect.

Your beliefs and thoughts result in corresponding actions (or inaction) that deliver certain results. Plain and simple.

If you want to receive new/different/transformed/bigger/happier/better results, you need to start planting new beliefs.

Our beliefs have an ever-expanding ripple effect, like when you drop a small stone in a calm body of water. That one small action has repercussions that travel outward exponentially.

Drop the small stone. It’s time. You are ready.

As a jumping off point, I’ll leave you with this...

What do you believe about money/wealth/being rich/rich people/abundance? What are you saying to yourself on a daily basis because of those beliefs? What actions are you taking because of those beliefs and thoughts?

And…

What is a NEW money belief that you’re ready to live starting now?

With love,

How I Made $23K in 23 Days in my Coaching Business...and you can too!

This is something I've never done before... I realized that I always appreciate when other women entrepreneurs get real and give a glimpse into their businesses (talking money and behind-the-scenes systems). But, up until now I haven't done that. Today, we're changing that! In the last 23 days, I brought in $23,000 in business, and I want to share with you the steps I took in hope of inspiring you to recognize that ANYTHING is possible and that you, too, can achieve magnificent results like this. I believe inyou! So, here goes... :: First and most importantly, I BELIEVED that I could! Ok, so I know thateveryone says this, but it's true. Until you really and truly believe that you are worth it, the money just won't show up in a big way. The right mindset is essential. #MindsetReset :: I didn't try to do it alone - I hired a FB ads expert, a VA, a coach, and a house cleaner. You know how people say you need to "spend money to make money", well I didn't really understand that until I did it. I could go on and on about how it works, but what I would suggest instead is giving it a try. Try outsourcing something small and see how it frees up your time to play bigger. You'll become addicted :-) :: I set goals but didn't obsess about them or how they would come to pass - I put them out there but didn't cling (desperation never brings in money I've found). I know this is really, really hard, but we cannot cling to how things must play out. I noticed that I was often doing this with how clients should find me. Once I let go of them needing to come to me in a certain way, so many more people expressed interest from all different places! So cool. :: I took action! I did everything in my power to bring in new business and clients. I ran events and challenges, offered free coaching sessions, sent personal emails, posted in FB groups, took calls, made calls and followed up! Action is a must. You need to do the work to get the results. Plain and simple. :: I celebrated every win, from people booking consultation calls or offering compliments to enrolling new, amazing clients. Celebrate and express gratitude! Champagne was opened more than once :-) :: I priced my offerings at a value that felt really, really good to me. A value I know I can deliver on and speak about clearly and confidently. When it comes down to it, our businesses are an exchange of value (money) for value (your services/products), and that needs to match up. If you're charging too little or too much the right clients won't find you. :: I took a big step and invested in myself (through my coach) and my business (FB ads, VA) knowing it would come back many times over, and boy-oh-boy it did! I moved forward with the faith that investing in things I believe in would pay off. That belief turned into new ways of thinking and then eventually new ways of acting and behaving. If you have any questions or want to know more about how you can apply what I did to your business, respond to this email or set up a time to discuss it in more detail here. I'll be totally transparent about this process with you! #Truthbomb: Results like this don't happen overnight. There's a lot of time, effort, trial and error that goes into it. But, it's not out of your reach, especially if you have someone in your corner who can show you the ropes. I want BIG wins like this for you! Whether that be getting your first client, raising your rates, or having your first $1K, $6K or $10K month. If you're ready to stop waiting for success to "find you" and want to take the reigns in your own hands and MAKE IT HAPPEN, I am here to help you do just that.