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The Abundance of ONE

So here we are, committed to creating financial abundance while dedicated to serving others on their path.  Where to start?

The logical place to begin would be by finding one client, and then one more client, and so on.  And the simplest way to start the client-getting process is …

… and right here, at this point, our poor, frightened ego stalls out.  The comfort zone is about to be left behind, and so we draw a blank.  It’s a big blank.

How do we go about finding clients, we ask ourselves?

Well, leaving the house would be a good start.  Talking to people might be an excellent idea.

Oh, the doubting ego replies, but where do I find the right people to talk to?

We go to a networking meeting, and no-one even nibbles at our feeble engagement attempts.

See, the doubting ego asserts, that was a very bad idea.  You can’t just find clients by leaving the house and talking to people.

But there’s lots of people online!

Yes, the ego nods.  Let’s build an awesome online presence.  We’ll have to research it, develop it, hone our marketing message, build our Facebook following, figure out how to create video, integrate our autoresponder, write awesome copy.

And so we jump down the rabbit hole.

There’s a lot to learn.

And the ego loves it.

We become highly educated wantrepreneurs.  But we make no money.

So obviously what we really need is to speak from stage, because that’s where the money seems to be.

And we jump down the next rabbit hole.

There’s still more to learn.  And the ego loves this, too.

Over time, we hear of many other ways to make money.  Automated webinars.  Small events.  Sponsoring events.  YouTube.  Direct mail.  So many rabbit holes, so little time.

Of course, what we’re doing is avoiding direct engagement with our prospective clients and customers.

We’ve taken the first step to creating financial abundance while standing in the service of others … and we’ve hopelessly over-complicated that step until we feel as if we’re standing in a jungle of possibility, trapped by our many options, bewildered and disappointed and spent.

And all along, all we really have to do is ONE THING.

We have to pick ONE way to let our prospects know we exist.

Once they know we exist, we have to pick ONE way to invite them to be served by us.

Eeek, says the doubting ego.  Can it be that simple?

Yes.

ONE. Start there.

Of course, with a number that simple, you’ll actually have to start.  Now.  Ready?  Click here to get a little help …

To your infinite abundance,
Andrrea

The Ego Trick That Zaps Your Manifesting Mojo

There’s an alarming trick our ego plays on us from time to time – alarming because it’s so sneaky and subtle.  Alarming also because it zaps our manifesting mojo and we end up creating practically nothing.  We certainly don’t create new results – not in our business, and not in our bank accounts.

Our ego shuts down our passion.

Now, why would we do such a silly thing to ourselves?  Passion, after all, puts the yummy deliciousness into life … right?

Here’s how this trick sneaks up on us.

We have a big vision, big dreams, big plans.  We set our intentions, and we think about taking action. Maybe we research our next step.  We decide what to do.

Our plan of action scares the crap out of us.

In fact, we become so terrified that we feel … nothing.

The actions we would have to take to create our desired reality are so uncomfortable, they create such a value conflict within us, that our ego protects us not only from the thing we are about to do, but from the fear itself.

Instead of feeling any fear, we simply feel blah about our goals.

The life we so desired, the goals we were so committed to just last week, suddenly leave us utterly uninspired.

And so we conclude that we didn’t REALLY want to create that income level.  We didn’t really want to grow our business, put on that live event, launch that new product.

Obviously, our intuition is telling us that we are on the wrong track.  Why, otherwise, would we suddenly regard this goal with such apathy?

It’s a trick, folks.

When we’re really, really, really terrified and uncomfortable, we shut down.  We shut down our feelings, so that we don’t have to feel the fear.  It’s a self-protective mechanism designed to allow us to keep functioning in every day life.  And it works.  Of course, if we want to CHANGE our every day life, this mechanism sabotages us completely.

If we don’t allow ourselves to feel, we don’t have to feel the fear.  But neither can we feel our desire.  Emotion is energy in motion.  And when we shut down, we have no motivation, no energy that MOVES us.

If you’re feeling humdrum about your business, your desire to create financial abundance for yourself, your passion for changing your life … ask yourself what you’re afraid of.  Get in touch with your fear, and you’ll get back in touch with your passionate desire.

Oh wait.  You didn’t want to actually feel the fear?

You don’t have to.

But you won’t have inspired passion, either.

Isn’t the Law of Polarity annoying?

To your infinite abundance,
Andrrea Hess

Three Signs You’re Leaving Money On The Table

Sometimes opportunity for greater financial abundance is right under our nose … but we don’t see it!  Here are three signs that you may actually be short-changing your value and your bank account …

1. You’re surprised at the results people credit you with.

Obviously, you know you have value to contribute to others … otherwise, you hopefully wouldn’t be selling your work.

But if you run into a former client six months after you’ve worked with them and they go on and on about their transformation, and you’re SURPRISED … well, the surprise tells you that you are actually underestimating the value of your work.

Doing regular case studies with your clients and interviewing them about their experience will keep you aware and conscious of the value that you’re offering and will help you charge what your work is truly worth.

2. You keep giving people the same valuable information for free, because you think it’s not “what you do.”

As entrepreneurs, we all develop an odd set of peripheral skills sets beyond our core expertise. I’m weirdly geeky, for example.  I don’t want to necessarily teach the technical aspects of internet marketing.  And while my core competency is helping my clients design sales and marketing funnels that are congruent to their Divine self-expression (and of course, channeling their prospects helps), my inner geek is right there, strategizing the technical side of things.

But when the thing you do is NOT actually creating income for you, and people keep engaging you in conversation about the skills you consider to be peripheral … well, maybe your perception of “what you do” needs to change!

3. People keep telling you “You should do this.”

Obviously, taking business advice from your neighbor or your grandma is not necessarily a good idea (unless they are amazing entrepreneurs themselves, of course.)

But if, time and again, people you respect and admire point you in a specific direction … maybe it’s time to listen.  The same guidance is coming to you again and again for good reason.  You’re not going to get a written invitation from the Universe.  You will not get more specific instructions until you decide and move forward.

Everything shows up for you for a reason.  Sometimes we have to allow the obvious message within what’s showing up to sink in and create a financially lucrative course correction for us!

To your infinite abundance,
Andrrea Hess

Are you willing to die?

I’m not being melodramatic with the title of this article.  If you’re going to create a new, more abundant reality for yourself, the current “you” is going to have to die.  Not all of the current “you” … but perhaps, if the reality you want is very different from the reality you’ve created so far, most of the current “you” is going to have to go!

We get so focused on the end result of the transformation we want to create.  It sounds so inspiring, so uplifting, to think that we can transform ourselves and therefore manifest new circumstances.  And it’s true.

But what about the “you” that is, right now?

Before rebirth, there is a death.  A caterpillar breaks down to mush in its chrysalis before it emerges as a butterfly.

And it might hurt a little.  It might hurt a lot.

The vibrational frequencies that make up your body, your emotions, your thoughts … they cannot remain the same.  Sometimes, all those vibrational frequencies have to turn to mush before you can emerge, hopefully as a more congruent expression of your Divinity.

This IS what we’ve been working towards in the spiritual development community.  We’ve gained enough consciousness to know that we are not only our bodies or our egos.  Conscious awareness that we are Spirit is necessary if we’re going to let the vibrational state of our bodies and minds fall apart, to be resurrected in greater alignment to our true nature.

In real life, it looks like doing lots of scary, unfamiliar things.  Some of them aren’t particularly dramatic.  Your “scary and unfamiliar” may be perfectly ordinary to others.

You might have to send out a regular email newsletter.  Maybe you have to have a few sales conversations.  Maybe you need to utter the words “I charge three thousand dollars a month.”  Or maybe you just need to let your Facebook peeps know that you have a new website.

None of those things need be dramatic or extraordinary.  None of them are “hard.” But if they are the trigger to your transformation, doing them will make you feel like you might die.  And you’ll be embarrassed to admit this, because it seems so silly.

At several points in our entrepreneurial lives, we’re going to feel overcome by a fear of death.  Sometimes the fear is so severe that we don’t even allow ourselves to feel it.  Instead, we procrastinate, we distract ourselves, we have another piece of cake or another glass of wine or get on the phone with a friend.  Or heck, we crack open another information product.  The end result is the same: We don’t do the things that will create the income we want.

For some of us, the fear doesn’t become debilitating until we’ve established our business, and then our income plateaus.  We stall out. Or we manifest other circumstances that justify our lack of financial growth.

Sometimes, the need for death within your own transformational process arises when you are just starting your entrepreneurial path.  For some, the fear doesn’t even allow you to get started.  You just can’t seem to get your marketing going.  You can’t find your target market, your niche.  Maybe you can’t even manage to get your website up and running.  You hear phrases like “Feel the fear and do it anyway” and nod, and agree.  But you can’t move forward.

I’ll let you in on a secret.  Business coaches complain about clients like you.  “I tell them what to do but they just don’t DO it.”  You’re written off as a mere wantrepreneur, someone who just doesn’t want it bad enough.  “They just don’t want to do the work” is the general perspective on clients who can’t seem to move into action, no matter how big their financial investment.

It’s just not true.

If you’re investing in your growth, if you’re studying entrepreneurship, if you haven’t yet resigned yourself to staying in a J.O.B. for the rest of your life … you’re willing to do the work.

But are you willing to die?  At least a little bit?  Maybe a lot?

Will you let everything you know about yourself, about the world, about your relationships, turn into murky, gooey pudding without knowing how that mushy mess will reassemble itself?  Will you surrender into new action without any assurance that you will not fail?

Will you let your Soul lead you into the death of who you are right now?

To your infinite abundance,
Andrrea Hess

Financial Self-Sabotage Exposed …

When we start a business, we tend to arm ourselves with information – with modalities, with webinars, training programs and events.  This information-gathering often takes up a lot of our precious time … time that we could spend DOING and implementing, rather than learning.

Our rationalization?  We are preparing ourselves for success.

The truth?  We’re trying to stay safe.

The mind and ego has an overwhelming need for knowledge before venturing into the big, scary unknown that is our own business.  After all, if we can just know the “right” way to make money then we’ll be safe.  If we know the “right” way to market ourselves and sell, then we’ll feel prepared, we’ll know what we’re doing.  We’ll be safe.

Of course, there is no “right” way.

But we sure try to find one … and this is exactly where we shoot ourselves in the foot.

We “try.”  We try a way of marketing ourselves, we try launching a product, we try running Facebook ads, we try selling our products and services.

The problem with trying is that it always carries at least a partial expectation of failure.  Sure, it makes our mind and ego far more comfortable.  If we try and fail, we can tell ourselves that at least we tried.  Failure won’t hurt as badly, won’t rock our world, will not shake our faith in the Universe and ourselves.

If we try and fail, we can try again and pat ourselves on the back for our willingness to try.  We can even congratulate ourselves on our perseverance, our determination, our commitment to our Soul Purpose.

The difference between TRYING and DOING is our willingness to risk.

When we DO, we put our hearts on the line.  We take all of our passion, our hopes, our dreams and risk being very, very wrong.  Doing feels like we’re putting our lives on the line.  That feeling may not be rational – after all, no-one has ever died by launching a website, or having a sales conversation.  But it sure feels like we are putting our naked heart on a silver platter for all the world to see, to criticize, to reject.

If your next business project doesn’t have the potential to break your heart, to devastate your self-esteem, to make you lose faith in all that you thought you knew … you’re not playing big enough.  You’re just trying.

Doing your purposeful work requires giant leaps of faith.

Trying is looking for the staircase that will lead us safely down the cliff and conveniently up the other side.

Take a look at your current business projects.  Look at your calendar.  What’s on your to-do list that has the potential to break your heart?  And what is on that list that is designed to minimize risk?

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To your infinite abundance,
Andrrea Hess

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