Big fees don't make you a success.
I get it. They're sexy. They are a mark of badassery. They are what everyone says we need to get to - raise your prices. I don't happen think that's the end-all solution. See if you don't have clients, raising your prices won't help. And if you're not energetically in alignment with higher prices then raising them will hurt more than help. And it creates that shame around having a 'low' fee, like you're not good enough to charge more. Start where you are. Charge the feel-good price. I challenged my spiritual coach on this... because she charges what I deem as little. Honestly it's not little but it's less than I am used to. And she laughed at me and said - 'that's because you're immersed in the coaching world where everyone is shouting about more. I just like it to be easy. I post a low price and no long term commitment and every month I make as much as I choose to. Some months I fill enough to create 3 months worth of income and then don't work for the next 2 months and some months I do it in a week and take the next 3 weeks off. It's about creating my life first and trusting that I'll be provided for really well.' It's about the ease for her. She just wants her work out to anyone instead of a few. And she creates huge success not by charging big fees, but by following her intuition and charging what feels good to her, what feels like service. So to those people who have price shame, who feel like you're charging too little or who feel like you're charging too much I say stop it. What would feel really good at a soul level to ask for from the person you'd love to ask? Start where you are. Feel good about the money and the money will flow so much easier. And if you'd like to be surrounded by others who are also starting where THEY are, I have one spot left at the moment for Untraining. We start in a few weeks.... http://www.stacynelsonunlimited.com/untraining.html
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"In the world of airy fairy, new age non-sense"... I read this in a post this morning and my heart hurt.
This is why we hide our spiritual sides from the world. This is why we judge ourselves, pretend it's not real. This is why we go up into our heads as the 'valid' way. This is an intuition blocker that in some way has been installed in our consciousness for generations. Being Intuitive is not airy fairy. Listening you your heart's desires is not non-sense. Following your nudges instead of a prescript path is not new agey. And when we glibly negate how powerful this connected side of us really is, a part of our human potential dies a little. You are naturally connected. You have been gifted with a deep sense of knowing. Spirit, God, Source, Universe... it's not some whimsical thing that crazy people in hippy costumes made up. It's a resource that is available to you 24-7 for your entire life. Your ability to use it, tap into it, live it, is in direct proportion to your ability to Actively Surrender in every moment, in every thought, in every action. This is the path of a Warrior, not some weakling with no ability to succeed because they aren't using formulas. And it takes dedication to the path, exactly because of comments like the one above. It's easy to live in your head. It's expected. It's what everyone does. Don't get derailed. This shit is real and it works and it feels amazing, and it feels heart breaking, and it brings joy, pain, love, expansion, contraction. It's called living a life connected to you at the core. And if your here and you're ready to dive in deeper and get out of your freaking head and build success in a powerful connected beautiful way, let me know... There are 2 spots left in UnTraining waiting for the right souls. http://www.stacynelsonunlimited.com/untraining.html Morning! Today I'm celebrating someone else's success. My friend Mark J. Silverman just released his first solo-book (he was one of the co-authors of my recent publication, Unconventional Wisdom). I met Mark at Conferences we'd go to. At one in particular he came up to me and very excitedly (because Mark is always excited about something), he said "Stacy, someday it's my goal to write an article in your magazine."
I looked at him and replied, "Okay, our deadline is on the 15th, here's your topic. Email your article, photo and bio to me by then." He sputtered and said "Wait, just like that. I spoke my dream out loud and it's just, okay?" "Yes, just like that". We went home and he proceeded to have a bit of an attack. I can't write. I'm a fraud. This is horrible. I'm so sorry you said yes because I know this isn't going to be good enough to publish. It's okay if you don't include it because I know it's bad. So I told him a story. A story about how every month I put off writing my article until the very last second before publication. And every month without fail, I'd send my friend Allison a message that said something like 'this month's article sucks but I have to hit publish because it's due. And how every month I'd receive messages from people about how much my article impacted them. And how at that conference we were at together people came up to me so excited to meet me and tell me how much my writing means to them, how I write straight into their soul. I said, "Mark, every single month I write the biggest piece of shit and somehow I manage to change the world". He wrote that first article. And then another. And then I invited him to co-Author Unconventional Wisdom. And today he launched his own book. All while chanting our mantra "Write the biggest piece of shit and change the world". He didn't think he could do it. He had stories around why he couldn't. But he did it anyhow. If you didn't worry about the judgement or how you were perceived, what would you be doing? Or what would you be doing MORE of? How can you change the world without being ready? |