What to Do When Somebody Pops Your Balloon
Here’s how to respond when someone ruins your presentation, asks for a refund, or does anything that makes you want to curl into a ball or leave your body.
Articles about building the business that supports your practice
Increase Your Income by 1/3, Increase Your Fees by ZERO
If you trade your time for money, there are few options for earning more. Here’s a way that you can increase your income by 33% without working more hours or raising your fees at all!
10 Tips on Ethical Bribes, Bonuses and Pricing Your Offer
Ethical bribes, smart pricing and bonuses can help you grow your list and make more sales. But there are pitfalls. Here are 10 tips from a company that fell into 10 pits.
Is Your Website Headed in the Right Direction?
Before you build a website, know where it’s going so you don’t spend time, money and energy creating a site that doesn’t work for your business.
5 Obstacles Between You and Your Successful Practice
Practitioners often get stuck because they think they shouldn’t need help to get clients or build a business. Or they can’t afford it or don’t have time for it.
Your Brain on Accidental Self-Employment
For practitioners, a good deal of stress has to do with wanting to do the work you love with people who need it, and ending up accidentally self-employed. This video explores the effect on your brain and how intentional action helps.
XYZ: Promises You Feel Good About Making to Your Clients
Clients expect something from your work— otherwise, why commit? This easy formula lets you promise concrete results without feeling out of integrity.
Think Before You Act. Learn Before You Think.
We are living in a time of incredible challenges and change and those are inextricably linked to our roles as transformational leaders. To be credible, you have to keep learning and evolving… get started here.
7 Ways to Spend Time Without Wasting It
When you have “extra” time on your hands, do you spend it with or without intention? Here are 7 ways to use time you didn’t expect t have without watching part of your life simply disappear without value.
Feel Like Crying? Me, Too.
There’s no point in hiding your feelings about the pandemic. But if you’re here for something bigger — like transformational work — you need to make sure that you don’t get stuck there. Here are some ideas for coping with those times.
Keeping Your Practice Afloat in Crisis
In the middle of a pandemic, you can’t do business as usual. To keep your transformational holistic practice afloat, you have to become the transformational leader your clients need. Here’s the door to my free course, Teaching Online!
How Claiming Your Authority Helps Your Clients
Many holistic practitioners have difficulty claiming their authority because they associate it with telling their clients what to do, or what they should feel. In reality, your clients benefit when you step into transformational leadership and claim your rightful authority.
Can You Ever Have Too Much Choice?
If your practice is about creating more and more choice for your clients, you need to think about when more choice actually gets in the way of making progress, how to know when enough is enough and how limiting choice in your business helps it grow.
Your FAT Habits Can Change Your Practice
We all have habits of feeling, acting and thinking. I call them “FAT habits” and like pretty much every habit, their function is to limit choice. When habits affect your ability to build a sustainable business and lead to helping only a fraction of the people you’re here to serve, it pays to see where they’re hiding.
You’ll Always Beat The Big Guys At This
True, you don’t have the money a big business has for promotion, but when it comes to giving your clients what they yearn for, you’ve got them beat—hands down! Here’s how to maximize your advantage.
How To Be a Hero When You Feel Like a Wallflower
If you feel like a wallflower in social settings, you could be missing the chance to connect with people who would see you as a hero–if only you felt like you could talk to them! Here’s how to make that happen.