How to Make the Right Decision (Stop Waiting for a Prince)

There might never be a sign or a magic mirror on the wall that tells you THIS IS THE WAY to making money/building followers/getting the book deal.

I was full-on waiting for that sign for two years.

I had no clients.

No Facebook group.

No blog posts.

No sales.

I was waiting for a prince in the shape of a marketing plan to come and save me.

(“Princess! Here is the magic pill that will solve everything. Sorry to keep you waiting for years, traffic was a nightmare.”)

I didn’t start creating clients or growing my group or blogging until I decided that I am my own magic pill.

I started building success when I decided that whatever way I chose was going to work, as long as I committed to it 100% and stopped changing my plan every 5 minutes.

Because here’s the thing about success:

There is never a right decision.

There’s only the decision that you make right.

There's No Right Way To Hit A Goal

There’s no right way to hit a goal.

Some of my clients adore the law of attraction and human design and surrendering to the universe, and some of them get excited by scientific research and habit trackers and pushing as hard as possible.

And you know what? They ALL hit their goals.

So I’m celebrating all you science-based tech-heavy goal getters AND the woo woo energy you-do-you-boo manifesters.

Some days I take a truck ton of action and tick everything off my list and other days I sit still and meditate, reminding myself I have done enough DOING and now is time to BE.

What if it ALL works?

What if really, anything will work when you commit to it 100%?

Gratitude in Advance

Recently I’ve been practicing gratitude in advance – being grateful for the things I want to create in my life.

I’m grateful for the healing my shoulder will receive.

I’m grateful for the new creative ideas that are coming my way.

I’m grateful for the friends I haven’t met yet.

What are you grateful for in advance?

What if it was actually easy?

Difficulty doesn’t actually exist as a thing in the universe.

Our experience is what makes something feel hard or easy.

A mountain might seem hard to summit.

But with a helicopter it’s is pretty chill.

(Enter the invention of heliskiing) 

It’s the same with any goal.

Our goals aren’t just sitting around looking at us smugly like “I’m super difficult, you’ll never achieve me.”

Goals are neutral.

We get to decide if we experience them as hard or easy by how we approach them.

Sometimes we think they’re going to drain us. Exhaust us. Take YEARS of effort.

But what if getting fully booked in your business was as simple as putting out short videos on Instagram? (True story about my client Niamh).

What if becoming a professional fashion model was as easy as taking another model out to lunch? (True story about my client Chloe)

What if becoming a paid writer was as easy as putting your writing out into the world for people to see? (True story about my client Julia)

What if you decided your goal was actually super easy?

How would that change the way you approach it?

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I was recently featured on Shawna Patruno’s podcast, where I broke down step by step the mindset I had to be in to achieve my goal of blogging daily for two years in a row. Listen on Shawna’s Instagram!

Tennis Mind

Sometimes the mind plays a tennis match with itself.

I can do this/No I can’t.

Money comes easily/Money is hard.

It’s already done/I should give up.

Back and forth again and again.

That’s normal. That’s human.

But if you practice the helpful thoughts more, they’ll get stronger and louder.

The tennis player who practices the most will win.

Just Do the Thing

You know exactly what you need to do.

Do it.

Music Shifts Everything

I had one of those days today where no matter how hard you try, things just don’t seem to go smoothly.

And then I put on a song.

And it was like everything changed. Suddenly I could focus, suddenly I could create again.

It was the quickest identity shift ever.

Current favourites:

Maneater by Nelly Furtado
Not Many by Scribe
On My Mind by Ellie Goulding

Reminder

Just a reminder in case you need it (because I do).

How are you making this harder than it needs to be? How can you simplify it all?

Brain Power

Every once in a while I realise how potent my mind actually is.

I mean I know it controls everything. But then there are those days when I know it controls everything.

It sinks in deeper.

Like, oh wait. I can actually control my world by changing how I think about it.

What a spectacular brain we get to live in.