Two blog posts ago I spoke about action. Moving through some discomfort, last week I made myself do several key things that I already feel are paying dividends. Namely, I am learning to embrace that scary feeling and go with it more. Let's face it, isn't it uncomfortable to move outside of your comfort zone, and to go one step further even, and embrace this discomfort as a lifestyle? Perhaps it becomes a certain kind of comfortable then? Nonetheless, I feel that I am on an actual roll right now. It feels very good, somewhat akin to that moment when you realize all your exercising has become a good feeling, the norm, and not this thing that you are burdened by doing. However, I have to be completely frank, this feeling just started happening today.
Here are the three seeds that I planted last week which have all coincidentally manifested today (strange!):
1. I followed up with two contacts in the Dallas area who were generated from friends (key to note that I did not know these people at all, but asked around enough to the people I did know to generate two viable contacts for job leads). I had a lunch meeting with one of these people today. It went very well and there are plans for a second meeting with two more people.
2. I made plans to talk with the second contact on Monday (she happens to be sick with the flu right now).
3. I registered myself for a free teleseminar with Cristine Kane, a professional business coach (http://www.uplevelyourlife.com/). For 1.5 hours this evening, I listened to her speak in a wonderful, authentic voice about connection and "upleveling" your business (as opposed to always looking for the upshot...the one big "a ha", sale, or thing).
She said many things which made a lot of sense, and I am eager to put a few more of my own thoughts into action.
As I process her call, I am left with these ideas:
A couple of blogs ago I spoke about this free download that I want to put up on my website, and guess what, I haven't done it yet.
But guess what will get done by tomorrow...that!
This idea of giving things away for free as a service is very important. Cristine talked a lot about this. It is about connection; and from this, all other things will grow, including the business.
I would like to do some free meditation workshops and have had this thought many times before, but tonight something clicked, and I will make it happen . I will then have in place my free download on my site, so I can direct people there after I meet them for the free sessions. She also spoke about generating a mailing list and doing that by offering some sort of a drawing at my event. The drawing could be to win a certain amount of private meditation sessions with me, and with that I can thank them for signing up by letting them know that they will be contacted and directed to the free download.
She spoke about a weekly email to your mailing list as a way to build trust with people. This made a lot of sense to me too, as opposed to sending out a random email every couple of months or something. Of course, who trusts that??
I feel very good about this evening's teleseminar and feel I have enough to go on for a while. I took notes while I listened, and I plan to go back and review them later.
OOOH, the power of the brainstorm: One last action item: I will contact my friend Gretchen, a yoga teacher in Corpus who used to live here in Dallas, and see which yoga centers she could recommend I talk to about my meditation services. Guess what I'll be doing next...yep, you guessed it!
Till next time...
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