As I sit on my couch this morning… surrounded by my two snoring sidekicks who adjusted themselves MANY TIMES in an effort to be even closer to me, sipping immune-building hot tea, with my favorite throw over my lap, wearing my coziest sweater, while listening to some calming instrumentals in the background and just musing over 2 Corinthians 3&4, I know that I am living MY PERSONAL dream life, the life I was MEANT to live.
The life that sets my soul on fire every day.
The life that continues to EXPAND ME, but not exhaust me, the life that allows me to live 100% according to my own goals and priorities, without compromise OR apology.
But I almost missed it.
I ALMOST got caught up in — maybe even stuck forever in — the PROMISING GRIND of doing X for Y length of time in order to EARN an entirely different life.
Think of it.
MOST gurus or experts or even just people in general share this idea that if you just
🍃 HUSTLE HARD ENOUGH (How hard, no one really clarifies, but HARD.)
🍃FOR LONG ENOUGH (How long? Well again… unspecified… different for everyone. Maybe forever…)
You will then (magically?)
morph your hustle hard and long life
Into your DREAM life…
where you get to travel (if that’s your thing) or read or paint or write or journal or walk or just create entire worlds in your own mind…
When does that make sense? I mean… it NEVER made sense. Your business will grow the way you TRAIN it to grow.
Please know that i am NOT against or alergic to the hustle. I W-O-R-K. I follow through and follow up. I finish what I start. I make decisions (mostly) based on what I will be PROUD I did… vs. what I “feel like” doing.
BUT, how does it make ANY sense to you…
that you’d follow THEIR system
(you and their other followers)
limiting yourself to THEIR templates
trying to be funny or sexy or tough like THEM
diligently shrinking and shaping yourself into a mold that THEY defined as “the way to create success”
cutting off this and that part of you
curbing and foregoing YOUR way,
in order to follow theirs,
EVEN AS ALL OF THEIR OTHER FOLLOWERS DO THE SAME…
How did it EVER make SENSE to you
From a marketing / business standpoint
that you’d copy and follow SO HARD
that you’d eventually what???
Stand out?
NOTE: the best trained (and probably BEST) coaches and speakers are — overall — the LEAST paid. Why? they keep PAYING for the PRIVILEGE of promoting their mentor, as if the mentor’s name will be enough to get THEM paid…. But I digress. I wrote a blog about this a long time ago. You can find it here if you’re interested: https://www.bmichellepippin.com/the-most-over-trained…/
And from a life standpoint…
how did it EVER make any sense
that you’d BUILD a business
to survive and grow in a hurried, rushed, push your kids and husband and fitness and PEACE aside,
in some VAIN HOPE that once you got “there,”
you’d be able to THEN
enjoy your kids, spouse, fitness and peace?
No, it doesn’t make ANY sense
TO ANYONE
when you REALLY think about it,
but sometimes, we’re moving too fast to really think.
Or we respect a guru or author so much that we exchange OUR perspective for theirs.
Either way, I get it.. because I have been there.
Not for long, thankfully… and also not in an extreme way, again… thankfully. My kids and husband have ALWAYS come first. They were such a DRAW in my life that I would have never cast them aside. LIke those barriers we put up for kids in the bowling alley, my family was there to keep me from going TOO extreme in any direction…
But I stayed there too long
and sacrificed too much,
of myself, my soul, my fitness, my health, my peace, the peaceful life I really desired…
in some silly hope that one day,
my DREAM life would find me in all of my chaos and busy-ness.
Silly.
One day, I woke up.
I had a ScREW THIS moment
and I DECIDED that I’d build this business
around ME
and my LOVE of writing,
and my DESIRE to empower
and my CALL to lead
and my SIMPLE LITTLE LIFE,
or I’d do nothing at all.
I’d build this business around ME
and make it work,
or…
or nothing, really.
I’d build it around me and MY priorities
and make it work.
PERIOD.
And it was then…
that I started really making traction,
really getting attention,
really making in-roads in various industries.
It is THIS defiant little approach that I teach,
NOT to do business or life MY way,
but to CUSTOM DESIGN your business and life around you. I teach :
🍃 PRINCIPLES (sales, marketing, psychology, life)
🍃applied (actioned, not just “visioined”)
🍃 DAILY (yep, daily.)
as the recipe for success.
THIS is the Women Who WOW Way.
IF you are finding yourself in a position where your business is ALMOST working… where you’re ALWAYS one level or one deal or one big client away from REALLY feeling great about business…
and your life is ALSO … ALMOST working,
almost enough money,
almost enough time,
almost enough peace,
almost enough alignment..
I feel you.
And The Women Who WOW Way is THE way which will help you OUT of the world of being an “almost ran.” If you’re ready to do the thing… YOUR WAY
