Who knew? 
For so long, decades even, I have thought that my sloppy, messy “way” was working against me, that it was a fault that I should learn to overcome, that my ULTIMATE business goals could only / would only snap into reality when I learned to be a PROPER entrepreneur.
Organized.
Picture perfect.
Professional.
All the dots, joined.
Funnels, sales pages, everything created in ADVANCE and then “revealed” the way a rock star reveals a new album, in GRAND fashion.
I REALLY believed this,
as many entrepreneurs do,
particularly WOMEN entrepreneurs,
and I believed it for a long time.
There have been many times when I have “gotten serious” about my business and tried to be fancy, professional, organized. And I would FEEL super fancy doing it. For a little bit, I LOVED it.
I would get excited about how THIS TIME,
THIS GO,
I would do it “right.”
But not so coincidentally,
EVERY single time this became my approach,
EVERY Single time I held back on releasing my message, putting it into a funnel or carefully scheduled email sequence instead…
EVERY single time I tried to clean everything up and make it perfect, polished and professional,
my income took a nosedive.
As did my enjoyment, joy and EASE in my business.
Not MOST times, or almost every time,
but EVERY time without fail.
I’m a smart cookie with a higher than average IQ. So, I can’t explain why it took SO long for me to see the connection. I can’t explain why it took me SO many attempts to realize that MY magic, MY money, MY success, MY soul-aligned people… would ALWAYS be found in the mess, in the beautiful chaos of me doing me and sharing what has been described as “my twisted little view” on business and life.
How did I EVER think I’d attract MY people with pomp and circumstance? With gloss and shine? I mean, it’d be like ME trying to attract a MAN by pretending to be organized and domestically gifted. HOW LONG before they’d figure out I was a total fraud? And only PRETENDING for a bit in order to LURE them into my business?
uggg.
My greatest compliment of all time is one I get all the time. “Michelle, you are just the same in person as you are online.”
Sometimes this means unpolished.
ALWAYS this means unscripted.
FOREVER this will mean ruthlessly authentic.
Why would I ever want to dull down and delay my message in some pitiful, painful attempt to dress it up? I found that in these attempts, I MAY impress some people momentarily, but those careful scripted, fancy funnels really created NO impact, and no impact = no income.
When your work makes a difference,
the dollars show up.
So, I settled in…
to the mess,
to the chaos,
to the unapologetic approach to business,
to showing up
AUDACIOUSLY,
as if I really believed that my work was impactful ENOUGH…
all without the pomp and circumstance.
And I learned that Mess = Money. Choas = Cash. Authenticity = Abundance. Difference-making = Dollar-making.
And ANYTHING I did to slow this down,
was a fast move in the wrong direction.
Soon, I will take a stage,
one I have coveted– and learned from — for nearly 2 decades.
This is NOT because I followed every rule,
marched in place dotting my i’s and crossing my t’s.
It’s because I took the principles taught from this stage and implemented EACH of them in a sloppy, messy way that is ENTIRELY my own.
So, where are YOUR attempts to be fancy, professional, organized dulling down YOUR ability to show up as the messenger / helper / healer / expert you are and make a difference?
Because when your work is POWERFUL,
and you KNOW it is,
there’s NO reason to dress it up as ANYTHING else
