Who Do You Take Advice From When It Comes To Your Business?

Who Do You Take Advice From When It Comes To Your Business? Published on 11 Sept 2020 Who do you take advice from when it comes to your business? Do you listen to your partner? Do you take on board what your friends tell you? I’ve found that over the years EVERYONE wants to put their two cents worth in about your business – even though they have NO financial interest in your business whatsoever! Some people think that it’s their god given right to give you their OPINION about YOUR BUSINESS. The worst ones are the people that have NEVER owned a business before, they have NEVER employed staff before, they have NEVER invested their hard earned money in a business. I used to take it all on board from everyone that told me things. I soon realized that nearly all of their FREE advice was crap! Your friend that works part time as a receptionist wants to give you advice on your marketing. Your parents that have worked for other people their entire careers want to give you advice on what you should be doing to attract clients to your business. Your partner tells you what he would do with your staff if he had the opportunity to, it probably includes yelling at them using more swear words than normal words! When have any of them ever invested their money and their time into their own business? NEVER! So why would you listen to their advice? They have no idea what you are going through or how hard it is on a day to day basis to motivate your staff, keep the clients happy and still make a few dollars to pay for everything. Sometimes we do want to get our partners thoughts on something, but I know that for myself, I’ve already really made the decision, I just want to have someone back me up and listen to me talk about it out loud instead of in my head. I know that at the end of the day, it’s my money, my name and my business on the line here, so it’s ultimately MY decision about everything to do with my business. I know that I used to find it hard to talk to people about my business because after all, who CAN you TRUST? I hired a business coach to help me because I knew that was what I needed to give myself direction and take things to the next level. I knew that if I was PAYING for advice that it would be damn good advice, and it was. There is a BIG difference between your friends and family’s advice over a mentor’s advice! I still have a mentor now at this level in business and I believe that no matter how successful you are, you always need to have that person there for you, that gets you and understands EXACTLY what you are going through so that they can help you be the very best that you possibly can be in your business! They are there to back you 100% and lead you in the right direction. I know that if I hadn’t invested in my education and in myself, there is no way that my businesses would be as successful as they are and I definitely would not be sitting here today writing this to you. Trust your gut instinct. Do what YOU think is best for YOUR business. You know you must do whatever it takes to get there, especially investing in yourself and PAYING for the help that you need. Trust me, it makes ALL the difference. If you’re looking for business advice from someone who knows what you are going through and how to turn it around, fill out the form below and we can have a chat! Blog Related posts View all [lrp_posts type=”related” posts=”4″] Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

What To Do, When You’ve Got a Gazillion Things To Do

What To Do, When You’ve Got a Gazillion Things To Do Published on 4 Sept 2020 6 Years ago I took this photo to send to my mentor to show him I did over $140,000 in sales in a week working 4 days. I was celebrating like crazy! 5 years later I was celebrating because I did over $1million in sales in 4 days! The growth in that time frame for me personally had been huge, not just the dollar growth. The dollar growth was a reflection of the inner work I was doing on my mindset and my skills. The key numbers in this photo to decipher from my scribble were: July $126,000 in sales with $37,000 in CASH.August $154,000 in sales with $41,000 in CASH. Just how far I have come in the last 6 years blows my mind, but also what I was able to do at that time in my life also amazes me looking back. At that point in my life, I had a baby that was born 5 weeks preemie in May 2014 just a few weeks after we moved towns to be closer to family and I dumped every cent we had into buying a house. Literally 6 figures of cash – gone – to be able to buy the house I wanted to live in and be able to finance the rest. We were stretched to the absolute max with the borrow capacity we had. I had $1000 in my bank account and over $2 million dollars of property debt that I needed to service each month with none on the rental income covering any of the mortgages. I had another business running too and all up each month between the business and personal expenses had something like $50,000 a month I had to come up with between them all – which was a HUGE stretch with the new personal situation. My then Husband was not working as he was staying home to look after our baby. I was the one fully responsible for everything financially. I always hold the belief that financially I am supported and I always have the ability to make money as I don’t have an issue with sales. I just need to get in and do the work. So what I did was I had a month off with my newborn daughter then I went back to work in July and got my hustle on. It was fucking hard work. I wasn’t sleeping during the night because I was getting up to do feeds. I was trying to pump while I was working and trying to have breaks during the day but nothing was working well. I was barely functioning. Yet I kept showing up even though my personal life was a mess. These are the results from the photo I got in just 2 months. Those sales I made then kept the cash coming in for the next few months on payment plans, I just kept going and making shit happen despite everything that was going on in my personal life at the time. Newborn baby, postnatal depression, marriage falling apart, leaving my husband, single mum, 3 businesses (I bought another one during this year!) … the list is endless of what happened in that particular year. Despite all of it I just kept going. That year I took the business to $500,000 with 70% profit margins. I nearly collapsed in the process of doing that and the following year came up with a much better plan of how to work and how to structure my business. Luckily I had that new plan because I was now on my own with a 1 year old, 3 businesses and needed to figure out a much better way to live and work. When people come to me in shitty situations and have a gazillion things going on at once – I truly get it. We may not have the exact same circumstances but I understand the feeling of overwhelm and trying to figure out a better way to work so that you can have family time, personal time and still have your business functioning. I’ve managed to do that for myself through a lot of trial and error. Is it easy now? No fucking way. Every level has its own challenges to deal with. What I once thought was a huge issue is now generally a non issue and I’ve gotten better at dealing with things over the years too. What having a mature business and 12 years of business experience has created for me is the ability to have a certain level of flexibility in my life and financial backing to look at things from a different perspective. To create a different way of living and working where I don’t have to be in constant hustle states all of the time. Can I do it if I have to, sure! But I don’t HAVE to be like that. I can take time out if I need it or want it without worrying financially. I can go on holidays if I want to, without too much thought. Obviously restrictions currently are my only issue pending where I want to go! I have an unlimited stream of income that I can turn up or down as I want it. I can provide a certain level of lifestyle that I use to dream was possible but it’s now my reality. So in a way it’s easier but it’s not easy. This is all on the other side of a huge amount of hard work, time and money that I have invested, and continue to invest, into myself, my business and my education. The answers didn’t magically come to me one day. I sought out mentors that had been there before me, to help me. I invested in myself with them. I learned new skills.I implemented those skills.I asked for feedback.I corrected my technique.Rinse and Repeat. The only way anything

Dealing with the Drama of Staff

Dealing with the Drama of Staff Published on 28 Aug 2022 When you have a serviced based business the biggest issue in it is staff. Finding them, hiring them, training them, firing some of them … rinse and repeat. It’s a never ending headache. When you were working on your own and you were doing everything, you knew that you couldn’t keep doing it all so you thought that hiring a team was the way to go. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely a smart move in many ways. It’s how you can get time back and increase your business turnover for sure, but it also creates another set of issues and work that you need to do. You have to have KPI’s in place for you to manage them to, you need to be running meetings and dealing with the day to day dramas that happen. The time that it takes to actually manage the staff you employee starts to increase and increase. Then because the business is growing you are needing to do more work on the business with marketing and finances because you realise that you can’t take your eye off the business now that you have even more responsibility because these people and their families are relying on you. All while you are trying to have a life and get your own financial situation in order. It’s a lot. And that’s before we even start looking at the fact that because your business is service based you have to have PEOPLE to provide the service before you can get paid. So if someone is sick or on holidays or worst case leaves, your income suddenly drops but your expenses stay the same… goodbye profit. It’s a never ending story that just keeps happening over and over again. Once upon a time in my service based business I was tired, I was frustrated, I was sick of dealing with customers and trying to run my business. I thought that if I just had more staff then there would be more money and that would mean that I could work less. If only it was that simple. What happened instead was that I grew a team of 10 people in a serviced based business, which I quickly realised was a recipe for disaster. Things were hectic, I was dealing with drama most weeks, I was constantly marketing to get more people coming in and then constantly monitoring trying to keep customers in my business returning on a regular basis. I knew that it was more expensive to keep finding new people than it was to look after the ones we already had. I had a staff member leave and I lost a huge chuck of customers which affected my turnover and my profit. When this happened I decided that I would do everything in my power to make sure that was never the situation again. I changed the way the business ran and how we dealt with our customers to prevent that from ever happening again. When I did this it meant that our customer retention increased even if a staff member left, it meant that my profitability increased, it also meant that I could take time off and not worry about the turnover being impacted by my lack of presence in the business. It also meant I looked at other ways to produce income using my knowledge and experience instead of the qualification that I had. This meant I had more money and time in my personal life to enjoy the free time that I had, to be able to travel and experience life instead of being stuck in the day to day running of the business. The biggest lesson I have learned over the last 12 years of employing more than 100 people in my own businesses, is that LESS staff is actually better. More is NOT the answer. The other part of the answer to still being able to increase your turnover and profitability without more staff, is looking at HOW can you create revenue that’s NOT based on providing a service to someone and getting paid once the service is completed. It takes some serious thinking outside of the box for that to happen, to come up with a strategy for your business as to what that looks like. Blog Related posts View all [lrp_posts type=”related” posts=”4″] Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

The $10,000 Money Mindset

The $10,000 Money Mindset Published on 10 Aug 2020 What you think and feel about money, determines your bank account balance. Just ask my client that changed the way she felt about money and had an extra $10,000 not long after. Recently, during one of my events, we spent a good chunk of the first day discussing everyone’s beliefs around money and how having money makes them feel. When I have these conversations with people it always surprises people that one of the main feelings that come up is that the idea of having more money than they currently do actually makes them feel UNSAFE. Yes you read that right. Unsafe by having more money. It normally takes a bit of digging to get to that point but it is a really common underlying belief that people hold despite saying the complete opposite outloud of “I want more money, I can create more money, I love money” etc. Interesting right? The reason that people generally have this underlying feeling of more money will make them unsafe comes down to a couple of main reasons. 1. They wouldn’t know what to do with the money and then what if they messed up and lost it all because they didn’t know what to do with the extra money that they weren’t used to. 2. Who would that make them if they had more money? Would it make them the rich greedy asshole that they have grown up hearing complaints about from their family? Would it mean that people would think certain things about them? When any of these thoughts and more come up, the brain basically starts flashing red alert lights everywhere screaming UNSAFE, UNSAFE, UNSAFE and does anything it can do to bring you back to safety. The brain’s main job is to keep you safe at all times and it will do ANYTHING to make sure that you stay safe at any moment that you start having any resemblance of fear come up. Most people live their lives from that place instead of trusting their actual self to push through the fear and take action that means that they are in control of their mind. Literally the only thing in the world you can control is yourself. Your thoughts, your feelings, your actions are all within your control. It’s up to you to decide how you want to be and what you want to do. So when the brain is sending off those red flashing light signals it starts throwing out thoughts like “I’m comfortable where I am, I manage, I don’t need more money, I’m not greedy” to make you stay in your comfort zone and never stretch yourself. The other types of thoughts that happen when you GET the extra money is more so along the lines of “You don’t deserve this, you didn’t work hard enough for this” OR “I deserve everything, I’m cashed up and I’m going to spend it on whatever I like”. Both of these are a recipe for disaster. What they lead to is terrible spending habits where you basically do anything you can do to GET RID of the money so you are back to where you felt comfortable. Yep that’s right, you basically do a self sabotage routine on yourself and put yourself in a worse situation. I have seen this happen so many times. “I had all this money and I was doing really well, I just don’t know where it’s gone.” “I had all this growth and excess cash in my account but I don’t know what happened to it.” These statements are things I hear all the time. What I learned back in the early years of mentoring people is that not everyone has my natural mindset and ability to manage money. There is a reason why I was a millionaire in my 20’s and it’s because the habits and thoughts I had about money started from when I was a child and continued no matter how much money I had. Most people have kind of plodded along with their money situation by just surviving and paying for their way in life, nothing too excessive so it never really changes the situation. When I realised what was happening as people started working with me, they were making more money than they ever had done before in super short time frames that suddenly all of their money beliefs and fears were triggered. Which meant that they started sabotaging their success. Part of it was a lack of understanding about what to actually do with money and looking at your financials to understand the situation. The other issue revolved more so around the beliefs about money. No matter how much you understand about financials if your money beliefs haven’t been dealt with it means nothing. I have spoken to so many accountants and financial advisors recently that actually have terrible personal financial situations which shows you exactly what I mean, they get the numbers but they don’t get the mindset and energetic part of it. All of it works together. The beliefs and the fears create trapped energy within the body, when you release the trapped energy from your body and your energetic field then you unblock your money flow. The perfect example of this is from someone in my recent that has been struggling with her beliefs around money for a long time. We talked about what she experienced and then we did a meditation to release that energy from her body and transform her belief system. When she came out of the meditation she had received an email during the meditation that she would be receiving $10,000 in her account soon. She had given up on this money to the point of telling people verbally that she wasn’t going to be getting it prior to that day. There is no coincidence that once she released the energy and changed her thought process that this $10,000 turned up.

The Problem with Service Based Businesses

The Problem with Service Based Businesses Published on 07 Aug2022 There have always been and always will be issues with service based businesses that are unavoidable. I have had my fair share of them over the years until I started to change what I was doing and think more about how I can work smarter, not harder. I started out in salons where the only way to make money was to provide a service to someone in exchange for money, which meant that either I had to be doing that or I had to pay staff to do that. If I wanted time off or they did, the income dropped. If people didn’t show up costing me income, I still had to pay the staff member, the rent, the phone, the suppliers and the list goes on and on. Look it wasn’t all bad, it was definitely profitable once I figured out a lot of the solutions. But it still involved a lot of hand holding of staff, dealing with a lot of customers and then not to mention all the behind the scenes work that went into it all. It was tiring and yes I had managed to make profit, but I didn’t want to actually be in the business anymore. I wanted to work out how I could work even SMARTER than I currently was. It wasn’t about not working ever again, even though I DID need a break, it was about how can I leverage what I know to create the next thing? I knew I couldn’t physically keep going, I had already cut my hours back as far as I could because of the toll that the industry had taken on my physical body – so I had to find another option. And I did. When I finally figured it out, the first income I made that was totally working smarter was $5000 over the phone from someone that didn’t know me before that call – and I hadn’t needed to pick up any of my tools of trade in exchange for that. If I’m honest with you – I was sitting at my kitchen table with casual clothes, no shoes, no hair or makeup done. I remember thinking – “FUCK! I just made as much money in a phone call as what I could make in a WEEK working 30 hours! FUCK this would take me 2 years to make $5000 from ONE PERSON. FUCK I JUST MADE $5000 FROM TALKING TO SOMEONE!” I had no idea in that moment what was in store for me from that point – I started to realise I could make even larger amounts of money from there. That year I turned over in my business $250,000 with nearly all of it profit, with me barely working at all. I was watching daytime tv, watching dvd’s (this was way back before Netflix, yes I’ve been doing this a LONG TIME), travelling and doing the shit I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. I then went on to build it to a $2.5mil a year turnover, with me still working on average about 20 hours a week, whilst being pregnant and sick, having a baby, getting divorced and being a single mum. The thing that I see in serviced based businesses is that the profit margins struggle to exceed around 30% at best case scenario because of all the overheads and staff that are involved in the day to day running. No matter how much you grow and build, it gets stuck percentage wise around there because of staff costs. The best thing about what I did with working smarter not harder was I totally flipped the percentages around and instead of having 70% in COSTS, I had 70% in PROFIT. Which meant I also had a lot less people to deal with and a lot less headaches! I get that it’s hard to believe that it can work like this – my accountant’s over the years have always questioned my figures in the beginning as it’s not “Normal” but then soon discover that it can be. A client of mine recently switched to my new model of business after 20 years in a service based business and started selling $5000 products on the phone too, during Covid-19. This Client made herself a nice $45,000 in under a month without her needing to reach into anything from her usual toolbelt! She was pretty amazed! Blog Related posts View all [lrp_posts type=”related” posts=”4″] Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

Why “Wait and See” is Not a Good Business Strategy

Why “Wait and See” is Not a Good Business Strategy Published on 31 Jul 2020 Strategy. What is the strategy you are using in your business right now? It amazed me how many business owners were just “waiting to see what happens” a few months ago when it was declared that there was a worldwide pandemic happening. You should have a strategy in your business to operate in normal circumstances anyway, regardless of the world situation. It’s been even more important right now to have an idea of what the fuck you are actually doing and where you are heading and HOW you are going to do that. Especially now that this second wave is hitting Australia. It’s only a matter of time before the borders are closed in every state and we are back in lockdown again. People have been operating in totally unresourceful and overwhelmed states which is creating less than ideal circumstances for themselves. I get it, I’ve had moments of complete overwhelm too. I’ve cried and sobbed and had my meltdowns too. When we were in lockdown my 6 year old daughter and 9 year old stepson were being home schooled by my partner while I was trying to work. I lost my shit more times than I can count in the 9 weeks we had them at home. I’m used to being at home all day because I’ve worked from home for years, my life didn’t change too much, it’s just that I had people in my space making noise constantly. There is no peace and quiet, which is what I desperately craved. So yeah, it’s caused a few meltdowns and arguments with my partner, it’s been tough. Throughout that all, I have been helping other business owners plan their strategy for what they are doing in their business and what they need to change and how. I’ve also been doing the same for myself. I want you to think about strategy as a game of how do I win? But also thinking about what the definition of winning actually is in your scenario. Winning may mean to you that you have a certain level of income, it may be helping a certain volume of customers, it may be creating something different to anything you’ve done before, it may be ALL of these things! Once you know what point B is, how do you get from point A to point B? Firstly how do you want to BE? How will you show up? Do you want to be an asshole as you do it and knock out everyone in your way to do whatever it takes including things that cross the line? Or… Do you want to be ethical and make sure that you do everything above board and in the best possible way for everyone involved? That’s part of the how you want to BE mindset. The other part of the ‘how’ is the actual actions that you are going to take, the strategy of how to get from point A to point B. Step 1 – Involves the complete breakdown of whatever the bigger picture goal is into ‘What do we actually need to do to create that?’. This will be in more detail. Step 2 – Looks at timelines. Is when you said you wanted it to happen actually achievable? If it is what needs to be happening day upon day, week upon week, to make that a reality? Step 3 – Involves the deeply tactical strategy around EXACTLY what needs to happen at each stage of this on the actual execution of the previous plans and strategy. It seems simple right? Wrong. My brain naturally works this way and to be honest with you, sometimes I get waaaaayyyy too involved in the details in step 3 because I go there really easily without thinking about it. What I see the majority of business owners do though, is they get stuck at Step 1. They see the big picture goal, they start to think about what needs to be done to create it and the plan never actually fully forms properly. Why’s that you ask? Because they get overwhelmed. That already seems like too much on their plate when they already have customers they have to deal with, staff to deal with, partners, kids, family and all these other things that they are juggling right now. So they tell themselves that they are working towards that big goal but the reality is that they are just doing what they need to do to maintain what they’ve got, in the best-case scenario. They are doing the best they can in the situation that they are in. The other reason I see people get stuck, is they are somewhere between half doing Step 1 and trying to start Step 2 and they do come up with a more detailed plan but the issue is that the details in the plan are not quite right. They have what I’ll call a “wishful thinking” plan. “If I just get 5 people a day to buy my $500 product, 7 days a week from an automated funnel, I’ll make a million dollars in the next year by having residual income!” Let’s set the record straight, that isn’t going to happen for starters. You aren’t going to make a million dollars in “residual Income” unless you have tens of millions of dollars invested in a really smart long term strategy kind of way. Everything else still involves you doing work, which isn’t residual income. Also your automated funnel isn’t going to make you millions of dollars. So stop buying more click funnels courses and buying the lie about that. So this is why I call it a “wishful thinking” plan. It’s not a reality. Strategy is key with your business success and whatever your definition of winning looks like. If you don’t have a proper strategy then you are basically just floating along hoping for the best.

A Reflection On My Journey

A Reflection On My Journey Published on 24 Jul 2020 Reflecting on my journey in business over the last 12 years I can see the correlation between my own personal growth and the business growth plus also what my business looks like now. Even my accountant a few months ago on a comprehensive analysis of my figures over the last few years said that there was a positive correlation between my travel expenses and turnover, my mentoring spend and my turnover. Which I giggled at when I read, because mentoring is one of my largest yearly expenses, between $100K – $150K and I spend it every year. Travel is also normally another expense that’s in my top 5 highest spends. Normally what accountants will do is try to cut those highest spend categories to put more money on your bottom line. Not my accountant, she told me to keep doing what I was doing as it showed up consistently year on year as a positive. Part of the personal growth journey that I have had over the years has included a lot of inner work on myself in a personal development setting. But that can’t be the only thing that happens because going from event to event there are a number of issues. It’s unsustainable. For so many reasons. The event come down when it’s over, creates issues for actual implementation   You end up on a cycle of running from event to event to get your next high which is your next breakthrough – you get addicted to the breakthrough and that huge light bulb moment that happens.You go back home and then a week or so later you experience everything that you left beforehand, the family, the friends, the business that HASN’T changed but yet you feel as though you have. All you want to do is go back to the event room. Go back into the bubble of it. It’s not long before the situation and the people around you tend to pull you back into what life was like before the event, to some degree. You lose the huge driving force you had, all the things you were going to change and create instantly and then start doing it a bit slower. Your old thought patterns creep back in to some degree and you fight that internal battle daily. Then you go to another event and the cycle starts again, you are all pumped up, you do all this shit at the event, then you go home and start on it but then get sucked back into the older stuff. Overall throughout this cycle you are definitely better off on the long term scale, you do think differently and you have worked through some of your stuff, but you constantly have to be at an event to get that high. I believe there is a place for personal development, but I also believe that it can’t happen on it’s own. A huge part of my growth in me as a person, which then flowed to my business, is my spiritual growth. I had always believed that there was more out there than what we thought. I used to tell people all the time that I desperately would love to be psychic. Then I found out that anyone has the power to tap into that psychic power and connect to Universe, Source, Spirit, God, whatever word you connect with. That’s when everything really changed for me and I became a better version of myself and my business reflected that also, as your business is just an extension of you. I was meditating and connecting to source, talking to my spirit guides daily and creating an inner knowing in myself of the direction I was going, and that everything was happening for me in exactly the right way. I was doing rituals, I was using every energetic and practical avenue I could use to help me create the life I wanted. There were times where I totally ignored advice I was given and later on realised that I shouldn’t have shrugged that off as being something that “maybe I made up” rather than having trust that it did come from a higher power that had my best interest at heart. It’s been a wild ride the last 5 plus years since I started tapping into everything that is available to every one of us, and using it, plus using the personal development mindset work that I’ve done and then combining it with all of my practical business knowledge and experience. I use to run events where I would be doing all this energy work behind the scenes setting up rooms energetically for people to feel comfortable and protected to walk into, meditating on exactly what the content needed to be for that event, setting intentions that the exact right people would be drawn to me for their highest and best purpose – yet people had no idea what I was actually doing behind the scenes because I was terrified if anyone knew I was spiritual that they wouldn’t take me seriously. The few clients I had that knew I had a bit of spiritual connection and I’d let them in on some of it, they were people that had been working with me for years normally. When they found out, the standard response from them would be “Really? But you don’t seem like THAT type of person? Like you aren’t a hippie!” They’d be totally shocked but also super curious and ask me a thousand questions because they wanted to know more. I’d been getting the message for a while about a program that I needed to create that involved me teaching meditation, chakras, energy healing work and other things to business women to show them how to create this for themselves, where the business, the mindset and the spiritual all come together. I had been resisting it like crazy. I was terrified that I was going

Why I Avoided Growing My Business….

Why I Avoided Growing My Business…. Published on 23 Jul 2020 I have a confession to make. When I first started working with my current mentors, I did hardly anything for the first 6 months. Yep. Pretty much nothing. Which also meant I didn’t make any money and didn’t go forward with my business at all. I actually did everything that I could think of to avoid learning something completely new. I got caught up in my other business. I actually focused on building it and making more money there. But what that equated to was me spending more time doing something that I was so sick of doing and had been trying to move away from. All just to avoid learning something new that was going to be hard. I had all these thoughts about… “What if I can’t do this?” “What if I fail?” “What will people say if I can’t pull this off?” I spent months avoiding going around and around in circles about actually starting anything. I watched the videos with the content that my mentors were teaching. I would selectively pick what I would do. I actively avoided doing the hardest thing, which was making sales calls. It got to the point where I was basically so sick of my own shit and I was going to an event with them, where I knew I couldn’t show up without making a single dollar after 6 months of signing up – that I FINALLY did something. I decided that instead of just watching everyone else I was actually going to DO something. Guess what happened? I made money. I made $5000 to be exact. From one person. A random person that had never met me, that I called one day paid me $5000 over the phone with a credit card. This was back in 2013. I thought I had totally fluked it. Then I went on to make over $200K in sales in the next 30 days. That’s when I finally realised I was on to something. That’s also when I started kicking myself for not doing shit 6 months earlier! Imagine where I could have been had I had another 6 months of momentum up my sleeve. Despite wasting that time I still was able to build the business into a $2.5Million dollar a year business – selling my knowledge and expertise. I learned from this experience though and I share this story with many clients for two reasons. So that they can not make the same mistake that I did and waste 6 monthsSo that when they do waste even a few months avoiding doing the new thing, that it’s pretty standard and that even I did it too, I’m human as are they. I’m not proud of what I did – especially considering how much of a high achiever I am. I’m always the person that gets the thing they said they would. That is constantly striving for more and more and more. Reflecting back on it though I can see exactly what that younger version of me was going through. What if I wasn’t as successful as I thought I was and what if I didn’t really know what I was talking about – that would be completely shameful. Instead of taking a chance and backing myself, I swung in the direction of being paralysed by fear. Which created complete inaction. I hadn’t learned yet that failure is a situation that all successful people also experience because there is always a lesson within it which means it can be reframed from a failure to a valuable experience to learn from! I have since had many of these! If I hadn’t gotten out of my own way, I don’t know where I would be today. Definitely not writing this post! You get to make the choice for yourself. You can stay stuck in a state of fear paralysis and keep getting what you’ve always got. Have nothing change in your life. OR You can learn the scary, new, hard skill and change your business which in turn means that you change your life.That decision is in your hands, Blog Related posts View all [lrp_posts type=”related” posts=”4″] Growth Three pillars smart investing Great wealth doesn’t come from luck. It comes from clear decisions about your money, the assets you buy, and the strategy behind every move. Wealth Strategy The Plan Before you buy anything, we get clear. Your goals, time frame, income needs, and risk comfort all matter. We map out a strategy that makes sense for you, so you’re not guessing, rushing, or buying the wrong asset. Commercial Property Acquisition The Execution This is where we do the heavy lifting. We handle the research, due diligence, negotiation, and buying process end to end, so you can purchase the right commercial property with confidence, not stress. Making Your Money Work Harder The Multiplier Commercial property is about leverage, returns, and long-term growth. We focus on assets that deliver strong income and real upside, helping you build wealth through smart property choices – not speculation. WISE Buyers Agency

Most People Don’t Know What A Millionaire Is

Most People Don’t Know What A Millionaire Is Published on 25 Nov 2019 Do you know what being a millionaire actually means? It surprises me how many people are confused by this – it’s simply your NET worth being in 7 figures. That’s NET worth. That’s NOT how much you’ve predicted your business will do this year.That’s NOT how much your business TURNS OVER, in a year or cumulative years.That’s NOT how much you think your database is worth. It is simply the cash that you have access to RIGHT NOW. Well let’s say within 72hours, because mine is mostly all invested in the stock market and I couldn’t get it out today. I was recently having a conversation with one of my clients over text messages. She had just made some SERIOUS money. Over $100K in sales in a week. In a business that just last year did that in a WHOLE year. This client was calculating out some numbers for the next 12 months of how many people she needed to get to her turnover goal of doing $1million. At the end of the message she added – AND THEN I’LL BE A MILLIONAIRE LIKE YOU! I was like, Hold up a second, do you understand what Millionaire actually means? Because it’s not your business turnover. It’s your Net worth. She responded totally confused by what that meant. Now this client of mine is not an idiot by any stretch of the imagination, university educated, been in business for 4 years, totally switched on and incredibly smart. I then realised that this was the problem with people using “I’m a millionaire” so loosely all over the internet, they don’t understand what it actually MEANS. They aren’t all intentionally lying, some of them are for sure, but a lot of them aren’t, they genuinely think that they are millionaires. Let me tell you what I explained to my client. You can have a $1million turnover, a $5million turnover even a $100million turnover in your business. But that DOES NOT make you a millionaire. And when I say TURNOVER here, that’s not predictions, that is what cash actually comes into the business and would be the income on the profit and loss statement. Turnover does NOT equal Net Worth. All of those turnovers could have ZERO profitability. Hell they could even be running at a loss. How many huge corporations do we see in the media that have gone into liquidation, declare bankruptcy? The reason for that is because they have NO cash and too much debt, they can’t keep operating. Turnover is Vanity. Profit is Sanity and Cash is King. So focusing on “I’m a millionaire because my business turns over 7 or 8 Figures” is just a vanity statement and means NOTHING. Your profit is also different to your cash. Yes that’s right, your PROFIT is different to your CASH. Have you ever had your account give you your P&L and it shows a figure there for the profit and you think to yourself, “Cool, so where is all that money because that’s not in my bank account?” Nearly every business owner that I deal with has had that happen, myself included. The reason for that is that PROFIT is a theory. It’s a number that accountants make up when they move things around. The most important number that you need to be tracking and looking at is your CASH. When you are in business if you are not looking at your cash flow then you are fucked. I have had many situations over the years where when I’ve taken my eye off it even for the shortest time period, I have ended up in a situation where I’ve regretted it. Because cash is the most important thing when it comes to running your business financials. The problem is that most people in business don’t really look at ANY of their numbers, if they do its normally at their turnover – which is a VANITY number. So back to the whole millionaire thing, because I could rant about this other stuff all day. If your $1million dollar a year turnover business, has $300,000 CASH left over AFTER all expenses are paid, tax is paid then your have $300,000 NET for that year period. If you managed to do that consistently for 4 years running and NOT TOUCH any of the money in that time period then you would have $1.2million dollars, correct? THEN you could say that you were a MILLIONAIRE. Your NET worth is in the 7 figure bracket then. Despite your business turning over collectively $4million in 4 years, you were not a millionaire until your CASH hit that. Also – no one should be quoting their business turnover as a collective over multiple years. If you are doing that just stop. Remember: Turnover is Vanity. But it’s even worse when you are trying to make yourself sound even better by saying you have a $10million business but it’s actually been over the last 15 years. I feel as though this is so simple but so many people are confused by it because of how many other people are confused by it and using the wrong terminology for the wrong situation. As I said earlier, most of them just don’t understand it but some people are lying purposefully about it. It’s funny to me in a way because when I had my status click over into millionaire a number of years ago, I was extremely disappointed. I know many of you will read this and think “How on earth could that be the case?”. I am extremely grateful for my situation, don’t get me wrong. But I think on some level I thought that confetti was going to magically rain from the sky and fireworks were going to go off and magically everything that was wrong in my life would be fixed. Instead – NOTHING. *crickets* No magic confetti or fireworks. Nothing in my life

What If You Viewed The World Like A 5 Year Old…

What If You Viewed The World Like A 5 Year Old… Published on 20 Sept 2019 A few nights ago I taught my 5 year old daughter how to use a pendulum. Which may seem like a strange thing to some, but in my world that would be completely normal. What it did was open my eyes to the wonder and magic that happens through energy when the person has no skepticism at all. When we are kids we are open to the idea that anything is possible and everything is real. It’s only through adults telling kids “Don’t be silly, that’s not real.” that all the hope and possibility gets squashed out of them. My daughter loves playing “make believe” ALL the time, which drives her older step brother crazy because he thinks that she is lying because he’s been told so many things don’t exist. For instance – it’s ok to say you are a mermaid in the water when you are in the pool, but it’s not ok to say you are a mermaid when we are sitting at the dinner table. Whereas my daughter truly believes that because her ankles are crossed over and she is seeing them as a mermaid tail, she is a mermaid. I don’t want to squash the creative out of her so there is a very fine line when one kid thinks the other is lying and not getting in trouble for it. She also sees spirits and has done since she was a baby, which I believe all kids do, I know I did. So when she told me about her friends in her bedroom, or names of kids at daycare or school that sound like they are from a century ago or another country, I ask more questions and I also check in to see if they are physical or spiritual friends. When this first started happening, I’ll be honest, I freaked out. Which is what most adults do, which is how the intuitive connection gets squashed out of the kids, it’s just what I did was probably a little different to most parents. This one evening, I was getting dinner ready and had told my daughter about 30mins before that she couldn’t play outside on the trampoline anymore and had to come inside. She is then standing at the back door yelling out very upset “Mummy why can’t I play on my trampoline, it’s not fair that that little girl gets to play on my trampoline and I don’t!” I look up and there is no child on her trampoline. No physical child anyway. I walk over to the back door and actually look properly while asking my spirit guides to show me what she can see. There is a spirit of a young girl on the trampoline. I then had my quick moment of freak out and I sent her spirit away. It wasn’t until I was telling my mentor about it that she said to me – did I think to check if the spirit girl was one of my daughters guides? Ah, that would be a no, because I freaked out. I had no idea why I did because I see this stuff all the time myself. I did what I thought was the right thing to protect my daughter. Majority of people, when they say to their kids “Don’t be silly, that’s not real.” are trying to protect their kids, just in the way that they know how, the same way I did what I knew how to do. The reason why kids do have “Imaginary friends”, who just as an FYI, are not imaginary they are actually there, when they are younger but they disappear by around the age of 7 or 8 is because they’ve been told over and over it’s not real. Which is how we create adults that don’t believe in what they can’t physically see or touch. It’s why adults are disconnected from their intuition, it’s why there are certain people that are skeptical about anything and everything. Which brings me back to the pendulum lesson with my daughter. Firstly I showed her what YES looked like and what NO looked like by me using it. Then I asked “Is my name Emma?” which it swung in the Yes direction obviously. My daughter’s eyes were wide, she gasped, her hands came up to cover her mouth and she is speechless – which my child takes after me and is never at a loss for words. I asked a few more general questions to show her that it would say Yes or No correctly before she was asking if she could have a go. I get her to hold it and have her check YES and NO for herself – her eyes at this put look like they are going to pop out of her head and her mouth is open like one of those clowns at the fare that you throw the balls into their mouth. She asked the pendulum about her name and her age and when it swings as a YES she says “MUMMA – IT’S MAGIC! IT KNOWS MY NAME! IT KNOWS HOW OLD I AM!” with absolute delight and shock and amazement all rolled into one. She kept asking a few questions to it and just kept saying over and over “Mum this is MAGIC, how does it KNOW? This is the most magical necklace I’ve ever seen, can I have one of my very own PLLLLEEEEEEAAAASSSEEEE?” When I didn’t say yes to this she then proceeds to ask the pendulum “Is my Mummy the BEST mumma ever? Oh it’s a YES! Mum it’s a YES you are the BEST MUM! So can I have a magic necklace of my own?”It was very cute. The thing is – this is magic. You are literally holding a piece of metal and crystal and it starts MOVING to give you an answer to a question you