After a pause in our conversation I simply said to her “why not just eliminate your 1 month offer and let the entry into your program be a three month long offer?”  And this talented, go-get-it, savvy woman said to me, “Oh, I don’t think anyone would just jump into a three month program with me.”  There it was!  A mindset that created a huge stuck place in my client, making it harder for her to engage the type of woman she really wanted to work with the most.  Making it hard to think of her program as “worth” 3 months.  Making it hard for her to increase her income by cutting out a short program that wasn’t really profitable for her while raising her price for her 3 month program and justifying that with cleaner, more focused program descriptions and marketing.  Making it harder for her to attract the people who most need her service, only because she didn’t believe the worth of what she was offering.

Read that again…..you know….that part about “believe in the worth of what you are offering.”  That belief is the core of marketing that works.  For solo professionals and small business owners to have belief in their own products and services is 100% critical!  If your own mind is set to devalue and doubt what you most have to offer in service to others, you’re marketing with a strait jacket on.  Your mind wraps itself around false beliefs and your heart constricts.  Your “voice of unworthiness” starts screaming at the top of its lungs.  Nothing good comes from being in this state!

Your mind set can sabotage your dreams, even keeping you from fully allowing your dreams to become known to you.  That’s not only sad, it’s counterproductive for your life.  My advice…….listen to your dreams, no matter how outlandish they may seem at the time.  Just listen, give them space to be.  And monitor that your mind set doesn’t sabotage even the listening!

1. You are so committed to your sport, in such a disciplined, focused way, that it is literally visible in and around you, at least to me.  How did you come to grow such a great ability to focus?
2. When you are playing golf, it seems to me that each moment of the game is your sole purpose for being.  Focusing only on what you are about in that moment, giving it your sole attention and purpose, puts you into a space of heightened awareness that gives you an edge.  Would you agree?
3. When we know our soul purpose, we have the ability to step into that purpose with great energy and even love.  We feel a passion for what we do, and an ability to surrender to the flow.  It’s as if our soul takes over and runs things, is the driver (no pun intended, Tiger) until we step out to do something else.  What do you think about golf being your soul’s purpose?
4. When we surrender to our soul’s purpose, everything in our life comes into alignment to support what we have dedicated ourselves to.  I believe that healing from your surgery as well as you did, and coming back so strongly, is connected to your living in your purpose.  Instead of the surgery and your recuperation being the story, it was only a sidebar, a support to your main story of being one of the world’s greatest golfers, ever.  Your deeper focus was getting back to playing, and recuperation was just a part of staying in the game.  Do you see it that way, too?

Amazing things happen when we have the discipline and focus to follow through, to practice with sole purpose, and to let our work flow from our own soul’s purpose.  Mine isn’t golf, and probably yours isn’t, either.  But we both do have a soul purpose, and we can be just as great as Tiger Woods if we are dedicated and committed, like him.

(c)  Sue Painter

When Harry goes back to his uncle’s house for school breaks he isn’t able resume his former way of being.  He goes back a changed young man.  He feels hemmed in at his uncle’s house, knowing that how he must live while there really doesn’t fit him.  His uncle, aunt, and cousin sense the changes in him and react with fear.  As the years go by, Harry’s understanding and knowledge of himself become stronger.  As we all know, he begins to fight with the forces that seek to destroy him and the life he has come to love at Hogwarts. He is willing to put himself on the line, even when his courage doesn’t match the situation.  He pulls energy and strength from his soul to face whatever comes up, and remains true to his purpose.  Harry is a great model for those of us who want to live from what is the truest place for us in life.

Harry uses his white magic to stand against black magic.  Harry has his soul purpose down.  He doesn’t get there without the wisdom, support, and love from people who help him find his path and his power, though.  In my experience, most of us need a pathfinder or two to help us find our way along the path, to find our own magic.  Good job, Harry!

(c) Sue Painter