Mountains of Arizona
Sunny 72 Degrees
8:04 a.m.
Back when I was an employee, I completely took for granted the responsibility I had offloaded to my employer for surviving on the material plane.
Sure, I had to do enough not to get fired. But as long as I did that, the money kept coming like magic!
Not ONCE did I ever consider that this money that was in my paycheck had to come from someone else, from somewhere else. Somewhere, at sometime, there was value changing hands in order to create this money. It’s kind of funny I never thought about that.
What a footloose and fancy free kind of life I lived!
When you’re “flying solo,” you accept all of the responsibility, all of the risk, all of everything that comes with navigating the material plane.
And just in case you aren’t paying attention, that responsibility becomes pretty clear, pretty quickly.
So it sure is weird that we service providers STILL deal with weird feelings about money-with receiving the rewards from our decision to be in business.
You get that queasy feeling with the thought of charging “too much.”
You get that guilty feeling when you’re not actually suffering to earn your keep.
And that’s why so many service providers set fees that lead to frustration, struggle, burnout and a steadily declining perception that you are “cut out for this path.”
But we’re not here to struggle. We’re not here and gifted with skills and talents so we can spend each day worrying about our future.
You can spend your whole life doing that. But is that really LIVING?
I’ve worked through a lot of these issues over the years. And while the journey certainly continues, I’m now in a position where I can help others walk this road just a bit quicker and more gracefully than I did.
So I have an invitation I’m extending to anyone who wants to deal with these issues head on.