The World Needs YOU!
 I
have spent the last couple weeks speaking in-depth with
women entrepreneurs about their goals and what’s holding
them back. Here’s what I see happening over and over
again: women who are playing small. Super-duper, tiny small!
Here are some of the ways this can show up in your sales
and marketing, or your recruiting.
- You’re uncertain how to describe the work
you do. As a result, you feel anxious and insecure.
Then you’re puzzled why people who say they need
help don’t recognize you have that exact form of
help!
- You worry about people judging you.
You hold back on what you say; you say bland generic things
that do not excite anyone. You spend most of your time
monitoring and trying to guess what your conversation
partner is thinking, instead of BEING in the conversation
with them.
- You feel that marketing is in conflict with
an important value you have: e.g.,
- It’s in conflict with being creative and
artistic (I’m creating something new and
wonderful; people should recognize that and choose
to buy it without me doing anything special to sell
my work),
- Or with being spiritual and helping people (I
have to give my work away in order to remain spiritual),
- Or with the need to be modest and never take up
too much time in any conversation (Nice girls
don’t speak about themselves unless asked, they
don’t monopolize conversations, and they never
interrupt).
When you don’t market and sell what you do, you
may be great at what you do, but somehow no one else knows
about this except you, your cat/dog, and your close friends.
Here’s the big net effect. You are not sharing
what you’re here to share. You have a unique
purpose that you bring to life through your business. If
you don’t share it with people, you are not fulfilling
your divine purpose.
You are not helping the people you’re meant
to help, who are lying awake at nights praying
for an answer to appear. All the people who can benefit
from your special skills and your way of sharing your message
– they have to look elsewhere for help, support, and
guidance.
You are suffering. You aren’t making
enough money; you don’t feel at ease in your work;
you’re not living your best life.
Your family, friends, and complete strangers are
suffering. When you are living in your full purpose,
when you are authentically expressing yourself, when you
give yourself permission to fully engage in your recruiting,
or your sales and marketing – you are unleashed! You
are unbounded! You expand, and that means you automatically
enlarge the lives of others.
I love the Marianne Williamson quote on this: “And
as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other
people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from
our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.“
As you liberate yourself and allow yourself to experience
abundance, prosperity, joy, and fun, you are giving others
that gift, to cast off their fears and unleash themselves,
and experience what you’ve got going on!
It’s not just an emotional experience you’re
sharing, it’s also financial. As you make
money, you spread more prosperity in the lives of people
around you. You hire a cleaning service or buy a new phone
– those represent jobs. The people who have those
jobs become more prosperous and in turn, share their own
prosperity. You take your family on a fabulous vacation,
creating forever memories for them. Your kids grow up seeing
first-hand how a successful entrepreneur runs her business,
overcomes obstacles, and develops self-confidence. The more
you think and act like a self-confident successful entrepreneur,
the more your kids see that, feel that, and try it on themselves.
What more amazing gift than to share your success
with the many, many people in your life?!
Your business is not just for you; it’s
for every customer you touch and in turn, the effect they
have on their families and friends. It’s for your
family and friends, who are touched by you and your success,
your beliefs, your prosperity. It’s for all the colleagues
standing beside and behind you, who are watching what you
do and learning how to do that for themselves! They see
that their dreams are possible, when they see your dreams
come true!!
Don’t let these people down!
The world needs you, in your fullest glory, and
it needs you NOW.
CALL TO ACTION
- How many people are you directly serving in
your business? These are your clients or your
team members. Write this number down; I’m going
to call this number X. (If you’re just starting
and don’t yet have clients or recruits, let X=1.)
Take that number and add a zero to the end, so it’s
10 times X. What will you need to change in your business
to serve that new 10X number?
- Does your message need to be bigger and bolder
to connect with 10X?
- Do you need additional marketing strategies,
in order to connect with 50X to 100X people and from that,
get 10X new clients/recruits?
- Do you need to change the way you’re showing
up in the world: the way you’re thinking,
speaking and feeling, in order to change the lives of
10X?
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Here's what a recent client has to say about their experience
working with me.
"I have had my own business for almost 20 years
and totally love it. In that whole time, I have always hated
"marketing". To me, marketing was the word to
describe all the things I didn't like about being in business.
I tried to avoid thinking about it, but if I had to define
it in my mind, it was "not very fun things I had to
do to get people to do what I wanted them to do"
That was a formula for disaster. Whatever I said or wrote
was filtered through "what would they want to hear".
Or "what can I say that would make someone do ... whatever"
Marcy helped me see that marketing is really just being
willing to be more me. I write and say whatever lights me
up. The people who are touched by my authenticity are exactly
the ones I want to be working with!"
Dr. Sue Ann Lewine
Z Life Center for Stress Reduction and Personal Growth
www.zlifecenter.com
Burke VA
© 2011 Marcy Stahl
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Spring
is in the air! Two robins established a nest on my balcony
a few weeks ago, now they’re non-stop transporting
worms into the mouths of 4 or 5 hungry fledglings. It’s
going to be fun watching these babies learn to fly!
