Grinding towards mediocre is NOT THE WAY.

True or False?

We underestimate our abilities!  

Have you ever said to yourself:

"Its moving slow than I would like."

"Im putting in the grind to build because that is what it takes"

"This is hard, but ... If it was easy, everyone would do it"

When it dawned on me that I had been in network marketing for 10 years, with success reserved for less than 1/2% of those in that industry, and had an award winning gym that I built for another near decade, I realized that I had a lot of what I needed and began to challenge myself to organize that and figure out how I could put into action what I already KNEW.  

The thing is, we can ALL get caught tn a rut doing what we did to get us where we got.  But the million dollar question that will move the needle forward in your business is what needs to change to get to the NEXT LEVEL?

What stories are you telling yourself that are keeping you continuing to do the very same thing you've always done and get mediocre results?

Imagine yourself at your goal.  See the clients and customers loving working with you.  See the stream of new people applying to be next.  See the income you desire dropping in your account.

What did you do to get there?

Who did you hire?

What class did you take?

How many hours did you work?

What did you believe about yourself and your business?

These are things within your power and ONLY you can be and do.  Once you figure out who you have to BE, what you have to do, then you can HAVE what you desire to have.  I challenge you this Sunday to take 30 minutes and set a time and think through the above questions.  You may just give yourself a task list that turns out to be the path to your goals.

Let me know if the comments what you uncover!  I am always here to cheer you on!

Healing and Dealing - The three things to regain clarity, purpose and flow in your everyday life!

 

Mother Theresa actually said it way better, and I paraphrase, if you have time to judge, you have no room to love.  

I have news for people who judge.  That person you are judging has already beat you.  

I know this because its no secret I've been to some pretty low valleys.  And I've felt the pain of wishing I was doing better, and no motivational quote was going to fix it.  And at times, I was jealous, annoyed and even critical.  Truth is, its hard to watch others be clear, be in their flow, or on their game.  Especially when the game you're playing is keeping your head above water and figuring out how to drop the weights attached to your feet!

So I wasn't so much judging, I was just wishing I had my feet under me on solid ground.  I think everyone goes thought this.  

I think;

Its not always a matter of wanting more, being more, holding yourself to a standard, or that yo are being lazy, afraid to dream, yada yada. Sometimes it absolutely is. But having worked so hard to push in a time when I just needed to heal and center, and having worked so hard when it WAS the right time, I learned it is better to just heal and recenter when its time to do that.  

Staying distracted and not healing and dealing is in my opinion, never the right path.  There is always something you can control, and your healing is one of them.  It doesn't involve controlling other people or changing, the past but it involve some scary conversations and facing some scary realities about yourself and your life.

I believe you can never go wrong with:

Taking care of your spiritual house.  Whatever that means.  Whatever you believe that restores you, gives you faith in humanity, orders your world, and helps you love and not judge - take care of that.  Invest in it.  Don't put that off in favor of distractions.

Take care of your physical house.  Let go of appearances inside and outside your life and just lean into the best physical shape you can be in.  Without a doubt, you will not reach your full potential by not pushing your body and being fit.  Playing small, keeping someone else's definition of fitness, doing less than your best for whatever reason allowing yourself to be held back is not doing anyone any favors.  Your purpose will not be realized without marrying your mind and body.  My absolute best effort 2 years ago was not even what a 70 year old would hold them selves to today.  Thank God I didn't camp out there.  Our lives were designed to be a mind- body experience and you will never go wrong pausing to get your physical life in order.  In your happiest, clearest times, were you fit or unfit?  I rest my case.

Take care of your mental house.  Push your mind.  Stay sharp.  Get on top of your administrative life. Push yourself to learn.  Invest in therapy, and consult expert opinions on your mental health and coping mechanisms.  There is a way out if you can be brave and honest with yourself.  There is no room for justifying.  

I honestly dont think there is ever a bad time to pause and do these things.  But if you find yourself sleeping any energy judging others, try having faith that the future is going to happen and you DO have time to take a breath and focus on these 3 things and I dare you not to come out of the other side with your clarity, in your flow and finding joy in your life!

Thinking of being a test case with me?

 There are 7 areas in which I show up and help you:

1) The solopreneur is a lonely fellow. Having someone to get the thoughts out of your head and into something cohesive is in and of itself valuable!  Enter the Biz BFF who is well versed, invested and 100% fully present for you on a schedule.

2) Expert sales strategy - teaching you but also helping you understand how sales works, the psychology of sales, what makes sales happen … so much so that you can not only do it, but be proud to do , and you could teach it to someone else. 

3) Expert marketing strategy, especially SM..Attraction marketing so that your perfect client finds you, hears you, and reaches out. Not just teaching but helping you execute in your specific business so that it translates into measurable results and creating more clients as you service the ones you have.

4) Scaling strategy: How to scale from DAY 1.  If you don’t want to show up and work in 1 year, 3 years, or 5 years the way you need to work right now to gather momentum, there is a very specific strategy from day that if you miss, will feel like you work around the clock.

5) Idea strategy - part of a solopreneurs journey is having amazing ideas …all the time!  So to have a strategy for those ideas so they dont get lost and the cream rises to the top.

6)  The exact method so that you create a business that has boundaries and is efficient and productive NOW.  What you do now is what you will do when your income triples, quadruples, and so forth.  We will open up the blindspots that drive solopreneurs to just self create another job that owns them rather than own a business that you can run.

7)Last, I can help you with the basic record keeping to help with taxes and ROI for your time and just some basic financials to give you a starting place instead of it feeling like an ocean of options!  

My format right now is 6 weeks: 3 calls that are 2 weeks apart where we dive into these strategies, starting with what serves your first and most important goal. 

After each call, it is normal to expect homework detailed to you and accountability to get it done.  Then you choose to rehire based on your results for the next 6 week block.

The investment is discounted about 90% off to be a part of the test case project.   The projected investment once I am finished with test cases will be $1999 for a similar format.  My test cases are helping me fine tune everything right down to call method, flow, all of it!  So its super discounted!  I will be using all that we do in my course development which will be priced lower than the 1:1 at $1999 but higher than the test cases.

I hope this helps you make the decision that is best for you and your business!  

Sending you all the good vibes on your new venture!!

email me at annathetrainer@me.com if you would like to apply to be a test case before the end of the year~

Anna

Top reasons you are not making more money

 

3 SIMPLE tips for making sure your social media is not hurting your business

 Hi!  Below is a video I did for my IG LIVE audience to help people during this time when we are ALL turning to social media in a massive pivot.  I believe now is the time for entrepreneurs to step up and share and be generous with what they are learning to help those around them. 

This applies to everyone not just those in the health and wellness fields. But, honestly, I did this specifically for my friends in the wellness space.  I believe so much in the value of that industry, know its challenges and see a huge need for support.  

For the audio learners, and some bullets with time for the more visual/reading learners.   Head on over to @i_am_annasmith and share and tag anyone else you think this will help!  

• Why are you here? 1) You are procrasti-scrolling 2) You need to learn something new to increase your effectiveness on social media (SM) and you feel something is missing. Why I am here and what I bring to the table...
• You have choices after you learn these tips..you can implement and watch your income increase, you can follow me on instagram tag and share your friends and help me share this message during a time when we ALL need to help each other or you can reach to me and see if you qualify as a test case client for me.
• What is killing your SM marketing game... defining COPY vs CONTENT and super simplifying the definition for attraction marketing.   Copy is marketing language designed to elicit a specific action or response.  Content is how you do it, what excites YOU.  Content is about us, Copy (aka "marketing copy" is about our perfect client and what their needs are. 
• Focusing on ourselves is a deadly SM sin when it comes to attraction marketing and making your time super profitable and effective.  Especially in the health and wellness space.
• What we know:  we love SM, we know it can transform business and we fall into some deadly pitfalls fast
• We mimic the influencer, making posts and trying to be interesting and that creates no boundaries and false sense of working (that actually has no real ROI) and drains us.  Sidetone:  Also - who can imagine doing that for 5-10years?  Something HAS to change or you will burn out, guaranteed.
• As a solopreneur, be very aware that everything you do is creating a JOB...either for you to do, or for you to hire someone else to do in the future.  Are you creating a business you can own or a job that runs you?
• Your biggest asset is time, and skill.  If you use your time doing something with not a lot of ROI then you are losing the opportunity to be doing something else with a larger ROI and make your time count. By increasing your skill on SM you now have a higher ROI on that valuable time asset and the asset of SM (we all know it has potential!).
• The next 3 weeks on Wed at noon, I will teach you to 1) Consider your perfect customer 2) Promote your product or service using a plan and 3) how to evaluate your day and create an organized highly profitable schedule with boundaries and free time that gives you confidence in where your business is going!
• Today - Huge first step is defining that perfect client (I go over how to know who this is) and then thinking very hard about the problem your product or service solves for that exact person.
• After defining this and their problems, find EVIDENCE...testimonials, systems, processes, products, everything your business does for the specific reason of solving their problem..and TALK ABOUT THAT WITH EVIDENCE!  
• Then share exactly what you want them to do.  Do not leave the "next steps" to chance.  Speak the steps in simple terms like you would talk to a kindergartener.  Rinse and repeat and watch the massive change in your results. 
• Remember,  if you found value today, be a part of helping our industry and 
• you can implement and watch your income increase, definitely email me at annathetrainer@me.com with your results!!!  I will celebrate with you personally.
• Go now and  follow me on instagram tag and share your friends and help me share this message during a time when we ALL need to help each other or 
• You can reach to me at annathetrainer@me.com and see if you qualify as a test case client for me.

Thats all I got!  Onward and Upward!

Anna