How to get what you want without relying on money… Your most reliable tool as a freelancer (or other solopreneur!)

When you think of your lifestyle, your business, for the rest of the year, and the next few years to come... What do you envision for it?

So many of my clients (and YOU, watching these videos!) tell me that you don’t have aspirations to make massive piles of money. You, (like me, and like my clients) enjoy working, but you don't want to work 24/7. You (like me, and like my clients) genuinely care about your clients and customers; you want to be ethical with pricing your services and your products.

You just want enough to live comfortably, to live the life you desire — and when you think about the concept of money, you’re thinking about it in terms of *what it can get you* as a tool:

• More time to spend with your families
• Less burnout and less being trapped in the hamster wheel of hustling harder without the results
• More energy to spend picking up new hobbies or reconnecting with old hobbies
• The feelings of security, freedom, reassurance, fulfillment
• Less worry, guilt, shame, judgment about your workday and your work/life balance
• The opportunity to be and do more of what you genuinely WANT for your life and business — AKA, more "wants" and fewer "shoulds"

Yes, yes, yes.

Here's the thing: As a business owner, making more money is a tricky thing to focus solely on for getting these things, because much of the money you make is EXTERNAL to you.

What this means is, you can do everything "right" with marketing your products/services, but at the end of the day, you can’t force someone else to buy — and nor do we want to do that!

What this means is this: If you are interested in gaining those 6 experiences I just listed for you, money isn't necessarily the most reliable tool to depend upon for it.

(IMPORTANT: We're not talking about your costs of having a roof over your head or paying for food and heat. Yes, you 100% need money for those things in this society! Money is a necessity in our society.

But again, when you revisit that list of items above — more time, less burnout, more energy, more good feelings, less negative self-talk, more wants, fewer shoulds; more freedom, more satisfaction, more confidence — money isn't the be-all end-all to get those things)

This is why you can gain so much by looking to other sources for getting what you want — for getting what money, as a tool, can theoretically get you. Because again, you cannot rely on money to get you those things; you cannot force someone to buy from you; you cannot guarantee that money will come in to get you those things. There are alternative tools that will be much more reliable than money for achieving these things.

Two of my favourite alternative tools? Energy management and self-coaching.

Energy management and self-coaching are an amazing foundation for increasing your time, energy, self-kindness, and opportunities to do more of what you genuinely desire... and for decreasing your burnout, negative self-talk, and forcing yourself to do stuff that doesn't light you up.

This is because energy management and self-coaching are both INTERNAL. They are not external.

Money, however, IS external, whereas energy management and self coaching are internal; they are things YOU can control.

Integrating energy management and self-coaching depends on YOU, not someone else. You get to decide, "Today I am going to implement energy management/self-coaching," and voila — you are in full control of making that happen.

If, on the other hand, you decided, "Today I am going to make $X in sales," well... you can do a bunch of marketing actions, but you cannot guarantee that people will absolutely 100% buy from you today.

Gaining more energy and time (Psst... time management is rooted in energy management, so the better you are at energy management, the more time you save!) is something *you* are fully capable of doing, and *you* are in control of it — whereas making more money is, at the end of the day, external.

Energy management + self-coaching → more time availability, improved energy, increased self-kindness, more opportunities to enjoy a genuine lifestyle business (AKA so your life comes before your business!)...

...PLUS less burnout, less hustling, less negative self-talk, less unnecessary "busy work."

In other words, energy management and self coaching gives you ALL those things we mentioned above that you want for your life ♥

And here’s where it gets REALLY cool: The more time and energy you free up, the more capacity and bandwidth you have to experiment with marketing and sales in your business, AND the better you get at client/customer communications, AND the higher-quality work you can produce in less time… all of which can then lead to you increasing your capacity to make more money, anyway!

I love working with solopreneurs to blend these two things: energy management and self coaching. Because, again, it can

a) give you all those things that you want, and

b) pave the way for financial freedom.

It’s amazing! You get to have all of these different things. And the #1 BEST way to do that is with my Solopreneur CEO, 6-month one-on-one business coaching program for freelancers!

In Solopreneur CEO, I myself will coach you through a LOT of things — plus, because we’re working together on that ongoing basis for at least 6 months, you learn how to do self-coaching! This means that we’re ensuring that you can do this work independently. That means that you get even BETTER results in between our sessions, AND after our 6 months wrap up, because you can keep on top of things at an internal level.

PLUS, Solopreneur CEO includes VIP access to my signature e-course, Productivity Powerhouse, which is designed to support you with energy management through a transformative 9-part framework.

I (and other solopreneurs like you!) use this framework constantly in my own life and business for gaining and maintaining the exact things I mentioned here today — more time, energy, freedom, and wants, and less burnout, hustle, shame, and shoulds…

...If you want to achieve all of this, then Productivity Powerhouse is the PERFECT place to get started. You can DIY it (it’s a self-paced online course), OR you can get access to Productivity Powerhouse for free when you book your spot in Solopreneur CEO! 

And again, inside Solopreneur CEO, I will teach you how to do the self coaching side of things… so not only will we do coaching together on our calls, but you’ll also be able to do it independently after the fact, AND while we are going through and doing all of that coaching, you will also be developing really amazing energy management skills.