My 3 best investments for photographers are not the typical ones you see on the Internet. There is no hardware involved, just mindset! But oh, will it pay you back.
In 2015, I dedicated my year to personal growth in the ‘feeling’ department. I wanted to be more aware of my feelings instead of hiding them, instead of ignoring them, instead of pushing them away.
I knew the hiding of my feelings was blocking me in so many ways. Expressing myself and allowing me to do what I deep down knew what I wanted to do.
So I had this intention for 2015 (it was big on my dream board and in my goals). And looking back on 2015 a few courses and mentors came on my path that I choose without a doubt, without hesitation, even when money was tight. I knew it was the right step for me.
So I challenge you to feel the same thing for yourself when reading about my or any other person’s choices. Are they the same fit for you? Do you feel like this is the right step for you?
I list them in chronological order.
1. Julie Arora – Jedi Masters
Julie is a business coach, teaching you ancient principles. She is convinced through these teachings and her own experience that life doesn’t have to be a struggle. That you don’t have to kill it, crush it, etc. That life can be easy and fun and effortless.
I joined her Jedi Masters course which is a group coaching course that takes about a month. She changed her course a bit, so check on her website what it entails these days.
Her course really gave me a kickstart in the old teachings of a more spiritual way of living, of giving and receiving. It was super helpful and thanks to that first month I was able to explore this way further on my own.
2. Denise – Lucky Bitch Bootcamp
It was time to face my money mindset. What hidden blocks did I have around money? How was I valuing money. Oh so much came out of the closet.
Denise’s Bootcamp really gives you a good shake up how you are living your life and how you value money. The fun part is, you can do the Bootcamp over and over again and every time you will discover new things and consequently your income will rise.
After doing the Bootcamp for the first time, I suddenly loved sending invoices and had no problem at all with raising my prices. I can’t wait to go through it again. Will you join me this round?
A big, super big bonus of the Lucky Bitch Bootcamp is the highly active Facebook group. Lot’s of women with monthly incomes ranging from 1k to 100k (or more) a month are celebrating their wins and facing their challenges in a super positive way. I always feel inspired and uplifted after having checked in there.
p.s. Sorry for the late notice, but if you decide before 28th of January 2016 that you want to do this, there is a payment plan that ends at 9 pm EST USA on 28th January!
3. Michelle Lowridge – Prosperity Prescription 2.0
Oh my. This is a special one. I have no idea how she does it, and it is totally out of my comfort zone to be even writing about it. Michelle is an energy editor. She can remove blocks in your energy. And Prosperity Prescription is a group program where she removes blocks for an entire group. I don’t know how it works, I just know it works. So I signed up in an impulse, never heard of her before. I just knew this was a step that would help me grow. And boy did it work.
You know how you usually learn things? By identifying how you behave because of some belief and that this belief and accompanying behavior is not serving you and then you adopt a new belief around that behavior and then you practice the new behavior and realize it works.
And then you practice it some more until it is no longer an effort to use this new behavior.
Well with the energy work that Michelle is doing with me, I suddenly find myself acting out new behavior without having to practice it! It feels completely normal to me!
Examples on How Michelle Helped Me
An example is the workshop I did last October for around 40 people. Usually, even when I give a webinar I am nervous the day before, let alone when I have to speak in public, let alone when people paid money to be there!
So the whole week before the workshop I was kind of expecting to get nervous. And it never happened. The workshop was so much fun!!!
Unlike other public speaking engagements I had done before, this time I was totally engaged with my audience. Tracking if they could follow me, adding in jokes in between, talking with my hands, doing a spontaneous giveaway and more fun things.
It felt super normal to me and I got a lot of compliments at the end. It was like watching me from a distance and thinking, wow is that me? No practicing. I wrote the presentation in an hour the day before. All completely natural, coming from my core being.
And that is just one example how things are changing. My latest creation here with ‘the Radiant Photographer’ is another example. It just clicked and creating felt effortless and went super quickly.
Hope this inspires you. And who knows, maybe for some of you reading this, the time is just right to join one of those courses.
If it is let me know in the comments! Look forward to seeing you in the Facebook groups (all the courses have their own private Facebook groups).
And of course, if you have any questions or like to know more, I am happy to answer them.