So many healers and therapists feel a strange uncomfortable feeling when it comes to asking for money for their services or telling people about what they do. Why? I just do not know. Why anyone would be reticent to tell someone how they can help them or to ask to be paid for their services is beyond me. Do you walk into a hair salon and expect a free hair cut? No? Then why would anyone feel any differently about paying for a treatment?
Action Step: Value Yourself and Your Skills
You are a gifted spiritual being with the power to help people. You can attract great clients once you start believing n yourself and your services. I can see why you might give somebody free tasters to get them interested and past their scepticism about alternative therapies, but beyond that you must run your enterprise like any other business,. Respect yourself and your business by charging a decent price. Do not be put off charging as much a s you feel is valuable for your product and putting a premium rate on your service. It works for Stella Artois- clients are not always looking for the cheapest, they want the results. If you have the know-how and the training to ease people’s stress, unknot their muscles and ease their tensions – that is what your customers need and want. If you meet these needs you can charge accordingly. Be proud of your art and make your art proud of you!
5) Too Much Information!
Many therapists and practitioners in the holistic business get overwhelmed, saturated and diluted by reading too many self help books, attending too many seminars and wasting time on extra courses and training that might really just be one more way of putting off making a start on their business. This overload of information can create something I call ‘suspended desistance’ – where you become paralysed and frozen to the spot, overcomplicating your business and your life until you remain in a state of total confusion and fear.
Action Step: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify!
Training and reading is great, don’t get me wrong- but there is a time and a place for everything. Be very honest with yourself about how you spend your time and do one thing every day that promotes your business. Trust yourself and make your inner knowledge the final call on everything you do. You are the ‘guru’ of your life- no one knows you as well as you so take back your power today. Never lose the sense of trust you have in yourself. Use just one or two books that really help you and take steps to simplify your life and clear unwanted clutter.
Now that you know these 5 pitfalls and how to avoid them what is reading this article going to mean to you today?
Imagine if you read this for a reason, a gentle butt kick from the Universe as it were. What could that mean? It could mean that you are ready to take your life and your business to the next level.
Here is what I would suggest you do as soon as possible:
- Clear the clutter. Create the inner and outer space you need for clarity.
- Focus = Intention + Attention. Get focussed today. Just decide exactly how you want to transform your business, and commit to putting all your Attention to that Intention. The cliché is so true: where focus goes energy flows. Get your focus sharp like a laser beam, not floaty and messy like a jelly fish. Or you will be the one getting stung.
- Break it down and take action
- Be persistent. Don’t worry about critics and sceptics. Don’t lose heart and keep enjoying the journey.