You see, I have been offering my services as a YogaHealth Coach for 10 months, but more importantly, I haven’t felt like a Yoga Health Coach until very recently. I have been following the sage advice from our teacher, Cate Stillman, who encourages us to “Fake it until you make it.”

It has now been 14 months since I first stepped onto the Yoga Health Coach bus. Actually, it’s more like the Yoga Health Coach rocket ship — which has landed me on Planet ‘Holy Cow’ — I’m now in the new & expanded universe of ME!!

My Journey on this rocket ship began with an email from YHC inviting me to explore the possibility of becoming a YHC Coach. I paused for a moment… and then an aligned inner voice said “DO IT,” so I clicked the response button… YES! Please tell me more. Before I knew it, I was talking with Cate, and I knew that I was in the exact right place. Very seamlessly, I was on board the YHC bus — ticket in hand, operating manual downloaded, calendar in sync, payment made, operating systems a go… and GO we did!

I got on the calls, I followed directions, I did the action steps. I kept moving forward, even when I was not sure where I was going. I kept faith in my purpose. I reached out with questions. I believed in the process. I listened to my teacher. Step by step, things clicked into place, and my program started to take shape. Before I knew it, I was coaching a group of 15 women. Everything happened inflow and in alignment, and my program became a reality beyond my expectations.

After several years of trying to teach Ayurveda as a Yoga teacher, I had finally found a systematic, accessible & comprehensive way to share my many years of healing wisdom, and my passion for Ayurveda. Everything I needed was laid out — the action steps, the business model, the Admin Guide, tech support, the support & structure of the community. Yes!!… this system works!

I’ve got this!

And then, sure enough, “Houston we have a problem!”

Fear decided to show up. Overwhelm and self-doubt joined them. Who is at the helm? Me?
Who am I to be coaching and leading these amazing women on this life-changing journey? Yes, I’m an RN and an experienced Yoga teacher. Yes, I have experience and knowledge, along with several card-carrying credentials, but I’m not a Yoga Health Coach… am I?

I remembered the guideline of “reach out when you tweak out.” OK. I contacted my mentor and hopped onto some YHC calls to find connection and guidance. I found it. In these calls, two words emerged: Imposter syndrome.

Oh, it actually has a name?! That’s me! I do feel like an imposter – I am not really a Yoga Health coach, but I’ve accepted these women into my program and they are trusting me. I am wearing the coach hat, but it’s not me. On hearing these words, I felt relieved. I was not alone. It’s OK to feel this way! It’s part of being in process. Then…. I heard the sage advice of “Fake it until you make it.”

This took me back to the beginnings of the other roles through which I serve. As a new Yoga teacher, I was advised to “be willing to suck at this for a while.” I did. As a new RN, I was told to “aim for perfection, but know that you may miss the mark, occasionally.” I did.

Now, I am proficient in these roles — performing them in an optimal, organic, and fluid way. It took time. Like, a long time to get here. It took perseverance, courage, and belief in myself in these roles. It took learning from my mistakes and getting back in the saddle, time after time.

“Fake it until you make it.” Is that really ok? Yes. Yes, because we’re never faking who we are, or faking the wisdom we are imparting, or faking true intention. We are merely “faking” the coach that is in process and beginning to emerge from within.

So, here is my confession: I did “fake it until I made it.” The “I made it “ came today on the final coaching call of my Q2 program. I felt Connection. Fluidity. Confidence. True. Real. I felt the full pulsation of the coach merge with my other roles and flow through me — from root to crown, crown to root, and out into the ether. I am now a Yoga Health Coach.

My journey onboard the YHC rocket ship continues as I orbit through the expanded universe of ME. I recognize that I still have much to learn, but I now trust the process, and I’m excited to see where my journey will take me next.

We, Yoga Health coaches will always be in process. At some level it seems, there will always be a little ‘imposter syndrome’ emerging as we continue to grow and bump up against our edges. We know that it’s part of growing and getting bigger and better in our life offerings.

I didn’t want to focus on my food, sleep, self care, or morning routine.

I didn’t want to do Body Thrive.

I caught on to Cate Stillman in the early days of Covid shutdown, just after I quit my job and had a back injury. I saw it all as an opportunity – what do I want to learn that I have never taken the time to? I had already started studying in a coaching program and sensed some form of pivot was in my future.

I wanted to jump into Master of You, I loved learning about the elements in our lives and I badly wanted to sort out what my purpose was. It felt bigger than what I had been allowing and I had been noticing the trend of feeling limited when I was managed by others.

I wanted to shift lanes from one purpose driven lifestyle of adventures in serving others and traveling in the wilderness, to the next Instagram worthy journey of meaningful work. I switched jobs and the novelty fueled my fire as did the move to a new town and the change in routine. When I was totally depleted and emotional in that work I quit again and my energy sparked again. It was so easy to believe it was circumstances that had me tired, day after day, and on the verge of tears more often than not.

I didn’t want to tend to those smoldering embers, to the out of control emotions, the lingering fatigue, or the tendency to get injured and be slow to heal. I didn’t want to have a health journey.

I wanted to look at the map, find another cool destination and plot a course to get there with some neat wilderness trips along the way. I could keep driving hard the way I had, my whole career as a wilderness guide, keep pushing toward the finish, the to-do lists. Keep expanding my capacity for efficiency and leadership. Keep showing up day after day.

Until I couldn’t. I felt broken and sad, I was tired and lost. You could say it was the bottom, but I had bottomed-out 4 or 5 times already. I had to get stuck there for a bit to realize that there were things in my life that once had been good enough but no longer were, like my health. Once I noticed that burnout and depletion are some of my health conditions, I could no longer consider myself the ‘picture of health’. As much as I wanted to jump straight into Master of You and to evolve my purpose and have a big adventure, I was too deeply tired. Not only tired but quick to overwhelm and bogged down by brain fog. Everything seemed too hard, too far away and I felt like I was making no progress at anything. I needed to start with Body Thrive, to organize my daily habits in a way that would give me an abundance of energy, heal that which I was ignoring and put me on a path to be healthier each day. I didn’t need to go to the hospital, it wasn’t the obvious kind of emergency health care that I needed, what I needed was to tune into myself and listen to the subtle signs and the deep wisdom of my own body and of myself.

I didn’t want a health journey, but really I was asking for one. I was asking to have the energy to not only take care of myself but others as well, enough energy to change the world. I wanted it to be easy, to just will it into existence and drive forcefully at it until it was true. But neither of those things work, and now I know that health comes first, and that we are all on health journeys of some kind, whether we like it or not. Some are obvious: the show stopping, game changing, “scare you to death” kind of obvious, and others are more subtle. The slow depletion of energy, the increased prevalence of illness and injury, and the slow recovery time that perhaps never comes to full completion. I didn’t want to do Body Thrive to get what I wanted, but the world demands it. Honing in daily habits around food, sleep, self care and exercise, that’s not as glamorous as the resiliency I once thought I had, and now I am slowly paying back the debt I borrowed from tomorrow. I didn’t want to do Body Thrive, but I’m glad I did. Now I can’t stop.

On the one hand I deprived myself of keeping track of the great and not so great things that happened in my life, on the other hand I had no control over making things move consistently in the direction to fit my needs and organize my service to others. I feel regret, but not in a bad way, that makes me want to hide away. Rather a regret that makes me want to shout and pull all I have kept inside for so long out into the world, because I’m sure it would serve someone’s path forward. Maybe someone just like me that wouldn’t give much attention to the things, great or not, that still got the wheel turning and, as such, made a difference.

My story, divided in: past, present and future. This seems quite a task, right? Personally I feel so intimidated that I’m still questioning if I’ll be able to even get close to writing a blog article about it, as I told my accountability partner last week probably in a brief moment of sublime invincibility.

But then again, who am I without my personal story? How could I live without making a stand for it?| Without writing down what I’ve been through, who I am? Telling everybody about it, even those that couldn’t care less, I have to do it because I owe it to myself. Have I been living a parallel life to my own or even tried to live the life of others instead of focusing on my own. Do I feel so unrealized because I’ve been dedicating my life to the glory of others which stories have been, are being and will be told on and on again?

I need to make a stand for my own sake! My story is worth my while. It is not of little interest, it is my story, full of details about why my life has unfolded the way it did. How much is it worth to remember moments and episodes of my past life, to understand what my life is like today and to foresee what potential it holds in the future? Much of my time, I tell you! Much more than what it’ll take me to finish this article!

Thinking about Brian Moran (12 week year) saying : « be encouraged ! » to close his advertising letters. As I write it. it makes me think about what it actually means to take all my courage, all my grit and share with whom willing to listen, starting with myself, the good and the bad in my life without distinction. Why have I tried to save a preschool folk over 40 years ago from the bullying of his peers in a parallel class to mine receiving a kick in the bottom as a reward by the same folk? Why did I feel so aggressive and unwell in all my primary school experience always being on the frontline when trouble showed up? How much have I lied to myself about feelings when I was a teenager and how much has this influenced my life years later and still today? What will I want the future to be?

Personal story in the past, present and future written down – check. Read back and record (past and present) – check. Still need to refine and understand that the job will never be done in full, but what’s the sake? Shouldn’t we continue writing until our last breath? Awareness is the key. Awareness of oneself to be able to live one’s life fully! No excuses.

And remember that from the time you have decided to do it there will be universal consciousness supporting and checking on you. Make sure you go all the way because if you don’t you’ll end up with a feeling of failure that might weigh a ton! Understandable: you had all the odds on your side. You might not have felt ready, but you had so many thoughts running through your mind only waiting to be put on paper. Do it, try to put some order in it, start with the things that seem the most important to you and improve with time. Aim for the B- as Cate would say.

This is it, I made it. Is it what I wanted it to be? Could I have done better? Will this article influence anyone or make my life and others’ life better? I don’t know but I know that I will feel better once I have pressed on the button « publish ».

With love and deep care !

After flirting with Yogahealer for about six months, in May 2020, Shea Lehnen decided to go all-in and join Yoga Health Coaching.
Now, only a few months after, she has enrolled 18 people into her Pilot Program. It just goes to show that investing in yourself does, truly, payoff!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to enroll in a conservative community
• How to build your confidence with coaching
• How to invest in yourself in order to grow

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Shea talks about building trust in a conservative community
• Shea shares what advice Cate gave her about confidence as a coach
• Shea talks about her enrollment goals

Timestamps:

• 2:02 The Fast Tracking path in YHC
• 7:31 Structuring your Pilot and Course
• 16:18 Using the step by step YHC system

Guest Bio:

Shea Lehnen started Yoga Health Coaching in May 2020. With a background in psychology, and as a yoga teacher, Shea created Balanced Warrior of Wyo, and is ready to crash the scene with holistic wellness!
Her desire is to help people, Rooted in Ayurveda and Yoga, become the best they can be by making small changes over time, leading to health and becoming their most vibrant selves.
Based in a conservative community in Wyoming, Shea was looking to deepen her Ayurveda experience when she found Yogahealer. Choosing to fast track her YHC experience, she has been able to enroll 18 people into her Pilot!

I think it’s interesting that people are constantly trying to escape boredom. What is it about feeling bored that we find so terrifying? We are surrounded by a limitless amount of entertainment, often right at our fingertips – so is it that we are forgetting we can be alone, with no one to communicate with and nothing to do?

Boredom is important. When we experience feeling bored, it is the first time in that day, or for a long time, that we are inactive. Boredom can be a sign that we haven’t completely stopped in a while, after a long time of constantly receiving input. And so after this time, when space arrives in the form of—nothing to do, nothing planned or nothing that triggers our desires—we are arriving in a place of stillness.

From both an Ayurvedic and a psychological perspective, boredom can be a positive thing. If it wasn’t for boredom, we probably wouldn’t get anything done. Professor Angela Duckworth, author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, agrees that boredom is useful for the progression of humankind.

“If you ask a simple question, why we have emotions, the answer seems to be that evolution gave us emotions for survival. So, fear is useful. Anxiety is useful. And even boredom is useful, because you don’t want an organism who just does the same thing over and over again without learning anything.”

When we are bored, it’s only a sign that there is suddenly some space in our minds of non-thought, non-desire and non-attachment to anything. And we need to be able to feel this. In Ayurvedic terms, boredom is the opening-up or the quietening-down of the internal wind, as people begin to perceive the space that they live in. And in this space, creation happens! In order for us to perform in excellence, or even at a genius level, we need to find these places of boredom and silence, with no plans for where to go or what to do. And it’s important to make time for these spaces in our lives.

These days we don’t often find ourselves in spaces to properly perceive stillness, unless we decide to do something like travel out into nature, go for a walk in the woods, and leave our trusty smartphone behind. If we don’t try to take breaks from using our phone, we will continue to be hit with a constant stream of input. Of course, I can’t say this is all bad. It can also be a beautiful thing, as it gives us the freedom to choose information and decide how we want to build our world. But on the other hand, we are becoming all-consumed as we are getting addicted to this type of input. We are becoming less sure about ourselves, and instead more sure about what more we need and what is missing in our lives.

All of this ‘putting in’ will defeat the self. And when we are defeated we are less likely to put out, or we put out under pressure. But this forced form of ‘putting out’ makes us enjoy less of what we’re doing. More and more we are performing at a level of capability, but not at a level of excellence. In The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks shows us the many ways we can self-sabotage our dreams and how when we are feeling safe we are underperforming. Allowing yourself to feel bored might come out of your comfort zone, but it’s essential to perform at your highest potential or to ‘put out’.

Boredom can be a good friend indeed, a friend that teaches us to become more aware of details. This reminds me of a yogic friend of mine who never really never got bored. She would become sucked into observing her cup of tea and the way the water would turn, or the change in colour when the bag dipped in. And she could sit for hours with that cup of tea. I think this is a nice symbol for boredom, and that it is just a perception of a speed, rather than something that means slowness.

So my advice is to arrive at a level of excellence, or you could call it a level of output, instead of only input. In my work and day-to-day life, I come across a lot of people who are creative, but this isn’t necessarily coming from a zone of excellence, it is from a zone of capability. Imagine what these people could create if they allowed themselves more space. If they allowed themselves those moments of silence throughout the day in order to become quiet and come to boredom. We all need more time for that. So think about where you can take the time out of your day to get bored.

If you want to get inspired for a slow life, tune into my new podcast Outer Travel Inner Journey and start to discover your inner peace.

We all know it’s a big deal to be on the path of a Yoga Health Coach (YHC). Your hunger, desire, and passion to support your community and your family doesn’t go unnoticed. How you’ve likely shifted your life in more than one domain to make this happen is clear to me. It’s a potent path and has multiple levels of payback.

If you are new to Yoga Health Coaching, I’m here to remind you that your investment in yourself has returns you likely have no possibility of knowing today. Given that I started the program in 2013 and am currently in YHC Continuity, I’ve noticed the returns on my YHC investment continue to present themselves, oftentimes in surprising ways. One return on investment that doesn’t need to be a surprise is that the curriculum is designed for you to offer 1 to 2 Pilot Programs to get experience marketing, onboarding, and running your own courses. This is the perfect model for you to end your YHC course with zero debt.

Follow the breadcrumbs, put yourself out there, price your course to FILL, and you’re golden. What I did worked, to my own surprise, and I’ll share it with you. I say “to my surprise” because I wasn’t crunching numbers all along, but I when finished Yoga Health Coaching I doubled my return on investment, meaning I paid myself back twice. Here’s how.

I entered Yoga Health Coaching  in 2013 as part of the first class. I remember my hands sweating when Cate started talking about running a pilot program. I was nervous to offer something new and charge for it when my community knew me as their yoga teacher. What did I know?

I followed the set curriculum, strategies, and step-by-step formula, and I started sending out surveys. What I found was there were many people intrigued by what I was learning. The more I shared, the more people gravitated towards me.

The YHC curriculum is setup to easily follow along step by step. For me, the hidden curriculum of YHC was putting myself “out there.” It was the tiny print of the process. Here are 3 tips if you want to be “in the black” (as they say in accounting) by the time you test for your YHC Certification.

1.Follow the Breadcrumbs.

Not only is the curriculum designed for you to follow sequentially like a beautiful yoga class, but you also have a community of members at different stages of the sequence who are ready and willing to help. When you are invited to laser coaching with your Mentor, sign up. When Cate asks for questions on the live calls, press 1. Keep following the breadcrumbs and maintain momentum with the curriculum. You don’t have to make this up yourself, but you do need to show up and do the work. You got this.

2. Put Yourself “Out There”!

This for me was the hidden curriculum of Yoga Health Coaching. Putting myself out there has never been an easy task. My social media presence was super inconsistent before Yoga Health Coaching and I really worked at showing up on an ongoing basis and pressing “post” even when my hands were sweating. Now I create videos and am playing with Facebook LIVE. I would have NEVER done that 4 years ago. I’m here to remind you that you have knowledge, wisdom, guidance, and value that is ready to be shared with your community and your people need you to be doing this work.

3. Charge to Fill Your Course + Pay Back Your Tuition.

Decide how many pilot programs you are going to run, and pick dates for both. Consider offering one in person and one online so you can have the systems in place for both. Then, determine the price that you want to offer the course based on who your niche is and the people in your community you’ve been talking to about it. Do the math. How many people do you need in each of your courses in order to pay yourself back for your tuition. Then, give yourself plenty of time to reach out and set up strategy sessions to invite your community.

4. Invite. Invite. Invite.

You don’t need a webpage or have a brand and logo before you run your pilot. Pick a date, and set a goal for the number of people you want to participate. Keep inviting people to join you on the journey. Some people will jump at the chance, and others will waver. All you have to do is offer the invitation. Don’t wait until you have a website or have all your curriculum perfected. Remember, there is no one way to do this. The more people you have in your pilot program, the more feedback you receive, and the more testimonials you get for future offerings.

5. Have Fun!

This is the most important tip of all. Remember to HAVE FUN! Your pilot is a great time to experiment with different models and create a gravitational field into your future offerings.   

Remember, your pilot group and one-on-one coaching programs are laying a strong foundation for your future courses and your confidence as a coach. The more coaching hours you have during the pilot program, the more confident you will be. I found that $375 was the perfect cost for my pilot, and I ran two: one in person and one online. I coached 28 members of my community that year, and many of them continue to retake the course, register for my 10-month Mastermind, and still work with me to this day. I’ve always found the first groups of any teaching endeavor to be the most remarkable, whether it’s yoga immersions, teacher trainings, or the new 10 habits program.

Enjoy the potency and the tangible and intangible return on investments the YHC course has to offer. I know, it’s a gift that keeps on giving.

Here’s Shinay, our YHC Coaches Ally sharing her tips on taking your coaching online.

Here are Shinay’s top TIPS to take your coaching online:

1. Learn your tools + online call platform.
2. Speak into a microphone + bring the group together.
3. Get your students the results they want.  Experience the same “togetherness,” online as you would for your in person group.
4. Take your “skills” online.

It’s fun to see how coaches are expanding the reach of their communities through online coaching. There is no reason, this can’t be you!

Enjoy!

Structure vs. Flow

For many of us when we make the switch from a corporate job to working full time as a yogi or Yoga Health Coach we are looking for less structure and more creative time. What we often don’t realize is that creating structure in our day is what allows us that time to be creative. Without structure and routine we are always stuck jumping from task to task that needs our attention and we never get to enjoy those creative moments that really help us get to the next level of teaching and coaching.

Another bonus of structuring your day and getting organized is that when we sit to do one thing – just like in meditation – we will find that time tends to stand still. We end up getting far more accomplished than we ever dreamed possible when we are able to shut out the distractions around us.
Rachel, our Coaching Team Leader shares her top 3 tips for a YHC Mentor to structure their time to experience more creativity, fluidity and an expansion of time.

Top 3 Tips to Structure Your Time for More Creativity

Structuring your time and your resources will reduce the possibility for role creep or overwhelm whether you are applying these tips in a YHC Mentor role or in your own business. They are a boon to the flow of your week and feeling like a rockstar!

1. Use your bookmarks and get your browser aligned with your priorities
2. Use an online scheduling tool
3. Carve out time for office hours

Schedule Regular Time to Get Organized

Carve out 10 minutes today to update your bookmarks and tag the most important documents and guides you are using for your work. Then put a note in your calendar to update your bookmarks once a quarter with your new priorities and goals, because as we know, priorities and projects shift. Get on it – you will be so psyched you did, and will save much time down the road.

Share in the comments below your number one tip to structure YOUR time.

We Learn, Master, Record, Share, Mentor.

This is one of the 10 Values of Yogahealer and Yoga Health Coaching.

We’ve pulled together Cate and a number of our Certified Yoga Health Coaches who have stepped into leadership positions this year to share their insights, tips and techniques to take your mentoring to the next level and help you THRIVE in your own business and encourage you to become a YHC Mentor.

The collective energy of the YHC Coaches and Leadership Team continues to inspire greater confidence in personal and professional endeavors that are taking their coaching and mentoring skills to the next level. Check them out as they share their tips and tricks and apply to be a YHC Mentor.

Join Annie Barrett, Certified Yoga Health Coach and current YHC Mentor as she shares her experience as a YHC Mentor and learn why she’s ready to do it again in 2017.

Annie shares her top three tips for being a Mentor

1. Spend the time to set up the systems and structures that are going to support your success in YHC and evolution.
   
2. Be proactive and engage in your learning.
3. Actively build supportive relationships within YHC.  

Jump in and take your coaching game to a new level. While you grow and develop your coaching and mentoring skills it will be deeply satisfying and a lot of fun too!

Thanks so much for listening/reading!

Annie

Both decisions have impacted the course of my life in profound and surprising ways.

I could have bought a new (used) car instead of the meditation immersion. I needed one. I was driving a 1998 Toyota Pickup truck (aka Sweet Pea). She she needed love. She didn’t have a speedometer, the tailgate was held up with a stick and I couldn’t lock it. It was time to consider letting go of her and getting something more reliable, at least that was the story I told myself. After weighing out pros and cons I realized I could drive that truck for a while longer, I mean come on, it’s a Toyota and the perfect camping truck (besides the fact that I couldn’t lock it) and I’m certainly no primadona.

The ROI of a Meditation Practice

The return on investment (ROI) from a daily meditation practice was clearly self love. The ripple effect was a healthy marriage and beautiful son. So, I guess you could say I made my money back tenfold and if I knew then, what I know today I would have paid 10x the amount of the course.

I chose self love, over a Subaru and would later choose slaying my limiting beliefs over the status quo.

As a longtime member of the Yogahealer community I knew something was coming down the pipe. I had participated in a handful of the Yoga Lifestyle Coaching pilot calls, where Cate was testing the content and was intrigued with the concepts and curriculum. Once the first version of YHC was open for enrollment, I signed up for a phone conversation with Cate to see if it was a fit.

Sold theoretically in the first ten minutes, even though I didn’t know the investment for the course yet.

My strategy session with Cate took place. I remember vividly writing down notes and numbers and tapping into a world of potential that I had lost in the current makeup of my life.  I had been in an academic administrative role for a long time and yearned to transition, but had no plan or vision on how to do it. The previous fall I had closed my yoga studio. I was still teaching 6 public classes a week, working full time and interested in transitioning to something more aligned with my purpose and that brought more joy in my life, but I was scared.

Cate was full of thought provoking questions that sparked me to consider where I wanted to be 2 and 5 years from then. We sketched out possible scenarios of income if I pursued the path of a Yoga Health Coach. It felt realistic and promising.

The Power of the Exchange of Money

Then the moment came when we spoke tuition.  Let’s just be clear, when she told me the cost of the course I needed to take a
deep breath and write it down in my notes with (ahem) a few exclamation points! I had never spent that much money on myself and it was the clearest I’d been in a while when I told her I would need some time to consider it. After having invested in my meditation practice in such a way, I knew the power of the exchange of money, that nothing is free and the more uncomfortable it was, the more I would get out of it.

She gave me five days to decide.

My mind raced with the the classic list of pros and cons.

As I sat with the idea, it was clear my heart was giving the investment a clear “YES”, but my mind was stopping the show. I went home to my husband to get his support. The cool thing for me is I didn’t need his financial support. I was in a good paying job and my side hustle as a yoga teacher brought in enough money for me to reinvest in myself and my professional development, but this was bigger.

Later I would learn that I needed my husband to be onboard with me moving in this direction, because I would be planting the seeds for a major transition to lean in and leap away from my job.

The Pros and Cons of Investing in Yourself

Like any big decision two lists were created.

Reasons to take YHC and invest:

• Learn more about applying Ayurveda in everyday living.
• Support my family, my yoga students and my community at a deeper level.
• Grow and push my edge professionally and gain some business smarts.
• Work with Cate and the Yogahealer community was always transformative.
• I needed to become more business savvy.
• I desired change and needed a mentor and a community to make it happen.
• I could make back the tuition with my pilot courses.
• I had the money.
• I would learn so much and I LOVE learning.

Reasons to not take YHC and maintain the status quo:

• Affordability.
• Limiting thoughts like, “could I really pull this off?”
• Fear of what could come.
• More Fear.
• There isn’t anything “wrong” with what I’m doing now.
• An already full plate
• Other investments in the line up.
• Did I say fear?

Shifting Limiting Beliefs

I could easily have used the classic excuse of lack of affordability, play the fear card and maintain existence in the status quo. The truth was, I knew the potential for my personal ROI. The meditation immersion was a perfect example and it rocked my world in all life affirming ways and in that model I was never going to “make back” the money I invested and yet the ROI was so clearly a new level of happiness in my life and in my relationships. The money was there, I couldn’t use that as an excuse anymore.

I needed to be willing to prioritize my own personal and professional path.

It was a lot on my plate, but pushing this opportunity aside felt like making another excuse for not following my heart. I had done that too many times.

Five days went by. My husband and I were headed to the airport to visit family and I paid the invoice in FULL with my phone. I didn’t even call. I just paid. On our first group call, the question surfaced, “what is the one thing you want to work on during this program?” I answered, “I want to shift the limiting beliefs I have of myself and step into my true potential.”

I found myself motivated to make back my initial investment in the first year. It seems wild to share, but I made back that initial financial investment in the program x 3! I could hardly believe it when I ran the numbers at the end of the year, but it was TRUE! The crazy thing is, the ROI on this course has less to do with making the money back and more to do with recognizing the kind of person I am today because of it and honoring the person I’m becoming.

So much of my gratitude is anchored in the transformational experience, that is so much more profound and deep than any numbers. If you find yourself wavering or unsure about your next big investment in yourself, know the ROI might be more than paying yourself back on the financial end, but may just launch you in the direction of your dreams.