Thank You, Tad. Thank you for the reminder of Stephen Jenkinson. It was comforting to hear your words about stopping looking for your ideal client. My business is evolving, as it and I have for the last 46 years. Death and grief coming full circle as a previous home birth midwife helping women and little ones onto the planet. Blessings. : )
100%! I cannot say how many times I've said... you don't know what you're missing until you find it. Sometimes...I feel like the marionette... and still finding my way back. Thank you!
LOVE this. What's new??!! I'm having another 'Anian' experience with this video!!!! Over the weekend I 'decided' - following a download during a sunrise meditation at a soundbath on the beach for the Solstice - I am going to be the LIGHTHOUSE on Island C so all my right clients / tribe can see me. NO idea (yet) what that is...but I know it's all about being ME and being shiny and bright and very visible. I've been saying for years 'Real is the next BIG trend and you just can't fake it!'...Like most of the MFH members I've encountered, I am working daily on me... to be better at walking my talk....and being and feeling safe being the REAL ME. I saw an amazing visual...for real...in a field a few years back...a herd of black sheep. NO time to get a pic...but it changed something deep inside me forever. That's the day I pledged to find my tribe! I know I've found a lot of them thanks to you creating the MFH membership. Eternally grateful to you and for you Tad. Namaste. I still wondering how a white sheep in that field would feel?!
Beautiful ‘we’ve got to be real to be found’. Strongly agree. The holy grail back to ourselves. Also, we’ve got to be ourselves to find what we need. Unfortunately, the marketing of mass consumerism has made us believe we stuff we don’t need, we need to do things we don’t need to do and we need to be things we don’t need to be. As you say Tad, we just need to be ourselves. This is surely what we mean by ‘showing up’!?!
Interestingly, my Stephen Jenkinson story is a perfect illustration of your ‘lesson’ today Tad: When he was still in the ‘hospital system’ in Toronto he was assigned to be my family’s Social Worker as my father was dying of cancer. When I was told he would pay me a visit at home I said, ‘What do I need a Social Worker for?!’ . Then this dude sporting a pony tail and genuine cowboy boots pulls up in a pick-up and I’m already thinking, ‘hmmmm, cool.’ To say our conversation at my kitchen table changed my life forever would not be hyperbole. In one of his many memorable statements that day he said, ‘In our culture we live as if we’re going to live. In most other cultures they live as if they’re going to die. Because that’s the truth.’ Yup. Forever changed. And I didn’t even know I was looking.
When I found Brene Brown’s book The Gifts of Imperfection, I felt like she wrote it just for me. Good example of not knowing what I needed. Her book was the first book that launched me into the personal growth world.
You nail it so beautifully in this talk, Tad. This really resonates with me. My new coaching work - helping people learn what their body knows that their mind is blind to - is starting to gain momentum. Look forward to sharing my new website as soon as it’s up. And always welcome your emails.
Thanks Tad, I have just qualified as a relationship coach, done a website and am now ready to start my marketing. Someone from UYB reminded me of you. So you are what has arrived in my life just at the right moment. Your total commitment to be yourself is inspiring. I am going to make my first video and not worry about all the things I have worried about: having the right make-up or hair or whether I am making weird expressions or the sound of my voice etc.
Tad, man, I have things to do (write authentic marketing copy, etc.) but every time one of your videos comes thru I listen. So reassuring, and really, the only thing that has worked for me. I have tried the other way... chasing my ideal students... ooh that was not good. 🙈This is good...
“Your ideal clients are ALREADY looking for you.” “Here’s the thing, you’ve got to be you when they arrive.” They’re looking for you, not some cardboard cutting some misguided marketing image maker has construed. LOL Reverse Pinocchio marionette. Generic. They’re looking for someone real. “You gotta be you”