Nothing seems to have changed in your life, but you’re not getting the nourishment you need, and you feel drained and blocked.
Maybe your self-care has gone stale.
I made a video about how this happened to me and what I’m doing to make it better. And I bring it home at the end and issue a challenge for you!
If you don’t see it above, click here to watch it – and let me know what you think!
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Today’s the last day to register for The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur!
And as a thank-you for your attention during this communication-heavy registration period, we’ve got one last free resource for you.
In this video, Kelly and I jam about peaceful entrepreneurship, just because it’s fun. And what do you know, useful and helpful topics come up! Topics like:
You can watch it here.
Are you joining us for The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur?
Superb! If you haven’t registered already, you’ll want to do that today, because today is the last day to sign up.
If money is tight, remember that there’s a payment plan available, and if your “yes” is a yes with reservations, don’t forget that we’ve got that no-questions-asked 100% money-back guarantee that you get to redeem after you take the course.
Cool! I’ve got some tater tots for you later. And I hope you’ve found some of our free resources helpful. Here’s a recap, in case you missed any of ‘em:
Would you like to know how I make decisions?
Hmm. I can’t actually wait to hear your answer, so I’m going to tell you, and if you don’t want to know, then stop reading here.
I feed my head, then ask my heart.
By “feed my head”, I mean I look at all the available information. Sometimes I’ll do some research. Sometimes I’ll ask others for more information. Sometimes I’ll make a pros-and-cons list. Sometimes I’ll talk it over with someone I respect — although to be honest, those conversations are more about me thinking out loud than about having a two-way conversation.
By “ask my heart”, I mean I sit quietly, close my eyes, and turn my attention to my heart. I take several deep breaths and become aware of my connection to Spirit. I imagine placing the thing I’m deciding about in the palm of my right hand. I gently close my hand over it, and slowly place my closed right hand over my heart. Then I ask, “Is this right for me?” and wait to sense a reply.
Sometimes I sense a warming, or expanding glowing feeling in my chest. That’s a yes. Sometimes I sense a contracting, cooling feeling. That’s a no. Sometimes I physically lean slightly forward or backward. Forward is a yes, because it’s toward the thing represented by my hand. Backward is a no, because it’s away from the object of my decision.
Sometimes I don’t get anything clear at all, in which case I’ll either meditate on it for longer, or go get more data or think about it some more, then ask my heart again.
This is how I make all my important decisions. Business decisions, relationship issues, which car to buy, household budgets, what city to live in. I feed my head, then I ask my heart.
The danger of it is that I’m asking “Is this right for me?”, not “Is this easy for me?” or “Is this comfortable for me?”. My heart doesn’t always lead me where I want to go, but it always leads me where I need to go.
The beauty of it is that it brings me peace, because I no longer second-guess myself. I used to second-guess myself every day, but now I have faith in my heart.
So if you’re not sure how to decide (about The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur or about anything), try this process. Feed your head, then ask your heart. Even if you’re not sure how to do every single step of the process, just give it a shot and see what happens.
I trust your heart. Do you?
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Two years ago, I ranted to Kelly Kingman about how almost all the people teaching business online had a “crush it” attitude. She suggested we teach a class about peaceful entrepreneurship as an antidote to the “crush it” mentality; to represent some feminine energy as a counterpoint to all the masculine energy out there.
(At the time, we called it “Slow Business”, as in “Slow Food”, but we later renamed it because we thought people might not get the reference.)
We tested the waters, and plenty of people resonated with this concept, so everything looked good…
…but I told Kelly no, because of a promise we made in 2010:
We’ve always been adamant that we wouldn’t sell anything related to business until we’d been decently successful in business. It just seems too circular, like those make money online scams that claim to teach you how to make a million dollars, and the answer is “trick a bunch of people into thinking that you can teach them how to make a million dollars.” Blech.
But since then, we have become decently successful in business — more than decently so, in fact — so now I feel wholehearted about teaching what I’ve learned to others. I reopened the idea with Kelly, and the rest is history!
The mission of the Connection Revolution is to help idealists blossom into world-changers. Here’s how The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur serves that mission.
Imagine a world full of peaceful entrepreneurs creating sustainable businesses, using ethical sales and marketing techniques to provide value for others.
Every person who takes this course and applies what they learn brings us all one step closer to that world.
First, a quick recap: Kyeli is my life partner and my business partner. Kelly is co-creating and co-teaching The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur with me (Pace). Here’s a handy field guide to help you tell the difference.
Anyway, the way Kyeli and I divvy up our projects is that I take the lead on the business-related projects, Kyeli takes the lead on the writing-related projects, and we work together on the changing-the-world and making-your-life-more-awesome projects.
Since The Way is business-related and Kelly wanted to join forces to teach it together, Kyeli bowed out to focus on other things.
It depends on what you’re looking for. If you want to learn business techniques and strategies that are new to you, then no, it won’t be helpful for you. But if you want to learn how to apply these techniques and strategies in a peaceful way — if you want to make your existing business stop stressing you the heck out — then yes, The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur will help you create that peace.
Yes! I love creating jingles! But it sounds so peaceful, it’s more of a meditation than a jingle. I was trying to evoke the feel of a Zen garden.
You can listen to it here. (It’s just 15 seconds long.)
I composed it in Renoise, and that’s Kelly’s voice you hear. I asked her to record herself saying “The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur” a dozen times, and I used the one that sounded the most peaceful.
We used Mark Silver’s resonant pricing technique.
Kelly resonated with $297, I resonated with $197. We talked it over, and decided that we’d rather help more people for less money than fewer people for more money. So we settled on $197.
I admit, it’s a little scary to offer a guarantee that lets people take the entire course and then get their money back after the fact, but Kelly and I talked it over, and we decided to have faith in our students. We’re asking you to have faith in us by giving us your time, attention, and money, so it only seems fair that we also have faith in you by trusting you not to take advantage of the guarantee.
I like having a bold guarantee like ours, because it puts my money where my mouth is. I’ve got to deliver as a teacher if I want to keep my profits.
That said, it’s less scary for me than for Kelly because I’ve offered guarantees like this in the past, and no one has ever taken unfair advantage of it.
To get a full answer to that question, you’ll have to ask us again at the end of class. (: But here are some of the teaching methods we plan to use to help our students:
We set out to create a win/win/win scenario.
We started by giving away lots of the course material for free, with no restrictions. This encourages people to share it with others, which helps people find out about the course. People are more likely to share a link to free stuff than a link to buy something.
Then, when people go to our website to get the free resources, we encourage them to sign up on our mailing list, and in exchange, we give them access to The 7 Habits of Peaceful Entrepreneurs free teleclass (or the recording of it, now that it’s over).
Lastly, we encourage people on our mailing list to register for the course.
It’s a win for the people who use the free resources, because hey, free useful stuff!
It’s a win for the people who register for the course, because the course will be awesome.
It’s a win for the people who share the free resources, because they get to help out their friends.
It’s a win for our Ambassadors, because they get to help out their peeps by giving them free stuff and get thank-you monies for doing so if their peeps register for the course.
It’s a win for us, because we get to help people, connect with new people who are interested in what we’re doing, and make money.
LOL! I could teach an entire course to answer that question! (Hint: it’s called The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur.)
But for a shorter answer, I’ll tell you 4 things that helped me keep my cool.
The 3-tier system is something we’ll teach in class, but here’s a sneak preview. When planning a project with lots of tasks (to-do items) in it, split your tasks into 3 tiers:
Work on all the Tier 1 tasks, then check in with yourself (and in this case, with your partner). How much time and energy do you have left? If you’re up to it, go for some Tier 2 items. If you get all those done, check in with yourself again. How much time and energy do you have left? If you’re up to it, go for some Tier 3 items.
The wonderful thing about this system is that after you finish Tier 1, you can breathe a sigh of relief. It’s now “good enough”, and everything else is BONUS!
For The Way of the Peaceful Entrepreneur, Kelly and I completed all our Tier 1 tasks, about half of our Tier 2 tasks, and a smattering of Tier 3 tasks that we just felt like doing, like the jingle/meditation I talked about above. (:
Class begins on Jan 26, so that’ll give us enough time to get everyone oriented, create the partner rotation, and prepare for the first class.
Click here and register today!
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