My sisters don’t apologize for your peace, greatness, self-love, and confidence. Anyone coming in with the bull&$@ you gracefully bow out, exit stage left, and go about your business black woman. You go and be great!
“How dare you dare to be happy and unbothered.”
CEO DriveHer
Don’t care when your peace of mind makes others uncomfortable sis 🤎.
The black woman 👩🏾 must #divest from the struggle bug of life. Often people will make us to feel guilty or undeserving of the greater things of life, luxury, joy, love, etc.
Via YouTube I’ve been introduced to a number of women be-it older, single, married, black, or white that have a real balanced position on #femininity, and I’m loving it!
I must admit in years passed I too did not feel deserving of certain things, it seemed as if those things, persons, experiences, places, somehow took away my struggle, my story… well NO! No it does not, in fact if it pushes out bad chapters, memories, or pain good riddance!
The black woman 👩🏾 is only allowed to be great if tied to struggle, pain, embarrassment, shame, or lack. Often times and many of those times governed and determined by the likes of OTHER BLACKS! The contempt and distain from other blacks when in fact we divest, distance, and no longer demoralize ourself is high. You’re treated as a traitor and even shamed for daring to live a great life far removed from the infamous “struggle”.
The first woman 👩🏾 I grew to see do this was my mother. My mother was NEVER subjected to her environment, my mother walked, talked, strutted, moved with such grace regardless of our state as a family. Unfortunately I failed to appreciate it only until well into my adult years, and even more at almost 41.
I wondered why my mother’s confidence was so high, why she dared to be so bold and free spirited, why she felt deserving to be in any arena. I secretly shamed her, I thought humility was best, when in fact I needed what she tried to teach me for years. Now, I’m that woman and I love it! In fact I’ve always been that woman, I just needed to allow myself to be her.
My sisters don’t apologize for your peace, greatness, self-love, and confidence. Anyone coming in with the bull&$@ you gracefully bow out, exit stage left, and go about your business black woman. You go and be great!
Today’s and forever’s story is no longer rooted nor driven by struggle, but rather our strength to no longer reside in struggle… struggle where bih 💅🏾 *tuh. #businesscoach #divestment #divestedblackwoman #bodacious #audacity #sistergoals
Knowing the realities of business is not always fun, but don’t stress over it, it’s business, not personal; that is until someone violates. Remember, true gold cannot be duplicated!
SET YOURSELF APART BY DOING YOUR PART AUTHENTICALLY”
CEO DriveHer
The other day I wrote a post explaining the importance of not giving too much thought about copycats internet thieves. As a business consultant this comes up often and I’ve found many of my clients suffering from execution paralysis, all because they’re trying to find the perfect safeguard for their business.
Now, I am all about protecting your intellectual properties and even creating safeguards, but if you allow yourself to be held hostage from actually putting yourself or products/service on the market, the would-be copycats have already stole from you. This type of worry brings about anxiety with the production paralysis. You do realize major brands everyday are copied? What is key is when wrongful parties are caught the consequences can be great. Nike, Beyonce, Burberry, Gucci, Chanel No.5, even the U.S. Federal government don’t allow copycats to stop them. Fraud is just part of the nature of the game, just make sure you find ways to rightly protect yourself byway of business insurance, disclaimers, copyright, and contractual agreements.
The copycats and fakesters will always be a few steps behind you when you have an authentic and unique way of doing business. They can’t make a new move until you do! Remember that! This is why I believe personality, strategies, and unique formulas/style matters. People fail to properly brand themselves and create a “deep” digital footprint, hence making it easy for others to duplicate them. My brand is heavily predicated on ME, my life, my experiences, my flow, my style, even to how I communicate. Sure people can and have stolen parts of my business, but bay bay they fail miserably in trying to execute like me. What’s sad is they don’t get the results I do, why? Because I am heavily involved in the process of my procedures products, etc. What I do in business is always changing, some things even by the day, week, or month. This grants me a huge advantage, because I must remain very knowledgeable in my space and grant alternative info if need be. Most copycats will NOT keep up with the craft or info.
So, how what does this have to do with being part of the business gold standard? Everything! Authenticity in business is a gold standard, one the is actually very lacking. Even when it comes to make big name producers, companies, celebrities, you’ll be surprised how un-authentic they are and how they themselves have played copycat. They are always “re-inventing” themselves because often times they never were the real thing. We see this with many fake gurus on theses internet streets, their hand is in everything, they’re an expert on everything, etc., why? Because they’re shooting darks in the dark, hoping to land on target.
So, my little bit of advice is:
Be authentic, but to be authentic you must identify who you truly are, and what are YOUR strong attributes in business that can minimize duplication.
If you need help with business safeguards, get some consulting or a researcher that can help you identify some weak points of entry that may leave you vulnerable to copycats.
Be unique and have a signature process of doing things.
If you catch someone stealing, duplicating, or being a copycat; go after them and have ZERO mercy! Set the tone and prosecute to the fullest extent! Make an example out of them.
Stop living in fear. Understand when you’re authentic you have a deep well of ideas, strategies, and creativity. They don’t!
Always be clear in your contractual agreements, website disclaimer, legalities listed in/on digital products. I do not shy away from making my position clear.
Do a SWOT analysis of your business, and market research to see common points of entries where’s people tend to copy.
Hopefully this blog can ease your anxiety and get you out of production paralysis and you can take that great chance of going into the marketplace with full confidence. Knowing the realities of business is not always fun, but don’t stress over it, it’s business, not personal; that is until someone violates. Remember, true gold cannot be duplicated!
Monday is for the “weak”, Sunday is for the “strong”, let’s get your home-base business powered up through cleaning and organization.
Sunday is the real Monday. If I not mistaken in a famous song of Kanye titled Selah, in one of his bars he says “they say the weak start on Monday, but the strong start on Sunday” and I totally concur with this notion. Sunday is the most chill day to optimize in your business and here’s why:
Most of the world use/views it as a universal laidback day.
The majority of others are not conducting business.
It helps set the tone for the rest of the week, kicking of your Monday to a galactic start.
You can catch up on emails, no one really responds to emails on a Sunday.
Lay out your project management agenda.
Organize, structure, clean home and home-base (aka home-office)
Rollout and schedule direct marketing templates, posts, blogs, and more!
Monday’s energy is for most is dreadful, regretful, and hectic often feeling as if they’re already behind the curveball. I believe this is due to the intense vibration and expectations for the week, many people put such a demand on themselves that they already feel as though they’ve lost.
Area of operation the KITCHEN! Running a home-base business your world’s tend to collide a little and intermingle and that’s okay, but draw strong boundaries and organize your home and fixtures in a way that doesn’t increase disorganization or a mess. I promise you your kitchen is a major factor of presentation and vibe especially if you have an open kitchen like I do. It is imperative you have a clean kitchen, meals planned, and everything in it rightful space. Here are a few things I am doing in my kitchen today:
Cleaning out refrigerator.
Light cabinet organization.
Meal planning for the week.
Washing dishes.
Making a 1/2 gallon or cold press coffee and 1 gallon of green tea w/mint, limes, and lemon.
My kitchen is a very intimate space for me so how it looks and how I move about in it really effects my mood. I love my little tea sets and coffee cups, spoons, French press machine, etc. It is these little moments of daily rituals that enrich my life. If my kitchen is chaotic most likely so am I.
If your room is a mess so are you. Your most intimate living quarters can serve as a clear reflection of your internal self. It is imperative for home-base business owners to maintain a space the allows for free flowing energy. A lack of organization and cleanliness in these areas weighs on the soul.
A messy bedroom causes you to lose time, immediately invoke feeling of stress, and confusion. If you want to jumpstart your day and wakeup un-groggy with your feet hitting the ground running…. CLEAN YOUR ROOM!
Upon waking up do not scroll on phone, get up immediately and following make up your bed ASAP! I’d dare so say have your daily workout clothes and wardrobe set the night before. Here a somethings I am doing today to set the tone for my bedroom:
Hanging up some new wall decor.
Washing all laundry, comforters, sheets, etc.
Hanging and folding all laundry (this is major). I have a bad habit of leaving clothes on my chaise lounge or worst on the floor in a clean pile. (lol don’t judge me)
Dusting! I live in an old factory loft so dust is life around here.
Lastly, and of course your home office the home base of operations! If you want to curate productivity, mastery, and functionality CLEAN YOUR OFFICE! This is all about mindset business owners, you want to minimize spacial clutter that we tend to internalize on a subconscious level. My ideas and production increases astronomically, it’s as if I’ve taken a mega B12 shot, filling me with creativity and energy. Here are some things I am working on as I upgrade my home-base:
Refurbishing and painting some repurposed furniture.
Hanging up some pics and wall units.
Putting together my new cafe bar.
Buying and setting up new small refrigerator.
Arranging my plants and repotting some.
Painting my walls GOLD!
Setting up new lighting fixtures.
Organizing files and paperwork.
Some other miscellaneous tasks.
Well, there you have it! Please share what you plan to do? Are you mapping out and maximizing your day for the upcoming week? This may sound like a lot, but in fact this is all very obtainable in less than eight hours. Do not allow volume to discourage you, anything is better than nothing. The awesome thing about this type of start is you can massively smash the majority of your week’s tasks.
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March is a pivotal month for many of us on the western side of the world. It is where winter chills begin to turn into springtime filled with blooming hills. The color green by some unspoken rule has championed as its mascot signifying new life, nature, rebirthing, wealth, generosity, and of course good fortune. Saying that is the common belief of many why on earth in this rebirthing time of the year would we speak “madness” over it?
March is a pivotal month for many of us on the western side of the world. It is where winter chills begin to turn into springtime filled with blooming hills. The color green by some unspoken rule has championed as its mascot signifying new life, nature, rebirthing, wealth, generosity, and of course good fortune. Saying that is the common belief of many why on earth in this rebirthing time of the year would we speak “madness” over it?
The other day I found myself saying over and over here come March Madness and for the first time I felt extremely convicted of speaking such words especially in the current time we are living in. On this day and this very morning chaos and war continues in Ukraine with Russia, across America crime is running rampant, inflation is racing to a 40 year high, our government and elected officials are useless, and literally it is as if the world, my city, our country has gone MAD. So I immediately shifted my tune and decided to speak life and not death as we close out of Q1 and enter into Q2 of 2022, and the spring equinox is officially March 20th of this year.
After many reviews of positive words that begin with the “M” maestro stuck out at once. I do not know if it is because I am literally writing this blog while listening classical music, Beethoven – Symphony No. 8, but it seemed very fitting for us home-based entrepreneurs! What is a maestro you say? A maestro is a conductor of classical music, a great and distinguished individual, and that is what I want for us CEO’s to aspire to be in the month of March 2022.
The weight of the world and these times are a bit much, we must chose to operate, build, and dream to a higher tune of success in the midst of it all. So I commission you to mind your words, let us not create more madness by the words which we speak, but rather create harmony in our businesses. Be the maestro of your domain, symphony tunes of consistency, productivity, profitability, and creativity. More than any time in our lives it is imperative we keep plow to ground, steady chopping at wood until the job is done, do NOT let up my fellow home-based business crew.
I believe March will be what we make of it by minding what we speak, what we allow ourselves to see, watch, hear, even as deep to the environments we’re in. Remember this month is a close to our time of incubation (figuratively speaking), we must move with intentionality having a well-charted course and plan of action in our personal lives and business.
In closing with death and madness all around us we shall bloom and be the last ones standing working towards our prophetic destiny. Here are some things I’ve chosen to do to help put myself in a higher gear of concentration and momentum:
Powdered down my most destructive social media platform which serves more as a personal account than business. I temporarily disabled it so that I stay out of the constant news updates.
Currently have changed my selection of music to invoke deeper brain power, concentration, and focus. It really really works. Having been a fan of classical music my entire life and lo-fi instrumentals I wanted to get back into that musical selection a bit more.
Restarting my high-fat keto meals and laying off the comfort meals.
Upping my running and walking.
Creating a full March Maestro plan of action for ALL my companies and seeking 30% increase of operations minimum.
As we “March” forward into this time of transition of economics, business, mindsets, climate, and so much more remember of all times, years, this is really the greatest time to be alive, to witness the coming shift. Have faith and build your businesses, many generations with thank you in years to come because you chose to persevere!
DECLUTTER YOUR DOLLARS to be inflation and weather the financial storm that will take so many by surprise in the worst way.
Costs continue to skyrocket, inflation nowhere near peaking and already at a 40 year high (from the President Regan years), food & energy getting out of control, it’s time to DECLUTTER YOUR DOLLARS (new ebook coming out this week by CEO DRIVEHER). 🏦💵🕵️♀️👩🏾💻 The average American 🇺🇸 family has already seen a cost 💲 of living increase of $300 – $500 a month. I want to help you in more creative ways place a financial hedge of protection to offset rising costing. Some things we have no control over and will just have to fork over the dough, but if we creatively drop costs in other areas we won’t feel it as much. Here are some of the strategies, suggestions, and ideas 💡 to implement to minimize costs that make a massive difference!
1. Create milk routes! What do I mean by that? Maximize your time and energy by planning/scheduling shopping, errands, appointments, etc. We fail to realize how much time, fuel, and energy is expended from not planning our days. Take for instance you can plan to do all these things once a week on the same day! I’d suggest when doing this you start at the earliest time so you’re not fighting with traffic. Also set up a roadmap/list of all the stops and hit them up in a uniform manner so you’re not overlapping. I use to do this when I was an Uber driver and it works!
2. Cancel subscriptions that are of no value! If you never use them, ditch them. Learn to live without certain things. I don’t care 🤷🏾♀️ if it’s for $2 dollars if it fails to serve you ditch it.
3. Start a change jar placing all change in a 5-gallon water jug. Yo, trust me this works! You’ll be surprised what a full $ 5-gallon jug can save up. I had a friend that had $7,000+ in one of those and she used it as a down payment for a truck. She was a waitress in iHop and from tips always had changed.
4. Do laundry only 2x a month! Why? I’ve noticed people will wash 3 pieces of clothes use up a bunch of energy, soap powder, and water for a few pieces of clothes. You want to maximize your loads (not overstuffing), but get drear use of components. Y’all water, energy, and detergent are EXPENSIVE! Learn to reserve.
5. Cook at home with quality foods especially if you have children. People really sleep on this because they think paying less for food and eating processed low-quality food is better serving when in fact it’s not. Actually, it’ll cost you more eating CHEAP! Processed foods are filled with fillers that leave you satisfied for a minute, but due to being stripped of things like fiber you’re quickly hungry again. This is why kids eat so damn much. Cheap food goes right through them. Have a high fiber-based diet and fatty proteins to keep a longer-lasting sense of fullness.
6. Get an air fryer and large crockpot! Yo, you’ll barely use your stove or over which preserves fuel/energy costs. Plus you get the best damn food ever! My air fryer does the most it’s even a dehydrator. Next on my list is a bread maker and high-power mixer.
7. Get some weather stripping and insulate your doors, windows, etc. duh 🙄. Y’all with energy costs going up this should be a no-brainer! For less than a hundred bucks you can do this for your home 🏡 or apartment. These things actually work too good. If you have some old ones simply replace them.
8. By dry goods in bulk directly from the manufacturer or believe it or not Amazon. Learn to pay attention to the oz. and pounds on a box of food. It takes a little math, but due to “shrinkflation” grocery stores are making hand over fist and I get it, but if you have certain products you love, buy in bulk elsewhere. (And not always Costco 😒.)
I’ll have dozens more option in my upcoming ebook, but here’s a great start! One of my favorite economist is now shouting to the mountain tops on the incoming hyper-inflation. This is what we most definitely do not want, it could literally destroy America (which is the elites plan, to financially collapse our dollar so that we go to a global dollar, one world currency). Of all classes the middle-class will be the worse affected. The middle-class makes up the larger majority of our society as well pays the MOST in taxes. Remember inflation is a form of a tax. They seek to tax the hell out of us to keep us enslaved and co-dependent on big government. I strongly encourage you all to get in front of this, and a major way is by implementing a means to declutter your dollars, cut costs, and think of purchasing power on a macro-level.
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Many entrepreneurs make time for self-care on weekends, but there’s power in starting your week off right—not just mentally, but physically. With careful planning and organization ahead of time, you can power through Mondays more effectively than ever before.
Monday can be hard – it’s the start of a new week, and you have so much to accomplish before the weekend even begins! As an entrepreneur, there are several ways you can start your work week off right so that the rest of your week goes well, too. Here are five ways to maximize your workweek as an entrepreneur starting with Monday.
Many entrepreneurs make time for self-care on weekends, but there’s power in starting your week off right—not just mentally, but physically. With careful planning and organization ahead of time, you can power through Mondays more effectively than ever before. Here are five key ways that you can schedule your workday so that it’s easier to get through your Monday. And if you know how important starting your week off correctly is to success, why not give it a try? See what works best for you! You might be surprised by how productive you feel at mid-week with these tweaks under your belt. Best practices for staying motivated and organized as an entrepreneur: If there’s one thing most entrepreneurs have in common, it’s their ability to succeed when they simply show up and power through an average day.
The Power Of Mornings
While it’s important to block off time for your side hustle, you don’t want that commitment to detract from your main work. If possible, limit your side hustle commitments during standard business hours. Wake up an hour early each day and power through your Monday—and keep powering through every morning after that. This will help maximize your productivity throughout your week as well as allow you more opportunities for networking with other business owners.
Having a morning routine is one of the most powerful ways you can start your week off right. But what is it? How do you create one? Learn ways to walk through and craft a morning routine that maximizes your success. By following steps that accommodate your style, you’ll feel more energized, inspired, and productive when tackling new projects or making crucial decisions during your day. Plus, research shows that having good self-discipline in the morning will have positive carryover effects throughout your workday—and even in other areas of life outside of work. Find the best tips for starting your week strong by waking up with purpose, this blog has a number of those tips!
For example an awesome morning routine may not even begin with work. Here is an example of my morning routine/ritual to maximize my days especially a Monday (when I actually commit to them, ugh):
Wake up before the sun. There is just something so magical and powerful feeling like you are beating most to the start of a day.
Start straightening up my home like cleaning, moving things around, etc. It’s my thing and cleaning helps clear my mind and revs me up. My environment is a key element in how I produce throughout the day.
Use my French press to make tea or coffee. I think I do this more so for the aromatherapy.
Make a list of tasks/goals to tackle for day and week.
Exercise! 20-minute HIIT or long walk with dog. That morning air is powerful!
Tackle emails. I loath emails, it really effects me mentally. I am still learning was of tackling emails, so I prioritize them and answer those I can grant an immediate response to.
The Importance Of Scheduling
There’s a reason Monday is called New Week, New You. As an entrepreneur, you have so much to juggle every day—from tasks at work and everyday errands to business decisions and your social life. It’s important that you carve out time in your schedule for everything you need to do, otherwise, one thing will eventually fall through the cracks. The key to keeping track of it all? Stay organized with a weekly planner. Plan out exactly what you want to accomplish each week, block off times for specific appointments, keep track of how many hours you spend on each task or project, and set deadlines for both work-related goals as well as personal plans.
Staying Organized
As an entrepreneur, you wear many hats—which is why staying organized and prioritizing your week is essential. If you aren’t already using a tool like Todoist, Assana, or Trello for project management, set up an account ASAP; these tools make it easy to stay on top of things while making sure everything’s moving along according to schedule. Plus, they can integrate with nearly every other platform out there to ensure no task falls through the cracks. Having everything in one place not only helps keep projects running smoothly but also means you’re able to view what needs doing at any given time without spending hours hunting down information.
Staying Motivated
Starting off a new week can be daunting for any entrepreneur, and it’s easy to give up on your bigger business goals when you feel unmotivated. But if you want to power through Monday and maximize your workweek, there are ways you can stay motivated throughout. One way is by following a weekly schedule (hint: try getting stuff done early in your week!) or self-organizing yourself with apps like Evernote and Trello. It’s also helpful to keep track of all of your tasks so that you don’t fall behind—and finally, reward yourself for completion at each stage! Most importantly, remember that just because one day goes wrong doesn’t mean you’re doomed; every successful entrepreneur has had their fair share of setbacks. You’ve got what it takes!
Most Successful Practices Of Entrepreneurs: & Recap
Monday can be the most productive day for entrepreneurs. If you’re not already powering through your Mondays, start now! Here are some best practices that will help get you started. 1. Staying Organized & Staying on Task (Weekly Focus): One of the biggest contributors to success is organization; without organization, an entrepreneur doesn’t have control over their business or their time—which are both very important assets. Starting with a plan helps keep yourself accountable for your tasks and reminds you what exactly needs to get done throughout your week—and it won’t take more than 30 minutes once per week. 2. Listening to Audiobooks While Working Out: It might sound like too much at first, but listening to audiobooks while working out is ideal for two reasons. First, you don’t need to focus on something else during workouts; just listen while continuing other activities such as running or weight lifting. Second, audiobooks allow you to multitask; combining reading books with exercise and workouts becomes even easier. 3. Creating Systems Over Goals: This practice seems counterintuitive because we’ve been led to believe that goals should be set in order to achieve them. However, creating systems around small daily habits yields better results than setting vague long-term goals or big monthly ones—plus they’re easier to create and maintain. 4. Tracking Weekly Effort Hours: In addition to tracking hours worked, keeping track of effort hours means keeping track of how hard you work each day. When efforts exceed expectations, then those efforts become part of your new standards for future days. 5. Keeping Track of Your Daily Routine: It may seem boring and pointless, but keeping a log of your routine makes it easy to assess which parts can be streamlined or improved upon by comparing today with yesterday—or last month with next month.
I am really big on those in the gig space that have an extremely flexible schedule to not abuse their flexibility. The human body craves structure and disciple. If you fail to train it, it will rule over you. Whelp, I fell off to some degree with my scheduling. Day after day though I have plenty of time to spare to the things I it still felt wasted. I soon recognized the common denominator was the times I was getting my day started.
How you start your day is one thing, but when you start your day is another! I know this to be true without a shadow of a doubt. I don’t care what anyone says, but starting your day early (considerably 5am – 8am) is simply magical. I easily am able to triple my workload and have an overwhelming sense of accomplishment, smashing goals from left to right! Also tend to make the most money on those days in the weirdest way, it is as if you’re being rewarded for simply planning and doing with an organized construct.
Getting up early feels like a cheat code of sorts, as if you’ve got a head start on the world or something. The beauty of starting your day early is you can set the rules as you like and work it how you like. I personally like to start by lounging a little and moving slow, you don’t want to over stimulate your mind and body too quick when readjusting to the early morning schedule. I love to make a list of “things to do”, I suggest your list have anywhere from 15 – 25 things outlined that must be done that day. Place the most simplest tasks on that list and don’t worry about how perfect or in order the tasks must be (you can do these tasks randomly, but smash a bunch while early). I am all over the place with my list and put the most random things on it. Some of the tasks are menial while wedging in some larger ones. Here ‘s an example of that list:
Wash 1 load of clothes.
Hang up and fold all laundry.
Write 2-3 chapters in new upcoming ebook.
Send out coupons to email list.
Upload on vlog to Youtube.
Commit to at least 20 gig jobs today on the various platforms.
Hang up new pics in home office.
Walk at least 1 mile today.
Order ink off Amazon.
Don’t forget to journal.
Meditate for 30 mins (split the meditations into 2 session of 15 min.).
Be sure to send email to x, y, and z!
Draft new contract for clients.
Get oil change.
Call Uber in regards to a payment dispute.
Weave in 1 to 2 new types of gig apps.
I think you get the point. You can weave whatever into your daily list equation. the reason I say to create a high volume on your list is because even if you only get 1/2 of those things done, mentally when you check those items off, you will feel an overwhelming sense of accomplishment. You will also be able to see how to set obtainable goals daily, you will see if you’re an overachiever or just not doing enough. This will help you to calibrate yourself and self-manage on a daily basis!
Now, I use to do this same thing when I would wake up later and already feel defeated because so much of my day had been consumed with sleep. Getting up at 10am to 11am does not compare to the effective time currency you gain from waking up just a few hours earlier.
If you notice I primarily listed regular daily responsibilities, this was done because when home and regular life stuff is taken care of we can be more effective on the the gig platforms, working with less stress and anxiety. How often have you been bogged down in your head while working gigs thinking about things you must do at home. Or worst thinking of what to do and not forget to do while on the platforms? To keep this from happening when you make your list over your favorite cup of coffee of tea be sure to take a screenshot of the task and put it in your phone and reflect over it throughout your day.
So let us all win back our time not just on the platforms and left to feeling rushed to make a dollar, but by being responsible and training the body to work off the natural God given timeframe we ought to stay working within. Waking up earlier with our type of flexible schedules reduces our stress tremendously, we only get one mind one body, take care of it holistically my fellow gig workers.
On today’s blog bleep I want to focus on something I have been dealing with internally as it relates to my business, while the world seems to be collapsing all around us. It is June 1st 2020 and without a shadow of doubt I seen this year to not only be my most profitable yet, but life changing. I see super-natural growth and expansion of my businesses and life like never before; but to look outside my door, chaos, death, and mayhem ensues.
At first a part of me wanted to scale things back and move cautiously, but something is whispering, do more, go harder, cause money never stops from moving. In this daily blog bleep, I want to encourage those that may feel confused and unsure, I need you to understand the world’s actions will not stop your flow, and there’s much to gain in this season of civil unrest. Your greatest challenge will be to move past your emotions, be firm on your goals, put on your blinders, and mind your own affairs. The world will work itself out.
Once I got the revelation of those that will make bank regardless if the world thrives or burn to ground I made the decision to do more in business, to structure my business, to conserve monies earned in my business, and move with a deeper sense of intentionality and purpose. At some point the rioting will stop, resources will dry up in certain sectors, they’ll be nothing left to destroy. Humanity can only take but so much of the destruction that is sweeping across this nation. So while others worry and fear, while people fight in the streets, we must not give into the chaos and mind our business. It may seem cold hearted, it may come off as too casual of a state of mind, but I strongly suggest that for your sanity you keep yourself busy with building your business. Be creative, be driven, do not be moved by this. Pray for the best, send out good vibrations, and remember when this all resolves you do not want to be among the mentally and spiritually paralyzed individuals. This will require willpower like nothing before.
So remember, money does not stop flowing, money does not disappear it simply flows in a new direction. Will money flow your way? Only you can determine that. Double down on the biz!
As a deep feeler and someone that wants to do her part in society these external factors have a great affect on my spirit, it hurts seeing others hurt and me feeling overwhelmingly obligated to help. I had to simply accept this is not my battle, I will help and do my part when the time comes. I will contribute to society by being someone that creates jobs, build up those that need help, and stimulate our American economy. I do not need a sign, I do not need to protest, I do not need to post every opinion I have, I only need to be productive and focused.
Do not feel guilty for earning a dollar, run that ad campaign, keep selling your products, do a flash sale, keep posting about your business, for my gig workers; get out there, be safe, venture out into safer territories, double down on getting them dollars. I dare to say we face the ability to make more money than ever in these times. I cannot fully explain it, but something in screaming on the inside earning potential will be extremely high for those that work and build businesses!
Be safe and with much love I pray you all nothing but abundance and success!
I will keep saying this and shouting it to the top of my lungs, but we’re living in the best of times as independent contractors, self-employed, giggers, side-hustlers, small business owners, etc. It is as if this time was created specifically for us all and though this time of opportunity is abundant it does come at a cost and readjustments.
For well over a year or two I have been speaking of the importance of gig workers establishing LLC’s. of their own and building a “gig business” of their own. I foreseen the need of the gig economy growing immensely. Some times thinking my calculations may be wrong I always ended up back to the the reality that the gig economy is here to stay and will be the new norm! Now, with Covid-19 my predictions reigns even more true!
So what is the cost of all this? The cost is moreso of an internal one causing for a mental shift and acceptance of this type of work life. As a gig strategist and gig coach the biggest thing that get in the way of most giggers is their need for immediate gratifications and lack of creativity on the platforms. They don’t see all the various aspects of the gig economy that can make them even more profitable, the great thing about this is many of them are exiting the gig economy in droves! This great exodus will become another profitable factor for those of us that do see the massive opportunities within this sector of work. We will begin to see a massive infusion of the professional turned gigger!
In many of my other writings I spoke of mainstream traditional employers embracing the template of the gig economy here’s how/why:
Contracting / Outsourcing employees (in high demand).
Less financial risk with contracted employees.
On-boarding process is quicker.
Doesn’t have to provide traditional incentives for employment.
Serves as a trial run for potential hiring on employees full-time.
Why many contractors are taking advantage of the gig economy:
Flexibility! This is a major one,
Less commitment.
Earn more upfront and use the money to pay into outlets of their choice i.e. retirement, assets, healthcare, etc.
Many can work from home or remotely in the field.
Less demand from authorities and oversight.
Work freely.
The gig economy is not to be limited to delivery services of food and goods, nor limited to rideshare. The gig economy is made up of software engineers, truckers, administratives, virtual assistants, bookkeepers, etc. Covid season has proven this. With the majority of employees working remotely from home this proves to be true. So with this being the case why wouldn’t a business or corporation take this opportunity to minimize costs such as overhead, pay employees more, but as independent contractors? Is this possible? I think it is and know it is! Though with traditional employees still wanting employers to offer great health care options, 401k, and retirement types, that incentive is dying out massively; and employees are preferring their money upfront with the choice of purchasing their own options.
There will be a learning curve and many adjustments as this progress, but I believe if one educates themselves on these options and embrace the gig economy right, they can become highly profitable and more in control of their lives and earnings. The gig economy has a sexiness about it that can catapult you into abundance or serve as a great destruction. What is key is discipline, money management, and creating safe holdings of finances for unexpected issues.
THE CEO DRIVEHER 