Improvability Blog

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Over the last year and a half, we have got rid of loads of ‘stuff’ in our lives and in our business:

• I have been ruthless in getting rid of clothes, shoes, etc. that we never wear. They’ve been donated to people who can make much better use of them
• I thought it would break my heart to get rid of a pile of books because I am total book junkie. But, do you know what? It was incredibly therapeutic; it was great to see friends poring excitedly over the boxes choosing what they were interested in
• I’ve sorted out kitchen cupboards and got rid of crockery, pots and pans that haven’t been used in donkey’s years
• I’ve filled two full bin liners with old videos and DVDs that we haven’t watched in many moons
• I’ve even ditched a pile of rubbish that had been rusting away in the garden shed - and yes, of course I had my rubber gloves on at the time

Getting rid makes way for massive change

In our business, we’ve totally changed direction (as you may have noticed) and have got rid of a lot of the products and services that we no longer need or want to pursue.

We’ve still got a long way to go in both our lives and our business but we have made some massive changes during the last 18 months. 

One of my mastermind group members picked this up from a graph of our business turnover that I took to a meeting a couple of months ago.

She marked on the graph exactly when our income had started to noticeably increase.

She pinpointed that it all coincided with signing up with our new business mentor which also started us on our current clearing-out regime.

Do you want to know how to attract more good stuff in YOUR life and business?

Then prepare yourself for a shockingly simple answer.

You need to start making changes NOW because they don’t just happen all by themselves. 

As Tony Robbins is always saying, ‘”You must take some action.”

Just a little change here and there will make all the difference.  We know, because it’s happening to us personally and to our business right now.

If you want more abundance - money, great health, better relationships, etc. - then starting making room in your life and business for more of the good stuff. You can start by getting rid of the things that you no longer use, need or want.

If you WANT change, then START MAKING changes

Because if you carry on doing what you’ve always done, you’re always going to get what you’ve always got.

And that will be more than a tragedy… It’ll be a total waste of your talents and skills.

Read Part 1 ‘How to attract more good stuff in YOUR life and business‘

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Neil and I are covered in muck, dust, grime and filthy, dirty cobwebs. We’ve just spent two whole days clearing out our loft ready for some new insulation to be installed tomorrow. 

I’m absolutely shattered.  And, yet again, I conclude that I was not put on this earth for manual labour because, after all, I am a 4-star-minimum girl with beautifully manicured nails! And before you ask, Neil totally agrees with that statement.

We discovered all sorts of stuff that had been slowly rotting or rusting away for the last goodness-knows-how-many years:

• What made me think that a solitary black bin liner would keep a quilt and pillows clean and dry for the last 5 years?
• Why did I store my old Olympic typewriter up there without even a cover over it? This reminder of the ‘olden days’ when I had to keep my nails short or the heavy keys wouldn’t go down is now sadly covered in rust
• Why on earth didn’t I give them all to a charity years ago?
• And why did we save at least 20 humungous cardboard boxes from our last house move 16 years ago?

We now have a whole yard full of stuff to take to the tip, so that’s going to mean even more hard work; we reckon on 4 back-breaking car loads…  I’m beginning to feel faint at the very thought.

What a waste of our valuable time when we could have saved ourselves all this stress by not hoarding all this rubbish in the first place.

I know what you’re thinking.  You live and learn. But sometimes lessons like this cost far too much. I’ve got:

• aching limbs from running up and down our extremely steep Edwardian stairs carrying impossibly heavy boxes
• a throbbing head from constantly looking up just in case something should come flying out of the loft hatch without warning
• a sore throat from swallowing a pile of grit that DID fly out of the loft hatch without warning. I reckon that stuff has been up there since the house was built in 1906
• a very sore finger from having an extremely heavy dumb bell dropped directly onto it from a great height - and Neil had the audacity to laugh. Good job he was out of reach at the time or I’d be doing time now for GBH!
• and a scraped shin from sliding too fast down the loft ladder with a thundering great box in my hands

If only we’d videoed it all – at least I’d have earned £250 from ‘You’ve Been Framed!’

Unlike what those highly-suspect ‘dosh in the attic’ TV shows may suggest, hoarding hasn’t produced any little treasures for us. All it’s done is caused us loads of hard, physical, time-consuming work for no monetary gain.

And from a business point of view, it’s robbed us of two whole days which could have been spent creating or improving a product or service to help our customers and provide more income for our business.

Every cloud has a silver lining

But we have achieved an awful lot too.

We’ve started the clearing out process ready for our next house move and, in getting rid of the rubbish which was taking up valuable room, we’ve made space for a whole lot more good stuff to come in.

Part 2/2 - Getting rid makes way for massive change

What an absolutely fantastic day I had on the ‘3 Steps to Success for Image Professionals‘ last week.

The quality of the 10 fabulous consultants on the course kept me on my toes all day and I’m still mulling over loads of new ideas that came out of the questions and discussions that we had.

You’ll be able to see all this for yourself in the 6-DVD pack we’re putting together.

We’re already working on the ‘raw’ footage of the video recording so I shall be burning the midnight oil editing and writing extra notes madly for some time.

I’ve no idea how she found the energy but Carole sent this email the very next day:

“I thoroughly enjoyed the day and found the content inspiring and motivating. It was also great to network with other image professionals. I drove home feeling brain dead, but woke this morning, after a good night’s sleep, with my mind buzzing with ideas! Many thanks again.” Carole

You can still pre-order the 6-DVD pack ‘3 Steps to Success’ for delivery to your door wherever you are in the world. The special pre-order price finishes the minute that the pack is ready for despatch. As soon as we know the actual date, I’ll let you know!

I’m a real busy bee right now. My wings are going that fast that I might take off at any moment…

Well, actually, it’s my fingers that are typing so fast that’s causing the draught…

I’m writing madly from dusk until dawn in preparation for the live training event 3 Steps to Success for Image Professionals on 16th August.

I’ve got loads of great stuff to share on how to create the image business of your dreams.

And the reason I’m running this day is that it makes me so cross that there are lots of great consultants out there who have all the skills and enthusiasm to change the lives of so many potential clients - if only they knew how to find some!

I’ve been where you are now

As I started writing the notes for the course, lots of horrid memories from years gone by started to rear their ugly heads, like:

• those times when I’d taken a booking for a personal consultation and the client never showed up! (infuriatingly aggravating)
• the time when I ran a workshop for 12 and only 1 person turned up (utterly mortifying)
• those times (and there were loads of them) when I’d give a talk or presentation and not one single person would book with me (totally demoralising)
• all the money I’ve spent on advertising, leaflets, business cards, etc. and got zero enquiries (expensively exasperating)

I could rattle on for hours about all the stuff I did wrong, how I had the necessary skills, all the props, loads of enthusiasm but not a clue how to get and keep clients.

Thank goodness I finally learned how to never have any of this happen to me again.

Now I know I could start over again tomorrow

I know that if I moved to a brand-new location tomorrow, I could start offering personal consultations, workshops, etc. and have paying clients within days - because I’ve already done it, several times.

And let’s be real here:

• if you don’t have any clients, you don’t have a business

and all the skills and props in the world are not going to make you a single penny!

Would you like me to show you how I did it?

And how you can do the same?

There are just 2 places left on the ‘3 Steps to Success for Image Professionals’ in Chesterfield, UK on Monday 16th August and you can use coupon code MM30 at the checkout to save £200 - but only until the end of today Monday 9th. You’ll also get a complimentary copy of the 6-DVD recording of the entire day, and the next person to book will get a free strategy call with me after the event. Loads and loads of extra value. I must be mad, giving all this away.

If you can’t make the actual event, pre-order the DVD set - use the same coupon code MM30 to save £200 at the checkout - until Thursday 12th only.

I’ve already received several emails asking when I will be running this again this year. Sorry, but I have no plans to run it again. The only other live event planned in 2010 is the two-day Ladies’ Style course in September.