How we help you ignite the fire within

For the past 10 years I’ve been running my own business, and it’s been great. I’ve met so many people and I’ve really grown as a person. But for a lot of those ten years, I didn’t really know if that was what I was supposed to be doing. One of the roles I’ve played was being able to help people transition from a nine-to-five job into running their own businesses.

That purpose of empowering people to run their own businesses has eroded over the past few years. For a time, I felt like I had really lost my way. Yet, if it weren’t for that period in my life where I felt I had lost my way, I wouldn’t have done the necessary soul searching that led me to today, to my Life On Fire program, my Ignite Your Fire program, and my Destination Masterminds. Each of these programs teach people how to wake up every single day and be happier, fulfilled, and rich. Please remember that rich doesn’t necessarily mean you have to have the biggest bank account, it means that you can have a bank account that offers you security and allows you to do stuff that you really want to do.

So how do you know you’re doing what you should be doing? You’ll notice you’re doing what you should be doing when your day-to-day routines, the services and products you offer all align with an ultimate goal and impact. When you are effecting a change in the lives of the people you’re serving, that’s when you know you’re doing the right thing.

One of the ways it was confirmed to me that I am doing what I should be doing was when I received a phone call the other day. It was from someone I hadn’t talked to in about four years. She started to tell me that life had not been easy for her, but that she had been directed to me to help her. She needed help with videos, social media – someone to help her get her story out about the incredibly journey life has put her on. That moment gave me goosebumps. I was perceived in her world to be someone that she needed.

That’s how you know you’re doing what you should be doing. When you are so helpful that people come to you and they say, “I need you.” That’s when you know you’re doing the right job, when you’re creating an impact. Impact over income is something that is really, really difficult to do. Anyone who’s done it will admit that it is a wonderful philosophy but really hard to stick to. Yet, if you do stick to it, you can make great things happen.

If all you’re looking at is trying to fit butts in seats, make a certain number by the end of the year or so on and so forth, you’ll be putting second things first. It is important to hit certain targets and goals, but they need to be secondary to the changes and the fulfillment that you need to be providing to people.

A lot of people in different industries really struggle with this particular piece. I work a lot with realtors, and it’s a very transactional kind of a world for them. I’ve often heard from realtors that they feel like they’re helping people buy and sell their homes. That perspective is wrong.

The realtor who helped me buy my house helped two homes come together with four children (two on each side). There’s a lot of room for error and rising of tensions in that process. The realtor helped us find a home with five bedrooms all on the top floor, a pool in the back yard for the kids to enjoy in the summer because we didn’t want a cottage. We really wanted to create a gathering place for our family and for our friends. That’s what that realtor did for us. Right?

The realtor did so much more. That realtor created a world where we get to be the main host of our baseball team, where we host legendary alumni parties, and sometimes in the summer it feels like every weekend is a baseball party. The realtor helped me understand basic things without prejudice. I married my ex-husband at 21. Because he took care of all of the finances, including buying our marital home, I didn’t know the first thing about managing anything – not even my own bank account. My realtor helped me find a great place in a safe community with other kids my kids’ age within walking distance of schools and parks. My realtor helped me create a happy life, not just sell me a home.

Remember the purpose of what you do. My husband is in finance. I could explain to you that he sells mutual funds and all sorts of stuff, but you want to know what people are buying? They are buying his assurance that when you get old, when you retire, you will never run out of money. He makes it his sole promise in life to ensure you will always be financially okay. That’s his purpose in life.

Everyone’s definition of their purpose is going to be a bit different, but the method by which you achieve that is the same. All you have to do is create a road map, just like my personal trainer does. His plan for me has me eating certain foods and exercising in a certain way so I can have the bikini body I want. But my personal trainer has a completely different plan for my husband who doesn’t want a bikini body, he wants a bodybuilding body. These roadmaps that we are buying are outcomes. We are buying the outcome based off of a roadmap.

My Ignite Your Fire program is a light version of it. There’s not as much road mapping as you get in my Life on Fire program. My Life on Fire program, my Destination Mastermind, both of those are designed to roadmap your way from where you are now to exactly where you want to be. Not just close to where you want to be, exactly where you want to be. If I can wake up every single day and help people to get there, then I have lived a good day. I have lived a good life. I am excited.

Every day when I get up, I wonder, “Who am I going to help today?” I am trying through videos and blogs like this to communicate to other people what it is that I so desperately want for everyone in this whole world. My book comes out in about two months. It’s another mechanism that I’m going to use to try to get my message in front of more people, because I want people to be happy.

I hope you have found this helpful. A lot of people struggle with what their why is in their life. In my Life On Fire program we start off with figuring out how to define that.

If you want to talk about Life on Fire, just let me know. I’m more than happy to talk about it. The next class is coming up. The Q&A sessions are every Wednesday. Everyone gets lots of support because I’m on a mission to make this a happier, more fulfilled, and rich world. I hope that I can help you. Spread the news, spread the love, and have a fantastic day.