YOU are already wealthy, and it's your YOU (Your Outstanding Uniqueness) that makes you programmed to be so.
Is not that awesome ?! Yep, you have everything inside of you to live life to the fullest, contribute to this world, and make great money doing it! What's better than that?
I thought I'd make my first post about sharing MY uniqueness with YOU to:
– allow you to get to know me
– allow myself to open up and show the world my authentic self – bit scary!
– inspire and motivate you to rediscover, own, love, and express who YOU truly are
This is a big step for me because I have felt like I've had to withhold parts of myself in the past. My previous careers have been school teacher and parenting and life coach to working mothers, and at times I felt I could only show some of my uniqueness, not all of it.
As many of you have probably felt at one time or another, it does not always feel safe to be who we truly are. Maybe people will think we're weird, boastful, distasteful, silly, "out there", unprofessional … the list goes on.
I have never really allowed myself to show who I fully am except to my closest friends and family. So, since I was working with people approximately 6 hours a day, I was not being my FULL self 6 hours out of every day – not OK.
When I turned 40 I went deep into soul searching mode.
I felt like I was being stifled and something was desperate to get out. I did not understand it at first, and let me tell you, my 40th year was HARD. Hard in terms of getting rid of a lot of emotional crap I've had lingering inside me, hard in terms of having to let certain friendships that go that did not make me feel good anymore, and hard because I wanted so please to express my spirituality, but did not think it was "appropriate".
So, you get the picture … I had a lot to sort out. And sort out I did. I am liberated! I am FREE! I am ME! And, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what I've been programmed to do on this earth, and I'm doing it … FULLY.
For the last 5 years I thought I had found my calling, and it was … for the necessary amount of time. I was able to share my method of how to raise happy, healthy and resilient kids because that was something I was gifted with. All of my methods came to me through God. I knew what kids needed and what worked. I did not have to learn it.
I was blessed beyond words to help hundreds, if not thousands of families get back to what matters, feel confident as a parent, and raise great kids.
My Parenting method will live on forever, thanks to the internet, my book, my products and the people who continue to share my products with their audiences. That is a legacy I could not be more proud of- makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
But … last summer I started to get tapped on the shoulder. And it would not go away! Words, concepts, messages … they showed up EVERYWHERE! Billboards I casually turned my head to, magazine headlines, articles, and clients asking me, "Erin, could you teach me how to build a business because I want to use my talents and also have a flexible schedule, like you, to be able to be with my kids more. "
I knew what it took to build a successful business, as over the years I had spent thousands and thousands of dollars (okay, close to $ 50,000) learning, studying, and working with high end business coaches to learn this stuff, which I found I LOVED!
So, I knew what to do and what not to do. I knew how to stand out, how not to be generic, how to attract ideal clients without a whole lot of effort, and I knew the marketing stuff too, which is so necessary if you want to get your awesome message out to people.
I started to help some of my clients unforgettable what THEY had to offer and then showed them how to use that to create a personal signature business. And I LOVED it! I'd get off the phone with a client and be on a high for the rest of the day – hmmm … I was getting the message loud and clear.
Before this gets too long … because, hey, sometimes even a good story can be too long, right?
I want to be very vulnerable and open about some of the parts of me that I've hidden from the world … until today. YIKES!
1) I swear. I can turn it off, but I come from a family where swearing was normal language. Not rudely or crudely; swears just came out and no one even flinched. I'm not proud of it nor am I ashamed, it just IS.
2) I am a highly spiritual person. The Divine / God / Universe / Consciousness (I use all of these words) is everything. Erin is the form that holds Consciousness. Erin does the work of Consciousness.
3) I adore LIFE! I feel like life is a beautiful dream world and I can have any experience I want – it's so much fun! I definitely like to take a bite out of life.
4) It breaks my heart when I see children suffering in any way
5) It breaks my heart when I see people leading average lives when they kindly want to live life full out, but they are too scared to move beyond their fears.
6) I deeply love people's souls.
7) I'm obsessed with The X Factor UK; seeing people use their talents and grow into who they are making me sob with happiness.
8) J'adore la France, speaking French, and so much of French Culture (they know how to enjoy life fully yet in a very simple, meaningful way)
9) I speak Turkish (not well, but good enough to be best buds with a 4 year old … and communicate with my in-laws who do not speak English).
10) I believe in designing the life you want because I live in the UK in a Victorian house – the one I tore out of magazines and dreamed of living in)
11) I've lived out every single one of my dreams, both big and small, except for one or two, which I will definitely achieve.
12) I love the words chic, elegance, luxury, luxurious, simple, simplicity, balance, life, and pleasure
13) I love eating organic, healthy, yummy food!
14) I love Jazz and Classical music, but also One Direction, Olly Murs, Diana Krall, Katy Perry, Michael Buble, and songs my hubby shakes his head at, but hey, who does not like Britney Spears' "Till the World Ends "?
15) My favorite flower is the White Rose.
16) I LOVE doing Zumba, but I also love yoga.
There is so much more to me, but you'll learn that over time. What's more important to me is helping you get to know YOU better.
Because as Oprah so beautifully put it, "Ultimately, we all want the same thing: a fulfilled life and the confidence to be wholly, completely ourselves."
The part she left out is that when you finally forget who you are, you gain confidence automatically, and with this awareness and confidence you effortlessly live out your purpose and are able to become wealthy as a bonus.
Here's to YOU!
