How to get beyond the phase of constantly hustling
One summer day a few years back a friend called to ask me if I wanted to go camping that weekend...
... and I could barely voice an answer...
... I just kinda dropped the phone and started to cry.
The thing of it was, I had a 6-figure business that I ran myself with one assistant and I had SOOO much work to do and I had NO IDEA how to have time in my life for fun...
.... it had been WEEKS since I had taken an actual weekend to play...
I so badly wanted to grow my business but I didn’t know how to get beyond the phase of constantly hustling and always feeling stressed about whether or not I’d be able to get everything done.
So “growing my business” felt like a daunting prospect, like even if it did grow it and make more money I’d still have to do EVEN MORE STUFF and I’d still have no time to enjoy that money. Yeeeeeesh.
My stressed out state wasn’t for lack of “knowing better” - I KNEW I was *supposed* to delegate and focus on doing my favorite bits (writing and teaching)...
.... but what I didn’t yet realize was that I had:
1) a giant unconscious attachment to feeling important and needed... (soooo important and soooo needed that I had to answer every FB comment MYSELF or else the world might explode)...
2) a serious lack of peers and mentors who were weird and magical and who actually “got me”
You see, I knew that “community” and “masterminds” and coaching were important, so I had joined the mastermind group of a successful, smart coach I admired...
... which turned out to be centered in Muggletown, USA ...
.... like, this lady knew business and tech stuff ... and most of the other group members had businesses bigger than mine....
...and I had THOUGHT that was all I needed at that point from a mentor and a group...
... but each mastermind meeting (I had paid $12,000 for a year long program) was so boring and lame that I wanted to smash my laptop during each meeting.
Happily, I gradually figured out what I REALLY needed to grow without strife.
Image: a mural in Tulum
I did not end up going camping that weekend.
I was waaaay too crazy at the time for that.
But I did start to majorly reconsider my next steps forward.
It dawned on me that to grow my life and business in a way that felt actually good and not like being a slave to my own self-importance I needed:
1) to dissolve my unconscious attachments to “being needed” in my business
2) To be surrounded by a community of other hilarious, magickal af, and daring leaders who could help me figure stuff out to in a way that felt daring and alive, not boring and repressive
So I went out and got that and along the way I founded WEALTH: the community where leaders grow into 1000 % better money, love, and creative expression.
In WEALTH I teach the precise strategies that I used to transmute my attachments to exhaustion and smallness...
.... AND ... I bring together a wildly fun, exclusive group of some of the most cutting-edge leaders on Earth to teach and learn with me.
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best,
Carolyn