Day 20: Why am I not writing about Marketing SEO best practices for your business?

This 30-day writing adventure may not get me any clients.

Or will it? No idea. I pride myself on my authentic writing style and doing whatever is the opposite of what other people do marketing approach.

One of my coaches, Stacy Nelson said she started her business, always doing what other people said not to do.

I haven’t written anything about how to do content marketing or SEO practices for your small business or anything like that. (yet)

The reason I haven’t is because right now, I am flexing my author muscles and authentic voice, on a 30-day journey into the unknown of my psyche. After talking with a potential client today at length about his marketing and business, I realized that my 30-day journey had absolutely nothing to do with creating my marketing and digital storytelling business.

Well, not exactly, anyway.

Was I revealing too much, being too much, turning people off? Was this even my client or should I refer him to a different “expert?”

All legitimate questions at this stage of the game. Also, how was I best going to serve him should we move forward? Was this too big a job? Or was this project what I was being called to do right this moment?

Holy Toledo! I need to write a proposal and not just write about moving, finances, and my journey of healing. And why am I writing about those things instead of SEO, Marketing best practices or something I could use to build my business?

Great questions….

The bottom line is – I may do some of that after I finish my 30days. I may use time post the 30 days to continue using the muscles I build and the discipline – to work on my novel project – see the “Publishing” page for descriptions.

I feel like my clients are real people, who value an authentic approach. They are real, down-to-earth and want something bigger for the planet or themselves. That doesn’t mean they all look like a guru on a pillow, meditating. It means that they value connection, have a story to tell and maybe want to make changes in their profession or use their expertise in new ways.

I guess the journey here will help me hone my own energetic relay messages. I’ve had two people who want to build websites come to me and that’s not my expertise (exactly) but perhaps it *should* be. Could I find a website builder co-conspirator?

Hmm…looks like I need to roll up my sleeves and see what I can do here. It’s either do that or go back to complaining about the job hunt. And that doesn’t seem quite as proactive as I’d like.

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Day 13: Reflections on my Seven Year and Patterns of Acceptance

Reflections are coming on the eighth month of this 7-year for me. My coach from last year’s program Stacy Nelson with MasterSoul University, had us really reflect on and learn to use the energies of these cycles.

I have learned to appreciate being tapped into those both last year during the program and now. Stacy has decided to pull back from Facebook so I don't interact with her as much. We had our time.

Nature of a year 7

A seven year is one of spiritual reflection and integration, listening to the inner seeker and knower – that whisper, sometimes barely audible. Tuning in and being quiet and deep learning.

Often it is not a year to get much done and if you try to, you’ll only be in resistance to the energy of that cycle. So far, I can tell that my journey has been much more tapped into my inner voice and knowing, even when confronted with heavy material of one sort or another.

My accomplishments are less outward than inward. An alignment of sorts has continued to occur each day to each week to each month. I must be comfortable in the not doing and the not knowing. It isn't that I have no action to take - there is plenty of that just that it doesn't have that same big impact or striving aspect as other cycle years might.

Without a full-time job, I have been left to find my way and build muscles of flexibility I didn’t think I had in me. Furthermore, while I have interviewed extensively in 2018, my seven year hasn’t netted results in an actual job, other than my restaurant gigs.

It seems more that this year was one of growth and development in my self-awareness, my capacity to know my worth (in the marketplace and personally), to establish new boundaries and go boldly into places and spaces that heretofore frightened me.

I can’t say it is my favorite cycle. I remember discussing with Stacy in one of our group chats, that being thrust into the hologram of trust and intuition, versus doing would probably be uncomfortable. In some cases, I found it downright annoying. I mean really, no job offers, yet? No major manifestations.

Still, I was armed knowing the energy I would be dealing with and my resistance has been minimal. I kind of grew to like being in the space or at least tolerating its quiet ebb and flow. Around each corner, there seemed another lesson or ah-ha moment which made me see how “not ready” I was.

Cycle coming to an end, and still a long way to go

While the year has yet to complete, we’re wrapping up summer. Things will begin to wind into that involution time of the winter. Patios will give way to cold air, hot drinks and icy sidewalks here in Minnesota.

More recently, I started working on redeveloping my website. I’d had success with my Beachbody products all year and my exercise programs and I thought I might want to share them through my coach portal. More to come on that.

I’ve biked more than I have in years, even up and down Summit Hill.

I know I have plenty to offer as a marketing communications professional and transformation helper – both business and personal. In my mind, it is all connected, anyway. Business is business.

Every day is an opportunity to keep honing the messages across all my social channels, show-up in a deeper and more meaningful way in my work. This year, I have been taking Simone Milases’ course “Getting Out of Debt Joyfully.” And while I am far from out of debt, my outlook on money and my relationship to it has changed exponentially.

I mentioned in an earlier blog that I want to take Joe Dispenza’s intro courses on the Quantum field.

Another aspect of 7s is that you gather knowledge and awareness. It is like gaining the tools you need to be able to go into other more forward- moving and outward expressing cycles down the road. I feel strongly that something in that material will be vital to my business (both in the job hunt and in my marketing business).

On writing daily for 30-days

Back to the daily writing – it has not been easy. A few times, I just missed the boat on the day of and had to add the half to my titles to show that I wrote the following day, two blogs instead of one. Twelve days in and, I have to say I have been pushed beyond my comfort zone by my structure.

Somehow, the daily work is such that I can’t weasel out of my own process. It is there front and center. Here I am getting set to move again and yet, in some way I have been moving for twelve days already and more is yet to come.

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Day 8: New vistas, old habits, journey of the soul and other Truths as summer winds down

I took a shift unexpectedly at the restaurant downtown today. Biked home and realized half-way that it was Tuesday night work crew at the Saint Paul Curling Club.

Stopped in to see what the summer projects were all about. Loni mentioned that while the roster wasn’t large, they’d managed to wait until the last minute, once again to complete things.

The ice set-up projects will start next week!

Hard to imagine that in just a month, fall activities will begin and temps will start to drop. The State Fair – our big Minnesota get together will be completed and Halloween on its way.

I’ve never known any place to have summer last less than three months. Why did I have a soul contract for this place again? If you’d asked me in 2001 if I’d ever leave California and venture to the mid-west, and a city, I’d have cringed. I always saw myself settling in the country like up in Napa or Petaluma with a large tract of land, maybe working for a vineyard.

The first time I got confronted with the idea of living in a city was when I took my first CTI coaching courses back in 2005. We did a guided “future self” meditation where we went to visit ourselves 20 years in the future. My future self was wearing a suit and hanging out in an office space in a city I didn’t recognize. The only ones I thought remotely close in size and scope were San Francisco or Los Angeles and I hated those places. I ran out of the room crying.

When much later, around 2008/2009 I was introduced to Minneapolis-St Paul I freaked out because it looked just like the “future self” meditation, and I felt like I’d been there before. It took several more coaching classes and sessions to consider that maybe my soul had been speaking for a long time. So, while it may have seemed like a sudden, or even insane decision by some who didn’t know the whole story – I’d been working with the idea for quite some time.

I tried to avoid it for about another year. Increasingly though I had this strange internal nudging going on. The temp jobs I took were more and more temporary – often working for companies that were about to go under or were in merger-acquisition. In the end, I stopped getting jobs altogether. The only thing that kept rearing its “ugly” head was this idea of re-location.

Our souls know exactly what we should be doing. Maybe, I knew better than to avoid the call too long. No need to get hit over the head with a two-by-four to wake up to my future.

Back at the curling club, we talked summer projects, curling, boats, an open bartender spot. We ate pizza and drank beer (and no I didn't do any work - I was told to come back next week) I was reminded just how fast the summer had gone. Perhaps the constant stream of interviews, job hunting and MIMA work kept me busy. Here I thought I’d have a job and move from my sub-let to my own apartment or something. No such luck.

Dreams don’t always land the way you think they will. We can have all the pre-conceived notions we want of life, or even the people in our lives and many times they’ll simply not add up. I had no idea what I was getting into when I first moved to the Twin Cities in March of 2010 with two suitcases and a dream.

The path and the journey has both been more amazing than I could have imagined and more daunting. I didn’t know when I moved that starting over would mean literally from scratch. Or that I would meet so many amazing folks from all walks of life, who’ve turned into friends. Or that I’d be confronted with the most difficult people and situations I’d ever experience, having to dig deep to find my True North, gain personal efficacy and know the potency of my determination and strength.

More changes are coming. The summer is winding down. Decisions need to be made. New choices, new vistas and grappling with our winter weather, once again. What magic will the holidays hold for 2018? A year of deep spiritual awakening.

What new horizons will show themselves and what will continue to stay the same, not quite going as planned or changing direction altogether. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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