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{Pearls} 2017 Sacred Business Lessons

January 8, 2018 by Natalie Kent

Every year in January, I take time to evaluate the growth of Sacred Business over the previous year, according to the Sacred Business Skill Set. It’s a set of criteria that help me assess my ability to grow my business and highlight what I’ve done well and what needs further development. I thought I’d share what I’ve distilled from my successes and failures to spread the wisdom around.

Here are my top ten Pearls of Wisdom from 2017:

1. Honour The DEATH CYCLE

With so much emphasis on productivity, creativity and accomplishment, we need to learn the value of downtime and ‘not achieving’ at certain times throughout the year. Much regeneration can be happening beneath the surface when we stop trying to make progress and wait for a green light.

2. Clean Up Your PAST

Sometimes ‘looking back’ and addressing the relationships, knowledge and possessions you have accrued over time is an important part of being productive; it helps you to clear the slate for new creations.

3. Money Follows Your BODY’S FLOW

The state of your physical body – its flexibility, strength and efficiency – reflects how you create in the outer world. Your posture, weight distribution and fat-to-muscle ratio allow a certain amount of energy to flow naturally throughout your body – your money flow and how you grow your business will follow that same pattern.

4. Ideas Have a Natural GESTATION

Not all ideas must be acted upon immediately, sometimes they have an important gestation time that needs to be honoured. It’s ok to let some seeds lie dormant until it is time to take action.

5. People Show You Your Next OFFER

When you’re wondering what product or service you need to create next, look to your customers to show you what they want. There will be a concentration of people, queries or needs that can point to a new offering or opportunity for you consider.

6. Tap Into The MICRO ECONOMY

There is a trend towards greater diversity in types and prices of offers, especially since many people can’t afford high priced items in today’s economy. Consider expanding your revenue model to include offerings with a micro price tag and capitalise on volume instead of price.

7. Receive Guidance From The EARTH

Every business can be a co-creation with Mother Nature if we choose to listen. Ask for guidance from the elements, animals and plants about what steps to take next in your business, and experience greater ease and clarity as you grow your business naturally.

8. Track Ideas & Projects To RESOLUTION

Too many unfinished projects, content and ideas can mean you are leaving money on the table and clogging your creative engine. Keep track of inactive projects and follow through or close off those loose ends.

9. Claim Your Creative SPACE

We each have a unique view of the world that can be shared in myriad creative ways. Whether you’re a speaker, writer or other form of creator, claiming your place in the market through sharing your perspective can have a positive impact on your money flow.

10. Your Wounds Define Your SERVICE

We all carry emotional wounds from the past that are gifts in disguise. Know what your wounds are so you can be clear in the service you provide to people and how you actually help them along their journey through life. What personal wounds lie beneath your offerings?

Sacred Business teaches business by nature…

Every week I run a free live show in our Facebook Group called Business By Nature. If you’d like to learn more about some of these Pearls, simply request to join the group and tune in at Wed 9am AEST / Tues 3pm PST each week.

Why Slow Business Wins The Race

July 10, 2017 by Natalie Kent

For the last three years, I’ve been travelling around the natural wonders of Australia, in and out of wi-fi so I can build my business whilst maintaining my connection with nature. So much of what I teach is inspired by the success of our natural world, specifically how we can grow in harmony with all of creation, without sacrificing our health, relationships or our planet. It all begins with pace…

You may have heard of the emerging ‘slow business’ movement, which some progressive organisations and even well-known technology companies are adopting by choice. It urges people to reduce the pervasive fast pace of our economy and instead reap the rewards of organic growth. I call it living in ‘Earth time’.

Mind time versus Earth time

Our economy has been created largely from the mind, driven by the ego’s need to feel secure, overriding our innate sense of natural rhythm and timing. When the mind tries to control timing, life moves too quickly for our bodies and our environment to keep up with. It pushes us to create more and more, without looking square on at the side effects of maintaining such a high level of growth.

‘Mind time’ has yielded technologies that we as humans can barely keep up with, it’s left local communities without natural resources, people with permanently high blood pressure, and eroded intimacy in relationships. All because ‘there isn’t enough time’.

Living from the mind alone has resulted in much noise and distraction from what really matters: co-creating with each other and our planet from peace, not fear.

What’s more, we are so conditioned in our society for ‘overnight success’ – we only see the pinnacle of people’s work when it’s in the spotlight of (social) media. When we watch an athlete win a medal at the Olympics, we are not privy to personal, financial and physical sacrifices over many years that made it happen. We take it for granted and worse, become programmed into thinking ‘that’s all it takes, I can do that’. We’re only evaluating what we see. In my view, underlying all true success is slow progress.

{Sacred Money} True Marketing with Tad Hargrave

August 5, 2016 by Natalie Kent

Welcome to the #SacredMoneySeries where I am exploring money strategies with fellow conscious business coaches. Grab a cuppa, sit back and let your own money-making juices flow!

Is your marketing message true and complete?

It’s taken me a few years of marketing, selling and serving people to really understand the core of my marketing message and how to convey it in a way that is true and complete. In other words, a message that speaks straight to the hearts of my tribe and honours them by giving them the complete picture about the choice they are possibly about to make.

So often we are sold things we don’t need, things that get shelved, which in my opinion is a sure way to tell that you bought something you didn’t need. To me, the most important message to ask when you’re marketing is ’how does this person find out whether they truly need what I am offering?’

So how do we establish genuine need through our marketing, doing our best to ensure that what we offer is a true fit for each person that buys?

This is where your ‘point of view’ really comes into its own in terms of your marketing, it helps people clearly see where you stand and make an truly informed buying decision. And this week’s guest is an expert at what he calls ‘Point of View Marketing’, which is the most powerful, impactful and integral marketing approach I’ve seen.

Tad Hargrave has crafted a way to articulate your point of view to offer a more true and complete picture of the solutions you offer. Tad talks about his Point of View marketing approach and how it really gets to the heart of what you are offering and how you connect with your tribe:

Why the 3 key elements of point of view can transform your business
Why you need to create a marketing map for your customers (+ a live critique of my own!)
How to craft your offerings in a way that creates a sense of safety
How the integrity of your offering is intertwined with your pricing

We start off by talking about the Rant Experiment, I highly recommend you take a look at Tad’s blog on that here

This is an in-depth interview that goes for over an hour, so if you only have a short time, I suggesting fast forwarding to 26:52 where Tad delves right into the nuts and bolts of Point of View Marketing with a live example.

Tad’s ebook Point of View Marketing: http://marketingforhippies.com/povbook/

Click here to listen to the audio interview

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Un-money: What To Do When You’re Not Motivated By Money

July 13, 2016 by Natalie Kent

Hi, I’m Natalie and I’m a business coach who is not motivated by money.

What does that even mean, ‘not motivated by money’?

It’s taken me a long time to realize this about myself. I used to think I was motivated by money; from the outside looking in, I functioned like ‘everyone else’. I talked about money, set monetary goals, was happy when I made money and I charged above-average rates for my services.

But on the inside, I never really felt the connection. I was making myself function like everyone else, but I didn’t feel it. [I should have known when every single financial goal I ever set never came to fruition!]

It’s a strange thing to be in this world – to not be motivated by money… To not get excited by dollar signs, counting pennies and acquiring material things, like we see most people do.

I have had my share of money issues – not feeling worthy, avoiding my numbers, over-spending and more – and as I started to face these behaviours and beliefs, I began to see that to some degree, they were bound up in a ‘cover act’ to convince myself that I was ‘into money’.

That was my first breakthrough.

I was able to heal my relationship with money firstly by being honest in saying, ‘money, you just don’t turn me on’.

For a time, this was a very painful place to be, to realize I wasn’t into money and feeling like I had nowhere to go, no path to follow, especially in business. Facing this pain, which I believe is was really the pain of me denying my truth for so long, was part of the healing process.

Of course, none of this changes the fact that money is a reality we all have to face, and I had to find my way to work with it, so my ‘un-money’ mentality didn’t undermine me.

I had to find a way to embrace money.

{Pearls} Pricing Is About Peace

January 24, 2016 by Natalie Kent

Follow me on YouTube as I share the “Pearls of Wisdom” from building my lifestyle business on the road as I travel around Australia and beyond.

Your prices are more than break-evens & profit margins…

I started out charged industry rates for my services and I never felt comfortable with those amounts, because they didn’t come from me, they were based on what I felt I ‘should’ be charging. Needless to say, it was a bumpy road of inner work and outer experimentation until I eventually made peace with my prices.

When you have to set your own prices, it can feel like a giant question mark on a blank page – how do you know if the price is right? Guess what – there IS no right price!

If you want your customers to fully embrace your offerings, you need to make peace with your prices.

Are you at peace with your prices?

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