"As a change coach and consultant, I am working to establish my own practice and business. I see LinkedIn as a great platform to help build a personal and professional brand. However, I wasn't using its full potential.
Part of the challenge was my reluctance to promote myself actively and be visible. It didn't feel natural to me. For example, in the past I would almost never publish my photos on social media. I realised that my inner attitude, framing, and resistance were blocking me from showing up and actually enjoying the process of growing my practice." Read Sergey Helmar's story here.
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“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~ This quote by Anais Nin!!!
I remember when this quote found me 3 years ago… suddenly, upon reading it, everything got so clear. I realised where I was at that moment. And suddenly, I realised that there is a huge opportunity just in front of me, if I was ready to take that risk... Today I'd like to bring you some reflections inspired by the floods, slips and all the change, uncertainty happening in our world. We have been hit by a severe weather event this week, and I imagine many of you might have been impacted by it in various ways.
This is not about marketing today and visibility in terms of showing up for others and promotion. Today is about that visibility from within that can have a huge impact on that outside visibility, when the time is right. Grab a cuppa, and let it begin... Are you ready to dream big? Reach for the sky? Without any limits? Would you like to finally figure out how can social media marketing B!Done right for your business?
Would you like to know the "secret" tip how can you have time to promote yourself and reach more clients with fun & ease? Would you like to stop procrastinating and actually start showing up? Would you like to know what makes showing up genuinely so powerful, how can it impact your growth and how can you do it, too? Would you like to know that it is possible to surround yourself with people who support you, cheer for you and love what you bring to the world? And that you can find them? Here and now? If you answered yes to at least one of the questions above, know that you are in the right place. And brace up for some reading if you like - I've got some exciting stuff to share! :) Hello, and welcome to “It's all about visibility”. A new series where I am planning to explore visibility from two very different aspects. A wonderful mix of social media and basically personal brand marketing, all the way to personal development and getting clarity on who we are, how we operate, and what are we here for.
This is for you if you are interested in tips and stories how to promote yourself better on the social platforms, and how to explore new tools for personal development... I've always loved hearts. When I was little, every kid used to have a sign in my kindergarten - the heart was mine. It stayed with me ever since. Last week, I got this beautiful heart shaped candle from a lovely client. I lit it today, and the topic of love appeared. In particular, the topic of loving and accepting ourselves. A topic that hugely impacted the way I run my business, how I show up professionally, and how I market myself, on social media, and beyond. Love and work, yes they can go hand in hand! It was a long journey for me, to get to love and accept myself. And I thought I did love and accept myself. I achieved a lot of things, I was successful in the things I did, I was confident, and I was proud of where I got to.
Yet, something was never fulfilling me... Deep inside I felt something was not ok. It seemed like I had to work harder and harder to get the success. Like the more I worked, it was never enough, I was expected to do more. To get the appreciation. To get really, the love I was craving for. It was getting really tiring. But I pushed it away, and found excuses not to really go there. Until one day, when somehow everything got shaken, broken, and I totally lost my confidence. I was in a stage of my life when I simply couldn't "do things" the way I did before. I couldn't achieve things the way I did anymore. I became a mom. This phase of my life was not about doing things, but rather of letting go and feeling. It was new. It was foreign territory. I felt stuck and powerless. My dose of appreciation through work, through external things and achievements was not fulfilled anymore. I suddenly found myself in this new space, not validated from the outside, and my cup of self-love that was constantly being filled from the outside was getting emptier and emptier. I was craving it and needing it. But not getting it in the way I knew it worked. And I only knew that way at that time. It was hard. Challenging. Heartbreaking. I remember one day I was sitting in front of the big mirror, taking up the advice of a professional, to keep looking at myself and tell myself all the things that I loved about myself, that I actually love myself. I did it for weeks, every single day. It didn't work. I was trying to achieve something that deep inside, I didn't believe in. There was no more fake it till you make it. This strategy quickly expired. I got to the point to actually start facing myself. Motherhood launched me on a journey. That when I can't look for love outside, how can I look within. I went through a lot of techniques, tried a lot of things to help myself. Many things worked, many didn't. But it wasn't till I found ThetaHealing that I could really start experiencing what unconditional love is, what it means to me, and how can I access it without doing anything for it. This was not conditioned. I didn't have to finally do anything or achieve anything for it. I didn't have to finally work hard for it. Hence the name, unconditional love. My conscious mind didn't understand this. This is why telling myself that I love myself as I was looking in the mirror didn't work. I just got so angry! Because something in my subconscious didn't believe it. And as science has shown, 90% of everything we do is run by our subconscious. I had to go to my subconscious to explore what was the belief I had around love, clear out the parts that limited me, and then I could fully believe that I can love and accept myself. Without needing anything or anyone to feel that. It changed the way I felt about being a mother, and how I related to my child. And it changed the way I felt about the relationship with my mother. It actually started changing every single relationship in my life, including all my work relations, client relations, relations with colleagues, competition, everyone. It was a beautiful, heartwarming, relieving experience. I know I am loved, and I know I love myself. This is stronger than any confidence I experienced before. On knowing this, I can now look straight in my eyes in the mirror, and know how it feels to love myself. Once I tapped into this new feeling, I started noticing differences in how I communicated. If I felt loved, I communicated from a place of fulfilledness, connectedness, I felt more genuine and true to myself. This connected me more with the people I related with. This type of communication, the marketing that comes from this place brought me honest and beautiful conversations, connection time, and also amazing leads, trust, the best business relationships. If I felt the lack of it, I communicated from a place of scarcity and need. With this feeling, I felt not good enough, inadequate, not worthy, and I also felt bad about promoting myself, my services, communicating about my offerings. Sometimes I would not even want to show up and be around anyone, as I was in pain. As Mother's Day is coming up, no wonder this topic became active and made me reflect. On sharing this, I feel my journey becomes complete. As Mother's Day is coming up this weekend in NZ, it is also no coincidence that I chose to hold my first ThetaHealing course on this very weekend. It is my coincidental tribute to motherhood, the celebration of feeling loved, and knowing it is in there, in me, in us, ready to be accessed anytime, unconditionally. And this is of course no coincidence. I feel grateful. I feel happy. And I wanted to share this because if there is anyone out there who now feels lost and stuck and unfulfilled, not quite getting the self-love like I was, and running into work to feel validated, feel accepted, feel loved, I trust this might give you hope. That yes, you have it in you, too, and there are ways to find it - whether you are a mom, a dad, a parent-to-be, or a child of a mom and dad. This is why I am excited to share one way, the ThetaHealing® way, this weekend.❤️ Here is to unconditional love. Would you like to know how it feels to have it, anytime, anywhere? If so, say yes! What is the ThetaHealing® technique and how can you benefit from it? - The B!Social perspective.3/15/2022 Starting another big adventure of my life! I am now a ThetaHealing® Instructor! This picture was taken just before I started my certification with the founder of the technique, Vianna Stibal. Just a bit excited!
I came across the ThetaHealing® technique a couple of years ago - it is a meditation technique where you can work with the body, spirit and mind, unblock all sorts of limiting beliefs, blocked emotions, manifest, and access unconditional love without needing anyone or anything for it. Happy International Women’s Day to all the Lovely Ladies, enjoy B!ing a Woman!
I made this cute video to celebrate B!Social style with you! So many great memories, smiles, cuppas, adventures and social media trainings shared!
What does being social mean? An important question to ask ourselves, especially when it comes to social interactions, and relating with people.
This, of course includes social networking. It also includes using the social media platforms as a tool to connect, build and nurture relationships with others. For business, and of course, not only for business. Welcome to the newest edition of * B!Social * B!True * B!You *!
Showing up for yourself so you can show up for others, this is where everything starts. So what if you showed up?
Welcome to the * B!Social * B!True * B! You * series where we’ll explore how showing up genuinely can impact your business and life. On social media and beyond. Spiced up with some handpan tunes to B!Inspired. :) |
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