Sustainable Success Nudge From Your Future Self

💬 “You don't have to hurry something just because you know how.”

Sometimes knowing how to make something grow is exactly what makes it harder to let it unfold.

Hi Melinda,

I received another $80 payment for a private sound healing session recently.

And I was ridiculously happy about it. Not because $80 is a lot.

For perspective, when I take on a private coaching client, they pay me 2k a month.

I know how to create revenue.

I also know how to grow a business.

I've spent more than 20 years learning how to market, create offers, build relationships, generate referrals and turn something that works into something bigger.

Which means I know exactly what I could be doing with this new sound healing work.

I could be spending a lot more time on it. I could be building the marketing machine. I could be setting revenue goals and tracking how quickly I'm reaching them. I could be asking:

How do I turn this $80 into $800...and then $8,000?

But I'm not.

And perhaps the most surprising part is… I'm absolutely okay with that.

Right now, I'm letting an $80 session be an $80 session.

Someone comes into my Sound Sanctuary. I get to play my bowls. They receive something meaningful. I receive $80 for doing work that feels deeply connected to who I am.

And I think:

How freaking cool is this?!

I don't need that $80 to prove anything about where this is going.

I don't need today's session to become tomorrow's business model.

And I don't need to force something I love to grow faster simply because I know how.

That's new for me.

Because when you're highly capable of making things happen, it can be surprisingly difficult not to make them happen quickly.

We tend to think of restraint as something required when we can't move faster.

I'm beginning to understand a different kind of restraint:

Having the ability to accelerate something...and choosing not to.

But because the pace itself feels right.

Because maybe there are things I'm meant to experience here that I would miss if I got too far ahead of them too fast.

So here's something I'd love for you to notice this week:

Where might you be hurrying something simply because you know how?

Maybe it doesn't need more momentum yet.

Or maybe yours does.

The invitation isn't necessarily to go slowly. It's to know why you're going at the pace you're going.

I'm going to keep loving my $80 payments.

And whatever pace your next chapter requires, I hope you give yourself permission to choose it, rather than assuming faster is always better.

With presence,
Melinda