Hey guys, welcome back to the podcast. I thought it would be fun to create an episode called How to Reinvent Yourself and Your Business in 7 Steps. Clickbait for you! Just kidding, it's still true. I am going to share 7 steps, well, 7 ideas. As a manifesting generator in human design, I have gone through many iterations and reinventions in myself, my business. In fact, I was thinking about what was like my first sale in online business.
And some of you guys don't know this story, but I started my coaching business after I had kind of dabbled in other online business ideas. And so I had started blogging, my blog was called Growing in Grace. It was kind of like a mindset, personal development blog. And I started studying online business from Russell Brunson.
And so me and my mom started this company called Basketball Bundles. And Basketball Bundles, our idea was to sell like basketball plays to high school basketball coaches. And so our idea was, we'll post these quotes and ideas on Pinterest and then basically sell like a bundle of basketball plays they could buy to use at different levels, freshman, JV, varsity. And I remember when our first sale came in, it was for $7. And I was so excited.
And we put in a ton of work on ClickFunnels to make it happen. And I was thinking about how far I've come since that moment where I like made my first sale online. Then I started life coaching. Then I started, you know, online business more holistically, where I had PDFs and courses and cohorts, went on coaching. I've done masterminds. I've done a membership. I've actually done many memberships. I've done High Ticket 101. I've done Single Session 101.
I've done masterminds for a year. I've done masterminds for six weeks. I mean, I've just like done so many different styles of online business. And what I'm going to share with you today comes from all of those iterations, those experiments, those failures. Some of you guys are afraid to fail. And I'm like, ha, look at this pile of failures that I have behind me.
But because I failed so much, I've also succeeded a lot. And because we live in a universe where duality exists, like we talked about last week, I see failure as living in the land of success, right? And so when we reinvent ourself, even if it's because you failed, it could be because you've succeeded and didn't like it. There's a lot of reasons to reinvent your business.
And I've seen my clients, especially my manifesting generator clients, but other clients too, I've seen projectors, I've seen manifestors, I've seen manifesting generators and generators and reflectors all reinvent their business. So this isn't exclusive to manifesting generators. But when we reinvent ourselves or our business, there are some principles that I wanted to share.
And so the first principle is you have to know what you want, which is what I call lightning bolt clarity. Lightning bolt clarity is a great feeling. Feeling clarity is often what we want. But clarity often comes after a season of confusion, of frustration. And so if you're in a season of frustration or a season of confusion or frustration or like doubt or it feels foggy, lightning bolt clarity comes on the other side of that. It's where, you know, you want what you want.
And so how I like to think about this is if you don't know what you want, a great place to start is with what you don't want. So when I ask my clients what they want and they come back with, I don't know, I say, well, I know you don't want to be in debt. I know you don't want to be broke. They're like, true. Right. I know you don't want your business to fail. And so what's the inverse of that? Now we're getting closer to what you do want.
And so Dan Coe has this idea of an anti-vision. So if you can't just get into lightning bolt clarity, start with your anti-vision. What do you not want? How does that help you get closer to what you do want? And so listing out everything you don't want for your body, for your business, for your relationships, for your spirituality, how you work with clients, for your revenue, for your business model, what do you not want? And then take that list and get the inverse of it.
If you don't want debt, if you don't want a broken business, if you don't want crappy clients, that means that you want financial abundance and overflow. You want a business that works. You want a business model that produces high quality clients, that gives you free time to be with your family. Don't just listen to this episode. That's another thing that I will often share with my clients. Listening to this episode alone won't change your life.
Listening to this episode and actually making that list might change your life. And so make the list, see what you want, get that lightning bolt clarity. The other thing that I'll share, if you haven't listened to the lightning bolt clarity episode, and I posted a while ago, you can scroll back and find it, but I had to go to like the mountains. Like I had been feeling this like confusion and this fogginess. And I went up into the mountains to create space to get a download for clarity.
Sometimes the best clarity comes when we're not thinking about our business or in the operation day to day. I see this habit with my clients when we have a VIP day where it's like they go out of their normal life. Right. I just had a VIP day with a client where we met in Colorado. She's flying in and we get clarity that we couldn't get in our regular sessions because she was away from home. I was away from home.
We're in a new environment and sometimes that new environment creates the space for new clarity to drop. So set a date for yourself. Go to a coffee shop, go to the mountains, go on a hike that you've never been on, get out of town, go on a weekend getaway, something to create space for clarity if you really are in a season of reinvention. Okay, that was number one. Number two is formulate your ideal calendar. I write about this in my book Quiet Wealth, but I think it is such a useful activity, especially if it's been a while since you've done it.
What is your ideal calendar? What time do you wake up? When do you start work? How much family time do you have? Do you go to the gym? Do you go on walks? Do you work outside of your house? Do you go on dates? Do you travel? Do you take a lunch break? Do you work out at home? Do you read? Do you have free time? Ponder these things. For me, I like to write. Writing is cathartic for me.
So I write down my ideal calendar and I just Sunday through Saturday and I write down what time I start my work day and sometimes I'm living it and that's amazing. Sometimes I need to recalibrate. The other thing that I'll share is if you're new or in business and you're like, I have so much space on my calendar, like I don't even know what my ideal workflow is because part of your ideal calendar probably has client calls or some level of work involved that you've chosen for yourself.
And so I call these the golden client calendar blocks. So what I used to do before I had clients and I was just learning how to create clients, learning how to post on social media and all of that, I would block off in my calendar and make it golden. And I would put like client number one. I didn't have an actual client, but I put it in my calendar so I could see how it would feel. Sometimes clients ask me like, I don't know how many clients is fully booked.
And I was like, I don't either. We have to experience it. For most of us, a good number of clients is actually experienced. It is not formulated in your mind. Some of you think you want 20 one-on-one clients and you get to eight and you're like, holy crap, I am so busy. It's like, yeah, some of you actually probably want less one-on-one clients than you think you do.
And so the way that I like to experiment with that is like put it into your calendar and see how it feels on a day-to-day basis. And when that calendar block comes up, when you see, you know, golden client number three on Thursday, you sit down and you do client creating activities for that hour and you see how that feels. And so until you have the clients in those slots, you're doing client creating activities when that comes up on your calendar. That's number two.
Number three is ideal workflows, clients and tasks. So now it's not just how much you're working. What are you doing in those workflows? One of the things that became abundantly clear to me is I wanted a variety. Not everyone does, but I do. So I want one-on-one calls on my calendar. I want teaching calls on my calendar. I want a mastermind on my calendar. I want writing blocks on my calendar.
I want consuming time blocks where I go on a walk and listen to a podcast or take a course. I want free time on my calendar where I sit and do nothing. I want family time on my calendar. I want date night on my calendar. I want alone time on my calendar. I want a variety. That was very clear to me. Some of you really resonate with that. And some of you really don't. Some of you like more routine. Some of you like one style of work.
I have a lot going on in my business by choice, right? I have a podcast. I have an Instagram account that I publish on every day. I have an email list that I write to. I have one-on-one calls. I have groups. I have a mastermind with six ladies who I love. I have Voxer with clients. There's a lot of things that I have in my business by choice because I like variety. And so if you don't know what you like, it's time to experiment. This episode is about reinventing.
So on some level, if this episode resonates, it's because something's not working. And so if you've been bored, if it hasn't been producing the results that you want, and you're ready to reinvent, experiment. Put it in your calendar and try it. So there's how much time you're working, when you work, and there's what you're doing when you work. So this is another part of reinvention is like, maybe it's time to update the type of client that you take on.
Maybe it's time to update your pricing. Maybe it's time to update your actual workflows by hiring someone. Maybe it's like, you know what, I've always wanted to write a book. And it's like, where is that in your calendar? I use my calendar like a tool. I don't live and die by it. But I do have important things that go in there. And I'm using calendar loosely.
I'm not saying like, Monday, hour one, document every hour of your life. Some people do that and create success. For me, it's more about an awareness of how I'm creating with my time. And so when I use the word calendar, it's not like, pull up your Google calendar and like, let's put it in there. Although like the golden client idea, definitely put it in there. But let's say you want to wake up and read and write and meditate.
And right now you're waking up and going straight into like mom mode or straight into like working out. And you want to flip this, I think it could be useful to write it into your calendar until it's a new normal. Like I said, I'm not a huge fan of like living and dying by the 15 minute mark of every, you know, every 15 minutes I have something in my calendar documented. That's not how I like to live. I like free time.
But for my clients, even like I will block off time in my calendar where I'm not taking clients because it's important for me to have alone time that does go in my calendar. And so for you to ponder, you know, how much you're working when you're working. And then that level two is what are you doing when you work? Do you like writing? Do you like recording podcasts? Do you like coaching? Do you like teaching? Do you like content creation?
Do you like project management and organization? What do you enjoy? How do you put more of that into your calendar? That's part of reinvention too. Principle number four is something that I have done my whole career that I think we all do. But like to bring it to the light I think is really useful is to look and study and research creators and business owners and coaches or whoever you identify with that you enjoy. Like you like how they live their life.
You like how they create in their business and emulate them. Not everything, but aspects of their life. So you might research because ideally they're creators like you research how they create, what their workflows are, productivity routines. You might research what kind of business model they have and just jot down ideas and notes and then see what you want to emulate. I'm not saying emulate everything, but I think it's useful to look at people that you admire.
This is my scenario that I actually posted this on Instagram. It's like spicy coaching, right? Only take advice from people who are living how you want to live and creating what you want to create. And so to be someone that you would want to emulate, they have to have results that you would trade places with that you would be interested in having what they have. That's the rule. Because I don't want you to emulate someone that you don't even want their life. That is not useful.
Even if they're very persuasive, even if they're amazing and have amazing results, would you want their life? Maybe not. And so identify people you would actually trade with and then find aspects of their daily routine of their business model of how they create their creativity routines, productivity routines, whatever. Find aspects of how they live that you can emulate.
I remember doing that early on, like before I even knew what a business model was. I just emulated my coach's business model. She had one on one coaching and a little mastermind. And so I was like, okay, I will do one on one coaching and a little mastermind. And it worked. And I learned like I don't have to reinvent the wheel. I can look at what's working and what my preference is and make it my own. And I've done that many, many times.
That has been always evolving for me. So as I grow and develop and evolve, new teachers come into my awareness because the teacher shows up when the student is ready or when the student is ready, the teacher appears, I think is actually the quote. So new teachers come into my life, new mentors, new coaches. I look at what they do. I see what works for them.
I try on what works for me and I experiment by emulation with my business model, with my pricing, with my routines, all of it. And I think you could do the same. This is different than copying or regurgitating. It's trying it on for yourself and experimenting with how you would do it in your own way. But I think it's useful as a way of evolution.
I think it's useful to look at what works and try on what we're drawn to, what our preferences are and experiment with it and then go through the cycle again as many times as it takes. And you'll probably do this your whole life of reinventing what works and tossing what doesn't for yourself and your business. Okay, so that was number four. Let's go to number five. This is, I think, just a useful tool for clarity's sake.
I don't think you have to live your life according to what you write down. But as a clarity exercise, mock up a daily 30 day, 90 day, six month and one month plan. Sometimes I do this when I get really stuck in my mind where it's like I'm spinning out. I don't know what's working. I don't know what to do. I feel really deflated. I do this on paper and it's so useful. Even if you don't do the plan, which is kind of funny, but it just gets your mind thinking in the form of like it's working.
This is how it could work. This is where math meets mindset. So if you were to mock up a daily plan, what would it be? If you were to mock up a 30 day plan, what would that look like? A 90 day plan, what would that look like? A six month plan, what would that look like? A year long plan, what would that look like? That could include marketing. That could include new offers you want to experiment with. That could include a different platform you want to try.
It could include an in-person event. It could include one on one clients. Like putting it on paper is useful for your brain. Like I said, even if it doesn't happen exactly the way it happens on paper, gets your mind in the energy of it's working. This is how it could work. This is what it could look like. These are ideas. It keeps us in motion towards our dreams. And if you've never done an exercise like this, I highly recommend you do.
If it's been a while since you've done an exercise like that, my invitation to you is to try it today. You can get out a Notion document. You can do it on a Google Doc. You can do it on paper. You can do it on your notes app on your phone. It doesn't matter. Just play with it. What would you love to see in a year? Maybe it's like I have eight one on one clients, a full group of 20 people and 100 new people on my email list. Maybe in 90 days you want five new one on one clients.
Maybe in 90 days you have recorded 10 modules for a course. I mean, you get to make this up. But what would help you feel like you're on track? What would help you feel like you're making progress? And I just chose daily, 30 day, 90 day, six month, one year. But you can do all of those. You can do one of those, but get some ideas, jot them down on paper. It'll help you get clear.
The next piece of this is integrate, make changes, announce decisions and changes if needed, or just do it quietly. So I've done all of these. So sometimes I announce changes. Like when I closed Quiet Wealth Collective, I announced that change was coming and I introduced the Amber Smith Vortex, which took its place. There's been other times that like I've just quietly done something and then talked about it later.
There's been times where I integrate the changes and then announce it later, for sure. Because sometimes like I only know that to my clients, sometimes I tell everyone that it's coming. But whatever you decide to do, actually make the changes and the upgrades and the decisions that need to be made so that this goes from theory into application. That's the big idea.
So after you get lightning bolt clarity, after you've gotten clear about your ideal calendar and your ideal workflows, after you've kind of reflected and even just like pondered how you want to emulate creators and coaches and business owners that you admire, right? And you've made this 30, 90, one year plan or whatever, you know, however you went about it. I like daily 30 day, 90 day, six month, one month. I just jot my ideas down on paper.
Now it's time to like actually integrate those changes. And so this is the scary part, right? Is actually making the upgrades or changing the website or announcing the change to your audience. Sometimes it's even just like scary to like admit it to yourself that things are changing. But like, so much energy is unlocked when you actually do this. And so step seven is to reflect on what you learned and what you'll do differently next time. So I do this with all my launches.
I do this with all my programs. I go through a review on a document that I can reference where it's like what worked, what didn't, what will I do differently next time? What did I learn? And I think it's so useful to have this awareness of what worked about your previous business model or previous program or previous way of doing things. What did you learn? What are you going to do different? What are you excited about?
Almost like using this, you can use this episode, you can use this process as an inflection point for you to get clarity about what's next. So to recap the seven things, one, know what you want, get lightning bolt clarity, have their big vision. What do you want in like as a North Star? Like what's the big thing that you're working towards? If you don't know, start with what Dan Coe calls like an anti vision, which is what you don't want.
Once you know what you don't want, inverse it so you can get clear about what you do want. Number two, write down your ideal calendar for the week. Number three, figure out your ideal workflows, like what you're actually doing when you work, the kind of clients you work with, the kind of tasks you do. Number four, pick people to emulate aspects of how they live and how they create only people that you would trade with. Right. And it can be about a specific thing.
So like if you love someone's business model, it's okay to emulate that even if you wouldn't emulate how much they work. Let's say someone has an amazing family life and you appreciate how they blend work and family life. That could be something to emulate. Maybe someone really is committed to adding value and changing the world in a positive way.
Like you can emulate that doesn't have to be their entire existence. It could be specific things. After you pick some of those people and you've pondered how you can emulate them, mock up a daily 30 day, 90 day, six month and one month plan for you and your business. The idea here is to get your mind seeing creative solutions. It is not something that you have to commit to as like a blood oath. You know, you don't have to write down a 12 month plan and like commit to it no matter what. It's just to get your ideas flowing. It's to see how it could work. It's to see.
Are you in alignment with what you really want today? Okay, number six is integrate the changes. Announce it if you want to or quietly do it. And when I took the note, I even put a smiley face like quietly do it. Smiley face like sometimes it's going to be appropriate to announce changes and sometimes you're just going to do it. One of the things that I am very aware of is like no one cares more about my business than I do.
So sometimes it's appropriate to announce the changes if it's going to affect my clients. But if it's not going to affect my clients, sometimes I just do it. I just start the new idea. And then the seventh step is to reflect on what worked, what didn't, what will you do differently next time? And you can do this process at any point. And it feels so good to get this level of clarity. It feels like a mental reset. So I hope you actually take me up on it and experience it for yourself. Okay, have a beautiful day. I'll see you in the next episode.
