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Wanna go to the best Christmas party EVER?

Hi loves!

The bestest most festive party in all the internet-land is back! 🎄

Don’t stress if you’re not usually the party type, or the idea of dancing in public makes you break out in hives (though in my humble opinion there’s nothing better than boogying down in Woolies while grocery shopping hohoho), this fanceh party is a virtual one, so you can show up in your pajamas if you want.

Is that an instant yes for you? It’s an instant yes for me!

A couple of years ago, one of my business mates had a delightfully fun & fresh idea for the Christmas and holiday period.

Enter: Lizzy Goddard.

Want the lowdown on Lizzy?

I’m so glad you asked!

✨ She’s always showcasing and promoting her clients and students.

✨ She loves to experiment with different things in her business.

✨ She’s pretty awesome!

The fun idea was a Christmas Party with ‘Goody Bags’ made up of her clients’ courses, trainings and digital products.

It worked so well that she did it last year, and now it’s back for a third year.

She’s brought together over 370 people, all offering up their amazing digital products for the goody bags. And I’m one of those people! 🙋‍♀️

Her Christmas Party, complete with those all-important goody bags is now live!

Here’s what you need to know:

🎁 The Regular Goody Bag is *free* 🤯 and contains 340+ products that would normally cost over $15,700 in total.

🎁 The Premium Goody Bag has 120+ courses & products that would normally be $101-500 *each* but it’s a one-off price of $100!

I’m so bloomin’ excited to be contributing my suuuuper popular eCourse Marketing Without Social Media to the regular goody bag!

You can grab one, or both of the Goody Bags here!

But be fast, they’ll be disappearing on Thursday! She can’t convince us to give away our best products like this indefinitely!

Happy holidays!

FREE GOODIES:

Newsletter with absoloodely everything I create Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on December 07, 2022 19:20

The Systems, Strategy + Soul Podcast

Hi loves!

I have a delightful interview to share with you today!

I sat down with the beautiful Bree Boucher of the Systems, Strategy + Soul Podcast to chat all things systems and strategies I use in my business to work less and earn more.

Bree described the episode best:

In this episode of The SSS Podcast I chat to OG online entrepreneur Leonie Dawson about the systems and strategies she uses in their business. As a neurodivergent introvert, Leonie has made it their priority (and profitability) to be guided by the importance of setting boundaries in business. Listen as Leonie shares with us the lessons of how she has created a business that works for their strengths and weaknesses, and why she doesn’t really pay any attention to what anyone else is doing.

We also chat about:

🚀 how the 80/20 rule can help you make better business decisions

🚀 how to overcome the challenges of building a team

🚀 what Leonie’s favourite systems are and how she uses them

🚀 how launching her courses affects their time

🚀 what drew Leonie to setting up their business in this particular way

Ready to listen?

Just click HERE or press play below!

I absolutely love sharing all the behind the scenes of my biz with you all. I hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed recording it!

To your shining success,

FREE GOODIES:

Newsletter with absoloodely everything I create Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on December 07, 2022 18:09

Diary: A Little Bit Of It All

Dearests,

It’s been a long time since I just sat down and wrote you a letter. I have missed you. I have missed this. I know I say this every time I go to write, but it’s no less true each time.

I’m sitting in bed beside my littlest. She is a joy and a delight, a sparkling, bouncing ball of energy as most 8 year olds are. She is currently listening to an audiobook while drawing copious pictures of kawaii food. So much of parenting her is like tending to a younger version of me, except she is most definitely and firmly her own self.

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I talked to an old friend tonight. He’s been suffering from all this life happening. So much life. We met when we were baby-faced and fresh in our early 20s. I had such strong beliefs then of how it all was, and how it would all be. So Pollyanna! So relentlessly optimistic! So insistent that if you just DECIDE to be happy, you can!

And almost 20 years on, I don’t know if I feel the same way. So much of life has happened since then. So much entirely out of my own control. All I know is that life is tumbling me around, wearing off my hard edges, smoothing and polishing me into a glossy river rock. And all I know is not much, except that I hope I am becoming softer, wider, more open in the process.

All I know is that when the hard shit happens, some part of me feels so very grateful to experience it. Part of me thinks: “Oh, good! I am going to be able to understand other people SO much more because of this! I will understand other people who have suffered from this too!” Part of me also rages against the shitness of it too, of course.

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My kids have finished school for the year. We pulled them out early this year for… REASONS. So many reasons.

The last six months or so has… wildly stressful. The small alternative school we send our kids to began coming apart at the seams. Each new day felt like another piece of shitty information being discovered. There’s been police involved, and lawyers, and a mass exit of staff. My eldest kid had 8… 9? teachers this year. I can’t explain to you the levels of fuckery and dysfunction. I feel like any wartorn parent who has been through a Small Alternative school Drama (which I now call a SAD) would likely understand. Ain’t no drama like a small alternative school drama!

The warning signs of a depressive episode were starting in my brain last week. I cried for 24 hours and wore sunglasses everywhere to cover my tears. I turned up to my pilates lesson crying, and told my instructor I was “just having a Sad Girl Wednesday.” I just couldn’t cope with one more moment of school-related distress. My husband completely understood, and my kids were so understanding. I’m so grateful we’ve finally made the decision to reclaim our peace as a family. I don’t know why we stayed for so long. Well, I do… there were many reasons why we thought it was the best thing to do. And now it’s so very clear it’s not anymore.

My kids are starting at a new school next year. We’re sticking with a smaller independent school, but one that’s a bit more mainstream. As an alternative school devotee for the last decade (Steiner, Montessori & homeschooling), I’m anxious that doing something more mainstream may not work out… but where we’re at has Definitely Not Worked Out either, so we can only try something new!

No matter what, I’ve got two really beautiful humans as my kids. I’m ridic proud of their creativity, humour, empathy and brilliance. Just who they are is precious.

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I need to write again. Here, peace and clarity and contentment can be found.

Here, the story emerges from the tangled twine, weaves itself into a tapestry.

Thank you for being here, watching it unfold.

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I love you,
Leonie

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Published on November 26, 2022 03:09

August, September & October 2022: Biz & Life Review

Possums!

Yay! Welcome back to my monthly tradition where I review my life & business & share behind-the-scenes numbers as well.

Want to listen to this as a podcast?

Listen above, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)

I’ll cover:

what I’ve readlife blessings & challengeswhat I’ve created in my businesshow much revenue generated.

I’m experimenting with doing a bit of a simpler version this time… otherwise I’ll never get this thing finished. Done is better than perfect!

You can read previous monthly reviews here:

2021

April & May June July August September October November

2022

Dec 21 & Jan 22 February March April May June JulyWhat I got up to in life!At the start of August, I was still going through some difficult feelings of grief, shock and trauma. I talked more about what happened here. It took me some time to recover from that.My kids’ school also started going through major issues, and the high school part was closed. We immediately started school tours, and our kids ended up going on a trial day at another school. That trial day was a real highlight for all of us as a family – we’re so excited about the art, music & languages possibilities at the new school which we start at next year. In retrospect, we should have tried to move the kids over straight away to save us another two terms of more school drama and distress… but we live, we learn!Bought me and my kids matching rainbow cardigans because I’m not like other mums, I’M A COOL MUM.My old cubicle boss Lile & her family came to visit on holiday. She’s been one of my dearest mates for nearly 20 years now (!!!) and it was SUCH a joy for our families to hang out again. Our kids got along like a house on fire again. I love that our friendship of 2 has expanded to a friendship of 8.Big Kid went away on school camp.In anticipation of my 40th birthday, I went away for a weekend with some of my beloved girlfriends including Madi, Tash and Jody. It was BEYOND gorgeous… a historic mountain chalet with stunning views. We had such deep woman time… scream-laughing, playing highly competitive card games, talking our faces off, resting & nurturing each other. It was perfect, and I feel so grateful.I also had a spa afternoon with some of my business goddess friends… Tash Corbin, Amanda Rootsey, Claire Riley & Cass Deller. I am OBSESSED with them. OBSESSED.After 4 years here, I feel like my friendship circle is really deepening! My heart is so happy!

Best Books

I’ve slowed down on the amount of book reading I’m doing due to the eye condition I’ve recently developed. I’m hyperlexic (i.e. a massive book nerd) and read between 100-400 books a year. So curtailing that consumption is a bit challenging, but my eyes are leading the way.

(Having said that… I look back at what I read in 3 months and it still probably looks like a LOT. I promise I’m no longer treating myself to reading 6 books on a weekend!)

Anyways, I’m currently unable to read mass market paperbacks as the font and spacing is too small. I’m also finding Kindle reading tricky. I’m subsisting on rations of graphic novels, audiobooks, large print books and trade paperback books.

Here’s my favourite books from the last 3 months… everything I rated 5 stars!

Graphic novels/art booksKen Done Art Design Life by Ken Done
I love Ken Done’s positivity, colour and long-lived creative career. I so enjoyed this collection of art and essays! He has continued to innovate and is so committed to his family. It’s a beautiful thing.Button Pusher by Tyler Page
A graphic memoir about Tyler’s childhood diagnosis of ADHD.What the fuck is this by Celeste Mountjoy
This is a very easy read. Made me laugh and sigh in equal measure.Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee
A biography of Stan Lee in comic form. Fascinating to read how his comic career began and continued.Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing
Part memoir, part comic interview series about gender.Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure by Lewis Hancox
Graphic memoir of a trans teen.Amongst the Liberal Elite: The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump by Elly Lonon
This made me both snort with laugher and grimace in self-recognition. A VERY tongue in cheek graphic novel about a white liberal couple.Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Schnumn
An anthology of comics created by Autistic peeps.Memoirs & Non FictionYou Can Buy Happiness (and It’s Cheap): How One Woman Radically Simplified Her Life and How You Can Too by Tammy Strobel
If you like frugalism, you’ll probably find this one useful.All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire by Rebecca Woolf
I’ve followed Rebecca’s writing for the last… 15 years? This is the stark, honest story of her husband’s cancer diagnosis and death.Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs by Beth Ann Fennelly
I had this one recommended to me a few times, and I’m glad I read it… beautifully written. Both heart-wrenching and stupidly funny.Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
I’m a new fangirl of Katherine May. I adored the pace and message of this book, and immediately ordered and pre-ordered her other books.Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy by Symeon Brown
Fascinating journalist investigation of influencers. I preferred a similar book on the same topic – Break The Internet. Get Rich is pretty grim and intense, but still an intriguing read!The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
I’m still chasing the high of The Flatshare, Beth’s first novel… but I haven’t quite found it yet. This one was still gripping.AudiobooksMidlife and the Great Unknown: Finding Courage and Clarity Through Poetry by David Whyte
Honestly, he could read a Wikipedia page on iron ore production and I’d still find it beautiful. His voice is divine. His words are magic too.Bodhisattva Mind: Teachings to Cultivate Courage and Awareness in the Midst of Suffering by Pema Chödrön
Listened to all of this while doing daily hot eye compresses to manage my eye condition. Look ma, I can read with my eyes closed!

Blog posts I publishedAugustAsk Leonie Anything: All the Tech Questions!July 2022: Biz & Life Review Mindfulness Video: Take a moment with me to forest bathe in the wetlands When Awful Things Come Marching In Leonie talks about hard shitSeptemberShowing off my hybrid bullet journal!Business Success Series #9: Facebook AdvertisingOctoberAn enforced screen sabbatical

Looking back on these… I definitely need to get back into consistent writing and blogging again!

InterviewsAugustThe Life Not Likes PodcastSeptemberMillion Dollar Decisions for Mums Leonie Chats with Jessica Haines Design!Light Up Your Worth PodcastOctoberThe Soul of Business Summit How I Plan Million Dollar Years Manifest Clients NOW!Get Your Systems Together!Want to interview me?

Deets here!

Current list of software I use to run my business:Kajabi for most things in my business:selling through their shopping cartteaching my courses through their learning management systemrunning my affiliate program ActiveCampaign to send all our marketing emails.Zapier so that Kajabi & ActiveCampaign talk to each other.OptinMonster to create all the pop-ups, reminder windows & lead magnet forms on my website.Calendly to screen interviewers and book in interviews.Xero is my accounting & financial management system.I host my WordPress websites on WPEngine.

More tools of the trade here if you find that kind of thing useful!

How much money I made

Total income: $208,218

Where that income came from:E-courses: August: $13,599.78 September: $13,369.62 October: $154,618.52
TOTAL $181,587Goal Getter planners: August: $734.59 September: $679.08 October: $562.80
TOTAL $1,976.47Passive income business:
TOTAL $21,862
I set up this business 6 years ago, worked on it actively for a couple of years, and now it’s income that is 100% passive.Shares & Ethical Managed Funds: No increase.Investment property: Now converted to a family property for in-laws.Affiliate for Kajabi:
TOTAL $2,648Calm Christmas Planner on Etsy:
August: $31.58 September: $78.07 October: $34.41
TOTAL: $144.06

Here’s how the e-course sales were split:

What I did on the biz front!

The big thing I launched was the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy in October… as you can see by the graphs above, this is a MASSIVE change to our revenue stream. The divvy up of revenue will likely remain the same now… I envision most of our sales will come through the Academy because it’s such an INSTANT YES.

We currently have 1400 members which is just brilliant! I’m excited to keep developing & growing this into an essential resource for all business owners!

It’s a joy to be here!

Thank you for sharing this journey with me.

Love,

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FREE GOODIES:

Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on November 15, 2022 19:29

My next big thing!

Love bugs,

I’m SO excited to tell you all about my next big thing!

After taking a much needed screen sabbatical, I suddenly heard from my angels and guides. They’d been trying to get me to pay attention for so very long. Asking me to get quiet enough just to hear them and follow direction. They asked me to open the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy (again).

It’s been a surprise to me too – after running it for 9 years from 2010 – 2019, I thought that part of my journey was complete. Turns out, the last three years were just a sabbatical. And so I return, and it’s a joyous homecoming. For me and the nearly 1,000 gorgeous humans who’ve already joined. What a treat it is to follow these wild assignments and discover it resonates with others so strongly too.

How To Listen:

Listen above, or subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCast (or wherever else you listen to podcasts!)

Enjoy, m’loves!

Love always,

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Get $1,500 of my courses & workbooks for just $99 with the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy.

FREE GOODIES:

Newsletter with absoloodely everything I create Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on November 02, 2022 18:10

Get Your Systems Together!

My darlings!

‘Tis the season of summits at the moment! It’s been an absolute joy to share so much goodness with you all.

Recently, I joined the delightful Bree Boucher for the Get Your Systems Together Audio Summit!

If you’re an eCourse creator, a coach or consultant who wants to learn how to launch a digital product in a systematic and process driven way, the Get Your Systems Together summit is the perfect fit for you.

In this summit you’ll hear from each of the speakers as they share their own experiences with launching, plus you’ll learn all about the processes systems & tools that we use to get ready for impactful, successful and stress free launches.

Wanna know the ins & outs, brussel sprout?

Here’s just the sexiest list of peeps & the mind blowing topics covered:

🌈 How to Work Less and Earn More with Leonie Dawson (DAS ME!!!!)

🤑 How to Profitably Leverage a Storefront For Your Digital Products with Monica Froese

🎧 How to Leverage Audio for your Launch with Dr Linsday Padilla of HelloAudio

📊 How to use Airtable to track the Launch Metrics that Matter with Bree Boucher

🗝️ 3 Keys to Optimizing ClickUp with Ashley Shuler

🗓️ How to use Notion to stay organized and create SOPs in your business for your next launch with Sarah Steckler

💡 Creating a Course with Kajabi: The 5 Systems You Need for a Successful Launch with Christina Rava

📈 Level Up Your Launch with Pinterest with Nadalie Bardo

👭‍ Use Collaborations to Build Your List for a Successful Launch with Lynn Neville

❓ Game Changing Quizzes: A Money Making Machine for Your Business with Starlight

🗣️ Guest Speaking on podcasts to get more launch love! with Nikki O’Brien of Quintessential Being

💰 How to Create A Lead Launchpad to Grow A List of Buyers with Lindsay Aleson

📝 How Copy Drives Successful Sales Automations with Samantha Burmeister of Nomad Copy Agency

Registration is now open for this virtual event that goes live this Thursday, 3 November! 🎉🎉🎉

When you register today you’ll get early access to a private pop-up Facebook community where you can connect with the speakers and other attendees. There’s also some fun bingo games and prizes to win, so when you sign up make sure you join the group so you’re part of the fun!

Then when 11am Thursday (Pacific) rolls around, you’ll receive instant access to the private audio feed of each speaker’s presentation and you’ll have 7 days to listen in and take action.

And and and! Registration is free!

Instead of you having to spend your hard-earned dollarydoos, beautiful Bree decided to let you have access to the Get Your Systems Together Audio Summit for 7 days, for free!

Sure, if you need longer or want to come back and listen to those exquisite presentations again and again, you can upgrade to the Backstage Pass. You’ll get lifetime access and 1 year inside the private podcast feed. Not to mention the bundle of 30+ goodies valued at over $2k, plus 3 Panel Discussions and a live Webinar that’s included (believe me, you’re going to want to upgrade just for the bundle)!

It’s gonna be totally groovy babes! Can’t wait to see you there!

Big love,

FREE GOODIES:

Newsletter with absoloodely everything I create Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on October 30, 2022 13:30

Manifest Clients NOW!

Darlinghearts,

It’s that time again… The last quarter of the year and if you’re anything like me you’ll be think-thunking about how you can finish the year off strong & successfully.

Buuut this time of year can also be pretty exhausting. Many of my peeps are telling me that they’re feeling burned-out & less than keen over making and marketing beautiful creations that were bringing bountiful joy not too long ago.

Relatable? Yeeeaaah, you’re not alone babes. The wonderfully wild ride we call biz & life is packed fuuuuull of ups and downs. One of my shmokin’ hot tips to help you refill your sacred energy cup is to surround yourself with like-minded biz babes who will cheer you on AND teach you a thing or two.

As soon as I do this, I find myself shifting from “I have” to write an email, market this course or create content to “I get” to send my sacred message out into the world to people who truly need it!

If you want a cheeky bit of inspo and aligned strategy to fall back in wild, untamed love with your biz , why not join me and over 20 other exquisite experts for Manifest Clients Now: Amplify Your Confidence and Get Fully Booked in Any Economy.

Throughout this video training series you’ll learn practical and spiritual tools from me and over 20+ Business & Client Manifestation experts on how to:Fill Your One-On-One Coaching PracticeBreakthrough Your Financial Glass CeilingMaster Your Mindset For Manifesting SuccessAutomate the Right Systems for Your BusinessStand Out in a Saturated Market with BrandingLeverage Your Time & Income with Group ProgramsGet Leads Using Quizzes, Giveaways, or Writing a BookAnd so much more!

You can register for this high vibration manifestation series HERE!

This training is for you:

If you would like to manifest clients with more ease and less effort.If you are stuck in your business and you can’t seem to get to the next level.Are overworking in your business and not seeing a return on your investmentAre searching for a more pleasurable and sustainable path to growing your business.Want to contribute to social change on the planet with your unique skills and talentsIf you are not getting a consistent flow of paying clients in your business OR you are getting some clients but you’d like to get more.

Now more than ever IS the time to serve the world with your gifts. Some have lost hope in humanity and others realize that life is too precious to waste another day in indecision and doubt about who they are and what they have to give.

If any of this is singing to your soul, jump in & join me and this absoluuutely ah-may-zing line-up of Manifestation Experts to help you Amplify your Confidence and Get Fully Booked in Any Economy.

Join us for FREE here!

This is gonna be life changing!

Big love,

FREE GOODIES:

Newsletter with absoloodely everything I create Weekly love letters Podcast: Leonie Dawson Refuses To Be Categorised A library of free treasures

BOOKS:

Goal Getter workbooks for 2022 & beyond!Calm Christmas Planner Salt: a hottttt romance novella (published under my pen name Lola Leigh)

COURSES:

The Brilliant Biz & Life Academy Get Organised!Work Less, Earn More Behind The Scenes of a Multi-Millionaire’s Finances (only $7!)Sales Star Marketing Without Social Media Money, Manifesting & Multiple Streams of Income 40 Days To A Finished Book 40 Days To Create & Sell Your E-Course

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Published on October 25, 2022 13:15

An enforced screen sabbatical

Darling hearts,

I wanted to share with you a new journey I’m exploring… I’m on a kind of low-screen sabbatical.

For a wee while now, I’ve been feeling a bit unmotivated & uninspired. This is pretty unusual for my usual mode of WEE LETS GOOOOOOOOOO. I’m not sure if it’s due to it being an intense year with lots of personal things happening behind the scenes (i.e. a cancer diagnosis in my family, death and trauma, other family dramas, ADHD diagnosis, my kid’s high school closing plus buying, selling and moving homes). I’m not sure if it’s my energy and hormones shifting now I’m turning 40 in the next couple of months. I’m not sure if it’s a combination of all the things, or nothing at all.

Whatever it is, I felt a bit untethered, unsure of what my purpose is, waiting on my next divine assignment from the angels. A couple of months ago, I had an idea from the Waiting To Fall Asleep Gods. They told me to try a 21 day experiment of pulling back from screens. After quitting social media last year, I knew how healing these kinds of challenges can be. But then I couldn’t work out how I could possibly make that work. It seemed too hard. I mean… I run an online business! I talk to my closest mates online! It seemed impossible, so I ignored that intuitive nudge.

I also kept on getting the message that I needed to slow down, do less, savour more. But you know, YOLO, so I ignored the shit out of that too! And I got a vision I should experience daily calls to prayer, to remind myself that life was more than the superficial and irritating. Also somewhat difficult to consider implementing, so I kept ignoring it. Hilarious right?

I’ve been asking my angels for what the right thing to do was, and every time they gave me a clear answer, I’d be like “Nah, too hard, would rather suffer listlessly thanks my dudes.” I mean… MY AUDACITY!

And then, as it often is, the decision was made for me. My body is a wonderful barometer. It’s sensitive and delicate and regularly shits itself if I’m not doing the right thing. It’s equal parts miraculous, hilarious and frustrating.

This time, my eyes decided to borg themselves. They became enormously painful. It felt like constant eye strain, one that wasn’t solved by rest, my usual eye drops or getting new glasses. I kept on suffering through it before getting even more eye tests. It turns out, my eyelids have stopped producing oil to lubricate my eyes. Combined with the fact my eyelids have decided to not close properly when I’m sleeping because I’m some kind of freak middle aged zombie, and these baby blues of mine are dryer than a dead dingo’s donger.

And… it’s not something I can just instantly fix. It requires a long term treatment plan. Want to know the treatment plan? (You will laugh. Of course you will.) Basically, the treatment plan is to follow the angel’s advice.

I need to reduce my screen time. Go on a partial screen sabbatical. No ifs, buts or maybes. I’m forced to work out HOW to make it work because my eyes are on strike.I need to do 2 x calls to prayer a day. I kid you not. I need to lay down and use a hot compress over my eyes for 10 minutes, twice a day. Then I have to gently squeeze my eyelids to release the oils (the angels didn’t request the eyelid squeezing, but they are chuffed about the enforced meditation time!) I use the time to listen to Buddhist lectures, and it’s been so restorative.I need to go slower. Do less. Savour more. I’m hyperlexic (of course I am… I have Autism! 84% of peeps with ASD are hyperlexic!) I read an average of 200 books a year. But now I need to cut way back. Currently, I can only read larger print paperbacks. And instead of chewing through half a dozen books in a weekend, I have to… savour one for weeks on end. And as much as it chafes at my rabbity reader self, I’m sure this is exactly what must happen. I can’t argue with reality.

There’s some other things I need to do that the angels didn’t require for my soul realignment… just these dehydrated dingo donger eyeballs of mine.

I need to change my daily eye drops to ones with omega 3 I need to change my evening eye drops to an OINTMENT instead. A fecking OINTMENT. My husband says you know you’re middle aged when you start getting prescribed OINTMENTS. Also, no, I cannot possibly type OINTMENT in lowercase.I’m increasing my omega 3 supplements.I rock this sexy eye compress for my calls to prayer.And I now look like an Olympic swimmer when I’m asleep thanks to these equally sexy eye masks.

Here, I made you this to illustrate:

You. Are. Welcome.

How I’m Organising My Business & Life Differently:

I resisted doing a sabbatical from screens because I couldn’t work out how I would run my life & business. I thought I’d share some news on how that’s working.

I do want to be clear: I can still use screens, I just need to severely limit my time on them.

I also didn’t feel like I should take more time off work. I’ve taken a lot of time off work in recent years – last year it was 4 months or so. I also don’t know if this eye condition is something that can be resolved quickly (likely not), and will just need to be managed on an ongoing basis. I felt like I needed instead to find a more sustainable way of working, in a way that nurtures my creativity, soul and eyes.

I’ve deleted Messenger off… everything. It was my primary communication method with both friends & my two assistants. It was also something which I could easily spend hours on each day. I was very worried about doing this, especially with my assistants and my closest friends.

I explained to them what I was doing, and why, and had their full support to try out different communication methods that work with my new limitations. On the work front, I am now just creating Asana tasks and sending brief emails to explain things. With friends, I voicemail, write letters or even write letters to scan and email. If it’s something urgent on either front, I text, but I don’t do a lot of back-and-forward.

I’m typing this blog on my laptop. To manage it, I have stopped part way through for a hot compress treatment/Buddhist teaching. I have to practice regular “hard blinks” to squeeze oil out of my eyelids. And I’m intermittently closing my eyes for short bouts of eye rest while touch typing (excuse any typos!)

How it has affected me personally

I’ve been spending a lot of time with my eyes closed… wondering and dreaming what is next. What I’d like to create when my eyes are open. How I can be even more nourishing to myself, my creativity and my business.

It’s been enormously powerful.

I’ve realised that if I document via constant messaging all the details on my life, I miss the opportunity to write and reflect on the big stuff.

From a spiritual level, I realised I’ve been overly fixating on the waves of life instead of being the ocean. Thinking too much about the irritating minutiae instead of gazing out at the wide expanse of life.

And most of all, it’s reminding me I need to re-establish my own best friendship with myself. To lean into the connection I have with myself. Listen to my own inner voice, delight in all that makes me me.

It’s been over a month since I was enforced into this kind of screen sabbatical. And within a very short period of time, I suddenly heard from my angels and guides. They’d been trying to get me to pay attention for so very long. Asking me to get quiet enough just to hear them and follow direction. They asked me to open the Brilliant Biz & Life Academy (again).

It was a surprise to me too – after running it for 9 years from 2010 – 2019, I thought that part of my journey was complete. Turns out, the last three years were just a sabbatical. And so I return, and it’s a joyous homecoming. For me and the nearly 1,000 gorgeous humans who’ve already joined. What a treat it is to follow these wild assignments and discover it resonates with others so strongly too.

I’m so grateful to my eyes.

For making sure I did what was needed. For forcing me to listen. For showing me the path ahead.

These baby blues aren’t healed… they will now always need my tender loving care and attention. But I’m grateful for the opportunity to do it. And to continue mining the dark behind my eyelids to see what jewels I find there.

It’s been such a miraculous blessing… disguised as dead dingo donger eyeballs.

Thank you for sharing this wonky, wild, wonderful journey with me.

Love always,

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Published on October 20, 2022 13:00

An encorced screen sabbatical