Goal Guide: How to grow your business online and move to Bali

i asked my audience what their impossible goals were. And in this series I’m going to be breaking down those goals so you can know exactly what to focus on in 2024 if this is your goal too. Moving to Bali as an in-person service provider was next up on the list. But first, story time: In September I packed up my room, gave away every utensil I owned and booked a one way plane ticket. I visited Spain, Ibiza, Thailand, Malaysia and Bali. I bared my soul at a secluded retreat centre in La Gomera, and swam in the Indian ocean in between zoom calls on the Indonesian coast. It was dreamy, but none of it possible without building my business and setting goals to get there

And even though I’m just getting started in my travel+remote work journey (the bucket list is pretty long) Travelling for 5 months has cemented some solid lessons...

Stop thinking that in-person is better, when it’s just different 

I love in-person events (see: Future Self Nights) and I love in-person workshops (see:Something Impossible) but if you want to travel part of your work will have to include online delivery, at least part of the time. In-person workshops are great, but they aren’t for those who may have accessibility needs such as the need for captions and quiet environments, live outside major cities with expensive train fares, or have childcare responsibilities. I promise, people have life-shaking experiences and tonnes of fun online too. Ask yourself, how can you make this online service the most fun and valuable thing ever? Who are the people that would love this service via an online format? What online events have I loved and why? Thinking in this way gets you focused on the huge opportunity online presents instead of seeing it as a problem

Decide on the best way to offer your magic online

Explore the online version of what you currently do. Be honest about your skills and what it take to sustain the income you want. Avoid starting a membership if you don’t enjoy sales and marketing. And if stability is your goal explore how you can work with larger clients on long-term packages. Ask how you can design a service that your audience wants and that supports your ideal lifestyle

At first don’t aim big, aim small over an extended period

If you’re attempting to go from £0 to replacing your full-time job income with your creative business, it’s likely your brain is going to get super overwhelmed and shut down. Instead of fighting against your brains fear, break your ultimate goal into smaller manageable pieces. Can you consistently make £1000 a month? Then £2000? Only when you’re here can you start to think about growing to replace your FT income

For example my journey looked like this:

• My first goal was to create 1 client (took about 4 months)

• Then I focused on learning how to sell in a launch (took 4 launches, with 3 of them being total flops)

• Then my focus was maintaining excellent client delivery while I had multiple clients (I can have anywhere from 3-11 clients at a time as well as workshops and brand collaborations)

 As I focused on these goals, my income increased as well as the trust I had in my skills and abilities as a business owner.

Learn how to sell your service, and sell it well

You’ll have to break away from traditional conditioning around creating money + spending it. Everything in your body will feel unsafe as you go against decades of societal conditioning that says, that running your own business is scary, risky, and dangerous. The scariest part about being a full-time creative for most people is trusting that they’ll be able to provide for themselves. What they’re really questioning is, “can I trust that I can create the money I want?” Practice telling people about what you do, promoting your services online, get feedback from your customers on how to improve your service and implement it, launch and evaluate your learnings. Sales, just like rollerskating, is a skill that can be learnt. Both can be fun and both can be miserable. It’s a matter of perspective.

It’s hard life being a dreamer that doesn’t know how to execute on their dreams. I should know, I’ve lived it LOL.

Imagine starting the year feeling super confused and overwhelmed about your goal, and getting an answer for every unanswered question.

Imagine thinking “Fuck, there’s no way I can do this with my full-time job” and then discovering that the answer was closer than you thought

Imagine actually following through on your action plan and then posting about your win on instagram...

Introducing Something Impossible: A day workshop with a collective mission: everyone has to bring an impossible idea and no one leaves until every idea been has fully fleshed out, their vision made possible for 2024. No detail unturned. No question unanswered. No one gets left behind. There hasn’t been a workshop like it...