Guest Post by Preetha Vijayan, Certified Results Coach

Have you ever felt that life is just passing you by without any gravitas? Have you ever felt that things are impossible? Do you sometimes feel drained of energy? That can all change…the power and ability to do so is all within YOU!

I have come to realise the magical benefits of positive thinking and it has been a very active effort on my part to shift my mindset to “higher level thinking” and consciousness. The results have been amazing!

1)You are ONE with life – have you ever had a day when everything seems to “flow?” Things happen exactly as you want it to – there is less traffic, less queues, you get your morning coffee on time, your meetings are productive – things just seem to go your way. Is this a coincidence? I choose to attribute this to your mindset and the

This week, my lovely Community Manager, Renana, will be going on maternity leave. And while she’s taking time off with the newest addition of her family, I’ll be hiring an interim freelancer.

There were a lot of people who I could have hired. The Go-Getter community is packed with virtual assistants with various specialities, many of whom have been self-employed for years.

But instead, I’m choosing to hire my 16-year-old brother, Miles.

Onboarding Miles will take countless hours of training and his work will have to revolve around his baseball schedule. But I know that this is the best possible decision I could have made.

Here’s why.

Last week, my mom called me and said that Miles was planning to apply for summer jobs at local fast food restaurants and coffee shops. Since he’s soon getting his driver’s license, he’ll need money for gas and some other relevant expenses.

And as she was telling me this,

So, you recently started your online business and are looking to get dem clients. Or, maybe you’ve been running a business for 20 years and you’re somehow here anyway. It doesn’t really matter. The rules still apply.

When you put out sales offers – whether it’s a digital product, an e-book, a 1:1 coaching program or anything else – you’re bound to get a variety of responses.

Some are full of excitement for the opportunity. Others sound like they were written by drunk babies. And others are just straight up weird.

I’ll never forget the time I received an email that said “Lena, I love you, I want to come see you and be with you, I can’t wait. Sincerely, Arthur from Pakistan”

And while it’s sometimes entertaining, eventually, it gets old. You just want to know: How can you weed through the people who are wasting your time and just get to the

When I was seventeen, I was expected to write a series of essays for my college applications. All of the questions that I had to respond to were more or less the same: Talk about your most profound life accomplishment, or reflect on your greatest challenge and how you overcame it. Or, if the university was feeling really creative, they would throw something at you like: Imagine that you were stranded on a deserted island with 100 other people, and you were responsible for providing them all with food, water, and shelter. Based on your life experiences, how would you take action?

Ridiculous, I know.

How is an emotionally unstable, acne-ridden high school kid supposed to answer any of those? What “accomplishments” are they even referring to?

And even though most high school seniors have no real experience, insight or wisdom that would properly equip them for these essays, we still sit down

I’ll never forget the day I was rushing through my rainy college campus trying to make my 4 o’clock anthropology class. I had had back-to-back campus meetings just before, and now I had to sit through two hours of an intense 600-person lecture on the evolution of lizard anatomy (true story).

Once the class was done, I would have to rush to yet another campus organization meeting, and then head home to catch the latest episode of Jersey Shore.

This is so fun! I remember thinking. I love being busy. I get shit done.

In college, I was one of those girls who felt the need to be a part of 20 different student clubs. It was annoying. But I did it because it made me feel, well, productive.

I contribute so much. I am gaining so much great experience. I can’t wait to add yet another activity to my resume.

I know, I know.

The first month that I launched my coaching business, I received an email from a “subscriber” saying something along these lines:

Dear Lena,

I joined your email list a few weeks ago, and I have a question: Who are you to be teaching this information? I’ve never even heard your name before. You clearly don’t have any followers, so I’m curious why you keep doing this if it isn’t successful?

Let me know. Thanks.

Raul

I would show you a screenshot from the actual email, but I was so horrified by the aggressiveness of it that I immediately hit ‘delete’. Why are people so damn mean?

As soon as I got home, I fell straight onto my bed and cried.

Like, uncontrollably sobbing…giving-no-fucks-about-my-mascara-running-all-over-my-white-pillow-case type sobbing. It was intense.

The truth is that, even though his email was awful and so unnecessarily cruel, he wasn’t wrong. I didn’t have any “followers”. No one knew my name in the online