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I would love to see what you look like.  Every time I leave a comment on one of my blog pages –  my picture shows up – have you noticed that? 

The picture is called an “avatar”.  It is very simple and easy to get one.  Simply click on this link   http://en.gravatar.com/  

 Once you get to the site simply click on the “Get your Gravatar today” button – you only need to input your email to get going.  There is also a small video to watch at the top of the page to explain how it all works.

Leave a comment when you have your avatar picture and say Hi.

Helping Reflexologists Gain More Abundance – Part 5 of 5

5. Exploring new avenues to bring in additional income

Professional Reflexologists are earning between $60, $75 or even $125 or more per hour. 

Consider ways of multiplying your time and energy into more abundance.  You can do that through:

      1.  Selling products – such as supplements, vitamins, herbs, newsletters, health products

      2.  Taking on staff that can help the busines grow and be more properous and abundant

Consider investing in the marketing expertise and the resources to make this happen successfully. 

Learning how to successfully develop different income streams and you will be able to pass your abundance to others in ways you have yet to dream of.

Helping Reflexologists Gain More Abundance – Part 4 of 5

4. Having business mentors/coaches to keep you focused and on track

Some Reflexologists find it a lonely profession.  If you choose to work out of your home and not in a spa, clinic or other professional office, you might not  get the opportunity to talk shop or meet at the water cooler or have tea with your colleagues, as most do in nearly all other professions. 

It’s important you find the time to spend time with people who are successful.

You see, you become like your tribe.  Do you invest your precious time with people that are uplifting and positive or do you spend time with people that whinge and moan about life.  As a Reflexologist it’s important that you invest both your time and your money in being coached and mentored.  Some successful professionals even say that this is the key to their success and growth over the years.   

Coaching and mentoring will provide you with a completely different view allowing you to explore and expand into becoming all of who you were meant to be.

Helping Reflexologists Gain More Abundance – Part 3 of 5

3.  Do you want help to work on your own personal/spiritual development to resolve your own issues?

Are you the kind of Reflexologist who is controlled internally by a subconscious need to stay in your own comfort zone rather than challenging yourself?

If so, you will always find a justification to keep yourself held back.  Lately it’s been the “ecomony”, or “recession”, others are ”family needs”, prefer to work “part time”, and on and on and on.  The hard truth is it’s always you and solely you that is responsible for your economic circumstances.

You need to stop yourself from burning out energetically which keeps you exhausted and at a low vibration and focus on keeping your energy high. This means doing your own spiritual practice on a daily basis so you emit a potent and attractive energetic force.

It’s also important you actively clear unresolved issues and beliefs around money and eagerly study, research and develop the mindset of entrepreneurs that you admire and would like to copy. 

Study them and replicate what they do and you will have similar success.

 

Helping Reflexologists Gain More Abundance – Part 2 of 5

2. Are you a very good healer but need help with business/marketing skills?

You may have heard the saying ‘work on your business – not in your business’.  What this means is rather than doing everything yourself you set up business systems and procedures and train people to follow those systems in your business.  It truly is a false economy to think you can do everything yourself – and this will be the ceiling on your business if you harbour this limiting belief.  As the business owner – and yes, if you are taking money for your services you are running a business – you need to look at ways to leverage yourself.

This means, you do the work once – train someone or develop some marketing – and get paid for it indefinitely.  It’s also important that you learn how to develop a marketing system that delivers clients to you without having to worry about whether the phone is going to ring every day.

The first step is going from being a generalist in your healing field to being a specialist in a particular area. This will mean you can focus your marketing on reaching people with the problem you solve.  Do you specialize in your services – working with moms, seniors, children, back pain, athletes, women’s issues, and so on?

You will then be able to make intelligent decisions about the best medium (display ads, online ads, etc) to use to reach your clients and the best approach to take in your ads to connect with this target market.

Helping Reflexologists Gain More Abundance – Part 1 of 5

There are many reasons people in the health and wellness industry do not have the abundance they would like.  Each day I will cover one of these reasons in this 5 part series.

1. Do you hold a subconscious belief that being wealthy is not being spiritual?

This is perhaps the most common reason Reflexologists, Massage Therapists, Reiki practitioners and any number of Holistic practitioners find themselves struggling to earn a decent living whilst courageously helping others in their time of need.  It’s been explained in several ways by a lot of marketing experts.  So here is a new twist on this age-old problem.  Many people in our industry have – at some level – harbour a belief that being wealthy is not spiritual. You may think that you have dealt with your abundance issues but have you really? Or are you still attracting scarcity and lack of abundance?

 A good way to determine this is by asking yourself: 

“Do I give out far more energetically than I allow myself to receive financially, spiritually and emotionally?”

You may feel a strong need to serve others rather than creating a successful business that serves you with abundant income.

This will manifest itself in stopping you charging what you’re worth, which while it might seem like the ‘nice’ thing to do at the time will ultimately lead to resentment, sickness and even ill health.

Help Others while Helping Yourself

Surveying our students and graduates over the years, provides us with some insight.  For instance the majority of our Reflexology students are driven by a need to help people.  And, nearly all of our students are planning a new career, either full time or part time as a certified Professional Reflexologist.  For many this translates to a desire of owning their own business and becoming their own boss.  Also, of course, the idea of earning a decent income enters the picture as well.

It doesn’t take a chartered accountant to calculate earnings ranging from $50 – $75 per hourly session to add up to a decent income.  It all depends on numbers of clients and how you structure your promotions, etc.

Some of our graduates who become full time Reflexologists earn in excess of $50,000 annually and much more, while enjoying working the hours that they choose to work and take holidays when they want.  Even when you consider a lot of our certified Professional Reflexology graduates elect to work on a part-time basis and yet they still have a median earning of roughly $30,000 annually – not bad for a part-time job, working your own hours.

As with any entrepreneur – the key to success in business is to never give up.  Developing a successful practice takes determination, attitude, professionalism, marketing skills, education and time management. 

It all starts with your first step – why not take it now.

Email me at Jack@JackMarriott and I will send you an application form and you can start learning Professional Foot Reflexology and earning your certification. 

Or, in comments below state your interest and I’ll send you an application form and course description.

Discover the Fascinating Human Body

Universal College of Reflexology offers a wonderful certification course on-line through the magical virtual classroom at a new and lower price.

This self-paced certificated anatomy and physiology course will cover all the major body systems. It will particularly appeal to those who wish to enter into studies in the area of complimentary medicines or simply wish to improve their knowledge in this area. Easy to follow lessons focus on the need-to-know facts, that must be understood by anyone wanting to pursue a health care career. Ideal for anyone requiring a solid understanding of how the human body works.

http://reflexologyestore.com/anatomy-physiology%e2%80%94aap1

Brazilian Toe Massage – have you tried it yet?

Brazilian Toe Massage has been around for over 50 years.  Reportedly, there is one hospital in Brazil that offers nothing but this service as a way to facilitate healing of all illnesses.  It is one of the most effective techniques I’ve found for relaxation and release of stress.

If you know someone who is in pain or can’t sleep than watch this 1 minute video on a simple and easy technique to help people relax and feel better.

http://www.cedarsandroses.com/health/videos/brazilian-toe-massage-have-you-tried-it-yet/

Foreign Toothpaste Harmful??

Recently the Vancouver Province newspaper featured a front page blast and a full page editorial denouncing the practices of ethnic stores in Vancouver selling toothpaste that “allegedly” may have harmful bacteria in it as well as selling a host of other ethnic health products all without DIN numbers.

This article was really an advertisement for the government and it’s big business lobbyists stating the defeat of bill 51 and its successor bill 6 puts Canadians lives at danger by not restricting the production and sale of natural health products in Canada without DIN numbers.  This follows the huge outcry by Canadians who challenged our government’s attempt to take away our freedom of choice and rights to stay healthy.

I think it’s particularly ironic that this “article/advertisement” chose to pick on an obscure foreign toothpaste from India made with natural products as potentially harmful for Canadians.  Consider domestic toothpaste containing such dangerous products as fluoride and chalk to name just two.  The United States passed laws twenty years ago that domestic toothpaste must carry a POISON label on it.  Despite the American government requiring the POISON label on its toothpaste, our Canadian government refuses to allow a POISON label on the very same toothpaste sold in Canada and yet has the audacity to go after foreign natural brands of toothpaste without poisons that may be harmful.

Way to go my fellow Canadians for meeting this challenge head on.