My 2024 summer to autumn wind-down

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I had a rough summer. Between an exhausting second trimester, having my sons home from school, and frantic vet visits for my cats, my Q2-Q3 plans went to shit. All I did was tend my group program, Human Design Dialogues, which was a lovely break from the chaos.

I begged for normalcy. Something boring and mundane because, I cannot take any more “shifts” or “upheavels” which happen before a breakthrough. 

Then the end of summer came. My children went back to school. I started writing again (fanfiction, and no, I will not share which fandom 😬). I cooked. 

We got a kitten. Or a parrot because he spends my working hours perched on my shoulder.

Launching The Portal Membership

“Launch a membership” has been on my want-to-do list since last year. I decided to make it happen. I joined a membership about… memberships because my undefined head/ajna didn’t feel like thinking. 

And in a month… I put The Portal into the world. I was inspired by memberships such as Netflix and Xpass (Xbox) because as long as you have an active subscription, you have access to their library and future updates.

It’s nice to know that if I want to make something, I’m pre-paid for it, which takes the pressure off of launching.

Playing with “fear”

But I am launching something public for October. Last year, I wrote a PDF called The Gates of Fear, but I decided to update it. I turned it into a course to expand on the PDF and include an audio version. (If you’re in The Portal, it is automatically added to your dashboard). 

I enjoy talking about fear because I’m very much a “poke the bear” person. I love a good psychological horror or cheesy teenagers-doing-tropey-stuff movies. On a deeper level, learning about how inherent fears and fears we take from other people manifest in a Human Design chart was a great way for me to play with karmic cycles.

The Anti-Planning life

I mentioned at the beginning of this post that my plans went to shit for Q2-Q3. I started planning Q4 and decided, “screw it.” I plan my life the way I plan my readings. Everything gets written out and structured, and I stop using it after the first sentence.

If you have a line 3 in your profile, you know what I’m talking about.

I decided to take an anti-planning course from Elizabeth Buckley-Goddard. If you’re in the virtual assistance or service provider space, you may be familiar with her work. To be honest, I bought like 75% of her courses at once after being on a course/coaching fast for two years. 

Fill up, my hungry undefined head/ajna!

Now, I have a rough outline of what I want to do for the rest of Q4, split into “should do this,” “would be nice,” and “if I feel like a masochist.” I didn’t create steps, due dates, or strategies. Simply, “here’s all the stuff, I’ll work on whatever I want as I go.”

Her course is mainly for business owners planning things out, but I’m sure it’s adaptable to day-to-day life. As a parent with a third child on the way, I stopped planning my personal life because I can’t even stay committed to what I’m making for dinner each evening. I’ll blame it on the undefined ego.

Discounts? What?!

I’ve been taught to “not discount” my stuff because “people will always expect a discount and never buy anything at full price.” It was a hard and fast marketing rule in the late 2010s that I put too much stock into.

Then there’s the Projector predicament. 

Are people buying from me because they recognize my Projector awesomeness and they’re inviting me into their world? Or are they inviting my price point?

Girl, stop.

It’s Prime Day on Amazon and I’ve scrolled through a bunch of stainless steel cat fountains and fancy baby gates. I do compare prices, but will I make a purchase on a cheaper item if the more expensive one has better reviews? Hell no. I want my purchase to improve my quality of life.

It’s taken me six years to realize purchases come with invitation by default. My Human Design chart PDF is $20. That’s four burgers, four fries, and twenty chicken nuggets from McDonald’s as of October 2024. You can Google anything about Human Design for FREE. Yet, people will make a $20 monetary investment and the energetic commitment to read MY writing.

That’s an invitation.

Plus, I don’t know how other people are living, but where I’m at, people can barely afford groceries. A consultant who works with millionaires once told me, “Your customer’s finances are their business, and you can’t price based on their budgets.” 

Yet, with every launch, someone asks me for a custom payment plan, scholarship opportunity, or to pay through labor. The willingness to get access, to INVITE ME is there, even if the cash isn’t.

It’d be nice to be a millionaire and set up generational wealth for my children. DeShaun and I talk about the future of our children a lot. But at this time of my life, I don’t resonate at the million-dollar level.

One of my favorite business-related books is Company of One by Paul Jarvis. He speaks of staying small. To look at a “maximum amount of money” to make in a launch rather than setting a minimum goal. 

What I also love about Paul Jarvis is despite making such an impact in the service provider world, he’s a ghost. In fact, the #2 post, if you google “Paul Jarvis” is “What happened to Paul Jarvis?” He has no internet presence.

That was my aspiration for the last two years, but I’m coming out of hibernation.

Anyway, on discounts- for October, I’m putting the Gates of Fear course up at 60% off. 👻  And instead of a “minimum money I want to make,” goal, I set a “maximum that would make me happy.”

$47 $19

✨ - Fiona