To change, to stay to accelerate to decelerate… so many choices.

 

I was sharing a story this morning about how I used to play the violin. From year 4 to year 11 I played. (Yes, I was that girl who was in the choir, involved in drama productions and in the school band!).

 

I remember I think in year 9, I wanted to stop playing. I felt like music was hard. I wasn’t enjoying it. It wasn’t fun. It felt like a chore. And you know when things start feeling like a chore, its time examine what’s happening. But in year 9, I wasn’t as smart then as I am now, but I had my parents who were definitely smarter than me! They were always on at me about practicing. Encouraging, threatening, cajoling and at the end of the day, it just got a bit much for all of us, I think. Playing the violin isn’t something you can only pick up once per week if you want to be any good at it.

 

 

So my parents gave me a choice. To finish out the term and if I still wanted to quit, I could. HALLELUJIAH!

 

 

They did say that there was no pressure either way. If I wanted to keep playing and having lessons, then no worries, they’d keep them going. But if I wanted to stop, then I could.

 

It’s funny how profound that conversation was, actually. Because I FELT for the first time in my playing history that I had the choice to keep playing or not. I didn’t make the decision straight away. Giving myself time to ease into whatever it was that I was going to do…

 

 

But something pretty magical happened.

 

I started playing for fun. For the joy of it. I found it easier to self-motivate to practice. I started learning more complicated music. I started to progress again. And I kept playing for at least another 2 years at that same level.

 

The choice – or the illusion of choice – is something that most of us want every day. When we’re feeling stifled, stuck or frustrated, it’s important to find choice.

 

The big one for me, was also realising that just because you choose something today, doesn’t mean you can’t also choose something else… but sometimes you’ll need to re-choose … in fact, I believe that it’s important to exercise our right to choose every single day.

 

When you think about your business, do feel joy at what you’re doing?

 

Do you feel joy when you’re marketing?

 

Do you feel joy when you’re creating content?

 

If so, why? And if not, why not?

 

Do you feel joy in your business?

 

 

Do you feel joy when you’re working with clients?

 

Do you feel elated and energised when you think about the day ahead??

 

Or….

 

 

Has it all started to feel a bit like a chore?

 

I wrote recently about how I felt in 2017 when things were tough for me. I actually gave myself an OUT of this business. I decided that if I chose to close it down and stop it all, that the world wouldn’t end!

 

 

Could you imagine? The world not ending because you decided to close your business?!?!?! I know. It was insane!

 

I had felt for a while that whilst I loved what I was doing, I wasn’t IN LOVE with it anymore and something had to change.

 

Being in love with someone and loving someone are two different things, right?

 

I wasn’t in love with it anymore.

 

But like any good relationship, any long lasting relationship, you have to CHOOSE every single day that you’re going to play full out.

 

❤️ I fell back in love with it, after creating some healthy boundaries, making some GREAT choices.

 

It’s a daily practice, this practice of choice.

 

The choice of how you’re going to show up.
That you will show up.
Discipline is a choice.
Finding A way, any way to show up is a choice.
Choosing the path of least resistance daily.

 

Making the CHOICE is like flicking the switch.

 

Flicking the switch between being grumpy and being happy. It’s a choice – test it out!

 I remember one morning a while ago, my family and I were about to go for a morning walk and I was G R U M P Y. Not just a little bit grumpy, but quite notably grumpy! I was garrumphing out of bed, getting dressed, making my coffee and was grumpifying all the way to the gate on our way out.

 

We walked through the gate and I turned around to close it but I had this thought trickle through my head – more like a zap if I’m honest – and I said to myself “Nicola, it’s your choice how you feel. Are you going to grump your way through this whole thing or are you going to choose something different?” And I flicked the switch.

 

BAM.

 

I was happy. My whole physiology changed. My gait changed. I got out of my own freaking way and decided to be happy.

 

When it comes to your business, are you actively choosing it every day the way you do your partner?

 

Are you choosing your partner every day?

 

Are you choosing to be happy every day?

 

Are you choosing to be disciplined every day?

 

Are you actively doing and being and using ALL that is in your power to live and thrive and be the best damn version of yourself every single day?

 

Let it be known and noted on the record for all eternity that yes, sometimes I still forget this. Sometimes I get caught up in the grumps and the woe is me… but I have come a LONG way and can usually pull myself out of it quick smart.

 

What about you?

 

Something to consider is a shift in perspective…

 

Are you choosing your hot coal clients every day?

 

Are you choosing to show up for them every day?

 

Are you committed and disciplined in showing up for them daily?

 

Because this is what makes the difference between okay results and great results.

 

The showing up.

 

You can be talented but if you’re not showing up then you’re invisible and nobody knows you exist.

 

Talent doesn’t equal results.

 

 

You can be talented but if you’re making everything about you, then you’ll only get so far.

 

 

Every day it’s a choice to show up and share your gifts with the world.

 

 

Every day it’s a choice to show up and do the best that you can by and for people.

 

Every day you need to CHOOSE, actively and consciously choose how and who you want to be.

 

What are you choosing?

 

I choose YOU.

 

I choose to show up for YOU.

 

I choose, even some days when I’m not feeling it, to show up for you.

 

To help you.

 

To motivate you.

 

To inspire you.

 

To entertain you.

 

 

To educate you.

 

To hustle you.

 

To get you moving.

 

To get you feeling

 

To get you believing in yourself even more.

 

To show you by example that you can be you – WHOLEHEARTEDLY YOU – online and that this will be the answer to ‘how do I become more successful online’.

 

 

To show you by example what I’m asking you to do.

 

I choose you every day.

 

I choose me every day, too.

 

I choose US every single day, because I know the two of us together will create something pretty freaking spectacular!

 

⚡️ Can you say that you’re making the choice to show up for YOU and for THEM every day? This is what it takes, my friend! Choosing. Every. Single. Day.

 

The rest is up to you and what you choose to do with it.

 

Nic x

 

The June Programs are open for registration! Are you in yet? All Three start June 1st

 

• #Contentology

 

Contentology is a 30 day inspo program that is all about inspiring to create more content marketing for your people. So that they can see that you are multifaceted and therefore HUMAN! #shockhorror! So that your audience will see you, resonate with you and you with them, so that they can learn to get to know you and like you.

 

Most people don’t post or share anywhere near enough content, primarily because they just don’t know what to post or how or when.

 

Contentology is a daily spark to help you increase your daily content so you can connect with your audience in a range of different ways.

 

Learn more and join #Contentology here: http://www.nicolajmoras.com/contentology/

 

 

• Rebel With Soul Content Academy

 

Throughout June you are going to learn everything you need to know about Content Marketing AND Authority marketing. The mix of these two types of marketing is going to make your marketing, your content and your results ROCK.

 

Additionally, you’ll learn how to apply this into your daily marketing life on social media!

 

The thing that is going to make your marketing sustainable and cut through the noise (and quite frankly the bullshit online) is you being you. You showing up and being willing to do that. But I am also a huge believer and advocate for having the frameworks in place to do just that.

 

Over June, you are going to learn everything you need to make sure you have this locked and loaded.

 

Learn more and join Rebel with Soul Content Academy here: http://www.nicolajmoras.com/rws/

 

 

 

• 30 Day Radical Implementation Challenge

 

If you need a kick in the butt to get your implementation on track, then this is for you! For those of that don’t need a whole lot of new ‘information’, this is for you. You’ll get to meet my very fabulous multi-million dollar planner that I have been using almost daily. I’ve made more than $5M online and this is a HUGE part of how and why I’ve been able to do that.

 

This is a program where every week day morning at 6am SYD (4pm NY, 1pm LA) we are going to talk about what you’re working on for the day, what questions you have in order to get that implemented and then you’ll go and implement your little heart out.

 

If you’re like the majority of clients who have done this, you will get more done in the month of June than you do for a whole quarter! I know. It’s epic!

 

Learn more and join the 30 Day Radical Implementation Challenge here: https://bit.ly/june202030dric (or you can join as a VIP and get unlimited VOXER with me every day. So if you have ‘things’ come up that you need to work on, jam on and you want to do it a little more privately, we can go back and forth in Voxer to your hearts content). The VIP option is here: https://bit.ly/30dricjune2020VIP

 

 

Pics are from year 10! Still playing