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Recognizing My Self Worth
Dear Bears,
I have just finished preparing the invoice for a large project in my
technical writing business; and, as I entered the figure into my tally
of annual billings, I realized that my billings have shot ahead of my
projected target for where I said I wanted them to be at this point in
the year. This has never before happened in my 16 years of
self-employment; in fact, I've consistently hovered around 50-60% of my
projected target for the past 5 years. I'm feeling overwhelmed with
emotion and gratitude and just want to thank you.
During my Optimal Self-Trust Program, you and I had a dialogue session
in which you helped me uncover some of my beliefs about the quality of
my work and how much I could charge for my services. In the intervening
time, I raised my rates, got some new clients and invented some ways to
help myself stay on track with billable hours on a daily basis. I've
been focusing more on the positive aspects of the services I provide
instead of worrying so much about my shortcomings. Obviously, all these
changes have paid off.
My business wasn't even the most important aspect of our dialog, but
these results are more easily measurable than things like happiness.
Again, thanks.
Love,
Julie Lancaster
