It appears that there are only two paths.
To think of YOU or to think of ME.
One, I give with my heart too wide; the other, with my heart too closed.
There is a middle way. A place in between.
A place where my heart is open, and it is protected.
A place where I can be free to give, and to receive, the value I add to this world.
There is a middle way.
I’ve heard it before. Maybe you have too.
I’ve heard that in order to truly thrive, as a business owner, and as as human, I need to learn to ask for what I need.
I need to ask for support.
I’ve heard it before, and I’ll hear it again.
And I’ll keep on hearing it because it’s true.
And because it’s a lesson I need to learn.
I need others in order to thrive. I can’t do it alone.
We can’t do it alone.
I need your help.
And you need mine.
However we choose to offer it to each other, our support connects us.
As a reader, my words support you; as a writer, you support me by experiencing my words.
I need your support to grow, just as you need mine.
I need to ask you for what I need, just as you need to ask me.
And whether it is provided it a whole other story, and entirely not the point.
The point is the recognition and the asking.
So here I go… deep breathe…
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I want to share this fantastic example of how much we are motivated by our emotions when it comes to money, and valuing things.
What do you think?
Does it change if I asked you to substitute WHAT you are valuing?
In altering WHAT you are valuing, did your willingness to pay change?
This analogy’s purpose is to highlight that your willingness to pay is fluid, and not set. How you value things and what you are willing to pay depends on how you feel about (yourself and) the thing you are valuing.
Fascinating, isn’t it?
photo credit: Doug Wheller
After five years of experimenting with not setting prices, in Pay What It’s Worth: Building Your Sustainable System for Not Setting Prices, I introduce this pricing innovation and share integral strategies for creating a balanced exchange experience, empowering both your customer and you to fairly value what’s being exchanged.
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Pay What It’s Worth is self-published by Tara Joyce under Elastic Mind Press. Currently you can purchase a PDF version of the book, and pre-order your print, kindle or EPUB version.
I’ve always wanted to — and knew I needed to — WRITE a BOOK.
If I knew anything about myself, I KNEW this. And this KNOWING was so powerful that it became incredibly painful.
But I didn’t know how, so I tried to escape from IT. The pressure of IT. For a while.
With time and practice, it became not so much the WRITING that weighed, but THE (unwritten) BOOK itself. As did my resistance to ALL THE MEANING I had now placed on IT.
Nothing meant more than creating THE BOOK I always dreamed of, and so under this heavy weight IT sat stagnant.
IT meant too much to move, the fear of not getting IT right or not getting THERE at all hovered. The seriousness of the endeavour weighed. I NEEDED to do this.
Five year ago I started writing THE BOOK I dreamed of creating, and today I am ready to share it with you.
It’s taken lots of work on myself, and spending the last year writing the start of a fiction series, to reach THIS place where I am ready, willing, and able to write and share my BOOK that meant so much.
I can now see and trust that this BOOK that means so much, is one of many inside me. I now know I am able to do IT.
And IT doesn’t mean as much as I made it out to. And yet IT means so much more.
I feel ready now to step fully into who I am. To feel FREE to collect and share my words and thoughts with you. And to KNOW it means something when I do, but this meaning isn’t there to scare me, only motivate.
And so, with no further ado, I am proud to share with you my first book, Pay What It’s Worth: Building Your Sustainable System for Not Setting Prices.
May it take you on an adventure the way it has taken me.
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