Create your own course. Write your own certificate. Sign it. And send people on their way all the better for it.

I've never really thought of myself as a business person. I still don't. BUT....When I was little, I did come up with a plan just in case the economy failed and we went through a Great Depression. 

I decided that everyone POOPS no matter what, so if worse came to worse I was going to sell toilet paper. Well, at first I thought maybe I'd cut hair because everyone's hair grows.. but then I thought actually if you are poor you would just let your hair grow. So toilet paper was the plan for me. 

Yeah. I was thinking it through. Thanks. 

Money was never really something I knew how to get. I sorts of thought that there were rich people and then there were the other people, and if I was nice to the rich people, or if I could find ways to work for rich people, when I needed money, they would give it to me. 

I had no sense of power or capacity to create wealth. 

And that's how I've lived most of my life. I've had big dreams, but they've always been cut short by finances. I didn't have them and I didn't know how to get rich people to give them to me. 

I'd like to open a business that is staffed with amazing people that are qualified like a social worker or psychologist, but there just there... and it's like an activity center and there is stuff going on. Lego club, laundry, music classes, cooking classes, sports, writing, etc... but it's all based on building relationships with families in the community. It's a big dream. Maybe there are government grants for it. Maybe some rich peeps wanna fund it.. but I don't think that way anymore. 

I remember like 20 years ago, my friend Denise Mcelhoes-Rathnam was running her trail riding business and she happened to mention that she had created a horsemanship course and was giving certificates to some of her students. 

Inside I was like "ah.... can you DO THAT? MAKE YOUR OWN course, make your own certificates, and sign them YOURSELF and hand them out like they mean something?" 

And she did. It blew my mind. 

You know those moments where you realize that the way you think ISN'T the same way that everyone else thinks?

I wanted to start singing songs and reading stories with kids. My brother said (almighty Matthew Suderman) "you should just do it." 

Know what I said? "I wouldn't know what songs to sing or what stories to read." 

So I took a course to accredit me to tell me what songs to sing and what stories to read. When I figured out that the songs and stories were BORING and all the reasoning behind each activity was based on child development - which just created pride or fear in parents depending on whether or not their kid was achieving properly at the ripe old age of 18 months.... I quit that noise. 

I learned how to follow rules really early. But I didn't learn how to think. I am now. 

I just took a course over the last month that blew my mind, grew my mind, and put hope in a dark part of my hope. 

IT's a 30 day course and costs $100 US. It's called the One Funnel Away Challenge. It's through a company called CLICK FUNNELS. We love them. 

Because I took this course, it changed how I think about my potential. 

It changed how I think about my possibilities. 

It changed how we think about Joel’s Integrity Junk Removal business. I’m not sure if you know, but we just went through almost 2 months with no junk removal truck. During that time, we took the course. Instead of feeling hopeless and frustrated, we re-imagined what was possible and couldn’t wait to get Joel’s truck back on the road - and use our new way of thinking and our new tools and be an EVEN BETTER junk removal company. 

It changed how I have thought about my “Songs and Stories.” I had what I thought were pretty big dreams. But they were dreams without imagination. They were ideas I’d seen other people do. That’s fine. But the training wheels are coming off. 

I’m in a classroom now, just 30 minutes each week, writing a song with kids, going back home and creating an online course, thinking about ways to reach more kids, get in to more places, and make more money so that I can do something our community that has a huge reach. I’m thinking about how I can create resources to help teachers. Parents. Kids. 

I care so much about mental and emotional health. I’m wondering how many songs and stories I can write, how many classrooms I can get into, how many homes and family times I can influence with thoughts that are life giving. 

How many eyes can I look into and be a person who plants seeds of hope inside their hearts and minds. 

How many little minds can I get in front of by any means possible and interrupt hopelessness, self hatred, shame, and all those other voices that kids hear, but since they’ve never heard any alternative, they accept these lies as truth??!!?!?

And guess what? No one is asking me to do it. I don’t have a certificate. I’m not “accredited.” I don’t have a government grant or a mandate from a community group or church group or non-profit entity. 

I’m just a mom looking out the window watching life pass - learning to live out of my heart with a new understanding about life and the power of my choices. 

That things are possible. 

That stuff is in your heart for a reason. 

That it’s hard and you have to push through. 

That it’s worth it. 

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.. I don’t care if you think this has now become an ad for Clickfunnels. I do sort of. Remember, I’m the reluctant salesman only willing to sell toilet paper should the world come to an end. 

If you want to blow up your mind and your business- in a good way - check it out. If you are creative and you think you could never start a business - check it out.

If you just like reading my posts :) Hello. Change the world your way. Create your own course. Write your own certificate. Sign it. And send people on their way all the better for it.