Diane McNeils last blog post..A Winter Break? Maybe from pottery.

Thanks for all the warmth and love. APPRECIATED.

@Zoe – sorry that I missed this! Answered it today (Sunday) in my FAQ post.

And I will treasure your “crap into delicious cupcakes” line forever. That rocks.

@Andrea – You are absolutely right. Thanks!

I’m confused, though — is the kitchen table full? I can’t apply right now, but it’s an option I would love to explore in the (near?) future…

Thanks :).

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To the expensive car one drives arguing about my fee?
To the christmas presents made for wife and children?
To the gazillions of dinner´s or fancy shoes one buys?

I don´t make my services cheaper because a client is not willing to turn something down – the question is: how important is it?

Kind Regards from (c)old Germany
Andrea

When I was on pins and needles about whether I’d get into the Kitchen, I wondered what the letters to people who didn’t get in would look like. I was telling myself it would be OK if I didn’t make it in because, perhaps, it wasn’t the right time for me and I was also sure Havi would have a gorgeous and lovingly articulate way of letting me know I was OK anyway and perhaps just needed to be somewhere else.

The only time it feels a teeny bit like a special group to me is when I read all the sharp, funny, smart writing that goes into the Comments here. My brain just doesn’t seem up to that lately and, of course, that’s *my* thing.

I’m excited about the Kitchen! I have less of a business orientation at the moment but I plan on learning a LOT about all kinds of stuck (which I DO have) and seeing what happens once I get going. Who knows?! Thanks, Havi, for all you do.

*Sending Kyeli a hug!*

When I was on pins and needles about whether I’d get into the Kitchen, I wondered what the letters to people who didn’t get in would look like. I was telling myself it would be OK if I didn’t make it in because, perhaps, it wasn’t the right time for me and I was also sure Havi would have a gorgeous and lovingly articulate way of letting me know I was OK anyway and perhaps just needed to be somewhere else.

The only time it feels a teeny bit like a special group to me is when I read all the sharp, funny, smart writing that goes into the Comments here. My brain just doesn’t seem up to that lately and, of course, that’s *my* thing.

I’m excited about the Kitchen! I have less of a business orientation at the moment but I plan on learning a LOT about all kinds of stuck (which I DO have). Thanks, Havi, for all you do.

@Kyeli – Oh sweetie, I’m sorry! That’s no fun. It’s really hard to hear things like that. You must feel so frustrated and hurt when you think about getting that kind of reaction because you need to know that your Intention of helping people is being received.

Hug to you, my sweet.

There are all sorts of things that can happen with resonant price to kind of get it stuck.

One is when there’s some internal conflict or cognitive dissonance because a big fear is feeling unacknowledged and there’s resistance.

Another is that it has to be resonant for your Who – your right people again. Which means that maybe what felt resonant for you is something that’s intended for people who already get the value, might be a slightly different market.

And another (BIG) thing is copywriting and presentation — where people don’t actually understand what they’re really getting in terms of how it will truly help them, in which case they can get distracted and miss out on the vibration.

So there are a lot of things both literally and energetically that can occasionally go a bit wonky. This exercise takes some practice.

So gentle with yourself, and give yourself the love and safety you need.

And you’ll see. You’ll work on different aspects of this. Maybe the right price you got was a future right price, or maybe, again, it’s about the frame and the presentation.

In the meantime, suround yourself with people who get you and appreciate you.

And remind the people you know that while it’s one thing to say “I can’t swing it right now”, it’s completely in bad form to say “That’s too expensive.”

It’s like going up to someone and saying “That shirt looks awful on you.” Even if that’s what you think, it’s a tacky thing to say and it’s not relevant because if they love the shirt and their girlfriend loves the shirt and so on, who cares what someone else thinks?

But that’s a business etiquette rant-let for another day.

In the meantime, big hug. And Pace is at the Kitchen Table where we’ll be working on Money Patterns for the next three months so I’m sure she’ll share with you lots of stuff that she picks up.

@Everyone else – send Kyeli an internet hug!

JoVEs last blog post..a well chosen metaphor