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My goal for this video is that we sit down and have a heart-to-heart on what to do if you don't believe you can make money online.
The more I talk to my audience, and the more I talk to my girlies, the more I realize that so many of you could have extremely successful businesses, but you are struggling to take that first step. Because deep, deep down, you don't believe you can make money; like you don't believe this is for you. And so that's where we need to start; that's what we need to have a conversation around. Because if you don't believe you can make money, then you won't take any action to make it happen, and then it almost BECOMES like the self-fulfilling prophecy where it becomes true—like, yeah, you don't believe you can make money, so you don't make money.
And so I had forgotten that that's what so many people struggle with because it's been 11 years since I made my first dollar online, and I forgot that that was such a big thing. It's like I took years to even make my first dollar. Like, before I even started my business, I was learning and thinking about and reading about starting a blog at the time, because that's what was—that was—happening years ago. But like two years before my business officially started, I just like procrastinated because I was—I didn't think it was possible for me. You have to remember that, like I was reading income reports of bloggers 13 years ago and, like, oh my gosh, they're making so much money—they made $10,000 a month from their blog.
And so you're not alone in struggling to believe that you can't make money. Like your lack of belief that it will actually work for you is very common. And it's very common because I think a lot of people are rightly skeptical and rightly cautious of some of the very big promises that can be promised in our industry. So if someone says you can make six figures in six months, you're right to be skeptical of that; that's not very realistic.
So the first thing that we're going to want to do, as we work to shift your belief from "I don't believe it's possible for me to make money online" to "I do believe it's possible for me to make money online," is we want to, like, put some tangibles on your lack of belief. So essentially, like taking this big concept of—I, you know, Maria makes $400,000 a month—that feels impossible to me; I don't believe that's possible for me. Okay, do you believe you can make $100,000 in a year? If the answer is no, okay, let's reduce it even—even further. Do you believe that you can make $500 in a year? If the answer is yes, amazing. If the answer is no, no problem. Do you think you can make $1 in one year online? And you keep breaking it down. There's no wrong answer. Like, if your answer is, "I don't believe I will ever make one penny," then it's like, okay, do you believe that if you worked at it for three years you could figure out—I may make $1? If the answer is no, then you make the timeline longer. Do you believe I could make $1 in five years? So there's no wrong answer; all you need to do is just get some clarity, and and and put some parameters—like put a frame around exactly what you do and don't believe when it comes to making money online.
So that's the first step, and I would love it if you guys put it in the comments. My YouTube channel is still small—small enough to where, like, I can reply to all my YouTube comments. And so if you share, like, after you've gotten very clear on where you're at—it's like, okay, I—I believe I can make $30 in one year, right? So frame it in the positive; don't say, "I don't believe I can make X." Frame it as, and speak to what you do believe. So, Maria, I believe that if I had five years, I could make $5. That's just an example, right? And so just like get some tangibles around what you do believe; that's the first step. And I have some notes here because really, like, at the end of the day, what I—what I—what I just wish I could just tell you is, like, you can do it, because that's the God's honest truth. Is it—like your lack of belief is—like that's what I really want to tell you is that it's all in your head, and it's fake, and it's keeping you stuck in poverty; that's what I want to tell you. But I'm worried that's not going to be helpful, so I'm also trying to offer some practical stuff so that it's not just like, "Do this thing," or it's not just like, "Stop thinking this way," it's like, okay, here's how to think this way. So fundamentally, the answer is your limiting belief is just that—it's a belief that's limiting you, and it's not serving you at all, and you can make money. But um, let's talk about like what this actually looks like.
So the other thing that I wanted to share is that no one believes that they can make money at first. So if you're waiting for the day where you magically, all of a sudden, wake up and are super confident and totally feel like you've got it, and there's no fears, and and it feels like, okay, yeah, now it's time—this just never going to happen. You'll wait the rest of your life for this to happen. And that's the honest, scary truth is that if you wait until you're ready, it will never happen for you. And I got like weirdly choked up just thinking about all those people that are going to miss out on a life they could have had because they were waiting for something that was never going to happen because nobody—like myself—sat down and said, "Hey, everybody's their pants"—excuse my language—"everybody's their pants um, in fear as we do this, and that's just the way it is; that's just the way it goes. Like that is entrepreneurship. And so I want to normalize the fact that literally nobody ever starts a business super confident and feeling like, yeah, this is definitely going to work. Like we all start with disbelief; we all start with doubt; we all start with skepticism; we all start like, "Probably not going to work; it doesn't work for most people; probably not going to work; oh my God!" Like it's all from that place of like such scarcity, and that's where we all start because we have not proven it to ourselves yet—like we don't fundamentally trust ourselves; that's what it comes down to. And so that's the um second thing is that this is super normal. So if you're waiting for the time that you feel ready and confident, you'll wait the rest of your life, and you'll miss out—like that's the God's honest truth; you're going to miss out if you wait till you feel ready because you're never going to feel ready. No One Believes.
I also want you to start looking for the evidence that you can do this versus looking for the evidence that you can't. So I'm doing this in the love department, right? Like I have a lot of like things I'm working through from my past when it comes to relationships and love, and I have a lot of limiting beliefs around marriage, and a lot of limiting beliefs around love, and a lot of limiting beliefs around men. And so what I'm doing is looking for evidence of the opposite; I'm looking for evidence of good men and good marriages and um healthy relationships and like reasons to be in love. I'm looking for the evidence that I can have a healthy love life versus the evidence that I can't. And so you and I are actually at the same level, just in two different areas, right? I'm right at the like newbie beginner stages of relationships, and you're right at the newbie beginning stages of business. And so we both have to, together, look for evidence as to why we can have something versus why we can't, because both are true. Like if we look for all the reasons why we can't have something, we're going to find it; or if we look for all the reasons why we can have something, we'll find it. And so start looking for people who look like you who are successful; people who sound like you who are successful; people who have a business in an industry like you that are successful; people who have—you know, maybe you're a single mom too, and so you have kids, right? Like whatever your limiting beliefs are, whatever your excuses are, um, look for people who are like you in that area who actually made it, who are successful. And it doesn't have to be like this person launched a course that was exactly identical to me, and they had the exact same amount of kids as me, and they had this challenge that I have. But like take one step back and say, "Oh my gosh, I have a limiting belief that I have to look a certain way in order to be successful," but here's three people who look exactly like me in three totally different industries, and they're super successful. So if they're super successful, it can't mean that everyone who looks like me can never be successful. And that could just be one limiting belief. And so you have to start training your mind—this is all head stuff—you have to start training your mind to look for evidence that you can be successful, that you can make money online, versus looking for evidence that you can't, because you'll find people who quit; the statistics are not really in your favor when it comes to starting a business. Um, there's a lot of different things you can find if you're looking for—for all the reasons why you should never start. But as somebody that's running a multi-million dollar business now—God, I'm so glad I didn't listen to the statistics; I'm so glad I didn't pay attention to that because it's bleak if you pay attention to that. But I just kind of always like was like, "Hey, but like this random blogger is making $10,000 a month; I want to start a blog that makes $10,000." And I never even started the blog; I like started as a graphic designer, but I was very interested in making money online from day one. So you want to look for evidence that you can versus you can't.
And I have something for you. I'm going to pull something up that I want you to get; it's totally free, but I want you to get it, and I want you to read it, and we're going to read um like a summary of it together. Um, I'm going to pull this up here. Um, it is basically—what I did is I took 20 of my students who have made—had like big results and small results—um, and I put their stories together like in a case study. So I'm just going to share my screen here um because I want to—I want to show you this and just look at some of these together. Here we go. Okay, so these are—let it load—these are 20 passive income case studies. So passive income with Instagram is my main course, and I thought it would be really cool to actually talk to the students who were in this course. And so I sent out an email and I said, "I'm looking for 20 people um to do case studies on; I want to do case studies," and I specifically said, "I want to hear from everybody; I don't care how much you've made—like I'm not looking for really big results because that's not even realistic—like we're looking for like you making your first dollar online, your first $80 online; I want smaller testimonials." Um, and what I said here at the very beginning of the case study thing is, "Making money starts by believing it's possible to actually do that." And the goal of this case study collection really isn't to get you to enroll in my passive income course—that they all mention; you might decide to do that, right? Like you might read all these and be like, "I'm going to get Maria's course; it sounds amazing." But it's not even the goal; it's—they reference this course a lot, but I wanted to clarify that the goal of these case studies is to expand your horizons, and ultimately—ultimately—I wish I knew your name like right here through the screen—please hear me—I want you to know and believe that you actually can make money online; like you can do this, and you can make a lot of money online, and that's what I want you to know, and that's why I put all these stories together. So I'm going to give you all these stories for free; it's like a freaking 40—yeah, it's a 40-page document—um, but I'm just going to read you like some of the headlines and then—and the description—um, I'm going to tell you how to get access to this for free; there's no charge; nothing; I just want you to read this because I want you to believe in this. So um, just like some of these, right? So okay, so like we have the big ones, right? Like Joy who did $250,000 in eight months; Jodie sold—made $32,000 with her Gardening Guide; um, M hit $122,000 months; um, Ranata made $114,000 in her first—you know, her first 60 days. Like those are the big ones that stretch your belief and expand your mind to what's possible. Then there's the ones that I actually want you to pay attention to: Nicole made $880 with her gut detox bundle; Nasha did $58 in her first two days with her challenge; Bria made $60 in seven days with her new perimenopause course; okay, the Samantha made $85 in two weeks. Those are the numbers I want you to pay attention to because I—I—I will venture a guess that most of you believe you can actually make something like $85 in two weeks—like that doesn't feel that unbelievable. Or like Leela who made $111 in her first week, or Beth who made $138 in her first two days. Like these seem much more realistic, and that's what I want you to focus on because you probably are looking at somebody like myself who does $400,000 in a month and thinking, oh, like that's unbelievable for me; that's unrealistic. So okay, let's—like I said earlier—let's chunk it down, and let's start small. So I want you to read—there's 20 different stories, and I want you to read every one of them. There's screenshots of proof for each one, so each person had to provide proof um that they actually made what they said they were going to, and then each person shared what was the most important thing that everyone should know um and other—along with like other advice and other stories. So again, it's 40 pages; I highly recommend you read it because that's going to do a lot of my job for me, which is to help—I'm just trying to convince you—like at the end of the day, I'm trying to convince you that you can do this and that you should do this. So again, look in the description of this video; I'm going to give instructions; it's either going to be a link—just so you know—it's either going to be a link to get it, or it's going to be a way to like message me on Instagram and get me—get the—like because that way I can automatically send you the link. I'm not exactly sure how you're going to do it; if I can get my team to make like an opt-in page in enough time, then it'll just be a link in the description; otherwise, it'll be like an easy way to just message me, and I can have a um automation just send you the link. So um, that's how we're going to do that. I highly, highly, highly recommend that you go read those as your very next step because at the end of the day, if you believe it's possible, you're going to make it happen, and that is going to change your life, and that's what I'm here for. I will see you in the next one.