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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  Or you could simply focus on serving the people you can help the most. Let the rest go.
It's a waste of time (and frustrating) to help people who resist your help. But work with people who are eager to learn from you, and it can be extremely productive and extremely rewarding.
That's what I'm doing with the Conscious Growth Workshops. The people that showed up to the first one were very willing to learn and grow, and they were open and receptive to the assistance I could provide, so together we created a space where lots of breakthroughs occurred in a fairly short period of time. There was virtually no friction in that environment. The workshop was effective largely because of the people it attracted. From talking to many attendees, it seemed like most of them had been reading my blog for at least 3-4 years. They were a very dedicated group. I felt honored to be in a place to serve them.
Instead of trying to attract everyone as a client or visitor, think about how you can attract the ideal ones and subtly filter out the rest.
This year I haven't been trying to grow my web traffic, for instance. Instead I've been doing things to attract more targeted visitors, even if I attract fewer ones. Now and then I write posts to "scare away" visitors who wouldn't be a good match for my message. But the ones who make it through are a better match for whatever help I can provide.
Don't assume you have to serve everyone. Focus on serving the people you can help the most. There should be plenty of them to keep you busy for a lifetime.  |
I totally agree. I've learned over the last few years that it's important to connect with the right people.
I think my challenge has been that I've been attracting the wrong type of people with my Blog. A lot of them are great people, but most just aren't ready to take their lives to the next level.
I've been working on figuring out what I want to do, and who I want to help. Trying to create a perfect customer profile of who I can help the most and who I would enjoy working with the most.
Being a scanner, that's not as easy as it seems. There are a lot of different things I am good at, and any one of those things I could pick and dive in depth into and create content, courses etc. to teach to others.
Now that I think about it actually, you've kept your topics fairly general and varied. Did you narrow your focus based on working with people at a certain level of consciousness, instead of by topic?
Meaning, you write about all different areas of life (food, relationships, finances etc.) but they all center around a specific level of consciousness. Someone has to be at a certain l level of consciousness, for example, to consider not hurting animals for food, or having the type of relationship you have with your wife, or to understand certain financial concepts.