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Are you trapped? Are you a freedom seeker? I need your story for my book!

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I am deep into the writing of my book, which is due out with Hay House in Spring 2017. It will be called ‘Freedom Seeker: Live more. Worry less. Do what you love.” This writing process is tough, tough, tough, but it is also one of the most spirit-lifting, intellectually-stimulating, and thrilling things I have ever done. I absolutely love it. But there is still a long way to go until I hand my manuscript in in the summer.

And this is where you come in. The book is packed with tools and personal stories to help readers escape whatever is holding them back, and learn to soar, so they can live a life doing what they love.  But I also want to include a host of stories of other people at various stages of life, with a variety of experiences, who have felt stuck, trapped or held back from living their fullest life.

It could be that you are in it right now, feeling like you have lost control, or that your circumstances are dictating what is possible for you. Perhaps you have dreams of what you want things to be like, but you never seem to get off the starting block, or you get part of the way along and then the dark clouds come in – the fear, the negativity, the worry about money or what others will think. Or maybe your responsibilities always seem to take over and you can’t find the time to take the steps you need to take.

Or perhaps you have been there, but are now living a freer, happier life. Perhaps something happened and you were inspired (or forced) to make major changes in your life which have resulted in you feeling more free, doing something you love and being happier?

If so, I want to hear your story! If you would be willing to share it, please sign up here to join my Freedom Seeker Research Group by Wednesday 30 March, and I will be in touch later this week with an initial questionnaire.

Even if you aren’t able to share your story, I hope you will cheer me along over the coming months as I birth this book and put myself out there in a way which right now feels terrifying! Some things just have to be done…

Thank you so much!

Beth

**A HUGE THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SHARED THEIR INSPIRING STORY WITH ME AND HELPED TO BRING MY BOOK TO LIFE. FREEDOM SEEKER: LIVE MORE. WORRY LESS. DO WHAT YOU LOVE IS NOW OUT.**

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Huge news! On becoming a Hay House author (somebody pinch me!)

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Some days are really big days, and I just had one of them. It was the day I signed a deal with Hay House, for them to publish my first book! It is a book about freedom, written for anyone who feels trapped, stuck, hemmed in—not in control of their own time, money, or destiny. It is for people who are afraid that life is passing them by, but feel powerless to do anything about it. It is a timely self-empowerment manifesto: an inspiring and practical manual that will enable people to recognise that freedom is a choice. I am busy writing it now and cannot wait for it to be released worldwide in Spring 2017!

Hang on a minute. Let’s just rewind. Did someone just say I’m going to be a Hay House author? Am I dreaming? It certainly feels that way right now, because this is not just something on my ‘Do Before I’m 40 Bucket List’, but something I have been dreaming of for many years.

In case you’re curious about how it came about, I’ll share the story here. I warn you, this is going to be a long post, because I want to share all the pieces of how this particular dream has unfolded. So get yourself a nice cup of tea and we’ll begin… (Note: I would love for you to help me bring this book to life. Right at the end of this post there’s some info on how to get involved!)

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What’s it like to work with us?

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We are thrilled at the response to our brand new class ‘Reach. Teach. Profit. The E-Course Creation Masterclass’, and are excited to help such a variety of new e-courses come to life! If you are on the fence about taking this course, take a look at the videos below to find out what it’s like to work with us, and to see that we really do know what we are talking about.

Lots of you have been asking whether you get access to me as part of this course. The answer is yes! Although it is a self-paced course, several times a year I will be hosting Mastermind Weeks in the private class community space, when you can ask me anything. The first of these will run from March 28 – April 1, and there will be more later in the year. These are free of charge for anyone registered for the course, and you can participate as many times as you like when the Mastermind Weeks are offered. If you register today and get started on the course, you’ll be ready with your questions when the first Mastermind Week begins on March 28!

So what’s it like to work with us?

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It’s here! ‘Reach. Teach. Profit. The E-course Creation Masterclass has launched!

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It’s here! After many, many months of work putting our new course together, I am thrilled to announce that ‘Reach Teach Profit The E-course Creation Masterclass’ is open for registration.

Teach anything from anywhere, generate money 24/7 and build a legacy through teaching online to a global audience

This is a digital toolkit for making an e-course that sells and sells. It’s like having me as your virtual producer, and tapping into everything I have learned from creating, producing and delivering millions of dollars’ worth of e-courses over the past half decade. Our courses include the portfolios of courses from ‘Make Art That Sells’, ‘The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design’ and ‘Do What You Love’ and they have reached thousands of students in 100+ countries across the world.

Our extensive knowledge and experience is all wrapped up in one complete package waiting for you here now.

Don’t waste another minute. Your online teaching journey begins here! Register now.

Beth

PS I’ll be available to answer any questions you have during a series of Mastermind Weeks held online throughout the year. The first will take place in the week commencing March 28, so get started now and be ready with your questions!

The one fatal mistake you must avoid when creating your e-course

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One of the best ways to learn is to understand other people’s mistakes, and then avoid them, so I want to save you a whole lot of pain by sharing the single most fatal error people make when creating an e-course. We’ve done it once (never to be repeated) and I have seen it time and time again with other people. I can spot this mistake a mile off, and you probably can too.

So what is the biggest mistake that will prevent your course from being a success, in every sense of the word? It’s to focus on the money.

This can be the difference between a course which flies and a course which flops, because people can sense your intention. I have seen a lot of courses come and go, and it is glaringly obvious which ones have made this serious mistake.

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Do What You Love HQ – February update

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A big hello from me and apologies for being absent for a few months. Can you believe we are fast approaching March? It only feels like yesterday that we were putting up the Christmas tree and preparing for all the festivities with family.

This perceived acceleration in time is certainly more evident the older we get. Although I thoroughly enjoyed my school years, I do look back and remember staring at the clock in some lessons thinking, ‘Oh my God, when will this end?’ Fast-forward 20-something years and I wish I could slow it all down. I am getting older, my two girls are shooting up and I never feel like there are enough hours in the day. Our time is certainly very precious and how we choose to spend it is ultimately down to us.

Our aims here at DWYL HQ have always been based on our fundamental belief that the world would be a better place if more people spent more time doing what they love. Nearly six years on from Beth’s first blog post this is still the bedrock of everything we do.

From sharing stories, interviews and articles to creating content for our courses and free resources, we design everything with the intention of helping people find personal, professional and financial freedom to do what they love.

We are always delighted when we learn that what we are doing is making a difference, for instance in the most recent Do What You Love class…

“I’ve changed. I’ve refined how I want to spend my time, how I want to approach life and with this new found passion/clarity, I am more conscious of decisions I make, words I use, time I spend… This class has been revolutionary. It has helped me figure out and take action towards my goals.”  ~ Mollie, Do What You Love course participant

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What about 2016?

As we journey into this year, we are excited to offer you even more meaningful and accessible resources; things that can change the way you think, act and live your life in an instant. The new additions to our portfolio are:

FREE Resources

  • New Year’s Revolution 2016: Don’t make yet another New Year’s resolution, start a revolution! Use this free tool for meaningful planning to help you make this coming year amazing.
  • L.E.A.P: These days we all complain about not having enough time to do the things we want, but as this is a leap year we all have a whole extra day to play with, and we can use the concept of ‘leaping’ to inspire us all year long.
  • Plenty more on their way…

New courses

  • Reach Teach Profit – The E-Course Creation Masterclass: We have produced, sold and delivered online courses worth millions of pounds, to thousands of people in more than 100 countries, making a massive impact in the lives of individuals across the world. By popular demand we are now sharing all that knowledge and experience with you in this brand new class, which launches on February 29, 2016.

Thought of the moment

In a company like ours, which offers such a strong and positive outlook, there are times when we have to be sensitive and even question the timing of our messaging, for example in the face of a catastrophe, an horrific incident or a close personal loss, all of which remind us that life is fragile. There are always reasons too, why we can find ourselves focusing on the negative aspects of life. In fact they are thrown at us daily – just look at how much of the news concentrates on the bad.

Even in the face of this, I believe we have to shift our mindset and be more creative about how we perceive the moments of our lives if we are going to give ourselves the opportunity to flourish. This was perfectly summed up in a book I recently read, and highly recommend, Life is Good.

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Life is Good is a Boston-based clothing company which is famous for using its merchandise and message to spread the power of optimism. However, following tragic events on April 15, 2013 (the Boston Marathon bombing) it found itself in a very challenging position.

“We met with some of our team to discuss what a brand called Life is Good should say in such a moment. It wasn’t an easy conversation. No matter how we sliced it two young men had chosen to commit a horrific crime whose aim was death and destruction.

…But following those acts, and as a direct reaction to those acts, millions of people performed acts of love. The Boston Marathon bombings showed two human beings at their worst and millions of human beings at their best… We realised that love was the real story.

So we created a T-shirt that said “BOSTON” on the front with a small heart in the centre of one of the Os, and the words “Nothing is stronger than LOVE” on the back…

Much to our amazement, BOSTON LOVE became the best selling T-shirt we’ve ever made. In less than 60 days, that one T-shirt generated over half a million dollars in profit . And we donated every penny to The One Fund established to help victims and their families.”

The Life is Good team’s reaction to the bombing is a perfect example of how we can choose what we take from an event. And more importantly how we can find a light in the darkest moments.

When reminded how fragile life is we should also remember how precious and spectacular it is.

How can you start Doing What You Love today?

Until next time,

Mr. K

You asked. We answered. Our responses to your burning Qs about teaching online…

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Thank you to everyone who completed our recent survey about what is stopping you teaching online. As the responses flooded in we were struck by how many of you see this as an exciting opportunity but have been held back by very similar obstacles. I thought I’d take a moment to tackle your questions, in the form of dealing with the top three major stumbling blocks standing in your way today.

(1) I don’t know how to turn my idea into a series of lessons. It’s just a jumble in my head.

Firstly you need to understand your idea as what I call a ‘Promise of Change’. How will your course transform the life/situation/knowledge/expertise/behaviour of your reader? Then you need to understand how you are going to bring about that change through a curriculum.

Your curriculum forms the bones of your course. It’s the skeleton that everything hangs off. It is the way you ensure your learners progress as the course goes on, and get the outcomes you want by the end. It is also your single most helpful tool for organising your ideas into manageable content chunks.

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Demonstrating the Easy-as-pie Curriculum Builder in Reach Teach Profit (Yes, with all the technology available today, I still opt for good old sticky notes when planning a new curriculum!)

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Will you just make a living or also make an impact?

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When was the last time you asked yourself this important question…

Do you just want to make a living or could you also make an impact?

As we prepare to release ‘Reach. Teach. Profit. The E-course Creation Masterclass’ next week, we have been reflecting on this question a lot, as it is one of the main reasons we took our business down the exciting road of online teaching.

As soon as you put your online course out in the world you become a teacher and a guide. You can approach teaching as simply a way to make a living, or you can approach it as a way to make an impact. Choosing to make an impact is more rewarding, more sustainable, and in the long run more important. It will also result in a better, deeper, richer experience for your students. But it takes leadership, purposeful effort, risk, sacrifice and commitment.

Take a moment to think about how you could turn how you make into a living into something that could also make an impact. What could you teach that would make a difference? And what you are prepared to bring to the table to make your course a success?

By the way, I should add there is nothing wrong with wanting to make a living from teaching online. We do it, and many of our friends and colleagues do it. In fact, just recently a chat with a friend turned into a ‘$100,000 conversation’, enabling her to make a difference in the lives of a lot of people with an idea she had. You can hear me talk a little more about that here:

Please take a few minutes today to ask yourself this question, because it changes everything. Do you just want to make a living or could you also make an impact?

If you want to learn more about teaching online, hop on the Masterclass waiting list here. I’ll be back next Monday to launch this new course and bring you a special early bird discount!

Until then,

Beth

Do What You Love interview – Dhairya Pujara

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Today we meet Dhairya Pujara, Founder and CEO of Y-Center, a social innovation enterprise that connects university students with a unique study abroad program which gives them the opportunity to solve global challenges.

Dhairya was so motivated by his entrepreneurial dreams that three years ago he quit his very first job after just one day – and he’s never looked back. We were excited to find out more about his motivations for going it alone and how doing what he loves led him to start a business that is creating real social impact…

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1. How are you doing what you love?

I love to solve problems. It keeps me alive and fulfils my purpose of being. I get to do exactly that at Ycenter. I get to work with people from all over the world solving problems from healthcare to education. In 2015, I spent three months in Mozambique, two months in India and the rest in USA and in all of these places I worked with hundreds of university students, many organisations either through a workshop or a hackathon solving real issues.

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Behind-the-scenes of an e-course that sells

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We get asked a ton of questions about what it’s really like to put an online course together. So as we put the finishing touches on our brand new course ‘Reach. Teach. Profit. The E-course Creation Masterclass’ (launching February 29), I wanted to give you a peek behind-the-scenes of. What does it actually look like when we are in full production mode?

Well, to some extent it depends on whether I am creating and teaching the course myself, or whether I am producing it for someone else (I have done both, many times!) For the purposes of the E-course Creation Masterclass, I have styled myself as your virtual producer, offering the tools, questions, tech advice, moral support and everything else I give my collaborators. The stages of production go something like this:

  • Clarity on who the course is for and what they need
  • Understanding of what change we are promising with the course
  • Building of a skeleton curriculum to facilitate that change
  • Fleshing out the content and organising it in a logical, powerful and effective way
  • Creating the content (video, audio, text, images, worksheets etc)

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Of course that is just the creation of the class. We also have to create a marketing strategy, price the course, ensure we stand out from the competition, set ourselves up to sell it online, launch it, deliver it, support the students as they go through it, get feedback and then do it all over again…

The truth is, a whole lot goes into an e-course that sells. So much, in fact, that it can be overwhelming, which is probably why so many people never actually get their course out into the world. But with this new Masterclass you’ll have me by your side as your virtual producer every step of the way, and you’ll be able to ask me anything directly in a series of special Mastermind Weeks I will host in our private online community space throughout the year. So now there are no excuses! Get ready to reach, teach and profit.

Beth