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One of my most popular articles, from a couple years ago was one where I talked about pricing from compassion and enoughness.
May some of you may remember that article.
I was basically saying, oh, you know, everyone in my recharges too much, and we should be pricing based on compassion for our audience and enoughness for our own needs.
Right?
Well, it's been a couple years, and I'm gonna say I've changed my mind.
We should pray we should price based on gouging and based on abundance of resources for ourselves, not for anybody else.
No.
Well, I'll tell you what.
I I I've I've changed my mind in terms of who that message is really for.
I think the compassion and enoughness message is really for people more advanced in their business that where they're already have a stable client load and now they're feeling the pressure or the keeping up with the Joneses feeling of, well, look, everyone else is pricing so highly, so I better increase my prices too.
My marketing coach told me I'm not charging enough, so I should charge more.
That's what it really was writing that about.
But then over the years, I realized that's not really my audience.
I mean, most of my audience, maybe most of you here just need to get a stable income first.
Like, you need to get your business financially sustainable first.
Like, that's job 1 Rather than going, oh, maybe I'm charging too much.
No.
You're not charging too much.
Probably not.
Now some of you, we we'll we'll talk as we go in this module about what is pricing appropriately.
But I don't like to share that message about compassion anymore because I'm now a mercenary.
No.
The reason why is because I feel like I need to I need to be compassionate towards you, 1st and foremost.
Like, you need to be compassionate towards yourself, 1st and foremost.
And the road to poverty is compassion.
No.
There there is some connection there, by the way.
And poverty is not necessarily bad.
I know you're like, no.
Poverty is terrible.
Well, no.
Not not according to Saint Francis.
Not according to my hero, my spiritual hero, Peace Pilgrim.
Poverty is wonderful.
Poverty is you know, Peace Pilgrim, my hero.
I'm I'm saying this.
Just bear with me for 30 seconds here.
My spiritual hero, listen look her up on SoundCloud.
The the book changed my life called, well, the the Peace Pilgrim audiobook, basically.
The the written words are fine, but the audio listening it was actually a friend of hers who recorded it, and her friend's voice is very healing and recording the Peace Program's own voice wasn't wasn't very healing.
But her friend's voice is very healing and reading Peace Program's words.
It was wonderful.
But it's about poverty.
It's about it's about living with no money and and being spiritual and all that stuff.
And and that's wonderful.
It's just not a business message.
It's not a message I wanna give to your business because most of us are called to be householders and not nuns and, you know, homeless people.
Most of us aren't probably called to be that.
Maybe some of us are, and we've been avoiding it.
No.
But most of us are called to have a a householder livelihood.
Right?
So what that means is you can't be helping everybody.
Stop it with that unrefined compassion.
Like, you have untrained compassion.
You've got a golden heart because you I I always like to say, I think it's because you are still confused about being in the 3rd dimensional body.
Your soul is so so damn strong that your soul goes, wait.
Wait.
But the reality with the capital r, the truth is that I can give everything to everyone.
Anyone who needs my help, I should be able to stop whatever I'm doing and give it to them and and help everybody.
And whoever wants my services should be able to afford it.
Social justice, you know, inclusion.
I don't wanna get into politics, but, this is why a lot of people like that are really poor.
And you can be poor like as I said, being poor is maybe more spiritual.
Maybe.
Okay?
So but it's like you're muddling in your own head spirituality and business, and you're like, how the hell does how the hell do these two things meet?
How can I make money and take money from people and still be spiritual?
Right?
I have a whole set of articles on that, by the way.
Go to my website, healthy money.
Go to my articles, click healthy money, and I have talk about spirituality and money.
You can have a field day with that one.
But so I thought a lot about this stuff.
But here's what I think.
You are called to be here not in the soul world where you have unlimited energy and unlimited time, unlimited, creativity resources, unlimited time and energy, really is.
You don't have that here in this life, so you cannot help everybody.
The person who says, I deserve your services, especially, I know, a lot of us have compassion towards the disenfranchised, towards particular, you know, races or this this, people who have less advantages.
Right?
The disadvantaged people.
We're like, we should be able to serve them with a BIPOC pricing.
To me, I you know, again, I don't wanna get into politics here, but I disagree with BIPOC pricing.
I disagree with I think it's I think it's bending over backwards.
Sorry.
And I'm getting too political here probably, so I apologize.
Go to the next lesson.
Keep going.
Keep going.
It's all about pricing.
You could you could skip this lesson.
But, if you don't like this message because it's a little political here.
But but it it it is it is related.
Spirituality, business politics, money, they're all related, unfortunately.
And the reality is some of us need to stop with the unrefined compassion.
Unrefined compassion was for peace pilgrim.
It's for Saint Francis.
It's for the soul, the the eternal soul.
But it's not for someone who's a householder and go, you know, I need a sustainable business.
The road to poverty is I want to help everybody.
Because I I like to say, you know, do you know what the best way for me to help you is?
If I really was compassionate towards you and wanna help you, I would move in with you.
I would move in with you.
I would live with you and go, alright, everyone.
Not everyone.
You.
You.
Because I can't help everyone like this.
Right?
But I can help you go, hey.
Alright.
Let's get up.
Have a great let's do a morning meditation.
Let's get ready for for business work, and then I would be supporting you.
I would be sitting right next to you and cheering you on and, like, oh, no.
No.
Don't click there.
Click here instead.
You know?
Like, that's how I would help you if I had true compassion.
I've moved I would move in with you.
How's that gonna go?
Well, first of all, you'll probably get annoyed with me and stop listening to my advice.
That's that's the reality of things.
But secondly, I I would not be neither of us would be able to make a living.
Alright?
I would be helping you and Steve, like, come on.
Work faster.
You gotta pay for both of our living here.
Right?
So that's that's that's an example to show you what unrefined compassion looks like.
Right?
And to say, no.
It's not gonna work like this.
I have to set boundaries.
I can't move in with you.
And, therefore, we have to set boundaries with the people who want our services, but who can't pay for it.
Oh, I can't pay that much.
I you know?
Anyway so, I think that's all I need is I think I'm losing people already here.
People are like, George, stop with this.
Let's move on to actual pricing.
So with that, let's move on to the next lesson, but I'm I'm curious about if any of this was supportive for you, let me know below.
Or if you disagree with any of this, also let let us know below.
“I'm going to help everyone!” (The road to poverty...)
Updated Aug 17, 2024
Example -- I could help you the most if I literally came to live with you...
...although maybe then, you'd respect my advice less 🤣
Or I should be at your beck and call, day and night.
But then, I couldn't do anything else... let alone serve enough clients to make a living.
Especially as heart-based people, we really need to practice setting healthy boundaries.
Pricing is one of those key boundaries for business sustainability.
“I want to be mutually fair and truly transformation-oriented for clients, yet of course it all needs to be financially sustainable for me (without over-delivering in a way that leads to overwhelm for me in terms of mind & heartspace, energy, and time).” – Kimberley P-S
Therefore don’t price based merely on compassion – because that’s unwise, unrefined compassion – price based on your market, your capacity, and the positioning of this offer within your business model. (We'll talk about the concentric circles business model later in this module.)
For an exploration of spiritual/philosophical teachings around balancing giving and self-care, click here.
I welcome your thoughts below!
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