After setting up your registration and tracking systems in the last couple of lessons, a common thought might creep in: "What if hardly anyone registers? What if only one or two people actually show up live?"
This is a normal feeling... but allow me to offer a perspective shift that might transform this anxiety into an opportunity.
Every Session is Valuable Practice:
Whether one person shows up to your live FTA webinar, or ten, or even zero initially, consider each time you prepare and offer your teaching as incredibly valuable:
You are honing your craft: Every time you structure your thoughts, practice your delivery, and manage the technology, you get better.
You are testing your material: You gain insights into what resonates, what's clear, and what might need adjustment, even just through the act of preparing and speaking it aloud.
You are practicing presence: You build comfort and confidence in sharing your energy and knowledge in an online format.
Trust the Process: Growth Happens Over Time
Especially when you're starting out, or testing a new topic, attendance might be small. Please know that this is normal.
If you keep launching FTAs consistently and continue practicing market discovery to choose topics your audience genuinely wants (as we covered in Modules 2 & 3), your attendance will likely grow over time.
The key is persistence and relevance.
An Inspiring Story of Dedication:
To put this in perspective, I want to share a deeply moving story about service and dedication beyond numbers. It's a reflection by the spiritual teacher Adyashanti about his first teacher, Arvis Joen Justi:
"When she first started to offer teachings at her house, she would sit down after preparing everything, but nobody would show up. Still she wrote a talk, set up her meditation room, and opened her house even single week, week after week. Sometimes, out of compassion, her husband would sit with her, but mostly she sat alone. She continued to do this for an entire year without a single person coming. That is dedication! What service to the dharma, the Buddhist teaching - not being in service to how many people appear, to numbers or normal measures of success, but to doing what she was called to do. After a year, one person came, and for the next year it was Arvis and that one person. As word slowly spread, more people arrived, until sometimes she would have fifteen or twenty people. Her dedication was a great teaching for me. It touched my heart because it spoke to what service is: the willingness to put ourselves in a position of giving, to be an embodiment of what we are dedicated to, and to put our life, time, attention and energy into the most important things. Even when Arvis was sitting in her living room alone, she was in service to all the people who might show up in the future. Many years later, I ended up being one of those people."
(You can find this reflection shared on my Facebook profile here: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgeKao/posts/10112514950126433)
Your Service Matters, Regardless of Numbers
Think of your FTA webinar, even if only one person attends live, as an act of service – service to your dedication, service to honing your message, and service to all the people who might benefit from it in the future, whether through the recording or future iterations.
Action Step / Reflection:
Take a moment to reflect on the above story and the idea of teaching as practice and service. Comment below sharing one thought about how this perspective might help you approach your upcoming FTA webinar, especially concerning your feelings about attendance numbers 🙏🏼
I call myself a Dancing Self-Discovery Coach; because dancing, especially the process of learning dance, brings me deep joy; and I love facilitating the process of self-discovery in my clients through a combination of movement, journaling, and subconscious rewiring.
Through this course, I hope to gain more confidence in building mastery and establishing credibility as I keep sharing content more consistently.
I deeply resonate with the values described above by George, and I'll add the quality of Childlike Wonder = a blend of Awe & Curiosity to this. This was taught by one of my teachers who created The Wonder Method modality as a tool for healing and conscious awakening. It's a beautiful way of uplifting and expanding my energy :)