Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching helps clients reach their vision through the creation of small, gentle, imaginative steps ... Marketing isn't always everyone's favorite activity. Small steps and a few other simple ideas can make it easier.

1. From Jill Badonsky

5. Obstacle #1
You’d Rather Chew on Your
Foot Than Have to Do
Business or Marketing

7. Define Your Core Motivators

8. What Else?
Ask these questions and let the answers
percolate over time:
Make an I get to list . (Put “I get to …” in front
of your small marketing steps.
Consider those you admire in this arena and
use them as a role-models to inspire you.
Act as if you love it and you’re good at what
you do. Invent your own rules and believe
they are AMAZING.

9. “The individual who says it is not
possible should move out of the way of
those doing it.”
―Tricia Cunningham

10. Obstacle #2
Your Belief Systems
Aren’t Serving You

12. Gently and with Patience
Cultivate a New Belief System
That Will Better Serve You.
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Start with awareness.
Look at your current belief system:
Do you feel you deserve success?
Do you believe asking for money is “hard”?
Do you avoid rejection? (rejection is just a reality in
some of the business realms)
Some of the above may be happening subconsciously.
Where might awareness shed some light for you?

13. Where IS Your Belief System
Serving You?
• Where DO you believe in
yourself?
• How has that made a
difference?

15. • How will you remember to ask those
questions?

17. Obstacle #3

19. Get down, get down!
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Lower expectations just to unfreeze yourself. What if you went for 75% instead of
100% of your best at least to get started? What you’re doing doesn’t have to be
perfect but once you lower the pressure, you actually might do better.
Write it down. Everything seems worse when fear’s imagination blows it out of
proportion.
Writing it down starts putting you in control.
Start with really, really small steps. Just choose anything that intuitively feels right
to do, but just start it for 5 minutes.
Take a break and then continue another 5, if you’re in a hurry.
Create a system that makes the process of marketing easier for you. Start with how
the client will find you and follow the system through the course of coaching.

20. DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE!
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• WHAT’S YOUR NEXT REALLY TINY STEP?
• Can you break it down even further?
• Take breaks from business every now and then
and trust they will restore clarity.

22. Obstacle #4

24. Be Kind to Yourself
• Breaking your tasks down to tiny steps also helps with
procrastination. Fear, overwhelm and unrealistic expectations
cause procrastination.
• All those go away with small steps.
Team-up: If you keep putting things off, find someone else who
keeps putting things off and declare a sacred time when the
two of you shall work at the same time, with no distractions.

26. Obstacle #5
BEING DERAILED BY
COMPARISON

28. 1. Unless you are seeking inspiration, comparison is toxic.
Gently tell yourself to stop-it.
2. Give yourself permission to find a little bit of
inspiration in someone else’s work. Turn it into a smallstep that you infuse with your own uniqueness.
3. Give yourself credit for all YOU’VE done. Comparison
puts us in amnesia about our accomplishments.
Remembering how far you’ve come helps to
neutralize it.

29. And Make a Ta-Da List
Regularly.
Pump up your self-confidence by
Giving yourself credit at the end of each day.
And then say “TA_DAH!!!!)
Marketing requires perseverance. Acknowledging yourself
feels good and will help you show-up more.

32. One More Solution

33. In
Conclusion
Following a creative call to
run a business you love
is worth it.
Use your creativity to:
Persevere
Conspire Joy
Exude Passion and
Believe You Deserve it.
Take Care,
Jill Badonsky
Founder Kaizen-Muse
Creativity Coaching
www.kaizenmuse.com