Hey, CEO teachers, welcome back to the show when I was riding out the podcast
episodes for quarter four and like quarter three quarter four, which is the
end of the year.
I was really thinking about some titles that hopefully were a little different
from the norm, but also would be things that you wanted to hear,
things that you would really need to listen to, especially where you are in
this moment.
If you haven't noticed, we'd have not done a single interview for 2023.
And that was on purpose, not because I want you to listen to just me talk
at all, but I really wanted to get back to understanding what you needed.
And if interviews were even what we needed moving forward, I do miss speaking
to people, honestly, but I would love just to hear kind of your thoughts on
what you think about the structure of the 2023 podcast.
And if you're looking to hear more from other people, I would love to do that.
But today I want to talk about going all in.
I think that this is a superpower when it comes to online business.
I think that it's a superpower in life.
It's no longer a want, but a need focusing on going all in with anything
in life is truly the name of the game.
So stick around.
I want to teach you exactly how I want you to go all in and your teacher
business this year and some brand new strategies that we are using to go
all in very soon.
Hey, teachers.
Welcome to your home away from the classroom, whether you are a full time
educator, just getting started and thinking about the possibilities to advance
past your current pay scale or you're a seasoned CEO teacher looking for
extra strategies to make money online.
You're in the right place.
No impressive text skills or marketing experience necessary.
Just the passion and desire to transform your life by doing what you love,
leading in to your unique teaching magic.
I'm Casey Morris, a former eighth grade ELA teacher myself,
mom at a five teacher marketing expert and while I am the visionary
behind the CEO teacher movement,
this amazing community is continually being built by you.
One beautiful dream at a time coming your way every Wednesday as an
extra credit bonus exclusively for teachers.
Welcome to the CEO teacher podcast.
Less brown said be willing to go all out and pursuit of your dream.
Ultimately, it will pay off.
You are more powerful than you think you are.
And theodore Roosevelt said courage is not having the strength to go on.
It is going on when you don't have the strength.
I feel like you repeated that twice, but it's fine.
It's fine.
So true, right?
Is that sometimes we think that we're just going to stick our toe in and go
a little bit in and then we get mad when we get mediocre results.
We believe that if we try just a little bit,
we should get back what we think in our mind we're capable of.
So I am guilty of doing this in my business, but also in my eating habits
and my working out.
So I would eat right four days a week.
I would drink binge drink on the weekends.
I would drink daily for like a glass of wine before I went to bed.
I would eat ice cream.
But in my mind, I would eat good like breakfast and lunch.
And then I was mad and I didn't see the results that I needed.
I was going to the 830 or the noon work out class and I was coasting.
I was getting by.
I was having fun and I wasn't seeing the results that I needed.
So I decided to really quit drinking completely during 75 hard.
And that has turned into this beautiful realization that I don't need
alcohol to be happy to be social that I am a better version of me.
My brain is sharper.
I just feel better when I don't drink.
So I can now count on two hands.
How many times I have drank since 75 hard and it's really this brand
news sense of I'm just a social drinker occasionally, but I don't really
even enjoy it.
It's not worth it.
And so going all in in that avenue allowed me to see all these other places
that I wasn't going all in in.
So I changed my routine and started going to work out at 5 30 in the morning.
And inside of that class is a group of women that really challenge me to be
the best version of me and I am very competitive at heart.
And so then pushing me and challenging me, they don't cut me any slack.
And in the beginning, it sucked.
And I hated it.
But now they just yell at me and I and I like whip myself into shape.
And I've seen my entire life change.
That seems so stupid to say, but using those little habits along and along
have really made me a better version of me.
I decided to go all in.
And from there, I have started really resetting the time clock of what my
business is supposed to look like.
And we are going to share with you some brand new things that you've never
seen before, maybe in the online space period, but we know you've never seen
us do something like this because we have decided to go all in.
But what does it mean to go all in?
Well, the Oxford dictionary says to try with great determination to achieve
something, especially when this involves taking a big risk by doing all of
the things that can be done.
It means to be fully committed.
And sometimes it sucks when you have to be fully committed and not sure
of the outcome.
But if I know anything about what I have learned is that when you go all
in, you always win.
Always there's never been a time when I didn't truly believe that
something was going to work and it didn't work.
I told my husband when I bought my first online course or it wasn't my
first one, but it was my first large ticket online course.
I was seven months pregnant.
I told my husband, this is it.
I know for a fact that our lives are going to change forever.
And I'm ready.
And it wasn't eight weeks later that that statement proved to be true.
92% of people give up before they realize their dreams.
I've chatted about the book.
I think can grow which 1.3 million times on this podcast.
But my favorite story from that book, I've shared it here.
I shared in our programs is about people striking gold or giving up
on striking gold and they were literally just a few feet away.
Don't let that be you.
The 8% who continue create goals and then follow a system to achieve
those goals.
My favorite influencer human right now on TikTok is Sydney Adams.
I love everything about her.
Her spawn car personality, her energy, but her habits, OMG.
I have to remind myself she's 24 and has no children.
I don't believe that's an excuse, but I do tell myself, okay.
Casey, she does have a little bit of extra time that you don't have.
But she encourages me so much to put forth a better effort of myself.
The 20% of people who actually set goals, only 30% of those 20% will go all in.
So that's a really big realization is that only 20% of people will set goals.
And of those 20% if you're looking at them as a whole, only 30% of those people
will go all in.
Let me be a statistic baby.
Let me be one of those 30% I love like tell me I can't I'll tell you I can 99%
of people procrastinate or put things off because they aren't fun.
Life might my dad used to say what did he say?
Oh, we would say things weren't fair and he used to say the fair comes in October.
And I thought, what does that even mean?
But back in the day, that was when the fair came and he said life is full of things
that aren't fair.
And just remember that you can get your fair in October.
And I remember as a kid being like, that makes zero sense.
But now looking back, he was telling us that that's just part of life.
Get over it.
And if you want to cry about it, it's fine.
But you can just go to the fair in October and then just forget everything else.
And I thought man, that's so important to realize.
It doesn't always have to be fun, but I can tell you it will be worth it.
1% of people understand that achieving a goal means working through the tough stuff and going all in.
Only 1% that statistic blew my mind.
Martin Luther King Jr said, if you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
And I can say that CrossFit has taught me that probably better than anything else.
And one thing that those 530 girls tell me a lot is like, just keep moving.
Get up, Casey.
Stop laying because I'm so dramatic if you didn't know.
And so let's say we're doing wall balls.
You're holding like this 12 pound medicine ball and you're squatting and you're throwing it up on this target.
And sometimes it hits you in the chest or in the face and I will just sprawl out on the floor.
And they don't really yell at me because I'm actually violence doesn't work for me.
But they will be like, get up, Casey.
Like get off the floor, Casey.
Just keep moving.
Put the ball down.
Just keep moving.
And so it's given me this resiliency in my mindset of, I don't have to do it the best.
I just have to put one foot in front of the other.
And I did a podcast episode on how your cycle determines your ability to push through things.
And so if you haven't listened to that episode, I'll link it in the show notes here.
But knowing your cycle as a woman and understanding that sometimes you're going to have more willpower
than others is so important.
And think about that in your teacher business is that sometimes you can fly.
You can run, but other times whenever you have PMS or you're in that part of your cycle,
you may not be able to fly a run.
So you just have to keep moving.
As Dory says, just keep swimming.
It is so true.
If you're thinking about doing something in the online teacher business world,
something that you can make extra income about that gets you excited, you're in the right place.
I want to share five teacher inspired tips for going all in with whatever you decide in life.
First, it's cheesy, but it's true.
You got to believe in yourself.
Your teacher magic is what sets you apart in this space.
The world they need to hear your voice, a passion project.
It gives you the purpose that you need.
It can help you be a better teacher, be a better mom, be a better wife, be a better dad.
Find a way to empower your inner self talk.
Use podcasts.
My favorite.
Use your faith.
Use a community.
Be around people that lift you up because sometimes you're the first person to start this
new way of thinking.
Maybe you are doing something in the teacher space that no one has ever done before.
And you're the first person to the races.
I want you to know that you have an advantage over a lot of other people.
If you're doing something first, but that it's going to be scary, just believe in yourself.
Number two, plan out your plans.
If you don't have a plan for your students, your students have a plan for you.
Same thing goes with your vision and your mission as a teacher.
Develop a vision for your business.
What do you want long term?
Even if you don't know, it's important to write it down.
Where could your business be?
One year, five years, ten years from now.
Then you're going to work backwards.
Remember that backwards design we used to hear about all the time?
Yogi Berra said, if you don't know where you're going, you'll end up some place else.
And I love that.
Big projects are made up of small actionable tasks.
So what three small tasks can you do today and get them on your schedule?
Number three is close the door, both the metaphorical door and the physical one.
You can't take action and move forward if you're distracted by everything else going on.
Think about this for your classroom.
The best days are when you can close the door and just teach.
No admin walkthroughs, no random fire drills, just a quiet productive day with your students.
So close the door to your heart, to your mind, to your soul, and physically.
Turn off your notifications, stop mindlessly scrolling.
Focus in on your main thing.
Dr. Steven Covey says the main thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing,
and stop chasing those shiny objects.
Get laser focused in on your plans.
Get out of any groups or communities that don't lift you up and support your plans.
Close the door on all negativity.
Number four is be sure to carve out extra time.
Time is always one of the tricky ones.
I mentioned before, oh, Sydney Adams, she's 24.
She doesn't have kids.
Like she has more time in her day, but does she really?
And are we utilizing our time the most effective that we can?
Time is always the tricky one.
So many people say they don't have time.
I had a dad the other day.
I said I miss you at the gym and he was like, well, I have a baby now.
You know, it's crazy at my house and I was thinking, I know.
I know I got five of them.
So it is, it is crazy.
But we do make priorities in our life.
Somebody used to get who was.
I don't remember.
People used to get so mad at me on social media when I would say that
we have as many hours in our day as Beyonce.
It's not a lie.
It's true.
And somebody's like, yeah, but she has the resources blah, blah, blah.
Right.
But we're not trying to do Beyonce level things here.
Okay.
I'm just, it's just giving a point.
We have as many hours in our day as Taylor Swift.
And she's killing it.
How you utilize the hours in your day is so important.
But what if not having time is just your way of saying,
I don't really value this thing.
So I'm going to put it off for another day, week or year.
I love that recommendation.
Someone said, stop saying you don't have time.
Start saying it's just not important to me.
And that will change everything.
We miss you at the gym.
It's just not important to me.
I know you can make a couple extra dollars just putting your resources online.
It's not that important to me.
If you start saying it like that,
you will totally change how you feel about it.
Carve out the time and do one task that can get you ahead every single week.
Then start carving out enough time to tackle some extra ones.
And then finally, my two favorite peas, patience and persistence.
Yeah, you need both.
You need hustle and the ability to wait.
People that say that you don't have to work hard, they're lying.
In the beginning, you do.
You have to work very, very hard.
I don't work hard now.
I don't believe I do anyways,
or I've just mastered the plan of effortlessly working.
But in the beginning,
you need hustle and patience and the ability to wait.
There will always be something to do in the background.
You have to slow down in order to speed up.
I like to think of this in terms of a teacher business.
You can't pose the resource to sell if the resource hasn't been created yet.
You can't create the resource yet.
If you haven't decided on a template yet,
you can't choose a template if you haven't created one yet.
So work backwards and find the task that you must do today
to make your work easier tomorrow.
And remember, life is about a journey.
This is not a sprint.
When you go all in, remember, you will win.
You will start to develop your dreams
and you will start reaching your vision much, much faster.
Wishing you all a glorious back-to-school season.
As always, remember the best is yet to come and I'll see you soon.