Posts in Confidence
WHAT IS CONFIDENCE & HOW YOU CAN EASILY CREATE MORE OF IT
WHAT IS CONFIDENCE & HOW YOU CAN EASILY CREATE MORE OF IT

I wasn't always this confident.

When I was younger, I believed you either had confidence or you didn't. I had no idea that confidence was something you could create.

A combination of anxiety, desperately wanting to fit in and spending far too much time worrying what people thought of me, meant my confidence levels, for the most part, were pretty low.

And when my phobia of sick began to get worse as I entered my teens, my low self esteem increased and I felt terrified of the world.

If someone spoke to me before I’d had time to rehearse a response in my mind, I’d panic and spend the entire conversation worrying that I’d said the wrong thing or convincing myself that they’d think I was a complete weirdo. Or worse, rude.

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Affirmations, Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worthRebecca HawkesComment
WHAT TO CHARGE AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
WHAT TO CHARGE AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

You’re a social media manager who struggles with pricing.

Welcome to the club!

You’re in the right place if you want to learn exactly how to price your services with confidence.

I love to talk about pricing because it’s something that holds so many of us back.

When I started as a social media manager, I charged my first client £75 a month to manage TWO platforms - Twitter and Pinterest so it wasn’t even like I could repurpose content….

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Business, Social media manager, Confidence, PricingRebecca HawkesComment
WHO AM I TO BE SUCCESSFUL?: HOW TO OVERCOME THE LIMITING BELIEFS THAT HOLD US BACK FROM THE SUCCESS WE DESERVE
WHO AM I TO BE SUCCESSFUL?: HOW TO OVERCOME THE LIMITING BELIEFS THAT HOLD US BACK FROM THE SUCCESS WE DESERVE

If you’re an entrepreneur, chances are this has happened to you.

You thought of an idea - either a new business or a new service/product within that business - got lost in a whirlwind of passion, excitement and enthusiasm for how you’d bring it to life.

You spent hours mapping things out, creating a task list for all the steps you needed to take and had an excitable conversation with someone you love (who still doesn’t really ‘get’ what you do) about this awesome thing.

You couldn’t sleep, you forgot to eat - you were so engrossed in making your dream come to life.

But then you stopped.

You woke up one morning feeling less excited, less passionate.

Doubts started to creep in.

What ifs started to show up.

Overwhelm hit you like a ten tonne truck.

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Business, Social media manager, Affirmations, Confidence, Imposter syndrome, Mindset work, Overwhelm, Self belief, Self worthRebecca Hawkes Comment
HOW TO STOP PROCRASTINATING + START TICKING OFF YOUR GOALS EVERY WEEK
HOW TO STOP PROCRASTINATING + START TICKING OFF YOUR GOALS EVERY WEEK

We’ve all been there, haven’t we?

Faced with that one task that we keep pushing to tomorrow, pretending it’s not important and doing everything in our power to avoid looking at it on our to do list.

We can’t put our finger on it but there’s just something about it giving us chills.

It’s staring us in the face, teasing us, making us feel guilty, like a failure, for not eating the frog first (disclaimer, I haven’t read that book so apologies if completely wrong analogy).

The closer the deadline gets, the more the overwhelm rises.

We turn to Netflix, cleaning the kitchen, putting on a meditation and pretending we really need to do the mindset shizz right this second. Or we tell ourselves a power nap will help and accidentally (on purpose) forget to set a 20 minute alarm.

Oops. No time for the task now!

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Business, Confidence, Overwhelm, Productivity, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
TACKLE IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN 10 SIMPLE STEPS
TACKLE IMPOSTER SYNDROME IN 10 SIMPLE STEPS

Imposter syndrome is common amongst social media managers and can be a huge reason for why we’re not signing the clients we want, showing up online or charging our worth. 

When I started my business as a social media manager in 2017, I’d never heard of imposter syndrome. 

But I was experiencing a lot of self doubt, thoughts of ‘who am I to be doing this?’, worrying constantly that the (great) results I was getting for clients weren’t good enough and when I was finding things simple and easy to do, I felt like a fraud. 

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Imposter syndrome, Confidence, Business, Affirmations, Journaling, Mindset work, Self care, Self worth, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
DON'T LET THESE 7 DEADLY SINS DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS
DON'T LET THESE 7 DEADLY SINS DESTROY YOUR BUSINESS

A few weeks ago, I watched the film Seven for the first time. I say the first time - when it came to the dramatic, cliffhanger ending, it turned out I’d already seen that bit.

After watching the film, my brain started processing it and as it so often does, started thinking about how the seven deadly sins could relate to my business - or yours of course. I looked at each sin one at a time and found it startling easy to associate them with things I’d done in the past that had affected my business in a negative way.

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Business, Confidence, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
STOP OVERCOMPLICATING YOUR BUSINESS
STOP OVERCOMPLICATING YOUR BUSINESS

I’ve always been brilliant at making things complicated for myself.

And I bet if you’re reading this, you are too.

Shall we form a gang?

I’m gonna share my story with you about how, when I realised I was making life difficult for myself, I stripped things back and, in doing so, scaled to the next level.

WAIT! Before you click off because you think this is another ‘scale to 6 figures’ post, it’s not.

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Business, Confidence, Pricing, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
HOW TO MASTER YOUR MINDSET WITH AUDIBLE
HOW TO MASTER YOUR MINDSET WITH AUDIBLE

As a Confidence Coach, I talk about the importance of working on your mindset a lot. Just like our bodies need a regular workout to stay healthy and full of energy, our minds do too.

Activities such as journaling, repeating positive affirmations and meditation are all great ways to increase your confidence and keep anxiety at bay but what can you do when you don’t have much time or you’re sat on a plane and accidently packed your journal in your suitcase?

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Confidence, Mindset work, Self worthRebecca HawkesComment