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3 CONFIDENCE BOOSTING MORNING ROUTINES YOU CAN DO IN UNDER 20 MINUTES
3 CONFIDENCE BOOSTING MORNING ROUTINES YOU CAN DO IN UNDER 20 MINUTES

When I first became a coach, I forced myself to do elaborate, 2–3 hour morning routines involving journaling, meditating, yoga, visualisation and a whole host of other mindset tools.

This was great for a while but I soon realised I was spending more time prepping for the day than actually living it. I also found it hard to be consistent with such a jam packed ritual.

I even forced myself to become part of the 5am club which didn’t last long when I finally accepted the fact I’m not - and never will be - a morning person.

Now, I like to keep things simple. The first 20 minutes of the day are for me. I don’t check my phone, I don’t scroll on socials, I try not to talk to anyone.

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Affirmations, Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worth, Journaling, Self careRebecca HawkesComment
HOW TO GET OUT OF A FUNK, FAST
HOW TO GET OUT OF A FUNK, FAST

I find it quite amusing that the day after I got the idea for a blog post about getting out of a funk, I wake up in a funk myself.

When I talk about being in a funk, I mean:

  • Feeling agitated or irritated

  • Feeling frustrated or overwhelmed

  • Struggling to make even the simplest decisions

  • Having a lack of direction or focus

  • Losing interest in anything and everything

  • Not knowing what to do with yourself

And the longer we’re in a funk, the harder it is to see a way out of it.

Here are my tips for getting yourself out of a funk, fast:

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Business, Confidence, Imposter syndrome, Mindset work, Self care, Self worthRebecca HawkesComment
9 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR CONFIDENCE IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES
9 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR CONFIDENCE IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES

We could all do with a boost in confidence from time to time, couldn’t we?

In this blog post, I’m going to share with you 9 simple ways you can increase confidence and self esteem in less than 10 minutes. Because, let’s face it, we often neglect our mindset work because we feel like it’s going to take too long to see results or we have more important things we need to focus on.

But the thing is, when we work on increasing our confidence every day - even for just 5 minutes - we begin to build solid confidence foundations that we can rely on to help us be more productive, be visible online and go after our goals.

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Affirmations, Confidence, Imposter syndrome, Journaling, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worthRebecca Hawkes Comment
HOW TO STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS
HOW TO STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS

We can’t help ourselves, can we?

We open up our social apps (through boredom) and we’re met with feed after feed of shiny, successful, beautiful women smashing all their goals, raking in all the cash and achieving the success you’ve been dreaming of for years.

Part of us wants to feel inspired by their success - if they can do it, surely it’s possible for me too? - but the truth is, seeing other women soar as we’re stuck in struggle leaves us feeling like shit.

So we find ourselves in a pity party, wondering why we’re not good enough and feeling like a failure.

Comparing ourselves to other women creates self doubt and when we’re doubting ourselves, we can’t achieve what we want.

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Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worth, Imposter syndrome, Comparing yourselfRebecca Hawkes Comments
HOW TO USE AFFIRMATIONS TO CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS
HOW TO USE AFFIRMATIONS TO CHANGE YOUR BELIEFS

Affirmations are all about changing the way you speak to yourself and reprogramming the beliefs you play on repeat.

Beliefs like “I can’t do that”, “I’m not confident enough” and “who would want to listen to me?”.

Instead of repeating these negative phrases - that have now become our beliefs - we swap them for positive phrases or positive affirmations.

For example:

I can’t becomes I can

I’m not confident enough becomes I am confident in everything I do

Who would want to listen to me becomes my audience need to hear what I have to say

But when we’ve created our affirmations, how do we then use them?

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Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worth, Imposter syndrome, Comparing yourselfRebecca HawkesComment
HOW TO CREATE AFFIRMATIONS FOR CONFIDENCE
HOW TO CREATE AFFIRMATIONS FOR CONFIDENCE

Affirmations are a powerful tool to help increase confidence, self esteem and even help you grow your business.

There are plenty of affirmations you can use depending on your goal but one of the most effective ways to use affirmations is by creating your own based on a new belief you want to form or by rewriting the limiting beliefs that are holding you back.

If you’re new to affirmations and what to understand what they are and why you should use them, read this post.

How to create affirmations

First of all, have a think about a new belief you would like to create for yourself.

It could be that you want more confidence in yourself or you want to make more money in your business. Be specific about what you want to achieve and start thinking of sentences that you feel connected to.

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Affirmations, Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worthRebecca HawkesComment
WHAT ARE AFFIRMATIONS & WHY SHOULD YOU USE THEM?
WHAT ARE AFFIRMATIONS & WHY SHOULD YOU USE THEM?

The first time I heard about affirmations was in an episode of Sex and the City.

Charlotte and Carrie had gone to a seminar about finding love and Charlotte had stood up, shared that she was repeating her affirmations every day but Mr Right still hadn’t shown up.

The host had criticised her, saying she probably just wasn’t trying hard enough and Carrie stood up and said “Believe me, she is”.

I didn’t take much notice of affirmations then but when I became a business owner, I started to take mindset work more seriously. When I invested in a 1:1 coach to help me increase both my confidence and success in my business, one of the tools she mentioned was affirmations.

I realised then that I’d been using affirmations for years, I just didn’t know that’s what they were called.

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Affirmations, Confidence, Mindset work, Self belief, Self worthRebecca Hawkes Comments
31 POWERFUL AFFIRMATIONS FOR CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM
31 POWERFUL AFFIRMATIONS FOR CONFIDENCE AND SELF ESTEEM

It took me a long time to understand how powerful affirmations can be.

I always felt like a bit of an idiot repeating ‘I am confident’ out loud to myself but as time went on, I began to see the impact those 3 words were having on my confidence.

Now, as part of my daily routine, I choose a new affirmation each morning and repeat it as many times as I can within 10 minutes.

Here are 31 of my favourite affirmations to help you increase your confidence:

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Mindset work, Self worth, Affirmations, ConfidenceRebecca HawkesComment
14 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR ENTREPRENEURS
14 INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR ENTREPRENEURS

As an entrepreneur, it’s important to stay inspired, to feel motivated and keep the passion for your business alive, even during the hard times.

One of my favourite ways to feel an instant boost of #inspo is to search for powerful quotes on Pinterest or Instagram. Reading something that has me shouting “YES, I’VE GOT THIS” is sometimes all I need to keep going when imposter syndrome’s kicking in or something hasn’t quite gone to plan.

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Business, Confidence, Self worthRebecca Hawkes Comment
5 REASONS YOU'RE NOT SIGNING CLIENTS AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
5 REASONS YOU'RE NOT SIGNING CLIENTS AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

Ready to talk about why you’re not converting leads into paying clients?

If you’re attracting leads and receiving enquiries into your inbox but you’re struggling to convert them into paying clients, chances are, it’s for one of these 5 reasons.

When I became a social media manager in 2017, I had enquiry after enquiry land in my inbox. The truth was, I was great at organically attracting clients through the content I shared but I sucked at converting them into paying clients.

Time and time again, I’d be met with a “I’ll leave it for now” email or worse, once I’d sent off the proposal I spent hours working on, I’d be ghosted completely.

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Business, Social media manager, Finding clients, Self belief, Pricing, ConfidenceRebecca HawkesComment
THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO SIGN DREAM CLIENTS
THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO SIGN DREAM CLIENTS

Signing clients is often the biggest struggle for us as social media managers. 

We get social media, we know how powerful it is and we know what works but for some reason, when it comes to our own business, we forget everything we know and sit in struggle for months. 

Maybe you’ve just completed your training to become a social media manager but were never actually told HOW to get clients. 

Maybe you’re self taught, can grow a huge following but no one actually wants to buy.

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Business, Confidence, Finding clients, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
DON'T LOWER YOUR PRICES, DO THESE 3 THINGS INSTEAD
DON'T LOWER YOUR PRICES, DO THESE 3 THINGS INSTEAD

Pricing stops many social media managers in their tracks.

You may spend a few weeks increasing your confidence, finally feel like you can increase your price and then no one signs up within the first week.

So you instantly want to lower your prices back down.

Here’s the thing, it’s going to take you just as much time, energy and effort to sign a new client at £200 per platform as it would £600 per platform. And my guess is, you’d much rather a handful of higher paying clients than armfuls of lower paying clients that just about cover your bills…

So before you think about dropping your price just to hear a yes, do these 3 things instead.

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Business, Social media manager, Pricing, Self worth, Imposter syndrome, ConfidenceRebecca HawkesComment
HOW TO GENERATE CONSISTENT INCOME AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
HOW TO GENERATE CONSISTENT INCOME AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

One of our biggest concerns as social media managers is generating consistent income.

We don’t want to be stuck in the feast or famine cycle, spending hours and hours each month searching desperately for new clients before our current client finishes their month with us.  

We want to feel secure in the knowledge that money is coming in each and every month.

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Business, Confidence, Pricing, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
3 PROBLEMS A NEW SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER FACES & HOW TO OVERCOME THEM
3 PROBLEMS A NEW SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER FACES & HOW TO OVERCOME THEM

When I became a social media manager I soon found that instead of the laidback, 4 hour work day I was expecting, I had a handful of full time clients, a head full of anxiety and a heart full of regret.

When you start a business, you fear that you won’t make enough money to pay your bills so you accept offers that you shouldn’t. You take on more work for less money because you feel like you’re supposed to say yes to everyone that wants to work with you.

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Pricing, Self worth, Social media manager, Imposter syndrome, Confidence, Business, Finding clientsRebecca HawkesComment
4 THINGS YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
4 THINGS YOU NEED TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Goal setting has always been something I’m good at. I can set goals for days but the problem I always had was being able to put a big fat tick next to them.

For a long time, I couldn’t work out why I was failing so much and when I sat down to review my 2018 goals and realised I hadn’t achieved ANY of them, I knew I needed to work out where I was going wrong.

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Business, Confidence, Finding clients, Mindset work, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment
HOW TO EARN MORE MONEY AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
HOW TO EARN MORE MONEY AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

The biggest mistake people make when it comes to earning more money is thinking that all they need to do is sign more clients.

But there’s a crucial step missing.

Let’s say you’re currently earning £1,500 a month but your goal is to double that and start earning £3,000 a month. And we’ll say that you’re currently charging £300 per platform.

Right now, you’re managing 5 platforms for 5 different clients. Which is great, but you do have your days where you feel a bit overwhelmed with everything you’re doing.

To achieve your goal of £3,000 a month (which - let’s be honest - you plucked out of thin air), you’d need to sign another 5 clients.

Honest question: How would you feel managing 10 different platforms/clients?

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PRICING TIPS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS: AN A-Z GUIDE
PRICING TIPS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS: AN A-Z GUIDE

Pricing is probably my favourite topic to talk about.

When I started my business as a social media manager, I didn’t have a clue about pricing.

I undercharged for my services, I’d drop the price if asked to and I spent more time stressing about how much I should ask for that in the end, whenever I’d receive an enquiry, I’d get a huge dollop of anxiety on the side.

Undercharging for our services and stressing about our price tag is common, especially for us women. I’m on a mission to end pricing struggles for social media managers so they can start earning what they deserve, making the money they need and therefore creating the life of their dreams.

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HOW I WENT FROM CHARGING £37.50 TO £400 PER PLATFORM AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
HOW I WENT FROM CHARGING £37.50 TO £400 PER PLATFORM AS A SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER

In February 2017, I launched my business as a social media manager and a few weeks later, one of my friends got in touch about me launching and managing a Twitter and Pinterest account for her business.

In my excitement to have my first official paying client and wanting to give my friend a good deal (mates rates and all that), I charged just £75 a month to manage BOTH platforms.

What’s even worse than charging peanuts for a shit tonne of work is that I actually gave her a whole month FREE because imposter syndrome got in my head, telling me I hadn’t done enough.

The truth was, I’d found it so easy to set up and optimise both accounts, I didn’t feel like I could call it work. How could I charge for something that came so easy for me?

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Confidence, Self worth, Imposter syndrome, Business, Pricing, Social media managerRebecca HawkesComment