An Easy Way To Find A Fight – Declare You Want To Make Money: 8th Letter to BodyChance Students

I’ve turned a corner in my letters to BodyChance students seeking financial success as teachers of Alexander Technique: what are the real obstacles to your success? In my 8th letter, I start exploring concepts that jeopardize success, starting around your idea of making money…

 

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Dear Seito-san,

 

 

My purpose in writing to you is plain and simple - I want you to make money as a teacher of Alexander Technique. Why money? It’s a reliable way of knowing that you are actually teaching. My motive is entirely selfish – if you succeed, I succeed. Our interests are tied together.

 

 

First off, respect who you are. Here’s the facts:

 

 

-       you spend a minimum of three or more years in education

 

-       you spend between 3~4 million yen (30~40 thousand dollars) in tuition fees

 

-       your craft is highly skilled – it requires continuous education

 

-       you are deeply committed to serving and bettering the human condition.

 

 

That’s you, an Alexander Technique teacher. Are you now thinking: “Alexander Technique  is undervalued and misunderstood. I want to change that!”

 

 

Do you? Really? Are you prepared to do what it takes to make money?

 

 

As soon as the concept of “making money” comes up, peoples’ minds go all wobbly in the legs. It is common to impute on to money all kinds of confused and prejudicial beliefs. But a dollar is a dollar is a dollar. By itself, it makes no statement. One dollar, a million of them, even a billion of them - inherently there is no meaning. If you are Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, you’ve got more money than anyone else in the world, so what do you do? You give most of it away.

 

 

But you are only free to give it away AFTER you have made it – Bill and Warren got that part, but a lot of Alexander Technique teachers I know are still confused. What are your thoughts about making money? Will it be OK to charge a lot for your lessons? How much is too much?

 

 

All these questions go to your core beliefs, beliefs that are often unrecognized yet are powerfully shaping your life experience. Over the next few letters I will be exploring various beliefs that potentially jeopardize the very things you say you want.

 

 

In my next letter I will ask: what does travelling on a plane have to do with making money?

 

 

cheerfully

 

 

Jeremy

 

 

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