Apr 09
22
$100,000 a year as a massage therapist?
Everyone thinks I am crazy when I say that you can make $100,000 a year as a massage therapist. Now I am not the only one saying it. Others are too.
My way is about charging what you need to make that while working a reasonable number of hours doing so. It can also involve using your website to make an additional stream of income and also to create an online business on something related to massage (or not!). Some ideas are a website for a local continuing education calendar, a website on a specific technique or method you use, a blog on how you built your practice or a site on something totally unrelated – another hobby or pasttime, an activity or sport, a specialized area of knowledge or interest you have – hiking, cycling, knitting, cooking, a specific disease or condition that you are an expert at dealing with or that you have yourself and are struggling with. Whatever it is you can make $100,000 a year and more if you clear out all of the limiting beliefs you have about yourself that keeps telling you that you can’t charge $85 or more a session. It is getting clear about what you do desire and why. It is about becoming more conscious of what holds you back – your unconscious thoughts and beliefs. We all have them. But most just don’t know it.
In one of my previous posts I mentioned some other massage therapists who were talking about this possibility. I also have been talking about this on the job forums at indeed.com. The people there are so skeptical but also so broke that they are shut down to opportunities and changing their realities. But that is OK too. We all have our blind spots including me!
A recent book just released at amazon.com is offering another way to do just that. The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a Massage Therapist
My challenge to people who don’t believe it start with something smaller that they do believe – like $50,000. The key to all of this is paying attention to your feelings and judgements that come up when you think of a massage therapist (or anyone else fo that matte) who is making $50,000 or even $100,000 a year as a massage therapist. If you are feeling angry, disheartened, discouraged or anything else but love/joy you can know that you are buying into an unconscious belief about your own self worth and value. It is your money making blueprint that was created at an early age that needs to be changed. The way to change it is to become aware of it andd start making baby steps towards always feeling better even if you are broke and can’t pay the bills. If you focus on being in debt and broke it is really asking for more of the same because it feels so heavy and draining.
Change to focusing on the solution which can just bring the slightest relief in the feeling and keep coming back to the solution when that heavy feeling comes back in! It isn’t easy sometimes when you are feeling bad! Sometimes you just have to let yourself feel bad for a while until you just get sick of feeling bad or you get sick even!
So what ways can you think of to start making more as a massage therapist?
- Teaching classes on massage to couples
- Offering to lead church groups in learning massage
- Setting up a continuing education calendar in your area
- learning to make money with affiliate programs through your website
- Charging more so that you don’t feel resentful of doing massage. (That can change the feeling big time!)
- Charge for no shows or last minute cancellations so you are not wasting your time (and enforce the policy!)
Stop defeating yourself by saying it can’t be done and humor me and just let yourself think for one minute that it can be done!
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