Working in the spiritual field and your magic number.
Are you a medium, healer, reader or “other” in the spiritual field?
Do you want to turn your passion into your work but need to earn an income?
If so the following tips may help.
First, once you have decided this is where you want to take your future you should seek legal advice from someone who knows your local laws and taxes. Taxes change greatly from country to country and so does the legal side of self employment and even the laws of working in the spiritual field.
Do not skip the legal advice or it may carry a weight on you.
OK, now you should know the legal side to your work, lets get down to my tips.
First you need to set a price for your service. How much do you want to charge?
My answer is however much you feel your time and service is worth.
What you charge has to be up to you and what you feel is the right price for where you are on your spiritual path just now. But if you want to make your spiritual passion into your career, you need to know your numbers also.
If you are unsure on how much you should charge, then for now you need to know one number.
Your magic number
Let me break this down.
Lets say, you know how much you have to pay out on taxes and self employment and any other money you may have to pay to be able to work in this field. Work it out and add on a wage you would like every month.
Lets say with €2.000 a month income you can pay your bills and still have a wage.
So as an example we will start with €2.000 a month.
Now, lets say you feel you are worth €50 a session. (you must choose your own price)
€2.000 ÷ by €50 = 40
You would have to do 40 readings or sessions a month to hit your income goal.
Lets cut this down in weeks, 40 ÷ by four weeks = 10
You would have to do 10 sessions or readings a week to be able to hit your goal.
Say you wanted to work a five day week only.
10 ÷ by five is 2
**2** is now your magic work number. That is the number of readings or sessions you have to aim for each day for five days a week to be able to earn your goal income.
If you work an hour per session or a reading. That means you would have to work for 2 hours a day.
If you take an extra hour, and we will call this the future income hour, you can spend that extra hour to generate more clients, maybe do some marketing, investigate any local mind, body and spirit fairs you could maybe participate in. Get yourself known for your services, maybe spend some time building up your online presence. Whatever you do with that extra hour should be focused on building up your clientele to secure your magic number.
Once you have a steady income with your magic number 2, you may be happy with that and stay there, or you may prefer to increase your magic number to 3
Using the same example,
3 × five days a week = 15 readings a week
In a four week period that’s 60 readings.
€50× 60 is €3.000. You are now earning an extra €1.000 a month by increasing your workload by one hour a day five days a week. I would still recommend you give a future income hour dedicated to marketing and bringing in future clients.
So working four hours a day, five days a week should give you an income of €3.000, less taxes etc and be able to give you time to plant seeds for your future.
From the moment you have your magic number you should be doing everything in your power to reach it, it may take a few weeks or months even. But keeping that number as a daily focus may help.
I would never recommend quitting your job and jumping into a new carer without having any idea if this will work for you or not. If you currently work you could ease into your spiritual work over the next year by setting yourself goals that you can handle with your current job.
Like you could try aiming for 2 readings a week on your day off, maybe increasing it to 3.
Then maybe an extra reading a week before or after work, that is an extra 4 readings a month on top of the 3 on your day off.
However way you prefer, if you work in another field then I suggest you build up your spiritual job slowly unless you have other means of income and you can dive right in.
This isn’t just to protect you from possible financial disappointment and stress if you don’t meet your magic number for a while, but also you may not actually like changing your passion into your job. it may not be what you expect for many reasons.
Unstable income, draining, repetitive, etc. If you have quit your job and are “stuck” now in the spiritual field your passion can become your prison, so stepping in slowly may be the best way for you.
Whatever way you decide to work with your gift, I hope the idea of the magic number will help focus you to remember that unless you have a good flow of income and do not mind freely giving away hours of your time to others, then no matter how good, spiritual and kind you are, unless you earn an income from your gifts, it is a hobby and not a job.
I hope this was helpful.