Do nothing. Sell nothing. Stop building. There is no try.
The hardest thing I have heard from God this past year, but perhaps also the easiest, most beautiful, and yes, is to stop.
Stop selling.
Stop building.
Stop trying to grow.
Just STOP.
This felt so confusing to me at first, the truth is I’m still processing it even as I write this, but my mind right away tried to figure out howwwww that could work, simultaneously excited and curious to know more yet mostly thinking – no. That can’t be it. I didn’t hear THAT right. Don’t you know how this here business works Lord? We maketh the new things and then we sell-eth them!
Yet every time I turned back to God on the topic, I just kept hearing –
Stop selling.
Stop selling.
Stop selling.
Do NOTHING.
There is no more build.
As is so often the case, in these kinds of conversations where you once again remember WHO YOU’RE SPEAKING TO AND THAT THERE’S NO QUESTION HE CAN DO A SUPERNATURAL THING, I DID know kinda sorta what He meant.
The trying had become … overt.
It felt as though I was continually thinking of what I COULD do.
And whilst none of it was inherently bad or wrong, in fact every new offering I came up with was absolutely centred around things God would have me teach on, talk about, prophetically riff on til I ran out of steam … something unlikely to happen so easily since what HE calls He also equips for, also?
I knew I was back on that lil ole choo-choo train of Kat doing a thing.
It was confusing. If I was honest. Because I knew I wasn’t ‘making up’ the actual teaching ideas, but there was something just … no.
No to more structure.
No to more commitments.
No to more launching.
No to more ‘and now we are doing this’.
No to more thinking about or in any way seeking growth.
Just –
no.
No to basically every different ‘way of being’ I’d walked in for decades as an entrepreneur, and which I THOUGHT had been recalibrated to the ‘new thing’ in God yet which now?
Apparently still got to go.
And what I was hearing or seeing instead, simply, was this:
Do nothing.
Invite people in.
For those who like to be pedantic about a thing, inviting people in means SELLING. For those who understand online business, content creation, launching, and the continual option to come up with and sell something new or even in any way overtly try to sell the existing thing, the ‘not selling’ bit was about all of this.
God was telling me –
“Work with what I’ve already given you.
Just offer THAT.
But even with THAT – I don’t want you to think about how to be. What to be. Or what you think people need to see, in order to take ANY kind of action.
I want you to simply – invite people in. After writing and speaking ONLY what is of me.
Not all this other stuff you’ve still been thinking you have to do, or consider, or ‘make work’ in order to do BUSINESS right”.
“But what about money flow?”, I thought.
“And what about this new course I thought I was going to do? Am I not supposed to teach that? And what about showing up or creating or writing or speaking or posting at all? Are you saying stop everything? Pause? Sabbatical?”
I knew He wasn’t saying any such thing. I knew He was saying, simply, what He said.
Stop trying.
Stop doing.
Do nothing.
ACTUALLY just be.
And let out what is of me.
Which, loosely, meant … take my time each day. As much as needed each day. To go in each day. To His presence each day. And when and ONLY when I received a missive from Him to share,
(such as this)
do so.
In whichever form led to do so.
But do not then concern yourself with how to use it to make things happen for business.
And stop all the bits where you just push OUT what you write or post or share because you are so in the habit of doing so, and can just pull it off like gold yet … not MY gold.
Also stop at ALL considering your own efforts of any use to do with sales, money flow, growth, doing enough, don’t you see you are reaping only what comes from your own effort when you do that? Instead of the supernaturally alive and true thing it would be if you’d leave it to me, and, instead of turning your focus to DOING, turn it deeper to ME,
and what you will THEN see.
Can I ask you a question gorgeous?
Do you do this?
This thing where you gave it all to God and then you take it upon yourself to come up with things which are OF God (certainly definitely right! Look how Godly the ARE!) except …
He never said to do that?
What God showed me is:
“Of COURSE you are to speak on that.
Teach on that.
Of COURSE you write. Produce. Create.
Of COURSE you pour forth a thing. And of course there are many things which are built. Will be. And should be.
But …
I didn’t tell you to structure like that. Frame it like that. Commit or create like that. What I actually said was – just come INTO me each day. And then you will see, hear, know the things which are of me. And I will tell you what to do with them!
For now at least … there IS no plan. Prepare. Map out. There is simply BE with me until complete. And then say or share what I gave you.
As for the BUSINESS and money bit. Let me take care of that won’t you? You gave it over to me, now let me work! But I won’t do that for as long as you keep grabbing it back, and thinking you need to DO a thing in order to ensure it DOES work.
Believe me,
if I want you to do something,
you’ll know!”
Do you want to know what’s crazy?
All I long for, truly all I have ever longed for, even before I knew that this was what I longed for, was that daily time to be in God’s presence and see, know, hear and then share what He gave me!
As a writer and speaker I have always been at my best and most RIGHT … KNOWING ‘this is it’ … when I simply wait
and wait
and wait
and then receive and share the thing.
In fact every time I have tried to be more planned or prepared or proper it has not worked, been exhausting, and made me kind of horrible to be around!
I figured this out about my own ideal way of being even before I gave everything over to God, and that counterfeit version of me being me and knowing I just can’t DO like that still resulted in tens of millions of dollars made, and hundreds of thousands impacted!
So imagine what the version in God looks like!
The thing with letting go is …
it is the HARDEST thing.
But also …
it is the BESTEST thing.
And also a thing we crave. Yearn for. Are CODED TO NEED AND WANT.
God gave me a journal prompt which I want to share with you.
He said:
“The things which are from me, you can’t LET them fall away.
The things which are not from me, they CAN fall away. If you let them.”
And really,
in the end,
as is always the way,
then I just did.
After all –
Life is Now. Press Play.
Kat
PS
Here is the invite.
The Secret Garden is the place God gave me.
It was a vision.
A supernatural stripping off.
A revelation of the place of death my business HAD become, without Him.
And then a renewal which He showed me, even as I wept, and broke, and broke, and broke, on the floor of my war room (prayer room!) one morning last year.
I saw beautiful flowers springing up. A fresh new garden. Before my EYES, coming to life. And tall. Beautiful. Queenly. WARRIOR women. Who I knew to be – those who I impact. Work with. And serve. And who also. Walk with the Lord.
I thought He was giving me a vision just for me. About the new thing He had done in my business.
I shared what had happened in this approximately 2 hour time with God in my course I was running at the time. Warrior Leader.
I thought that was it.
2 months later.
I was leaving the gym for a full day in my business when I heard –
Just sit down and write. Go IN with me. BE with me. Listen to what I want to SHARE of me.
I ended up sitting in that chair at one of my favourite coffee shops for 3 straight hours. Canceled an appointment. And (what the what?! This still blows me away!) wrote an ENTIRE BOOK BY HAND IN MY JOURNAL.
I didn’t even know that was what was happening when I started to write. I thought I was journaling.
Next minute –
God had me write an entire prophetic BOOK.
I prepared it to publish that very night. Meaning – I had to type the whole thing out again! lol! Who writes a book by hand?! Even a short one?
The next morning I tripped up a little. Hm. What was the OFFER at the end of the book going to be? There had to be an offer, right?!
And then I heard –
“It’s The Secret Garden”
Oh my GOSH, OF COURSE IT’S THE SECRET GARDEN!
That was the moment God gave me the vision for The Secret Garden, my low-cost MEMBERSHIP, and the space He has given me for you, the faith-led entrepreneur who wants to know all that He has for her in business. In money. In life.
The Secret Garden has been live since August 2023.
It is, simply –
anointed.
Shockingly so, daily. Yet also, of course.
Gorgeous –
The invite God was telling me it’s just meant to be about, ‘the’ thing He wants me to simply share about over and over again?
It’s The Secret Garden.
And today –
I am inviting you in.
Come see what He had me make you,
at this link.
The Secret Garden.
A place for entrepreneurs. In The Secret Garden God has made you. In which all that is FOR you. May Come Through.
Gorgeous,
I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to be in.
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