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5 Powerful Questions to Help You Plan a Successful Year

What do you love about a new, fresh year?

I love that a new year is such a great opportunity to step back and reflect on your life.

It’s a good reason to assess what’s working, and what’s not.

I’ve been doing lots of meditating on the coming year and spending time talking with friends about our vision and goals and planning for 2020.

What has been brewing for you? What does a successful year look like to you?

Even though nothing changes just because the calendar changes…

…the energy surrounding a new year is a reminder that we always have the choice to do things differently, to grow and evolve.

Here are five powerful questions to help you plan a successful year:

1. Who do I want to spend more time with?

I think one of the most important things to think about when you’re planning your year, is “who do I want to spend more time with?”.

Studies have shown that if we look at the five closest people to us, we have an average of their bank account, their mindset around health, wealth, career progression, business and entrepreneurship and life in general.

Look at the people you’re spending time with because that is your future.

There’s a great quote and I don’t know who says it, but it’s “Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.”

Who you spend time with is so important. If you spend time with people that are at the same level and aren’t growing and investing in themselves and aren’t progressing, then more than likely, you’re going to stay at that level as well.

But if you think of the five people that you spend the most time with, if they are always investing in themselves, going to different courses, upgrading their knowledge, upgrading their skills, it’s going to inspire you to want to up-level too.

Do you have people in your life that are holding you to the highest standard that you can achieve?

If you think about your potential, I truly believe that you will not reach it without the right people around you.

There is so much research that proves this. If there are people around you that are depressed, you’re way more likely to get depressed. If there are people around you that are always just watching the news and have a whole lot of fear about the world, then you will inevitably start taking on their fears.

I like to plan who I spend time with very intentionally; I have a list of the people that I want to spend more time with, and I work out how to spend more time with them. Proximity equals power.

How can you spend more time with those people who are above your level and going where you want to go?

The fastest way to fast-track your success is to model other successful people and spend time with people going where you want to go.

2. What do I want to start doing?

What do I want to start doing or doing more of? If you have a look at your life, there are probably some things that you want to start.

Maybe you want to start doing Facebook Live videos, webinars, running a meetup group, coaching clients….

…or maybe you want to start a new hobby, maybe you want to take up cooking or go to a public speaking course like Toastmasters, or maybe you want to start being more punctual, like organising your time management better.

What do you want to start doing or doing more of? Maybe it’s a new hobby, maybe you need something completely new, like to go to a new country or a new city.

Maybe you need to do something MORE.

You might want to spend more time going to networking events, business courses, investing in Facebook ads.

What do you need to start doing or doing more of to be successful?

3. What do I want to stop doing?

What do you want to stop doing? For some of us, it’s bad habits, I’ve got the bad habit of searching my social media too much, and I want to create more than I consume. So that’s something I want to do less of.

Maybe you want to stop over-eating, or over-drinking, or watching too much Netflix.

Maybe you are sick of procrastinating, pretending, or spending too much on things you don’t need.

Or using certain words (like “I’ll try” or “I can’t afford it”), being late, or driving too fast.

It could be small things like leaving your clothes on the floor after a shower. Leaving the dishes until the next day.

What are those bad habits that you really want to put a line in the sand and say “It’s a new decade – I want to stop doing that” or “I want to reduce that dramatically?”

4. What do I want to invest in?

What do you want to invest in? It could time, energy, resources or money.

I highly recommend that you do a year-end review. Look at the highlights and celebrate your great decisions,  achievements, and highlights – even if they’re small.

Look at what you invested in and the results of that and decide what you want to invest in next year.

I write on my blog every year a review. I write what I invested my time in and what I did business-wise, my achievements and I recap my year.

I go through my phone and I search through and I write a list of the major things I’ve done. For example, this year, I achieved my goal of writing 50 blog posts. I thought that I was going to be writing heaps of blog posts on New Year’s Eve, but I’ve done my 50, that was the goal.

When you list all your achievements, you can see all the things that you’ve done and all the things that you’ve achieved and really stop and celebrate them.

You then ask yourself what did I miss? And what do I want to invest in next year? What did I make waste time on this year?

Celebrate what you have done, but also look at what you haven’t invested enough time, energy and money into. Whether that’s people, programs, a support team, or a holiday, what do you really want to invest in?

5. What do I want to create?

What do you want to create and achieve in 2020?

I really love performance goals. I also call these ‘output commitments’. I learned this as a personal trainer. Instead of someone setting a weight goal of say 10kg, instead set a performance goal of four workouts a week, 60 sets of weights in a week and burn X number of calories and a 15km run.

Those are performance goals, you tick them off, you can feel that dopamine hit because it sets up a feedback loop of a reward system. It feels good to set smaller goals rather than I did all this stuff, but I still didn’t lose weight.

Or maybe you said I want to get five clients in the next month and you haven’t because it’s involving an external force that you can’t control. You can only control what you do, not what others do. Maybe you didn’t meet the right clients yet.

But when you set performance goals, you can say, I want to make 50 sales calls per month, or I want to make 10 sales calls a week.

Or I want to run 10 workshops, or 5 webinars. Or do 50 Facebook live videos or podcast episodes.

Those are performance goals that you can track and measure and feel good about because one of the keys to happiness and fulfillment is progress.

Tony Robbins has researched this a lot. Happiness is not just having a great life where you just sit around, eat, drink, and be merry, (which we are going to be doing over this season, no doubt!), but it’s progress.

That’s why I think it’s important to celebrate what you’ve done to and to make plans for what you want to improve next year.

Decide what achievements would make you feel really fulfilled and happy.

So to recap, the five powerful questions to help you plan a successful year are:

  1. Who do I want to spend more time with?
  2. What do I want to start doing or stop doing?
  3. What do I want to do more of and less of?
  4. What do I want to invest in?
  5. What do I want to do or create or achieve in the coming year?

I really look forward to continuing to help and offer more tips and tools for you as we go into 2020.

Want to know how to attract and sign up more clients in 2020? 

My next 1-day client attraction workshop is happening on Saturday, 1st February 2020.

 

? In This One Powerful Day You Will Learn:

? The BEST methods to connect instantly with your audience and INFLUENCE them to your ideas

? How to become a master influencer and build authentic trust and a powerful connection with your ideal clients

? How to use neuro-marketing to influence the SUBCONSCIOUS mind in your written and spoken content

? The MOST effective way to design your marketing plan so that you nail your message, and attract the right clients

? The BIGGEST mistakes Coaches make in their marketing and how to avoid them

? A proven, effective marketing plan that you can tailor to your business

If you want to grow a profitable coaching business, this workshop is a must.

2020 is the year to finally let go of what’s holding you back and create the life you dream of!

➡ Full Details Here 

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3 Game-Changing Thoughts You Can Choose to Believe Right Now

Recently I was listening to my favourite podcast-  The Life Coach School by Brooke Castillo on the way to Port Macquarie, and she has an amazing episode about Thoughts to Believe. 

It got me thinking- what are the thoughts that we choose to believe that can be real game-changing thoughts? 

We have thousands of thoughts every single day. And some of those thoughts are just the same old thoughts that just go round and round…

…What am I going to eat? What am I going to wear? All of those types of thoughts. 

Then we can have these thoughts that I like to call “game-changing thoughts”

Where you actually believe something and you choose to believe it, you choose to think the thought even if part of you may not believe it. 

The way I define game-changing thoughts is they change the way you feel, the way you act, and the way you behave, which therefore changes who you are as a person.

Our identity comes from the way that we see ourselves in the thoughts that we think…

…It’s not from our circumstances, It’s not from our childhood or from who other people have told us that we should be. 

Our identity comes from our thoughts. 

I’m fascinated with thoughts because thoughts shape us thoughts our actions, our feelings, our results, our habits, it all starts with our thinking. 

Brooke Castillo always talks about cleaning up your thoughts and doing “thought downloads” to really observe your thoughts as the observer and say…

…Okay, this is what the thoughts are, am I happy with these thoughts? Or do I need to decide new thoughts? 

This whole concept of we can be very intentional with our thoughts, as opposed to just letting thoughts just randomly come into our mind. 

Believing them just because we thought them doesn’t mean it’s true. 

This train of thought taking you in one direction doesn’t mean we have to be victims of that kind of thought.  

Even thoughts that we had, many years ago, we decided them when we were five or seven or 10. 

Which is when we made a lot of our life-changing decisions about who we are.

We can basically look at those and go- is that thought given me the result that I want? If not, what should I be thinking about? 

What is the person who has the result that I want? My future self? What is she thinking about? What is she believing? 

Maybe you want to make 100 grand a year in your business. Going into the identity of that business person who makes 100 grand, What does he or she thinking about?

What are the thoughts that he or she has on an everyday basis…

…because what if I start thinking those thoughts now in order to become that person that I’m moving towards In the future. 

When it comes to our thought life, we can either randomly let our thoughts come up, we can just go with them, we can indulge them we can just see where they take us. 

Or we can be really intentional.

That’s what I call game-changing thoughts.

I have three for you that I choose to believe that have been real game changes in my life.

1. The Future is Better than the Past

I love this thought because it creates so much possibility and so much opportunity, and so much creativity. 

If the future is better than the past, then all of the amazing experiences that you’ve already had. All the beautiful memories, everything that you’ve created up to this point, it’s going to get better. 

It’s so countercultural. Our culture is always talking about anti-aging and how things are getting worse as we get older, and I don’t believe it.

I feel so much happier now than I did five years ago, even two years ago. 

I feel like my life is getting better and better and better. Because every year I get more knowledge, more experience, more wisdom, more skills. 

Every year I’m learning and growing more. So it feels like every year my life gets better and better and 2019 has been my favourite year so far. 

It’s because of this thought that there was always more, there’s always better that I always thought that coming up to 40 that I was going to be depressed. That I was gonna do something about 40 that felt so old to me. 

I felt the same when I came up to 30. I thought 30-year-olds was so old. 

I remember that when my sister turned to nine, and I was five, I remember thinking that nine was so old. 

 think we’re always going to think that the next decade that we turn is so old. 

I’ve just embraced the past and I’m so excited about getting old. I’m excited about the wisdom that comes with age, year after year.

That I’m going to have more and more money more and more impact, the more lives changed, the longer I’m alive. 

So I say Bring it on, and it’s exciting, and it’s a thought that makes you feel good.

If you want to know if the thought is game-changing or not. Does it make you feel excited or motivated or inspired or passionate, whatever those beautiful positive emotions are?

You know whether your thoughts are spot on based on how you feel. How you feel is a benchmark. 

I know it sounds overly simplistic, but I talked to so many people that are feeling rubbish.

They don’t realise that it’s their thinking that’s actually driving that feeling. It’s not that person, It’s not that circumstance, It’s not that situation.

It’s what you choose to say to yourself. It’s what you choose to believe. 

2. The Discomfort of Growth is Better than the Discomfort of Staying the Same

When I was a personal trainer I used to say to people all the time. 

Choose your hard. 

They go, “Oh, it’s so hard doing lunges, It’s so hard during burpees, it’s so hard making a healthy meal and I go “yeah, it can be hard. Absolutely. So can being overweight and so can feeling crap about yourself and so can not fitting into that dress when you’re going to your Christmas party.” 

It’s really hard to buy a new wardrobe and it’s really hard to have health issues and gut issues. They’re both hard. 

So choose, you don’t have to do anything you want to do.

I know my job as a personal trainer was to push and motivate. 

But I said it’s your choice. You told me you want this body you told me you want to feel great. 

They’re both hard, but one of them is a really short, growth hard and who would rather growth hard than stagnation hard. 

That pain of stagnation, that pain of staying the same and having to grit.

I hate that feeling more than anything. I would rather the feeling of being absolutely exhausted from working really hard than that feeling of being exhausted because you’re just brain dead.

I would rather that tiredness that comes from being alive and on purpose and doing cool stuff in the world any day over the pain of staying the same.

Choose your hard. 

For me, it’s doing the plan, doing the hard habits, doing things even when I don’t feel like it.

I’d much rather have the pain that comes with that than the pain that comes with staying the same and staying stuck.

3. Nothing can Happen that I can’t Handle

I love this thought because it’s helped me get through so many things. 

I do so many crazy things sometimes. And I think, Wow, why am I doing this?

I did three events in three days last week. They were all brand new events.

I had so much going on in the lead up to them that I had to write theme really close to the event. 

I had to write all the PowerPoints and the workbooks and come up with everything. 

I’m doing five events in two weeks. I’ve never done five events in two weeks…

…for me, it just felt really hard and I thought it was going to be so hard it actually wasn’t.

It was way easier than I thought it was going to be. I thought I’ve done four events in three days and doing a workshop twice a month is no big deal. 

It’s like at the gym when you raise the bar. 

I remember when I did my first squat at 100 kilos at triple figures, and I never thought that I could be the kind of person who could squat 100 kilos….

…I just never thought that that would be possible, I found even 50 hard.

But I started doing incremental changes. I just kept putting little plates and little plates and little plates on. And just over time, suddenly I was at 100. 

It wasn’t like I tried to make this massive leap. 

It was just incremental change by consistently showing up to the gym year after year. And it took a lot of time….

…But that incremental change raises your bar, and then it almost makes everything else seem easy. 

I like putting my hand up and saying yes, taking fast action and just saying bring it on. 

If someone asked me, and it’s an opportunity, then I’ll often just take it because I’ll figure it out.

Even if it’s super hard. Having this thought of, whatever happens, I’ll handle it means I can bring many bigger projects than I would if I was stuck and I was worrying and feeling anxious and fearful about what might happen.

I don’t really think about what might happen. I just think whatever is going to happen, I’ll handle it. 

I see people having a lot of drama and stress over things that maybe I would have a few years ago. 

But now I’m solving bigger problems here. I’m doing bigger things than I used to. Those things that used to bother me back then, now I’m just like, bring it on.

I’m a leader if something needs sorting. I’ll handle it. 

Having that thought of, whatever happens, I’ll handle it. It just gives me a lot of safety and security.

All we’re trying to avoid is a feeling and if you’re willing to feel any feeling, if you’re willing to experience any emotion you will take on any challenge because the worst that can happen is a feeling. 

I put myself in uncomfortable feelings regularly. 

Feelings of vulnerability and shame and booking so many events even though I don’t know if people are going to show up.

But I would rather that and feel so alive and so on fire, then stay in comfort because I don’t think I’m going to be able to handle it. 

Leaders have this mindset of I’ll handle it, I’ll do it or whatever it takes to do it. So that’s been a game-changing thought for me. 

So just to recap:

1- The future is better than the past – game-changer

2- The discomfort of growth is better than the discomfort of staying stuck

3- Nothing can happen that I can’t handle

I encourage you to take on these thoughts if you like them, practice them, give them a go write them down if you like them. 

Want to know how to attract and sign up more clients in 2020? 

My next 1-day client attraction workshop is happening on Saturday, 1st February 2020.

 

? In This One Powerful Day You Will Learn:

? The BEST methods to connect instantly with your audience and INFLUENCE them to your ideas

? How to become a master influencer and build authentic trust and a powerful connection with your ideal clients

? How to use neuro-marketing to influence the SUBCONSCIOUS mind in your written and spoken content

? The MOST effective way to design your marketing plan so that you nail your message, and attract the right clients

? The BIGGEST mistakes Coaches make in their marketing and how to avoid them

? A proven, effective marketing plan that you can tailor to your business

If you want to grow a profitable coaching business, this workshop is a must.

2020 is the year to finally let go of what’s holding you back and create the life you dream of!

➡ Full Details Here 

 

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The #1 Reason you Self-Sabotage and 3 Ways to Change It

 

If you’re not attracting the clients that you want, making the money you want or you’re making money and you’re spending it…

…or you’re stuck in this “it’s too hard, it’s too overwhelming” thinking…

you’re probably self-sabotaging.

Self-sabotage is a killer of your business dreams.

How do you know if you’re sabotaging in your business?

You will think that something’s wrong with you if you’re not getting the results you want. And you’ll probably blame yourself rather than going. “Okay, There’s something deeper at play here”.

I see this all the time.

It’s so important to get this right to make sure that you’re not keeping yourself stuck and small.

Where are you sabotaging in your business? And in your life? Where are you not showing up? Where are you deleting opportunities?

What happens with our unconscious minds when we self-sabotage is we delete opportunity that’s all around us.

We’ve got money all around us. We’ve got resources all around us. We’ve got potential clients all around us, we’ve got potential opportunities for joint ventures for speaking gigs, for ways to get our content out into the world.

If we haven’t sorted out our mindset, if we haven’t really worked on that mindset, we will sabotage it.

The reason we do this, the number one reason that we self-sabotage is that we’ve taken on so much external conditioning and programming.

The external programming comes from our parents, teachers, peers, TV, authorities – anyone who has had a voice in our lives.

Everything that we’ve been taught, has become part of our belief system. Then we relive the past, instead of being in the present moment.

The present moment is where we are creative. The present moment is where we can solve problems, where we can see clearly, where we have clarity, where we can come up with solutions to all our biggest problems.

It’s like when you’re stressed and you’re in that fight or flight mode and you’re overwhelmed and there’s so much going on and you’re so busy and you’re distracted.

You find yourself distracted and scrolling social media and maybe getting caught up on the internet and going down all these rabbit holes, opening all these tabs on your computer.

If your environment is messy if your mind feels cluttered, all of these are red flags, and these are signals that you are self-sabotaging. Those are the red flags that are sabotaging you.

You are really cluttered, you’re distracting yourself, you’re always busy rather than working on your stuff.

We do this because of these belief systems that have formed.

75% of our beliefs are formed from the age of zero to seven. Our little minds as children form beliefs, and we just live out of them. That programming, that unconscious programming that happens from parents, from teachers, from the school system, from TV, from the radio that conditioning, carries out into adulthood until we change the program.

It’s almost like changing the channel on a TV. And we can’t do this until we have an awareness of it. The way we have awareness of it is if we look at our life and we determine that we haven’t got the result we want.

Maybe you set a goal, you haven’t achieved it. Maybe you’ve had a dream and you haven’t got it yet. You’re sabotaging. you’re probably playing out belief systems that you’ve had for a very long time.

We don’t need to go and sit in years of therapy. There are other ways to do it much faster.

That’s what I’m going to give you in this article and video – ways we can stop this self-sabotage pattern.

You probably find that it’s not this one-off behaviour that you do. You’ll probably find that it’s a pattern. It’s a recurring pattern with a theme that you keep bumping up against.

As we come towards the New Year, you probably bump up against the same beliefs. You look at your goals and you think, oh my gosh, I’ve had that on my goals list for years!

Why can’t I achieve that goal? Or I’ve been trying to build this business for so long. Why isn’t it happening? Something’s wrong with me or something is wrong with other people or something’s wrong with the economy, and another red flag we go into is “blame”.

We blame situations, we blame circumstances, we blame people, and we blame ourselves.

Blame is not a creator stance. For us to build a business so for us to achieve any goal that we want in life, we must be in the creative position, not the victim position.

When we’re blaming, when we’re making excuses, when we’re not committed…

When we’re going “I don’t have the money” or “I don’t have the time”, “it’s so hard”, “I’m not good at technology”, “there are so many coaches here”

All that language reveals our mindset.

Pay attention to your language if you hear blame, if you hear excuses, or if you hear denial.

I call it going to B.ED – Blame, Excuses, Denial.

If you hear yourself making those mistakes. If there’s sabotage going on. It’s that programming from your past.

What do we do about it?

1. Set Goals that are Outside of your Current Comfort Level

This is going against what most people say. Usually, they say; set goals that are very realistic, that are very doable. And I agree to a point.

But if you want to reveal what’s going on inside your mindset, inside your unconscious mind, then you set these goals that are outside of your comfort zone.

They don’t need to be miles out. I’m not saying, if you’ve never made any money in your business, you set a goal. I’m going to make a million next year.

What I’m talking about is something that’s just slightly out of your comfort zone and your comfort level. That’s something you’ve never done before.

Your belief systems will reveal themselves. They all come to the surface.

I’ve seen this happen over and repeatedly. When you set a goal and you commit to it. You say; “this is what I’m doing, and you tell people about it.” Then the sabotage patterns reveal themselves and all the wounds come to the surface.

The unresolved wounds, the wounded self, the blame the victim, all that stuff starts to come to the surface.

You’ll notice it through your language and through your thoughts.

But the thing is, a lot of people that don’t have the entrepreneurial mindset, they’re stuck in that nine to five mentality and they bring the nine to five mentality into entrepreneurship.

They’re always going to struggle. Because of the nine to five mindsets of “not my problem.”

It’s my manager’s – or five o’clock finishes and they think “I don’t need to work anymore”. Whereas entrepreneurs work until they get the result. That’s what you’ve got to do. You’ve got to get out of your comfort level. That way you can see what your wounds are. You can start facing them.

Then you can start overcoming them and you can start working on your behaviour, your psychology, your language and making sure it’s all pushing that level of excellence to become the best version of yourself.

It’s not until you set that goal to raise your standards and be the best version of yourself that you realize the gap.

Most people aren’t aware of the gap because they’re not setting the goal. They stay here, they don’t want to set the goal because setting the goal requires your wounds to come to the surface.

A lot of people don’t want to face their wounds, it’s too painful. They don’t want to say I’ve held on to these stupid old beliefs…

“my mom and dad never had money so I’ll never have money” or “if I become successful people won’t like me”, “if I become successful I’ll lose my friends”, or “If I work hard, I’ll have no freedom” or “I’ll burnout”

These beliefs that people have that are keeping them stuck, they avoid setting goals because they don’t want the gap. They don’t want to feel the tension of where they are and where they want to be.

Most people just stay at that level and then just keep sabotaging. It becomes this horrible pattern that becomes very uncomfortable. People think they’re staying in a comfort zone, but, it becomes very uncomfortable very fast.

That’s number one, you need to set goals that are outside of your current level. Let the wounds reveal themselves and you start facing them one by one. The wound will come up not good enough, not smart enough, not capable enough.

What if I booked a venue for an event and no one comes, or one person comes? What if I do a Facebook Live and I stuff it up and I start stumbling over my words.

People get stuck in the past when they are focusing on things that have happened in the past….

…They get stuck in guilt and shame or they get stuck in the future anxiety, thinking of the worst-case scenario.

None of that’s helpful. We need to get back to the present time because that’s where we can create solutions.

2. Take Action Despite the Fear

One of the best books I’ve ever read was ‘Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway’ by Susan Jeffers. I read it about 20 years ago and something just switched in me.

On Saturday at Unleash your Freedom when was I asking; what’s the biggest thing that you need to take away?

The most common answer was “I just got to do it even though I feel scared”

We’re all scared. Let’s normalise it. Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about the fact that no one has it all together.

No one is perfect. No one is going to be perfect on social media. They’re not showing their full self, their full authentic self. They’re just showing a side to themselves and that’s okay.

There are lots going on behind the scenes. Imperfection. that’s part of being human. We are imperfect… and it’s imperfectly perfect and perfectly imperfect.

You’ve got to take fast action, your brain gives you five seconds from inspired thought to action, you have five seconds before your brain shuts it down, and it pulls the handbrake up.

It says, no, we’re not doing that. Because you’ll start going into analysis by paralysis.

For example, I’ve never done a perfect Facebook Live. I always get something wrong. My intern transcribes these Facebook Lives, and I look at it, and I go, “Wow, I say a lot of fluff sometimes”. It doesn’t matter.

I just keep showing up. Because I know you will catch it and you will act on it and you will apply it.

Even though I stumble over my words, I get things wrong, I say the word, “you know” or “um”, who cares! it doesn’t matter.

You don’t have to prove yourself that you’re good enough by trying to wait till you’ve got a perfectly polished thing to say just show up.

For example, I didn’t plan this one at all. I just wrote three points, I wrote it at five minutes to eight, and just hit, Go Live.

That’s what you’ve got to do. You’ve got to take fast action despite the fear.

3. Focus on your Mission and Not on You

You’ve got to focus on your mission because your mission is bigger than you. Your mission is about other people.

When you’re concerned about all the little details and all the little things that you want to get right. You’re self-focused.

Focus on your mission, serving people, showing up, willing to be brave, being vulnerable, having courage, knowing that it’s bigger than you.

You’ve been entrusted with your gifts, your talents, and if you don’t do it, no one else will.

No one can fulfill your unique mission and purpose, I truly believe with my heart of hearts, that we all have a mission on this planet.

For some of us, we have a mission to serve a certain type of people and other people have a desire to serve that same group of people.

But no one can do it the way you do. You’ve been gifted with certain gifts and talents with certain mastery with certain levels of wisdom and discernment around that topic. Experience skills, knowledge, all of it in unique combination is what’s needed.

When you keep focusing on yourself, when you keep thinking “what will people think” or if I put up a webinar and people don’t like or If I do a Facebook Live, I don’t know what to say.

That’s self-focus and to be blunt, that’s quite selfish. The world needs you to turn up in your authenticity. Regardless of how you look or how you sound.

So many people say to me “I won’t do it because I don’t like the sound of my voice.”

Who is that focusing on? It’s focusing on you not on your mission, not on why you’re here.

When I’m on stage, sometimes realise what’s coming out of me.

It’s an out-of-body experience where the downloads are coming, the uploads are coming. It’s almost like it’s not even anything to do with me. I’m just a vessel and that’s what we need to be as business owners.

We need to focus on the mission, do you have a mission in your business? Have you set your vision, set your mission? And are you working on your clear goals and actions for it?

Because if not, you’re just going to sabotage you’re going to keep learning, going to more seminars, reading more books, and no one’s getting helped.

You need to squeeze the sponge, you’ve absorbed enough. You don’t need to learn more about your topic. You need to learn more about your mindset and business.

That’s my recommendation for you:

Number One: Tick goals outside of your comfort level. Let the wounds reveal themselves, move from wounded self to best version.

Number Two: You need to take action despite fear.

Number Three: You need to focus on your mission, not on yourself.

Get on mission because you’re awesome. You’ve been fully equipped for everything you need to fulfill it.

All the resources you need around you, the money, the clients and the people that can help you are around you.

You just need to delete that information when you get focused on yourself.

Start opening and expanding and act despite the fear you’ve been avoiding that keeps coming back into your mind.

That’s your key to overcoming self-sabotage.

Because remember, that 75% of beliefs that have formed from zero to seven is because of our conditioning.

If we don’t override that conditioning, that programming with new programming. We’ll just keep playing out those same, the same patterns.

P.S. Do you want to know the easiest way to get coaching clients, EVEN IF you’re just starting out as a Coach?

Do you want to know, with certainty, how to create a profitable business?

Check out our upcoming workshop How To Build a Profitable Coaching Business.

You’ll discover:

* The crucial entrepreneurial mindset and how to use it to attract clients

* Proven marketing strategies that you can apply straight away in your business to start making more money

* Action sessions where you GET IT DONE with personalised feedback, so you are super productive

* Masterminding brainstorming session (this is GOLD!) – get input from other Coaches on your where you’re stuck

* Clarity, confidence and certainty so you can go out and grow a profitable coaching business, fast

* What’s working now and what to stop wasting your time on

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3 Tips For Growing An Entrepreneurial Mindset

 

Would you like to know how successful entrepreneurs think?

In this video and article, I share with you three ways to grow an entrepreneurial mindset. 

You might be wondering, what is an entrepreneurial mindset?

If you Google it you get all sorts of things that people say are an entrepreneurial mindset.

If you compare it with the 9-5 mindset, you’ll see that there are some crossovers. 

Being a high performer, working hard, having excellence in your job, being great at what you do. These are some of the crossovers between whether you’re working for someone else or you’re working for yourself. 

But there are some unique things that entrepreneurs have in their mindset if they’re going to be successful. 

When I’ve been asking this question to people, I ask them – what do you think is the actual mindset that’s different?

Based on my research and my own observations, I’ve come up with the 3 that I think are the most important.

1. Be Committed

If you want to grow an entrepreneurial mindset, you must be committed.

Committment covers a lot – resilience, the ability to figure things out the ability to go through, failure – the ability to just keep going and not give up…

If you’re committed to figuring things out, no matter what it takes – you’re going to figure it out, then that means that you’re going to have a mindset of growth, right? 

You go all-in on it, rather than just dipping your toe in the water and saying “I’m just going to stay safe. But if it doesn’t work out, then I’ll go back to another job”. 

If you’re committed to being the identity of an entrepreneur, then it’s amazing how the resources flow to you – how the people flow to you how the money flows to you.

When you’re committed, you say “This is what I’m doing. This is who I am. And no matter what it takes, I’ll figure it out:. 

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the entrepreneurial mindset and watching a lot of videos of people talking and TED talks about the success entrepreneurial mindset, and people are saying – it’s not that I’m any smarter, it’s not that I’ve got a super personality. 

Which is good news!

It’s an even, equal playing field when it comes to entrepreneurship.

In fact, a lot of entrepreneurs, say that they don’t feel smart and that they haven’t got a traditional education or had great marks at school or anything like that. Any of us can choose to be an entrepreneur because everything can be learned. 

With technology the way it is, with courses, with the amount of information that we have access to, any of us can choose this, as a venture or a vocation is something that we get paid for. But we’ve got to be committed, we’ve got to be committed to no matter what happens because it is going to be tough.

Be committed to what you want. Be committed to that vision that you have, of your future best self, have your dream life, of your vision. 

When you know yourself when you know your vision, your goals, when you have a plan, and you’re working towards it every day and you’re committed to it.

It doesn’t matter how you feel. It doesn’t matter whether you wake up in the morning and you say, I kind of can’t be bothered today. 

Because you’re committed, you’re all in and you’re saying, I’m going to set deadlines and I’m going to stick to them because I don’t have a boss telling me what to do.

When you’re the entrepreneur, you are the leader, you’re the CEO. And you’re also the person doing the grunt work until you have a team. You must come from that mindset of I have to show up no matter what, I must be committed. 

There’s some research that shows that when we set a deadline It doubles the likelihood that we’re going to achieve it if we have a deadline.

If we set a goal that’s specific and not ambiguous like…

I’m going to make 10 phone calls every single day for a month. That’s a clear goal.

Or I’m going to get five clients by the end of this month.

Or I’m going to run three meetup events for webinars in this quarter.

Those goals that are very specific they have a deadline.

With a deadline, you double the likelihood of achieving it than saying my goal is to have a great business.

Ambiguous goals don’t work. Goals without deadlines don’t work.

2. Be Curious

Number two is to be curious.

When you’re curious, you will ask yourself a lot of questions. You will also ask other people a lot of questions.

I get quite surprised sometimes when I ask people questions, and they don’t know the answer to it, and I know that they haven’t been asking themselves that question. 

For example, I’ll ask someone to tell me about their dreams. Often people fumble over the answer and they don’t really have their dreams articulated or they don’t have any goals.

I’ve always set goals and it’s always really helped me; it doesn’t mean I achieved them all. But the pursuit of a goal is what makes you stronger.

When I was working nine to five it was; you learn your job, you get good at it. And then you just rinse and repeat every day. 

I wasn’t having to bring creativity or innovation or growth to it. I was having to just turn up, do my job and go home. And for me, that was hard. Because I’m a very curious person. I like learning why I like figuring out how to do things better.

I was working for this insurance company, and we would have to post people a claims form. I remember saying to my manager at the time, why don’t we scan it in? Or why don’t we go paperless?

And she was very opposed to the idea – she said no, this is the way we’ve always done it. This is the way we do it.

I wasn’t trying to rock the boat; I was trying to bring in some new ideas and I was curious about how to do things better. But that kind of thing got shut down. It was more this industrial mindset of just churn out the factory linework and just get it done. 

When you’re an entrepreneur, you can get curious – you think, how can I do things better? How can I plan better? How can I be this person, is this best version of myself?

Entrepreneurs constantly think, who’s the best version of myself that I’m working towards, and they start living that out on a daily basis.

For example, let’s say you want to be a great speaker.

Instead of saying, I’m going to do that in three years, you start turning up on a smaller scale, you start doing Facebook Lives now, you start getting in front of groups of people and practising and being that identity of a speaker in order to live that best future self now.

Rather than thinking – I’ve got this goal I want to achieve in the future, start living it now. Start acting as if you’re that now, because you’re not going to get better until you show up as that person and practice and get better.

Successful entrepreneurs, they don’t mind showing up and getting it wrong. They are not attached to perfectionism.

A friend recently told me; perfectionism is fear in high heels. It’s just doubt and fear and keeping us small and keeping us stuck. 

When you’re curious, you think, what’s an even bigger goal?

What’s an even cooler thing that I can aim towards instead of just staying stuck at that status quo?

Being curious is thinking – how can I update my skills? How can I get more knowledge? It’s being hungry to learn; it’s placing yourself in learning environments all the time.

If you have curiosity naturally, it’s an asset as an entrepreneur. If you don’t have it naturally, how can you start incorporating it into your life is just start asking yourself more questions – more quality questions and write them.

Questions like – How can I make this week better than last week? How can I make this event the best event that I’ve ever run? How can I be the best version of myself for people today? How can I show up differently?

Always be curious and ask questions and do your research.

3. Be Outstanding

Number three is to be outstanding.

When I first heard this concept of being outstanding, Tony Robbins was talking about it and when I was at his “Unleash the Power Within” event.

I thought that it was almost like better than excellence. I researched the word outstanding. The definition of it, it talks about being the best, you’re being almost a level above great, because good enough, is not good enough anymore with a competitive marketplace we have now.

We can’t just be great, and we can’t just be excellent. We’ve got to be outstanding.

When I heard that I thought, wow, I’m already working hard. I’m already trying to push excellence in working on improving. What else do I need to do?

But I realised it wasn’t about necessarily going up, but it was more going lateral.

How can I go laterally, to be different to stand out? If you’re not willing to stand out, which has an element of risk and has an element of fear. If you’re not willing to do that, you’re not going to make it as an entrepreneur.

Outstanding means you show up and you’d be visible consistently. Even if it’s not going to be perfect. Because you will never do a perfect Facebook Live video, I’ve never done one.

You’ll never do a perfect workshop; you’ll never do a perfect speech. It’s never finished. You never arrive. If you’re creative, if you are high-achiever, you never arrive.

But you can just keep showing up and standing out and be willing to have a voice, which is not always easy because you’re going to get judged. You’re going to get some doubters some haters.

The most successful people have the most people not liking them. If you see anyone that’s doing well, you’re going to see people that don’t like what they’re doing.

But if you want to be successful, you’ve got to be willing to be outstanding to stand out. And that means being truly authentically you.

You don’t have to go and change. You don’t have to go and do crazy stuff. You don’t have to do anything crazy. You just must just be yourself. Because if you’re being yourself, you’re being outstanding, but I mean truly being you.

That means showing up in your full authenticity, which can be tough. It’s vulnerable, especially in this world where we can Photoshop everything, where we can edit everything, to be willing to stand out by just being who you are.

It is one of the bravest things that you’ll ever do.

There was a study done of over 20,000 people who are extremely high performance. Through this study, they discovered that the most outstanding people are the ones who really understand who they are and perform out of their own authenticity.

A lot of people are trying to change themselves to be someone that they’re not.

You just must turn up. Be the best version of yourself. Meaning, you’re always curious, you’re always pushing the boundaries.

You’re committed. You’re always learning, you’re always trying your best.

And you’re willing to just keep showing up consistently.

Not easy, but it’s doable, and worth it.

Success Secrets of Successful Female Entrepreneurs

On Thursday, I’m running an event in the city called ‘Success Secrets of Successful Female Entrepreneurs’.

If you haven’t registered, it’s nearly full. Make sure that you register your space because we’re just about full up. 

Learn More about Secrets Of Successful Female Entrepreneurs
How to Create Content that Connects

I also have a workshop on Saturday called How to Create Content that Connects. It’s all about how to write copy for your business and how to create consistent quality content through your blog, articles, workshops, webinars, and on video. 

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I’d love to see you at one of the live events soon!

And remember – be curious, be committed and be outstanding.

Kat xo

 

 

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How To Go From Slow To Supercharged In Your Business

Are things going slow in your business?
 
Do you feel like you’re working hard but not getting the results you want?
Throughout many years of growing my coaching business, I spent a lot of time making a lot of mistakes.
I was doing the slow things. And my business wasn’t growing.
And I see a lot of people making mistakes that are also slowing them down.

I recognise them immediately because they’re the same mistakes I made when I was first starting out.

If you’re not currently making a healthy profit in your business (like having 5 figure months) in a way that FEELS GOOD…

And doesn’t take up all your available free time…

More than likely, it’s because you’re making at least one of these common mistakes.

Here’s the good news: In my latest article and video, I tell you exactly WHAT to do INSTEAD!

It will take you from feeling like you’re pushing a bike up the hill… to racing ahead in a fast car.

 
But before I dive into that, I want to share with you what sets successful entrepreneurs apart.
 
There are specific things that successful entrepreneurs do that unsuccessful entrepreneurs don’t do.
 
3 things that set successful entrepreneurs apart
 
1. Successful entrepreneurs go to places that their competitors aren’t willing to go.
 
If you can go to the places that your competitors aren’t willing to go, you are going to have no competitors.
 
Ask yourself – what is my competition not willing to do?
 
There are massive opportunities for you if you choose the road less travelled.
 
Doing things like webinars and workshops – not many people are doing them really well.
 
The number one fear, according to a Harvard study of over 2,000 people is public speaking.
 
When I heard that stat, I thought “I don’t know how to speak on stage. I’m an introvert, I’m shy, I’m going to go red”
 
But I’m competitive and I don’t want to be scared of anything. I hate being scared of things. I choose to run at my fears.
 
When I’ve heard that most people are scared to public speak, I thought I’m going to learn it. I’m going to go to professional speaker training.
 
So I spent about 20 grand on speaker training and it’s absolutely changed my business. I love it. And I overcame the fear.
 
I hated people looking at me.
 
I was known in my family as the person who hated people looking at me. There was even a family joke because I’d always say “Don’t look at me”.
 
It’s not that you’ve got to be an extrovert. You don’t need to be an entertainer. It’s none of that. In fact, if you’re an introvert, you can do great, about 70% of speakers are introverts.
 
It’s not about personality, it’s not about how confident you are. It’s about how willing you are to learn the skill. It’s a skill that’s learnable, like any other skill.
 

The mindset of a successful entrepreneur is to go where your competitors aren’t willing to go.

 

 
2. Successful entrepreneurs know that the hard road gets easy and the easy road gets hard
 
Successful entrepreneurs know that the hard road gets easy… and the easy road gets hard.
 
It’s hard to do the things that other people aren’t willing to do.
 
Do you know what everyone wants?
 
To do the easy things.
 
The things that don’t require a lot of effort – the get-rich-quick things.
 
That’s what the majority of people want to do.
 
But if you are willing to work hard and do the work upfront, your life gets easier and easier.
 
I’m not going to lie to you and say it’s easy… it’s not. It’s simple, but it does require work.
 
For example, to set up a funnel takes work.
 
To learn the technology takes work.
 
To learn how to write copywriting takes work.
 
To know how to fill a workshop with people takes work.
 
But once you’ve done that work, everything gets easier.
 
Since doing the work, I can now go on holiday at least every three months – full holidays without my laptop.
 
I never used to go on holidays without my laptop until I set up automation systems.
 
If you’re prepared to work hard at the beginning, your business will get easier and easier.
 
It will allow you to have the lifestyle that you want.
 
Pay now and play later…
 
Or play now and pay later.
 

It’s your choice.

 

 
3. Successful entrepreneurs have an attitude of action
 
They do whatever it takes.
 
Entrepreneurship is different to a nine to five job, where you can show up, do your job, and you’ll get a pay-check at the end of it.
 
When you work for yourself, you have to do whatever it takes. You have to push through.
 
You can’t give up on Clickfunnels, or Mailchimp or WordPress or any of the things that you don’t understand. 
 
You may outsource them in time, but it really helps to have a basic understanding first.
Successful entrepreneurs persevere.
 
I wasn’t techy, I was a personal trainer for 10 years. I was doing hands-on physical work, I wasn’t a ‘behind the laptop’ person.
 
But I wanted to have control in my business. I didn’t want to rely on other people.
 
I had to learn how to do the techy stuff.
 
And now learning the tech has allowed me to have a profitable business that aligns with my lifestyle.
 
With an attitude of action, if you do the work, I promise you it’s worth it.
 
If you have an attitude of action, you can switch from manual to automated.
 
You can automate so much of your business, so you don’t have to be running a clunky old school business.
 
It’s not 2001 anymore. You don’t have to do that.
 
By the way – you CAN switch to automated AND you can still give an exceptional client experience.
 
When you’ve got systems in place, you’ve got a scalable, saleable, profitable asset.
Here are some examples of going from slow to super-charged:
 
1. The slow way: Posting just general posts to your social media
 
A lot of people post general motivation, tips about a range of different topics, selfies that add very little value, what they had for lunch, or they share other people’s stuff.
Think about it like this…

If you’re trying to speak to everyone, and you’re not speaking directly to your ideal clients, they probably won’t find you or be helped by you.

The more that your content helps your ideal clients to understand and overcome their pain-points, the more likely they will want to work with you.

People want to work with masters of their craft – people who have honed their skills in a specific area.

The super-charged way: Posting specific, educational content that helps your ideal client with their problems.
 
It’s about actually teaching your ideal client what they need to be doing and helping them.
 
Essentially, your content needs to have a purpose. It’s not about posting content for content’s sake.
 
You need to content to help people overcome their limiting beliefs, and objections to investing in your services.
 
2. The slow way: Relying purely on online marketing to get clients

Your market is CRAVING an in-person connection with someone who gets them.Doing ONLY online marketing is an easy, comfortable way to do business.

But it rarely works for the majority of Coaches and Service-based Business Owners.

People want to buy from a human being they know can help them—not with random pages on the internet.

If you’ve got a great message to share, one of the best ways to do it is to run your own workshops.

 
The super-charged way: Adding offline strategies, such as running your own events
 
If you’ve got a great message to share, one of the best ways to get clients is to run your own events.
 
There was a Facebook post that I posted a while back asking “Do you have a great message to share that would really inspire women?”
 
And so many people responded to it. All of these people do have a great message to share, so really, they could be running their own events.
 
That’s how you take control of your business and not just wait for other people to open doors for you.
 
3. The slow way – Sending people only to your website or your social media handles

When you only send people to your website or social media handles, there are many distractions.

People can get caught up reading articles and watching videos, rather than opting in to your email list.

The most important asset that you have in your business is an email list – a database.

 
The super-charged way: Create a client attraction funnel
When you create a client attraction funnel, you take people from social media and onto your database.
A client attraction funnel is where you have a freebie or lead magnet, such as a cheatsheet, guide, video, or webinar that you offer to people in exchange for their email address.

You set up the freebie on a landing page and then create a follow-on email nurture sequence that people go to that leads them to your paid offer.

When you send them to a specific landing page with a freebie for them, and they opt-in, they are more likely to become a client.

Landing pages convert 4-10x higher than a website.

Also, on social media, you can’t control what people see in the newsfeed.
So you want to get off people social media and onto your own email database. 
 
You gather people’s details and send them useful, valuable content. I use MailChimp for this. 
I sent an email out on a Saturday night recently at about six o’clock and within 40 minutes, 270 people had opened that email. 
 
Can you imagine posting on Facebook and having 270 people look at it in 40 minutes – without paying for an ad?
It wouldn’t happen.
 
A great way to do get people’s email addresses is by teaching cool things on Facebook live videos.
 
Facebook is pushing out live videos into the news feed a lot more than posts.
 
And then at the end of the video, say something like – Hey, if you want a cheat sheet of this or you want my checklist (or want to come to my workshop, or join me on an upcoming Webinar), I’ll pop the details and the link into the comments.
 
You don’t want to just put posts up on social media.
 
You want to have a free offer that you can give to people.
 
You can also do this through personal relationships with people and inviting people to things personally who are engaging with your posts in your comments.

So, if you honestly look at the way you’re running your business right now…

Do you see yourself making any of these mistakes?

I’ve been there.

And that means I know how to get out. 🙂

The exact step‐by‐step roadmap is inside of my intensive and intimate 12‐week coaching program—Amplify Your Influence Accelerator.

And I want YOU to be in it!

There are LOTS more details I want to share with you.

And it’s all on this next page

I hope you’ll join us so I can show you how to set your business up the right way…

And YOU can enjoy 5‐figure months (or MORE!).. with EASE! 🙂

Kat

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