What is essential before your business can grow to the next level
I’m sure you’ve seen the headlines:
“5 Steps to Building a Million Dollar Business”
“How to make a million dollars in 30 days”
or how are you
“How to Make a Million Dollars Online in 2 Minutes” (Yes, this is the title of a YouTube video!)
What comes to mind when you see those headlines? Are they true, or a bunch of nonsense?
What if I told you they were both right?
Now before you hit the delete or back button, hear me out.
Since COVID-19 hit, I’ve been doing a lot of self-discovery work. I read books by Vishen Lakhiani (founder of Mindvalley) and took their Be Extraordinary program, attended a mindset retreat, and learned a lot about my personality type through Dressing Your Truth, to name a few.
Through all this deep immersion work, I have received a lot of clarity and “aha” moments, especially with this whole concept of achieving multi-million dollar success.
And just so you know, one of the characteristics that my particular personality type has (Type 4 if you follow Carol Tuttle), is sharing the knowledge that I receive and that I believe in. It’s in my DNA, so I can’t help it!
Let’s get back to a million dollar business …
The good news: it’s achievable.
The disappointing news: It takes a lot of hard work and luck, or a lot of introspection and mindset shifts.
Yes. I know. I said the word “mindset.”
It has been around for a long time.
Preached by many trainers, Law of Attraction gurus, etc.
Are you open to hearing more about why this term keeps popping up when talking about success? Great, keep reading.
Let me ask you in the context of your business:
• Have you ever told yourself that you can’t afford something that your business could really need and benefit from?
• Have you ever considered taking a program, getting more education, or enrolling in a high-level mastermind and immediately closing the idea once you knew the cost?
• How about when you started your business? Did you try to do everything yourself in an effort to save money and / or didn’t have to spend money to get started?
• Have you ever run into a roadblock in your business that made you want to shut down all together or go back to doing something that was more familiar to you?
You have most likely experienced this more than once. Probably many times. Hell, I know! Just the other day I saw a promotion for a high-end corporate-business event that I thought would be perfect to attend … until I saw the price tag.
Why is that?
It is our way of thinking.
I recently attended a Mindset Retreat hosted by Fabienne Fredrickson. I went into this retreat without any real problems or problems that I had to solve. I was more curious than anything else, I thought so made If you had any mindset issues that need to be resolved, they would surface at this event.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was doing quite well! But there was room for improvement (isn’t that always the case?).
I also discovered the great obstacle this represented for many struggling entrepreneurs.
Huge huge.
Many attended who were fighting for:
• Get your first paying customers
• Charge enough to cover your business costs
• Get your first $ 1000, $ 5000, $ 10,000 in a month
• They believe they can achieve lofty goals, such as earning $ 1,000,000 from their business.
• Think beyond earning enough to pay the bills and nothing else.
• Get visibility and be known as an expert in your industry.
• And so on and so on …
Well guess what they all had in common?
Limiting beliefs.
It turns out that our limiting beliefs come from messages (whether false or real) that we internalize before we are 7 years old. See the video below from Dr. Bruce Lipton explaining this phenomenon.
Growing up, the most important one I heard was the classic, “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”
(When in fact this is quite false, there are many companies doing very well that require growing fruits or nuts on trees!)
If you had a dollar every time you heard that phrase, you would already be a millionaire.
I will not even attempt to explain this complex topic, much less offer solutions to this insidious topic here, as there are many people who are much more qualified than me who can help with that. (If you want to find a solution, please reach out and I can offer some recommendations.)
But my hope and intention was to make you think to see if there is any possibility that you are experiencing limiting beliefs through deep mindset programming.
Programming that goes back years, which could be preventing you from even believing Is it possible that one day you will be able to boast of a million dollar business?
As Fabienne Fredrickson said during the retreat:
“You are too smart to be the only thing standing in your way. The further you get out of your way, the more you present yourself, the more people you serve, the more money you make.”
Here’s the thing. Going back to the headlines I shared earlier. They could come from legitimate sources from people who really know how to take their business to that million dollar level.
And they could also be scammers counting on those who are desperate and willing to pay anything to get the promised pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Behind that marketing curtain lurks someone who is making a million dollars by convincing desperate people that they have the answer. The solution that will make everything happen easily and effortlessly.
The problem is:
a) They are not really millionaires. They want you to to think They are using those private jets and driving expensive cars, but in reality they simply rented or borrowed those props for their photoshoot or video to be used to market their products.
b) They are selling you the product, program or system that worked for them. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it works for you.
c) Unless mindset blocks are addressed first, it is very difficult to achieve the success they promise.
Bottom line: You can’t really be successful until those mindset blocks are resolved.
“Willpower does not work more than 5%, because it comes from consciousness. The current state of your mindset is causing the current results. Subconscious programming (beliefs) drives your behavior, habits and actions.” Fabienne Fredrickson
Now this does not mean that everyone has mentality problems.
There are many very successful entrepreneurs who were blessed not to have heard or internalized those messages when they were young, or to have not done the work necessary to remove those obstacles in the way of their success.
So if you think there are some underlying limiting beliefs that are blocking your success or your million dollar business, I encourage you to explore the resources I have compiled below.
Let’s remove the “I probably won’t” from the title of this article and move on and up together!
For the success of your business,
Susan
Recommended Resources
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Book: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms (amzn.to/35yfy5R) by Vishen Lakhiani
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Book: Embrace Your Magnificence – Get Out of Your Own Path and Live a Richer, Fuller, and More Abundant Life (https://amzn.to/35wprBc) by Fabienne Fredrickson
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Article: Successful Leadership Tips for Small Business Entrepreneurs (evisionmedia.ca/leadership-success-tips-small-business-entrepreneurs/)
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Dr. Bruce Lipton explains HOW WE ARE PROGRAMMED AT BIRTH (www.YouTube.com/watch?v=7TivZYFlbX8&list=PLDyzuA46kvJl877npx3kJX4SOYew_7GVr&index=158)
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Fabienne Fredrickson Boldheart Business (Mindset Retreats are twice a year) (boldheart.com/)
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Mindvalley’s Be Extraordinary Quest Program (https://www.mindvalley.com/be-extraordinary/)
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Book: It’s just my nature! A guide to knowing and living your true nature (amzn.to/35yg4Rl)
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Free Course: Live Your Truth Beginner’s Guide (www.liveyourtruth.com/195.HTML) There are 4 types of beauty, which one are you?