| "Be vigilant; guard your mind against negative thoughts." | | | | guess what you're going to attract into your business |
| - Buddha | | | | and life - more ‘lack' than you can handle! |
| In one of my last articles, I talked about being held | | | | Negativity breeds more negativity faster than a |
| accountable for our actions and how we need to take | | | | stagnant pool of water can breed mosquitoes in the |
| responsibility for our own lives and the direction our | | | | summer time! |
| business takes. This week I'm going to talk about one | | | | In order to change your negative thinking patterns |
| of the biggest saboteurs of business that I know of - | | | | around ‘lack' and create those of ‘abundance,' |
| fear and feelings of one simple word, namely | | | | here are 3 concrete ways to shift your thinking and |
| ‘lack.' | | | | create more of what you REALLY want in your life |
| A lot of us women entrepreneurs (myself included) are | | | | and business. |
| constantly second guessing our choices and get | | | | 1. Watch and listen to the words you think and speak. |
| caught up in the ‘what if's' that revolve around the | | | | For instance, notice how many times a day you start a |
| word ‘lack' such as: "What if I don't get enough | | | | sentence off with "Yeah... but... If only... I can't... Not the |
| clients? What if I can't make enough money this month | | | | right time... Maybe later... Some day..." or "My business is |
| to pay the mortgage? What if I spend ‘x' on my | | | | different." This is an eye opening experience. By paying |
| business and the ROI doesn't cover it? What if Ms. Y | | | | close attention to the words you say out loud as well |
| doesn't like me and tells everyone she knows my | | | | as to your inner thoughts, you will get to see just how |
| services aren't that great?" Whew! What a lot of | | | | positive and open you really are. |
| wasted energy we spend on these lack-based | | | | 2. Tell your ‘Inner Critic' to hush up! Lately I have |
| fears. | | | | been telling my inner critic, "I will not allow you to keep |
| This analysis paralysis in the past has caused me to | | | | me stuck in your small comfort zone." By effectively |
| get so overwhelmed that I forget where I was going in | | | | cutting that critic off before it gets going on a downhill |
| the first place. My negative thinking or "Inner critic" kept | | | | slide, I save myself precious time and a whole lot of |
| me going in circles like a dog chasing its tail. I don't | | | | self-recrimination. |
| know about you, but growing up I always heard | | | | 3. Surround yourself with only positive people. You can |
| statements like, "There's never enough... You got to | | | | rise above your negative thinking when you surround |
| work hard... Play it safe, don't take risks," and "Make | | | | yourself with people who are at your level of thinking |
| sure you get a job with benefits, and for heaven's | | | | or above. Why? Because those are the people that |
| sake, don't quit that job whatever you do!" No wonder | | | | are going to be asking you questions like, "How can I |
| we get so scared to take a risk or spend money. The | | | | make this happen? How can I make this work?" They |
| damage that we do to ourselves in the privacy of our | | | | are open to possibilities and will never lose sight of |
| mind is far worse than any actual outcome might be. | | | | where they are going, and their positive outlook is |
| One of my mentors used to tell me that I literally | | | | contagious which is exactly something you need in |
| persecuted myself when it came to my ‘not | | | | your life. |
| enough' conversation that I had going on. Fear is not | | | | 4. It's okay to be scared as long as you don't let it stop |
| the problem: it is our thinking about that fear that keeps | | | | you. On those days, that's when you are glad to have |
| us stuck. And it's our ability to overcome that negative | | | | Step 3. |
| thinking and conditioning which is going to set us free. | | | | You're probably saying to yourself right now, I know all |
| According to the Law of Attraction, if you constantly | | | | this, Cookie. Yeah, yeah, yeah! But the bigger question |
| live in a state of ‘lack,' always wondering where | | | | is, are you doing it? |
| your next dollar or client is going to come from, then | | | | |