The secret to success is not to try to avoid or eliminate your problems.
The secret to success is not to try to avoid or eliminate your problems, it's to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems and can handle the inevitable challenges life will throw your way.
Do you really want what you think you want?
Is it really worth making a fool of yourself, being so bloody uncomfortable you just wany to retreat and give up?
Do you have what it takes to stay the long term and flex your resilience muscle, even when it feels like nothing is working, no one is listening, no one is buying?
As someone who has grown a business from scratch, with nothing but an idea, no f*cking idea what I was doing or how things would unravel, just this deep inner voice that kept nudging me, to the point it got so loud I couldn’t ignore it anymore, I GET IT.
And guess what, it gets easier and easier the more you trust that inner voice has your back, do the inner work constantly, rewire your mind for success and strengthen the parts of you that is required to become the leader, the visionary, the one, the expert in your chosen field.
BUT you must be willing to be so bloody uncomfortable it hurts your ego,
It hurts your pride,
Connections will be lost,
You will be misunderstood,
Only a few in your personal life will take a genuine interest on what you are doing, most won’t,
It is scary, it is unknown, it is also the most exhilarting feeling knowing that you are allowing your truth to come out and become who you know you were meant to become.
We all know this person, we have had the dreams, the visions, the day dreaming of our goals and desires, seen others who live the lives of our dream and we admire,
But only the brave, the bold, the patient and the tenacious ones will live it out for real in this lifetime.
Most won’t.
Most will allow themselves to dream for a short while, then quickly snap them back into thinking “realistically'“ and remind themselves of all of the reasons they can’t do something, because of their perceived limitations of time,, resources, knowledge, support and you guessed it, Money!
Most will stop themselves because they don’t have the money to start the business, take time off, go on the holiday, hire the support, pay for care for the kids, outsource to save time, buy the books, invest in the coach, you name it and let’s just add it here, I’ve heard them all.
It’s a bit like the chicken and the egg, which ones comes first? The business or the money? Does it really f*cking matter?
When there is a will there is a way!
You are more resourceful than you think, when you ‘need’ money, the money will show up, often it ways you never anticipated, and that my friend is the Universe having your back and giving you options.
Your only job is to allow yourself to see those options by firstly opening up your consciousness to recognise what is around you, then discerning what option feels the best for right now and what is a shiny object that is masked as a distraction (aka. a test to see if you truly want what you tell yourself that you want).
If this post got you thinking, check out episode 46 of the podcast where I riff on money and success a whole lot more. It’s time to not hold back and shatter those glass ceilings.
Carla xx