5. Are you blocking your success the same way I did?
In this episode, I’ll be talking all things:
Tens of thousands of dollars spent on my own personal/professional development, I half-arsed most of it and I’ll tell you why.
Shiny object syndrome is simply fancy procrastination, don’t be fooled.
There is no one set method or strategy for success, cookie cutter approaches may not work for you.
From bachelor degrees, to productivity courses, masterclasses, business programs, social media memberships, but staying stuck.
Money mindset is a standalone powerful habitual practice.
The linear approach to success was not for me.
My biggest block to my own success.
My background as a solution architect, project management and team leading.
One gem is is always worth it.
My golden mantra for any decision I have to make.
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Welcome to the money mindset hub podcast. I'm your host Carla Townsend, and money mindset and success coach on a mission to normalize feminine wealth through empowering the minds of fierce females in business, you're in the right place if you are a female who wants to become a vibrational match to attract more wealth, freedom and abundance, but you just keep getting stuck or there's something amiss. There's something blocking you from attracting that desired level of success and reaching your highest potential. So I'll be talking all things money mindset, energetics of money manifestation law of attraction, car mindset, and much much more. Because the world needs more kind hearted women like you with deep pockets. So let's get started. Hello, hello. So today I want to talk about my own personal development journey. So since leaving high school, I have done various different levels of study. So I'm someone who I love to study I love to learn I'm an avid learner, and I will I will never stop. I just I've always been a little bit of a bookworm. I'm just someone who I find all that so intriguing. And I think learning about different methods and different theories and all that stuff. Anyway. Um, yeah. So start from the start, I have spent 10s of 1000s of dollars on my, on my own personal and professional development over the years, like over the last 12 years since leaving high school. This is ranging from bachelor degrees in Health Science and Nursing, both of which I didn't finish, I only did 18 months of each of them and racked up a beautiful hex debt only to drop out because they just weren't for me. I'm currently completing a Diploma of financial counseling, which I am only a couple of months off completing, that has been a year and a half, or Yeah, be just over a year and a half that would have taken me this, I'm loving, which is great. And I'm actually giving this a red hot crack, because I've done a cert three in fitness that I'm probably never ever going to use. But whatever I did it, Murray folios, a baseball program Lorraine Murphy's Grow program, literally only half asked them like I barely even touched the surface, I think I just, I'm literally one of those people that I went through this big stage from the last day, two years, I just went in this shiny object syndrome, I'm sure you can relate, you just say this thing and that thing. And it's so overwhelming, because everyone just drops all this information, like you have to follow this method, you have to follow that method. And, you know, everyone's got their own programs and, and whatnot. And I love that I love that so many people are sharing the different methodologies that work for them and their own personal transformations. I think it's amazing, and more people should do it. But I literally felt like for a while there, I was sort of jumping between this and that and didn't really know what I was just trying to find my fake, hence, I'm starting again. And I would like to help you not have to do that and not have to spend that much money and not have to waste that much time. So on top of that, I did actually do the Stevie says social podcast course, which is why this podcast is here. That incredible. Wow, her course was so amazing. It was literally written in a way that just speaks to me full formatted step by step, so easy to follow. I loved it. I've done various money mindset courses as well, because obviously since 2019, that was something that I really shifted towards. I didn't even realize that money mindset was a standalone thing. I just thought well, his money in I you know, I know how to manage it. And I know how to use it in my favor and, and whatnot. It's just like a tool for a means to an end is sort of what I always thought. But then I realized that money mindset itself, like how you view money and treat money, and that is completely separate, right? So that's obviously when I started on this journey in 2019. And since then, it's just I've become obsessed. So anyway, on top of that I
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have done so many different master classes consumed so many podcast books, and I couldn't even tell you what else like that is just scratching the surface of the things that I have done. So you know, probably hundreds of hours worth of personal professional development over the years, but that's okay. Because they all taught me something. And they all served a purpose at the time and even now, the reality is I half assed most of them and it wasn't because I wasn't smart enough or I wasn't committed enough. It's because I literally had no idea what I wanted to do. I just thought that I needed to get a degree starting off so I did the Bachelor of Health Sciences students I left high school because I felt like the only way to be successful was I got a degree and I got a good job. And you know, the rest of you may have thought the same. But it wasn't, it just wasn't for me, but I just did what I thought I had to do. And that's okay. When you know better, you do better. And depending on what field you want to get into, obviously, yes, you do. You need to get a degree, but I had no idea at that point. I thought I just had to take that old, you know, linear approach, but it just wasn't fulfilling. And then I become obsessed with business and successful women in business. And that's when I thought, hang on sort of at the same time. Oh, actually, not even money mindset was something that I yeah, I only realized in about 2019. It was a standalone thing. Prior to that, I just thought, how these women so successful, like I'm so intrigued, I'm so intrigued. What do they do? How do they show up? So you may know of a woman called actually, there's a couple of women that I started to follow like religiously. This is going back five years ago, when I was pregnant with my first daughter, I started watching Ashley bonds on Snapchat every single day, and Chantal Duncan, because back then she also did Snapchat every single day, I just looked at them like these incredible women and mothers, because I assumed to be a mother, who were fit and healthy and strong and backed themselves and had these crazy successful businesses. And that's when I began building little habits towards my own health and fitness. But one more so how did they create these such successful businesses, that's what I love. The thing is, I'm going to probably digress a little bit here. But I've just told you then how many like 10s of 1000s of dollars I've spent, what sort of things I've spent my money on. In personal professional development, I obviously, keep saying obviously, as if you already know. I previously worked in a call center world and was team leading did project management, its solution architecture, that's just a fancy name for someone who designs call centers. And I worked in part of that project team amazing skills and development and professional development in that but it wasn't like a bit of paper. And I kept thinking I needed some bit of paper to say that I was qualified, I thought I needed to be somewhat qualified in everything. And so that's what I began searching for, hence the jumping from this to that. And you know, most of them I didn't ever complete or a half assed them, or they're just totally out of line to me, you know, if I had have known what I know, now, I wouldn't have wasted so much time and money. Going back to one of my previous managers who was incredible. I remember him saying to me that if you only get one gym, out of that course or out of that book, it was still worth it, just one gem was worth it. So you may be in the same position as what I was, and you look back and think I've got that shiny object syndrome, I keep signing up for this and that and getting all the freebies and signing up for this course and that course but I really don't know where I'm going, and my head's a mess, and I'm overwhelmed. I totally, totally understand and relate. But please take what my old boss said, which has stuck with me for years and years, like 10 years, I think it's been since I've worked there that if you just take one gem, it was worth it. No form of education is not worth it. You know, and you have to go with what aligns with your gut. So for me my golden rule, my motto in life, what I really clung to, especially since the beginning of COVID. Was it's either a hell yes. Or it's a no. That goes by absolutely everything. It's a how yes or no, there's no such thing as maybe if there's a little part of me that goes oh, I don't know, then it means I don't really back it or I don't really want to do it or whatever. There's something in me my little inner voice that's going no Carla, hold up. I guess my overall overarching lesson from all the different courses and things that I've done and consumed to right now where I am just completely starting from scratch again, is it's either a hell yes. Or it's a no, but even if you just get one gem, it was all worth it.
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