Note: This list is created for a CERTAIN breed of entrepreneur, the kind that doesn’t just want wild success and unreasonable results in all areas, but also REFUSES to compromise her own preferences and priorities while creating said success. If this does not appeal to you, I promise the list will do you absolutely NO good, and there are a TON of other people posting regurgitated, stepfordpreneur, follow the rules content that you’ll probably find much more appealing.
For that “certain” woman entrepreneur, let’s get going. We’re already 6 days into the new year and it won’t be long before our BIGGEST goals (you know, the ones that had us TINGLING with excitement just days ago) begin to feel a bit heavy… a bit “too” big, a bit “too much.”
Now, because of who we ARE at our core, we’ll keep going… huffing and puffing and refusing to quit, wishing PERHAPS that it could be easier, but gutting it out anyway.
BUT, here’s why our goals start to feel HEAVY. It’s because we’ve carried so much old, no-longer-useful, no-longer-even-challenged non-sense into each new year with us. It’s time to lighten our load so that we can run the race laid out for us in 2020.
(Biblical note, for those of you who resonate: Hebrews 12:1 “Let us throw off everything that hinders… And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Side note from me: I believe God has a specific “race” marked out for each of us. Will you run with me?)
Here are 7 things we need to GIVE UP as we bring the BEST of ourselves to our 2020 goals. (Your goals ARE worthy of your best self, right??? They DO challenge you in ways that are healthy and invigorating?)
1. TIME TO GIVE UP THE RULES OF BUSINESS.
The standard rules that MOST people are still teaching and following and paying to learn are B.S. They lead to an 80% failure rate amongst small businesses and the struggling, feast or famine, barely above broke status amongst the remaining 20% is staggering.
So, for these reasons ALONE, it should be NATURAL to question all the “norms” contributing to such outrageous failure.
If you’re in doubt about what to do, look at what everyone else is doing and DON’T DO THAT. Side note: LOOK at who you’re learning from. Are they TRULY successful (PROFITABLE) in business? (Many teaching YOU how to succeed are not succeeding themselves.)
2. TIME TO GIVE UP ANY AND ALL NEED TO BE LIKED, APPLAUDED OR ACCEPTED.
You need to look no further than your chosen news channel to see that success is more often DEMONIZED than celebrated these days. But, even before the insanity of looking at success with a suspicious eye rather than a TEACHABLE spirit set it, those who succeeded their OWN way were not going to win any Miss Congeniality awards.
When you release the burden of NEEDING to be liked or accepted by the market, you are free in a way you never imagined. What if you unshackled your business this year from the BOULDER of needing to win friends for you? What if you had your self-worth thing settled BEFORE going to market?
I’ll tell you what if…
it changes EVERYTHING.
To say it lightens your load is a gross understatement.
3. TIME TO GIVE UP ANY AND ALL EXCUSES AS WELL AS THE BLAME GAME.
Excuses…
blaming anyone or anything
for YOUR lack of accomplishment or achievement isn’t just boring. It SLASHES away at your own inherent power.
Don’t you see?
If the big bad “glass ceiling” is your problem,
if the industry, the economy, Trump, the socialists, the news cycle… if ANY Of this is your problem,
don’t you see how powerless you become?
Because you have no ability to change these things.
“Woke” people used to get this.
They used to preach it, embrace it…
They KNEW power came from personal responsibility.
They KNEW universal, always unchanging truths such as “that which you resist, persists.”
They apparently forgot. (#resist)
Today is a GREAT day to drop all of your excuses. It’s not your MOmma’s fault, your ex-husbands. It’s not your kids or your clients or anything else. THIS life, THIS business is YOUR creation. YOU are at the helm. So, don’t shirk the responsibility you have to bring that dream entrusted to you…. into reality.
No excuses, just results.
Also, who do you become without your “pet” excuses??? A badass, that’s who. A woman who WINS because it is WHO she IS. Further reading: https://www.bmichellepippin.com/3-ways-to-deal-with-the-co…/
4. TIME TO GIVE UP MAGIC BULLET THINKING.
There is ONLY one “magic bullet” for success and that is to BECOME the person for whom your chosen/aspired level of success is NORMAL. (You become this person through a change in your personal beliefs and habits. Success WITHOUT COMPROMISE is an inside job. It requires certainty, commitment, and daily habits aligned with your chosen outcome.
Your wild success,
those “unreasonable” results
will not be handed to you because you feel you DESERVE them.
They will materialize when you DO THE WORK. (inner and outer.)
5. TIME TO GIVE UP PLAYING SMALL.
I’m not sure what else to say about this one. Marianne Williamson says it best, so I’ll leave it here:
“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone, and as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same.”
— Marianne Williamson
There is NO honor in playing small,
so someone else can feel BIG.
Not our friends,
Not our partners,
Not our parents,
Not our peers.
6. TIME TO GIVE UP TOXIC PEOPLE.
In 2019, I did distance myself from some toxic people. Those who secretly (and, as it turns out somewhat publicly) resented my success, those who went behind my back, those who were perpetually claiming their victim status.
Toxic is toxic.
Get up,
Get out,
Wash off their toxicity,
And keep moving.
7. TIME TO GIVE UP DISTRACTIVE BEHAVIORS.
I’m all about downtime,
Time to just “be”
And think
And enjoy life.
But, sometimes…
I find myself taking a time out,
When I SHOULD be pressing play.
In those moments, I am always busying myself…
Doing SOMETHING,
Distractive behavior.
You know… those things that you do when you’re procrastinating, those things you do when you’re playing small, pretending to be unclear, playing coy with your purpose….
The first step here is to acknowledge what your behaviors are. What do you DO when you KNOW you are off-purpose and wasting time? What do you DO when you’re in avoidance?
Maybe you EAT or watch Netflix…
Or exercise or read…
Or drink wine or surf Facebook,
Or whatever.
We all have our stuff….
It’s time to identify the distractive behaviors so that we instantly recognize our patterns, and can change them.
If we give up THESE 7 things,
Our climb to wild success in 2020 will be
MUCH easier, faster and enjoyable.
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