If you’re married or in a long-term partnership, I’m guessing you are going to be very interested in this week’s video. (And even if you aren’t, there are important lessons in it for you about making big decisions…)
One of things I know to be difficult is when you feel like you don’t have the support of your spouse or partner (or anyone that matters to you in your life) to make the big decisions that you know will move your business forward.
In this clip, Derek and I reenact the time I made a huuuuuuuge investment in myself before telling him. This is us very authentically sharing how he responded.
In this week’s video, you get a sneak peek into a moment that changed everything for us… Just a heads up, there is a touch of profanity, so if there are kids around, distract them for 5 minutes, OK? 😉
Watch the video now:
Here’s the deal.
An uncertainty you feel inside will get reflected back to you on the outside.
Whether it’s from your spouse or in your results, the level of CERTAINTY that you embody within yourself will be directly reflected back to you externally.
It’s the “kinda sortas” that will get you every time. If you make a decision and you “kinda sorta” think you’ll get results, then I can already tell you what the outcome of that decision will be…
…probably not the outcome you want.
It is the CONVICTION and COMMITMENT to follow through on your decision with purpose that yields the results.
My conviction is why Derek supported the big decision I’d made in the video (well, also that he’s an amazing husband), and my conviction is also why that decision yielded the 10x return that it did.
Making fast decisions quickly is often touted as a criteria for being successful in business and in life. But whether it’s gaining the support of a resistant spouse or creating a return on an investment you are making in yourself…it’s actually embracing your decision fully and with conviction that makes the difference.
Go be decisive. It will change everything.
Fabienne
P.S. Oh, and DO THE WORK. Whether it’s a $500 investment that you’re making to grow your business or a $100,000 investment, the money isn’t the magic pill. The confidence that you get as you follow through with your commitment is the actual magic.
If you’re anything like most business owners, you eagerly start a new project, get it to about 80% completion and then…
[crickets]
…not much else happens.
This is likely because you’ve 1) lost interest, 2) moved on to something else or 3) don’t have time to finish it.
OR, perhaps you’re seemingly always busy, but you’re never really sure where your time went or what you’ve actually accomplished at the end of the day?
(Don’t worry, this is normal.)
That being said, in this week’s training, I want to share with you how to create the two kinds of TIME that matter most to business owners. Want to know what they are?
Watch this week’s 2-minute training. It’s one of the most important lessons I can share with you:
Every single successful entrepreneur I know values these two ways of structuring their time over just about everything else in their calendar.
Why? Because they have the greatest impact on revenue, profitability and impact.
Thinking time is vital.
Each week, spend at least an hour connecting to your vision, creating your strategy, setting your intentions and ASKING (source, the universe, your higher self…whatever works for you) what you desire to be presented to you through opportunity.
Implementation time is vital, too.
This is time that you carve out for yourself, in your week, to get things finished.
I recommend two hour blocks for implementation time. In my experience, one hour isn’t enough. You just get into the flow of what you are creating and it’s time to hop on a call (thus the 80% finished phenomenon gets perpetuated).
Do I have permission to give you some tough love?
If you are not creating these time blocks for yourself, and sticking to them by having strong boundaries, you are creating struggle, ineffectiveness and inertia in your business. Which means that chances are very high that you won’t succeed.
It takes a level of discipline and getting-things-done-ness to reach your goals. And this requires you to harness time and use it in the most impactful way. This is your main job as a business owner.
So will you do this? How much time will you commit to creating time for yourself to THINK and to IMPLEMENT?
Make your intention powerful by posting your commitment in the comments. And when you follow through with your action and commitment, the traction you will create in your business, the confidence you will discover as you accomplish more and more, and ultimately the results…
…will blow you away.
Here’s to that,
Fabienne
P.S. These ideas are simple. Do not let their simplicity fool you. Our ego often wants to ignore the simple in the name of the complicated (to justify itself). Those who succeed outwit this desire of the ego by creating commitments to do the simple things that lead to results. Are you up for this challenge? Tell me so in the comments. xo
Cris was already running a multiple six-figure organizing business when I met her.
But she knew there had to be a better way to stop Working. So. Hard.
In fact, she was considering going back to graduate school to get her MBA.
She figured that was the only way to take her business to the next level.
Problem is, that would have cost her about $100,000. Ouch.
Instead, watch this week’s inspiring 6-minute video to see what she did and witness her rapid results. Wow, just wow:
Cool, right?
And I love that Cris talks about the dreaded “shelf of shame” we all have. (I have one too, so no judgment!) 😉
The biggest problem is that this creates a self-propagating cycle of “I’m not good enough… I don’t follow through… I’m irresponsible.”
No, what you are is…human.
As a business owner, you are wired to start things, but not necessarily to finish them.
That’s OK, since you’re exceptional at other things.
This is why we created a Business School with a big focus on community-based accountability that you hear so much about in these videos. It’s because it’s so vital to your success, as Cris vows.
Cris’ words about the community she’s found here, her daily accountability calls with her awesome peers and the home she’s discovered as a business owner are exactly what I love about our work here…
…and why we are an online business school like no other.
We live and breathe to set you up for success and to discontinue that cycle of “stuckness” so many others experience.
I want you here with us. I want you to have what works. The Plan. The Community. The Accountability.
No more books up on the “shelf of shame,” OK?
It’s time for a massive shift in results, like Cris experienced and continues to experience.
It’s time.
Fill out an application to talk to a coach today, OK? Don’t be shy. It’s time. All it takes is one phone call to determine whether we could help you.
And if it’s a question of affording it, don’t worry. We can help you map out a plan for that too. Just ask our Strategy Coach to help you with that.
Let’s get you on the path to doubling your revenues year after year, too.
To your success,
Fabienne
P.S. Just imagine what it’ll be like when you don’t have to do it alone anymore. Breathe that in.
