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Are You Derailing Your Business?<\/strong><\/p>\nBy Lisa J. Peck<\/p>\n
When you let things derail you from accomplishing your business objectives, bad things happen, like:<\/p>\n
*You get fewer clients\/customers<\/p>\n
*Your current clients can sense your lack of focus<\/p>\n
*You don\u2019t make as much money<\/p>\n
*Your employees are disappointed that you are not being the leader they expect.<\/p>\n
And the worst one of all: you have to admit somewhere deep down inside you that you are not successful.\u00a0 No one wants to admit to that.<\/p>\n
Too Much Time <\/strong><\/p>\n One of the big mistakes that entrepreneurs and small business owners make is: They spend too much time worrying if all their sacrifice will be worth it.\u00a0 This means you have a voice inside you telling you something like: Your family is going to hate you for being gone all the time. Or, other people are meant to be successful, not you.\u00a0 Or, you\u2019re not smart enough.\u00a0 Not a good enough sales person \u2026 business owner\u2026not ENOUGH\u2026<\/p>\n You get the point.\u00a0 We all have Saboteur voices, but when it gets loud enough that we aren\u2019t making those calls, talking to the right people, finishing your big project, and then you know the doubt is draining the success you could otherwise tap into.<\/p>\n Imagine what you could accomplish if you free yourself up from doubt and you move forward confidently.\u00a0 To get freed up from doubt, let\u2019s look at the three possible reasons that you might be having this doubt in yourself and in your business.<\/p>\n First reason:\u00a0 The doubt that is springing up might be serving as a distraction from you accomplishing your actual goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n We all have this dark side to us.\u00a0 This shadow side or what is often referred to in coaching language as the Saboteur side within all.\u00a0 This is the negative voice within us that likes to cause doubts.<\/p>\n Peoples\u2019 saboteurs say different things like, \u201cThis isn\u2019t going to work.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYou aren\u2019t really a career person.\u201d\u00a0 Or, \u201cWho are you kidding?You\u2019re never going to make it.\u00a0 You need to go get a real job.\u201d<\/p>\n Some people\u2019s Saboteurs are softer in how they plant doubt in our minds.\u00a0 This kind whispers things like, \u201cIf you do that, people won\u2019t like you.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cYour spouse will never let you get away with this.\u201d\u00a0 Sometimes it simply says, \u201cYou can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Why does the Saboteur come and whisper these discouraging words in your mind?\u00a0 To stop you.\u00a0 The Saboteur wants you to keep things the way they are.\u00a0 This negative voice might be uncomfortable with what the situation is.\u00a0 It might not like it, but anything is better than change.\u00a0 Change is scary.\u00a0 Change shakes things up.\u00a0 Change causes the Saboteur to worry for your safety. The Saboteur will say and do anything to get you to stop rocking your world.<\/p>\n If the Saboteur can get you worried enough about whether what you are doing is worth it, he wins\u2014If you worry\u2026you won\u2019t be able to spend most of your time and focus on change.<\/p>\n You will not have the energy to do the courageous things that are necessary to build your business.\u00a0 You won\u2019t be in the mindset to make excellent decisions.\u00a0 Others will pick up on your panic.<\/p>\n So how do you stop the Saboteur?<\/strong><\/p>\n Stop listening to him. Every time you hear his voice STOP HIM.\u00a0 Replace his negative voice with positive thoughts.\u00a0 And most importantly, don\u2019t let him stop you. Move forward no matter what he is saying.\u00a0 Your success will eventually drown out his voice..<\/p>\n Second reason you might be entertaining doubts about if your business is worth it, is that you have a bad habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes you just have a bad habit. Maybe your internal files need to be updated.\u00a0 It is time for you to have your thinking match where you are at currently and not match who you used to be.<\/p>\n Updating your files means that you stop blaming.\u00a0 Blaming is where you are pointing the finger of not succeeding at others.<\/p>\n Updating your files may mean that you can stop shaming.\u00a0 Shaming is where you are pointing the finger at yourself and saying how bad and terrible you are, and you are basically not being nice to yourself.<\/p>\n When you are blaming others, you will experience the \u201claw of return\u201d and the finger will point back at you.\u00a0 Do you really want to be in that energy loop? Or do you want to live in the loop where you figure out what works and do more of that to get rockin\u2019 results?<\/p>\n When you shame yourself, you are heading toward depression.\u00a0\u00a0 Successful business people don\u2019t have time for depression.\u00a0 It\u2019s best to be nice to your chief worker bee.\u00a0 When you speak kindly to yourself, you are more likely to achieve more work and better results.<\/p>\n Third reason you might be entertaining doubts of whether your business is worth it or not, is that you haven\u2019t set up a winning environment in your business life.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you work with people who are constantly criticizing you\u2026 the environment that you\u2019re putting yourself in needs improvement.\u00a0 If others are tugging at you and not encouraging you to be your best self and perform at your top levels \u2026 environment improvement needed.<\/p>\n The problem with having a negative environment is that it feeds on itself.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t believe in your company and you voice it enough to those around you, they are going to stop telling you that you can do it, and they are going to actually start believing you.\u00a0 That is unless you have one of those perfect support people in your life, in which case you are really lucky.\u00a0 But for the rest of us, if you voice the problems of your company too much and worry about how to accomplish things, people are sometimes unenlightened enough to think that you are right.<\/p>\n Not good.\u00a0 When people collectively start to doubt the success of their joint efforts or company, then those thoughts get reinforced over and over.\u00a0 If it happens enough, people, and maybe even you, are going to think that it is the truth, generating a sort of self-fulfilling prediction for failure.<\/p>\n Climbing Out of the Negative<\/strong><\/p>\n If you are in this negative energy loop of non-supportive doubt, how do you climb out?\u00a0 You shift the energy.\u00a0 You think positive and surround yourself with positive people.\u00a0 You enroll people into your team, like business coaches who believe in you and help you foster the courage to look at your current situation head-on and make the right choices to improve your environment and grow your business.<\/p>\n You also decide that you don\u2019t want to exist in losing energy but in winning energy, and you choose to make things better.\u00a0 You can ask yourself questions like:\u00a0 What do I need to do to set things back in motion?\u00a0 Then do what your intuition and intellect tells you.<\/p>\n Start Rockin\u2019 and Stop Derailing<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to have a rocking business, you need to trust that all the work you put into your business is worth it.\u00a0 Start believing you can do it.<\/p>\n Remember to confront your Saboteur, stop the bad habits of blaming and shaming and believing you can\u2019t do it, and change your environment from one of lack of support to one where you are rocking.\u00a0 Do these things and you\u2019ll be hitting your objectives in no time.<\/p>\n Author\u00a0 Bio <\/strong><\/p>\n Lisa J. Peck <\/strong>has been helping entrepreneurs and business owners grow their business and balance the needs of home for over 18 years. Being a mother of 8, author of 20 books, former radio show host, and an award winning speaker, I can show you that balance and success is not only possible but vital to make more money, have more free time to be there for your family.<\/p>\n Step It Up or Get Out of the Way,<\/em><\/strong> Lisa’s new cutting edge book, is the missing piece you have been waiting for to reach and impact more people with your message, product or service.\u00a0 To fulfill your life\u2019s purpose and step into your vision, NOW!\u00a0 Through this engaging and interactive book, you will learn the tools and systems you need to make it easier than ever before to grow your business, while being in alignment with who you truly are. .<\/p>\n Lisa is offering us a special bonus!<\/strong><\/p>\n If you go to her website www<\/a>.<\/a>stepituporgetoutoftheway<\/a>.<\/a>com<\/a> <\/a> you can get your copy of Lisa\u2019s new book Step It Up or Get Out of the Way<\/em><\/strong>, <\/em>AND you can also get 4 High-Impact Training Videos<\/em> that reveal 22\u00a0 Biggest Mistakes, Detours, and Unexpected Surprises that over 50 Entrepreneurs Made in Growing Their Business. <\/em> Plus a bonus videos The 7 Core Fundamentals Every Business Expert Wishes They Knew from the Start!<\/em> You will get all that for the price of the book just for reading this post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This month I’m pleased to be able to share with you a series of guest posts by author, speaker, and business coach Lisa Peck.<\/p>\n Today Lisa talks about the ways many of us derail our own businesses.<\/p>\n Are You Derailing Your Business?<\/p>\n By Lisa J. 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