I bet you started your business to make a profit, right? Or maybe to make a difference or create a lifestyle. But did you go into business to grow yourself? Were you sitting around a job one day saying, “Hey…I think I’ll take on one of the biggest personal growth transformation experiences there is…I’ll start a business!” More than likely you probably never had that conversation with yourself. And if you are like most of us, by now you have bumped into more than your fair share of the ‘stuff’ or what I call mindset traps.

In my last newsletter I covered the Five Mindset Traps of an Entrepreneur. You can click on the following links to refresh your memory of those posts:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.  That will give you an overview of what they look like and what the cost is.

In this series of blog posts, I’m going to share some strategies to break free of these pesky little patterns that can be standing between you and your success.

The Five Traps are:
• I have to do it all myself
• People won’t pay higher fees
• Everyone already knows this
• It needs to be perfect
• I don’t have enough _______

Ok, and as a reminder – if you see yourself in some of these traps, be gentle. No judgment, no shame….just awareness and action. So as you read this stuff, the best thing to do is to commit to doing something different. Sort of like that old Seinfeld show where George did “Opposite Day.” ?

With that bit of context, I’m excited to dive into strategies that will address Trap #1 in my next blog post. Definitely keep an eye out because these are simple things you can do that will have an immediate impact on your happiness and bottom line.

Blessings,
Therese

I’ve been sharing with you some common Mindset Traps that keep entrepreneurs from having a business that makes them happy and profitable.  Trap #1 was “I have to do it all myself” and Trap #2 was “People won’t pay higher fees.” You can click on the links above to read the first two posts in this series.

And now let’s look a little deeper and finish off our list…

#3 – Everyone already knows this
Oh, the dreaded, “What makes me so special” mindset trap. Just because things come easy to us or we do it naturally, we can’t believe that people would value it, or even need it. The key trap here is that you are undervaluing what you bring, thinking that since it’s so easy or natural for you, or maybe Tony Robbins talked about it on a tape years ago that what you offer is old news! Not true my friend…..But believing this will cause you to pull back, dim your light and not stand in the place of being the rock star that you are.

#4 –It needs to be perfect
Guess what…the folks who struggle with #1 almost always struggle with this one as well. I had a coach once who said these three magical words: DONE IS GOOD! Meaning, just get it done and out and refine later. But the mindset trap that we sometimes fall in is those little places where we don’t quite feel good enough on the inside, so if our stuff on the outside is perfect, then maybe no one will know. This isn’t to say that you should do schlocky work, but the trap here is that I see too many entrepreneurs holding their ideas back and refining, refining, and refining because secretly they are afraid it’s not good enough. The trap is that they think they are working on something, but the reality is that they are scared to get it out in the world. Next issue we’ll talk about what criteria to use to blast thru this monkey in your mind problem.

#5 – I don’t have enough _______ to make this a successful business
Oh, if I had a dollar for every time a client tried to justify their not being able to grow more because they didn’t have enough education, training, money, help, etc……

Mostly this trap comes from the underlying (and often unconscious belief) that we aren’t quite enough. This looks like the person who says, “If I just go to one more work shop, or read one more book, or follow so and so’s new blueprint, THEN I’ll be ok.” See the trap?

It’s like we are running on the hamster wheel, always going, but not getting anywhere because that bugger of “who I am isn’t good enough, so something outside of me will fix this.” I was shocked to hear that Ted Turner (the gazillionaire) never felt like his accomplishments were good enough. So he did more and more, purchased more and more, and then realized that inside this mogul was a scared little boy who really just wanted to please his dad, and he never could. By realizing that, he was able to stop the ‘chase’ of this feeling and finally just be content with what he had.

There ya go. Five mindset traps. And in the next weeks I’ll give you the solutions. In the meantime, feel free to post on my blog (http://www.happyinbusiness.com/blogfree-articles/) your comments and any additional traps you see.

Blessings,

Therese.