What is essential before your business can grow to the next level

Surely you’ve seen the headlines:

“5 Steps to Building a Million Dollar Business”

“How to make a million dollars in 30 days”

or what about

“How to Make a Million Dollars Online in 2 Minutes” (Yes, this is the title of a YouTube video!)

What comes to mind when you see those headlines? Are they true, or a bunch of nonsense?

What if I told you both would be correct?

Now, before you hit the delete or back button, hear me out.

Since COVID-19 hit, I’ve been doing a lot of self-discovery work. I read Vishen Lakhiani’s (Founder of Mindvalley) books and took his Be Extraordinary program, attended a Mindset Retreat, and learned a lot about my personality type through Dressing Your Truth, to name a few.

Through all of this deep-dive work, I’ve gotten a lot of clarity and “aha” moments, especially with this whole concept of achieving multi-million dollar success.

And just so you know, one of the characteristics of my particular personality type (Type 4 if you follow Carol Tuttle), is sharing the knowledge I receive and believe. It’s in my DNA so I can’t help it!

Let’s go back to having a million dollar business…

The good news: it’s achievable.

The disappointing news: It takes a lot of hard work and luck, or a lot of soul searching and mind shifting.

Yes, I know. I said the word “mentality”.

It has been around for a long time.

Preached by many trainers, Law of Attraction gurus, etc.

Are you open to hearing more about why this term keeps coming up when talking about success? Great, keep reading.

Let me ask you in the context of your business:

• Have you ever told yourself that you can’t afford something your business might really need and benefit from?

• Have you ever considered taking a program, getting further education, or enrolling with a high-level mastermind and immediately closing the idea once you knew the cost?

• What about when you first started your business? Did you try to do everything yourself in an effort to save money and/or not have to spend money to get started?

• Have you ever hit a roadblock in your business that made you want to close completely or go back to doing something more familiar?

Chances are you have experienced this more than once. Probably many times. Hell, I know I do! Just the other day I saw a promotion for a high profile corporate event that I thought would be the perfect place to attend…until I saw the price.

Why is that?

It is our mentality.

I recently attended a mindset retreat hosted by Fabienne Fredrickson. I went to this retreat without any real problems or problems that I needed to solve. I was more curious than anything, I thought so made they have mindset issues that need to be resolved, they would come to the surface at this event.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was doing quite well! But there was room for improvement (isn’t that always the case?).

I also discovered what a huge hurdle this was for many struggling entrepreneurs.

Enormously huge.

There were many attendees fighting for:

• Get your first paying customers

• Charge enough to cover your business costs

• Make your first $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 in a month

• You believe you could reach lofty goals like earning $1,000,000 in your business

• Think of something bigger than earning enough to pay the bills and nothing else.

• Be visible and known as an expert in your industry

• And so on and so on…

Well, guess what they all had in common?

Limiting beliefs.

It turns out that our limiting beliefs come from messages (whether false or real) that we internalized before we reached the age of 7. Check out the following video of Dr. Bruce Lipton explaining this phenomenon.

Growing up, the biggest one I heard was the classic “Money doesn’t grow on trees!”

(When, in fact, this is quite untrue: there are plenty of very successful businesses that require growing fruit or nuts on trees!)

If I had a dollar every time I heard that phrase, I would already be a millionaire.

I’m not even going to try to explain this complex issue, let alone offer solutions to this insidious issue here, as there are plenty of people much more qualified than me who can help with that. (If you want to find a solution, please reach out and I can offer you some recommendations.)

But my hope and intention was to make you think to see if there is any possibility that you may be experiencing limiting beliefs through deep-seated mental programming.

Programming that goes back years, that could be preventing you from even believing Is it possible that you can boast a million dollar business one day?

As Fabienne Fredrickson said during the retreat:

“You’re too smart to be the only thing standing in your way. The more you get out of your way, the more you show up, the more people you serve, the more money you make.”

Here’s the thing. Going back to the headlines I shared earlier. They could be from legitimate sources from people who really know how to get their business to that million dollar level.

And they could also be scammers counting on those who are desperate and willing to pay anything to get the promised pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Behind that marketing curtain is someone who is making a million dollars convincing desperate people that they have the answer. The solution that will make everything happen easily and effortlessly.

The problem is:

a) They are not really millionaires. they want you to think They are using those private jets and driving expensive cars but actually they just rented or borrowed those props for their photo shoot or video which will be used to market their products.

b) They are selling you the product, program or system that worked for them. That doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you.

c) Unless you address mental blocks first, it is very difficult to achieve the success that they promise.

Bottom line: You can’t really be successful until those mindset blocks are resolved.

“Willpower doesn’t work more than 5%, because it comes from consciousness. The current state of your mindset is causing the current results. Subconscious programming (beliefs) drives your behavior, habits, and actions.” fabiana fredrickson

Now, this is not to say that everyone has mindset problems.

There are many very successful entrepreneurs who were blessed by not hearing or internalizing those messages when they were young, or by not doing the necessary work to get those blocks out of the way of their success.

So if you think there are some limiting beliefs below the surface that are blocking your success or your million dollar business, I encourage you to explore the resources I’ve compiled below.

Let’s remove the “probably not” from the title of this article and move forward together!

For the success of your business,

Suzanne

Recommended Resources

• Book: The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms (amzn.to/35yfy5R) by Vishen Lakhiani
• Book: Embrace Your Magnificence: Get Out of Your Own Way and Live a Richer, Fuller, More Abundant Life (https://amzn.to/35wprBc) by Fabienne Fredrickson
• Article: Leadership Success Tips for Small Business Entrepreneurs (evisionmedia.ca/leadership-success-tips-small-business-entrepreneurs/)
• Dr. Bruce Lipton explains HOW WE ARE PROGRAMMED AT BIRTH (www.YouTube.com/watch?v=7TivZYFlbX8&list=PLDyzuA46kvJl877npx3kJX4SOYew_7GVr&index=158)
• Fabienne Fredrickson Boldheart Business (Mindset Retreats are twice a year) (boldheart.com/ )
• Mindvalley’s Be Extraordinary Quest Program (https://www.mindvalley.com/be-extraordinary/)
• Book: It’s Just My Nature! A guide to knowing and living your true nature (amzn.to/35yg4Rl)
• Free Course: Live Your Truth Beginner’s Guide (www.liveyourtruth.com/195.HTML ) There are 4 Types of Beauty, which one are you?