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It’s June! How is this year already half over?! I cannot wrap my brain around that. I really think I was sipping champagne waiting for the clock to strike midnight bringing in the new year not that long ago. Wait, that wasn’t me. On New Years Eve, I was playing some old skool Mario Bros. at midnight with my kids not actually believing I had actually stayed awake to see midnight. Yes, that sounds a lot more like me.

But it has gone fast, hasn’t it? So, let’s make the rest of the year killer. It will be gone before we know it. Which leads me to talk about making the best of our businesses and how we can move up to the next level of success…

I was reading a story the other day. No, I think I was watching a video from a business coach type lady. I turned 40 a few days back and now my mind is a slippin’. Anyway, she was talking about how she was stuck making the same amount of money each year. And no matter what she did she couldn’t move up into a higher income bracket. Each year she made the same exact amount. This got my attention because I remember being at the same exact place in my own business. I could make x amount of dollars but not more. And I tried different things somewhat but honestly I was stuck, frustrated, and the frustration led me to being more stuck.

So, I started really diving into investigating what was causing me to be stuck. I read books, watched YouTube videos on business, invested in business coaches, paid attention to inspirational life leaders, and more. I also started to really become aware to my thought patterns, my internal dialogue, and how I thought about my business – and my life.

I came to the conclusion that I was getting in my own way in two ways:

  1. I had no goal system in place. So no matter what I tried they were more like flailing attempts to find success rather than a systematic plan with steps, trackable actions, and end results.
  2. I was frustrated with my business (and parts of my life) and as a result I had some really negative ways I talked about my business (and parts of my life) but I didn’t really recognize it until I started to pay attention to it.

My business wasn’t thriving for lack of me working – I was “hustling” (anyone else sick of that word, yet?). I worked a LOT but on the wrong things.

If you can relate to any of this, then hang with me. Because over the next month or so, I am going to start showing you where my business changed up big time for me. I started fixing these two areas that I uncovered (the no goal system problem and the ‘stinkin’ thinkin’ issue) and not to be too overly dramatic but a WHOLE new world opened up to me. A Whole new way of doing business and doing life opened up to me to be precise.

So, what about you? Are you working on a small business and you tend to be frustrated with the lack of sales, the amount of effort you are putting into your work, and you feel like it’s going nowhere? I have so been there and it’s not a great place to be. Am I rolling in the dough now and have no cares in the world? No but I have figured a few things out that have led me to a point where I can rely solely on my income to provide for myself, my kids, my two dogs, and two ducks.  (Yay because this girl does not want or have a need for a Sugar Daddy!). None of it happened overnight but it happened and for that I am enthusiastically, eternally grateful. I am honored to share with you. Go strong powerful women who are rocking their businesses and their lives!  Aren’t quite there? Like I said, hang with me. I want to see you get there, too.

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