Who is really stopping you from taking your business to the next level?

You know, the cliché response of you are stopping your own success is more subtle than it seems.

• You may not want the next level of money or success because you have created a story around what that will cost you. Often this is hidden under several layers of consciousness.
• You may be comfortable talking about a certain level of money. The only difference between $5,000 and $10,000 a day or a speech, is the decision to say 10 instead of 5. I know there is a little more to it than this….but not really.
• You have not invested the same amount in you that you expect others to invest with you. Think about what you charge per day; when was the last time you paid someone that amount for a similar exchange?

It's easy to acknowledge that you are stopping you, but how and where is not so easy to work out. Look for the subtle shifts, not grand gestures, as being key to growing to the next stage.

I know because I choose to be challenged by this on a daily basis.

Get out of your own way!

M@

Success versus Happiness

One of the challenges for those who like to achieve is reconciling success and happiness. Most contemporary success formulas, science or systems have an element of drive or doing. Most of the happiness schools of thought talk about being present and living in the moment and being.

This creates a clash...or does it?

Success requires a sense of urgency, a drive to complete a need to fulfill. Indeed it often places satisfaction or happiness in the future somewhere. When we achieve x we will be truly happy.

Happiness on the other hand requires a sense of satisfaction, completeness and being. There is nothing to achieve as you have it all around you.

And that's the challenge when you set them up in opposition, you get lost in either domain.
It's not an either/or proposition, it's an and/also one. It's about walking and chewing gum. Set the goals and intent but then let go and enjoy the process you put in place.

The key idea to mesh these two worlds is to study or consider manifestation as an idea. It's about intent and action. Or put another way, you can pray as much as you like but you have to move your feet as well.

M@

Matt Church