Get your mind right for success
If you were to climb inside my head sometimes you would be shocked to hear what is going on in there. I would say one of the big reasons people whether it be entrepreneurs or a person trying to lose weight fails is their mind isn’t right.
As you learned in yesterday’s post I told you I had accepted the “One Funnel Away Challenge” and one of the challenges was to find your voice and publish everyday. Well, one of the first pre-week mission assignments was to get your mind right and mentally prepare to succeed. I bought in and went through the lessons and can tell you I came out stronger mentally then when I first stated.
You see it has been almost 10 years since I have started on this journey to create an online business. It all started when I was fired from my job back in 2010. After that event I had decided to never let anyone dictate my overall circumstances and have complete control over my livelihood and financial security. It was then that I embarked on the entrepreneur journey. And let me tell you it has been a journey but like I told my wife the other day I am like a bad who is playing at small little dive bars waiting to finally hit it big
So here is where I circle back and bring back the whole mindset to succeed statement. You see I’m not truly sure in the last ten years I deep down believed that I could succeed at this whole online stuff. Is my mind different know you ask? Well, over the last two years that has been a major area of focus for me and I do believe I have come to believe deep down that I will succeed at building an online business that creates the ideal lifestyle I want for me and my family.
Why has it changed? Great question and I’ll circle back to Russell and his “one funnel away challenge.” I have been following Russell for some time now and it wasn’t until recently he opened up about his entrepreneur journey and his failures. He got really raw and shared how he almost lost everything. I had no clue because all I ever saw was his success and never knew he almost lost it all.
He also goes on to share how he was able to keep his business alive by creating a sales funnel and sell to his list of customers. It was because of this sales funnel he was able to stay afloat and that is when he came up with the slogan you are only one funnel away… When I listened to that I thought to myself I don’t care how many times I have tried to create a success online business and failed because I am only one funnel away from making it. I truly believe that and that is why I have not quit!
How Do I Change My Mindset?
Well I can’t say that I am an expert and that I have “cured” my negative thoughts and thoughts of failure but after studying other successful entrepreneurs and reading on the conscious and subconscious parts to your mind I have come to practice a few things. Now this is not completely researched back and my description is just how I view it know but here it is.
First of all, this is not easy to do but you need to focus on training your subconscious. You see your subconscious mind acts the way it is has been taught through prior life experiences. This happens at a very young age and it believes what the mind tells it. That is why you hear experts talk about how important it is when you are raising kids to give them positive rewarding experiences and not always negative ones. Also, the subconcious mind doesn’t change easily and that is the part that is hard. Especially, if you have health with failure in your life and you constantly don’t believe change is possible.
So, after learning more about that I try and trick or train my subconscious to believe that I am a successful entrepreneur. I do this through affirmations and consistently writing my goals down daily. I learned this from Grant Cardone. If you have not read his book “The 10X Rule” put it on your reading list! Essentially, what he says to do and what I try to practice daily is writing my goals as they have already happened. For example, I write down daily that “I am part of the 2 comma club.” For those that don’t know what the 2 comma club is, it is the award that is given out to a person who uses Click Funnels and makes a million dollars with one sales funnel you have. I also write down that I have a 3 million dollars in net worth. I have other goals that I also write down for my health, family, spiritual but for the sake of this post I am sharing with you my financial goals.
The other method that I also use is to mediate and while mediating I visualize how I feel and act as I would be when my goals become reality. This is fairly new practice but I can tell you that when I go through this process I feel more energized and optimistic about my day.
The final piece to me changing my mindset and setting myself up for success is to stop having a scarcity mindset. I find myself always thinking that I don’t have enough money or that costs too much so I can’t do that. Now don’t take this to mean you don’t have discipline in your spending but more of getting rid of the mindset of I don’t have enough and scarcity. I try to think in terms of abundance and I have plenty.
So, what are things you do to change your mindset and set yourself up for success? Remember I want this to more of two way street and create engagement. Go on over to my Facebook page and leave me a comment on what you do to help get your mind right!
Coach Dave