Hello! I'm Michele

So you want to make an impact

So you want to make an impact, easy right? Where do you need to get out of your own way to make that impact? Is it the story that you’re telling yourself?

We teach what we most need to learn

I started my business in 2016, with the desire in my heart to actually start making an impact in businesses, in lives. As a sales rep, while I work in an industry that was always making an impact, I never personally felt like I was making a difference. It’s one of my values to make an impact and to make people feel appreciated.

Prior to our sale reorganization that gave me the freedom to start my business, I already had made the decision to start a business, when and if something happened to my job. Heck, I even told my husband about it, but I didn’t do anything I was way too comfortable.

Our Mind Likes Comfortable

Are you like I was in the beginning? You have big dreams to start an online business or you’ve started a side hustle but you’re not making the impact you imagined in your mind. Do you find yourself wondering why is this so easy for others and to you feels as if you’re just getting off and on the struggle bus?

Our minds like us to feel comfortable and safe. It takes courage to step out of our comfort zone to become an entrepreneur.

It’s our mind clutter that makes us uncomfortable. Take time to quiet the mind clutter and get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

Challenge yourself

This is exactly what I had to do at the beginning of my journey, every day I had to challenge myself to get out of my comfort zone. To take the risk and know I’ll be okay.

Heck, I’m still doing it every single time I record a YouTube video. I questioned myself how could you sell hundreds of thousands of dollars in software, but you can’t sell your services?

It became clear to me one day, it was easy to be told no selling software, I didn’t create that but it was my own sweat and tears that they were saying no too and that felt like a personal rejection.

Now what? I had a good idea of what was holding me back from making an impact.

Do the inner work

This is where I had to go deep and do the inner work, I had to figure out where these feelings were coming from. If I wasn’t able to get over the feeling of personal rejection, I’d be stuck in the same place not making a true impact.

Shh…

A simple shh, to yourself, when your mind starts to fire off at you; alert, alert danger ahead you’re stepping into the feelings of unsure and uncomfortable.

It’s our mind clutter that makes us uncomfortable.

You know the Albert Einstein quote:
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

This is truer than true.

It’s our thoughts that get us in trouble

Think about the reason why you do not want to do it, whatever “it” maybe, what is the reason why you want to do it? What is the purpose?

Still, struggling?

No problem, let’s change the story. I want you to think about a time when you stepped out of your comfort zone to make an impact.

Got it? Good.

How did you feel? What did you do differently to get out of your head?

Still?

I’ve got you if you’re still struggling to change that story. What if, you do nothing and stay not ready?

That doesn’t feel good.

You may not be ready, but you need to be willing.

Start small when you’re not ready to give it your all.

Final Thought

You have to lead yourself before you can make an impact on others.

This is one that I wish I would have discovered a lot earlier in my online business journey, oh well I discovered it when I was ready to embrace it.

You have to lead yourself first. You have to be the shining example for others.

In your mind, do you see yourself as a leader, if not why? How can you change that story?

We hear, lead by example. Do that, be the example so that others can feel your impact.

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Little Side Note

Albert Einstein quote:
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

Your stuck and small is not making an impact, it’s only dimming your sparkle.
It’s one of my values to make an impact and to make people feel appreciated.
Do you find yourself wondering why is this so easy for others and to you feels as if you’re just getting off and on the struggle bus?
It’s our mind clutter that makes us uncomfortable.
Get out of the comfort zone, take the risk, and know you’ll be okay.
If you’re not able to get over the feeling of personal rejection, you’ll be stuck in the same place not making a true impact.
Shh yourself, when your mind starts to fire off at you; alert, alert danger ahead you’re stepping into the feelings of unsure and uncomfortable.
Think about your reason and what is your purpose?
Still, struggling? Think about a time when you stepped out of your comfort zone to make an impact. What did you do and how did you feel afterward?
I’ve got you if you’re still struggling to change that story. What if, you do nothing and stay not ready?
Start small when you’re not ready to give it your all.
You have to lead yourself first. You have to be the shining example for others.
Find a coach, mentor, or accountability partner.

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What happens if you remove the not?

by Michele | Online Business

I cannot, I will not. I do not have time, I do not understand. I'm not sure how to do it. I'm not sure anybody wants it. What happens if you remove the not?

But really in the end any excuse will do.

So when you're not sure how to do something, do you dig in and figure out a solution? Or do you start to list off all of your nots?

What happens if you remove the not?

What if you take the not completely out of the equation? What if for one week you remove the not from your vocabulary? What would happen?

Just try it out, as if the word not wasn’t even an option. You are capable of so much more than you give ourselves credit for.

Not brave enough to remove it?

If you’re not brave enough to remove it for a week. How about, try this one instead, figure out how many times in a day that you limit yourself with self-talk that you're not capable?

Any idea?

How many times does your self-talk contain you’re not able or you cannot do something? Do you have any idea, track it, promise to pay people a dollar if they hear you say the word not or limit yourself in any way.

Tracking it will cause you to pay attention to how many times you were putting the label on yourself that you cannot do something.

Change the story

What if you change that story by eliminating the not from your vocabulary and removing the not from your mindset, what would shift for you, what would change for you?

Instead, your self-talk will be filled with; I can, I will, I have time, I do understand, I am sure how to do it and I am sure somebody will want this.

That my friend is how you begin to shift and change the story. Those stories are the difference makers, those are the ways that you can reframe it.

Tell Yourself What to Do

Changing the story, just tells your mind exactly what you want. Your self-talk needs to be shifted into I will, I can, I have time, I understand.

It has to be important

Say it's important to you, believe it’s important to you. If these are truly your dreams and your goals they cannot be more important to somebody else than they are to you.

You are the one to drive it, you need to be the one to make it happen. Because there's not going to be anybody else out there that cares more about your project, that cares more about your goals, that cares more about your dreams, that cares about your vision, and that cares more about your WHY there's not going to be anybody out there that cares more than you.

Get it out of there, all the I cannot, I'm not enough, whatever it is that you have cycling through in your brain.

You need to reframe that story, you need to think of it as I may not know right now, however, I can learn. I don't have time right now, but I can find the time. I may not understand the solution now, but I will look for the solution. It's just taking that time to recenter yourself around the things that you want, instead of trying to recenter yourself on the things you don't want.

It's changing the story in your mind so you know exactly what you want to do and why you want to do it. Now go get’em, tiger, I believe in you, and I appreciate you.

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Little Side Of Encouragement

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

What if for one week you remove the not from your vocabulary? What would happen?
You are capable of so much more than you give ourselves credit for.
How many times does your self-talk contain you’re not able or you cannot do something?
Tracking it will cause you to pay attention to how many times you were putting the label on yourself that you cannot do something.
What if you change that story by eliminating the not from your vocabulary
Changing the story, just tells your mind exactly what you want.
If these are truly your dreams and your goals they cannot be more important to somebody else than they are to you.
Get it out of there, all the I cannot, I'm not enough, whatever it is that you have cycling through in your brain.
Fill your self-talk with; I can, I will, I have time, I do understand, I am sure how to do it and I am sure somebody will want this.

Whoa, guess I had a lot to say on this subject. As thanks for reading! Wish you success.

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Feel like giving up on your goal?

by Michele | Online Business, Planning-Organization-Productivity

Do you feel like giving up on your goal? What do we do in those times when feeling like giving up is a better solution than actually trying to push through and reach your goal?

Friend, you are not alone we all have times like those. We all have days like that, heck I just had a week like that.

Embrace how your feeling

Everything your doing feels hard and not easy. If you’re feeling that way right now, it's okay to embrace the feeling. It's not gonna last forever, you’ll come out better on the other side.

The next time those feelings start to creep in on your momentum, here are a few ideas on how you can resist that feeling of wanting to give up and not continue to move forward towards your goal.

Look for the easy

When your days or weeks feel hard and you’re uncertain of the next best action or move take a step back and look at it from a different angle.

Right now at this moment, reaching my goal feels hard. So the opposite of hard, obviously, is easy.

What are you working on the feels hard? Or are you not working on anything at all, are you just looking at your goal as unattainable?

The question to ask is how can I move it from feeling hard to over to feeling easy.

Do I need to break it down a bit more into a few simpler action steps?

Let me give you an example. You’re creating an online course. You have record module one as your first task.

Ugh. Of course, that feels hard, that one action has a LOT of little actions that need to take place before you can record module one.

For example here are some of the small actions you can break this action item down into.

Draft an outline of the main points
Add sub-points to the main points on the outline
Pick a slide template – Canva has a ton by the way
Create three slides

Break it down

Breaking the big lofty goals into smaller action steps and breaking them down again is a fantastic way to make it feel easier and prevents you from throwing in the towel on your goal.

What’s the story?

Friends, lean in for this one. Does it feel really hard or is that just the story that you’re telling yourself, in your own mind?

Is your mind, telling you it has to be done this way or that way, or stop doing it that way. Or maybe it worse. Maybe your mind is telling you a negative enough story. They are the worst, You’re not smart enough, know enough. Blah, blah, blah.

Stop that storytelling, it’s only hard because that is the story your telling yourself. And that, Friend, is what makes it feel hard.

Sometimes we just need to step back, and really identify that it’s our own self that is causing us to get in our own way to self-sabotage.

You know what, sometimes things feel, quick and easy and other times the struggle is real.

To get out of that mindset, it's just a matter of how to shift that struggle into something that's, well not a struggle anymore.

How do you get out of the struggle mindset?

One of the best ways, if you’ve followed me for any amount of time I'm sure this is gonna be a shocker 😂, take pen to paper and write it out. Mind sweep all the particular points that feel like a struggle, next write down specifically what feels hard.

Now, ask what is the next thing. One small action to move forward.

Today, if this one little thing was done, it would give momentum towards the goal.

Friend, do you know what?

Sometimes, that one thing is just making the decision to make a decision. 🤯mind-blowing I know.

Step into the action with a decision, this one decision may be what is need to get into the flow and excitement to figure out the next small action. Causing a snowball effect to get that progressive movement towards your goal.

Give yourself grace

Make sure to give yourself grace, when things feel hard when you’re not wanting to do something, and your stuck feeling that struggle.

It's truly taking the time to evaluate why you feel that way. Why you’re thinking this way.

Step back and get out of your own mind. Because the problem is, and I speak from experience, we get so much into our own minds.

It becomes really difficult for us to step away and see that there is a different route.

If you're struggling on your own to gain a different perspective, chat with somebody, find a business bestie or accountability partner.

Find somebody to talk through your roadblocks when it becomes hard, someone that has your back when it becomes hard.

I think I've mentioned before that I do have a group called the Clarity Muse Mentorship, and if you need a cheerleader, or you need help working through these or you need help with setting up your goals or moving past all of these mindset things. Join. We'd love to have you in there. And as always, if you have any questions, go ahead and leave me a comment. I appreciate you and have a wonderful day.

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Little Side Note

If you are constantly getting in your own way. Check out this article from Yes Supply on Self-Sabotaging.

✁ Just a Snippet

Here is just a snippet of the important points, you know for the skimmer in you. 🤪

When giving up feels like a better solution than trying to push through and achieve your goals.
Everything your doing feels hard and not easy.
The question to ask is how can I move it from feeling hard to over to feeling easy.
Do I need to break it down a bit more into a few simpler action steps?
Is your mind, telling you it has to be done this way or that way, or stop doing it that way.
Step back and get out of your own mind.

Check out these other posts for inspiration if you feel like giving up on your goal?

Simple Action to Mapping Your Next Project

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