Believing in Your Business Before It Exists

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listening to episode 30, one of

burning brightly believing in

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your business before it exists.

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Welcome back to the podcast, everybody

today, we're going to talk about an

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interesting concept and that is how

to believe in our business before we

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actually have a business, something

we may not have considered yet.

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Right.

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we know that belief is crucial

in building this business.

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So how do we get there?

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If doesn't even exist yet,

it's just an idea, right?

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Well, first of all, let's talk about.

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Being women of faith being Christians.

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We know how important faith is.

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We have learned to nourish it.

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We've learned to hold fast to

it and we know how to believe in

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God, even if we can't see him.

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We learned how to communicate

with them, how to feel his love.

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We're able to.

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in him because we have

this thing called faith.

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But if we need to believe in

something that doesn't even exist

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yet, how do we go about doing that?

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How do we use some of this

faith that we've developed?

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And put it into a business

that we want to build.

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But we haven't built yet.

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What if it's just still an idea?

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I personally believe that a business

is like a living, breathing entity.

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It is like an animal.

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And as we're building it, we have to

believe that it's going to succeed.

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But it's hard to imagine

before it's even formed.

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Right.

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It's kind of like if you were to

make career and life plans for

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a baby that you haven't had yet.

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You don't know their personality.

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You don't know their talents.

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You don't know their struggles.

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You don't know anything about them.

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It's going to be really difficult to

go find a future spouse for them or

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decide what career is best for them.

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If the baby isn't even born,

you don't even know them yet.

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So, how is it possible for us to believe

in something that only exists in our mind?

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Well first, let me just

say that it is possible.

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Every entrepreneur does it, whether they

acknowledge that they're doing it or not.

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But I'm going to talk about today and the.

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terms of spiritual creation.

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Okay.

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So I've talked about that before,

a little recap of what I mean.

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Everything that exists physically

in the physical realm once existed

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spiritually, or just in concept for.

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So think about your home

before it was built.

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There were blueprints made for it.

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There was a plan before anybody

even purchased the first nail.

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They had plans for it.

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If you want to make dinner,

you look up a recipe, right?

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There's a concept of it.

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Somebody actually created it

before in, in this case, but there

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is a concept and a plan for it.

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And God himself made plans for his

creation before he actually made it.

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So this is an eternal principle that

we have to plan and make, concept

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of what we want to make before we

can actually make it physically.

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It is so, so critical that we

go through the spiritual or

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conceptual creation phase first.

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Where else we don't know what we're doing.

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We're just kind of flying

by the seat of our pants.

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Without this phase, the

plans never get finalized.

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And your business will be dead

in the water before it starts.

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So make sure that you're making

space for this spiritual creation.

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So, how do we start doing this?

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Well, we start with creating

a vision and this is like my

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absolute favorite part of business.

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It is dreaming.

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So if it's safe to close your

eyes, if you're not driving.

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Then do so do this little activity

with me and if you're driving,

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then do it later, but just close

your eyes for just a moment.

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We're just going to take just a few

seconds to think about your business.

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We're going to look

forward about five years.

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And look at this living, breathing

thing that we've created and

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just examine it for a minute.

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Are you there?

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So five years from now, the year is 2028.

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You have this business and you love it.

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Where do you spend your time

working on this business?

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Is it in an office is in your

home, is in the living room.

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How much time do you

spend on your business?

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Hourly daily.

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Weekly how much time?

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What does your working space look like?

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What's the color of the wall.

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What kind of computer do you use?

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What does your family

do when you're working?

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How do you feel about your

business in five years?

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How many clients or customers

do you have regularly?

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And how many people are you

helping every single year?

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How much money do you make per month?

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How about per year?

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How often do you take vacations

with your family and how

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flexible is your work schedule?

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Do you have a team that you

manage or maybe just an assistant?

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How do you feel about them?

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What are your relationships with them?

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So there, there are no

rules about this vision.

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Just dream.

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Just imagine it can be exactly the way you

want it, because we're just making it up.

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Don't be realistic.

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Don't shut anything down.

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Anything is allowed and anything

is possible at this point.

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Just dream it.

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Spend a little bit of time here today.

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And then.

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Revisit this place as often as possible.

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Now, if you are naturally a dreamer,

this is going to be really fun.

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I do it when I'm just out and about, I'll

be driving my car and I'll just start

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dreaming of my business in a few years.

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This is going to happen and

this is going to happen.

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It's so fun for me.

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If you are more realistic and down

to earth, this might be a challenge.

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My husband is not like this, and I'm

always like, let's dream about our future.

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He's like, I don't know

what you're talking about.

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Life is fine.

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Just the way it is.

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This is not his personality.

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So this might be a challenge for you

if you're more like that, but don't

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judge yourself for any of it, whether

it's hard or easy, or you're dreaming

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of ridiculous fantastical things, or

you can't dream very far in the future.

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That's okay.

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It's all.

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Okay.

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You'll get better as you practice.

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And just embrace all the dreams that

are coming and start right there.

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All right now that you've

experienced this vision.

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Guess what.

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Your business has begun, whether you've

done a single thing towards it or not.

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Maybe you're several

years into it already.

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But the vision is the start of

that spiritual conceptual creation.

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You have started creating it,

even if it's only in your mind.

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And these plans, this

stream is so essential.

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You can go back to it at any

time to change it or tweak it.

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If you'd like to, sometimes my

business starts to develop and

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it changes into something that I

didn't anticipate, but I love it.

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And so I incorporate that into my dream.

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Or sometimes it will start to turn

into something I didn't anticipate.

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And I don't like, and then I

will shift my business to be more

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in alignment with that dream.

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Sometimes I visited just to

be inspired all over again.

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Maybe I've had a hard week or something.

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Didn't work out the way I anticipated.

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I just visit that dream again to think.

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Okay, it's coming.

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It's still coming.

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As an analogy, think for a second,

about going on an incredible vacation.

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Sometimes the planning and the

prep part of a vacation is not fun.

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You're saving and.

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And finding a babysitter and

booking tickets and packing and,

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and kind of annoying things, right.

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To prep for it.

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Sometimes I find myself getting irritated

that I'm not yet on the vacation.

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But when I'm in that place, I

remind myself that it's going

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to be worth it because the

vacation is going to be amazing.

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I don't dream of the airport or the

Uber to the hotel or how I'm going

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to have to take my shoes off at TSA.

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I dream about the destination.

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I dream of lying on the beach

with my sweetheart or sipping hot

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cocoa in front of a blazing fire.

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If it's the winter time, right.

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I dream of the end result.

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Because that's where most of the

joy and the inspiration comes from.

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So, this is what we're

doing for our business.

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Don't dream of what

you're doing next week.

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That's less inspiring

dream of the end result.

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Okay.

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And don't hold back on

how wonderful you make it.

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You can make it as

wonderful as fantastical.

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As unrealistic as humanly

possible, you get to decide.

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And this spiritual creation

in your head will fuel.

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Everything.

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Without it, I've noticed that I can only

really see one to two steps ahead of me.

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I just think I'll do this

thing and I'll do this thing.

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And then I get kind of stuck.

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Like where do I go from here?

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Because I don't have the end goal in mind.

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I don't even know where I'm headed.

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That big dream fuels everything.

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Okay.

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Now once we have that big

dream, what do we do next?

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Well, the next step is to pay

attention to how you personally

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show up in that future business.

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So I like to think about how pretty my

office is and how my kids are always

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super quiet when I'm trying to work.

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And everybody respects my work dive,

and I make a bunch of money and all

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these things, but then I need to

really hyper focus on what I personally

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am doing, especially emotionally.

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Am I taking things very seriously, too.

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Seriously?

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Not seriously enough.

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Probably just the right amount.

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Right?

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I'm having lots of fun, loving

every minute of it, which again,

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might not be super realistic,

but I'm going to dream it.

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myself how enjoyable is

the day-to-day stuff.

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I'm sure there are things that I don't

love, but I pushed my way through.

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And there's plenty that I do.

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How often does that future meet?

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Celebrate my accomplishments.

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Probably pretty often.

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That's what I want to do.

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That's what my future self wants to do.

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So ask yourself how you personally are

showing up in that future business.

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And then start doing those things today.

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Start taking things just

the right amount of serious.

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Start having lots of fun in your business.

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Start enjoying the day-to-day things.

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Who says that you need a six

figure business to enjoy every day.

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Nobody says that you get to decide to

show up today how the future you will.

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And this is so empowering every

time I think about it, I just.

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Become this amazing version of

myself, like, oh my gosh, I do

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know how to enjoy my business.

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Oh my goodness.

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I do know how to solve this problem

that I was headed up against because I

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come at it from this future perspective.

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Right.

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You don't have to be profitable

or even have a single client

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to celebrate your wins.

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To acknowledge that you

are doing an amazing work.

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So I want to share this.

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little thing that I do with you guys.

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Whenever I figure out a tricky, tricky.

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of technology or I finish

a business project.

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That's been taking a long time.

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I love to throw my arms up

in the air and just yell.

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Yes.

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Like I'm a, five-year-old

on a soccer field.

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My family probably thinks I'm crazy.

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Anybody who hears me thinks I'm nuts.

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But that is the business owner.

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I want to be.

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I want to be the person

who acknowledges that.

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She just did something awesome.

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That she just figured something out

that was driving her crazy for awhile.

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And so I do it and sometimes

I'll go tell my husband about it.

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Sometimes I'll tell a friend about it.

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Sometimes I just pat myself on the back.

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Sometimes I jump up and do a little dance.

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I want to celebrate the tiny wins,

even if it's something as simple as

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figuring out how to use Calendly.

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ask yourself how you want to be in

the future and start doing it today.

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note.

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I also want to be the type of

business owner that celebrates

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God when things go well.

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So don't forget that part.

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I love, love, love to

thank him when things go.

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Right.

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Because I know it's not just me.

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So there's a little side note.

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Friends, there will be a lot that goes

right for you and your business journey.

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So many amazing things.

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You're going to look back and think, oh my

goodness, I can't believe that happened.

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I can't believe that happened.

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I can't believe I did that.

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I can't believe I figured that out.

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So embrace all those things and

embrace how awesome you are.

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However, there will also

be lots that goes wrong.

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That is real life.

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So just embrace that inevitability

and do not let it drag you down.

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Again, think of that future dream.

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And just think when my future self runs

into a tech problem, what does she do?

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Well, she doesn't stop in

the corner for an hour.

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We all experienced the

thing that they go wrong.

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We all experienced the little failures.

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Just learn the lesson and move on.

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Just like your future self will.

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She will not let it drag her down.

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Okay.

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Now, finally the final step in believing

this business before it exists is

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to look for hints of that vision

coming to fruition along the path.

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Now first, that will be hard because

your future self is not, probably not

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anticipating all the work is going to

take to just get your website online.

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I get it.

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If for sure going to have to create

this alignment of your current

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self with your future self, through

just your thoughts and emotions.

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You're going to have to do

a lot of mental work for it.

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Okay.

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But then when you start to see

wins, it will get easier and easier.

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You'll get that first client or

that for those first 10 clients.

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You'll make that first thousand

dollars that first $10,000 or

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you'll go on a business trip.

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And you'll realize, oh

my gosh, I'm like a.

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Big girl, grown-up business woman.

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Holy cow.

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How did this happen?

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Right.

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So acknowledge each of these steps.

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And.

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Own the fact that your

dream is slowly coming true.

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Step by step by step.

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Do not ignore them.

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Do not let them slide under the rug and

just think, well, anybody could do that.

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Maybe, but probably not

because you're awesome.

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So just acknowledge that these

things are slowly building this

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dream that you've had a vision of

for awhile step into it and own it.

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I want to make sure that none of us

lets any accomplishment or milestone

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pass us up without us paying

attention and appreciating that

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we're getting closer each step.

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Think about building your business,

like hiking up a big mountain.

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Sometimes it's beautiful and wonderful.

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Sometimes you're hot and sweaty and

tired and you just want to take a rest.

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But when you see mile markers, do you

get mad that you're not there yet?

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And just frustrated at how long

it's taking to reach your goal?

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I know you embrace all

the steps along the way.

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Right?

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You could excited you think, oh

my gosh, look how far we've come.

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Sometimes you turn around and

look back down the mountain.

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And see, holy cow, I can't

even see our car now.

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We've walked so far.

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That's what I want you to do each

step of the way on your business is

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to look backwards and realize just

how much progress you've made and

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celebrate each win in each milestone.

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Even if it takes longer than we

anticipated, because guess what?

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It will take longer than you anticipate.

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It will take longer than you want.

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Guaranteed.

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own that fact, embrace it and

just celebrate every milestone.

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Remember, the only way to fail at this

business thing is to just give up.

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So if we don't give up, we're

going to succeed eventually.

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So create your vision, tap into

it regularly, give yourself

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something amazing to believe in.

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And if you need to create a

physical manifestation of it, so

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you can build a vision board or

journal about it, put it someplace.

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You can revisit it regularly.

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Don't lose sight of it.

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You need to believe in this incredible

thing you're building even before it

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exists and eventually it will, and

it's going to be an incredible thing.

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So let's go out and have

the rest of our lives.

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All right, friends, we'll

talk to you next week.

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