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Key Points Covered: My personal journey of taking things personally in my business and its negative impact. The realization that taking radical personal responsibility is the key to achieving desired results. My story of transformation through new...
Indecision is a Safety Thing
Choosing to stay in confusion protects you.
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But in order to break free from the ruts and find success, we must confront our discomfort head-on.
Feeling stuck and unfulfilled in your business?
In this episode of the Build Your Business 6 Pack podcast, we dive deep into the reasons why indecision holds us back from making the necessary decisions that can lead to growth and transformation.
Key Points:
- The safety of indecision: We often choose to stay in confusion because it feels safe. By not making a decision, we avoid taking action and therefore shield ourselves from potential discomfort or failure.
- The weight of stories and beliefs: Staying in indecision reinforces the negative stories we tell ourselves. By not committing to a clear path, we add weight to the narratives of “nothing works” or “I’m back at the same place again.”
- The exhausting cycle: Indecision drains us mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The constant what-ifs and lack of forward movement create a state of perpetual exhaustion and limited visibility.
Closing the doors and taking action: Making a decision allows us to close all the metaphorical doors and move forward with vision, momentum, and energy. It is only through commitment that we can truly tap into our potential and achieve results.
Action Steps:
- Identify your fears and desired outcomes: Explore what you’re afraid of or the outcomes you’re trying to avoid by not making a decision. Dig deep to uncover any hidden fears or underlying emotions.
- Recognize the associated emotions: Take note of the emotions you don’t want to feel that are connected to the potential outcomes. Acknowledge how these emotions may be holding you back
- Evaluate the current state: Reflect on why sticking with these emotions and avoiding decision-making is potentially worse than the discomfort you’re experiencing now. Understand that staying in indecision only magnifies your current struggles.
Make the decision:
Armed with a clear understanding of your fears, associated emotions, and the consequences of staying in indecision, make the choice to move forward. Embrace the energy and momentum that comes with taking action.Remember, indecision may feel safe, but it ultimately hinders your growth and success.
Break free from the cycle of confusion and embrace the power of decision-making. Listen to the full episode for more insights and start your journey towards a business breakthrough today.”Indecision is safe. Choosing to stay in confusion protects you. But in order to break free from the ruts and find success, we must confront our discomfort head-on.”
Hey there, my awesome entrepreneurs! It's Louise Cartwright here, ready to pump you up and help you build your business 6 pack. Today, we're diving deep into the mindset of success and questioning everything you thought you knew. It's time to...
Welcome back to another powerful episode of Build Your Business 6 Pack! I'm Louise Cartwright, and today we're diving deep into the incredible journey of business breakthroughs and the pivotal perspective shifts that can take your business to the...
Welcome back to the Build Your Business 6 Pack podcast! I'm your host, Louise Cartwright, and today we are diving deep into the powerful connection between your thought patterns and your business results. Get ready to master your mindset for...
Welcome to another empowering episode of Build Your Business 6 Pack! I'm Louise Cartwright, your guide as we dive deep into transforming our mindset around money and unlocking the true potential of our businesses. Today, we're going to reframe our...
Anytime you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things done consistently over time - Jeff Olsen, The Slight Edge This is where we talk about perhaps the most damaging conditioning of all. The...
It's easy to be excited and motivated at the start, isn't it? It's fun to play and daydream about what you might do, but the minute you decide to start, your brain is going to kick back. We are now on episode number five in this bonus series and I'm...
Care what you think, because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get. Jeff Olsen, The Slight Edge You are a product of your conditioning until you decide to be a creation of your consciousness. I think it was my NLP...
If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of being yourself and reinvent a new self - Joe Dispenza This speaks perfectly to the fact that your business breakthrough is not on the other side of a new strategy, but on the other...
The only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself - Tony Robbins Welcome back to episode 2 in this seven episode series, where I'm introducing you to the Build Your Business 6 Pack formula, my...
Einstein said, "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way". Welcome to episode three in this bonus series where I'm helping you to...
I am so excited to be bringing you the rebrand of the Your Rich Life Podcast. This podcast is where small business owners, like you, can learn how to stop spinning your wheels in the same results, grow your small business and guarantee your success....
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In today’s podcast I’m going to share with you 5 fitness strategies that you can apply in your business right now to make better progress!
- Time Under Tension
- Step Loading
- Results Are in The Range
- Train Multiple Disciplines
- Rest
Each one of these holds information that you can transfer to your business immediately, and that have the ability to make things easier and move things along more quickly.
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Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back. Harvey Mackay
I don’t have enough time
I’m always so busy
I have too much to do
How many times have you heard yourself say this?
And how do you feel when you’re saying this to yourself day in, day out?
“Too much to do and too little time to do it” is such a common, limiting belief.
It’s a “weed in my brain” that I regular have to pull out. In fact, it’s so well rehearsed that I FEEL it before I think it.
In this epsiode I’m going to share with you how:
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I’m too busy/I have too much to do is a LACK model
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Why it’s creating the results you don’t want
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What I’m doing about it when that thought comes up for me
I’m also going to share the Model i’m running when i’m telling myself I don’t have enough time.
IIf we maintain a broken and habitual thought (brushing it under the carpet or trying to out think/out work it), it will continue to create unresourceful feelings and culminate in no/disappointing results.
Truth is we are ALL running out of time and we ALL have 24 hours in a day.
So why is it so hard for us to allocate and invest our time wisely? In this episdoe I’m sharing with you an “umbrella” reason that I see over and over again with my clients and in my communities.
As always, I’ll share a “homework” activity so that you don’t just keep taking on more information, you USE it and create TRANSFORMATION
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What if you honoured the season you were in?
How would treat yourself differently?
How would you talk to yourself differently?
Right now, I’m very much in a season that I’m unfamiliar with. And I want to share that experience with you in the hope that it will help you recognise and journey through yours.
What I’ve noticed, is that people are almost totally disconnected from the season that they’re in.
Because we’ve been taught to “get on with it”; “be strong” or just accept that it’s part of life.
So let me start with a quote:
“We all know that if the seasons were the same, there would be no growth. We know that without winter there would be no spring. We know that without frosts there would be no bulbs and without the monsoon there would be no rice harvest. In the same way, we also know that without sorrow there would be no joy. Without pain there would be no healing. I think that’s precisely where the beauty comes in. It comes in through the fruit of the seasons. He has indeed made everything beautiful in its time.” ― Naomi Reed, My Seventh Monsoon: A Himalayan Journey Of Faith And Mission
I believe that my current season started Feb 2020, when I was in the room when the Dr told my dad his cancer care would now be palliative. It was a slow motion experience. I couldn’t see my dads face, but I could see my mum looking at my dad. I looked across at my twin sister and in that moment it was as if I could feel everybody’s reaction all in one go.
I believe my current season is the “grande finale” of the last 3 years and it finds me navigating the spectrum of emotions – sometimes in one day. From starting the day feeling clear and confident to ending it feeling like I have no idea what I’m doing with my life – and a tonne of tears inbetween.
Anxiety still visits and there are days where I have to coach myself out of bed.
I find it harder to maintain motivation, I get very stressed by being on social media and my head feels empty a lot of the time – not helpful at all for content and marketing.
I wanted to share ALL of this with you because I value transparency. If I’m experiencing this, I know I’m not alone. And If I can help even one person with this episode, it will be worth it.
ONCE YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR SEASON, ASK YOURSELF WHAT YOU NEED
Before I finishup with today’s simple and powerful homework, here’s a quote from an incredible book that I’m re-reading in this season – Letting Go….
“Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it. The first step is to allow yourself to have the feeling without resisting it, venting it, fearing it, condemning it, or moralizing about it. It means to drop judgment and to see that it is just a feeling. The technique is to be with the feeling and surrender all efforts to modify it in any way. Let go of wanting to resist the feeling. It is resistance that keeps the feeling going. When you give up resisting or trying to modify the feeling, it will shift to the next feeling and be accompanied by a lighter sensation. A feeling that is not resisted will disappear as the energy behind it dissipates.” ― David R. Hawkins, Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender
In 2020 Julie was a home schooling mum, teaching community art on line.
She’d never considered starting a business – she did what she did because she loved it.
And then something happened.
And Julie took the rage, added it to her passion, and started her own business.
During her first launch, she hoped for 20 founding members in her new membership. She got over 300.
Right now, her business is at $500k/year, she has 6 staff members who are all home school mums who can work around their schedules, and Julie is still loving what she does.
I LOVED finishing off my bonus series on “What’s Possible When You Make a Decision” with this conversation because it’s living proof that passion, a willingness to get messy and a decision to just keep going will always pay dividends.
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I don’t believe you don’t know WHAT to do
I don’t believe you don’t now HOW to do it
What I do believe is that you don’t know WHY you can’t or don’t do the things you need to do to grow your small/online business
And that’s why today I’m talking about why I honestly believe, the breakthrough that you’re looking for in your business is going to require a life coach, NOT a business coach.
In order to show you why I think this is true, I’m going to share with you THREE common problems that business owners want coaching on and why LIFE coaching, no business coaching, is where they find the answer.
I will show you why you don’t need coaching on PRODUCTIVITY or TIME MANAGEMENT
I will show you why your ENERGY is so important and how life coaching is how you generate it
I will show you why STRATEGY is almost NEVER the problem and it’s costing you a lot of time and a lot of money to keep thinking that.
Listen, I’ve spent over £80k on coaching, masterminds and certifications. And most of it didn’t work. Because I wasn’t the person to work it (you’ll ‘get this’ when you listen to the podcast).
I want YOU to succeed in your business.
Because you feel passionate about it
Because it’s what you want
Because it will be the best lesson you can give your children
Because you will contribute to changing the world for the better
Having me as your 1-1 coach is going to show you exactly how to create those internal, thought and energetic changes so that you not only know WHAT to do and HOW to do it but exactly WHO you need to be so that you can execute consistently, manage the discomfort of the journey and see all results as data and not a personality defect!! Ready? Book your free consult here.
As a life coach, I obviously work with clients because they want to change their life in some way. They have a result in their life they don’t want and/or they have a result they do want.
BUT what happens when you keep getting a result you DON’T want?
I think there are TWO decisions you can make
- Stop justifying your excuses
- Stop judging your results
I’m talking about these more in depth in this episode, and of course, giving you some work you can start implementing now.
Something that I am very passionate about is helping my clients make peace with where they are NOW. We simply cannot make powerful decisions for ourselves, changes and goals if we are always in the energy of frustration for where we are.
Are you ready to make Peace AND Change? Book you free consultation call with me now.
An Olympian who is on the couch getting a massage, is still giving their 100%
A working mum who’s working on fat loss and gets a chicken kebab on a Saturday night, is still giving her 100%
A business owner who completely swtiches off on a weekend to be with their family, is still giving their 100%
The truth is this.
Everybody’s 100% is different
You 100% looks different every day
In this “micropod”, I’m going in to some more detail about why this is so important
- Why the human experience is a collection of mosaic moments
- Why we shouldn’t be focused on ONE aspect
- Why we need to bring ALL of us to the table
- And, as always, a way for you to put all of this in to action
It’s your time now to create your life of mosaic moments and as your life coach, I can help you do that.
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What’s possible when you make a decision?
What becomes possible and available to you and for you.
Welcome back to another bonus episode in this series about decisions.
Today I’m talking to Magda, an old school friend that I’ve not seen for 30 years.
However, after seeing a FB post last year, where she was celebrating not drinking for 2 years, I was compelled to reach out.
Her post about becoming sobert was so raw and compelling that I wanted to know more.
What had made her choose sobreity?
How had she navigated the journey, and were there times when she considered changing her mind?
And how was her life different now? How did she manage the things that had been a trigger for her drinking in the first place?
What I found really interesting was that Magda didn’t class herself as an alcoholic – it was more of a realisation about how it influenced her decisions – which we talk about in depth in this podcast.
The reason I wanted to bring this conversation to you today was because as business owners, we manage a lot of stress, anxiety, uncertainty and overwhelm. And it’s a human reaction to NOT want to feel these things.
Alcohol offers us that release.
It’s also highly glamorised AND YET, with an increasing number of Alcohol Free products on the market, celebrities choosing sobriety and literature to help us live the alcohol free life.. and wanted to speak to someone who had taken the choice and is living proof of that decision.
So get ready – this is a good one!!
Fail to plan. Plan to fail.
But what if, the answer to you reaching your goals was actualling PLANNING FOR FAILURE?
If you have the “I’ll start again tomorrow” convo way too many times and you feel like you’re always putting the effort in to your goals YET you are never far from the start line – this is for YOU!
The probelm with popular goal setting strategies is that it implies that where you are to where you to be is nothing more that a set of actions.
BUT, there’s a fundamental flaw with that. And i’m telling you what that is inside today’s episode.
The problem is NOT the strategy, the solution is in execution and the process is looking for potholes.
Intruiged? Great.. take a listen.
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What if there were NO right decision?
What if thinking you need to make a different decision is a fear response?
What if 100% commitment is easier than 98%
We’re diving in to all of this, during this 2 part of the Decisions podcast.
In epsiode #168 it was all about the inspiration and creating your Decision Manifesto.
In today’s episode it’s all about the MOTIVATION…
How do you make the “right” decision?
What do you need to be wary of when you’re looking at a new decision?
How do you be the person who does the do?
Making powerful and quick decisions is a foundational part of coaching. If you want to find out how you can make and act from powerful decisions so you can get the results you want in your life, book your free consultation now.
I realised that during these bonus episodes, i’ve been focusing on decisions that have created a sort of “fanfare or book worthy” outcome.
And that, with that focus, I’ve completely ignored the fact that I know that YOU have made a tonne of decisions in your life, that were courageous, that you’ve not given yourself credit for because there wasn’t a fanfare, or a book worthy outcome.
There was a change of path. There was a commitment to what you needed. There was the love of another person.
It was a decision that was BIG to you because OUR life changing decisions are subjective. Just because they’re not even in someone elses mind space, it doesn’t deny the impact in our life.
So today this is ALL ABOUT YOU – being your own inspiration and giving yourself credit for the amazing being you are and all the tough sh*t you’ve navigated and survived! I’m applauding you. Seriously.
The Decision Manifesto – Steps
- Pick one 1-3 values that are important in your life
- Pick 1-3 emotions that you want to create and access daily-ish
- The “So What”.. so that you can live life on and with purpose. What does that look like to you.
- PUT IT ALL TOGETHER – see below
I make decisions to honour my values of love, freedom and growth and to create & access the feelings of curiosity, connection and presence so that I can inspire, motivate and coach others to create and life a life of Alchemy.
Beautiful right?
Self Judgement is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life – Cheri Huber
After having a bit of a meltdown this weekend over impending perimenopause(details in the podcast).. I got to thinking about self judgement.
I realised a few things
- Self judgement is in partnership with “should”
- It means that we are also judging others -how else do we create the comparison?
- Self judgement can only be created, maintained and amplified through the context of the definitions we choose to hold (I most definitely explain this inside the podcast!)
Let me tell you, I hold gold medals in several Self Judgement categories so I am well rehearsed in The Model of self judgement. I understand how the thoughts pierce your brain with their claws, clinging and scratching inside your head.
I know how it feels to drag those feelings around in your body, walking in to rooms feeling like you are wearing a neon sign that says “I don’t fit in here”. I know what it’s like to wake up with the first thought being that of self hate and self judgement right then would seem positively luxurious.
I also know how it feels to make peace with self judgement and to change the model to self acceptance and self love.
In this episode, my intention is to provide insight, hope and options to help you do the same. From my heart to yours..
Listen to episode #152 on The Model
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In today’s bonus episode from the series, “What’s Possible When You Make a Decision”, I’m introducing you to Tabita.
Tabitha is the owner of Fit For Grace Coaching (find her on Instagram, Facebook and website), a mother of EIGHT and a professional body builder.
With over 20 years in the health and fitness industry, Tabitha was making about $10k selling her services and did it “for fun” and “becasue I love it”.
However, during the pandemic, Tabitha found herself in a place that she didn’t want to stay and after some therapy, found her way to life coaching.
It was the match that started the fire.
What I find so fascinating, grounding and inspiring about Tabitha’s story – is that she always came from a place of “sitting in possibility” – and you’ll hear in the episode how that has allowed her to always stay in “messy action”.
In January 2022 she decided to actually LAUNCH her business and a life and health coach, trusting that she had something to offer.
She was booked out almost immediately.
What happened over the next 12 months is powerful and exciting and a reflection of Tabitha’s willingness to be messy, borrowing beliefs, managing downward spirals and her faith.
So, you know what to do, grab you coffee, pen and paper and let’s dive right in.
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Lower your goals AND hit bigger goals? Say whaat???? This podcast was inspired by a post I saw this week on Insta – offering me 3 steps to make $13m..and my brain offered me all these crappy thoughts. And it got me to thinking. When we feel that our goals have to be THAT BIG, it can create such a huge fear (and shame) response that it blocks us from taking action toward our goals. Toward the new life we want to create. I also know, with certainty, that when you pick the next “water station” you WILL get results, and get them quicker because you feel EMPOWERED. . I know that when you feel that the outcome is available to you, you will take consistent action. If you are someone who gets sucked in by the “biggest and best results promises” and then fall in to impossibility and unavailability for YOU, then this podcast is a MUST listen. At the end of the day.. look at this way $13m can only happen $1 at a time A 6 pack can only happen one meal and one workout at a time The intimate and connected relationship can only happen one, intentional action at a time. THERE IS NOTHING AVAILABLE TO YOU THAT WILL GET YOU FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO THE MASSIVE RESULTS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, WITH NO PAIN AND ABSOLUTE EASE — THAT’S A MARKETING FANTASTY TALE Join my free Facebook group now and access free weekly training, networking & coaching.
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At the age of 69, Ron decided to train for a solo IronMan. Due to covid, he wasn’t able to complete it until September 2022, at the age of 71 and in just 15 hours.
But for Ron, it wasn’t so much about the physical challenge – but more about using it as a vehicle to exorcise the demons of childhood abuse, that he’d carried his whole life.
Raising money for the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, Ron tells us how every cycle and every run was a way to “squeeze the bas*ard” out of his mind and his life, once and for all.
As part of the “What’s Possible When You Decide” series, I feel that this interview is more about what happens when you KEEP deciding. Keep deciding that you are worthy. Keep deciding that you can love yourself. Keep deciding that there is a different future available.
I have listened to many of Ron’s stories when we spent a couple of months working together, and I continue to be inspired by this man over and again. Thank you Ron for sharing your story with us.
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If you have a story about decisions that you’d like to share, please drop an email to contact@louisecartwright.com with details. Thank you
When you’re trying to build your small business, it’s easy to believe that you need to do more.
That you need to be working harder.
That you need to be doing ‘all the things’.
But if you’re not seeing the growth you want in your business AND you spend too much time feeling anxious and overwhelmed AND your thoughts feel invasive… then I’m here to tell you that it’s time to FIND YOUR HARD.
Finding Your Hard starts with the PET process.
Once you’ve done that you need to start asking yourself “Whats my hard, that i’ve not been able to see before because of what I thought I SHOULD be doing”.
AND HERE’S WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS..
Notice that when you define hard as a strict regime, more on your schedule, working longer, doing all the things – you’re still not getting the results you want. AND at the same time you feel awful.
When you have the courage to find and choose your hard, you WILL find the way to take small and aligned action that gets you IN action every day. And what does action, every day create? RESULTS!
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How do you keep believing that your small business will succeed?
How do you keep that thought even though and especially when, things are NOT working?
Let me tell you…
I’ve worked with small business owners for a long time now, and I’m in communities with well over 13k students between them.
AND THE SAME PROBLEMS COME UP OVER AND AGAIN…
And what these people are looking for is painless, quick, easy fix/strategy to get them out of where they are and to where they want to be.
And it is THAT mentality that keeps them stuck exactly where they are.
So in this episode I’m introducing you to the 3 most common archetypes I see:
The Thinker.
The Yo-Yo’er
The Achiever
I’m going to give you the 3 steps to believing in your business
- Choose
- Lead
- Neutral
And as always, at the end, I’ll give you some simple steps to start implementing right away. Today it’s 3 simple AND business/life transforming steps.
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Have you decided that this year is THE year? Your year? Are you ready to stop being in the same situation month after month? Are you ready to master and manage your thoughts and show up like someone who is actually committed to growing their business? Are you ready to invest your time, energy and money in a coach.. then i’d love to speak with you about how i can specifically help you. Book your free consult with me here.
At the age of 22, Jamie became paralysed from the waist down, and down the left side of his face, due to an auto immune condition.
His doctors said this very rare condition had no known cause nor cure, and that he would be medicated for the rest of his life for the pain.
But Jamie had different ideas.
He made a very different, and very powerful decision. And today you get to find out what that is. (I’ve marked this as explicit as there are a couple of curse words and I don’t want to offend anyone!)
WELCOME
I am so fascinated by the human brain and how we choose to use it. That when, in our soul, we make a decision, we can literally change our lives.
And so I decided to do some bonus podcasts where I interview amazing people who have done just that.
I met Jamie, when he faciliated a Wim Hoff workshop that I attended in November 2022.
I was blown away by his story and his energy and it was then that I decided to start recording these interviews.
Micro Steps
One of the most profound and valuable shares in this interview, for me, was the realisation of the quatum change Jamie created in his life from MICRO steps.
He was SO invested in this outcome that he was willing to give it the time and detail that it needed.
In a world where we get so discouraged when we don’t get our big wins quick enough; where the ‘microwave mentality’ causes so much anxiety and disconnection – Jamie’s willigness to forget the time line, is a powerful and grounding message.
If you’d like to follow Jamie (which I highly recommend you do) and find out where he’s running his next workshops, you can do so here:
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The single most common problem that I see small business owners struggling with is managing their emotions – specifically, how can they STOP their results making them feel negative.
So in today’s episode I have ONE goal – to help you disembark the emotional roller coaster and divorce your emotions from the results you get in your business.
The truth is, emotions cause more small business owners to close their business than anything else.
And worse than that, I think they often believe it’s “something about them” that makes them feel that way.
Let me tell you this… it’s perfectly NORMAL to have all the emotions in your business. It’s a challenging journey and it’s one that most people in the world wouldn’t dream of – so you’re already winning.
HOWEVER – if you do want your business to succeed, then you WILL need to understand how to manage your emotions.
When I’m coaching my clients I use a framework called The Success Triad – and it will literally get you any result you want in your life and business. As the name suggests there are 3 pillars
- Emotional Management
- Thought Management
- Consistent, Aligned Action (to create clarity and obtain data)
Today you’re going to discover – why these emotions happen, what will happen if you don’t deal with them and how to start changing them NOW. Remember, download The Model workbook to get the most out of this episode.
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There’s a version of yourself you haven’t met yet. Keep showing up until you are introduced – Jim Kwik.
I think THIS is the most important thought to hold on to if you are the kind of person who is wanting to create a change in your life, to hit your goals and to create any result you want.
Because in a world that wants to sell you systems and strategies, no-one is actually telling you that 7% ish of people of buy such things succeed. Not many people want to tell you that the common denominator between every person who succeeds in creating and living the life they want is HOW THEY CHOOSE TO THINK.
And it’s this commitment to CHOOSING THOUGHTS that creates the version of you that you haven’t met yet.
Think about it. I doubt you’re the same person as you were 20 years ago. Life has changed you. Perhaps you have taken on new roles such as mum, husband, wife, care giver. Maybe you took on a different job role. Maybe you moved countries – all of these changes, changed YOU.
But what if… your whole life could change by you CHOOSING to change. By BE-coming who you need to be.
I remember when I used to go to slimming club. There were two types of people. Type A were the ones who did really great for most of the week, pigged out the weekend, starved themselves the day of the weigh in and then brushed off their lack of results with, “i’ll start again tomorrow” or “life’s too short not to enjoy yourself”.
Type B were the ones who completed the diary sheets, who counted their points, who got creative and resourceful with cooking, who created balance throughout the week, who worked out. They owned their results on the scales.
Type A was a MUCH bigger group than Type B.
Type A took action with the same identity. Type B chose to be a different person to take action in commitment to the result you wanted.
So take a listen and remember, email me at contact@louisecartwright.com or dm me on FB or Insta with where you experience resistance to what i’m sharing so I can help you.
Do you want to guarantee you get results this year? Do you want to make changes in your life? Do you want to feel that you can make that happen, find out how to make that happen and commit to making it happen? Then i’d love to chat with you about how my 1-1 coaching can get you there.. book your free consult here.
I ran a workshop yesterday on “Managing Your Thoughts & Emotions”. Through the day, I coached people on fixing their marriage, developing a healthier relationship with food and body image, changing careers even though they didn’t know what they wanted and how to love yourself enough to put yourself back in the dating scene.
And it occurred to me, that every person had the same problem, which wasn’t the problem they thought they had.
It would be safe to assume that when you are struggling to create change it’s because you don’t know the “how”. Or that you haven’t found the right “how” yet.
BUT…. We have a infinite supply of both, at the end of our fingers, with search engines and social media. We can learn how to do, change or achieve anything. For free. If we wanted to.
WELL IT MUST BE THOUGHTS THEN right ? You don’t have the right thoughts. You have limiting beliefs. You don’t know HOW to think
And to some degree this is true..Last weeks episode on why Mindset might actually be the problem well give you more perspective on this.
In this podcast i give you examples to show you how this is true too.
So yes, thinking IS a creative force.
You see, in The Model, I show you exactly how Thoughts, Feelings and Action are intertwined and create your results.
Join my FREE workshop on Eventbrite to learn how to use The Model for yourself.
And when you want to change your life, set and hit goals, you have to leave one thing behind…
THE CERTAINTY OF WHERE YOU ARE
Your brain knows what to expect. Nothing new is happening. There’s no more difficult emotions to feel. Because it’s not your brain that hates feeling that way. It’s your SOUL!
EMOTIONAL CERTAINTY IS HOLDING YOU BACK frome the results, goals and life that you want
ANSWER?
I’ll tell you what I think the answer is and the fundamental belief that I have about what’s at the bottom of ALL success.
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“MANAGING YOUR THOUGHTS & EMOTIONS”- replay will be available
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the word “mindset”.
And I started to discover that there is a possibility that “working on your mindset” could be doing you more harm than good.
The word mindset COULD imply that
1.. That it’s something personal and have you feeling and thinking that there is something wrong with you
2.. That the thoughts you have and the thoughts you choose are the same thing
3.. That there is a SET end point, where you’ll be fixed and your mind will be totally onboard
So in this episode I want to offer you 3 perception shifts that will make this work easier to implement, more helpful especially if you are new to it and most importantly, let you be KINDER to yourself.
I am SO convinced of this and the power that it has to change you life that I want you to join me on a free training – that I’ve literally just decided to run. I’ve thrown a wait list landing page together and I will be going live before the end of this month (feb 23)… I’m going to make sure i have time to coach some of you too so that you can see this work in action.
PLEASE join me.. and share the link. Sign up here
Notice what happens in your brain when you tell yourself “I’m don’t have motivation or I’m not motivated”. You make it personal. You make it mean something about YOU.
And how does THAT make you feel? Crappy, right?
And do you do the things you need to when you have those thoughts & emotions? NO!!The truth is this: You don’t HAVE motivation, you GENERATE it
So today, I want to talk to you about what motivation really is and how you can generate, grow and sustain it! And as always, I’ll give you something to implement right away
Lets start with how you might define and expect to experience motivation
- Motivation is something you have or something you feel that helps you take action toward something you want/to achieve a goal
- When you feel motivated you feel good and have good thoughts about yourself & your goal
- When motivation is absent you feel bad, probably have a whole heap of negative conversations in your head – about you and tell yourself “you’ll never make it/get there”.
3 ways that DESTROY motivation
1. Letting your results determine your degree of motivation
2. Defining motivation in terms of how much you get done/productivity
3. Relying on extrinsic motivation
The biggest motivation killer is having the subconscious thought, on loop, that THIS OUTCOME IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR ME… How in gods name can you stay motivated when you really don’t believe in the inevitability of your success?
THOUGHTS> EMOTIONS> ACTIONS> RESULTS..
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How much energy are you wasting in NOT making a decision?
Maybe you tell yourself it’s just because you are wanting to make sure it’s THE RIGHT decision?
But what if that’s a story? And what if that story is doing your success or results harm?
I work with a lot of clients who are busy. Alpha females are super good at taking action. Getting organised. Motivating and inspiring.
But they’re not so good at making decisions to STOP this cycle of action and exhaustion.
I see 3 common reasons why my clients choose NOT to make decisions.
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The human need for certainty
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They don’t trust themselves
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FOMO – what if the other choice would have been so much better?
And I’m sharing with you why these are all just head drama. AND.. how you get to choose differently. Manage Your Thoughts & Emotions with my free workbook
Book your free consult with me now and find out how you can get any result you want, in less time and without hustle or burn out..
As a small business owner, there is nothing more frustrating and confusing than working your ass off and not seeing the results for it.
Feeling frustrated, exhausted and overwhelmed, your brain is filled daily with thoughts of,
“What am I doing wrong?”
“What am I NOT doing?”
“What else can I do?”
And THAT is the problem
Because as a small business owner, I am almost 100% sure that taking action is not something you shy away from.
I would guess that you are an action taker.
That your brain never switches off from all the things you are to do, could do, should do.
BUT LET ME ASK YOU…
How long will you keep doing this and not getting the results you want?
Isn’t it true that there could be another reason that you’re not getting the results you want?
In this episode I’m going to share that reason with you.
AND i’m going to tell you how to change it. INSTANTLY.
Be sure to listen to Ep #152 and download your worksheet to get the most out of this episode.
It was just another Saturday swim at the lake with my sister and friend.
Only it wasn’t just another Saturday.
And that was my first mistake.
About 30 minutes later I was getting pulled out of the lake by the lifeguard.
I learned 3 very valuable life lessons that day.
3 lessons that I try and live by every day to bring more mental, emotional and spiritual presence to my days.
Alpha Female
I used to pride myself on the Alpha Female traits… but are they what they are cracked up to be?
Is a “healthy” place to find ourselves … or are we all leading ourselves to a place where we’ll need to be rescued?
There are NO medals given for being a f*cking Island, and yet, for some many of us we do it all alone.
We leave much needed conversations hanging.
We exhaust ourselves in pursuit of being self sufficient and the answer to everything.
We show others it’s NOT ok to ask for help.
What are we teaching our children?
One thing that drives me more than ever is this thought,
“What am I showing my children to be true?”
My girls, at 21 and 22, are young adults and I already see the impact of the conditioning I created before “I knew better”.
I don’t beat myself up over it, I didn’t know different AND, at the same time, I know that I can still create a more posititve influence on them and help THEM to be role models for the future.
So please, grab your notepad and lean in hard to this episode.
You never know, it could save your life xxxx
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This is the 2nd of 2 coaching frameworks that I’m sharing, to ensure that you finish this year feel clear and powerful.
To supplment this work, please make sure you download you free workbook and sign up for my free training in January..
So let me introduce you to The Model. A simple and transformative framework developed by Brooke Castillo, founder of The Life Coach School.
It helped me so much as I navigated starting my business again after the death of my dad.
My clients are loving it.
And YOU will love it too.
There are 5 simple steps
Circumstance
Thoughts
Feelings
Actions
Results
In this episode I’m showing you exactly how to use The Model so you can finally get any result you want.
Are you ready?
Lets go..
This time of the year it’s easy to check out.
Especially if you don’t have the results that you wanted to create over the last 12 months.
And that’s really why I detest New Year’s Resolutions. It’s just another false starting point when in truth, we have a choice in every moment to make a powerful, new decision rather than a decision from resignation.
So this week I’m going to COACH YOU!
I want you to have a sense of clarity and certainty BEFORE New Year arrives.
I want you to feel anchored in to resourceful and powerful emotions AND taken a step toward creating the self concept you need in order to start creating the results you want.
And before we start, here’s a thought I want you to borrow as we do this work together.
THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME LEFT THIS YEAR FOR ME TO GET DIFFERENT RESULTS AND CREATE A POWERFUL PLAN FOR GROWTH.
Because I’m going to be sharing coaching resources that I use with my clients, I’ve created a PDF for you to download so that you can really maximise the potential of this work DOWNLOAD IT HERE.
So if you’re ready, lets dive in to the GROW model of coaching and get you moving!!
THE GROW MODEL IS A FOUR-STEP FRAMEWORK.
G – GOAL – Getting clearer on your goal and have an understanding of why it’s important to you and what values it meets for you .
R – Reality. Where are you at now. Create some context for creating action steps based on that.
O – Generting options and seeing opportunities for growth and action
W – Way forward. This is your commitment.
What I’m going to do now is give you 3 questions in each stage and my suggestion is that you answer them ALL – even if it feels like you are repeating yourself.
A big part of growth is challenging the models with we function within in life. Because those models have created who we are and what we have.
Change requires changing our models (most of the time) and so give yourself permission to do the things even if your brain tells you why you shouldn’t!
REMEMBER: I’VE CREATED A PDF FOR YOU TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS
I’m also going to give you a few coaching tips and concepts to help guide you through this process.
G – GOAL – Here are the 3 concepts. Get the questions on the pdf and in the show
- If it doesn’t match your values, it will be hard to achieve
- Doing it to feel a certain way is back to front
- If it feels yukky when you write it – look for the Thought that’s creating that. (we’ll do this coaching model next week)
R- Reality
- Your power is in decisions made from possibility not circumstance or resignation
- Ekhart Tolle – it is your current experience not your life experience
- No shame no blame no judgemen
O – Options & Opportunities
- There is ALWAYS a way.
- Self concept is more powerful than strategy
- Doing the same thing over and over = insanity
W- Way Forward
- It’s the tiny actions taken consistently that create the big results
- Your biggest skill is emotional resilience
- Mind your time line
What I want you to do:
Carve yourself a couple of hours to DO THIS WORK. Don’t check out, check in to your dreams!!
Download the pdf
I’m offering Q&A/Hot seat coaching to supprt this coadhing on Monday 19th and Thursday 22nd December 2023. The zoom link will be sent via email when you grab the pdf.
You don’t have to feel motivated, excited or ready to take action toward your goals.
But there is a belief that you do.
And then when you don’t, you are making it mean all kinds of crappy things about you.
MOTIVATION ISN’T SOMETHING YOU HAVE
The truth is, motivation isn’t something you have. It’s something you generate.
And it’s human nature to feel scared, not excited, when you are doing something new, something bold.
But what you are making it mean about you is the very thing thats stopping you from hitting your goals.
I lost all my confidence
I share this with you from a place of 100% understanding. After closing my business down, and starting from scratch after my dad died – I’ve been bombarded with anxiety, uncertainty, overwhelm and all that jazz.
So how did I keep showing up, every day in some way, for my goals, my purpose, my people.
It came down to TWO THINGS and that’s what I’m sharing with you in this episode.
CRAZY CHRISTMAS OFFER
At the end of the episode I share 3 reasons why people don’t succeed in coaching and how i’ve created the perfect container to guarantee your transformation in 6 months or less.
There are THREE spaces only, and we will start BEFORE the end of this year (2022).. that means you only have 19 days to get yourself in and start working with me on your inevitable success.
How do you start – two ways
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If you know me and my work and you want in right now, simply sign up now and I’ll be in contact immediately to arrange your first session.
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How do you take action in your small business when you struggle with low confidence and self belief – and get stuck in procrastination and apathy.?
That’s what Sue wanted help with as the 4th hot seat in this special coaching series.
During this powerful session I coach Sue on why confidence is NOT what she’s looking for
How to develop self belief
Help Sue realise what stories she’s really committed to
Show her how she can transfer an idea that excites her, in to her business so that she can feel more empowered
Ask her to commit to her next steps
I’m excited to announce that The Alchemy Chamber is opening soon. I am looking for 7 founding members to help me build out this magic within a 6 month, small group, circle. Get on the waitlist here
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You didn’t have big dreams of running your own business. Perhaps you didn’t even know that was a “thing”.
Your decision to start a small business was likely based on necessity, values and/or personal experience.
You’re what I call an Accidental Entrepreneur and in this episode I’m talking about FIVE key lessons you WILL learn if you commit to your success, why AE’s are the best type and what to do NOW if you feel like you’re stuck in the swamp.
Make sure you listen to this episode with “10 Questions to Change Your Mindset, Mood & Perspective”
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