What Do You Want to Experience This Year as an Entrepreneur?

I was recently listening to a newscaster talk about how she had lost 100 pounds in a year.

She was saying, “Well, I started out with just walking one block.  When I first started I was very winded, and I couldn’t even make it for the whole block!

But I made the decision that I was going to walk that one block every day.

Then, every day, I just tried to walk a couple more steps.  A block and a couple more steps…a block and a couple more steps…”

Pretty soon that block became 2 blocks.  Then it became 3 blocks. Then it became a mile.  Then it became 3 miles. Then she was training for her first marathon.

Baby step by baby step, she got to that point of losing 100 pounds!

The funny thing is, it’s those very small steps that are often what gets you into trouble in the first place!

Getting to point of having tangled energy as an entrepreneur doesn’t happen overnight!  Step by step, you allow things to build up until all of a sudden you’re in the middle of a pile of beliefs:

• That you can’t get any sales this year
• That no one is going to want your services
• That you just don’t have any value…

It doesn’t happen overnight.  It happens little by little – which is why you’ve got to start detangling it little by little.  It’s all about getting some energetic traction that will keep you from sliding into that pile of beliefs that aren’t serving you in the New Year.

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Are You an Entrepreneur That is Ready to Face the New Year?

When it comes to celebrating and entering into the New Year, I’ve seen that there usually seem to be two camps of entrepreneurs.

There are those of you that are really excited about the New Year and all that it is going to bring.  You have direction, you have plans in place, you’re excited about taking action.

You are in alignment with what you want and you have a strong belief that your goals are really going to happen this year.

And then there’s that other camp.

If you’re in that camp, you probably have what I like to call the Holiday Hangover (even if you don’t drink!)

In the past, before I started doing this work, I always had the Holiday Hangover!

The Holiday Hangover is basically when you’ve given yourself permission to just like not think about anything during the holidays. You’ve got total permission, you’re taking your time off, and you’ve basically checked out from everything that has to do anything with work.

Don’t get me wrong – it’s important to have a break and to be able to rejuvenate yourself!  I take time off every year during the holidays to go visit my family in Michigan, and during that time I don’t do any work.

I feel like I really just got back into my office officially like, today.  I haven’t even gotten the change to change my voicemail yet – so according to the message I’m still on vacation!  It always takes a few days to get back into the swing of things.

But if you have that Holiday Hangover, it’s usually because you’re kind of just trying to keep the holidays going!  You can usually get away with pushing it a few weeks into January yet, but sometime around the middle of the month, you’re going to get over that Holiday Hangover.

You’re going to wake up from it, and then you’re going to get into fear.

You’ll get to the point of feeling, “OK – I really can’t be partying anymore – I can’t be holidaying anymore.  I can’t even say I’m sort of just getting my feet back under the desk anymore and getting back into the swing of things.  It’s starting to get to that make or break point.”

If you’re an entrepreneur with a Holiday Hangover, you may be at the point in the New Year where you don’t feel like you have a solid plan in place.  You may be buying into the whole economic bump and you may be unable to see how you’re going to be able to expand your business this year.

You may be at the point of just hoping your business doesn’t go under in the New Year!

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