Are Your Choices are Holding Your Dreams Hostage

Four years ago, Jack started with an idea for an innovative business program. He created the materials and started marketing it, but things started slow. Then he endured a monetary setback which pulled him back to his day job.

While away from entrepreneurship, other people started pushing the idea. Many of them have grown to be very successful and are poplar in the field.

Again, four years later, jack is prepared to spread his entrepreneurial wings again. In discussing with Jack, he made it clear that he feels like he will always be a failure unless he returns to the initial idea and creates a success of it. He must prove to himself that he will make it work. He’s also bothered by another guy who stole Jack’s idea and made a profitable business.
Jack came to me for inspiration. How should he start again? What should he do first? Should he go back to his outdated materials and re-release them, adapt them or what?

After hearing Jack tell his story, it was evident that three major items were out of whack for Jack. It’s likely he would not have success with his plan as a result. Do you know why Jack will have a tough go at it?

The three items that must align when you go after any ambitious goal are:

1) Your Intentio

2) Your Motivatio

3) Your Energetic Stance (A term coined by Carolyn Cooper meaning that all your attitudes, self-talk, and beliefs are in alignment with the idea.)

Let’s look at these three elements for Jack:

1) Intention – to become successful at marketing his 5-year-old Biz idea

2) Motivation – to prove he’ war right and to extract a bit of revenge on his competitio

3) Energetic Stance – Jack wasn’t acting very confident with the whole idea. He had little clarity and focus and pondered if his goal was the winning one.
While Jack’s direction is clear, his “why” is questionable. Your motivation/direction should be clean and pure. I would not put revenge and proving anything to yourself and others a pure, clean motivation. His motivation/direction as it stands is going to prove troublesome in the future.

He would be better off letting go of the guilt, remorse, sense of loss and memories of failure from the past. Then, he’d be clear to discover a more appropriate enlightenment for his direction. This might be something like providing for his family, doing work that he loves, making a positive impact in the lives of his clients. You get the idea…

Because Jacks’s motivations/directions were not ideal, his energetic vision was wishy-washy. He knew something was off, but he wasn’t clear what it was. He also could use some work on his self-worth and his take on success and money.

I worked with Jack to help him excavate his negative view and need for revenge. He was able to collaborate forgiveness for himself and others and re-install positive feelings about money and success. After these items were taken care of, Jack was in a much brighter place to figure out if this idea was truly one that he even still wanted to Complete.
Releasing the past is so important when you’re moving to create a brighter future! What about you … are you hanging around old failures, false beliefs, or tired expectations of yourself? Is there forgiveness in you? (perhaps even yourself) so you can be free to go after the highest path for you?

I’m holding 10 spots for one-on-one Empower100 Business Consulting clients in my schedule. If you feel like you would like to work with me to let go of the past and create the life and business you’ve always dreamed of having, email me at FutureMarketingPros@Gmail.com for a no-obligatio
23-minute video strategy session to see if we’re a good fit for each other.