Now, let's shatter some business contradictions together, shall we? Join me for this conversation that promises to leave you feeling grateful, empowered, and ready to transform your business when you can see the dualities of the misconceptions being used out there.
Now, let's shatter some business contradictions together, shall we? Join me for this conversation that promises to leave you feeling grateful, empowered, and ready to transform your business when you can see the dualities of the misconceptions being used out there.
Speaker 1:
Let's talk about one business misconception. I have a whole list of business misconceptions, but I want to talk about one at a time because I think it's really, really important. And this business misconception is that it is easy to own a business, it's easy to grow a business. If you disagree, if you believe it's easy or you believe it's hard, drop it in the chat. I'm going somewhere with this and I really want to chat about this. I think this is really really important. So I believe that business, when we first start, is very exciting.
Speaker 1:
So nothing really seems hard, right, because we're super excited. We have all of this like momentum that we're building. We're so excited we want to shout what we're doing from the rooftops and we're so happy about it, right. So nothing really truly seems hard because of the excitement that we have that is behind that. And then eventually we realize, oh, money doesn't grow on trees, money doesn't fall from the sky. Everything I'm doing, it doesn't work, just like that all the time, right. And so we start to have harder times or our mindset is dipping. We're not like standing in our personal power, all these things are happening. And then it gets hard, right, and we're like why am I doing this, it's not getting the results that I want. Maybe it's getting some results, but not getting everything that I want. So I want to stop or not do the thing.
Speaker 1:
So it's hard for the people that keep going and don't stop doing the thing. It gets easy. It gets easier Because when you do hard things consistently, you get used to the hard things right. It's like going to the gym and maybe you finally got up to the weight that you wanted to lift, right, and it's so hard. But if you keep lifting that same weight, is it going to stay hard? No, it's going to get easier, meaning that in order to strengthen your muscle, you're going to have to purposely make it harder again, meaning you go lift a heavier weight. This is the same thing. That's true in our business. We want things to be easy, so we get through our comfort zone, we push through our comfort zone, we push through our edges, and so eventually, even though it was hard, they do get easier. But then sometimes we me, I used to love my comfort zone and so we get very, very comfortable, and then we're like this is so comfortable, it's so easy, but is that where you're meant to play? Is that where you're meant to stay? I don't think so. I think you get to play and have fun by pushing your edges and consistently be growing Growing with your vulnerability and content, growing with your video, growing with your repurposing, growing with putting your offers out there, growing with increasing your prices and stretching yourself constantly and consistently. I believe that it does get to be easy, but it gets to be hard first and then it gets to be. I want to push myself.
Speaker 1:
There was a quote that Alex Ramosy put on his threads and I loved it. I shared it at my story. It says they're right you can work smart, not hard to make money, but you got to work hard to get smart. No way around it. The work needs doing.
Speaker 1:
I think that, as an entrepreneur, as a business owner, I believe wholeheartedly that you are not afraid of work, that you are not afraid of consistent actions, that you are not afraid of putting yourself out there, that you are not afraid of getting a little uncomfortable, that you are not afraid of pushing your edges. But how long are you willing to do that? How long are you willing to push your edges and get uncomfortable and do the hard things? This funny thing happened. I went on a year journey of doing uncomfortable actions, and I won't say that getting uncomfortable is easy, because it's not. It's not easy. However, you learn to have fun by pushing your edges. It's still hard, but it's fun. It's a fun hard. I'm pushing my edges and I'm enjoying the process, and I feel this like I should go bungee jump one time, because I keep saying this, but I feel like it's that bungee jump feeling. Or when you're going down a roller coaster, you just feel that, oh my God, I feel so good. This feels amazing, this is so cool. I love that feeling. It's this high that you get after you push yourself and you do the thing. It's so hard. Yes, I believe it gets to be easy, but I believe it's because you push yourself and you've done the hard for so long it doesn't seem hard anymore.
Speaker 1:
I have a lot of misconceptions that I want to go through over the next few days and I'm just going to give you the highlights. We're going to talk about passive revenue, which I don't believe is a real thing there. Boom, there is no such thing. I'm going to talk about that. We're going to talk about you need a coach. We're going to talk about all you have to do is rinse and repeat to create success. I actually don't agree with any of those things, and so we are going to talk about them and the alternative, just like we did today. I think it's very, very important to note these misconceptions but also understand.
Speaker 1:
Let me go back to the easy and the hard. I do believe there are some other things that we get to do mindset wise. If I keep telling myself it's hard to get on video, is it going to get easier? No. If I keep telling myself it's hard to sell, is it going to get easier? Nope. If I keep telling myself it's hard to launch, is it going to get easier? No, it's not.
Speaker 1:
I believe a lot of the feelings that we have, not only the pushing our edges and the getting uncomfortable a lot of it is what we tell ourselves. So if I consistently tell myself something is hard, is it going to get easier? No, and that, my friends, is something we all get to work on. Quit avoiding the things, because it's hard when it's really just your perspective, and the more you do anything, it does get easier. I cannot wait to go through these other six misconceptions with you over the next week and, yeah, I'll be back to share more. But I would love your thoughts on easy business. Business is easy. I believe business is fun. I believe business has so like, I'm so grateful and I believe that when I'm in the mindset of it's fun and I'm grateful and I don't do overwhelm and I stand in my power, it kind of feels easy, but it's really not. But I enjoy it so much that it also doesn't seem hard.