What Commitment Has Taught Me in Business - The Real Growth Strategy

Commitment is uncomfortable and it's taught me so much about myself and what I'm capable of.

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Today, I had my two week chiropractor appointment, and when I was leaving, I said, How often do you want me to, like, come back like, What's What does maintenance look like for me. And he said, well, for you, you know, there's a lot going on. So for you that it's uh, maintenance for you looks like, sorry, there's some kind of link popping up. Maintenance for you looks like two, two times a month. And I'm like, okay, I can handle that. Like, I can handle that. I can handle commitment. And it got me to thinking about the first real commitment. Obviously, we have the commitment of marriage, we have other commitments, but the first real commitment that I made in my business was I said yes to a one year mastermind, and for six months I went to fill out the application, and I was so scared, I was petrified of pushing the button, because, you know, I was like, first of all, I have to commit for a year. I don't know where I'm going to be in a year, and it's $1,000 a month. And so how am I going to do this? Right? So for six months I waiver on this and I can't commit. Well, finally, I have my best month ever, and I'm like, now's the time to commit. Now's the time to commit. I can afford $1,000 a month. Let's do this. This is about six years ago, and I had the call with now one of my best friends. She interviewed me for the mastermind to see if I was a fit. And she said, Well, the first month, you have to pay$2,500 and then it's $1,000 every month after that, I was so not prepared to pay. I had in my mind, it was $1,000 I didn't know I'd pay $2,500 like that was insane, like I was so freaking out, because it's not what I was prepared for. However, I had the best month ever in my business, and I was like, let's do it. Let's do it. Well, I knew I was committed for a year, and so I paid the $2,500 and then the second month came and I paid it. And the second full month of being in the program was May, and it was my worst month ever. Had a lot of personal things going on. Really struggled from the personal things. And I would have quit. If I could have quit that mastermind, I would have quit because quitting would have been so much easier than trying to find a way to come up with payment, and quitting would have been so much easier than dealing with what I was facing. However, I made a commitment. I made a commitment, I said yes to a year. I signed a contract, I said yes to a year, and so that month was rough. I figured it out. It was rough. June comes. I started shifting my mindset. I started working on myself, and June was not better. Financially in my business, I was better. I learned how to laugh again, because pretty much cried the whole entire month of May. I learned to laugh again. I learned to get over myself. I learned to work on myself. And I was like, June is so much better. Like, this month is so much better. I looked at my bank account, the bank account was not better, but I made it through, and then I started seeing the incremental crease increases from that. So a lot of people join my programming, and there is a commitment, and this is the reason, because that month of hard supported me more than anything has ever supported me. That month of hard and not giving up and not quitting made me who I am today. That discomfort and going through it and not quitting, which would have been easier, is why I'm here today. This is why I continue to make mastermind investments that make me stay a year. I make membership investments for myself that make me stay a year, right? Because there's something that. It happens. I joined a mastermind that doesn't actually even start until January, and it's the highest investment I've made in a mastermind for a year commitment. And I messaged the coach and I said, I don't know what happened. We haven't even started, and I am not the same. She goes I've already seen I can see it like I can already see it. Because in order to say yes to an investment, I have to shift my identity into someone who is going to survive in business the next year, who is going to make the revenue that will cover said payment for a year. And it is this magical thing that most of us, we look at our budget. First of all, I'm not telling you to overextend yourself, go into debt for a coach. That's not what I'm talking about. However, I know that my business is where it is. It's because of discomfort. Is because I get out of my comfort zone. Realistically, it doesn't make any sense why I said yes to this investment, but I know where I'm at and who I am before I made that investment was not going to get me to where I wanted to go, and so I had to make a hard decision. I had to make a choice. What is the decision you're making? Are you going to keep going the same route, or are you going to go to the next level? Comfort zones are a crazy thing. They're comfortable in the moment, but they're not comfortable for the future. Meaning, what? Who is it? Is it Dave Ramsey that says, do the hard things now, so later on, it'll be easy. I purposely, continuously do the hard things now, because I know doing the hard things now and saying the saying yes to the hard things now make my future easier always. And so I want you to think about commitment, and I want you to think about when is the last commitment you made. It's easy to go drop money on a course. It's easy to drop money on this or that. That doesn't mean you have to stay right. But the thing is, is that, you know, I was talking to my mastermind about this. I want people that commit to themselves, because at the end of the day, if you can't influence you to commit, how are you going to influence other people to commit to you? I go first. I am the evidence that people do this. Not everybody's going to do this. Not everybody is my person. And I that's a that's a real hard thing to say. Not everybody is my person, not everybody is your person. And so it's a great reminder that you commit to you first, then other people commit to you. And I also feel the same about my clients. You commit to you first, and then I'm committing to you. It goes both ways, and it's hard. Commitment is hard, but it is one of the things that changed my life, and it is why I have commitment programs. You want to join the visible inner circle. It is a year commitment. You want to join Omni VIP. It is a year commitment. You want to be my client one on one. It's a three or six month commitment. You want to you want to be an omni it's a six month commitment. Again, there is a reason for commitment. The months that you feel like you can't do it and you do it, you prove to yourself that I can do it and that I can't do for you and no one can do for you, because to sit here and say that it's going to be smooth selling and that you're never going to have a rough month as a business owner. I mean, I I hope that that's the truth. But even in that month of May, I didn't have a rough a rough month as a business owner, I had a rough month as a human which reflected in my business. My kid flunked out of college after so much support, and it did a number on me, and I couldn't handle it. And it reflected in everything that I did, everything was negative, everything was my mindset. It reflected in the amount of money that I brought into my business, everything so when we when I add mindset into my business programs, there is a reason friends, because your. Personal life will take you out. What's going on there will take you out before your business will take you out. It's why I got a life coaching certification, because if I can't help my clients on the personal side of things, I can't get them in the right mindset or headspace to grow their business. And so it all is connected, but commitment is important. We commit in marriage, we commit to a car payment, we commit to a 30 year mortgage. It's like a scary thing, right? And so the people I work with commit to themselves. They commit to them first, and it's magical and it's beautiful and it's important, because that's where the real growth is, having faith and belief in yourself, no matter what, no matter how sucky it gets, I'm going to survive this. No matter how sucky it gets. I'm going to figure out a way to make this work. That's the true definition of an entrepreneur. That's the true definition of a CEO. We make it work. We don't know how it's going to work, but we make it work. That's what separates people who are meant to be in a nine to five and people who are meant to be entrepreneurs and business owners. Not everybody is meant to be a business owner, not everybody is meant to be a CEO. And that's that's the truth. It's sad, but it's true. It's not for everyone. Some people can't handle the stress and the pressure, and there's a lot, a heck of a lot of stress and a heck of a lot of pressure, but it's all worth it because of the impact and the growth and the ripple effects. And so if you have never made a commitment to yourself, find a commitment. Find a way to make a commitment. Find a way to stretch yourself. Find a way to grow. It is one of the biggest growth strategies I have done for myself, and I encourage everyone to do it. Not all of my programs, my monthly programs, have a commitment, but if you want to work with me in a closer proximity, if you want to work with me and get everything every month, there's commitment involved. It's for you. And when you're ready, remember, I filled out that thing for six months and never pushed send. And then when I was ready, I thought I was ready. I thought I had it in the bag, and then I did it. I had to figure it out. It was the best thing I could have ever done for myself. I.