POP! Tip #6: The Magic Mindset of Inspired Success
Welcome to POP! Tip #6! The second to last in the the POP! Tips Series.
This year, we added an extra workshop in order to work on MINDSET! As, with all things, we are only as successful as our minds allow us to be. Mindset is the key to unlocking all of the aspects of POP! When it comes to your business, life, and creative expression.
In month 6 we uncover “Upper Limit Problems” which is the term coined by my mentors Gay and Katie Hendricks. ULP’s are the ways you sabotage yourself when you’re about to receive or experience a level of aliveness, success, or love that you are not accustomed to receiving.
I have coached hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, women business leaders, and authors and discovered the main blocks to success are the underlying, unhealed, and often ignored emotions around unworthiness, guilt, and shame which manifest as a limited mindset. Many are ashamed for wanting to be in the spotlight, or for wanting money, success, and good fortune. Isn’t that weird? But it’s true, deep down many of us are embarrassed we want what we want!
We become martyrs who need to “work so much there’s no time for my writing,” or people start and start and start new projects in order to never have to finish the ones they set out to create–a realm of avoidance I’d know nothing of (ha). Or we are sad over being single so we don’t pour energy into a creative endeavor–we become “dwellers of lack.”
It’s all a form of the “Red Shoes” as my teacher Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes about in Women Who Run with the Wolves. We become addicted to something other than our creative lives and then self-destruct in small and big ways.
The thing in our life we want most is often the thing we are least willing to give ourselves.
I see this all the time with my clients — they want to write a book, yet they don’t consistently give themselves dedicated time to write. They want a successful business, yet they stop short of finalizing their business plan or funding strategy…remaining in a day job they don’t love is somehow “safer.” They want passive income, but they make unprofitable busy-work for themselves left and right. All of it is a form of procrastination, a form of not taking responsibility for our dreams.
So how do we stop doing this dance with our distant destinies?
We stop the cycle.
We reach out to our support system.
We get the help we need to break the habit of keeping our happiness at a distance.
How?
How do we take these unconscious and subconscious habits and turn them into opportunities?
In POP! I will be teaching the solution to this through a practice I’ve adapted from The Diamond Sutra.
The essence of this teaching is to give others what we hope to receive.
If we wish to be loved, to love others in the way we wish to be loved.
If we wish to be wealthier, we then need to help others become wealthy.
If we wish to be well known, or influential, we then need to give our attention and praise to those we admire.
(doesn’t this all sound like value-based marketing!?)
As I teach in my book: Life by the Cup, if you have a mission to serve, you cannot fail.
I believe this to be true. Except, when you are having an upper limit problem and you are using the habit of serving others TO AVOID doing your destined calling, then it’s just another, sophisticated version of avoidance.
To give fully from a place of spaciousness and joy is the mindset of POP!.
To take pleasure in the gifts of your heart and soul and to offer them as a means of taking care of others is the ultimate goal.
One way to understand whether you are giving for its own sake, or giving in order to limit yourself via an ULP is through energy. If you have a high level of energy that only grows once you’ve given, then you are in alignment. If you are giving, then find yourself scattered, frustrated, winded, drained or lonely–you are giving for the wrong reasons.
All in all, when a Conscious Creative approaches their business, art and relationships, if she is energized by the process, she can tell she’s on the magic carpet of her calling. This is the place where everything is possible.
Your mindset is the one expanding or limiting factor to your success.
There is nothing else. Trust me, I was a college drop out with $6 to my name and now I’ve been a CEO of a multi-million dollar company, a publisher at a top 5 publishing house, and a happily married human of 14+ years–all things I would have never thought were possible…until they were.
Tune in tomorrow for our last POP! Tip #7: What does it take to Launch? Where we’ll take everything we’ve learned in the POP! Course and put your vision out into the world.
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Here’s to your Imminent Success!
Zhena
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