Owning your own home based business is a personal development journey with a pay check attached. It’s not just about the money … it’s the person we become along the way.

In achieving the confidence to need to have to create a life by design and not by default, we must ask ourselves certain questions along the way:

* What is the next level I want to achieve? * Who has achieved the results I want so that I can model them or mentor with them? * What are the character traits of that successful person? * What if I step into their character traits? * Take full responsibility for your business and your life, step into these positive traits and act ‘as if’.

How do our leaders attain that confidence and are able to maintain it?

What are some of the reasons holding people back?

Unfinished business is one of the factors that keeps us from moving forward with our plans. It is like carrying an invisible knapsack on our back that weighs us down and zaps us of the positive energy that we need to move forward. Imagine what would happen if we put that knapsack down and let it go? Solution: Create a clearing where you eliminate unfinished business.

We also don’t create a clearing for moving forward because of denial e.g. of finances, money flow, or never balancing our checkbook. The reality is that we are in denial. We pretend that there is not an issue but the issue constantly zaps our energy and is in the back of our minds constantly. Solution: get out of the denial phase immediately.

We must confront the issue and begin to address it. As you clear out these issues, your burden becomes lighter and you have energy to create new things. Every time you overcome an unresolved issue, you feel great, you have more confidence, you feel stronger, and facing the issue and dealing with it fills us with a sense of pride and a sense of accomplishment.

In creating financial wealth and in creating a life that is more than money, we must also identify our fears. Ask yourself: what is it that I am afraid of? What is my deepest fear? What is my deepest fear around my business? What do I fear about the future? What fears do I carry with me from my past?

When we begin to name our fears, we begin to identify what it looks like and then are able to develop a plan of action to overcome those fears. A very human response is to create stories around our fears and the stories become our reality. It is wise to remember the acronym that ‘fear’ is ‘False Evidence Appearing Real’.

The physiological response to fear is very important as it causes our adrenal glands to burn out, the stress creates large amounts of cortisol to be released in our body, our weight becomes ‘stuck’ and we are unable to release the weight. The body in effect creates a hormonal response of resistance and the body is exhausted. Women tend to gain weight while men tend to feel flat and exhausted. The result is a life filled with emotional clutter – we have baggage and we can’t get anything done.

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