Is your past sabotaging your business success?-Colleen Norris Wellness

I can’t believe it’s March already… 2015 is flying by!

If you are feeling stuck around going to the next level in your business or career, then take this 1 minute quiz to determine if your past is negatively impacting you right now.

Ask yourself the following questions…

Are you letting opportunities pass you by? I’m not talking about the opportunities you don’t want, but the ones you secretly DO want but have convinced yourself why you can’t or haven’t taken them. Maybe you want to do more speaking, host a live event, or sponsor an event.
Are you procrastinating? On following up with potential clients? On attending networking events? You know exactly what you need to do, but you are not doing it.
Is there an experience from your past that you can’t even talk about? That you feel ashamed about? That you secretly hope that no one ever finds out about.
Are there people in your life that you can’t even be around because they remind you of someone that hurt you in the past?
Are you quick to get angry, frustrated, or sad? The level of emotion that you feel does not match the current situation that triggered you. Are you quick to lose your patience with friends, family, or co-workers?
You have taken programs about how to grow your business…learning marketing, sales, social media, branding…BUT you are still not seeing the results you want.

If you answered YES to any of the above, your past is sabotaging your current success.

Here is where you can easily be misguided…

Just because an experience happened in your past does NOT mean you have moved past it. I’m not suggesting you wallow in the past, but there is a way to move forward without getting stuck in the story.

Just because a person is no longer in your life, does NOT mean that they are not impacting you. If you are holding onto resentment, un-forgiveness, anger, sadness, etc. toward someone, guess what? You are allowing them to have power over you.

Just because you have gone to therapy or some type of counseling, does NOT mean you have HEALED from it. Don’t get me wrong, therapy can have it benefits and can help get you to a certain point, BUT have you fully healed from it? When you experience a trauma or crisis, your body changes physiologically, new connections form in your brain. Those connections can NOT be broken with just talking about an experience. And, if the connections are not broken, you can stay stuck.

So there’s good news and not-so-good news.

Let’s start with the good news. You made it through that past experience, you coped through it! You survived it. It didn’t crush you. YAY!

Now, the not-so-good news. The same coping mechanisms that helped you make it through that experience are now KILLING your success. But this is actually good news too…because when you become aware of the root cause of an issue, you become empowered to change it! So maybe the root issue here blocking your next level of success is not what you thought it was.

You see, coping from an experience, is NOT the same as HEALING.

I am going to say that again, not to insult your intelligence, but because it is SO important. Coping from an experience is NOT the same as healing.

Let me give you an example.

I had a client that was stuck at about $5,000 per month, and she was frustrated. She had taken just about every program about how to build a successful business but her business wasn’t growing. One of the main issues we identified was in her sales conversations. After going deeper, it became clear that there was a childhood trauma that was not healed that was impacting her sales conversations. It showed up as her people pleasing, wanting to be liked, and not showing up as the powerful person she is in that conversation. So potential clients consistently told her they saw the value in what she did, but didn’t have the money to work with her, or the timing was “off”.

After doing the necessary work to HEAL from the past trauma, she tripled her monthly income in 5 months. It wasn’t about making more money, it was about helping more people and making a bigger impact in their life. She wasn’t able to actually make that impact until she healed from her past. She didn’t need another program about sales, she needed to let go of the baggage she was bringing into the sales conversation, her baggage.

I want you to think about this…

What impact is a past experience having on you right now?

If you are ready to finally let go of the impact of a past experience(s) and free yourself to powerfully move your business forward, I want to invite you into a Complimentary Breakthrough Session with me.