Awww…the Holidays…it’s the most wonderful time of the year, right???
Well, for some… maybe. But, I know for a lot of other people they can’t wait for them to be over!
Have you ever wondered WHY?
I mean beside the obvious culprits of getting swept up into doing things that you don’t really want to do… like buying gifts for people you see once a year…taking your kids to see a scary dude dressed up in a Santa suite… or making a bunch of Christmas cookies, when you don’t even like to bake!
For business owners, it can be even more interesting why this time of year is NOT wonderful.
Maybe it’s a SUPER busy time of year and you feel like you are stretched way too thin.
Maybe this is a really slow time of year in your business and you haven’t learned how to enjoy it YET.
Or…maybe your mind is just TOTALLY SCREWING with you!
Yes, you heard me right. Your mind may have you CONVINCED that this time of year HAS to be slow.
You may have had past years where December is your slowest time of year and you have just accepted that belief. This is where the mind can be totally screwing you over!
Here’s the thing…you are actually allowing a deeper part of you (your subconscious) to control how YOU feel. What is even better is that you don’t actually have to feel that way…once the past issue is healed.
Let’s take a deeper look into your mind and understand what creates this so that you can be FREE to create a NEW experience.
Our subconscious is like that database of a computer, it stores information. It has ALL of your past experiences stored. And it is constantly running what is happening right now against the experiences you have had in your past. When it finds similarities or something that “looks like” anything we have experienced in the past, it will automatically go to the beliefs created from that past experience. This happens when past issue or experience is NOT fully resolved or healed. You “buy” into it without even thinking about it.
So this can lead you into believing that things just HAVE to be a certain way. And we start to buy into using the excuses like…”It’s the Holidays”….my business is slow. What you are really saying is the you have NO control over it, which is NOT true.
The ONLY way to disrupt this from happening is to fully heal from that past experience.
Let me share a story from a client that ALWAYS had her worst month in December. She just thought that she just had to live with it. She used every excuse in the book about why that happened. But, when we dug deeper, it became clear what was really going on. She had a past business that had failed. And guess what…it was in December that she closed it down. She still had a lot of anger, sadness, embarrassment, and guilt from this experience that happened 6 yrs. ago. It was unresolved. So in her subconscious, each time December would roll around, all of those emotions came back up to the surface. And try having a successful month as a business owner when you are coming from a place of anger, sadness, embarrassment, and guilt. That is NOT a cocktail for success!
After doing the necessary work to fully heal…this December has been her BEST month of 2014 and there is still time left in the month!
So I want you to ask yourself… are you allowing your mind to screw you over?
It does NOT have to be that way!
Nice article Colleen. nice to see your posts on FB too.
Thanks so much, Tanya! Glad you enjoyed it. Happy New Year to you!
Thanks Coleen…..I really enjoyed the article tonite actually had time to read it now will do some metitating on it! Belated Merry Christmas and a most Happy New Year to all! S
Thanks, Sandy! Glad you enjoyed it! Happy New Year to you! May it be your best yet!