Mental Blocks for Business Success - Fear of Success, Part 2

The first key to reaching the results you want is to quickly identify your blocking beliefs.

I find a special joy in working with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) because it allows me to do just that -- to find a plethora of precise blocking beliefs easily and comfortably, without any big effort on my client's part. EFT allows me to use all the nuggets my client tells me outright, along with all that I "hear" underneath what my client does not say. I can suggest things out loud, insert my own intuition, and synthesize many things without it feeling like I'm rushing the process. EFT done artfully allows the client to feel fully heard without having to have the verbal skills to make that happen. Blocking beliefs are identified very quickly.

Step 2, of course, is clearing the blocking beliefs and getting on with the business of success!

My business clients want results! Period. They don't want a long process. The vast majority do not want or need to sit and talk through a lot of stories of their life. They want to clear the blocks and get back out there with a more prosperous business and more personal satisfaction.

"Joe" is a very successful businessman. He has been very successful not only at sales but at developing a wide variety of company functions that support the community and other businesses. Joe also happens to have a mother who is very competitive with him regarding success. They're both in the same business; in fact, Joe began his career working as a youing man for his mother's company. A lot of people start their careers by being brought into the family business. It's a wonderful opportunity to give your children!

Years later, however, if the son happens to start outproducing the mother -- well, most mothers would be proud as punch. But not so in this case. Joe's mother starts making jabs at him, begins to find a plethora of ways to sabotage Joe's work and often his reputation. It finally came down to Joe having to make a very tough decision - and he left the very successful business he had been instrumental in creating to begin again - alone. And through hard work, he became successful again.

So what's the problem, you say? Well, nothing that's apparent. Joe is successful once again. But there is a non-conscious sabotage going on that no one can see. It's so unapparent, that it is perplexing to Joe. So he comes in and we talk awhile. (It's helpful for all of us to have someone else hearing the story with a different set of ears.) We do some tapping around the area of; "if I become REALLY successful as before, my mother will find another way to hurt me," and other things.

Rejection is a difficult thing for all of us. And rejection by a parent is particularly hard. It goes against all that we are wired for to feel safe, loved, and comfortable. The tapping was able to loosen up some of that "wired" script that he would not be safe if he became a huge success. It's why I love EFT so very much. It doesn't put anything on anybody. There are no rules about the way you should be. It merely - and powerfully - clears the fear or whatever block is in the cellular structure, and you are free to make the choices that you want. Joe was free - to be hugely successful, to hide if he so wished - free to do whatever was his desire. It's called Emotional Freedom Technique. You are free from any emotions that would hinder you from pursuing what is your path, your passion.
Here's to your free pursuit! Read more!

Mental Stumbling Blocks for Business- Fear of Success, Part I

Business people have a wide laundry list of stumbling blocks that can handily sabotage their success. Just this week a solo entrepreneur (let's call him Bill) came in to talk about his desire to have greater success in his selling. It did not take long before he stated that his father was not able to provide very well for him and his four siblings. This client was well aware that his own father felt bad about this. Bill thought if he was more successful than his father it would certainly make his 75 year old father feel even more inadequate. Bill said this was a tape that just kept running over and over inside the recesses of his mind. He did not realize, however, how this tape put the brakes on his sales.

Are these blocking beliefs conscious for most people? No. Most people have fears of success that are completely unknown to them. For Bill, being a conscientious, sensitive middle-child son, he would never want to do anything to hurt his father's feelings, or, for that matter, be viewed unfavorably by his father.

We used some creative EFT to release the stuck blocking beliefs and in 20 minutes the many aspects of this block were gone.

This is one of many classic examples of "Fear of Success" themes that keep people unconsciously selling within a lower comfort zone than what they profess to want. Bill knew intellectually that his father was proud of him, but his gut, his non-conscious self, was in conflict about making his father proud and at the same time not feeling he could be more successful than his dad. His blocking belief and emotion made it seem mandatory to "protect" his father and maintain a lower sales comfort zone.

It's essential to ask yourself two important questions:

1. What do I really want for myself? Be specific.

2. What might be keeping me from not wanting to go there?

One good method to begin identifying what's really supporting your sabotage of success is a "stream of consciousness" writing. Set a timer for 10 minutes and write as fast as you can about any and every thought about reasons you would not want to achieve the success you talk about. You'll be amazed at what you uncover! Your list may look like a litany of thoughts that have, in fact, convinced your non-conscious self to make sure you don't succeed. Or at a minimum, these thoughts make success extremely hard work.

In 22 years of working with private clients, it's apparent that getting to the blocking beliefs very quickly is the first key in blasting them out and getting to the results you want. I'll talk about the second key in an upcoming blog. Thanks for listening and talk with you soon! Read more!

Raising Your Business Vibration

The economy is tanking - we hear it around every water cooler, every TV show and within every conversation. And if you open up your investment mailings, well - need I say more! This is just the time to put the cutting-edge technology of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to the test. It is more essential than ever to rid yourself of negative beliefs and emotions that will literally set you up for sabotage and a personal and professional downward spiral.

If you aren't familiar with the burgeoning literature of how thoughts create reality, revisit the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know" ( 2005), re-read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, or read the latest research by Bruce Lipton and others about beliefs, thoughts and how they literally create a physiology for success or failure. I urge you to request a special report I wrote compiling research by many of the top scientists in this field of energy psychology. You can request this report on my website www.powerful-performance.com. The main thing to know is that you MUST learn how to create a success physiology if you want to not only survive well, but ultimately thrive in this latest economic turn.

This thriving is just not economic. It's also about thriving in your sense of joy and freedom in your day-to-day living. It's easy, almost contagious, to get pulled down the drain with others who are complaining aout the economy, bad-mouthing their jobs, or projecting a negative version for their future. Be careful that you don't unknowingly allow this to lower your vibration. You can use technologies like Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to rid yourself of negative thoughts, both the ones you know about and the unconscious beliefs you don't even know are running the show and stopping your success efforts! You can use EFT so that your body and mind and spirit develop a congruence to assist you toward all your goals for a satisfying life.

This is not mumbo-jumbo. This is hard science that too few people know about and particularly DO anything about. I encourage you to find out about this science because we now have these technologies you can use, most anytime, anywhere,to enhance your mood, your energy, clear your blocking beliefs, and instill powerful thoughts that will create a significant shift toward your success. I've been increasing the amount of time I use EFT with myself lately. It's made a huge difference in raising my vibration - creating a sense of "all is well" even if my retirement account reads a much lower number! I may have less money than the "papers" said I used to have, but I'm feeling good, feeling positive. It is this vibration of energy that is allowing me to make good decisions and proceed with a light heart and positive expectation for success. Read more!