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We’re talking money moves by transforming a fixed mindset, or Beginner Energy. We do this to feel more confident and then money moves to you. This is the final post in a 3-part series about adopting a business success mindset to increase sales and profits.

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How do you stop practicing BEGINNER ENERGY?

In this final installment of a 3-part series, we’re getting really practical. These are real actions you can take to stop practicing Beginner Energy and show up in Pro Energy. Making the transition into Pro Energy, finances and so many other things in your world can respond, and your money moves to you. So, are you ready to do this? Let’s dive in!

The First & Most Important MONEY MOVES: Remembering & Owning Your Past Successes

As we talked about in Post 1 and Post 2 of this series, Beginner Energy leaches our confidence and erases from our memories our past successes. It continually moves the Starting Line so that you’re never beyond it. You’re never closer to the Finish Line because you remain poised for launch.

Here’s how you combat that issue, and own your successes!

List all of your accomplishments.

What don’t you let yourself take credit for achieving?
What is it that you secretly wish people would never stop talking about you having done but you also don’t talk about?
And look at the things you accomplished again. Is there anything you’ve blocked about the experience that was better than you allow yourself to remember?

At the stage of writing a list, do NOT focus on the parts of those experiences that were less than you desired. Focus intentionally on the best parts of those experiences.

Revisit this exercise every day at the start of the day. Write it out or record yourself on video talking about your successes. You will, I guarantee you, begin to remember things you haven’t allowed yourself to remember.

Say aloud, “I did that.” Feel it. Own your successes.

Once you’re starting to realize, “Holy shit, I’m amazing and I’ve come so much further than I thought,” then you can turn your attention to the parts of those experiences you didn’t quite love.

You can neutralize the energy of the facets of past successes that didn’t ‘go’ as you desired. (A powerful tool for neutralizing energy is FORGIVENESS; forgive yourself and others to transform negative energy [“bad vibes”] into neutral energy.) Then ask, “How is THIS [any facet that you’ve got a bad feeling about] proof positive that I am sure to receive [the next thing/experience you desire]?”

More MONEY MOVES To Make To Heal Beginner Energy (Fixed Mindset)

Maintain awareness of what thoughts you’re thinking.

You might find it helpful to freewrite three times a day for at least three days. Do it on paper or in one computer document. Look for themes, and repeating ideas that belittle you.

The goal is then to quickly dismiss any thought that accompanies a punched-gut feeling or other dis-empowered feeling. Dismissed quickly they won’t gain momentum and keep creating in your life experiences you don’t actually desire.

Set goals & rewards.

Note: A person practicing Beginner Energy will not want to do this!

It helps to set action-focused goals, or what I call “output goals.” Would you like to read a blog post about the way I set Output Goals? Let me know in the comments!

Develop a Learning integration practice.

Ask and answer questions before and after reading/watching/listening to training material. Questions like:

• Why are you reading/watching/listening?
• What do you want to walk away with?
• Are there actions you take to put this into practice?
• What holes remain?
• Are there questions you still need answered?

Publicly announce your wins and celebrate.

In fact, you ought to come on into the Facebook Group, MANIFESTING GOOD SHIT, and share your celebrations!

Take a break from following other people.

Do this especially those whose voices you’ve treated as authoritative in your space. If only for 3 weeks or 30 days using Facebook’s 30-day-snooze feature.

Don’t fall prey to others’ marketing that is meant to attack your vulnerabilities and make you feel inadequate so that you’ll buy.

Rewrite any story that says it’s unsafe to be confident.

(Like if you grew up being told that anyone who is confident is cocky, or something…)

Affirmations to Help Heal Beginner Energy

“It is safe for me to be curious. I can be curious while remaining confident in my lived experience and theoretical knowledge. Confident curiosity is my general state of being when I’m thinking of and working in my business.”

“I am a PRO within my business. No one has been in my business longer than me. With this position comes a lot of incredible responsibility, and I handle this responsibility gracefully. I know what I know, and I do my best to integrate new information in the areas where I don’t know everything.”

“I am a PRO at running my business. There is always room to grow, and I seek support as I grow in all the right ways. Still, it is safe to trust and refer to my lived experience.”

Recap of “Money Moves When You Ditch This Fixed Mindset / Beginner Energy”

There are 7 steps you can take to embrace Pro Energy. In doing so, you’re navigating out of the fixed mindset or Beginner Energy that has kept you stuck.

The 7 things you can do aren’t in a particular order. You may do one, some or all of these things and see the desired results: increased sales and expanding profits.

Here they are again:

1. Refresh your memory about your past successes.
2. Get aware of the thoughts that hold you back.
3. Set goals & rewards.
4. Develop a Learning Integration practice.
5. Publicly announce your wins and celebrate!
6. Take a break from following other people.
7. Rewrite any story that says it’s unsafe to be confident. (There are affirmations for that above!)

PLEASE COMMENT your biggest takeaway from today’s post!

In 2015, I closed the deal with my biggest client, who has paid me more than $45k in the years since. And after that? Shit got hairy and scary in my business. So why wasn’t my business growing steadily, let alone exponentially? My business got stagnant because of a practice we’re covering in today’s post.

In this first post of a 3-part series, you’ll learn about a mindset & energy that could be holding you back from big-time business success. We’ll look at the thoughts characteristic of this way of being. Then we’ll look at the imbalance you’re likely suffering of traits that are critical to your success. We’ll cover how to diagnose if this is indeed the cause of stagnation in your sales/profits. You’ll see that this is at the root of several common problems.

Read Post 2/3: “Success Mindset for Business: Cultivate PRO ENERGY to Win” >

Business Isn’t Growing? The Cause Is Probably BEGINNER ENERGY

The BEST way to stay exactly where you are is to practice BEGINNER ENERGY.

BEGINNER ENERGY is an attitude toward our past, current and future successes where we feel like we’ve not accomplished anything of note, and that there’s so much more we need to know to be able to accomplish anything. This attitude or energy is created by our repetition of disempowering thoughts and then reinforced by our life experiences (which are created by our thoughts). It is not a necessary or required attitude, and it’s not even a helpful one. Because Beginner Energy is the practice of powerless ignorance instead of empowered curiosity.

BEGINNER ENERGY is primarily a focus problem. When we practice Beginner Energy, we focus on our blind spots and areas of real or perceived inexperience, totally ignoring what we’ve done and done well, so that we can’t feel confident. It’s not even a problem of moving the finish line before you’ve reached it but of moving the starting line so you’re never actually in the race!

This is when we maintain that sense of every next client being the first client we’ll ever work with. (Have you felt that?)

Just Because You’ve Been In Business For Years Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Practicing Beginner Energy

And here’s something really worth noting: BEGINNER ENERGY can surface and be practiced again at any level of your life & business. Because it’s not actually about you being a beginner at something but feeling like you don’t know anything.

REMINDER: Beginner Energy is created and sustained by the repetition of disempowered thoughts and the act of dismissing previous successes.

Already looking for additional reading? A few years ago I wrote on Huffington Post about other causes of sickness in your business (a.k.a. other reasons your business isn’t growing). Click here to read it >

The Thoughts of Beginner Energy

Beginner Energy is present in thoughts like the following:

• I’m nothing special.
• I’ve done nothing special.
• It’s crazy to think this will work.
• I don’t know enough. What else do I need to know?
• This just can’t work.
• Why isn’t this working?
• What’s it going to take?
• Is it too much to ask that I ____?
• What am I doing wrong?
• How can I possibly compete when she’s doing this, and she’s doing this?

When these kinds of thoughts pop up and you do not immediately dismiss them with intention, they repeat and repeat and become your energetic state: the state of BEGINNER ENERGY.

Beginner Energy is the condition that keeps you seeking inside of finding.

Rosella LaFevre, Success Coach and Long-Haul Master

BEGINNER ENERGY says “I don’t know anything,” “I need someone to tell me what to do,” and asks “Why isn’t this working?” It ignores questions such as “What have I done well?” Beginner Energy forgets that new info gets to be integrated with “old” info and lived experience. It thinks that others have the answers and keeps us perpetually in search of answers.

Beginner Energy is the condition that keeps you seeking inside of finding.

In the 3rd post of this 3-part series, we’ll talk about how to stop practicing Beginner Energy. But for now, I’ll tell you that the power of a Sponsoring Thought to induce success totally eludes the person who practices Beginner Energy. And you can read more about how to use the Sponsoring Thought here >

The Imbalance Inherent in Beginner Energy

The person practicing Beginner Energy is overly curious in a disempowered way, and as a result, finds it near impossible to feel at all confident. Don’t get this wrong. Curiosity is as critical to your success as confidence is, but there’s a specific way to practice them to achieve your desires. These traits must be in a relative balance to move you closer to your dreams.

BEGINNER ENERGY is fundamentally a problem of incorrect focus. Overly focusing on what others do or consider the right way, and acting as if you don’t have the answers you need are two ways you practice incorrect focus. This is the disempowered version of curiosity. And it leads to loss of confidence. Like when your body leaches calcium and your bones get weak.

When you practice Beginner Energy, you lose confidence and you’re not fortified the way you need to be to receive your manifestations. This is why your business isn’t growing.

Enjoying this post on Beginner Energy? We’re going to talk in the next post about what the proper balance of curiosity and confidence look like in practice. In the third post of this series, we’ll talk about how to stop practicing Beginner Energy.

Diagnosing Beginner Energy as the Reason Why Your Business Isn’t Working…

You might be practicing (and suffering from) BEGINNER ENERGY if you…

• Aren’t seeing the profits you desire coming through your business (ESPECIALLY if you’re creating income through other work that doesn’t feel like your soul’s work).
• Invested in coaching, programs, and courses then saw little or no return on your investments.
• Need someone to confirm you’re “doing the right thing” (or you want a coach to “tell me what to do”).
• Downloading all the freebies and watching all the livestreams and failing to understand how that information fits in with or extends your own experience and knowledge.
• Haven’t signed clients in months. And that’s even though you’ve had spots “available” in your client roster, and you show up consistently.
• Feel like the next client you sign will be your first, even though it wouldn’t.
• Feel like signing a client at a new fee is starting all over again and you have thoughts like, I’ve never signed a client at this rate. This is a big deal.

Beginner Energy Can Cause These Common Problems For The Boss Woman Whose Business Isn’t Growing

BEGINNER ENERGY also leads to the suffering of:

• Zero or Little Profit in Your Business: Struggling to make sales, even if you’ve made sales before, and feeling attacked every time a business coach writes a post about expensive hobbies vs. profit-generating businesses.
• Shiny Object Syndrome: Like downloading all the freebies, taking all the courses, and always looking for a new answer to the question, “What am I doing wrong?”
• Impostor Syndrome: Feeling, always, like a big fat fake on the verge of being found out and thrown overboard by the others in your world.
• Lack of Clarity and Focus: Changing directions constantly, exploring new niches at random, and struggling to give a straight-forward answer about your business (even in your journal).
• Analysis Paralysis: An obsession with gathering more information combined with the inability to make a damn decision.

Recap of “Your Business Isn’t Growing. Could You Be The Cause Of Stagnation?”

In conclusion, yes, YOU could be the cause of stagnation in your business if you’re practicing Beginner Energy. (Actually… if you believe in Law of Attraction, you’re always the cause of everything you experience…) Anyway.

You learned the following from today’s post about the possible reason why your business isn’t growing:

• The boss women (and men) who practice the mindset and way of being called BEGINNER ENERGY are usually the same ones who aren’t making sales as desired. This may be the reason big-time business success eludes you.
• The thoughts that are characteristic of someone practicing Beginner Energy look like: I’m nothing special, It’s crazy to think this will work, and This just isn’t working.
• Someone practicing Beginner Energy experiences an imbalance of two traits that are critical to success. The first, which someone with Beginner Energy has too much of and is practicing in an unempowered way, is Curiosity. The second, which someone in Beginner Energy is not displaying much of at all, is Confidence.
• We’ve gone over how you can diagnose if you’ve practiced Beginner Energy, causing stagnation in your sales/profits.
• I have also outlined for you the common problems caused by the practice of Beginner Energy. These problems include Analysis Paralysis, Imposter Syndrome, and Shiny Object Syndrome.

PLEASE COMMENT BELOW: What is your number 1 takeaway from today’s post?

Post 2 of this series will show you the energy and mindset that are the opposite of Beginner Energy, so you can stop worrying about how your business isn’t growing. That post is coming Wednesday, June 5, 2019.

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