I want to share something that might make a difference for you...

All my life I've been focused on my outer game: acquiring new skills, strategically planning my moves and actions, listing out pros and cons of certain choices.

But these last few years have taught me the importance of also working on my inner game: addressing the root cause of my fears, figuring out my patterns, bringing my limiting beliefs to light and making decisions to choose differently in alignment with my desires.

Lately, I realized that there is a cause and effect that we are barely aware of between the two:

• Our inner world (beliefs, thoughts, feelings) affects the energy and quality of our actions in the outer world.
• Our outer world generates evidence for these beliefs, thoughts and feelings.

So for example: the stronger your self-confidence, the better you perform when speaking in public. This generates good feedback from your audience and peers, which strengthens your self-confidence. And so on... You spiral up.

On the contrary: the more self-doubt you have, you become more nervous while in the spotlight. And when you don't get the result you want (eg clients signing up as a result of your presentation), it counts as additional evidence for your self-doubt. Which affects your next presentation... You spiral down.

Both our needed. Inner work to show up as your best self. Outer work to generate evidence that will shore up your self-belief.

This was what made it particularly difficult for me to establish myself as an entrepreneur at the beginning. Think about it...

As a beginner, you're still learning. So you make lots of mistakes. Which generates evidence that "you're not good at this" in spite of all your positive self talk. So the tendency is to spiral down, even if you start of with high hopes.

I struggled with this incongruence. Inside I knew this was the next step in my life, to build a career helping others become their best selves. But outside, no one apparently wanted to work with me.

At that time, I didn't know how to write posts that speak to my audience and show them what I could do. So of course I wasn't attracting any clients at the beginning. And this was "incontrovertible" evidence that this was "not for me".

What I needed then was support to shore up my self-confidence while I was building up evidence. This came in the form of friends who have experienced my healing and reinforced the message, borrowing the confidence my coach had in me, the emotional support my husband provided.

And I know other people have the same experience and the same need too.

This is why I created Safe Space, so we can give each other this support while we are still building up our inner confidence.

This is also why I offer the Breakthrough Accelerator program, to release the inner blocks that stop you from showing up as your best (Release! sessions). And to guide you in accessing the energy you need to make your message more magnetic (Content Coaching) so you can quickly generate more evidence.

So look around you. What support do you have while you are in this stage of launching your business? What additional support do you need?

🤗 Michelle

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