In this video, Mary Schiller addresses coaches in the Three Principles community who feel stuck in building their practice. She lists common business tasks that seem missing—website, email service, social media, online courses, scheduling—and argues that the real obstacle is the limiting thoughts and fear that tell us we can’t do them. She illustrates this with personal stories of mastering a rigorous UCLA music entrance exam and self‑publishing her book, The Joy Formula, despite self‑doubt. Mary differentiates between genuine timing issues and thought‑driven procrastination, urging listeners to listen to their inspiration and intuition. She concludes with a concrete challenge: immediately take one concrete step toward a stalled business task, ignoring fearful thinking, to experience that the action is not as daunting as imagined.
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Hello, Mary Schiller here on day 6 of our Business Success Challenge. I am an author and Chief Permission Granter at MarySchiller.com. And this series of videos is for you if you're in the Three Principles Community and you want to build a successful practice sharing these principles. So we are on day 6, and I want to ask you something. What is holding you back? Does it seem like you're missing some pieces of the business puzzle? For instance, do you not have a functioning website? Do you need to set up an email service like through MailChimp or AWeber or something like that? Do you need to have a better grasp of social media? Do you need to understand more about creating an online course? Do you need to If you feel like it, deepen your understanding of the principles or explore some new ways of sharing them before you can really work with people comfortably. Do you need a way to schedule people's appointments effectively? There are all kinds of bits and bobs to creating a business, but at the core of it, You know what I'm going to say, right? There's only ever one thing that is holding us back, and that's that we're listening to some thinking. So if it looks to you like you need a functioning website and you just can't get it together, the only reason that you can't get it together is because you're listening to some thinking that says you can't, or If it looks to you like you don't have the money to get some business coaching or some Three Principles coaching, whatever you feel you need, that's again thought telling you something that's not true. So for me, one of the most beautiful things about understanding these Three Principles is knowing that Even if it looks like all these other things are holding me back, they're not. They're just not. And you know what is really fun is you can look for evidence of this in your life. I'm sure you can think of a time when you were really determined to do something and nothing stood in your way. You were just gonna go out and do it. You know, maybe when you were a kid, there was something you really wanted to learn or something you really wanted to master and you just went and did it. I know one of the things for me was I really, really wanted to study music as an undergraduate at UCLA. In order to get accepted into the music department, I had to pass a rather rigorous entrance exam, and nothing was going to stop me from passing that exam. I mean, I was not a gifted pianist. By anyone's imagination. And I worked my you-know-what off so that I would pass that exam. And I did. And I have looked at many things in my business that way too. For example, when I decided that I was going to put my first book, The Joy Formula, onto Amazon and also create a paperback I wanted to know how that whole thing worked. I wanted to be able to not just write the book, but design the book interior and exterior and figure out what I needed to put on the blurb on the back and how to make the whole thing actually look like a book. And nothing was going to stand in my way because anytime I had a thought that said, "Mary, you can't do this," I just ignored it. Because it was so important to me. It was such an inspirational thing that I wanted to do, not just for myself but for other people, that there was nothing that was going to stop me. So we can look at this in a couple of different ways. We can say, well, if I keep sort of stopping myself from doing something, it's either that I'm listening to a lot of thinking that says I can't do it, or I'm listening to some fearful thinking, that can happen too, that is saying, you know, I'm not good enough to do this, or this will never work, or who am I to talk about the principles, or who am I to be a Coach? We can have lots of kind of weird thinking like that. So that's one reason why we may be feeling like we're held back. Another one might just be, if we go all the way back to video 1 when I asked if this is a hobby or a business, it may just be the wrong time. For you to take certain steps, and that's okay too. In those cases, we really have to listen to ourselves. We have to listen to what our inspiration is saying. We have to listen to what our intuition is saying. Sometimes I find it really helpful to take a big step towards something that looks scary to me, and then once I've taken that step and I've already done it, It's like, oh, that really wasn't so bad. You know, I actually was able to do those books myself because I was very intimidated by that whole process, yet I just went forward and did it. And once I had done it, it was like, oh, that wasn't so bad, you know. And then I did it a bunch more times and it got easier every time. So sometimes it can be helpful to just do the thing already. Just get the thing done. So that is my challenge for you today. I want you to look at something that you have not done that you know is necessary to take the next step, and I want you to do it. And I'd love for you to do it today, the moment after you stop watching this video. Take the next step you need to take towards getting that thing done. If it's finding an email provider or getting a website online or putting a paid offer out into the world or whatever it is that you have been putting off because you got a bunch of fearful thinking or a bunch of thinking that says you can't or you shouldn't, you're allowed to ignore all of that and follow your inspiration and your intuition. So can you do that? Can you set all that thinking off to the side? Because that's not reflective of who you are or what you're capable of. Far from it. You are capable of the infinite. You have the infinite at your disposal, ready and willing to help you. And so I would love to see what it is that you can do today to take the next step. The thing that you have been scared to do or kind of nervous about. So that's your challenge for today. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in our last video. Bye!
