10x Your Success & Happiness: Clear these 7 Subtle Blocks

Welcome to the Makeshift Happen podcast. I'm your host, Samantha Daly, entrepreneur, life coach, and your no BS bestie, here to bring you all things mindset, manifestation, and personal development. This podcast is designed to help you expand your mind and uplevel your life. So turn the volume up and roll the windows down if you're coming along for the ride. Let's go make shit happen. What's up guys, welcome back to the podcast. Today we are jumping into a solo episode. It's going to be just you and I. We have had so many incredible guests on the show lately, which I'm so grateful for, but that has meant that it's been a little while since we've had just a one-on-one chat, you and me. So today we've got a solo episode and we're gonna be talking all about these 7 subtle things that are likely holding you back from more wild success and happiness in your business. So these things are, you know, I think these are sometimes things that can kind of creep up or that are happening or running in the background of our lives or businesses that we don't really even realize are affecting us. And that's why they're, I'm, I'm calling them these subtle things because They're kind of there, but they're not the most obvious things that you might notice in terms of what you think is stopping you from growing or reaching that next level of impact, of income, of, um, joy, fulfillment, excitement, revenue in your business. So pay attention. I think this episode is gonna be really useful. It might be one that you wanna grab your notes up for, or you might just wanna listen casually and take whatever lands and sticks with you and let that be the sign of like something you want to work on or dig into deeper. And honestly, just like Leave the rest, you know? Um, I never want these episodes to be something that make you feel pressured or like you're doing a bunch of things wrong in business. That's not where we're going with this. This is just kind of a fun way to illuminate and shine the spotlight on some things that might be stagnating you or holding you back in business. And if we can shine a light on that, it might honestly, this conversation alone be enough to help you realize that you are doing something or you're operating a certain energy, and that can be enough to help you start to put the wheels in motion. To shift that, to break out of it, and to choose something different, better, bigger. So that is my hope with this episode. So let's go ahead and dive into these 7 subtleties that might be holding you back. Number 1, coming in hot right out of the gate. We have to talk about being stagnant in your identity. This idea of complacency, right? Acting as who you've always been for some time instead of pushing yourself to evolve into a new version, a new iteration of you. This looks like making business decisions based on past experiences or past ways of doing things rather than making business decisions from your future potential, from the business that you are moving towards rather than the business that you currently have, right? And the truth is that we are all, no matter where you are in life or business, we are all capable of so much more. I really believe human potential is infinite. Infinite. It is not a finite game. So we are all capable of growing and evolving and achieving more, no matter where we're at, no matter how far we've come, no matter what level of success we've reached already. But the problem is that we get stuck viewing our life, our potential, and our ability through the lens of who we used to be or who we currently are operating as, rather than from the lens of who we are becoming or who we could be stepping into if we just decided that that was the person that we wanted to embody, right? And so I had to kind of illustrate this. I had a client who recently had a new idea for a business mastermind that she wanted to create. And this business mastermind was really going to be for existing business owners to kind of help them regulate their nervous system, to calibrate to a higher standard, to hold themselves to a higher standard, and to kind of evolve their self-concept and their brand. And she was sharing this idea with me, but she was like, you know, I've never run a business mastermind before. Do you feel like I'm skipping a step here? Like, is this me trying to jump too far ahead? Should I create a more introductory offer first? That's for really, you know, beginner business owners that want to build the foundations and learn the basics first. And, you know, I think this is a prime example of us kind of getting stuck in the identity of who we've been operating as and not believing that we have the capability or the potential to evolve faster than what the, the world or the people around us or our industry or whatever has kind of showcased us as, as being like the norm, right? And, and we get stuck trying to follow this formulaic process of like, no, first you do this and then you do that and then you can do that and then you're worthy enough to have that. And it's like, not everyone's journey is gonna look like that, right? It's so nonlinear, especially in business and, and personal brand, especially because the offers that you put out and the things that you're gonna be selling are a reflection of your values. They're a, are a reflection of your expertise. They're a reflection of what you've spent a lot of time, energy, and resources mastering, embodying, learning about. And that might go totally out of order compared to somebody else's journey, you know. There's also the factor here of like, maybe she doesn't want to create a, you know, basics course or like a Foundations of Business course. Maybe she's not interested in teaching people how to build a landing page or how to perfect their Instagram bio or whatever some of those elements of that program might be. So are we are we supposed to put ourselves in that box? Are we supposed to, you know, retrograde our growth, uh, because someone out there thinks that that's a more logical, linear way of doing things? No. I think you've gotta be able to evolve your identity and, and the way that you see yourself to be able to hold this new creation or this new level of mastery that you've adopted in your life and actually, you know, provide yourself the validation of, no, I, I'm really good at these things. These are skills that I hold that I've put a lot of time, attention, and energy and resources into mastering. And I can teach this even if it doesn't make total sense in my product suite, or even if it's not, you know, the first, second, then third sort of system or formula that other people are following. Like, I can do this because this is how I'm choosing to see myself. I think we get stuck a lot in the narratives of like, I'm the type of person who does this, that, or the other thing, or, oh, I'm not really like that, or that's never worked for me, or I'm not that kind of girl, you know, like, and questioning what are those identities that we've built for ourselves that we've constructed and that we've been falling in line with for some time now. And does it mean that we all— that always has to be true for us? It doesn't mean that it was never true. Maybe it was true. You know, when I think about this, I think about like content creation, for example. And I always talked about how I was not the type of person who could batch content or who could sit down and come up with content ideas or be really like planned and structured when it came to content. And for a long time in my business, business for many years, I was a person who created on the fly. A hit of inspiration, I'm gonna write the post, I'm gonna post it. And at some point I had the opportunity— I was having a conversation with a friend, we were walking on the beach, and she presented the opportunity for me to step out of that mold, to step out of that identity and actually question, is that still true for me? Does it always have to be true for me? Or do I have the potential to become the person that can be more planned and structured with content? And what might that do for my business? And how that— how might that be of service to me? Right? And so I ask myself that question, like, maybe I could get more organized with this, you know, and maybe I'm, I'm not, um, having to batch, you know, 30 pieces of content for the whole month if that feels really gross and icky and, and out of alignment with me and my energy and, and my creation style. But like, maybe I really could time block and strategize better and set aside set days in my schedule where I tap into that creative energy and I do plan some posts and I do kind of like batch create or batch film videos and then, and schedule them for the week. And I decided that I was capable of holding that new identity. And so I made that change and I created content from a pretty, you know, structured sort of planned place. I had my Friday-Monday splits where I would ideate and kind of write and come up with the ideas on Fridays, and then I would execute and film and put all the pieces together on Mondays. And I did that for well over a year, and that year my content got so much better. Um, I got way more engagement, way more aligned clients. I made more money than ever. I got more views than ever, increased my following. Like, so much changed. But that would have never been possible if I didn't allow myself to question, is this identity still relevant for me? And am I really stuck in this box, or did I build the box and I can also deconstruct the box and, and create a new one? You know, so There's all sorts of ways where we tell ourselves, oh, I'm this type of person, or I'm not that type of person, or I like this, or I don't like that, or I'm not capable of that, or oh, that's not really my style. But it's like, hmm, wouldn't that be interesting if we just questioned, okay, maybe that once was true, but like, is that still true now? Things like maybe you're the type of person that has felt like you need this really long-ass morning routine in order for you to be in the best energy for the day. Is that still true for you? Could you potentially shorten that? What if you were the person that could have a really quick bite-sized morning routine and then you were able to get done with work even earlier? And then you had more free time at the end of the day? Like, I don't know. It's just fun to be able to question and step outside the bounds of who we've seen ourselves to be. Some people feel like, oh, I can't work out in the morning, just doesn't work for me. I'm not a morning person or whatever the story is. And it's like, okay, maybe that once was true. Is it still true? Does it always have to be true? I don't know. Right. So that's number one, getting out of like the stagnancy of your identity, getting out of complacency, starting to question and just open up your mind to new ways of operating in business, of, of seeing yourself, of shifting your routines and, you know, actually just conceptualizing of this idea that like you could actually be different and you could do things in a different way. So number 2 kind of piggybacks off of that. It's another version of stagnation in business, but this one is about always investing at your comfort level. And so a story to illustrate this, I had a client who had been in Abundant and Ambitious with me, and then she kind of went off on her own for a while and was doing her thing and she was doing, you know, she was doing fine. She was doing well. She was kind of maintaining pace in her business and making some progress and everything was like good, you know? And then I don't know how long passed, 6 months, 8 months. I don't know. Maybe it was a year actually. I'm not sure. But eventually I invited her into Top Tier. I called her forward into that experience because I was like, I love working with you. I see what you're doing. I know that you have so much potential. I really think that this space would be so powerful for you, kind of like skyrocketing to the next level. And at first she had some resistance to this. She was like, oh my gosh, you know, I think Top Tier looks amazing. I love the branding of it. I was definitely looking at it, but as I was reading through it, I just kind of felt like, oh, she's not talking to me. Like, this isn't about me. I don't really see myself as this, you know, industry icon, as a leader, as, you know, all these things that you're using on the sales page to describe the woman that is designed, that this space is designed for. Like, I just don't really know if that's me. Like, do you think that I'm at the right level for that? And so this is a case in point example of exactly what we talked about in step 1 is not evolving your identity to see yourself as something bigger, something greater, something more. And so luckily she had me who was like, bitch, yes, you, you're not going to see yourself that way until you put yourself in the rooms and the experiences that allow you to accelerate that identity shift and, and actually put you in a space where you're like, oh yeah, like I am, I am that. I do see myself as that. Right? And so she ended up joining Top Tier. She had an incredible time, so many changes and uplevels and, and a lot of growth in her business. And then soon, not too long after that, she also ended up joining Proximity with me, which is my one-on-one, uh, business mentorship. And so in that year between Top Tier and also joining Proximity with me, so within a year of kind of investing in herself at much higher level than she had ever done before, because Top Tier and Proximity are both much higher ticket investments than something like Abundant and Ambitious, which she had done previously. By investing in herself at a much higher level, in one year she 5x'd her monthly income, which is wild, like 5x'd her monthly income, and went from making $5K months, consistent $5K months, which she was really happy with when she was off on her own. She was like, this is great, my business is doing well. But she didn't realize that within a year she could be making $25K months and beyond if she would just put herself in the spaces that would evolve her identity more rapidly so that she felt like she was worthy of those things. She was deserving of those things. She was taking bigger action to achieve those things. Right. And so in the previous year, when she was hoping to just hit $100K by the end of the year and have a six-figure year, she's now hitting $100K by the end of quarter two. Right? And she's looking at a multi-six-figure year. And that is what's possible when we push ourselves to invest outside the bounds of our comfort level and to not just sit in the comfort zone, in the comfy era of our business of like, okay, I've figured these things out, I have these tools, this is working, la di da di da di da di da. You can go on the la di da di da di da route for a while. You could go on that for a year, for 2 years, for 3, for 4. But if you want to accelerate that growth, you're gonna have to do something different. Right? People often feel like something major needs to change, or there needs to be an uplevel in their business, or the revenue has to significantly, significantly increase, or they need to go through some sort of growth spurt in order to justify investing at new and higher levels of support. But the truth is that you can manufacture that growth spurt. You don't wait for the growth spurt. You create the growth spurt. If you flip that mindset and you actually invest first and make the bigger moves first, because you are forcing your identity, your behaviors, your sales, your effort to actually catch up now and match the level of commitment of that investment that you just made. So contrary to how a lot of people feel, I really think, you know, you're not ready for the bigger investment because you haven't done it yet. You feel like you're not ready for that next investment, not because you're— you need to wait for something to happen in order for you to be ready. It's like you're not ready because you haven't done it yet. If you want to be ready for it, then just go do it and it'll light the fire under you to get fucking ready. The new level investment is the spark, it's the ignition, it's the push. And then the momentum is what follows. Once you have enough skin in the game to be like, oh shit, okay, I guess this is who I am now. I guess this is the type of business I run now. I guess we're growing. I guess we We better act like it, right? Because here we go. Because, oh, fuck, because I already did it, because I already invested. So I better catch up. And that's what, like, catapults you into an accelerated level of growth. And here's the thing, you know, entrepreneurs by definition are risk takers. By definition, we deviate from the standard path that everybody takes in the world. We deviate from these constructs that allow everyone else to feel safe and comfortable and supported in, you know, consistent same income salaries. Like, by definition, entrepreneurs have to be risk-takers. And so a lot of people feel like, I need to make more money before I can invest in higher levels of support. Again, the entrepreneurial mindset is the person that's willing to think backwards on that. And there is a difference between financial responsibility and you just being a person that has very low tolerance for risk. And if you are an entrepreneur and you want to be a wildly successful entrepreneur, then you are going to have to expand your capacity for higher tolerance of risk. I mean, all of the wildly successful people that I have ever studied or learned from directly started making ridiculously audacious— some people may even say delusional— decisions way before they ever had the finances, the reputation, or the clout to back those things up. You know, the big-time entrepreneurs of our generation that have gone on to become multibillionaires, they have all looked objectively sick in the head for what they were willing to risk in order to bring those visions to life. Right? You think about companies like Apple, Tesla, whatever. It's like, do you think that that happened by them being like, oh, first I need to make some sales and then I will go to the investors? Like, it usually happens the other way around, you know? And I posted something about this on Instagram recently and someone commented like, 'Not really. Like, you can't invest if you don't have the money. So like, you need to make the money from your business in order to buy it or pay for it. Like, it's not free.' And I responded, and it's like, 'Okay, you kind of have to understand that most successful entrepreneurs, companies, startups especially, they don't have the capital at the start. And so what they're going to do is they're going to receive funding from other people in order to build their company and their brand or their product. They sell an idea, they get money from other people and other sources, then they build and then they pay it back, right? Most highly successful entrepreneurs will build the early foundations of their business on debt, whether this is borrowed money, personal loan, business loan, credit card, whatever. And then they're able to pay that money back. I think in, in the coaching space specifically, it's maybe a little bit more common for people to have built their business, uh, self-funded, but also it is so wildly common that coaches built their businesses off the back of loans or debt or credit cards because again, they had an idea, they had a passion, and they were ready to, to put it out in the world, but they didn't have the funds. And so they needed to get that from somewhere. You know, I started my business by borrowing money. I had to borrow $5,000 so that I could get a business coach so that I could learn how to implement and scale. And then from there, I was able to start generating more money, pay that money back, and then continue investing further in larger more expansive levels of support. But every millionaire that I know was acting like they knew what they were doing way before they even had a clue. You know, they weren't sitting there clutching their pocketbooks or skimping out on support or staying quiet until enough people cared. No, they made people care by boldly showing up and by showcasing, you know, how big their belief in themselves were. You've got to be the thing that inspires people to jump on board and be part of your mission. You can't like tiptoe your way around and hope that people get excited enough for them then to prove it to you that your idea is worthy of big action and investment and, you know, audacious confidence. No, you have to prove that to yourself first. You have to be the proof and your proof and the energy that you carry in those big moves and that confidence and that showing up, that's gonna be the thing that ignites a fire in the audience and inspires them to come along on your mission and movement, right? You're never going to get people to join a mission or a movement of yours if you're like, yeah, so— Okay, so I have something I think you're really going to love and your business is going to love it even more. Do you want to steal the strategy I've been using to seduce premium buyers and sell out my offers on Instagram Stories? Chances are you're already posting, you're already making sales. But if your Instagram Stories aren't working as hard as you are, you're leaving money on the table. Sold Out Stories is going to teach you exactly how to change that so that you can sell out any offer at any price point. 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It sounds so crazy when you think about it like that. So I'm going to need you to be so for real right now. If you really knew that your work had the power to change thousands, potentially millions of people's lives, would you still be tiptoeing your way to growth the way that you are entertaining? You know this. Oh, maybe I'm not ready for that bullshit. Whether it's about investments, speaking gigs, pitching yourself, hiring staff, attending a high-ticket event, Or would you be saddling the fuck up and making some way bigger moves? Because honestly, it is supposed to feel scary. And I think we forget that it is supposed to feel scary and inconvenient. It's almost like that is the entire definition of growth. Oh my God, what a concept that growth is supposed to be uncomfortable and scary and inconvenient. Whoa. Like, sometimes we forget this because if it were meant to be easy and painless, everyone else would have done it by now. So you gotta like ask yourself, who are you when these big opportunities come knocking? When the next phase of growth is breathing down your neck, who are you? Who are you gonna be? Are you gonna be the person that's like, oh, maybe next time, I think I need to wait, I'm not ready, I need to make some more sales first. Or are you gonna be the person that's like, that actually doing that thing that's really uncomfortable and scary and I'm not ready for is gonna be the ignition to me actually forcing myself to get ready. That's gonna be the thing that accelerates me into the readiness and pushes me into a new identity, because now I'm gonna be forced to meet myself at that level. It's setting a higher standard, right? And so the secret sauce is making moves that are informed by who you're gonna be in the future, not by who you were or what you were capable of in the past, or how you've always done things, or how you've been doing things for the last little while. It's time to turn the page, enter a new era, adopt a new identity, and get so excited for what's to come from that. You know, I think the mantra for this is really, no one has ever seen this version of me before and they are not fucking ready. That's the mantra. Repeat after me. No one has ever seen this next version of me and they are not fucking ready. Okay. Number 3 is what I call vision board syndrome. This is where you are just the person that's always casting your goals too far out into the future. You're the person that's always like, I'm manifesting being on that podcast. I'm manifesting this for my business. I'm manifesting going to an event like that someday. I'm manifesting coming to one of your retreats, but you're not actually ever making it fucking happen. And sometimes we just have to be so for real with ourselves of like, am I ever going to get out of the phase of like, I'm manifesting it, I'm manifesting, I'm manifesting, manifesting it, or are you just gonna fucking do it, right? So vision board syndrome is really about like thinking that all of your dreams and desires and next level of growth and success and revenue and joy and fulfillment and whatever is, you know, 5, 10, 15 years out in the future. And I kind of talked about this in my episode with John Hillstead, all about manifestation and abundance. So if you haven't listened to that episode, go listen. It was a really good one. But we talked about this because it's like, what is the reason that we do that? I think it's a safety mechanism. I think it's a coping mechanism. It's like, well, if I tell myself that, you know, my business isn't going to grow to that level, or my podcast isn't going to grow to that level, or I'm not going to have that many followers, or I'm not going to make that amount of money for another year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, then I don't really have to change anything right now. I don't have to saddle the fuck up and do something different. I don't have to question what I'm doing. I don't have to make new investments. I don't have to expand myself. I don't have to pitch myself. To new opportunities or speaking gigs or podcasts or things that feel uncomfortable. No, I can just keep doing what I'm doing because if I keep doing what I'm doing, then I'm just going to keep making $5K months. And if I tell myself that I'm not going to reach $100K months for another 10 years, then I don't have to change and I don't have to face the scary parts of that change and the radical action that is going to be required. And what would that mean? And might there be things in my life that don't actually fit with that new reality? Are there going to be people in my life that can't relate to me anymore? Ooh, maybe there's a fear there that I'm gonna have to let go of some things, or that my relationships might shift, or that people's perception of me might shift. And maybe a part of me doesn't want that to happen. And so I'm telling myself that that growth is so far out in the future so that I don't have— I don't have to face the reality of, of the consequences of growth. Cuz there are consequences of growth. Of course, you know, we all want the, the shiny parts, but there are a lot of parts of growth that we don't want. And so it's worth examining, what about these goals? Do I not want? What about these goals am I scared of? What are the consequences of me actually achieving my highest potential, truly, even if they're perceived, right? What are the perceived consequences, setbacks, sacrifices that might have to take place, or that I think might have to take place in order for that to happen, or that to be possible, or for that lifestyle or that level of success to be sustainable for me? And that's, you know, the shadow work of where you're gonna find why you keep throwing your dreams way out into the future rather than being like, oh my God, maybe I could do that in 5 months instead of 5 years? What would that look like? Ooh, but that might require me to like hire the person and spend a lot of money, or get support, or have a new team member, or pitch myself to this new opportunity, or actually go out into the world and talk about my services more. And ah, right? So number 3 is vision board syndrome. Check yourself if you think you might have it. Number 4 is too much logic and not enough magic. And this is where we kind of get bogged down by the hyper-masculine strategies that really leave no room for you to be fully expressed or in your authentic joy and passion and excitement. It's where we start feeling like business needs to be super serious and that you can't deviate from the plan, that all of the funnels need to be automated and you need to have 4 to 5 to 10 team members. And that now is going to require you to be a manager of everyone else when you really just want to be voice noting your clients from the pool with the coconut water in your hand. Right? When we get too stuck in this idea of what business has to look like or should look like in order for it to be legitimate, in order for it to be wildly successful, in order for it to be profitable, I think we cut ourselves off from a lot of our feminine magic, which is allowing ourselves to be in the flow, allowing ourselves to have fun, allowing ourselves to be in our authenticity, allowing ourselves to lean back sometimes. You know, and, and not making these rules for ourselves of like, oh no, it has to be like this, or all of the client calls have to be on Zoom and there has to be video, and then I have to send them notes and there has to be homework and it has to work like this. And, and maybe, maybe it doesn't, right? Maybe it doesn't have to look like that. Maybe you're the type of person that wants to create audio-only courses, or you take your client calls over the phone. I remember one time I had a client be like, it was so mind-opening for me, and I don't know why, but it was so revolutionary for me that the sales call that I had with you was just a phone call and it wasn't like sit-down like Zoom chat. And I'm like, oh yeah, girl, I don't— I've— first of all, I've never done Zoom sales calls for so many reasons, which is a whole other kind of podcast on like sales and stuff like that. But she was like, it gave me so much permission to just like, oh my God, like I can take a sales call casually over the phone while I'm on a walk. Or the— this specific client that I was talking to, I took my sales call with her while I was tanning on my balcony. And we were talking about that and I was like, oh yeah, what are you doing? And, and I, I told her I'm sitting outside, I'm in the sun, I'm just I'm just, it's so nice out. I'm in my bikini. I'm just getting some sun. And she was like, oh my God, I didn't know that people took sales calls like this. And I'm like, yeah, girl. Like, you know, we can't get too stuck in like the masculine ways of doing things when sometimes your magic is in your feminine nature and how you just naturally want to do things and being in that flow. And so that client ended up signing on with me and she did private mentorship. She did top tier. She was someone that I worked with for a while. And then she also shifted her own sales call process. And leaned back a lot in some of the ways that she operates in business, and that allowed more magic to flow through. Number 5 is putting life on hold for the sake of business, which is really about this subtle shift that starts to happen the deeper that you get into your business, where you feel like your life has to fit around your business. And it's like, well, this is what I've committed to, and this is how I need to work, and these are the hours, and this is the structure. So how is my life going to fit into this calendar that I've built with my business when I really think you know, the juicier, more magnetic way to operate in business is to build your business around your life, build your business around the lifestyle that you want to live. I mean, what other fucking reason is there to be an entrepreneur than to be the creator of your reality and to choose your lifestyle and to make your work fit into that, you know? And so I think this can show up for a lot of people the more that they get into their business of like, I, I'm just finding myself living less and working more. And I looked up one day and I realized like, I don't really prioritize my health as much anymore, or I'm not really super present in my relationship as much, or I don't have as much quality time with people in my life. And you just kind of wake up and you're like, how did I get here? How did this happen? Like, whoa. 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Love you guys, and thanks for supporting Makeshift Happen. And I'm, and I'm working so much. And how did this happen? Like, it completely flipped where I started entrepreneurship so that I could have my work schedule fit into the life that I wanted to live. And now I have this rigid work schedule and I'm just, you know, scraping for my life to kind of have little scraps of it and to fit in there where it can. And so I think this really ties into one of my main mantras that I share with all of my clients. And I say a lot, you've probably heard it before on the podcast, but it's like, don't sell harder, live bigger. This is such a massive energetic shift for my clients and, and for me especially. You know, I had a client recently actually who had her highest cash month ever in her business while she was off traveling in Asia and in Bali and living her best life and working less. And it was like, wow, you know, it was a moment for her where she was like, I get it. You know, the like, don't sell hard or live bigger. She was making more sales by being the embodiment of the lifestyle that other people are following her for, of the lifestyle that other people look up to and are expanded by. When are the exemplification, when you are the model of what you are selling in an embodied way, it attracts more sales. I had another client whose business finally took off and gained so much more traction, and she was making higher sales when she followed her dream to move to Manhattan and live in a gorgeous New York City high-rise apartment. Before that, she was living in her, uh, mom's apartment in Florida, and she just kind of felt like trapped in this beach town, and it wasn't where she wanted to be, and she wasn't super happy there. And her energy was kind of like dimmed in that space. And she was really nervous about making this move to Manhattan because it was going to be a huge increase in expenses, as we can all imagine, living in a beautiful high-rise apartment in New York City. And she was going to be making the move with her partner, but she was going to be equally responsible for her half of the rent. And it was like, oh my gosh, you know, is my business going to grow to the level of supporting me in And when she made that move, her energy lit the fuck up. Oh my God, she came alive. She became unstoppable. She was living that dream. She was sharing it in her content. She was that like New York City girl and people felt that and they were more attracted to her and they were more aligned with how she was living and she was being the embodiment. And so she made more sales and she made more money and she paid her rent and she lived her best life, right? I also personally had my first ever 6-figure launch while I was dancing my heart out at Ultra Music Festival. I sold out my first ever business offering years ago while I was on an all-inclusive island getaway in the Caribbean with my partner. Sometimes you just have to live more in order to create that energy and momentum for progress and sales in your business. One of my HighLevel clients had the most sales on one of her passive offers when she stopped being so glued to her phone and responding to every message and posting a million stories a day. And instead she actually put her phone down and she took herself out for a day of shopping and pampering, and she had the most sales roll in for this passive offer when she did that. Another one of my clients actually hit 7 figures in her business while she was traveling around the world and reading more books and relaxing more and working less and just living Her life, you know? And so obviously there's work involved. This isn't like a magic pill, like, oh, go on vacation and your business will solve itself. Obviously not. But we just can't underestimate the power and influence of a frequency of joy, acceptance, fun, and non-attachment that is actually genuine and real. And it's not manufactured, right? It's not us trying to fake, oh my God, look at me, I'm so happy. I'm so non-attached. I don't care. I don't need the sales. No. No, we are actually living our lives in joy, in fun. And that allows us to be not so attached. It allows us to be more relaxed. It allows us to be in acceptance of whatever the outcomes may be. And when that frequency is real and true and resonant, it is the most magnetic place that you could ever be. Number 6 is all about viewing money as the only marker of progress. This is where we get into kind of starting to obsess over beating your statistics every month, beating yourself or beating others, kind of clinging to the significance that high cash months give you and then silently judging yourself for every little income dip when you maybe finally decide to take a moment to relax or restore or promote less or have a softer launch or make a pivot in your business or shift your priorities for whatever reason, right? And it's like this thing that we do where we compare ourselves against everyone else's financial wins and we let it change our mind about our own personal pace or what is important to us. And I think this is, you know, harmful for so many reasons. Um, one of the first just obviously being that money is not the only way to measure success. Success in and of itself. My friend Chelsea Ryf had an incredible episode on her podcast about all the ways to, you know, measure benchmarks of success in your business that have nothing to do with money and finances. So that was a really great episode. If you guys are interested, you can go look for her podcast. It's called, um, In My Non-Expert Opinion. So money is obviously not the only marker of success, and I think in a lot of ways, depending on what your personal definition for success is, it's not even, you know, in the, in the top 3 of what it means to be successful. I think the more money you earn, we've seen this happen with so many people, right? Celebrities, successful business owners, entrepreneurs, artists, singers, famous people of any kind. You know, you reach this level of financial abundance and it continues to just kind of be this machine that you have to feed over and over again. And then you get to a point where you realize, oh, it's not the money that's making me happy. You know, I thought the money was going to make me happy, but that's not really it. Is that my version of success? Just having a shitload of money and not having much else, right? I think a lot of people who make a lot of money, maybe from a place of ego or trying to prove other people wrong or prove to themselves that they can achieve something, eventually they get to the point where they're like, oh, okay, so I've proved everyone else wrong and I've proved myself— I've proved to myself that like I can do this. And this kind of feels lackluster. Like, this isn't really success for me. There's so many other elements of success, right? So when I define success for myself, it includes a lot of things like quality relationships in my life and having time freedom and location freedom and being able, able to actually live my life and have this richness of experiences and be able to go and, and travel and do and see things and spend time with loved ones. And yeah, it's much more about like the freedom elements than it is about the money. But of course money is this resource. That provides us the ability to have some of those certain levels of freedom. And so it is important. It's not that money is not important in business. It's very important in business. And I think maybe that's a mindset shift in and of itself for some people is like money does matter and it is important that you focus on it and that you care about it and that you give a shit and that you pay attention to it and that you steward it and that you manage it well and that you save it and that you're not afraid to spend it or invest it. Like money is really, really important. But it's not the only way that we can measure success. And so this, you know, way that this pattern that I see a lot of people getting into, and I've been a victim of this myself too, it's hard not to, right? We have a brain that is wired for survival. It's not wired for thriving. And so our brain is not looking for ways to feel optimal in our life. It's looking for ways to feel significance and to feel protected and to feel safe and to feel relevant so that we are included in the tribe so that we can guarantee our safety and our survival, right? So because we have that survival brain, things like comparison and looking to your left and right and seeing how others are doing or having a way to measure what you should be doing or where you should be at is a very natural thing that happens in our human survival brains, right? But when we start to cling to the significance or the kind of like ego hits that we get from feeling good about making certain levels of money, or we become addicted to like, oh, and now I can never go below this, and I have to always hit this number, and I can never drop below. That's where we get into a little bit more of a dangerous territory, because then you're kind of boxing yourself in, and you're saying, well, I can never shift my priorities to the point where this income would drop. And the shift of priorities that might lead to a dip in income can sometimes be the best thing, not only for, you know, your health and your well-being, but also maybe for the long-term sustainability and future thriving of the business, because Maybe it's that, you know, arrow that pulls back before it shoots forward that allows you to have more creativity, to dream more, to have more spaciousness, to come up with new ideas. And maybe that's what allows you to have this incredible idea that then becomes super profitable in your business, right? So I think we do have to have the allowance and the spaciousness for us to change our minds, for us to take a step back, for us to allow the income to fluctuate up and down. It doesn't always have to be exactly the same, consistent every month. And it doesn't always have to be up and to the right. I mean, that's just the reality of business and entrepreneurship especially, is that it's not going to look like that for most people, right? And so if you are, you know, experiencing this subtlety of kind of viewing money as this only marker of progress, or you're stuck in the comparison of seeing what everyone else is doing in terms of income and it's really getting to you, what's most important for, for you is that you start to really prioritize protecting your energy, right? Maybe you're in a season of life and sometimes, you know, this does— it happens in waves. It's not like, oh, I'm a chronic comparer and I can never not look at what everyone else is doing. But if you're a self-aware person, you know that sometimes you are in your lane, you're in your confidence, you're on your shit, you love what you're doing, you know what you're doing, you're like so focused. And then other times you're a little bit more wobbly. Other times you are kind of scanning and looking at what other people are doing. Other times you're seeing the branding and the programs and the income wins and whatever from other people, and you're making it mean something about yourself, or it's making you question your own business. And so if you are in a season of being more sensitive to those comparisons, first is you have to be honest enough with yourself to be like, hey, this is actually what's present for me right now, rather than being an egomaniac that's like, oh, I already did the healing, I don't compare, and pretending it's not real. 'Cause that, I'll tell you right now, is not helping you at all. Protecting your energy starts with having the awareness to know when you're in a more sensitive season and when those comparisons are coming up for you. And then from there, it's like, what actions can we take to protect ourselves? Well, you can mute people, you can unfollow people, you can take a small social media break or a big one if you need it. You can start going on no stimulation walks where you go on walks with no podcasts, no audiobooks, no training, no phone calls, no social media, no voice notes, no music, no nothing. And you just walk with yourself and allow yourself to go deep into your own thought processes. You can pause, take a pause on all business books or personal development content or whatever it is that you feel like you're overloading on that's now giving you anxiety. I went through a season of that in my life where I was like, no more personal development books, no more personal development podcasts, no more like learning all the time. It was giving me anxiety. And then I healed that and I was moved into a different season and then I could go back to it. But it's about having the self-awareness and not creating shame where there doesn't need to be any. It's just honoring what you're actually experiencing. Maybe now is not the time to always be shoving knowledge down your throat. Maybe you're sick of that. Maybe you're choking to death on it. Maybe you need to take a break and get back to your creative center, right? So making space for being that open portal to receive new regenerative energizing ideas for the business and also sitting with your current life priorities and values. I think a lot of us, if you've been on this personal development path for some time now, you've definitely done an exercise at one point or another where you've had to sit down and look at your core values. You know, what's important to you in life, what your, what your values are, maybe in your business, what your priorities are. But we do that like once or twice and then we never do it again. And I think this is something that we have to revisit and look at all the time. Time. It's valuable for you to do this at the start of every year, probably, and maybe sometimes multiple times a year if you're going through, you know, big changes or life transformation or something. That is going to affect how you are ranking the hierarchy of those values and what the shift in your priorities are. And the way that you're running your business and what is important to you in business right now should be a direct reflection of your core values and your priorities as they are today. Not as they were 5 years ago, not as they were last year, but like right now, what are they? And I think not enough of us are willing to sit and actually look at that and ask ourselves, have these changed? You know, what are my values right now today? And what, what are my priorities? And does that mean that, you know, some things might have to move or shift or change from how I've always done them in business to be honoring of these current priorities. I had, um, a, a client who decided that, you know, she wanted to take the summer off from any kind of launching or promoting really in her business and kind of just ride the wave of some monthly recurring revenue that she had built up so that she could spend the summer being really present with her kids. She has, um, young kids of school age and, you know, they're off for the summer and she's like, I'm never gonna get their childhood back. And I really wanna be present during these months with them. So I would love to not launch or sell anything for the next couple of months. And just kind of, you know, continue obviously working. She had clients that she was serving and she wanted to go deep into this creation of birthing her podcast. And that was a new project for her, but to really just have kind of more bandwidth and capacity to spend time with her kids, to not be launching and selling. And we had a, you know, a long conversation about that. And this was one of those conversations that involved looking at the values and the priorities and what is this gonna mean for business? And what does this change about our plan? And, Okay, what does that mean for the rest of the year? And if we still want to hit annual revenue numbers, what does that mean? And if we're willing to sacrifice some revenue, does that give us more spaciousness? Are we willing to do that? Like, there, there's conversations that have to happen in order to accommodate for a shift like that of not launching or selling or actively bringing in any more income into the business for 2 to 3 months potentially, right? And so we went through that whole conversation and we felt really good about it. She was super excited. She was like, oh my gosh, Gosh, this is, you know, the freedom in my business that I've been wanting. Like, I just, I don't want to feel this anxiety of always needing to do more and more and more. And like, this is really important to me and, um, I really want to be with my kids. And, and it felt solid. Less than a week later, she's messaging me in Telegram and she's like, oh my gosh, should I like, how can I set up some passive income sources? Should I have a course right now that I could be selling during the summer so that I can add revenue while I'm like taking this break? And it was this whole flip of like everything that we had said was the priority is now coming into question because something popped up for her. She saw someone else posting about the money that they were making from some sort of passive course, or they had a huge surge in like a cash injection from something that they sold. And it triggered her to be like, oh my gosh, what the fuck am I doing? Like, why am I deciding not to sell anything right now? I need to be making more money, right? So she reverted back to that old pattern of like, I need to be doing more and more and more and more. More. And so I said to her, I was like, there is, oh, there is going to be a consistent battle in your mind of wanting to make more money, but also wanting to honor the pace and priorities that you have set for this season of life. Those two things are gonna be in conflict with each other because this is a new way of doing things. And it is natural for this to come up, you know, the programming of I should be doing more, I should be making more money. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. As soon as you see someone else crushing it or making a lot of money, you're going to forget about why you decided very intentionally to take 3 months off in the year to be with your kids. And you're going to be like, shoot, should I— like, I need to be doing what she's doing. And why am I not selling passive offers? And I could be making money like that. And so we kind of went over it and it's like, why are we in this situation? Okay, why are we not selling passive offers? Offers. Right now, the reason that you're not selling passive offers is because, one, you don't have them, so they're not built right now. Number two is that these passive offers would first require, you know, course conceptualization, like coming up with the idea, what do we want to actually do? All of the things that are involved in an offer creation, which is about, you know, who is this actually for? Who's this going to serve? Price point, ideal client, how are we going to market it? What's the selling plan? All of that. If you want it to be more passive, then that's going to require us to set up some automation, some systems, Maybe even some paid ads or like a webinar funnel, which all are things that we have to do. Like, that's a project. So it's stuff that needs to be built, tested, tweaked, et cetera. And the third reason is that it's already summer and this is the time that you said that you wanna be with your kids and commit to, you know, spending more present time with them and also give yourself the space to go into this kind of creative vortex so that you can prep for the launch of your brand new podcast. So sometimes we just have to remind ourselves. I reminded her, but you can also do this for yourself, of like, okay, if you're getting pulled away from what you said was important because you saw something shiny and then now you're questioning yourself, it's like, pause for a second and ask yourself, okay, well, why am I not doing that? Why did I decide that wasn't right for me right now? Is that still true? What are the reasons? Sit down, write it on a fucking piece of paper, put it in front of your face, and be like, oh yeah, 'Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Yep, that's tracking now,' right? So it's really just about remembering to come back to your values and priorities to determine if a new project or launch or course or whatever is in alignment with you during this particular season of life and what you have said are the priorities and what is most important to you right now. Temptations are always going to be there. Comparison comes up. Lack lack and scarcity take place. It happens. It's about being able to guide yourself through these emotional waves and thought patterns and come back to alignment before making any moves. This is emotional maturity, you guys, is being able to feel this comparison or lack or scarcity or impulse coming up and to actually pause, pause, hit pause. Don't make it mean anything. Just pause. Re-evaluate, come back to center, decide if this is in alignment, and then make the move. We want to move in business always as much as possible from strategy and alignment, not from scarcity and impulse. So if this, you know, is coming up for you, viewing money as the marker of progress, or feeling like you're comparing to other people's financial wins, etc., not being sure of what your own definition of success is, uh, having a coming off the back of a totally different pace and set of priorities in life and business, and now realizing that they have shifted and they've changed and feeling like your business model or your pace or whatever is not actually honoring those changes, then it's about doing this work of sitting down and reevaluating, coming into center, deciding what the priorities are, figuring out what's in alignment, and then consistently pausing and coming back to that before you make any knee-jerk decisions and start moving out of scarcity and impulse. Number 7, our last and final subtle thing that might be messing with your ability to attract more wild success and happiness in your life is not allowing yourself to simply fuck around and find out. If you want to pioneer your way to new levels of success and happiness in your business, you are going to have to innovate and try something new, test a new way, break the rules, forget how it's always been done. The idea of this, of allowing yourself to really fuck around and find out, is like basically just don't have a stick up your ass. At a certain point in the journey, you've got to recognize that you're safe enough for it not to be so serious all the time, especially especially once you have established offers, an audience of people who are bought into your personal brand, even if it's a small audience, they like what you're about and they're buying your shit. Like, if you're at that point, girl, it is beyond time for you to experiment and play and stop looking for the formula of how to do something and really pave your own path. Of course, strategies and formula and structure are helpful, but there's also so much opportunity for us to innovate if we're willing to not be so, so rigid in those structures, right? I love structure, I love strategy, and I also want to be fluid and flexible enough in my business where I can see opportunities to try something new, or I can feel that I wanna do something differently and not let fear lead the way, but actually let the excitement of finding out if that could be a new potential way to do it. And what if this actually works, right? Yes, there's an opportunity that when we deviate from the path of something that has always worked, that this new method might not work as well, or it might not work at all. But there's also the opportunity that this could work even better and it could feel amazing. Maybe it feels better. This reminds me of, of the recent launch that I did for Top Tier. So for this recent launch of my higher-level mastermind for established business owners, I decided to kind of really go against the grain and go against my entire launch strategy and just do something new and different that I hadn't done before. I had no idea how well it would work or not. Of course, you know, we, we can inference based on past performance of certain things that we've done. So it's not like a total question mark. Oh my God, unknown completely. I have no idea if anyone is going to give a single shit about this just because I'm doing things differently. It's not that crazy. But it's also like, I've never done it this way, so I really don't know what the results are going to be like. And I decided like, I don't want to do this launch unless it's in a different way that feels more flowy and fluid and open and relaxed and fun. So this is the best opportunity for me to fuck around and find out if this works because I don't want to do it the old way right now. The old way feels too restrictive. It feels too time intensive. It feels too it just feels like too much pressure. It feels intense. And I, and I don't want to do it. I don't want to generate revenue for my business from a place of pressure. I want it to be from a place of pleasure and fun and ease. And so if it feels more fun and pleasurable and easy to just be like, okay, let's try this new thing and maybe it doesn't work, then I'm going to go with that instead. So I kind of just said like a big F you to my tried and true launch formula and fully sent it, you know, on a whim and was willing to see what would happen. And what happened was it ended up working out better than ever. And it was my highest grossing launch for that program and the easiest and least stressful way that I have ever launched something in my life. So I really struck a gold mine. And it's not to say that this is always going to happen. You know, I think there has to be the, the true willingness that something might not work means accepting that that is a possible outcome. Falsely believing, oh, if I just fuck around and find out all the time, then everything will always work better than I ever thought. I mean, yes, you can choose to hold a, a positive, more optimistic viewpoint, but I think true acceptance, where, you know, our energy is not going to lie to the universe if we're trying to like manufacture it or cover it up. So true acceptance really means I would be okay to find out that this didn't work as well or didn't work at all, right? So that's kind of where we have to get to. But you know, this last piece, this, this 7th, uh, subtlety that might be getting in the way of increased levels of success and happiness is really just a reminder to not get so stuck in the formulaic nature of business that you then kind of close yourself off from experimenting and innovating and having fun and allowing yourself to be creative and throwing something at the wall and seeing if it sticks., right? And letting your ideas take you magical new places that you didn't know were possible. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. If you found it valuable, please let me know about it. Leave a comment, uh, send me a DM on Instagram at _samanthadaily. Let me know what your main takeaway was from this episode. If you have an entrepreneur friend or someone in your life that you know would love this kind of episode and benefit from these tips, please copy the link link of this episode and send it to them in a message. Let them know that you were thinking of them. 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