This is Anne with your Coaching On The Go.

I have talked with you about having a Vision, having a Roadmap that you’re navigating to the Vision, and having the Mindset to continue moving forward, hearing the hunches, following, and taking inspired action.

Yesterday. I had you thinking about the things that are blocking you.

What are your excuses?

I’m not calling them excuses to trivialize your process, but they all come down to excuses, and they typically point right at Fear.

My question to you yesterday was, “What is the payoff for you engaging in that block, allowing it to stay there, not moving past it, not figuring out ways to get by it?”

“How are you benefiting?”

“What is it allowing you to keep from feeling or facing, because it’s not a comfortable spot, is it?”

Being stuck is not satisfying, so the payoff you are getting from allowing yourself to remain stuck must be pretty big.

There must be something on the other side of it that you’re protecting yourself from, that’s substantial.

Change can be hard.

It can be scary to step outside your comfort zone.

There could be stories in your past you don’t want to find out that might b be true.

When I discovered a few years ago that I had been blocking my art career and that I had had many great opportunities I didn’t follow through on for this reason or that, I started to take a deep look.

What I could see was procrastination around my art career.

It would show up like fatigue when I was going to engage with something that seemed complex in the business aspect of my career.

Other ways it would show up would be that I didn’t seem to be able to figure out what to do next.

I noticed all the things that people talk about in this community, and you likely talk about when you’re thinking about being stuck.

Then I looked back further into my life and I could see a time when I didn’t have that.

I was winning lots of art competitions, and being featured as the best of show, on the cover of show fliers and catalogs.

(The deep dive) gave me lots of information to look into, to trace back to some rules, stories, and structures that I heard when I was younger, that down deep I wanted to believe weren’t true.

Down deep. I adopted them as truths, however.

Why am I telling you this?

There are always roots in your actions if they’re repeating themselves.

If you follow a repeating pattern or the feeling of it, all the way back, you can discover things about it and shift those things.

You’re in a spot right now where you’ve been plateaued or stuck before you even created your business.

You’re in it and every so often you get stopped or blocked.

It’s comfortable to stay there, but it’s not comfortable because you know you’re meant for a higher level.

You get to step into responsibility.

It’s where the magic happens.

You recognizing the ways that you’ve been benefiting and getting a sense of what those blocks have been protecting you from, reveals a deeper story you can go into.

You can, at some point, decide that you’re going to do what it takes to move forward because you’re not here to be half-assed.

You are here to go all in.

That’s why you’re in this particular community.

And I believe in you!

That’s why I’ve taken you on as a client.

I see you’re greatness.

You have the power to change your circumstances, change your story, change your interpretations of your story in the past, and change your trajectory as you move forward from here.

I’ve got you.

I’m here with you.

I’m here working with you.

I’m an expert at this, at supporting people in shifting.

As you’re gathering information this week, writing it down, and learning new things, keep the notes, bring them to your coaching sessions, or bring them to the next workshop.

We’ll dig in on these.

Have a beautiful day.