The numbers didn’t lie.

No matter how many hours I worked, how much money I invested, or the number of connections I made, my business wasn’t growing.

In theory, I was doing all the right things. I was engaging with my audience on social media. I was taking courses and investing in coaches to gain new skills. I launched new offerings and raised my prices to bring in more money.

Nothing worked. My revenue stayed the same. My audience didn’t grow. 

What was going on?

It wasn’t until I enrolled in Denise Duffield Thomas’ Money Bootcamp that I realised what was holding me back.

In her programme, Denise talks about your “energetic income level,” the amount of money you’re allowing yourself to earn.

Once you reach that number (and I had reached it two years ago), you’ll unconsciously sabotage yourself so you’ll never go higher.

Your energetic income level is set by your subconscious mind and the beliefs it holds around money.

In my case, my energetic income level matched the exact amount of money my father was earning in his business. 

My subconscious mind had made up a story of how it would be disrespectful for me to earn more than him. Unless I changed that story, my income wouldn’t grow.

Your limiting beliefs, the stories formed deep in your subconscious mind when you were younger, are now sabotaging all your best efforts at growing your business, creating closer relationships, and everything else you desire in life.

How do you break this self-sabotaging pattern? Here’s how to reprogram your subconscious mind for success so you can finally achieve all your big business and income goals:

Conscious VS Subconscious Mind

Did you know your conscious mind makes up only 10% of your mind? Your conscious mind involves all the things – like feeling, sensations, and memories, that are in your current awareness. Anything you’re thinking of and experiencing right now that you’re paying attention to.

Your subconscious mind makes up for the remaining 90% of your mind. It’s like a sponge that absorbs everything you’ve ever went through in your life:

👉 Every single memory you’ve had.

👉 Every strong emotions you’ve felt in your life.

👉 Every word and sentence you’ve heard (from your parents, peers, TV…) or read.

👉 Every experience, positive or negative, you’ve had.

All this stuff is stored in your subconscious mind, which then made up a story about it.

For example, if your parents were constantly complaining about a lack of money, your subconscious mind has formed a belief that there’s never enough money to go around. Even as you earn more and can afford a better lifestyle, the fear that you won’t have enough money stops you from enjoying what you have.

These limiting beliefs form between the ages of 0-7 years old! At that age, you haven’t developed your critical thinking skills yet. You take everything literally.

When you hear a thought or belief enough times, your brain will take it as truth. It’s now part of your unconscious programming and will determine every decision you make for the rest of your life – or until you uncover the belief and decide to change it.

The old emotions, beliefs systems, and thoughts stored in your subconscious mind create your current reality.

If you don’t like where you’re at and dream of something better, you need to reprogram your subconscious mind with new thoughts and beliefs, so you can make different choices and get different results.

How To Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind For Success

1. Visualise Yourself Living Your Dreams

Your subscious mind can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

In 1995, researchers asked a group of people to pretend to play the piano. They then compared their brain scans with those of people who played the piano for real. The results? In both instances, the exact same areas of the brain were activated!

You can use this finding to your advantage. How? By visualising yourself building your 6+ figures business now. Every detail of it.

The more specific the vision, the better the results. But don’t just see the pictures in your mind. Feel like you would feel if all that came true.

The goal is to trick your mind into thinking it’s already happening, to prove to it that you can have it. Once your subconscious mind starts believing it, it’s only a matter of time before it comes true.

2. Identify Your Limiting Beliefs

If you don’t have what you say you want, there’s a limiting belief holding you back from achieving it.

A belief that was formed so long ago, you often don’t even realise you have it. It’s just common sense to you at this point. Question common sense. Just because you’ve been thinking something for a long time, doesn’t make it the truth.

3. Reprogram Your Subconscious Mind With Empowering Beliefs

You don’t have to believe everything your mind tells you. Your thoughts and limiting beliefs are NOT the truth.

They’re what was programmed into your subconscious mind before you were old enough to question them. Now that you’ve identified them, you can question them.

Upon scrutiny, you’ll realise that a lot of these limiting beliefs are:

👉 Outdated (Maybe it was true you were shy as a kid, but it’s not true now)

👉 Wrong (I thought my dad wouldn’t love me anymore if I earned more than him 🙄 )

👉 Not even your own! (Maybe your parents think starting your business is scary and you’ve adopted that belief)

And yet these outdated, wrong, inherited beliefs are stopping you from reaching your business goals and getting the results you want!

It’s time to ditch these limiting beliefs and create new empowering ones that help you create the business and life you desire.

Then, reframe this negative belief into a positive one.

For example, if you believe that putting yourself first and renting an office space makes you a bad mum, your new limiting belief can be, “putting myself first means I can better support my family” or “putting myself first makes me less reactive and a more present, loving mum”.

The key here is to reframe your belief into an affirmation your brain will actually believe. If the new belief doesn’t ring true, if it feels like a lie, your brain will reject it.

A way to make your affirmations more believable is to use these expressions:

• I’m getting better and better at ____________ every day.
• I’m learning to _______________________.
• I become more _______________________ every day.

Related: Why I Don’t Have Enough Experience Is Just An Excuse

4. Design Your Environment For Success

Your environment has a big influence on your thoughts and beliefs.

I know that, when I work from a luxury hotel or private member club in Central London, I get a lot more done than what I work in my home office. Why?

I have more distractions at home. But, more than that, it’s the energy around me that’s different. A luxurious space inspires me to take action towards my business goals, so I can live a luxury lifestyle full-time.

The conversations around me are different too. When I work from a private members club, I’m surrounded by other entrepreneurs who are working towards their dreams too.

These successful women aren’t complaining about their job or how hard they have it. They excitedly share what projects they’re working on and what their successes has allowed them to create in their lives.

If your environment doesn’t inspire or support you in reaching your goals, it’s time to upgrade it… or move yourself to a different environment altogether.

5. Act As If You’re Already Living Your Dream

The biggest lie society told us? The Have-Do-Be equation. It works like this:

“When I’ll have ________, then I’ll do __________, and I’ll be _____________”

For example, “When I’ll have enough money saved up, then I’ll start my business, and then I’ll be successful and rich.”

The problem with this equation? If you wait until you have something to get started, you may be waiting all your life.

The right equation is this: “I AM _________, so I do ___________, and then I have _______________.”

If you want to have a 6+ figures business, then you need to behave like a 6+ figures entrepreneur and invest in building your business – before you have the money in your bank account or any proof that you can make it.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying you need to spend money you don’t have and go broke to scale your business. But you need to embody that successful 6+ figures entrepreneur.

When a 6+ figures entrepreneur doesn’t have money, you know what she does? She find a way to find the money! She sells some stuff on eBay. She asks for a loan. She looks for freelancing work.

This applies to anything. If you desire financial freedom, then how does a person who already has it behave? What actions does she take every day?

When you act like if you already have it, your subconscious mind will soon catch on and you’ll reach your goals much faster.

Wrapping It Up

Your subconscious mind is the silent pilot of your life. The limiting beliefs you’ve formed before the age of 7 are now determining your actions and the results you’re getting (or not getting). To reprogram your subconscious mind for success, visualise your dream business and life, identify and rewrite your beliefs, design an environment for success and act as if. The more you think, act, and behave like the entrepreneur who has want you want, the sooner that’s gonna become your reality.

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