The Successful Mind Podcast

https://media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/ins.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/TSM752_MDM_Sep10_26.mp3   If you keep hitting a business set point, the work doesn’t start in your business. It starts in how you see yourself. I’ve coached thousands of people, and almost every stall comes back to the same root cause: an old, unconscious need for other people’s approval. Business Set Point: Where It Actually StartsThat need is programmed into you from birth. As an infant, rejection genuinely meant death, so you learned fast that survival depended on someone else meeting your needs. Somewhere along the way, love got separated from approval, and you started chasing approval instead. Almost nobody is raised being taught to love themselves, so almost everybody grows up quietly seeking it from someone else, a parent, a mentor, a customer, a spouse. People pleasing is that pattern in action, and it behaves exactly like an addiction. You won’t know the confidence of loving yourself until you get your hook out of other people. Stop Reacting To Problems And Start Leading With DirectionThe second shift matters just as much. Most people let whatever problem pops up that day run their business. That’s reactive. The alternative is holding a clear picture of where you’re going and generating challenges that move you toward it on purpose. When a problem has repeated for a week, a month, a year, that’s not bad luck. That’s a business set point, a ceiling you’ve unconsciously agreed to tolerate. The moment you recognize it, it should become intolerable. Hire the person before you’re sure you can afford them. Fix the process instead of patching it again. Decide you’re done, and mean it. Controlling Your Environment Changes What You’re Capable OfYou will always be a product of your environment if you don’t deliberately control it. That means being around people already winning in the direction you’re headed, not just people who are comfortable to be around. It means what you read, watch, and listen to in your downtime. It means noticing what you’ve been tolerating simply because it’s familiar. Change what surrounds you, and the problems you face start to change too, on purpose, in your favor. You’re mastering as you grow, so what felt impossible last year stops being a big deal once you’ve broken through it. Business Set Point: The Real Cost Of Staying StuckHere’s the part people miss. You can’t fix a set point at the level it shows up. If your car needs a new alternator this week and new brakes next month, you don’t keep patching it forever, you replace the car. The same is true here. The recurring problem isn’t the real problem. It’s a symptom of the set point underneath it, rooted in that same old need for approval. Detaching from that need is the hardest part of this whole process, and also the most valuable. You’re allowed to put your own well-being first, without qualifying it.None of this happens overnight, and it isn’t a small adjustment. It’s a real, permanent change in who you’re being every day, and it’s exactly what I unpack further on this episode. Episode 199 – Approval Addiction Episode 567 – Is People Pleasing Ruining Your Business? Episode 684 – Stop Seeking External Validation YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE CLOSING MORE SALES…SO WHY DO TOO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS STILL END WITH “I NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT”?You can have a great offer, know you can help the person sitting across from you, and still lose the sale because you can’t see where your own thinking is taking you out of the conversation. That’s your Sales Blind Spot. It can show up when you hesitate to ask for the sale, back off when you hear an objection, over-explain or try to convince, or miss what the prospect is really telling you. That’s what we’ll work on at The Elite Mind: Sales Accelerator in Charlotte, November 10–11. Over two focused days, you’ll learn how to lead when the conversation gets uncomfortable, ask the right questions that bring the truth to the surface, handle objections without freezing or over-explaining, and guide a prospect to a clear decision without pushing, chasing, or forcing the sale. If you’re ready to turn your Sales Blind Spot into your next revenue breakthrough, you don’t want to miss this: Apply here to join us. If you like the show, would you be so kind as to leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping me spread the Successful Mind message around the globe.  LEAVE A REVIEW Check out David’s book! Get Your Copy Today! Miss anything? Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to keep up with your own successful mindset. We’re available wherever you listen to podcasts:   Apple Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio Amazon Music Life is Now wants you to get SOCIAL! You can find us on the following platforms:  Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube The post Break Your Business Set Point: Stop People Pleasing appeared first on The Successful Mind Podcast.

https://media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/ins.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/TSM750_MDM_Aug27_26.mp3   To breakthrough your money plateau, you don’t need more effort. I’ve coached entrepreneurs for years, and the pattern repeats: someone works harder, tries every new tactic, and the income stays exactly where it’s been for months. The real shift starts somewhere else. Breakthrough Your Money Plateau by Choosing Focus Over EffortWhen you get clear on the outcome you actually want, not the problem you’re avoiding, every possibility that supports that outcome exists around you. That’s how focus works. Keep your attention on what’s missing — the sale that didn’t close, the number that hasn’t moved — and you create more of exactly that. Nothing you’re experiencing as a plateau is actually a plateau unless you decide to make it one. Change the focus first, and the way through tends to show up faster than you’d expect. The Law of Polarity: Your Solution Is Already Next to the ProblemThe solution to any problem exists in the same place, at the same moment, as the problem itself. That’s the law of polarity. It doesn’t matter what created the plateau.  A client who didn’t renew, a launch that underperformed. The story behind it isn’t what matters. Stay in the story and you generate more of the story. Shift your attention to the outcome you want, and you’ll start noticing the steps that move you toward it. They were always right there. Breakthrough Your Money Plateau by Getting Open, Not Working HarderThis kind of shift rarely comes from doing more.  Think of your business like a flower in a garden. It doesn’t chase the bees. It opens itself, stands in what it is, and the right things come to it. Every marketing campaign you run is really just planting another flower in another garden. It doesn’t create the openness, it just gives people somewhere to see it. If you’re closed down and hiding your value, there are no campaigns that will fix that. You don’t get more by doing more. You get more by being more. What Chaos Teaches You About Staying StuckA lot of people carry chaos from how they were raised, and it feels familiar enough to mistake for normal. Chaos seeks its own level. It will find you through a client, a family member, or a business relationship, if you let it. Staying stuck often has less to do with strategy and more to do with what you’re still allowing in. You get to close that door. You don’t have to take on the chaotic client or referee the chaotic relative. Peace is a decision. None of this is complicated, even when it doesn’t feel that way. It’s closer to a dance than a formula.  Focus, stay open, and let the rhythm carry you. That’s what it takes to breakthrough your money plateau. Episode 687 – Change Your Goal, Change Your Reality Episode 276 -Change Your Money Mindset Episode 138 – How to Keep Going to Reach Your Goal YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE CLOSING MORE SALES…SO WHY DO TOO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS STILL END WITH “I NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT”?You can have a great offer, know you can help the person sitting across from you, and still lose the sale because you can’t see where your own thinking is taking you out of the conversation. That’s your Sales Blind Spot. It can show up when you hesitate to ask for the sale, back off when you hear an objection, over-explain or try to convince, or miss what the prospect is really telling you. That’s what we’ll work on at The Elite Mind: Sales Accelerator in Charlotte, November 10–11. Over two focused days, you’ll learn how to lead when the conversation gets uncomfortable, ask the right questions that bring the truth to the surface, handle objections without freezing or over-explaining, and guide a prospect to a clear decision without pushing, chasing, or forcing the sale. If you’re ready to turn your Sales Blind Spot into your next revenue breakthrough, you don’t want to miss this: Apply here to join us. If you like the show, would you be so kind as to leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping me spread the Successful Mind message around the globe.  LEAVE A REVIEW Check out David’s book! Get Your Copy Today! Miss anything? Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to keep up with your own successful mindset. We’re available wherever you listen to podcasts:   Apple Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio Amazon Music Life is Now wants you to get SOCIAL! You can find us on the following platforms:  Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube The post Breakthrough Your Money Plateau: Effort Isn’t the Answer appeared first on The Successful Mind Podcast.

https://media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/ins.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/TSM749_MDM_Jul30_26.mp3   Being your word is the compass I’ve built my life around, and this week I want to show you why it matters more than any goal you’re chasing. Yesterday, more than one person texted me already deciding they wouldn’t hit their goal. That sentence told me everything about their sabotage pattern. Being Your Word Starts With Noticing Your Sabotage PatternWhen you announce ahead of time that something isn’t going to work, that isn’t honesty — it’s your sabotage pattern doing exactly what it’s built to do. It searches for evidence you’ll agree with, and the moment you agree, you stop trying. That’s not faith. That’s faith in what you don’t want. I’m not saying this with judgment; I’m saying it to wake you up to an unconscious expectation you may not know you’re carrying. Once you see it, you can change it. I missed more deadlines than I hit for years, simply because I hadn’t noticed the pattern. Being Your Word Means You Stop Negotiating With FearMost of us learned to stop where the world tells us to stop. We hit a gatekeeper, hear one no, and quietly agree that’s the end of the road. Early in my career I sold health products to doctors — a high school dropout with no business getting in front of highly educated professionals — so I waited in parking lots to catch them walking to their cars. Nothing stopped me, because I’d already decided the outcome. Being your word in that season meant refusing to let someone else’s comfort define my ceiling. Recruit Up: A Lesson From Bob Proctor on Reaching HigherOne piece of advice changed the trajectory of my income: recruit up. Bob Proctor said it from a stage years ago, and I’ve applied it to everything since — worth roughly a hundred million dollars in earnings over three decades. Instead of climbing from the bottom, I went straight to the people with the most influence and served them first. One relationship in the right room did more than months of working the phones ever could. If you’re stuck on what people will pay you, ask where you’re stopping. The Day Being Your Word Became Non-NegotiableBefore 1998, I never paid a bill on time. I had the money, but I was always working the system, always juggling. Then I met a man who paid his bills once a year, and it reframed everything for me. I made a decision that day — I will never again pay a bill late — and I haven’t, except for one honest bookkeeping error. That decision taught me the difference between it should happen and it must happen. Stop negotiating with your own word and your energy changes. None of this works from fear, and none of it works halfway. Being your word is a decision you make once and defend every day, especially when your sabotage pattern shows up with a convincing story. Notice where you’re stopping. Notice the evidence you’ve been collecting. Then decide, out loud if you have to, that it must happen. Episode 723 – Breaking Generational Patterns: Why You Can’t Keep Your Word Episode 710 – Keep Your Words When Problems Show Up Episode 157 – Change Your Beliefs to Change Your Results – Part II YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE CLOSING MORE SALES…SO WHY DO TOO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS STILL END WITH “I NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT”? You can have a great offer, know you can help the person sitting across from you, and still lose the sale because you can’t see where your own thinking is taking you out of the conversation. That’s your Sales Blind Spot. It can show up when you hesitate to ask for the sale, back off when you hear an objection, over-explain or try to convince, or miss what the prospect is really telling you. That’s what we’ll work on at The Elite Mind: Sales Accelerator in Charlotte, November 10–11. Over two focused days, you’ll learn how to lead when the conversation gets uncomfortable, ask the right questions that bring the truth to the surface, handle objections without freezing or over-explaining, and guide a prospect to a clear decision without pushing, chasing, or forcing the sale. If you’re ready to turn your Sales Blind Spot into your next revenue breakthrough, you don’t want to miss this: Apply here to join us. If you like the show, would you be so kind as to leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping me spread the Successful Mind message around the globe.  LEAVE A REVIEW Check out David’s book! Get Your Copy Today! Miss anything? Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to keep up with your own successful mindset. We’re available wherever you listen to podcasts:   Apple Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio Amazon Music Life is Now wants you to get SOCIAL! You can find us on the following platforms:  Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube The post Being Your Word Beats Your Sabotage Pattern appeared first on The Successful Mind Podcast.

https://media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/ins.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/TSM748_MDM_Jul28_26.mp3   If you want to increase your manifestation power, the shift starts with something most people get backwards: time. I spend my life talking about goals and deadlines. But the truth I keep coming back to is simple — the moment you stop waiting for someday and start living inside right now, everything changes. Increase Your Manifestation Power by Living in the Everlasting NowTime is a measurement we invented to explain something we never fully understood. The only time that actually exists is now — not five years from now when the goal lands, not last year when things went wrong. When you stay conscious of that, you stop feeding your mind yesterday’s evidence and start feeding it today’s expectation. That shift is where you increase your manifestation power. You’re no longer asking the universe to catch up to your past — you’re asking it to meet you where you already are. Increase Your Manifestation Power Through Immediacy, Not FearThere’s a difference between wanting something and demanding it. Demand isn’t aggression, and it isn’t fear either. Fear says “please, I need this to work.” Immediacy says “this is mine, and it’s already done.” I learned this pulling out old call lists after a room full of silence. I would tell myself that everyone who wanted what I had was going to pick up the phone. Not hoping. Expecting. That’s the posture that grows real manifestation power — an intensity built on certainty, not on how badly you need the outcome to change. Manifestation Power Grows When You Let the Problem DropEvery obstacle you’re staring down is really your mind running today’s situation through yesterday’s file cabinet. Here’s a practice I still use: write the problem on paper, hold it up, close your eyes, and watch it drop like a curtain falling. Then take it outside and burn it. You’re not pretending the problem never existed. Instead, you’re refusing to keep living inside it. The moment you stop merging your identity with what’s wrong, you separate from it enough to let something new in. Increase Your Manifestation Power With a Grateful, Demanding FaithGratitude for what you want, as if it’s already here, is not wishful thinking — it’s alignment. The kingdom you’re praying toward was never described as someday. It was described as at hand, within you, now. I’ve leaned on that idea more times than I can count when something looked insurmountable. It has never once failed to move something loose. That kind of grateful, demanding faith is exactly how you increase your manifestation power over time. None of this works by accident, and it never has for me. It works because you decide, today, that the now is where your power actually lives. Not in the plan, not in the timeline — just in this moment and what you choose to believe about it. Episode 329 – The Impression of Increase Episode 289 – Six Steps to Manifestation Inside Episode 289 – Six Steps to Manifestation YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE CLOSING MORE SALES…SO WHY DO TOO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS STILL END WITH “I NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT”?You can have a great offer, know you can help the person sitting across from you, and still lose the sale because you can’t see where your own thinking is taking you out of the conversation. That’s your Sales Blind Spot. It can show up when you hesitate to ask for the sale, back off when you hear an objection, over-explain or try to convince, or miss what the prospect is really telling you. That’s what we’ll work on at The Elite Mind: Sales Accelerator in Charlotte, November 10–11. Over two focused days, you’ll learn how to lead when the conversation gets uncomfortable, ask the right questions that bring the truth to the surface, handle objections without freezing or over-explaining, and guide a prospect to a clear decision without pushing, chasing, or forcing the sale. If you’re ready to turn your Sales Blind Spot into your next revenue breakthrough, you don’t want to miss this: Apply here to join us. If you like the show, would you be so kind as to leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping me spread the Successful Mind message around the globe.  LEAVE A REVIEW Check out David’s book! Get Your Copy Today! Miss anything? Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to keep up with your own successful mindset. We’re available wherever you listen to podcasts:   Apple Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio Amazon Music Life is Now wants you to get SOCIAL! You can find us on the following platforms:  Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube The post Increase Your Manifestation Power appeared first on The Successful Mind Podcast.

https://media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/media.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/ins.blubrry.com/thesuccessfulmindpodcast/TSM747_MDM_Jul22_26.mp3   The fear of raising your prices is something almost every business owner runs into. Maybe you’ve been sitting on the edge of a price increase for months. I want you to know exactly what’s happening in your mind. That hesitation isn’t weakness. It isn’t low confidence either. It’s a paradigm — an old pattern still running the show. Today I’m walking you through how it works, why it shows up, and how to move past it. Fear of Raising Your Prices: Where It Actually Comes FromYour paradigm controls far more than you realize. It shapes your perception, your creativity, your productivity, and your logic. Your paradigm also controls your ability to earn money. The moment you think about changing your price, part of your mind starts arguing against it. They can’t afford it. Nobody will pay that much. I’ll lose everyone I have. That voice feels like reason, but it isn’t. It’s your paradigm defending the comfort of clients you already know — the history you’ve built with them, the safety of a number you’ve already proven you can hit. A new price is unproven territory. Your mind resists unproven territory by design, every single time. What Happened When I Raised My Price From $15,000 To $100,000Years ago I made that jump myself. Someone on my team wanted proof it wouldn’t work. So we surveyed the people buying at the new price, expecting to find seasoned, high-earning clients backing it up. Instead, the forms came back showing most had made twenty thousand dollars a year or less. That same weekend, we sold two million dollars in coaching. Ninety percent of the buyers were in that twenty-thousand-dollar range, and many paid in full, up front. I learned something that day I’ve never forgotten. Don’t judge what people can pay by what you’ve watched them pay so far. When someone truly wants something, they find a way to get it. Fear of Raising Your Prices And the Law of PolarityYou cannot have the problem without the solution already existing on the other side of it. That’s the Law of Polarity at work. The moment you raise your price, you create a new problem: finding the people willing to pay it. But that problem is proof the win already exists somewhere out there. The client with the money is already out there right now. Your only job is to stop assuming who can and can’t afford you. Pick up the phone. Start the conversations that let you find them. Once you see the fear of raising your prices this way, it starts to lose its grip on you. This is a conversation I come back to often. The fear never fully disappears — you just get better at moving through it every time it shows up.  Episode 730 – The Scarcity Setpoint – Why You Can’t Charge What You’re Worth Episode 724 – Money Paradigms and Fear: Why You Avoid Your Own Bills Episode 280 – Raising Your Standard: Why You Can Be Willing But Not Able – Part I YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE CLOSING MORE SALES…SO WHY DO TOO MANY OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS STILL END WITH “I NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT”?You can have a great offer, know you can help the person sitting across from you, and still lose the sale because you can’t see where your own thinking is taking you out of the conversation. That’s your Sales Blind Spot. It can show up when you hesitate to ask for the sale, back off when you hear an objection, over-explain or try to convince, or miss what the prospect is really telling you. That’s what we’ll work on at The Elite Mind: Sales Accelerator in Charlotte, November 10–11. Over two focused days, you’ll learn how to lead when the conversation gets uncomfortable, ask the right questions that bring the truth to the surface, handle objections without freezing or over-explaining, and guide a prospect to a clear decision without pushing, chasing, or forcing the sale. If you’re ready to turn your Sales Blind Spot into your next revenue breakthrough, you don’t want to miss this: Apply here to join us. If you like the show, would you be so kind as to leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts? It takes less than a minute and really makes a difference in helping me spread the Successful Mind message around the globe.  LEAVE A REVIEW Check out David’s book! Get Your Copy Today! Miss anything? Don’t forget to subscribe to the show to keep up with your own successful mindset. We’re available wherever you listen to podcasts:   Apple Podcasts Spotify Pandora iHeartRadio Amazon Music Life is Now wants you to get SOCIAL! You can find us on the following platforms:  Facebook X-twitter Instagram Linkedin Youtube The post The Fear of Raising Your Prices (And What’s Behind It) appeared first on The Successful Mind Podcast.