Safe to Succeed

"Not everything is an identity problem. Sometimes the things we want to work on in our identities aren't problems at all. They're just things in life we would like to do a bit better." -Melissa Sheffield Everywhere you look right now, someone is telling you to become the woman who already has what you want, step into your next level identity and transform yourself until you are unrecognisable. In this episode, I take identity back to basics: what it actually is, when it's worth working on, an...

Can we please stop talking about resetting everything? Because when you reset something, you take it back to its factory settings. And I know none of us want to be a baby crying, waiting for somebody else to come along and save us. But as humans, THAT is our factory default setting. - Melissa Sheffield Clinical Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner and IEMT Practitioner It's natural to want life to change things in life, and it's natural to feel nostalgic for simpler times as we matu...

"If the main thing driving your life is always going to be "anything but that", you could spend all your life and all your energy just getting further away from some things you don't want, without ever getting closer to something that you do want." - Melissa Sheffield There's a difference between wanting something because you're genuinely drawn towards it and wanting something because you're desperate to avoid what happens if you don't get it. In this episode, I'm look...

Money is never really the goal. It is always about what do you believe that money will get you, what will it give you that you don't have now. So when somebody tells me they want to earn five grand a month, ten grand a month, one hundred thousand a year, whatever the number is, I'm always curious about the answer to the question: "What will change when you have it?" - Melissa Sheffield In this episode of Safe to Succeed, Melissa Sheffield looks at why hitting your income goal ra...

Success is a judgement you make every minute of every day, against a standard that either you or somebody else has decided. And it's that set standard, that rule book that people don't look at. So whenever you catch yourself saying you want to be successful, the useful move is to unfreeze success and consider: "Successful according to who?" and “What do I think is successful?” - Melissa Sheffield Where did your definition of success actually come from? In this ...