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This is by far the most important post, you'll have ever read, in your entire life...because when you read this, you will make more money.
If any of the actions you want to take are out of alignment with all these unconscious filters, beliefs or values in your mind, you are not going to take the action. At the most basic level, if you don't believe you can do something, you probably won't do it.
I used to be scared to email influencers, and I feared reaction. I believed they wouldn't respond, so I never even tried. But if I'm using influencer marketing for my marketing strategy, wouldn't I need to send that first email before I can make any money?
See the problem here? People act in alignment with their unconscious beliefs. This is why I taught myself how to remove limiting beliefs. When I removed my limiting beliefs about business, I started to make money and quit my job.
You don't take the action because of some unconscious belief about yourself. This is why "just do it" doesn't work. Overcoming procrastination, finding out what steps to take next, learning those skills, and believing you can succeed is the easy part...
BUT....
There is one thing that holds all of your beliefs, values, and unconscious filter in place.
When you make this one shift within yourself, all of those struggles you face will simply melt away.
Sounds too good to be true? That's because it isn't...
I've owned a personal development company for two years, I do high-level executive coaching, and I know exactly how to transform others from where they are to where they want to be, and I'm real good at it...that's the easy part.
The hard part is recognizing these things I need to fix within myself...shit keeps popping up. I fixed one limiting belief, and another thing popped up as soon as that one went away.
This is when I learned how to make an identity level shift.
This is a typical pyramid that NLP trainers use.
When you take care of the top of the pyramid, and you make an identity level shift everything else below it falls into place, and you begin easily and effortlessly taking those actions that get you towards your goals.
Do you know the worst thing you can do if you're an entrepreneur?
STOP saying you are "still" a slowlaner, hoping to one day be a fastlaner. When you identify yourself as a slowlaner, you're going to act like one.
When you start identifying yourself as a fastlaner (especially if you haven't even made your first dollar), your behavior will start to be congruent with this new sense of identity.
The reason why I am so passionate about this is because this self-identity thing is something with a VERY EASY SOLUTION.
But first, there is the hard way of shifting your identity.
The Hard Way
It's the "typical power-forward businessman" approach. You push through the struggles. Yes, you see 99.9% of the entrepreneurs who are VERY successful use this approach. They take soooo much action, that they get the results.
But to them the work is still a struggle.
When they start noticing the results on the outside (the money coming in), they finally identify themselves as a fastlaner, and their business is just an upward spiral of success there. MJ already has the fastlaner identity level shift so we all know he could start another business from scratch easier than most, even if it's in an area he's never worked in before.
The Quick Identity Level Shift
I don't quite know how to teach this through words yet, so bare with me...This is what I do on calls. I'll use a real life example of work I did on myself for my dating life:
I fell for a girl, and she said she wanted to just be friends.
It destroyed me on the inside for two weeks straight. I was completely NOT ok with 'just being friends'. She is the ideal type of girl for an entrepreneur like me. She pushes me to be a better person each day, and I push her as well. In summary: the ideal match, and there is nobody out there like her.
But I can't have her (in a non-possessive way).
Lesson: Think of the goal that you have, whether it be with business or whatever.
Imagine for a moment, seeing, hearing, and feeling as if you already achieved this goal.
^that right there is the test I use to see if we are mentally and emotionally aligned with what we want. If you can't feel as if you already have your goal, there are negative emotions that get in the way, which can be released quickly using any number of emotional release techniques.
But the more important question to ask: What would happen if you don't achieve this goal?
I would be single and alone.
This is the point where you have to be completely honest with yourself. Don't put a "positive reframe" on it. What is literally the worst that you can picture happening if you don't achieve your goal?
I would be single and alone, forever.
And here is the identity-level shift question: What does it mean about you if you are ______________(single and alone forever)?
99% of the time, it is a negative self-judgement.
Whatever words come to YOUR mind for the negative outcome...what does it mean about you? For me, it was "I'm incomplete. I'm not enough."
I've made many posts before about a thing called EFT (emotional freedom technique).
Making the shift:
I spent 2 weeks trying to discover exactly what the negative self-judgement identity was, but once I found it, I feel 100% better now.
But do you want to know the most interesting thing that happened during the two weeks of releasing this negative self-identity?
After these two weeks, and finding what negative identity was at play here, releasing the emotions from it using EFT and the formula above, my dating life is so much better now...
The same applies to your identity with business.
Do you identify yourself as a struggling entrepreneur/slowlaner? Or do you identify yourself as an entrepreneur/fastlaner who is growing stronger every day?
You can spend years running through the struggles, or you can use the pictures in your mind and the tapping thing to let go of that old identity you used to have of yourself, so you can let the new one fall into place.
When you do this, try to see, hear, and feel as if you already have that goal you want.
When you can do that, you are 100% mentally and emotionally aligned with having the things you want, where you can now be aligned to take more action, and act in line with your new identity as a successful entrepreneur.
I have no clue if any of what I said makes sense or not...
I've been mastering this skill of tranformation for over two years now, so all my knowledge has led up to this point....might be using some jargon that doesn't make sense to you.
In summary - those pictures in your mind of "what it means about you if you DONT achieve your goal" are your unconscious filters that hold your sense of identity. Use EFT to drain the emotions that make it feel real, and you'll be one step closer with a much easier journey through entrepreneurship.
- Your environment affects your behavior.
- You have unconscious filters in your brain, which affects your behavior.
- Your beliefs affect your behavior.
- Your core values affect your behavior.
If any of the actions you want to take are out of alignment with all these unconscious filters, beliefs or values in your mind, you are not going to take the action. At the most basic level, if you don't believe you can do something, you probably won't do it.
I used to be scared to email influencers, and I feared reaction. I believed they wouldn't respond, so I never even tried. But if I'm using influencer marketing for my marketing strategy, wouldn't I need to send that first email before I can make any money?
See the problem here? People act in alignment with their unconscious beliefs. This is why I taught myself how to remove limiting beliefs. When I removed my limiting beliefs about business, I started to make money and quit my job.
You don't take the action because of some unconscious belief about yourself. This is why "just do it" doesn't work. Overcoming procrastination, finding out what steps to take next, learning those skills, and believing you can succeed is the easy part...
BUT....
There is one thing that holds all of your beliefs, values, and unconscious filter in place.
When you make this one shift within yourself, all of those struggles you face will simply melt away.
Sounds too good to be true? That's because it isn't...
I've owned a personal development company for two years, I do high-level executive coaching, and I know exactly how to transform others from where they are to where they want to be, and I'm real good at it...that's the easy part.
The hard part is recognizing these things I need to fix within myself...shit keeps popping up. I fixed one limiting belief, and another thing popped up as soon as that one went away.
This is when I learned how to make an identity level shift.
This is a typical pyramid that NLP trainers use.
When you take care of the top of the pyramid, and you make an identity level shift everything else below it falls into place, and you begin easily and effortlessly taking those actions that get you towards your goals.
- You stop fearing failure and rejection, running away from pain.
- You stop procrastinating.
- You stop taking those unconscious self-destructive behaviors that were in line with your old identity.
Do you know the worst thing you can do if you're an entrepreneur?
STOP saying you are "still" a slowlaner, hoping to one day be a fastlaner. When you identify yourself as a slowlaner, you're going to act like one.
When you start identifying yourself as a fastlaner (especially if you haven't even made your first dollar), your behavior will start to be congruent with this new sense of identity.
The reason why I am so passionate about this is because this self-identity thing is something with a VERY EASY SOLUTION.
But first, there is the hard way of shifting your identity.
The Hard Way
It's the "typical power-forward businessman" approach. You push through the struggles. Yes, you see 99.9% of the entrepreneurs who are VERY successful use this approach. They take soooo much action, that they get the results.
But to them the work is still a struggle.
When they start noticing the results on the outside (the money coming in), they finally identify themselves as a fastlaner, and their business is just an upward spiral of success there. MJ already has the fastlaner identity level shift so we all know he could start another business from scratch easier than most, even if it's in an area he's never worked in before.
The Quick Identity Level Shift
I don't quite know how to teach this through words yet, so bare with me...This is what I do on calls. I'll use a real life example of work I did on myself for my dating life:
I fell for a girl, and she said she wanted to just be friends.
It destroyed me on the inside for two weeks straight. I was completely NOT ok with 'just being friends'. She is the ideal type of girl for an entrepreneur like me. She pushes me to be a better person each day, and I push her as well. In summary: the ideal match, and there is nobody out there like her.
But I can't have her (in a non-possessive way).
Lesson: Think of the goal that you have, whether it be with business or whatever.
Imagine for a moment, seeing, hearing, and feeling as if you already achieved this goal.
^that right there is the test I use to see if we are mentally and emotionally aligned with what we want. If you can't feel as if you already have your goal, there are negative emotions that get in the way, which can be released quickly using any number of emotional release techniques.
But the more important question to ask: What would happen if you don't achieve this goal?
I would be single and alone.
This is the point where you have to be completely honest with yourself. Don't put a "positive reframe" on it. What is literally the worst that you can picture happening if you don't achieve your goal?
I would be single and alone, forever.
And here is the identity-level shift question: What does it mean about you if you are ______________(single and alone forever)?
99% of the time, it is a negative self-judgement.
Whatever words come to YOUR mind for the negative outcome...what does it mean about you? For me, it was "I'm incomplete. I'm not enough."
I've made many posts before about a thing called EFT (emotional freedom technique).
Making the shift:
- I brought up a mental picture in my mind seeing myself as 'not being enough and incomplete'. I see myself defeated and sad, by myself.
- I drain the negative emotion from that picture by using EFT.
- Do the EFT until the emotion is a 0 our of 10.
I spent 2 weeks trying to discover exactly what the negative self-judgement identity was, but once I found it, I feel 100% better now.
But do you want to know the most interesting thing that happened during the two weeks of releasing this negative self-identity?
- I noticed more girls flirting with me (just not the one I wanted).
- One girl messaged me and said she wanted to travel the world with me.
- A girl I used to date in Arizona said she's flying to Denver soon, and wants to meet up.
- Much more success when I go out on the weekends.
- I lost any approach anxiety talking to girls I found attractive (I had this problem for a while)
After these two weeks, and finding what negative identity was at play here, releasing the emotions from it using EFT and the formula above, my dating life is so much better now...
The same applies to your identity with business.
Do you identify yourself as a struggling entrepreneur/slowlaner? Or do you identify yourself as an entrepreneur/fastlaner who is growing stronger every day?
You can spend years running through the struggles, or you can use the pictures in your mind and the tapping thing to let go of that old identity you used to have of yourself, so you can let the new one fall into place.
When you do this, try to see, hear, and feel as if you already have that goal you want.
When you can do that, you are 100% mentally and emotionally aligned with having the things you want, where you can now be aligned to take more action, and act in line with your new identity as a successful entrepreneur.
I have no clue if any of what I said makes sense or not...
I've been mastering this skill of tranformation for over two years now, so all my knowledge has led up to this point....might be using some jargon that doesn't make sense to you.
In summary - those pictures in your mind of "what it means about you if you DONT achieve your goal" are your unconscious filters that hold your sense of identity. Use EFT to drain the emotions that make it feel real, and you'll be one step closer with a much easier journey through entrepreneurship.
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