Breaking the Barriers to Living Your Life Fully
Are you living your life fully? But what does it even mean to live your life fully? Is it being able to hustle the whole day? Is it being booked and busy?
My guest in today’s podcast is on a mission to empower couples and women business leaders especially to truly embrace the life they’re meant to live AND fully at that. Naketa R. Thigpen shares her wealth of experience and expertise to inspire business owners like me to see that the full life is not only being loaded with work but also being able to enjoy what you worked so hard for.
Let’s dig right into the meaty stuff.
What are the barriers that keep business owners and women entrepreneurs feeling like they are not getting what they worked so hard for?
The Scarcity Mindset
This is the kind of mindset we’re all brought up with. While we all have different upbringing, we do share the common theme that we are able to only do as much, or there are limitations in what we’re able to do. So you reach a point in your life wondering what could have been wrong with you. You know that you’re strong, smart, or attractive, but why are you not getting in the direction of your career or relationship? This is simply the work of the scarcity or limiting mindset holding you back from your potential.
What can you do about the scarcity mindset?
Pause.
Be intentional about taking the moment to quiet yourself down and disconnect from all the noise around you. To some people, this would mean quitting social media for the time being. To others, this would mean taking a break from a certain relationship. Whatever taking a pause looks like to you, allowing your mind to be calm enables you to better understand what you’re actually going through. And this gives you clarity of what you’re truly good at, and then you shine brightly there.
2. The Negative Feedback
As business owners, receiving negative feedback could be very personal to us and that is because we’re already working for ourselves. It especially feels very attacking if the feedback is not constructive and doesn’t even come from a client. The source doesn’t even understand what you’re serving and has no intention to pull you up and you sense it.
What can you do about this kind of negative feedback?
Acknowledge, then flip.
Validate your initial emotion of being offended because someone actually wants to push you out of your square, and then, that’s enough of it. Flip the situation and literally say thank you, then move on. If the intention of the feedback is to really tear you down, then there’s no point in dwelling on it much longer because you know your purpose. You know who you’re serving. Intentionally tell yourself that it’s not a conversation you can pursue at that moment, and then just shift the theme. When someone only tries to raise your self-doubt, then there’s no point in continuing such a conversation.
Takeaway: Doing your business should feel like playing.
It is playing in the sense that you want to get in there with the intention and confidence of knowing what you’re doing. So when you encounter potential clients or hear about feedback that only tries to analyze what you’re doing and doesn’t really increase your confidence, that’s not someone you want to play or do business with. Find someone you can play with because they are out there. That’s how you start living your life fully even in your business.
You would love to listen to the rest of this episode. I just knew that you would come away more pumped for your creativity than ever before.