We’re going to start this episode off with a quote (because it’s SO perfect):

“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

-Victor Hugo

I am SUPER excited about today’s episode because I think it’s truly the most important thing we can master (as entrepreneurs but more importantly, as human beings).

I’m going to tell you what it is, but before I do, I want to ask you to do me a favor.

I want you to keep your mind as open and judgment-free as possible.

Ready?

The most important thing an entrepreneur needs to master is their thoughts.

I’ve gone down a huge rabbit hole with this lately for a few reasons (and I’ll go into a little more detail with each):

• First, I needed to do it with a few things in my personal life because they were sending me sideways
• Second, this is probably one of the things I’ve been most focused on with my coach as I get ready to launch my community
• Lastly, my mentor has been helping me with this a LOT lately… we did some amazing work last year which has all led to this

You hear over and over again in the entrepreneurial space that your mindset is everything.

And it is… you just need to know how to get there.

My goal with this episode is two-fold:

• to really buy into the idea that this is truly the best thing you can do for yourself (in your business and your life)
• to give you some tangible things you can do to start applying this

One thing to keep in mind: this is a practice. One of the sayings that my mentor has shared with me (that has taken me a while to really grasp), is that it’s “a process, not an event.”

Which naturally annoyed me… because I want to learn something and just know it.

Even though I may get pissy, I trust it now.

And it has made ALL the difference in the world.

O.K., let’s get into it!

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Time to Master your Thoughts

For the longest time, I really thought I was doing a great job of managing my thoughts.

I first got into self-help and listening to things when I was the ripe old age of 22.

I purchased Tony Robbins Personal Power and progressed through pretty much anything I could get my hands on at the time (keep in mind these were cassette tapes, all pre-podcast and digital downloads of anything).

I was working in a bookstore at the time and we sold audiobooks, so I’d splurge every now and then on a new book on tape. Because I purchased Personal Power I also would get the “Guthy Renker” and “Nightingale-Conant” catalogs (yes, a paper catalog in the mail).

At that time I’d say 99% of what I listened to were male authors (something I never really thought about at the time). Most of what I was listening to was about goal setting, motivation, sales, and productivity. All of that was fine, but it always felt like something was missing.

Then I discovered Dr. Wayne Dyer.

If you’re not familiar with him, he’s an NYT best-selling author of over 40 books. He’s been called “The Father of Motivation” and had an academic career and private counseling practice before he wrote his first book.

When I first started reading & listening to Wayne Dyer most of his work was in the self-help genre. As his career progressed he moved more and more into spirituality and it felt like “this is what I’ve been missing!”

It was like this magic combination of “anything is possible” and “be gentle” at the same time.

(On a subconscious