The Next Level Life

It's time to let go of stress and anxiety, and our need for control so we can improve our emotional and physical health.
Alisha is a Naturopath, creator and owner of the Naughty Naturopath Mum flower essence range, blogger and mum to two young Children. Alisha loves to motivate and inspire people to keep healthy with her passion for gut health. She encourages making good choices in life, especially in the areas of food, nutrition, and emotional support such as using her flower essence remedies and keeping our stress levels down. She also likes to remind us that no-one is perfect and we often need to make mistakes to learn and occasionally be a bit ‘naughty’! She believes that having fun in life and striving for your form of balance are the most important things to achieve for our emotional and physical health. Our conversation covers all this and more:

• Strengthening your Emotional Health
• Managing stress and anxiety in a natural way
• Raising your vibration with Flower Essences
• The importance of sleep
• Knowing your emotions
• Understanding yourself more
• Willingness to let go
• Setting healthy boundaries
• Finding Joy
• Managing our inner dialogue
• Fast lessons through business growth
• Setting your day up well

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The mindset that got you here is not going to get you there. If you want to scale and grow you cannot create up-leveled results from the actions you have taken in the past, Your past does not equal your future unless you allow it to.
How would your future self be thinking about your next steps?
To uplevel your mindset you must consider:

• Growth is Uncomfortable
• Expect more from yourself
• Raise your standards
• What do you need to improve, and learn to grow?
• Investing in yourself and your business - are your thoughts coming from a place of lack?
• Upgrading your branding
• Spending money on marketing
• Quality not quantity
• Protecting what you consume
• Embed new beliefs
• Asking for Feedback
• Uncovering and overcoming your fears - Fear of success, fear of failure. fear of judgment.
• What mindset do you need to adopt to grow to move forward?

If you don’t want your past to equal your future then you’ve got to up level your mindset and weed out all the old thought patterns and behaviours that are no longer serving you.
Do you want to up level your life and business?
It starts with your mindset.

Gratitude: the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. How easy do you find it to tap into gratitude? The power of a daily gratitude practice can expand your capacity to feel happiness and joy, improve your overall life satisfaction, our health, sleep, and mental strength. The benefits of Gratitude:

• Improves the quality of your relationship, fulfills our need for connection and love, promotes conflict resolution
• Instant mood booster - feeling appreciation boosts
• Gratitude increases mental strength
• Improves sleep
• Improves your physical health - Grateful people experience fewer aches and pains and report feeling healthier than other people,
• Blocks toxic emotions
• Has lasting positive effects on the brain
• Gratitude improves psychological health: Gratitude reduces negative emotions, from jealousy and anger and frustration and regret. Robert Emmons, a leading gratitude researcher, has conducted multiple studies on the link between gratitude and well-being. His research confirms that gratitude effectively increases happiness and reduces depression.
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Gratitude practices to try:

• Start the day with bringing to mind 3 things you're grateful for, place your hands on your heart and feel the feelings of gratitude
• Express your gratitude to another person
• Write a gratitude letter once a week telling someone all the things you're grateful for
• End the day - Write down 3 things you're grateful for each day. (Feel the feelings)
• Notice the simple pleasures in life - The sun on your skin, a hot cup of coffee, a great sleep, seeing butterflies or beauty in nature, a child's laugh

Mentioned research studies by Heart Math Institute https://www.heartmath.org/

Are you afraid of sales? If we want a successful business and life, we must overcome your fear of sales and get comfortable recommending your product or service! Do you offer an introductory session to recommend your services but hates sales and feel awkward even talking about what you offer Then this episode is for you. Today I talk all about:

• What are you afraid of?
• Overcoming old stories of pushy salesman and sleazy disingenuous sales calls
• Getting comfortable with a sales process
• Dealing with Objections
• Letting go of old money stories
• Getting clear on what you sell and what your customer is actually buying
• Preparing for a sales call.

Here are the links to all the resources mentioned in today's episode.
Sign up to the Client Attraction Masterclass HERE: https://periscopecoaching.com.au/masterclass/ How to rock a Discovery Call without Selling - Free Guide Podcast Episode 6- Dealing With Rejection Podcast Episode 15 - Money Mindset Part 1 Podcast Episode 16 - Money Mindset 2 Podcast 23- Are You An Enabler Or Controller Of Your Money With Lea Schodel from The Mindful Wealth Movement

Are you a giver? Do you love giving but struggle to receive? Do you find yourself deflecting compliments? Do you not accept when someone wants to celebrate your or give you encouragement? Can you ask for help? Are you coachable? Do you take advice on board? Welcome Feedback?? Are you blocking abundance in all areas of your life? It might be time to learn how to receive. For such a long time I was wearing "independence" like a badge of honour. Doing things on my own made me feel strong and significant and it got to the extreme where I wasn't allowing myself to receive gifts from other people. I had to overcome old belief patterns around accepting help meant weakness, where I believed I wasn't of value when I wasn't giving.
Can you receive gracefully? Yes, thank you I appreciate that. You’re so kind, Yin and Yang, circle of life, giving and receiving, we need both to experience life fully. On today's episode, I explore the gift of receiving and the old thought patterns we need to change to start receiving abundance into our lives.
Sign up to the Client Attraction Masterclass HERE: https://periscopecoaching.com.au/masterclass/

Hhhm Perfectionism. It's a thing a lot of people struggle with and I can hear the inner critic of all you perfectionists say " It does have to be perfect!". So I wanted to take the time to delve into how to identify if you are a perfectionist and how to slowly develop your ability to be ok when things are not perfect so you can strive for progress not perfection. Do you have perfectionist tendencies?
🧐Do you expect a high standard from everyone around you–and find yourself getting frustrated with other peoples lack of standards? 🧐Do you take way too long to get things done? Always reading it over, revising it, perfecting it. 🧐Do you view mistakes as proof you're inadequate? 🧐 Do you struggle to celebrate your success? 🧐Do you avoid doing things in case you fail? 🧐Do you attach your self worth to achieving and accomplishing or validation from others? 🧐Are you never satisfied with what you create? 🧐Do you get stuck in a comparison spiral?
Let's create awareness so you can stop striving for perfection and start striving for progress.

• Today on the podcast I take you through the 9 steps you can take to overcome perfectionism and start becoming the person you want to be and start living your fullest life!

Want to find out more about the Client Attraction Masterclass? Click Here: https://periscopecoaching.com.au/masterclass/

Our beliefs shape our reality, our actions, our behaviour and our results in life. If we're not careful we can find ourselves closing the doors to our growth and our fullest potential because we believe some of the fixed mindset thoughts that run through our minds. Be careful when you hear yourself say or think any version of these and here's how to shift and change them. It's always been done that way I can do it better on my own It's not my fault it's the (economy, flooded market, it's the customers, employees, partner, friend, etc) I don't know or I don't know what to do It is what it is - it's out of my control Belief patterns can be strong and difficult to change if we have built up enough evidence to prove them to be true to ourselves. Each day it's important that we

• Ask better questions
• Question the beliefs that may hold us back
• Embed new beliefs that serve us
• Search out the evidence to back up those new beliefs.

So where is your mindset fixed? immovable? or in avoidance? “The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself” Tony Robbins

Kate Maree O'Brien is a Visionary and voice for bold leadership who plays it big and lives from her truth. After coming through tremendous challenges including drug addiction, anorexia and depressions, Kate became a recognized national leader in her field as a registered nurse. She was nominated for a special regional health award for her work in training doctors and nurses throughout New Zealand. Despite a thriving career, and her dream job offer on the table, Kate let it all go to follow the internal nudge to lead on a bigger stage. She's since created a global company specializing in empowering women's leadership and has a team of 12 full-time employees. Kate leads training and workshops globally including her five-day advanced leadership breakthrough experience with over 100 people going deep for 5 days, called The Hero's Journey. Our conversation today covers so much more than this;

• Willingness to show up and go all in
• Building the tenacity to push the boundaries of fear
• The power we have in changing relationships
• Boundaries and Standards when removing toxic people from your life
• Trust the nudges
• You are custom built for doing the things you're called to do
• Stepping into new levels of leadership
• Knowing why keeps you moving forward
• Self-doubt shows up at every level of expansion
• Moving into your next room before you're "ready"
• Top tips for public speaking
• Putting people on pedestals
• Stepping into Unstoppable Leadership

To check out the epic 3 Day Leadership event on the Gold Coast in August click here:
To find out more about Kate click here: https://katemareeobrien.com/
To check out the epic 3 Day Leadership Event SHE on the Gold Coast click here: SHE - Unstoppable is an understatement

What is Fear of Success, how do we identify it and how do we overcome it? You may think the fear of failure is what causes us to procrastinate and not take action on our goals, often it's the fear of success that is harder to recognize and what is actually keeping us stuck. We often self-sabotage without even knowing we are doing it Here are some signs to look out for:

• Not wanting to set goals
• Being late to appointments/meetings of importance
• Saying or doing something inappropriate during important situations
• Conveniently “forgetting deadlines”
• Laziness and lack of motivation to complete projects
• Constantly second-guessing yourself
• Addiction to procrastination
• Perfectionism
• Self-sabotage in ways that prevent a positive outcome
• Not preparing for something important
• Avoidance of responsibility
• Turning down good opportunities without a good reason
• Limiting yourself to jobs, projects, and relationships you’ve long outgrown
• Sabotaging yourself when you’re on the brink of success (e.g. making excuses, getting “sick”, excessive alcohol or drug use, closing down, negative self-talk, creating dramas, etc.)

Today I'm talking about the top 5 fear based thinking patterns that are attributed to the fear of success.

1. Fear of People Judging you
2. Fear of people leaving you
3. Fear of being successful and then it all comes falling down
4. Fear of who you may become
5. Fear of more responsibility or more challenge

What are you afraid of and how can we overcome the fear of success?

Self Doubt stops action, momentum, stops decisions and creates a disconnect. A separation of self from others, our ability and our power. Are you feeling blocked creatively, scared to launch something new, questioning what you know or how you can do something you've never done before? Do you keep hearing that inner voice saying, "I don't know, I don't know what I'm doing, I'm never going to figure this out, I wish I was more confident" This is the little self doubt monster taking over.

• What is self doubt and how do we overcome it?
• How does Self Doubt hold you back?
• What if you let go of Self Doubt?
• Learn to celebrate yourself and your abilities

Self Doubt blocks our intuition, our abundance, lowers our vibration and has no purpose other than to keep us safe. Without it we actually develop self belief. Don't beat yourself up. You are not a failure just because you something didn't work out. Self belief and self trust can be rebuilt. Our word to ourselves is everything. Our commitments are our word to ourselves and when we go against that, we lose trust with ourselves. What would support you in rebuilding your self trust and belief?