LOCK IN And Make Your SACRIFICES Worth It *INNER WORK* Tips Only

Lock in on your dreams with these inner work tips and make your sacrifices WORTH IT. Just imagine one day being able to say that most of the sacrifices you made were worth it!

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squadcaster-be3a_1_12-04-2024_110648: 0:05

hey ladies welcome back to another video So today we are going to be talking about locking in and making your sacrifices worth it. So is a new year approaching and I'm sure you made so many sacrifices. On your entrepreneurial journey. And at some point you get tired of making so many sacrifices and seeing very incremental results or no results at all. So going into 2025, let's together make these sacrifices worth it. And so I'm going to recommend that you lock in and what I mean by locking in, not just on external things, right? Like locking in on your time management, Locking in on hustling, grinding. I'm not talking about any of those. A lot of the things that I'm going to be talking about today of locking in is the inner work that you want to lock in on. These are things that has helped me thrive in my entrepreneurial journey And actually made the sacrifices i've made in the past worth it. So Whether you've made sacrifices such as, let's see, invest in all of your money, and that's not a bad thing with taking risks and betting on yourself I definitely want to point that out or you sacrifice sleep, right? you sacrifice getting a full eight hours of sleep or seven hours of sleep and You've been someone who was waking up just with four hours of sleep you sacrifice that You sacrifice family time you sacrifice relationships like friendships and dating I say all of this because I've experienced all of these. I've sacrificed all of these things. You sacrifice fun and you sacrifice play things that you need to To pour into your business and get back to thriving your business. You sacrifice vacations You've sacrificed so many things no matter what it looks like you sacrifice that so What I want to say is it is not time to Give up it's not time to give up It is time to lock in. Lock in on these inner works that I'm going to give you because if you gave up, guess what? All of those sacrifices you made will be for nothing. So let's make it count. Let's make it for something. Okay. So the first thing that I am going to tell you to lock in on is your faith and your mindset. so maybe what I mean by this, especially let's start with faith. So, You're looking at your results, right? You're looking and you've gotten incremental results. So maybe you've gotten no results and you've been praying and you've been asking God for direction and you're not getting, the guidance. You may not feel like you're getting that guidance or these intuitive guides, that you want. To receive so it is so easy to start retracting right to start saying like, you're not gonna pray anymore you get into desperation losing that sense of hope that sense of expectation You pull away from listening to motivational things. You pull away from the things that you actually need because you're so frustrated. And then you start somewhat depending solely on you to make things happen. Or you're just like, forget it at all. It is so tempting to do that. However, when you want to retract, I advise you to actually push forward. And what I mean by push forward, instead of saying, you know, I'm not, I'm not praying anymore, like he's not listening to me, which is things that I have done. I decided to say, you know what? These are the moments where I'm actually going to pray a little bit more. Instead of retracting, let me pray a little bit more. Instead of saying, you know, I'm going to give up on affirmations. No, let me give myself more affirmations. You know, listening to motivational people. I say, you know, I don't feel like hearing none of this right now. No, instead I'm going to listen to it because what this is going to do, it is going to spark more inside of you, even when you don't want it, even when you feel like you don't want to hear it, nothing been there, done that, where you don't want to hear nothing about you can do it. And you got this, never give up, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You don't want to hear that. However, it is something that we need to hear, especially in the moments where we feel like, the sacrifices that we've spent are not paying off. And you're asking yourself, what did I do all of this for? Right. It's such a sucky feeling, However, I advise you to not retract. So also in terms of like mindset, so locking in on your mindset is really just strengthening. How can I set myself up to be confident to live in a state of expectation? To know that is going to happen. How can I talk to myself again, going back to speak when things are not working out? How can I overcome? How can I have emotional mastery? Over myself when, I'm not making any money in my business or you're not, you know, attracting the audience that you want to attract when things aren't working out and it looks like you're failing. What is the mindset? How can you lock in on that mindset of actually believing in the unseen, believing that there's things working out in your favor? And that everything is going to work out no matter how it looks at any given point in time. So, focusing on locking in on those things is going to help you make sacrifices worth it. It's helped me in Make sacrifices worth it.

squadcaster-be3a_2_12-04-2024_120243: 6:08

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squadcaster-be3a_1_12-04-2024_110648: 6:35

okay So the second top thing that you are going to do to lock in and make your sacrfices worth it is to lock in on mining your business. So your business exactly right? Because distraction is literally the root of all. All setbacks. Distractions can cause so much frustration and distractions is you know, minding other people business looking at what they're doing what they're doing better than you it leads to comparison at least to jealousy it leads to so much Internal discouragement that you don't need in this season. This is not the season to start looking at what other people are doing, No, it is your season to lock in on just strictly minding your business. So one thing I like to do is when I Catch myself, maybe scrolling a little bit. And you know, one thing, let me point this out first. One thing I want to say that it is key, especially as an entrepreneur to look and see what other people are doing, right? What are they doing better? What are they doing differently? It's important to do those things as research, this is one way that you are actually going to learn. because success, success leaves clues, right? So you get to look at that. these clues, but when you go from looking at clues to actually being a little bit envious, to actually beating up on yourself because you're not where they are or wishing that you were where they are. it's so easy to get you distracted from focusing on your business when you want to make your sacrifices worth it. Focus is the name of the game. Focus and one of the main things that can break focus is Emotions, so negative emotions unhelpful emotions I don't like to say negative emotions anymore, but unhelpful emotions Unhelpful thoughts right because you are busy looking at what other people doing. Those are really just distractions it is so important to be able to lock in and not allow these unhelpful emotions and, and these unhelpful, you know, thoughts to get you off of your game, This is a cause of why sometimes it takes so long to create something, so long to build something, because of the distractions. And the distractions is normally the internal distractions that happens. Not just because what someone else is doing differently, no. It's because of what's going on inside. So that is the second way of, to me, most important thing to be able to lock in and make your sacrifices worth it. So the third thing to lock in. On is taking care of yourself, taking care of your body. So what this looks like is fueling your body with good foods. Fueling your body with, you know, healthy drinks working out. This also looks like dancing, you know, releasing unhelpful emotions releasing blocked emotions getting yourself into play and pleasure. So, why this is important is because. You are the business at the end of the day. You are the business. So you are the entrepreneur. You are the business and everything that is externally that you want to see flourish, it always starts with you. So. The energy that you desire to have right that you desire to have to build this, you know, successful business that you want to build. We need to have the energy. We don't want to be tired. I know what it feels like to be so tired, to be so burnt out, to literally be feeling just so fatigued because I'm not taking care of myself, not having time to properly use the bathroom. So gut health is so important. Because when you are not able to sit down properly and use the bathroom, that is a clear sign that you are too much on the go, that you are in survival mode, that is a clear sign that you are not allowing your body. To just relax. Relaxing, refueling yourself, giving yourself energy. And that's another thing also, all the, all the gunk, all the, poo and all this stuff that we hold in our bodies, that is also slowing us down that is also blocking our creativity, our ability to think clearly, our mood, our excitement to be able to pour into our business, like. We want to. When you're feeling nauseous, when you're feeling fatigued, when you're feeling bloated, bloated is a clear sign. When you're feeling all of these, you don't feel as good. You don't feel as sexy as sensual. And honestly, as women, this is going to be so important. And being able to really nourish and thrive as entrepreneur is being able to tap into that ability to turn yourself on and to, feel sexy and to feel sensual. Because it's going to help take you as an entrepreneur yourself to the next level Okay. So working out pouring into self feeling good feeling good within your body you at the end of day You are your business and if you are not Good, if you don't feel good in your body then Your business is just gonna be a reflection of what's going on And so taking care of your body is going to be so key to locking in on that. Locking in on learning that you at the end of the day, you are a priority as an entrepreneur. You are the priority because if you want to serve, If you want, because entrepreneurship is all about serving, is all about taking what we, our creativity, what we feel inside our passion, our purpose, and being able to share that with the world and to serve others with that. And so. We have to be in order to do that at the fullest capacity is being able to feel good, feel good internally and taking care of your body is really going to help taking care of your body is really going to help you. It's going to heighten your mood. Give you more feel good hormones. It's just gonna make you feel so good to Get you to pursue in your business and you know continuous to thrive and not give up on your business because you feel so good that you're like Like I feel good. I want to create I want to pour into something. When you feel good There is really not a time when you don't want to create you want to be able to show how? You You want to be able to take that feel good out of you and pour it into something else that you can serve. And so another part of that like I mentioned is releasing those unhelpful Emotions so releasing those blocky motions. Again, because these things block creativity, so that is getting up and, you know, shaking. and dancing. This also looks like if you're frustrated, you know, screaming into a pillow, getting all of that built up unhelpful things out of your body. If you want to cry something, you know what a feel good cry, right? When you're mad, but you cry, you feel so much better to be able to keep going. When you cry, when you scream and you say, F this business and you want to throw everything, just throw it away. You cry. And then you're like, okay. Let's do this, right? So releasing those unhelpful emotions, just get it out. Is there for a reason? Because you care so passionately, you care so much. This is so important to you. You know why you want to be an entrepreneur, no matter what reason it is, right? We all have different reasons. And so you care so much. So, especially with making sacrifices that again, whether that is sacrificing your relationships, your friendships. You know, maybe you lost a partner because you wanted to bet on yourself. You wanted to build your business. Maybe you're a mom like me who sacrificed time. Maybe maybe sacrificing your money and, investing in yourself and doing so many things. But you're frustrated, cry. Those are good signs because you care so much, you care so much, but don't leave it inside, right? Get it out. Take care of your body. Because it just is so important. You gotta make your sacrifices worth it by getting out those unblocked emotions. Get rid of those, sorry, blocked emotions and unhelpful, you know, tensions that were holding inside of us because we're frustrated. Okay, the next inner work lock in that I recommend you do that has helped me thrive as an entrepreneur for is changing my mindset from believing that my business is the boss of me versus I'm the boss of my business. Why is this an internal shift? Because it's a mindset shift. We've been built to believe that, If we have this business if we're entrepreneurs Then we have to you know, do what everyone else is doing. However When you are the boss of your business You get to decide the type of sacrifices That you Are going to make. Like I said before, We've all made sacrifices. as entrepreneurs sacrifices are Necessary sometimes it's things that happen is things that we do to grow we sacrifice, Comfort To get uncomfortable, right? That is a necessary sacrifice. Sometimes we sacrifice going out, right? So instead of going out, we stay and we work on a business. We sacrifice. TV and actually read a book, right? Some sacrifices are necessary sacrifices. However, you as the boss of your business, not what everybody else is telling you to do, you get to decide what sacrifices you are willing to take. What sacrifices you are willing to take what sacrifices are non negotiable for you. So let me give you some examples for me. So what I stopped sacrificing because I used to sacrifice this a lot is sacrificing a lot of time with my daughter. Something that I did years ago, I left my daughter for about two months to travel to California to help build this office. And it was two of the hardest months of my life. And I felt so bad because like, she's three and I left her. I, let her go to my mom's house. For the summer, but it was so hard. I was crying every time somebody mentioned my daughter was crying. I was crying I was crying And then when I came back to new york I stayed in the business and I will work from like I would leave the house around eight I believe and I will work from then and I would not get home until like 11 p. m at night And I used to do that because the people like the leaders, A lot of them were men and some of them were women, but they learned from the guys Was like, you know going back to that mentality, sleep when you're dead, your priority is this business, building your business. you're going to sacrifice time with your family, time with your kids so that you can build this business. And I believe that was a case. I believe that has to be true. There was so much turmoil inside of me, it was hurting my relationship, not just with my daughter, but my, romantic relationship and I always feel guilty, always feel guilty. When I left. And I started my business of reselling. I kept doing the same thing a little bit, even though I was home, I was still doing it, sacrificing time, however. It got to a point when I said absolutely Not no longer done And I do not do that anymore. That is a non negotiable for me. So yes, you can absolutely place non negotiables for yourself. You are the boss of your business. What is a non negotiable for you? Is it, I'm not waking, I'm not sleeping less than six hours. I'm not sleeping less than seven hours. I'm not sacrificing my relationships for this business. I'm not sacrificing my health for this business. You get to decide. What you are willing to sacrifice and what you are not sacrificing because again You are your business at the end of the day. Your business is a representation of you. It is an inner work shift that you have to be able to make for yourself and decide based on your values, based on your desires, based on your needs, your wants, what you're willing to sacrifice. What have you sacrificed in the past that hasn't felt very good, right? Because not all sacrifices are the same. you don't wanna resent those sacrifices. And again, go back to asking yourself, what was all of this for? Why did I make all these sacrifices? So, yes, we made it already. We made a lot of sacrifices. But starting today, hopefully you, hopefully this encourages you to actually stop to listen and say, what am I no longer going to do? What are some sacrifices that I'm no longer going to take? And so lock in on that. Lock in on being a boss of your business. And as a daily step by step by step, you make the decision, but as a daily step by step a daily thing to do Consciously and realizing, okay, is, is my, is my business running me right now or am I running my business? Right? If I feel this pressure, this anxiety to do something to do something because everybody said you should do it. that this is the thing you're supposed to do. Again, going back to, is my business running me or am I running my business? They tell you Work when you even when you don't feel good Sometimes that can be true you you sometimes you do Even if you're not feeling in the mood You It depends on that mood, right? It depends. And so being able to listen to you, that inner work, what are you willing to sacrifice your mental health? Non negotiable, right? Not sacrificing my mental health anymore for this business. You are the boss of your business. Your business is not the boss of you. So that is a inner work thing that you just, That I recommend locking in on and that has helped me so much with deciding that no Some sacrifices are worth it and some sacrifices are not but going into 2025 Now that you, hopefully, you accept this and actually want to put into practice and so one day because it will happen one day you're going to be able to say these sacrifices were worth it. Okay, the last inner work, thing that that I recommend locking in on is to actually be. The successful entrepreneur that you want to be now, taking on her mindset, taking on her actions. What does that look like for you? It talking like she wants to talk? Is it showing up how she How she shows up. Is that putting out the product because she already knows that is going to sell? Is it creating the course because you already know someone is going to buy? If even if they don't buy now, they're going to buy eventually. Is it starting the clothing line? Even if you don't have any, you know audience or followers, because at the end of the day, you know, that is going to pay off. Is going to happen. What would she do? What is she doing right now? So Again, going back to the last video I make, a lot of times when we are working harder we are operating out of the mindset, the, the person that we are today. And we're disconnected from that future self. But what if you locked in on, on actually not acting from the place you are right now, you're acting from. That future version of you, that future successful entrepreneur version, boss woman that you know, that you are going to be, what have you started operating as her right now? Because this is going to get you closer to being as her, even if it's not externally showing up right now for you internally, it is happening internally because you are. Embodying who she is, and everything is happening even when we can't see it, right? These are ways how you're going to quantum leap. These are things of how you're going to truly manifest. You don't manifest. You don't quantum leap. You don't quantum leap from the version of where you are right now. You do that by being the version, that future version of you now. So, how can you lock in on being her now? How can you lock in on that and try to get out of you, you, where you are right now? Lock in on that, lock in on being that person and eventually your sacrifices that you made will be so worth it. Lock in on being that person. Because the faster you get closer to her, the faster, the business of your dreams can come to life. It happens. The faster you get to her, the faster things happen. The faster you manifest. The faster, You quantum leap and then you're gonna instead of saying uh, All these sacrifices worth it and you're gonna be saying yes They are so worth it because it's not taking as long sometime. Is that the time that is taking that's making you stress these sacrifices that you're making Especially if it was necessary sacrifices. What I like to do every single day if you know, you know what I have is a list of, my top three priorities on different pages in my journal. And under those top three priorities, I write out what she is doing, right? What is she doing right now? how is she acting? How does she do blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, And so I look at that every single day. Almost every day, Sometimes I don't look at it, but almost every single day and it's so important The reason why this is so important is because out of sight out of mind when it's out of sight you forget The person that you are working to become and you're and you stay operating Out of this current place that you you stay operating in the the current state Of which you are right now. So When you look at it and you're like, Oh, okay, well, my most successful entrepreneur self, or depending on your priority, depending on your goal, she does this every single day. And it reminds you, let me do some of these today. When you do that, again, you get closer and closer to her. So that's something that works for me. I recommend doing that as well. Again, because out of sight, out of mind. And this is going to help you lock in. So lock in on that. This is going to help you make your sacrifices so worth it. So before I let you go,

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