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Cash flow… it all comes back to mom and dad!

By Amira Alvarez Yep, you read that title right. Whether or not you can create consistent cash flow in your business all comes back to mom and dad.  Hear me out... we’re not blaming your parents!! Your ability to call in the kind of prospects, opportunities, clients, and income you desire is directly…
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Yep, you read that title right. Whether or not you can create consistent cash flow in your business all comes back to mom and dad. 

Hear me out… we’re not blaming your parents!!

Your ability to call in the kind of prospects, opportunities, clients, and income you desire is directly tied to your money story, double binds, loyalty pacts, and beliefs about yourself, others, and the world. 

This is your subconscious programming around money. It’s essentially, what you believe to be true about yourself, money, how it moves in the world, and what’s possible for you.

This is ALL learned at a very young age.

You see, our subconscious programming… the “rules” we learn about how to stay safe, loved, and secure… gets locked in pretty tightly when we’re young, before the age of 12 (roughly) which is when we begin to fully develop our conscious mind. 

The conscious mind allows us to accept or reject information… but before we have our conscious mind in place, the subconscious is WIDE open.

Which means everything you heard or witnessed around money for those first years of your life in your family, community, culture, and home has shaped your beliefs.

Now, you may have a desire for more $ and you may be busy, seemingly working hard at achieving that goal.

But until you get leverage over your subconscious, you will always find a way to justify not taking the true action that’s required to move the needle. You know what I mean… it’s that task that you’re resisting, putting off, procrastinating doing.  

So my tip for today is to move towards the resistance. Do the very thing that you’re putting off.  

As I write this, I feel that oh so familiar feeling inside that lets me know that I too have fallen into the “resistance trap”. 

Truth! It still happens to me. I know exactly what I’m avoiding doing!!  

But the promise I made long ago to myself and which has helped me close the gap on time on achieving my income (and other) goals… is to move toward the resistance… as quickly as I humanly can.

It doesn’t always feel good. Hello, resistance!

But it does get you past the programming that keeps you small.

So if you want your quantum leap, if you want to prove to yourself that you are extraordinary, sometimes you have to do hard things.

So after I finish this, I’m going to stop justifying why all the other things on my list are more important and I’m going to go do that thing I know I’m resisting and get it done!

Here’s to you “walking the talk” as well. ;-) 

Let me know that you felt the resistance and moved through it. I promise you… the other side feels amazing!

The link between the chatter in your head and success

By Amira Alvarez Hello Unstoppable Friend,Do you have a constant stream of chatter in your mind that’s reminding you of “all the hard” that you’re facing? That internal dialogue might sound something like…“This is so hard” or “I’m so overwhelmed.”“I don’t want to work more hours.”“I wonder if _____ (insert name of significant other)…
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Hello Unstoppable Friend,

Do you have a constant stream of chatter in your mind that’s reminding you of “all the hard” that you’re facing? 

That internal dialogue might sound something like…

“This is so hard” or “I’m so overwhelmed.”
“I don’t want to work more hours.”
“I wonder if _____ (insert name of significant other) is going to like me doing this.”
“If I do this are people going to think I’m greedy or just out for the money?”
“What if my business gets so big or I get so busy I can’t take care of my family?”

These examples, and so many others like them, all come directly from our subconscious which long ago got programmed with “rules” to guide how we view and engage with the world. 

This programming, or the lens through which you see the world, is going to make the work of growing your business (and your life) either easier or harder… and make success come quickly or with struggle.

It’s going to color every decision you make and experience you have.

It’s going to color how you approach money and time, two resources most people go into scarcity about. 

It’s going to color your experience of hiring and managing Team, reaching out and connecting with potential clients, offering your product or service for sale, and approaching the systems and processes required to grow.

If you want to understand whether you’ve been programmed for success or struggle, just become aware of that chatter in your head.

What is it actually saying? Once you identify that, ask yourself what that says about your beliefs about what it takes to succeed?

Do this exercise for a week and you’ll have a really good sense of how you’ve been programmed.

For many, this chatter runs rampant, taking up a huge amount of brain space and energy.

It’s actually controlling you, rather than you directing it.

And it’s causing everything you’re seeking to do in your business so much harder. 

Until you identify the programming, you won’t truly understand what blocks you from success and you’ll always wonder why you’re getting in your way.

This has been one of the biggest game changers for me and I hope you actually do the exercise.

Let me know if you do – even a few minutes of awareness can be life (and business) changing. 

The truth is most people will read this and skip over the actual doing of the exercise. Kind of like at the end of the chapter in the book when you just keep reading the next chapter instead of actually working the prompts. I’ve been totally guilty of that as well!  

But let’s do it differently this time. Take two minutes and do this exercise. Even a few minutes will provide tons of information! If you want to take it further and have a bigger breakthrough, feel free to click the link below to book a call.
https://theunstoppablewoman.com/scale

Success Habits That Help You Achieve Your Goals Rapidly

By Amira Alvarez Today’s episode is all about success habits! We’re covering all the steps you need to take so you can create successful habits and finally get out of your own way. We’re getting real about your not-so-healthy habits too – that includes habits you didn’t even know were holding you back!…
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Today’s episode is all about success habits! We’re covering all the steps you need to take so you can create successful habits and finally get out of your own way. We’re getting real about your not-so-healthy habits too – that includes habits you didn’t even know were holding you back! You may be self-sabotaging without even realizing it… 😳 listen up so you can replace those sneaky bad habits with effective and healthy ones!

What To Listen For

  • The key to breaking that one awful habit (and how you can replace it with a good one!)
  • How to put yourself in the way of luck through action
  • Optimize your daily routine with habit hacks – so that they stick!
  • Fogging out and getting distracted– what it is, why it happens, and how you can avoid it moving forward
  • The power of stretch goals! And how to set them
  • How do you know if a habit is supportive?
  • The sneaky ways that you’re self-sabotaging without realizing it
  • The most crucial habits of highly successful people

Resources

Check out our free resources for listeners
www.theunstoppablewoman.com/freestuff/

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Schedule a Strategy Call
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What would you like people to know about…

By Amira Alvarez What would you like people to know about... A) You, because you are your brand. B) Your products or services. C) The benefits of your product and services. D) The intangibles – customer service, quality, reputation. I'm not looking for well-crafted messages. Don't get hung up on making it all…
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Inspiration,

What would you like people to know about…

A) You, because you are your brand.

B) Your products or services.

C) The benefits of your product and services.

D) The intangibles – customer service, quality, reputation.

I’m not looking for well-crafted messages.

Don’t get hung up on making it all fit into one freaking sentence with a bow on top.

The one sentence “or die” thing is one of my biggest bugaboos. It hangs people up for hours, even days… sometimes even keeps them from talking about their business at all.

Sure, the process provides clarity. It gets you thinking and really honing in on what you do and the benefits of it. That is good, I’ll give you that.

But really? It’s a rare, rare, rare case when you have to speak or even write like that.

In fact, when I’m at an event and someone parrots off their one line introduction, most of the time it feels so off. (Even if it’s well crafted.)

Want to know why?

Because it’s devoid of life.

It’s not how people talk to each other. It’s not real. There’s no place to land. Even though that’s exactly what the person is trying to do… give us a place to land, to connect to them and their business.

You have to have REAL conversations.

Talk like a person to another person.

Come up with your MESSAGE. (Yes! A thousand times yes!) Which you will say in lots of different ways. Which you will continually breathe life into each time you say it.

Don’t make things hard on yourself. Just say what you really mean.

With that in mind, and without going through a huge polishing process, what do you really want people to know about one or all of the following… just let it rip!

A) You, because you are your brand.

B) Your products or services.

C) The benefits of your product and services.

D) The intangibles – customer service, quality, reputation.

Want some practice sharing what you really mean?
Head on over and join me at The Posse.

I cannot wait to hear what you say. 

Amira

What does action have to do with self-care?

By Amira Alvarez "What does showing up have to do with self-care?" Do you ever wonder why you need self-care in the first place? I'll tell you why... Have you noticed that every time you go after your next big goal... it stretches you? That's because going after what we want requires internal…
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“What does showing up have to do with self-care?”

Do you ever wonder why you need self-care in the first place?

I’ll tell you why…

Have you noticed that every time you go after your next big goal… it stretches you? That’s because going after what we want requires internal growth to create outer growth, which means you’re on your growth edge a lot!

I don’t care what the goal is, nor do I care whether you’re just starting out or have been at this for years… there is always tension in the growth! You’re expanding, and that means your mental and emotional fortitude is going to be tested and pushed.

It’s just a part of the process, so:
Expect the tension that comes along with it.

This is a reflection of the dissonance between who you’ve been (how you’ve been showing up and behaving on both the inside and outside) and who you’ve stepped into becoming the moment you claimed your goal or desire.

Let me explain…

The moment you say you want something that you’ve yet to have or experience–the moment you have the desire clearly as a thought–it is now a part of you.

Yet, in order to actualize that desire, you need to become the person who’s capable of having it.

Here’s the rub… you’re still over here, being the “old you.”

You’re not yet that person who has it.

You haven’t yet fully become her.

There’s a huge gap and you need to transverse it. It’s this gap that’s painful.

So what do you do?

Most people have a ton of self-care tools at their disposal. Use them, definitely.

But the best self-care tool? Showing up.

Every time you grow you have to show up on a new level. Start doing that. Now. It’ll make things so much easier in the long run, but it’ll feel hard in the moment. Don’t let that fool you.

The longer you delay this, the longer you stay in the patterns and behaviors of the “old you,” the longer the tension lasts (i.e. frustration, pain, emotional upheaval, spinout, etc).

The best self-care is recognizing who you need to be to have what you want and to begin showing up as this women RIGHT NOW.

You step into being her, by taking action as her.

This closes the gap between the “old you” and who you need to step into being in order to have what you desire. And when that happens, not only will you actualize what you want, but the tension will dissipate. (Until your next growth phase!)

Showing up for yourself then becomes a form of self-care, because it effectively recalibrates who you are, closes the gap, and dissipates the tension…

And this then allows you the ENERGY, spirit, and wherewithal to go for more, which means you CAN and WILL break through your income barrier.

Amira

 

Create a winning attitude

By Amira Alvarez Here's a practice that creates a winning attitude... which leads to big results. It's very simple and easy, but most people ignore it because they think it's too simple and not going to help them. Don't be one of these people. Here's how it works and it's really quite easy...…
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Here’s a practice that creates a winning attitude… which leads to big results.

It’s very simple and easy, but most people ignore it because they think it’s too simple and not going to help them. Don’t be one of these people.

Here’s how it works and it’s really quite easy…

You recognize your successes.

So often we skip over our wins, what’s really working, both small and large, and take them for granted. We just move onto the next thing.

This keeps you on the “hamster wheel of never enough”–always going for the next thing without appreciating what you’ve actually achieved and accomplished.

This causes you to get lost in the “grind” of your work. The irony is that this is most likely exactly what you’re trying to avoid.

For most of us, the desire to tick everything off our list, is an attempt to feel good. You think pushing on and pushing hard is going to help you finally feel on top of the world. And sure enough, getting things done does feel pretty awesome.

However, if you rarely look back and appreciate what you have accomplished, you will never experience the flow and ease in your work, during your work, that you want.

Happily, that sense that you can never get ahead, that you’re not doing enough, that you’re behind, and that you must do more or else is actually a mindset that you can turn around quite easily.

You can start with looking back and celebrating your wins. What were your big wins? What were your small wins? Start to appreciate all of them.

Amira

PS – In the Business Acceleration Bootcamp we have a simple, but powerful daily practice of celebrating our wins. Join us!