There is a formula to succeed in your business. If certain things are done in a certain way with a certain mindset, you cannot fail.

Just like there are laws in the physical world, like the law of gravity, there are also spiritual laws that govern how things happen. Nothing is by chance. The universe is a very organized and orderly place. What may seem like luck or miracles really just seem that way because you don’t understand how things really work. The key to succeed, is to understand how to align yourself with universal laws.

When you align yourself with spiritual laws, success is inevitable.

But this is certainly not taught in school and most people have no awareness of this or how it works. But this is causing a lot of havoc in the entrepreneurial world because if you don’t know what you don’t know, how are you going to succeed?

If things are not working and money is not flowing, something is out of alignment.  If you are in complete alignment with what you want, you are already living it. It’s really that simple.

Success does not need to be a struggle and running your business can be fun and more effortless than you thought possible once you align your thinking and your actions with success.

However, there are a lot of blind-spots that keep many business owners from succeeding. Their programming is actually making them fail when the solution often is right in front of their nose.

These are some of the biggest mistakes I see people make and how to succeed.

• You work hard and sacrifice long hours but you’re not seeing the results you want. As a result, you work harder. But if what you are already doing is not working, working harder is not going to solve the problem. As Einstein said: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result”. If what you are doing right now is not working, just trying to do more and work harder is just insanity. You need to find out why it’s not working and change that instead.

• After trying harder to make results, you eventually realize that things aren’t working for you and you change their strategy. Often many times and you still don’t see the results because you change your strategies too often. You are trying to solve the problem from the outside, when the problem usually lies within. Shiny object syndrome is rampant in the entrepreneurial world. You jump from one training to the next, thinking that the next one will help you solve your problem. But if the problem is within, nothing is going to change when you change things in your external world. You need to start changing on the inside first. As you change on the inside, you will see your world start to transform before your eyes. As within, so without.

• Another mistake I see people making is being unwilling to invest in yourself, yet thinking (usually unrealistically) that you can do it on your own. Again, most of the time you don’t know what you don’t know…and you get yourself into trouble trying to figure out how to recreate the wheel. You may watch a YouTube video here, take a blog advice there, implement a few things you heard on a podcast and don’t realize that there needs to be an overall strategy for your business that is in alignment with you, your goals and the life you want to live. Picking parts of different strategies without having a cohesive strategy to succeed rarely works; it’s kind of like baking a cake and just taking a little bit of everything you have in the kitchen. That cake will probably not taste very good. Sure, if you’re a chef you can do it because you know the principles of what makes a cake work, but unless you know the principles of how to do this, you get yourself into a lot more trouble than it’s worth. Making the right investments and getting the right support from people who have done what you want to do is one of the best ways to scale your business fast.

When you don’t know what you don’t know, hire someone to help you.

• Setting high goals that you don’t have the skillset to achieve yet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for setting high goals and I believe that anything is possible. But there is a skillset that goes into reaching your goals in your business. That is a skill that is both on the inside and the outside. You need to know your stuff, have a plan and you need to understand how to achieve your goals. I see way too many entrepreneurs being discouraged because they set too high goals off the bat without realizing their skillset (or lack thereof) was not up to par to get the job done. As a result, they get discouraged, lose their confidence and they get on a downward spiral.

• Another mistake I see is people signing up for multiple programs simultaneously, working on the same thing. For example, I am all for working with multiple coaches if you are working on different things with them. Just like top athletes have more than one coach, it can help you progress much faster when you work with more than one person. But if you’re working with two business coaches who give you different advice, you’re kind of shooting yourself in the foot. There are a million ways to build a business and if both of your coaches are giving different advice you get paralyzed and don’t know what to do. You end up confused, and guess what a confused mind does; nothing.

What mistakes have you encountered as you grew your business?

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