The MGI Brand Tour continues…save the date:
Amsterdam, June 17th and London June 19th
(web page coming soon)
The proof: If a metal bird can stay in the air, you, couture creation, can design the life, love and business you want. As I sit here planning my next two events (see the graphic above and save the date!), this is what comes to mind.
Truth is, there are no limitations to what we can all do, only those limitations we set for ourselves. Specifically, the ones we tell ourselves over and over again…specifically, the ones that are on repeat or on loop in that cheeky mind of ours.
What is it that you want to do this year? REALLY accomplish? What is it that you've been putting off that you know if you put it off any longer, will never get done…and will never be added to your happiness account?
I had a client the other day ask me how I do my workshops and that she "could never do that". I challenged her and told her she could and told her how…
She had also mentioned that in order for me to accomplish this 12-city tour (see above graphic and save the date!) I must "know people everywhere" and that that's what it takes to accomplish and to sell them out. I told her that I didn't necessarily know a ton of people everywhere, but that I was determined to celebrate 12 years in busines that way and that I created a strategy around how to get it done; to make happiness my business, to do as I said in last week's post, "create what I want to be a part of" (no one will do it for you). I shared with her that if she was determined to really do that thing (insert her kind of dance here) then she would also find a way.
But here's the thing: the HOW never shows itself until you make the first step on the WHAT.
We could say then that the ONLY difference between the person to the left of you in aisle 23 on that metal bird in the sky is just that…that she moves forward despite not knowing all the pieces; when she only knows a bit of the WHAT and not the HOW. She doesn't wait for all to be revealed (or she'd be waiting forever).
How could you move forward in faith so that all can be revealed to you as you walk…run?
Here's something ~ some say, you are what you eat and I like to say we are what we REPEAT. Here's an article I wrote for the Huffington Post that you might enjoy on the subject.
If you feel that your limiting beliefs or what you have on REPEAT is keeping you from really soaring, here are five tips on how to quiet the noise in a big way:
1. Read and start practicing what's laid out in my Huffington Post blog article.
2. Each day, especially when you're feeling it can't happen for you, open up Think and Grow Rich to whatever page lies there and take just a minute or three to read that ONE page. It's hard to stay in limited thinking when you're reading about the abundance we are capable of!
3. Start a gratitude practice. Every morning, write down five things you're grateful for that ARE growing. At night, repeat the practice. Do this for at least two weeks. It's hard not to believe you can do the thing you want to do if you are constantly being reminded of all that IS growing in your business (and in YOU). Take more note of what is working than what is not working and you'll be opening up in you a success mindset that you once maybe never thought possible.
4. Join a mastermind group. Two participants in my Brand to Success Program group asked me during Week 2 how they could get out of negative self-talk. One of the tips I said was "Get support…create what you want to be a part of and create your own mastermind if one doesn't already exist that you can invest in." Because it's true, we are not meant to live or work in a vacuum and we were not meant to toil away on our own…this is truly a recipe for negative self-talk and growing a lack mentality. Why? Well, because, in short, you ARE in lack. You are in lack of having a sisterhood, a team, a support group that will help you feel, even on the tougest days, that all will be well. So, connect with people on a daily or weekly basis and connect with your possibility and power! It's been there all along.
5. Make the first move on that next big thing…write the email, send the proposal, do it! Get out there and prove to yourself with that first movement on the "what" that everything else will follow. But you have to make that first move…the first move is the first step before your run and before your soaring to new heights.
So get out there…sink your teeth into the what, into those first steps (as well as tune into the tips mentioned above, every day) and I promise the HOW will reveal itself. It has and does for me every time. And you are NO less special. At MGI we believe in your greatness and create authentic brands from that very unique greatness every single day…
Your brand of woman IS greatness, plain and simple. I'll toast to that!
As always, enjoy your business, enjoy your life!
p.s. If you are in Amsterdam or London June 17 and June 19th, I'd love to see you at one of my boutique brand workshops! I'll be coming to you from the City of Angels and would love to help you get final clarity on your brand (I know you've wanted it for a long time). ***You will leave with your brand personality and brand plan DOWN.**** The web page with the fab details is coming soon but for now please save the date. You may also email peggy@michelleghilotti.com if you know you'd like to hold one of the 15 spots that are available for each city. She will be happy to give you more information on the workshop in that email, as well. Here's to making happiness your business!