The Biggest Mistake Business Owners Make

December 21, 2011 By Jeanna Gabellini 1 Comment

The Biggest Mistake Business Owners MakeOne of the first things you are told as a business owner is that you must have a business plan. I agree. I’m a fan of long-term and right now plans. But that doesn’t guarantee you profits or growth. Many people file that puppy in a drawer or stash it in the depths of their computer. Then it’s out of their mind until January 1 of the following year.

If the plan doesn’t get you immediately buzzing with energy and ready to get into inspired action then it’s not a good plan.

Now, I love to watch business owners get fired up about their projects and planning. But here is where they fall down, they think productivity is the way to make a successful business happen. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Kicking butt on your plan will probably yield you some nice accomplishments. But at the end of the year, you may only be a little richer and not much happier or free.

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Saying No is Not for Wimps

November 30, 2011 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Saying No is Not for WimpsOnce I say yes, I don’t like to say no. If I make a decision, I like to stick with it. If I make a commitment to you, I’m going to keep it. If you’re my client, I want to give you all the support you need.

But what if I change my mind?

The act of saying no, can be one of the most strategic, smart, loving, profitable and honoring things you can do.

Think about how painful it is when you say yes and you really mean no. Or what about when you set a goal, and then don’t feel inspired to go for it, but you pressure yourself to get it done anyway because you wrote it down? Sure, you got it done, but was it fun?

I’m all for going for a HELL YES. That’s when you have a choice in front of you to do something, and everything about it feels good and it totally aligns with your values and goals. That’s a HELL YES! You can’t wait to jump on it.

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Action is NOT The Answer

November 24, 2010 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Action is NOT The Answer When you look for a way out of any corner, the first thing you usually ask yourself is, “What do I need to do?” It’s an okay question to begin the process of moving into solution. But an even better question is, “What was I focusing on that led me into this corner?”

You can trick yourself into thinking you are moving forward toward any business or personal goal by taking heaps of actions. You may even pat yourself on the back for making the effort. But have you ever noticed that you can bust your butt at work and still not feel like there was much movement forward? I hear this a lot from clients. Heck, I used to be the one who’d work until midnight and feel like I was never going to catch up with all that needed to be done.

Let’s just set the record straight, action is not the answer in most cases. Observing and poking around with curiosity at what you believe a goal will take to actualize is a much better place to start. All actions are initiated by what you believe. If you think that going to networking meetings will build your business then you will check into the meetings available in your area. If you think networking meetings are a waste of time, you’ll choose to market your business in another way.

But I’d encourage you to dig a little deeper with your beliefs. If you believe that you need more expertise to be better at your job, business or relationship then you will constantly create situations that prove that you are not smart enough to figure out the way to have success in that area of your life. You could try every technique in the “how-to” books and still come up discouraged.

Why is action not the answer? Because the Universe is a mirror for what you believe and where you put your emotional focus. It doesn’t care what you do, it cares about how you feel. It is always responding to your thoughts. Your actions are just an offshoot of your thoughts and therefore irrelevant when your thoughts are focused on what you desire.

Now, there are some cases where an action will make you feel better, therefore shifting your thought. But you will only gain movement forward when your focus changes. For instance, if I was feeling disempowered by my income results for the month but made a plan to increase my income for the following month, it might spur me to get excited about possibilities forth coming. That shift in my confidence could be the very thing that would generate an increased income. But action without shifting your focus is a waste of time and energy.

Shift your focus and beliefs and then any action you take that feels good will support your desired outcome. In fact, you could take actions that had not yielded you results in the past but now because your perspective is different the actions seem to give you the Midas touch and everything seems to be going your way.

Jeanna Gabellini, is a Master Business Coach who assists high achieving entrepreneurs, corporate leaders & their teams to leverage fun, systems and intentionality for high-octane results. Jeanna co-authored Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction with Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Eva Gregory.  A Gift For You!  Please accept a special audio recording of Jeanna interviewing Joe “Mr. Fire” Vitale, one of “The Secret” teachers, on The 5 Steps for Creating Wealth From the Inside Out: http://www.MasterPeaceCoaching.com/ezine.

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Your Plans

August 25, 2010 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Your Plans Are you planning…

•    for disaster?
•    to be broke?
•    to barely be making ends meet?
•    for extreme wealth?
•    to be let down?
•    on someone saving you?
•    for success?
•    for struggle?
•    for ease?

These aren’t trick questions. At first glance you may think that you would never plan for anything but the best outcome. I encourage you to ask yourself again what you are planning for and answer honestly. The answers you come up with for yourself may surprise you once you take a deeper look. I have caught myself many times planning for disaster, being late or for failure when I truly wanted the opposite of that.

How do you know what you are really planning for? Even if you make a plan on paper, you may be planning for something different in your mind. If you find that you’re worried about an outcome, you’re not planning for the best.

Other questions you can ask yourself to see what you are planning for are:

1.    How do you forecast for your finances?
2.    Do you create a business plan each year? If so, do you follow it?
3.    Have you sat down and really given detailed thought to your desired end results?
4.    Are you taking actions that support the desired results?
5.    Do you think about all the worst possible scenarios happening to you and then worry about those thoughts coming true?
6.    Do you plan vacations? If so, do they excite you?
7.    What is your plan for your relationships? Do you plan for ease or struggle?
8.    Do you create daily plans, both for productivity and fun? 

You can take the path of struggle, ease, full throttle or up-down, up-down. If you create a plan, even a simple one that honors your values, you will always get there faster than having no plan or a plan with “to-do’s” that feel like “should’s”. 

Bottom line: Make a plan that works for you and then implement it. Take actions. Big or small steps-it doesn’t matter. There needs to be room for fun, freedom and inspiration within a plan. In fact, if you create a plan that really works for you, you will be fired up and committed to it. You won’t have to talk yourself into following it…you’ll want to follow it. Make sure the plan isn’t injected with your parents’ voices or your gremlin/ego voice. Make the plan authentically yours and the results will be yours.

Hint: If you find the plan isn’t working, do something about it. Change some of the steps. A plan is meant to give you clarity, direction and focus.

Jeanna Gabellini, is a Master Business Coach who assists high achieving entrepreneurs, corporate leaders & their teams to leverage fun, systems and intentionality for high-octane results. Jeanna co-authored Life Lessons for Mastering the Law of Attraction with Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and Eva Gregory. Get a FREE subscription to her weekly ezine to go BIG, with less effort here: http://www.MasterPeaceCoaching.com/ezine

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Making Peace With Now

August 18, 2010 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Making Peace With NowOne of the most misunderstood strategies of attraction is surrendering into your current reality. The topic typically comes up when you decide you want to upgrade one aspect of your life and yet you’re stuck facing a reality that you don’t love.

What to do, what to do?

Don’t lie and try to convince yourself that you like what you’re looking at. However, you can stop resisting it. You can also find aspects of your current reality that you can appreciate. It is important that you make peace with current reality, otherwise you won’t be able to shake it loose to upgrade to your next reality.

I’ll use creating more income as an example. If your business currently attracts $3000 a month, yet you need to pull in more than $5000 to pay your business and living expenses, how do you make peace with that?

Here are some suggestions:

•    Appreciate the money you are making.
•    Appreciate that you are paying some of your expenses.
•    Appreciate your current and past clients, customers and patients.
•    Acknowledge that you are in transition, and it takes some time to see results.
•    Acknowledge the courage it takes to own your own business.
•    Get excited about your forthcoming income upgrade.
•    Let go of past mistakes or that you think you should be farther along in the process of generating income.
•    Use this transition time to align your thoughts, beliefs and focus with your intended income outcome.

Soothing your emotions into a place of peace, or at least acceptance, will allow the new beliefs, strategies and ideas to come forth to assist you to upgrade your income.

Give as little attention as possible to the pain of your current financial situation unless you are using it to learn information to create solutions.

There is actually nothing bad about your current reality except the label that you put on it. Don’t see your reality as a big hairy deal, because when you do, it becomes a big hairy deal. I’ve been in deep debt and watched my income go from six figures to under $50,000 in a year. I was beating myself up pretty bad and nothing was shifting.

The first thing I did was to make a decision about upgrading back into six figures. The next step was to make peace with my situation. I had made myself very wrong for allowing my finances to get so low, especially knowing what I know about this topic. I had to let it all go! As soon as I made peace with it all, I felt instant relief. Releasing my resistance opened me up to step back into six figures within nine months.

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Pesky Behaviors in Others

August 4, 2010 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Pesky Behaviors in OthersHave you ever gotten upset with a colleague for not responding to an email or phone call? What about someone cutting corners or not being honest with you? I know I get really irritated when people are inconsiderate of my time. What about you?

I know it’s a bit uncomfy but it will serve you to look inside your own life when you experience the same maddening experience from more than one person. For instance, let’s say someone is not giving you a clear yes or no answer on something. Since they aren’t giving you a clear answer, you can’t move forward on your planning. The more you focus on their indecision it seems the longer they take to get back to you. You may have to do some internal work before the external circumstance can change.

There are a few things you can do to remedy minor, yet aggravating, situations that include other people. First, clarify your intended outcome before talking to the person or taking action. Also, you must bring your irritation factor down a notch or it will be an obstacle to reach your desired outcome. Try one or a combination of the below

1.    Check in with yourself. Is your irritation legitimate or are you making a bigger deal of things than needed? Get a second opinion if you’re not sure.

2.    Communicate frankly with the person about the situation. State your desired outcome, make a request for what you need and explain why you are making the request. Let them know the impact of their behavior in a matter-of-fact way. You want to steer away from making them feel guilty.

3.    Neutralize your frustration. Energetically you can’t get a different response from someone unless you get your focus off the behavior that is irritating you. You’ll have to focus on the fact that you can still get your desired outcome no matter what they are doing. For instance, my mate isn’t known for his punctuality. When he is running late, I focus on getting to where we are going in perfect timing no matter what time we leave the house. It always works out one way or another.

4.    Look in your own life. Are you doing the same behavior as the person/s you are frustrated with? If you are and it doesn’t feel good, then that is the very reason you are experiencing this behavior with someone else. Don’t focus on integrity as the issue…as in you have to walk your talk. This is about vibrational focus.

One of my coaching clients was complaining about someone on his team who kept bypassing his supervisors and having little chats with the head honcho of their division. But guess what my client does when he wants immediate results? Bypasses his boss and goes straight to the head honcho. He always feels a little bad about doing it, therefore a perfect setup for one of his employees to do the same. The behaviors are a vibrational match.

Either my client needs to change how he feels about going around his boss, or stop going around his boss. Another option is to change how he feels about his employee doing the same thing.

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Make It a Game

July 21, 2010 By Jeanna Gabellini Leave a Comment

Make It a GameEver notice that when you want something really bad that you make the process of getting it harder than it has to be? It’s not a unique situation. You decide you want something. It feels a little (or a lot) out of your reach. You feel you have to get it or your life just won’t be as good. You’re emotionally attached and uptight now. You start feeling that pushy and controlling energy bubbling up. Fear of not getting the desire starts rearing its ugly head. Now it’s no longer uplifting to think about it.

When the process of getting the goal becomes hard, make it a game. When you’re trying to shift a belief or a habit and you’re going nowhere fast, make it a game. If you’re doing a chore that needs to be done, but you’re hating it, make it a game. Creating a fun and simple game shifts your perspective and makes the manifesting journey more pleasant and shorter.

Here are some ideas for increasing your money flow:

•    Log all money that comes to you in a journal. Whether it’s a new client or you find a penny on the ground, log it. If you are shopping for a new toaster and you get it on sale for $10 off, write it down. Acknowledge your money magnetism and counting each cent as evidence that you are in the flow with money. This keeps your focus on the money you do have, not the money that it isn’t here yet.

•    Set a small money goal each day or week. If on average you pull in $2000 a week, focus on $2100 a week. As soon as you get $2100, focus on $2200. This makes the target bigger, but not so big that it seems hard.

•    Make a list of what you are going to do with your money once you manifest the desired amount. For instance, I’m in the middle of an ongoing house remodel. So, the first thing I focused on after the bulk of remodel was done was picking out water faucets. I shopped until I found the most perfect choices and then decided the date by which I’d buy them. Once the money came in, I did the same process with ceiling fans for every room. Then, onto the six-burner range with convection oven and a dishwasher. By focusing on what the money would buy me, I got very excited and took inspired actions toward the purchases.

You can also make a game of attracting new clients and customers:

•    Contact a certain number of people each day for new business. I’m not necessarily talking about cold calling. Make contact with people who can connect you with your target market. People who you know already but who may not know you are looking for new clients. Follow up on new or old leads. It’s just about connecting, not focusing on the selling.

•    Get five people to say no to you each day. I played this game and filled my coaching practice. I would ask people if they knew someone who’d like coaching or if they’d like a sample session to taste my style of coaching. I rarely got five no responses in one day because so many people said yes. When you focus on getting a “No,” it takes away the fear of rejection.

When doing chores:

•    If I’m pruning roses, I tell myself I’ll fill three buckets or prune two bushes and then I’ll stop.

•    You can set time limits as to when you’ll finish the job and see how much you can accomplish in that time frame. Add some high-energy music to the mix for extra oomph or take along your favorite smoothie, coffee drink, or cocktail!

•    Ask a friend or family member for help. When my son is in the garden with me, I can work for hours. Or when I was moving, two of my friends came over and made me show them everything in my closet and they voted if I could keep it or not. They made a job to which I had complete resistance very easy.

You can make anything into a game. Even the most serious of circumstances, like health issues or looking for employment are worthy of a game. Taking things serious is seriously over rated. ;-)

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