Women Consultants, This Technique Will Silence Your Inner Critic

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Working towards the next level in your business is such a huge emotional outlay. It can feel like jumping off a cliff without really knowing if you have your parachute ready or not.

If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that I like to journal. It’s a great way to work through things. I’m going to share a technique that will help you when your inner critic tells you your plans are doomed to fail and is asking who you think you are trying to build a seven figure business.

Grab a blank sheet of paper and write down everything your inner critic is saying to you. Every little thing. This is likely to be things like ‘no one thinks I will ever make any money’. ‘I have messed up everything I have ever tried to succeed at.’ ‘Everyone thinks I am in over my head.’

Next, imagine that each of these statements you’ve captured is a tennis ball being served at you by your scarcity mindset, and knock each one back out of the park by applying some rational thought.

So underneath each one, take a different colour pen and write your response.

‘No one thinks I will ever make any money’ can become ‘I already made more money than I ever have’.

‘I have messed up everything I have ever tried to succeed at’ becomes: ‘I haven’t messed this up - I only fear I might. It’s actually going incredibly well.’

Apply some truth and perspective to these fear-filled thoughts you’ve been absorbing up to now. You simply stop taking this voice at face value and calmly evaluate the truth of each statement.

It’s a simple exercise but it can be hugely transformative.

Once you’ve worked through your whole list - and you can often feel this happening - your body starts to calm down and you stop being consumed by fear. Clients of mine have told me that they can actually feel their courage flowing back to them.

Let me know in the comments, what do you do when your inner critic starts being mean to you?

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