In my work as a Money Mindset Mentor, I work with clients who are blocking their flow of income in some way (and I’ve totally done this myself in the past!)
This is rarely happening consciously – very few people would make a conscious decision to prevent income from flowing to them.
However, there are subtle, subconscious ways that you could be sabotaging yourself right now which are stopping you from receiving the income you desire.
I would LOVE to help you bring these blocks into your awareness, so you can move through them (I’m all about helping women to bust their blocks – kapow!)
There are three clear signs that you’re preventing money from flowing to you freely and I’m sharing the first one with you here today.
Money Block No. 1 – Not valuing yourself
This block can apply whether you have your own business or work for someone else. Let me ask you if you currently do any of the following:
Undercharging
Do you know deep down that you’re not charging enough for your services or products?
Do you feel an underlying resentment that you’re not being paid enough for your time?
Are you scared of charging more for fear of being ‘priced out of the market’?
Discounting your prices
Do you offer a discount to potential clients before they even ask for it?
Maybe you find yourself stating the price of your service or product, then immediately jump in with a discounted price before the client even has a chance to say, ‘Yay’ or ‘Nay’?
Focusing your energy on non income-generating activities
We women can all do a pretty good job of keeping ourselves busy, but are the tasks you’re focusing on actually bringing in the moolah?
If you find yourself spending hours on social media or tweaking your website with no clear purpose, then you are deflecting from the real work.
Hiding
Do you play hide-and-seek in your business? Maybe you pop your head out and make a video, write a blog or do some speaking and then retreat back into hiding?
Are you fearful of putting yourself ‘out there’ because deep down you just don’t feel good enough?
If you’re doing any (or all!) of the above right now, then you are actively preventing yourself from receiving more money.
I repeat, if you don’t value yourself, you are actively preventing yourself from receiving more!
You’re staying very safe and comfortable, but the chances are you’re feeling pretty darn frustrated and burned-out too.
So, what can you do to bust through this block?
The first step is always awareness. So, if you’re thinking, ‘Yes, that’s me’, then well done for noticing how you’re blocking yourself.
The second step is to make it a practice to value yourself (and it is a regular practice – not a one-off activity).
How do you do this? Well, there are a couple of ways in particular that I recommend.
1) Write a list of every way someone benefits from working with you or purchasing your services.
This was recommended to me by coaches and mentors many few times before I actually did it and I can tell you it really makes a difference.
Go to town and write down every single benefit and transformation that you provide to someone.
This is something I recommend you do regularly (particularly when you are offering a new service or product) to build your sense of value and self-belief.
2) Keep a positivity file
I want you to keep a record of each and every piece of positive feedback you receive.
Every time someone says, ‘Oh, thanks for that. You did a great job!’ or you receive an email from a client saying how much you’ve helped them, record it. Write it down, print it off or keep it in a swipe file on your laptop.
Why? Well, we tend to do a pretty good job of remembering any negative feedback or criticism we receive – it seems to stick like super-glue, eh? But, when it comes to positive feedback, we can easily brush it off. ‘Oh that, it was nothing.’
It’s time to change my lovely!
Start building your positivity file. Look at it regularly. See how much value you offer to the world and how much you are loved.
It’s all about building your receiving muscle!
So, there are you, money block number one and how to move through it. Click here to discover block number two.
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