WHY YOU FEEL STUCK AS A SOUL-LED ENTREPRENEUR, WHEN YOU'RE DOING EVERYTHING RIGHT
Welcome to the SOUL-LED & SUCCESSFUL SERIES.
I’m writing this series for a specific kind of woman...
She is passionate about her work. She is deeply committed to growth. She is devoted to creating both a life and business she genuinely loves. And yet, despite everything she's poured into it, her business still doesn't feel the way she always imagined it would. There’s a heaviness that makes her feel like she’s stuck. She knows she’s made for more and she knows it’s possible because she sees other people doing it, but she’s not yet stepped into that sense of ease that allows her to grow her business while feeling like the freest, happiest, most confident version of herself.
If that's you, welcome in. I’m genuinely glad you’re here :)
What you're about to read is a seven part series for soul-led women who are done trying to fit themselves into someone else's version of success. Each post is written from my heart and from over 8 years experience in business. I’ve seen a lot, I’ve failed a lot, I’ve learned a lot and I’ve achieved a lot.
By the time you reach the end of this series, my hope is that you’ll feel clearer, lighter and more excited about your business and your life than you have in a long time. Not because I've given you a new strategy, but because you've remembered something you already knew: that you are the magic.
Let's dive in shall we?
LETTER ONE
There is nothing more discouraging than pouring your heart, your time and your passion into your business but not seeing the results you want, in the way that you want them, right?
Whether you’re just starting out and still trying to get your business off the ground, or you’re an established business owner at the precipice of a major uplevel, feeling stuck is SO common.
Thankfully it’s something we can fix, but first, I want to really quickly validate what you’re experiencing right now so you can take some of the pressure off yourself. When you’re surrounded by people who make extraordinary success look effortless (maybe you’ve even been one of those people at a different level in your business) it’s really easy to think you’re the only one that’s struggling. And when you feel alone, you start convincing yourself that you must be different and less capable than everyone else. So I just want to say upfront, THOSE THOUGHTS ARE NOT YOUR TRUTH :)
I spent so many years in this place and it made me really question not only my abilities, but also my desires. How could I feel called to being an entrepreneur if I don’t have the skills or the personality to actually be an entrepreneur?! Basically I let myself sink into a self-doubt avalanche and it took me longer than I’d care to admit to claw my way out of it.
So if you are in a period of business where you’re putting in all the effort but it still isn’t working in the way you need it to, you are very much not alone.
The discouragement, the erosion of your self-trust and confidence, and the spiral into comparing yourself to everyone else, makes it easy to think maybe you’re just not made for this after all. Maybe you got it wrong. Maybe you only felt called to this work because you were tempted by the potential income or the desire to work from home. Maybe it isn’t your soul’s calling at all. Deep down you know this isn’t true but the doubts get loud!
I want you to know that the problem is not you. You are exactly who you’re meant to be. This desire is absolutely right for you.
We just need to think outside the box and figure out how to do business in a way that actually does work for you and your unique personality, energy, gifts and lifestyle.
FOR SOME REASON IT IS SO MUCH EASIER TO BELIEVE THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH US, RATHER THAN BELIEVING THE STRATEGIES EVERYONE ELSE SWEARS BY JUST AREN’T A GOOD FIT FOR US. Why is it so much easier to believe we're not good enough, than to believe we're capable of creating a new strategy? Or even just tweaking and refining someone else's existing strategy?
This is why your business feels so heavy. This is why you feel stuck. You're giving your power to someone else's strategy instead of realising that you are powerful enough to create an even better strategy. One that supports your unique personality, leverages your unique gifts and protects your unique energy.
It's time to pull your power back into yourself and start spending your energy getting to know yourself really well. And I don't mean looking at where you're similar to other entrepreneurs, I mean going deep into who you truly are, NOT WHO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD BE.
I have a free audio series called You Are The Magic that will help with this if you’re interested :)
When you let yourself arrive in this place of seeing yourself as powerful and divinely unique, it will suddenly become really obvious which strategies and business growth tactics are going to be right for you.
When my clients realise this and really feel it as their truth, there's a palpable shift in their energy. It's like a fog is lifted. I felt this for myself too when I was in this position.
For so long they've been judging themselves through the lens of comparison and expectation, but when they shift to seeing themselves through the lens of their power and potential they're suddenly able to see a host of opportunities and possibilities that they just weren't seeing before.
Suddenly their courage comes back, suddenly their motivation comes back and suddenly their joy comes back. One of my clients told me she'd fallen back in love with her business. It's that powerful.
SO WHAT WOULD SHIFT FOR YOU IF YOU STOPPED LOOKING TO WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING AND GAVE YOURSELF A CHANCE TO GET REACQUAINTED WITH WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT AND NEED?
I really want you to be able to feel this shift for yourself. Sometimes it's easy to understand it intellectually but it's not until you actually feel it in your body that it becomes real for you. So what would it take for you to truly believe that you are exactly who you're supposed to be and that you have the exact personality and skills to succeed in your business in a way that actually feels like freedom?
We all come to this point in different ways. For me it was taking some time off from my business to see if I was happier without it, but I realised I couldn't give up on the dream. For some people it comes from slamming so hard into burnout that they no longer have another choice, they have to start doing things differently. For some people their guides show them how to call their power back and make different choices. For some people it happens when I mirror back to them exactly how powerful they are and hold this frequency for them until they feel it for themselves.
Wherever you are on your journey, I want you to know that the heaviness you're feeling in your business doesn't have to be permanent. And even though it sounds really cliché, the shift doesn't happen when you overhaul your entire business out of frustration. It happens when you finally see yourself clearly and start making intentional, aligned decisions and simple strategy tweaks from there.
I want you to know that you are not alone in this process. It's something most of us face at some point (or even at several points to be honest!). It feels like you’re never going to get past it, but you absolutely will. You are extraordinary. Your business is extraordinary. And extraordinary results are waiting on the other side of you fully accepting who you are as a unique magical human and allowing yourself to build your business around YOU.
Cheering you on,
Michelle xxx
P.S. Click below for letter 2 :)