When is the last time you took a vacation?<\/p>\n
A few months?<\/p>\n
A year?<\/p>\n
Since before you started your business?<\/p>\n
Think back to that last vacation\u2026<\/p>\n
Did you actually relax and take a break\u2026<\/p>\n
Or did you spend most of your time worried about work, responding to emails and text messages?<\/p>\n
What about weekends?<\/p>\n
Do you take a full 24-hours off each week?<\/p>\n
And, no, I don\u2019t mean total over the week and simply sleeping at night doesn\u2019t count.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m talking about 24 hours in a row with no work.<\/p>\n
If you aren\u2019t taking that, you need to.<\/p>\n
I know it seems counterproductive, but this is definitely a \u201cwork smarter, not harder\u201d scenario.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t believe me? Let me tell you a story.<\/p>\n
One of my clients was a completely maxed-out chiropractor.<\/p>\n
When we met, she was working 12 hours a day, 5 days a week \u2013 and charting on the weekends.<\/p>\n
She believed this was just how chiropractic practices were.<\/p>\n
But it was taking a toll.<\/p>\n
Her health and marriage were suffering.<\/p>\n
After we started working together, she realized she felt responsible for \u201csaving\u201d her patients.<\/p>\n
This meant she had to be the one who did all the healing \u2013 she had to do all the work.<\/p>\n
We dug in to find out the payoff she was getting from this belief (there is always a payoff).<\/p>\n
We had to discover the \u201cjuice\u201d she was getting from keeping those beliefs.<\/p>\n
In her case, the payoffs were feeling needed, having something to complain about, and being righteous about how busy and important she was.<\/p>\n
Digging deeper, they also allowed her to deny responsibility for her health, business or marriage.<\/p>\n
She could simply blame it all on the nature of being a doctor and running a business.<\/p>\n
Finally seeing them (it often takes someone else to show you) she realized how bad they were.<\/p>\n
These unconscious belief systems were costing her money, health and happiness.<\/p>\n
So, she decided to give up the payoffs.<\/p>\n
Within a year, she hired three new employees.<\/p>\n
She tripled her business and was making money even when she didn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n
She couldn\u2019t believe it!<\/p>\n
Today her practice is chugging along.<\/p>\n
Her marriage is better.<\/p>\n
She has taken up sculpting and works four days a week instead of five (or seven).<\/p>\n
The transformation was really amazing.<\/p>\n
What made this possible?<\/p>\n
The third foundation (Shift Your Perspective).<\/p>\n
She had to see what her perspective was, accept it, and then decide what wasn\u2019t serving her.<\/p>\n
Then she could shift to a life and business she truly wanted and could love again.<\/p>\n