1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,320 Idolizing sales and your business is hindering your growth 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:06,109 and your connection to self. 3 00:00:06,283 --> 00:00:08,503 Your business changed everything for you. 4 00:00:08,783 --> 00:00:13,383 So much has changed that you begin to idolize your expertise, your 5 00:00:13,393 --> 00:00:17,563 offers, the lifestyle that you created through your business, and so on. 6 00:00:17,573 --> 00:00:17,633 Thank you. 7 00:00:18,323 --> 00:00:24,813 Perpetually focusing on the next level of success of or perceived success keeps 8 00:00:24,883 --> 00:00:27,763 everyone unsatisfied yearning for more. 9 00:00:27,763 --> 00:00:31,453 We were created to worship, but not worship our businesses. 10 00:00:31,453 --> 00:00:35,023 Now when sales take a dip, you begin to feel anxious. 11 00:00:35,303 --> 00:00:37,773 Now sneakily worshiping the worry. 12 00:00:38,293 --> 00:00:41,793 It's time to put God to the forefront of your business. 13 00:00:42,153 --> 00:00:46,623 Today, I'm sharing how to stop idolizing your sales and business. 14 00:00:47,103 --> 00:00:47,753 Stay tuned. 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:51,610 This is the Harmonious Wealth Podcast, where we're breaking online business 16 00:00:51,610 --> 00:00:56,680 owners free from chasing every next revenue milestone and instead prioritizing 17 00:00:56,750 --> 00:01:00,860 lifestyle and legacy goals so you can finally have the personal wealth 18 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:02,520 to show for your business success. 19 00:01:02,850 --> 00:01:06,990 I'm your host, Iyanna Vaughn, fractional CFO and bookkeeper here to guide you. 20 00:01:07,450 --> 00:01:10,050 Now let's start building your financial legacy. 21 00:01:11,467 --> 00:01:15,387 Hello, welcome back to another episode of Harmonious Wealth. 22 00:01:15,397 --> 00:01:20,547 My name is Ayanna Vaughn and I am so excited to talk to you today. 23 00:01:20,907 --> 00:01:28,522 First I want to share that I will be doing another webinar Friday, June 21st at 12 p. 24 00:01:28,522 --> 00:01:28,662 m. 25 00:01:28,692 --> 00:01:29,422 Eastern. 26 00:01:29,652 --> 00:01:34,212 It is going to be about why you know how to make money, but not maintain it. 27 00:01:34,712 --> 00:01:38,732 For the next couple of episodes, I'll be sharing just like mindset things that 28 00:01:38,732 --> 00:01:42,502 happen when it comes to managing our money and like the root causes of it. 29 00:01:42,972 --> 00:01:45,922 So it's going to be really timely to talk about that today. 30 00:01:46,357 --> 00:01:50,107 I'm going to be sharing why we idolize selling and money and 31 00:01:50,107 --> 00:01:51,567 business and things like that. 32 00:01:51,917 --> 00:01:55,517 But for some context, I've been studying the Bible. 33 00:01:55,997 --> 00:01:58,027 I've been studying it for over a year now. 34 00:01:58,307 --> 00:01:59,777 I'm still not done. 35 00:01:59,817 --> 00:02:01,427 I feel like I'm more than halfway done. 36 00:02:01,777 --> 00:02:04,557 Recently, as I was Starting the podcast. 37 00:02:04,587 --> 00:02:06,427 I read the book of Ecclesiastes. 38 00:02:06,667 --> 00:02:08,497 Basically it's about King Solomon. 39 00:02:08,497 --> 00:02:10,717 He had lived his long life. 40 00:02:10,727 --> 00:02:13,027 He was a little salty about how life was. 41 00:02:13,037 --> 00:02:15,997 He was like, wisdom, pointless, wealth, pointless, all these 42 00:02:15,997 --> 00:02:17,247 things, pointless, meaningless. 43 00:02:17,247 --> 00:02:21,587 But, Really what I got out of it is what do we put so much emphasis and 44 00:02:21,647 --> 00:02:27,467 us putting like idolizing wealth, idolizing our mind, idolizing our 45 00:02:27,477 --> 00:02:29,557 business, idolizing our investments. 46 00:02:29,907 --> 00:02:32,737 It really is meaningless if you're not putting God first. 47 00:02:32,997 --> 00:02:37,947 So an idol is what takes place of your love for God. 48 00:02:38,247 --> 00:02:41,307 It takes place of your higher purpose. 49 00:02:41,647 --> 00:02:45,977 You're consumed with this, with your business. 50 00:02:46,007 --> 00:02:47,347 It can be social media. 51 00:02:47,367 --> 00:02:48,667 It can be a relationship. 52 00:02:48,727 --> 00:02:52,807 You're consumed with this thing to the point where you're putting it above 53 00:02:52,807 --> 00:02:54,377 you, you're putting it above God. 54 00:02:54,877 --> 00:02:58,307 And when you do that, everything that happens with it. 55 00:02:58,892 --> 00:03:02,022 You're distracted from who you are supposed to be. 56 00:03:02,602 --> 00:03:06,752 When you connect the true wealth within, you're able to heal your 57 00:03:06,752 --> 00:03:10,942 relationship with money, grow your business and dig deeper into your faith. 58 00:03:10,942 --> 00:03:15,032 So if you're interested in something like that, sign up for 59 00:03:15,062 --> 00:03:17,222 my email series, The Wealth Within. 60 00:03:17,512 --> 00:03:18,822 Go to lovelyfinancials. 61 00:03:18,842 --> 00:03:20,442 com slash wealth. 62 00:03:21,072 --> 00:03:26,358 So I do want to share one that stuck out for me Ecclesiastes chapter 5 63 00:03:26,458 --> 00:03:29,278 verses 10 through 13 through 11. 64 00:03:29,278 --> 00:03:30,578 I'm gonna actually read it in my Bible. 65 00:03:30,588 --> 00:03:31,658 So let me pull it up. 66 00:03:32,208 --> 00:03:35,438 So I have the woman's study Bible in the NIV version. 67 00:03:35,808 --> 00:03:39,298 I mentioned on Instagram, if you are following me there at 68 00:03:39,298 --> 00:03:41,398 lovely financials, I shared that. 69 00:03:41,398 --> 00:03:44,738 I'm going to get the big girl version, KJV, because that's 70 00:03:44,738 --> 00:03:45,838 a whole nother language, 71 00:03:45,878 --> 00:03:53,188 anyway, ecclesiastes chapter 5 verses 10 through 11 says, whoever loves money. 72 00:03:53,648 --> 00:03:55,078 Never has enough. 73 00:03:55,698 --> 00:03:59,558 Whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. 74 00:04:00,088 --> 00:04:02,208 This, too, is meaningless. 75 00:04:02,422 --> 00:04:06,892 As goods increase, so do those who consume them. 76 00:04:07,392 --> 00:04:12,816 And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? 77 00:04:12,933 --> 00:04:15,593 So the whole book really was filled with gems. 78 00:04:15,633 --> 00:04:19,083 If you are interested in having me do like bonus episodes where I dig 79 00:04:19,083 --> 00:04:24,653 deeper into scripture as it relates to money, mindset, things of that 80 00:04:24,653 --> 00:04:26,783 nature, let me know in the comments. 81 00:04:26,833 --> 00:04:28,063 Let me know on Instagram. 82 00:04:28,163 --> 00:04:30,153 I would love to do it as bonus episodes. 83 00:04:30,493 --> 00:04:35,146 But when I read Ecclesiastes, it's really the premise of what I believe harmonious 84 00:04:35,146 --> 00:04:40,741 wealth is, of course I have my Part of my title of the podcast is wealth. 85 00:04:40,751 --> 00:04:47,041 However, I don't want us to be so consumed about wealth that 86 00:04:47,041 --> 00:04:49,411 we forget that God is first. 87 00:04:49,671 --> 00:04:55,681 We are here to serve God, serve his children, And we must give back to others. 88 00:04:55,681 --> 00:04:57,771 We must be cheerful givers to others. 89 00:04:58,181 --> 00:05:02,281 However, I do believe that objectively, when you do have a 90 00:05:02,281 --> 00:05:04,201 business, it is supposed to serve you. 91 00:05:04,211 --> 00:05:09,641 However, a lot of times when we start our businesses, we get so consumed with our 92 00:05:09,651 --> 00:05:12,001 businesses that we forget about ourselves. 93 00:05:12,271 --> 00:05:14,081 We make an idol of our business. 94 00:05:14,081 --> 00:05:17,001 We make an idol of selling, and that is not okay. 95 00:05:17,451 --> 00:05:22,291 The benefit of you being able to master your mind to stop idolizing 96 00:05:22,291 --> 00:05:26,801 your business and sales and more importantly, putting God in that place 97 00:05:26,821 --> 00:05:31,221 and your higher purpose in that place is you'll start looking at your business 98 00:05:31,231 --> 00:05:33,611 more objectively than out of emotion. 99 00:05:33,811 --> 00:05:37,801 Your business then becomes a machine and not your child, right? 100 00:05:37,851 --> 00:05:42,121 While it's objective, you'll know that Okay, my business is separate from me It's 101 00:05:42,131 --> 00:05:47,251 able to produce profit to pay myself But it also has systems and teams to be able 102 00:05:47,251 --> 00:05:51,436 to operate and you'll have a healthier relationship with money in your business 103 00:05:51,846 --> 00:05:55,726 So stay tuned while I kind of dig into how we can stop idolizing our business. 104 00:05:55,926 --> 00:06:00,106 So when it comes to business, especially if you don't come from 105 00:06:00,106 --> 00:06:04,916 money or if you've grown your business to heights that you would have never 106 00:06:04,926 --> 00:06:08,562 imagined for yourself, there's a sense of pride that you have, right? 107 00:06:08,568 --> 00:06:12,478 Like a natural, healthy sense of pride that you have, but when it 108 00:06:12,478 --> 00:06:18,173 becomes excessive pride in business performance, it unintentionally, 109 00:06:18,291 --> 00:06:20,371 dictates your personal value. 110 00:06:20,647 --> 00:06:24,057 The first part and you removing your business or selling as an idol 111 00:06:24,057 --> 00:06:25,797 is to focus on the bigger picture. 112 00:06:26,150 --> 00:06:30,020 As business owners, we are often short sighted when it comes 113 00:06:30,020 --> 00:06:31,680 to operating our businesses. 114 00:06:31,970 --> 00:06:36,070 And we're looking at the next quarter and the next quarter, the next month ahead. 115 00:06:36,330 --> 00:06:41,340 And we're distracted from what our bigger picture is, what our higher purpose is. 116 00:06:41,636 --> 00:06:48,006 And That bigger picture is our why it is what we're able to create legacy 117 00:06:48,006 --> 00:06:52,516 for our family, what we're able to generously give to our community. 118 00:06:52,836 --> 00:06:56,556 So when we work with our clients, we have a legacy planning call and 119 00:06:56,556 --> 00:07:01,862 there I'm able to help our clients understand or highlight or really 120 00:07:01,902 --> 00:07:04,532 identify their life aspirations. 121 00:07:04,812 --> 00:07:08,932 And once they highlight their life aspirations, I'm able to help them 122 00:07:09,132 --> 00:07:13,592 create a plan for profit in their business so that they can execute on it. 123 00:07:13,822 --> 00:07:18,362 So when this happens their business no longer takes precedence over their life 124 00:07:18,629 --> 00:07:21,199 One thing that could be important is you know, you're idolizing 125 00:07:21,199 --> 00:07:23,769 your business But what do you really have at the end of the day? 126 00:07:24,099 --> 00:07:25,309 Like when you retire? 127 00:07:25,489 --> 00:07:27,139 What is your nest egg looking like? 128 00:07:27,339 --> 00:07:31,729 because if you're hustling every single year in your business and you're working 129 00:07:31,729 --> 00:07:35,339 for the next quarter ahead, you're missing the big picture of having 130 00:07:35,449 --> 00:07:40,659 investments ready for yourself and your nest egg when you're ready to retire. 131 00:07:40,669 --> 00:07:43,369 So the next part is stop worrying. 132 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:48,169 When your business becomes an idol and things don't go as planned and you start 133 00:07:48,189 --> 00:07:51,546 to worry, worrying becomes your idol. 134 00:07:51,546 --> 00:07:52,736 You're worshiping the worry. 135 00:07:53,281 --> 00:07:57,011 because you're afraid and that should not be within us. 136 00:07:57,211 --> 00:08:02,431 The sales milestone that you've made your brain start to sneakily imprint that 137 00:08:02,431 --> 00:08:04,211 and like, okay, this is what I'm worth. 138 00:08:04,231 --> 00:08:05,511 This is what I'm valued at. 139 00:08:05,921 --> 00:08:10,141 And whenever I launch, if I don't make this, then I don't deserve it. 140 00:08:10,161 --> 00:08:13,011 Or I'm just going to show up in a way that's really funky. 141 00:08:13,291 --> 00:08:16,801 So my approach to this is when a client is disheartened from 142 00:08:16,801 --> 00:08:18,761 their launch, let's reframe it. 143 00:08:18,811 --> 00:08:21,341 Let's objectively look at what's going on. 144 00:08:21,571 --> 00:08:25,601 Let's review the trends so that we can immediately fill in the gaps of the 145 00:08:25,601 --> 00:08:27,956 next steps for the rest of the year. 146 00:08:28,292 --> 00:08:31,282 So we help our clients manage their cash flow and then we help 147 00:08:31,282 --> 00:08:34,392 them to make incremental steps to increase their profit goals. 148 00:08:34,752 --> 00:08:38,152 This helps them reduce their stress so that they can perform 149 00:08:38,266 --> 00:08:40,756 and accomplish their goals. 150 00:08:41,196 --> 00:08:44,986 So say if you launched and it didn't perform the way that you needed and you're 151 00:08:44,986 --> 00:08:51,736 just like, feeling bad for yourself about the launch, you're going to lack urgency 152 00:08:51,796 --> 00:08:54,886 in business and that impacts your sales. 153 00:08:55,206 --> 00:09:00,102 So when you are lacking urgency, guess who else lacks urgency? 154 00:09:00,482 --> 00:09:05,417 Your audience, your team, your clients, and then you're perpetually not 155 00:09:05,637 --> 00:09:07,927 creating the results that you desire. 156 00:09:08,397 --> 00:09:12,107 So what if instead of feeling down on yourself when you're not hitting 157 00:09:12,107 --> 00:09:16,177 your goals, because your business is not an idol right, you're shifting 158 00:09:16,177 --> 00:09:20,407 that, you're able to say, okay, objectively, I didn't reach my goals. 159 00:09:20,607 --> 00:09:24,347 So you know, I got to bring out scripture again when it comes to worry. 160 00:09:24,347 --> 00:09:27,667 One of my favorite books in the Bible is the book of Matthew. 161 00:09:27,707 --> 00:09:28,267 I read it. 162 00:09:28,317 --> 00:09:32,277 It's so interesting because when I started reading the Bible and I'm 163 00:09:32,277 --> 00:09:37,237 taking it seriously in March of 2023, one of the books that I read that 164 00:09:37,237 --> 00:09:41,257 really changed my entire life was the book of Matthew and the book of Mark. 165 00:09:41,547 --> 00:09:44,507 So I was in between these two books and there was a night where 166 00:09:44,507 --> 00:09:46,657 I had a dream and Jesus visited me. 167 00:09:46,977 --> 00:09:51,024 And at the time I wasn't like gung ho on, like on Jesus. 168 00:09:51,484 --> 00:09:56,154 But that night changed everything, but let's get into where Jesus 169 00:09:56,164 --> 00:09:58,164 talks about not worrying. 170 00:09:58,454 --> 00:10:04,794 Matthew chapter 6 verse 25 Therefore I tell you do not worry about your 171 00:10:04,794 --> 00:10:09,697 life, what you will eat or drink or about your body, what you will wear. 172 00:10:09,871 --> 00:10:11,161 It's not life. 173 00:10:11,531 --> 00:10:16,141 Is not life more than food and your body more than clothes? 174 00:10:16,531 --> 00:10:17,791 Look at the birds in the air. 175 00:10:18,214 --> 00:10:22,024 They do not sow or weep or store away in barns. 176 00:10:22,571 --> 00:10:25,141 And yet your heavenly father feeds them. 177 00:10:25,447 --> 00:10:28,017 Are you not much more valuable than they? 178 00:10:28,217 --> 00:10:35,157 And then when he goes to, when Jesus goes to verse 34, he says, therefore, do 179 00:10:35,157 --> 00:10:37,477 not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow. 180 00:10:37,487 --> 00:10:39,607 We'll worry about itself. 181 00:10:39,957 --> 00:10:42,997 Each day has trouble of its own. 182 00:10:43,537 --> 00:10:46,497 So this is really key to not worrying. 183 00:10:46,497 --> 00:10:50,747 No matter what your account looks like, you should not be worrying. 184 00:10:51,067 --> 00:10:54,987 Because God has provisions for you and he will protect you. 185 00:10:55,297 --> 00:11:00,377 And when we stop idolizing our business as the end all be all, because 186 00:11:00,377 --> 00:11:01,747 it's going to always disappoint us. 187 00:11:02,152 --> 00:11:06,356 We shift our minds to God, and you may be thinking, my 188 00:11:06,356 --> 00:11:08,256 business absolutely needs sales. 189 00:11:08,286 --> 00:11:09,976 Absolutely needs profit. 190 00:11:10,106 --> 00:11:11,872 It's my lifeline, right? 191 00:11:12,102 --> 00:11:12,802 Objectively. 192 00:11:12,802 --> 00:11:13,362 That's true. 193 00:11:13,362 --> 00:11:13,562 Yeah. 194 00:11:13,562 --> 00:11:15,502 Your business definitely needs sales. 195 00:11:15,502 --> 00:11:19,172 It definitely needs profit, but it doesn't supersede the importance of 196 00:11:19,172 --> 00:11:22,642 God and your higher purpose in your business because it's not worth it. 197 00:11:23,066 --> 00:11:25,676 It's tricky because when it becomes your idol, right? 198 00:11:26,226 --> 00:11:31,506 You obsess over it and when you obsess over it, it continues to decrease and 199 00:11:31,526 --> 00:11:35,876 impacts your mindset and increase how you show up and that's not helping you. 200 00:11:36,076 --> 00:11:37,036 Not helping you at all. 201 00:11:37,522 --> 00:11:40,332 So the third thing is more practical, right? 202 00:11:40,422 --> 00:11:41,932 We have the bigger picture. 203 00:11:42,172 --> 00:11:45,192 We have the worry, like stopping the worry. 204 00:11:45,212 --> 00:11:50,232 And then I want to help you normalize inconsistent sales and launches. 205 00:11:50,242 --> 00:11:54,502 Now I'm all about monthly recurring revenue, the real MRR, right? 206 00:11:54,782 --> 00:11:58,652 But we have to normalize things fluctuate in business. 207 00:11:59,012 --> 00:12:03,239 So you can have an amazing launch and when your sales decrease 208 00:12:03,269 --> 00:12:06,629 again, your energy decreases too, but that should not be the case. 209 00:12:07,099 --> 00:12:12,779 When I work with my intensive clients, we analyze trends, we work on goals and 210 00:12:12,779 --> 00:12:14,899 we create predictions for your future. 211 00:12:15,236 --> 00:12:18,346 We have a four step framework and the fourth step of our 212 00:12:18,346 --> 00:12:20,516 framework is the profit plan. 213 00:12:20,906 --> 00:12:25,796 And it not only gives a picture for the next calendar year, but the next three 214 00:12:25,796 --> 00:12:32,056 years so that you know what to expect in sales for the next three years. 215 00:12:32,256 --> 00:12:36,969 And then when we work together continuously at a fractional CFO level, 216 00:12:37,249 --> 00:12:43,009 you're then able to say, okay, if things don't go the way we anticipated, how 217 00:12:43,009 --> 00:12:48,139 can we in real time, highlight any gaps, fill them so that we can still 218 00:12:48,149 --> 00:12:52,756 satisfy our goals and business and let's be clear, projections are great. 219 00:12:52,776 --> 00:12:53,996 I love a good spreadsheet. 220 00:12:54,006 --> 00:12:55,366 I love mapping things out. 221 00:12:55,666 --> 00:13:03,676 However, they do nothing if we don't have the marketing metrics tied into our sales 222 00:13:03,676 --> 00:13:09,026 goals because you need to know exactly what you need to do output wise for your 223 00:13:09,026 --> 00:13:13,686 sales and marketing so that you can hit your goals versus just guessing, putting 224 00:13:13,686 --> 00:13:17,716 numbers on a spreadsheet, getting random revenue goals, praying that we hit it. 225 00:13:17,956 --> 00:13:19,896 While we are definitely praying, right? 226 00:13:19,896 --> 00:13:24,276 We also have some practical goals and ways to execute on these goals. 227 00:13:24,526 --> 00:13:31,116 but when it becomes excessive pride in business performance, it unintentionally, 228 00:13:31,269 --> 00:13:33,349 dictates your personal value. 229 00:13:33,549 --> 00:13:38,069 So every sales milestone is imprinted in your brain and 230 00:13:38,099 --> 00:13:39,709 you just never feel satisfied. 231 00:13:39,709 --> 00:13:42,989 You want to double your revenue every single year, a year where you 232 00:13:42,989 --> 00:13:47,159 decrease in revenue, you feel like, Oh, there's something wrong with you. 233 00:13:47,552 --> 00:13:52,291 When you're in launch mode, You might end up not relying on God, 234 00:13:52,301 --> 00:13:54,421 not relying on your higher purpose. 235 00:13:54,771 --> 00:14:00,201 And you're so consumed with your launch that you ignore everything else. 236 00:14:00,786 --> 00:14:04,026 You begin to turn down your plate not for fasting, right? 237 00:14:04,276 --> 00:14:07,426 But you're turning down your plate because you're not remembering to eat. 238 00:14:07,806 --> 00:14:10,686 You're not remembering to sleep or you're not sleeping well. 239 00:14:10,866 --> 00:14:13,386 You're just consumed by the state of the launch, you're 240 00:14:13,386 --> 00:14:16,826 relying on your own strength when you should be relying on who? 241 00:14:18,329 --> 00:14:22,529 When you don't make the sales that you desire in your launch you obsess 242 00:14:22,559 --> 00:14:26,949 over it and now it impacts how you show up in your business overall. 243 00:14:27,389 --> 00:14:31,749 I've been talking to clients about their launches, like really understanding the 244 00:14:31,759 --> 00:14:33,914 metrics needed to hit their sales goals. 245 00:14:34,304 --> 00:14:38,314 And then I was talking to one client in particular she launched sometime 246 00:14:38,314 --> 00:14:42,944 last year and she really didn't perform the way that she wanted to. 247 00:14:43,224 --> 00:14:45,674 And it really hindered how she showed up. 248 00:14:45,924 --> 00:14:51,064 For her business because it was in Q4 of last year and it really impacted 249 00:14:51,064 --> 00:14:55,474 how she showed up this season, like in the beginning of the year. 250 00:14:55,637 --> 00:15:00,893 So when we were talking when I have these meetings with clients, it's not only like. 251 00:15:00,943 --> 00:15:02,603 a console I'm advising. 252 00:15:02,843 --> 00:15:06,653 It's also a mixture of some coaching where I kind of have something in mind, right? 253 00:15:06,933 --> 00:15:10,633 But I really want someone to kind of dig it out for themselves so that they can 254 00:15:10,633 --> 00:15:12,603 be able to kind of see what's going on. 255 00:15:12,833 --> 00:15:15,833 And she realized that she was idolizing selling, right? 256 00:15:16,163 --> 00:15:21,113 And her smarts and her intellect, which we all have faced in business before. 257 00:15:21,353 --> 00:15:26,768 And the root cause of this, excessive pride and putting an idol in your 258 00:15:26,778 --> 00:15:31,338 business or selling is that you're overcompensating for something that 259 00:15:31,708 --> 00:15:34,268 you might be lacking on the inside. 260 00:15:34,468 --> 00:15:38,478 Entrepreneurship just like any other relationship magnifies 261 00:15:38,478 --> 00:15:39,918 your shortcomings, right? 262 00:15:40,168 --> 00:15:44,748 We hear the saying that when you're in a relationship, when you're with someone 263 00:15:44,748 --> 00:15:47,738 else, you're a mirror of like who you are. 264 00:15:47,788 --> 00:15:50,848 Your relationship partner is a mirror of you. 265 00:15:51,408 --> 00:15:55,498 When you start a business, the way that you perform in business or 266 00:15:55,498 --> 00:15:57,678 your business is a mirror of you. 267 00:15:58,108 --> 00:16:02,628 I started my business with like tons of unhealed trauma, right? 268 00:16:02,968 --> 00:16:06,988 And it showed up in ways that I didn't expect in my business. 269 00:16:07,224 --> 00:16:11,814 and when I started to depend on my own, ability to grow my 270 00:16:11,814 --> 00:16:18,074 business, that led me away, that caused my spiritual rock bottom. 271 00:16:18,074 --> 00:16:22,594 I mentioned this in episode, I believe six, where I talked about not 272 00:16:23,074 --> 00:16:25,151 being desperate in your business. 273 00:16:25,191 --> 00:16:26,521 A part of that, right? 274 00:16:26,721 --> 00:16:33,161 I had grace, God gave me grace to grow my business out of the season 275 00:16:33,171 --> 00:16:38,264 that I was in as a single mother with education that was different from 276 00:16:38,284 --> 00:16:42,374 everyone else with a background that was extremely different from everyone else. 277 00:16:42,444 --> 00:16:43,774 And he gave me the grace. 278 00:16:44,189 --> 00:16:49,319 be able to use the intellect that he gifted me to help others understand 279 00:16:49,319 --> 00:16:54,869 their money be ready for tax season and have the ability to reach their goals. 280 00:16:55,219 --> 00:17:00,999 So when I became prideful in how I managed my business. 281 00:17:01,239 --> 00:17:08,379 My reward for that idolization of my business was Spiritual Rock Bottom. 282 00:17:08,699 --> 00:17:11,909 There were other things that I did throughout that time, which 283 00:17:11,929 --> 00:17:13,929 I'm not going to share here, but. 284 00:17:13,929 --> 00:17:18,059 For the purpose of this is to say like when we get into idolizing business 285 00:17:18,059 --> 00:17:20,229 and selling, there's a reward for that. 286 00:17:20,259 --> 00:17:21,259 It could be burnout. 287 00:17:21,619 --> 00:17:25,199 It can be like a depletion of your profits in the next year. 288 00:17:25,649 --> 00:17:29,169 Whatever is in your mind, happen in the spiritual realm first, and 289 00:17:29,219 --> 00:17:30,649 then it comes to the natural world. 290 00:17:30,809 --> 00:17:34,429 When you are obsessed with your business to the point where 291 00:17:34,449 --> 00:17:39,129 it takes over everything else, The reward is frustration. 292 00:17:39,456 --> 00:17:45,206 So the solution for ceasing idolizing your business is to lean into God for 293 00:17:45,206 --> 00:17:49,893 guidance of your business and making sure that whatever you do in your 294 00:17:49,893 --> 00:17:54,613 business aligns with your higher self, detaching, Sales from who you are 295 00:17:54,943 --> 00:17:56,863 objectively, your business needs sales. 296 00:17:56,863 --> 00:18:00,253 Your business needs to have profit, your business needs to have healthy cash flow, 297 00:18:00,303 --> 00:18:02,981 but it should not be tied to your value. 298 00:18:03,171 --> 00:18:05,846 And you should not make that your idol. 299 00:18:05,876 --> 00:18:10,966 It should just be a goal that you have that doesn't overpower your thinking. 300 00:18:11,253 --> 00:18:18,133 okay, So I shared three ways we can stop idolizing sales, our business and 301 00:18:18,173 --> 00:18:21,013 our mind, like our smarts and business. 302 00:18:21,353 --> 00:18:23,483 It's through focusing on the big picture. 303 00:18:23,749 --> 00:18:30,399 It's through stop worrying and three, normalizing inconsistent sales in your 304 00:18:30,409 --> 00:18:33,889 business and inconsistent launches because it happens to all of us. 305 00:18:34,043 --> 00:18:38,133 So which one of the three really resonates with you the most? 306 00:18:38,353 --> 00:18:40,373 Or is it a mixture of them or all of them? 307 00:18:40,383 --> 00:18:44,533 Let me know in the comments section, if you're watching on YouTube or 308 00:18:44,533 --> 00:18:48,293 just DM me, if you're like, girl, I idolize my business now, I don't thank 309 00:18:48,373 --> 00:18:53,013 you, or if this resonates with you, just let me know, email me, DM me. 310 00:18:53,013 --> 00:18:54,193 comment on YouTube. 311 00:18:54,873 --> 00:18:56,133 I'll respond personally. 312 00:18:56,333 --> 00:19:00,703 If you're ready to join a community of women striving to heal their relationship 313 00:19:00,703 --> 00:19:06,233 with money, grow their businesses, and dig deeper into their faith, sign up 314 00:19:06,233 --> 00:19:09,173 for my email series, 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