We work smarter when we understand if we are underearning

We work smarter when we understand if we are underearning and what we need to do to start earning what we want to earn.

According to Webster, underearning is the act of “earning less than might be expected.”

Or, according to Barbara Stanny, “Someone who makes less than she needs or desires despite efforts to do otherwise.”

Some of my hard-working and very intelligent clients are also underearners.

This is because underearning is not caused by underworking, underachieving, or having a low income.

It is caused by our thoughts, feelings, and actions that cause us to underearn.

It is caused by how we may have been raised or programmed, which has us repeating old patterns that create an experience where we earn less than we can or want to earn.

Some of my past underearning patterns were undervaluing my time by undercharging for my services and expertise, undervaluing my skills and wisdom and thus not requesting to be compensated for the value I was providing, not asking for a raise or when I did accept the excuses given, or not following through with opportunities to earn more that were offered to me or came my way.

When we work smarter, we not only earn what we want to earn but also understand how to avoid underearning.

Ready to start earning more money in less time by working smarter? I am here to support you.

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Six things the time management industry does not want you to know

Six things the time management industry does not want you to know and is causing you to be burnt out and make less money than others.

1. The concept of time is money.

Time is time, but the value we create in the time we have is what creates money. Money is created by the value we create using our minds.

2. We can manage time so that we can get more done.

Time is a mental construct; we do not manage time but actually manage our thoughts, feelings, and actions in the allotted time. Working smarter means understanding that we manage our minds and use our minds to create value in the allotted time.

3. Busyness and doing many actions make our lives more valuable.

Some actions or ways we spend our time are more valuable than others based on how much we think and feel about it. Creating a rewarding life is the experiences and value we create in the time we choose.

4. The more actions we take, or the more stressed and busy we are, the more productive we are.

Productivity decreases with time and the more busy and stressed we are. We can be more productive in 15 minutes by how we think and feel, by the valuable questions we ask ourselves, and by the problems we solve than someone who worked for 15 hours being busy and reacting.

5. The quantity of time spent on something increases the item's value.

The quality of a product, or the more valuable a product is, has zero to do with the time taken to create it. When we work on our minds through coaching, learning, asking powerful questions, and increasing our capacity to create massive value, we create unlimited money and opportunities for ourselves. One question or coaching session can forever change and make our life more valuable.

6. The more time we spend on something, the more productive we are.

Productivity is based on the result or finished product created. When we use our minds to create an outstanding finished product, it can use less time or be more effective than initially thought.

Ready to start making more money in less time by working smarter? I am here to support you.

Managing our minds and emotions to create higher yielding results.

I have always been driven to achieve more and create more in my life, and nothing has had more impact on my life and success than how I manage my mind and emotions.

In the past, my emotions were the last thing I would consider.

I would avoid, buffer away or resist my emotions and not see how these actions cost me time, energy, and success.

Worse yet, others would see how I was not in touch with my emotions and manipulate me and my emotions to get their way.

Lord knows nothing is more exhausting and time-consuming than trying to avoid, buffer from, or resist your emotions when you are in a toxic environment that triggers your emotions intentionally.

Most clients come to me to learn how to work smarter and want to learn the actions to take and not take.

I teach them the importance of their thoughts and feelings in driving all their efforts and inactions.

Before learning to manage our emotions, we can do 20 things and be exhausted.

And after learning how to manage our emotions, we can do the same 20 things or more and be energized and motivated to do it again.

If we convert the 20 things into high-yielding actions, they create more results in less time and effort.

For example, in a toxic environment, we stop being a trigger and have honest conversations that create lasting and permanent change.

We will be further along and less exhausted than before.

I help my clients work smarter by learning how to manage their emotions and convert the actions to guarantee more success.

Ready to start working smarter? I can support you along your journey.

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Do you feel exhausted at the end of your day? Do you dread doing the things that you want to do or fear that you will experience burnout from exhaustion?

Do you feel exhausted at the end of your day? Do you dread doing the things that you want to do or fear that you will experience burnout from exhaustion? I help my clients understand and find the root cause of exhaustion or burnout. Some of the common misconceptions about exhaustion and burnout my clients have are:             

• Exhaustion is caused by the number of actions we take. Exhaustion is caused by the thoughts and feelings from which we act.

• Exhaustion is caused by something outside of us. Exhaustion is caused by us, in our bodies, and by what we make things mean.

• Working smarter or doing things a certain way will eliminate exhaustion. Exhaustion can only be eliminated from the thoughts and feelings we choose to work smarter or do certain things from.

• Burnout is caused by things outside us or the number of things that need to be done. Our thoughts and feelings about the things outside us cause burnout.

• Burnout is caused by physical actions taken. Burnout is caused by activities like avoiding, buffering, and resisting things in our brain and our thought, feeling and action cycles when emotions arise.

• Things outside us create energy depletion. Energy depletion is created by our mind and the patterns we choose to step into when things happen.

• Everyone doing the same activities will feel exhaustion or burnout. Since each person has power and agency over their minds, they will feel differently about the activities and thus feel either energized or exhausted.

Working smarter has us choose the thought, feeling, and action cycles we choose on purpose to be in when we take the actions we want to take. It has us choosing on purpose what to do with emotions and what intentional thoughts, feelings, and actions we choose after we experience emotions.

I help my clients work smarter by empowering themselves to choose thoughts, feelings, and action cycles that not only create the results they want without burnout and exhaustion.

Ready to start working smarter and not harder while creating burnout or exhaustion? I can support you in your journey. Schedule a consultation.

Our journey determines how we will feel after we achieve our goal.

One of the most disappointing experiences I see my clients go through is not that they did not create their results but that they believed when they arrived where they wanted to be that it should feel differently, AND it does not.

We think that we can hustle, white knuckle, force, and pressure ourselves to get the desired result, AND that we will automatically feel different when we get there.

We believe that the destination should be different than they journey, only to experience the destination more as an extension of the journey.

AND nothing is more disappointing than that realization.

AND worse is when our brains or others recommend setting another goal, AND the only example our brains give us is the one we just had with more hustling, white-knuckling, force, and pressure.

We wonder why we avoid, procrastinate, resist, or buffer away from committing to doing it again.

I hear, “If I have to do it the same way, why bother?”

I help my clients first understand why their last goal journey felt the way it did.

We then understand why the accomplishment of the goal feels the way it does.

AND eventually tweak and adjust how their new journey will be different with love, anticipation, and dedication to who they want to be along the way.

With this deeper understanding and unique found experience, my clients not only create the results they want while working smarter and not harder.

They also set bigger goals and experience their journeys and successes differently than before.

Schedule a consultation and learn how to guarantee your journey and achieve goals can feel amazing by working smarter and not harder.

I used to think and teach it took 28 days to create a habit until I learned that we change our identity in a second.

I used to think and teach it took 28 days to create a habit until I learned that we change our identity in a second.

When we choose to work smarter, we understand that if it takes us a second to change our identity, then why do we need 28 days?

Yes, the consistent and continuous act of taking the same action for 28 days will create the proof and evidence that we have changed AND make it easier for us to believe we are the person with the new habit.

However, the belief happened in a second.

Remember a time you decided “never again,” “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired,” or “ I am done”?

We can choose to believe we are the person we want to be by thinking, feeling, and acting as the person who has the new habit, which will increase the chance we create the new habit.

With the prior belief,  on day 21, if we stopped taking action, we needed to start from day one.

But with an identity shift, if we stopped taking action on day 21, it only means we stopped taking action and can make day 22 day 21 and continue taking action.

With the prior belief, if we failed at our goal or failed at creating the proof and evidence, it meant we were not supposed to have our goal or become the person who can have our goal.

With an identity shift, failure is only a failure and data to learn and grow from.

Failure does not mean stopping, quitting, or confirming that you cannot achieve your goal.

I support my clients in creating identity shifts by working smarter and not harder.

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“I don’t have time” or “I have to find the time.”

“I don’t have time” or “I have to find the time.”

When I hear these two sentences in coaching, I know my client believes that our money goals are created by time, actions, or effort.

They believe they need to work longer, take more actions, or put in more effort to create their income goals.

They are in the mindset that most of the world is in; hours worked will create the money goal.

This mindset works as an employee but only takes us so far in business.

If we work X hours and make Y dollars an hour, we can make XY dollars a week.

They believe to make more money, we need to work XX hours and increase our hourly rate to XY to make XXXY dollars a week eventually.

So when clients say, “I don’t have time” or “I have to find time, " they believe they need to find the time to do more, exert more effort or work more hours to create the desired results.

I teach my clients what makes money and how to create more money without working any longer or harder.

Simple mindset shifts and asking and answering simple questions can make a difference in the value created in the same X hours.

I can support you in identifying how to create more value without working longer or harder than necessary. Schedule a consultation call.

Confidence is 100% an inside job.

Confidence is something so many people want.

Confidence feels good and drives so much amazingness.

Unfortunately, most people do not know how to create confidence and are looking to things, people or places outside them to create confidence for them.

Confidence is 100% an inside job.

Of course, things can be created on the outside that will enhance the feeling of confidence, but the original spark of faith comes from inside you by how you think.

I teach my clients how to cultivate confidence inside them and how to become the confident person who goes out into the world and creates more confidence.

Everything we want starts from inside us and cannot be created from outside us.

Confidence is created by a belief that the worst thing that can happen is an emotion, we are willing to feel any emotion, no matter what, we will figure things out and we will have our back through it all.

From these beliefs, we show up feeling confident, which fuels all our actions and inaction.

From these beliefs, we show up confidently no matter what is happening around or if we have the results we are looking for.

When we seek confidence from outside us, confidence depends on the results and falters based on the results.

True confidence keeps us going before and especially after the results are there.

True confidence has you falling and getting back up and going back to action because you have your own back.

True confidence has you trusting yourself even if you did not show up as powerful as you could have, and is what has you creating awareness and deciding how to show up differently next time.

True confidence is a gift you get to give yourself.

Confidence is how we get twice as much done in half the time and achieve our biggest dreams.

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Our relationship with ourselves is the most fundamental relationship and is the one that will create a thriving and lasting business.

Too many struggling businesswomen miss the importance of their relationship with themselves while trying to build a successful business.

Our relationship with ourselves is the most fundamental relationship and is the one that will create a thriving and lasting business.

Our relationship with ourselves will be the foundation of our relationship with our business, time, money, clients/customers, and goals.

Our relationship with ourselves will be reflected in our relationship with our body, money, other people, our business, and goals, and if it’s not in alignment, so will all the others.

When we miss this relationship, neglecting it and not taking care of it will result in it not helping us create what we want on the outside.

For example, a client will tell me they don’t trust their goal or a client/customer, and when we explore deeper, we find they don’t trust themselves.

Not because they are not trustworthy but because they have beaten themselves up or labeled themselves in an attempt to force themselves to take the action they want to take.

They have eroded their most fundamental relationship, and thus it is reflected on the outside.

When my clients start rebuilding their relationships with themselves, so do their relationships with everyone and everything else outside them.

They stop abandoning themselves or beating themselves up, and people, places, and things are drawn to them.

They start creating more results with ease and fun as their self-trust, self-determination, and commitment grow to make sure they set themselves up to succeed from love.

Schedule a consultation today and implement an sustainable relationship with yourself.

One pattern I see with struggling businesswomen is trying to create the results they want versus choosing to be committed to creating the results they want.

When we try, we hope and pray we will get the results we want.

We are expecting something or someone will create the results we want.

I see clients who are trying, advocating their responsibility to another author, podcaster, coach, or program to get them the results they want, hopefully.

When they think they will try, any action taken will be taken until something is not working, or until it gets hard, or until they get frustrated or disappointed, or until the results are not happening fast enough, and then they quit taking action.

When they are trying, they are negotiating with themselves or others on what actions need to be taken.

These patterns not only leave them exhausted and fatigued, but they also don’t create massive progress toward the results they want.

Without commitment, my clients will use willpower and force themselves through resistance and emotions to create more of the struggle they are trying to avoid.

I help my clients build their commitment to creating the desired results by becoming the person who can have the results they want.

As they develop commitment, they become emotionally mature and guarantee they will create the results they want

no matter what.

I teach commitment not only creates the life we want but also creates it in less time and energy.

We use commitment to push ourselves and our future selves into the lives and businesses we desire by becoming the future versions of ourselves now.

If you are questioning, but how?

I am here to support you in growing your commitment as you create the fun and juicy life you want. Schedule a consultation call.

Two skills I see missing in busy and struggling businesswomen are focus time and planning time.

They are busy taking random actions, jumping from task to task, or multitasking and diving into unproductive rabbit holes.

Before coaching and learning the skills I teach my clients, I would be busy all day with none to a few finished products to show for it.

I would have worked and been exhausted with nothing important completed to show my hard work.

After coaching and learning the skills I teach, I am more productive without working harder or longer as I not only work to produce a result in the scheduled time, but my productivity level is higher than ever before.

Focus time is time we schedule to allow us to dedicate our full attention to a project or task without distractions.

Planning is where we dedicate time to plan what projects and finished products we want to accomplish by the end of the week.

When both are used on purpose, and we use our highest brains to work, we are more productive because we complete more tasks and get the most critical and complex work completed, thus adding more value for our customers/clients.

More productivity in less time creates more value for our customers, increasing our income and success in less time and effort.

I am here to support you in building the skills of planning and focus time to create your business dreams without working harder or longer than necessary.

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Not thinking or considering our future selves and kicking the "can down the road" for their future self to "fix."

One pattern I see struggling businesswomen repeat is not thinking or considering their future selves and kicking the "can down the road" for their future self to "fix."

It can be something as simple as "I don't feel like it" or more complex as "I don't know what to do, and she can figure it out."

The main issue is not that she will get it done, especially when it's important; she always has.

The issue is we don't set her up to succeed.

We don't give her opportunities to thrive and give her a chance to win.

We don't think about how she will think and feel as she cleans up after us.

I support my clients as they spend time hooking their future selves up and celebrating in advance as their future selves have a beautiful foundation to build on.

We step into feelings like proud, accomplished, and resolved to guarantee our future selves feel them too, by how we set her up to succeed.

When we feel these emotions now, not only do we guarantee our future selves do, but we also guarantee that is the energy we put into the world as we create our dreams.

If you want to learn how to support your current and future self to create what you want, I am here to support you.

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Connecting two thoughts or concepts that are not intended to be connected cause us to work harder

One pattern I see with struggling businesswomen working harder and longer than necessary is connecting two thoughts or concepts that are not intended to be connected.

Our brain loves to connect multiple things in an attempt to create certainty, but sometimes the connections may be inaccurate or connect two things that are not connected.

For example, a businesswoman may get a no from one person, or one person may tell them their price is too high, and the businesswoman may conclude that no one wants to work with them, or everyone thinks their price is too high.

The sample size is too small, and the connection is just an inaccurate conclusion.

I watch them taking a ton of action to try to overcome this conclusion or have their brain gather proof and evidence on how these thoughts are true.

Any evidence gathered will support this inaccurate conclusion versus interpreting the evidence to invalidate the conclusion.

They may also change their niche, price, marketing, or product from this one conclusion when the only problem was what they made it mean.

I support my clients by helping them identify their thoughts and create a conclusion that will serve them in creating what they want to create.

Not only do they stop working harder, but this relationship with connection also impacts their income and goal creation.

If you want my support, I am here for you.

One place I see struggling businesswomen get stuck is making challenges a problem

One place I see struggling businesswomen get stuck is making challenges a problem, not as a lesson and opportunity to learn and grow into the future version of themselves.

When we make challenges a problem, we solve the problem or avoid the problem altogether.

We spend time and energy solving for something we created with our brains and using our brains. As

Einstein famously said, “we cannot solve a problem from the same mind that created them.”

Challenges are lessons here to help us evolve into the leaders and CEOs we want to become.

Challenges are just opportunities to grow our capacity to think, feel and act in a way to create the life and businesses we want.

Challenges are why people hire us or buy our products.

Challenges are part of growing successful businesses and making money.

When in error, we make challenges a problem to be solved or avoided, we keep ourselves in the place we do not want to be.

The more challenges we experience, the more valuable our brain becomes and, thus, the more value we put into the world.

And as business people, the more value we put into the world, the more money we earn.

If you want to grow your capacity to manage challenges, I am here to support you.

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Hard-working struggling businesswomen take a ton of action to allow us to think or feel a certain way.

One pattern I see with hard-working, struggling businesswomen is we take a ton of action to allow ourselves to think or feel a certain way.

If we watched ourselves for a day, we would be impressed by how busy we were.

Our to-do list is full of actions to be taken for our business, or our family, or other people.

The problem is not what we are doing but how we are doing it.

We go to our actions if we need something to change or improve.

We ask ourselves what we can do differently, and the answer is in our actions.

Maybe by adding more actions or doing the actions, we are already doing differently.

The problem is not what we are doing or how we are doing it, but what we think or feel about ourselves and the reasons for doing the actions.

For example, setting a goal to feel worthy and hoping we will feel worthy by achieving it, and then taking action to make us feel worthy.

This has us advocating our feeling of worthiness to something outside us or our actions.

So if we are not creating the goal or the feeling of worthiness from the external thing, our solution is to change the goal or change the actions to create the feeling of worthiness.

My job as our coach is to teach us how to feel worthy and set the goal from the feeling of worthiness; thus, all actions that come are already from the feeling of worthiness.

This method increases the chances of creating the goals we want and has us enjoying the journey as we create our goals.

Any action we take communicates the feeling of worthiness to ourselves and anyone receiving the actions.

Different decisions are made, and if they are different actions, we already come from the energy of worth.

If you are ready to learn how to believe you are already worthy, I have done it and I can help you.

One pattern I notice with struggling businesspeople is that they do not trust their intuition and look for answers to their problems outside them.

One pattern I notice with struggling businesspeople is that they do not trust their intuition and look for answers to their problems outside them.

A client will come to me and ask for a book, podcast, lesson, or guru to help them solve something in their life or business.

When I help them explore the real problem, what the cause of the problem was and what they think the solution may be.

They are always surprised by the cause of the problem, AND the solution was already inside them all along.

They already had the answers to take the next action but did not trust themselves and their intuition.

Do not get me wrong, there is always room for learning more and picking up Pearls of wisdom from others, but finding the solution to the real problem starts with going inside.

Clients will say, “I don’t know,” but when I ask them, “what if you knew?” their creativity and genuineness come out.

I also love to ask my clients, “I wonder what would happen, “ and my client's wisdom, creativity, and genuineness always blow my mind as, most of the time, the fantastic combination was beyond even my educated and creative mind.

So, I wonder what would happen if you believed you already had the solution to your problem?

I wonder where you would spend your time, money, and energy if you trusted your intuition and listened to them carefully for its wisdom.

Schedule a consultation to learn how to tap into your wisdom and intuition

Belief that people reaching out to is the only way to identify if their marketing or their business is working.

One pattern I notice with struggling businesspeople is the belief that people reaching out to them is the only way to identify if their marketing or their business is working.

They expect people to be reaching out to them, calling them, sending them messages or emails, or just telling them they want to work with them as an indication of success.

My response is maybe and maybe not.

Yes, it is nice to get the instant gratification of people telling us that what we are doing is working by telling us.

The problem is we miss that for every person who reaches out, over ten more will not reach out until they are ready to work with us or pay us.

When we only focus on the one who is not reaching out and stop talking to them because we believe our business or marketing is not working, we also stop talking to the ten-plus who are paying attention to us.

Another pearl of wisdom I share with my clients is to go and find their people.

When we are passively waiting for people to reach out to us, and they don’t, we stop marketing or showing up; we miss the many more out there and need to be told why working with you will solve their pain point.

The work is believing that you have the solution to their pain point, finding and telling them that you have the answer to their pain point.

When we passively wait or need them to do the work for us, we work so much harder and longer than necessary, giving our power and belief to individuals who do not have the ability to build our business and marketing for us.

The key is using our time, money, and energy to believe that our people are out there, looking for a solution we have and going to tell them over and over again where they are.

The work is believing in them before they believe in themselves and showing them through our consistent and massive actions until they believe that you can help them and that they can solve their problems with your help.

If you would like to learn how to create belief, especially when you have no evidence to support it, I can help you.

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Making decisive decision regarless of the worst-case scenario

Do you know one of the reasons we avoid making decisive decisions is because we fear the worst-case scenario?

Our brain has already played out the possible worst-case scenario, and it is scared of it.

I help my clients go to the worst-case scenario, and they play it out.

We spend time there and look for all the possible outcomes.

Even in the worst-case scenario, life will still be 50 positive and 50 negative.

When my clients see this, their brains calm down, and they can make a decision and realize that no matter what happens, there is no right or wrong decision, AND if the worst-case scenario plays out, they will still experience life at 50/50.

Without this awareness, my clients take a ton of action trying to find the perfect decision by polling, evaluating, looking at the past, worrying, resisting emotions, etc.

This has them spending time and energy in indecision debt.

When we play out the worst-case scenario, we make decisions faster AND make the decision the best decision.

They can move from trying to decide to deciding AND creating the life and business they want without working harder and longer than necessary.

If you want to learn how to make decisive decisions AND make those decisions the best decisions, I can help you.

I believe everyone gets 100 quarts a day, and we spend it every day just like time.

I love using analogies, and one I use to create a visual for my clients is that we all start our day with 100 quarts of energy.

I believe everyone gets 100 quarts a day, and we spend it every day just like time.

And just like time, how we use it will create our experience of it and how accomplished we feel at the end of the day.

Like time, we can borrow from our future selves by not making decisive decisions today and putting them off for our future selves to solve.

And just like money, we can get into energy debt by putting off what we can do today for tomorrow or borrowing from tomorrow’s energy by how we spend our night and sleep.

Or, just like time, we can use it in ways that have them being spent without a finished product or movement toward our goals.

Benign things like how we approach relationships, people pleasing, having manuals, emotional childhood, emotional manipulation, procrastination, and self-sabotage can deplete our energy bank.

Another way is how we experience emotions; resisting, avoiding, and compounding emotions can impact how we spend the quarts of energy.

When I disclose these patterns to my clients, and they see why they are tired or even burnt out, they

can make lasting changes that impact every area of their lives.

And because how we do one thing is how we do everything, once my clients stop spending their

energy reserves in one relationship, every single relationship, including the one with time, money, their business, and themselves uplevels.

These adjustments have my clients living fuller lives AND creating their goals faster.

Where are you spending your quarts of energy, and what would happen if you invested them for a brighter future?

I can help you.

Buffering in business

As a life coach who coaches businesswomen, I noticed that struggling businesswomen have their own form of buffering.

Buffering is a term used in coaching to describe an action done not to feel “negative” emotions.

We can clearly see buffering when someone overeats not to feel negative emotions and weigh more than they want to or spend money to feel better, creating debt or extra clutter in the home.

In business, the buffering is in the form of taking a ton of non-income producing activity like cleaning the office or inventory, taking another training or reading another book, taking a ton of the same action without evaluating if the action is producing the result we want or even questioning why not, or even spinning in mind-drama and turning the discomfort of growth into drama and blaming.

When a businesswoman is busy blaming the economy, the market, or anything else outside of her, instead of sitting with the uncomfortable emotions AND tweaking her marketing, her product/service, or her presentation and mindset, she is buffering with blame.

Yes, the blame seems necessary, but it advocates responsibility to something outside ourselves instead of feeling the discomfort, taking responsibility, and deciding to do something different.

And just like other forms of buffering, this one has us taking a ton of action and leaves us earning less than we want to earn.