For those who have been reading my newsletters for a while you will know that I am a money mindset coach using EFT to help people uncover and clear the blockages that are stopping them from achieving the success they want in their business. I have been doing this for the past year and have loved it. I have helped many wonderful entrepreneurs, and to see how their business are flying now is so exciting. There have been amazing experiences of women promoting programs that they wanted to run but just weren’t, running programs but getting stressed about lack of numbers and lack of support, and then a big turnaround in both support and number attending the program. I have worked with women who were so stressed about their business, or money and debt that they felt that they couldn’t function. There have been lots of tears, and lots of celebrations and quite a few laughs along the way. I have loved it.
Just over 12 months ago when I was looking at starting an online business, I knew I wanted to help people and use the modality of EFT. But I was advised most clearly that I needed to niche more. I have worked as a personal trainer for the past 10 years and still run 4 classes per week and it is so much fun, but my niche client is over 65. They are not the group to buy online personal trainer, or EFT, so I needed to find another niche.
My passion in the health field is weight loss, probably because it is an area I have struggled with for the past 25 years!!!! I know the frustration and FRUSTRATION of not being able to lose weight no matter what you do. The problem was, I was still overweight and although I was working through the emotional issues that were keeping me overweight I did not feel confident teaching it. So we decided that the area that I was good at was money and money mindset. I have run a number of successful businesses and had a portfolio of investments that bring in a good income. This felt easy and fun area for me to work in, and it has lived up to that idea in every way. Although, I have discovered that money blocks hang around everyone, even when you have succeeded, going to the next level means that you hit the next level of money blocks!!!! It has been a fun and interesting journey.
I have spent 25 years trying every diet under the sun. I have done the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, the weight watcher program, the fit for life program and Jenny Craig. I have had food delivered to my door, I have skipped food and just drunk powders. Sometimes I lost weight, and then put it all back on again, and more. By 50 years of age I was 10 kgs overweight, by 60 years of age I was 20 kgs overweight. This was not working.
I increased my exercise, and hired personal trainers. I trained for 100km bike rides and 10 day walks. I was fitter and stronger, and succeeded in my goals, but I didn’t lose any weight.
I am not a lazy person, I am not dumb, and I do have will power, but weight loss alluded me.
Then I read a pamphlet about a one-day seminar, called ‘Lose weight and Gain energy without dieting.’ This sounded really interesting. They talked about curing cravings on the day. That was really interesting as I really loved chocolate. I attended this seminar and was introduced to EFT tapping. I was blown away. I watched while they demonstrated how EFT could cure cravings. The participant was seriously addicted to coca cola. 2 liters per day, hot or cold, fizzy or not. She had to have her drink. Within ½ an hour she said, “Who would drink this stuff, it tastes foul!” and she dumped the rest of the bottle down the sink. I have caught up with her a few times since and she has never drunk it again.
I had to know more, and went to the follow up classes and then onto training and advanced training. I am still as impressed as I was then. I no longer crave chocolate. I find I eat it out of habit and then realize I don’t want it. (That eating when you don’t want something is another aspect of the issue)
Then while re-evaluating where I wanted to go for 2017, I suddenly had this dream of doing weight loss. It really was like a sudden dawning. I REALLY want to do healthy living and weight loss. I was presented with an opportunity to partner with a company called Precision Nutrition who I had trained with a number of years ago as a nutritionist. They had a program that they are offering to their graduates and the program was amazing. I really wanted to coach using their program.
Going back to my business coach to discuss what looks like a complete U-turn, I thought she would say that I was crazy. Instead she got excited too, and thought it was a fantastic idea. Now I had to think seriously. The reason why I had not done weight loss before was my own weight. How can I teach and talk about weight loss if I am overweight? I am not being authentic.
Excess weight is about the food you eat, but it is much more about the emotions that you are dealing with by eating food. I have finally cleared my emotions and the weight is starting to come off. I have lost 6 kgs in October and November and although the loss stopped over December it did not go back on either. Now we are in January and the weight is dropping again.
I have also been consistently working on my mindset issues and I am feeling more confident and capable. I do not have all the answers, but I have a great deal of knowledge and experience, and what I do have is the wonderful tool of EFT. I have gained both the theoretical and practical experience that allows me to use this tool to make a real difference in people’s lives.
I still have 15kgs of weight to lose. I am sure I also have more mindset issues to work through. But what is different now is that I know what is happening, AND I know that I can help others too. I don’t have to be perfect.
What is really fascinating is that money mindset and health mindset are actually very similar. A famous saying that seems to have lost its original author says, “How you do anything is how you do everything”
Are you struggling to make money in your business, and struggling to lose weight? It is possibly the same mindset beliefs and habits that are keeping you stuck.
The exciting part of this is that change the beliefs and habits in one area and they will change in both.
I am running a webinar on the 12th January at 12PM AEST on the money weight mindset connection. I am going to explain more of how this connection works and what you can do about it.
Join us at www.bit.ly/weightmoneymindset