Align Your Beliefs to Attract Abundance and Awesomeness with Marci Lock

We all want to attract abundance and have set goals for ourselves, whether in business or our personal lives. But how many of these goals have you achieved so far? Many of us self-sabotage without us being aware of it. Here’s the secret: your core beliefs dictate your actions and the results you get. When your beliefs are not aligned, it doesn’t matter what you do; you’ll be self-sabotaging in the end.  

At the end of this podcast, you will be able to retrain your subconscious and shift your perspective for abundance and alignment. Our guest Marci Lock is a trainer and advocate of the mind-body connection. She shares five specific questions to change your mindset. Start taking control of your life and live abundantly!

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Discover the five key questions that will help you shift your mindset and attract abundance. 
2. Understand why we often self-sabotage and how knowing your core belief can help realign your actions to results. 
3. Learn why perspective and mindset can bring incredible transformation to your life. 

Resources:

• Get Marci’s free video training series to transform your body on Marci 90
• You can also download the official Marci Lock Application here. 
• Want to learn more about attracting abundance? Listen to Marci’s podcast, The Awakened Being. 
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
• Connect with Marci: Facebook | Youtube | website       

Episode Highlights 

Accepting Awesomeness and Abundance

• After what she’s been through, Marci doesn’t accept anything but awesomeness and abundance in her life.
• Marci shares that she used to be conscious of her body and even connected her self-worth to it.  
• Even when she tried her best to understand her body and did everything to change it, her core belief of not being enough always sabotaged her efforts.  
• She was trying different things, but she didn’t get the results she wanted.
• Eventually, Marci realized that she had to look at how the mind and inner belief systems affect the external surroundings.

Self-Sabotage is a Manifestation of Misalignment

• When we align ourselves, that’s when we can manifest the body, relationships, and money we want.
• However, many of us operate from a self-sabotaging mindset, and we don’t question why certain things happen. 
• If you don’t attract abundance and awesomeness in every aspect of your life, you have to start asking yourself why that is. 
• When your core belief is negative, it doesn’t matter what you do on the surface. 

Take Every Experience As A Gift

• No experience is inherently bad or good. But they’re all gifts and opportunities to grow. 
• Marci shares that having sleep disorders and with a man who cheated on her made her reflect on her belief systems. 
• Don’t see experiences as is. You can choose either to experience them through fear or faith. 
• Marci shares that she used to work as a $2 waitress. Now she has a successful business. 
• Fear of failure will always hold you back. But if you operate from a place of faith and curiosity, you’ll naturally attract abundance. 

Change Your Mindset to Attract Abundance

• Your mindset is about how you talk to yourself and what you tell yourself. 
• When you start having negative thoughts, you need to learn how to take them out to not eventually overwhelm yourself. 
• Give yourself the permission to think differently, have fun, and be creative. 

Perception Creates Your Possibility

• People self-sabotage by resisting certain situations and constantly speaking from a place of obligation. This is common in ‘I have to,’ ‘I should,’ and ‘I need’ statements. 
• Every action, thought, and word has energies that can affect us. 
• Become clear on what you’re committed to and show up. 
• Before trying to change external circumstances, look inside your core beliefs first. 
• Recognize that you have a choice in your actions. 

Retrain Your Subconscious

• When you stay in a scarcity and victim mentality, you won’t be able to step up to create your world. 
• Start living life consciously and be in the moment. 
• We often act based on the subconscious and past belief systems. When we face uncertainty, we will fall back to what makes us comfortable. 
• You have to retrain your mind to what you want to believe. 
• Ask the right questions so you can evaluate whether you have misalignment or not. 

Your Body Never Lies

• There are five core emotions that are connected to your body.
• Sadness manifests on the chest and fear in the stomach. 
• When you feel something in your head, neck, or shoulders, you harbor anger.
•  Finally, you feel joy and sexual things in your whole body and pelvis area, respectively.
• By knowing this, you know what your thoughts, blocks, and fears are.

You are the Creator of Your World

• We hold ourselves back when we create stories of our worthiness based on our past experiences.
• Instead of letting life happen to you, understand that you can control it.
• Be conscious that you create your world; life happens through you.
• When you’re aware and aligned with yourself, you get into a flow state. Life becomes easy and effortless. 

5 Questions to Shift Your Perspective

• What are you feeling? Ask yourself this when you find yourself somewhere you shouldn't be. 
• Why are you feeling that way? Dig deeper into your awareness. 
• What do you want? Awareness is not useful until you’re clear with your intentions. 
• What are your new beliefs or perceptions? These dictate what your experience will become. 
• What action do you need to take? You need to shift your vibration before you do the action.

Take Time to Meditate

• Take time to meditate on the success you’re trying to manifest. 
• You can take as little as 30 minutes a day to reflect on the impact you want to achieve. 
• For example, business people can reflect on how they can provide more value and show up in their business. 
• When you open yourself to reflection, you’ll naturally receive ideas throughout the day instead of struggling to balance everything. 

Two Powerful Quotes 

“If you choose to become conscious and to become aware and do this game of being a creator; we realize [that] life happens from me, I'm the creator of my world.”

“How do we make it easy or hard is based on what's going on inside us.” 

About Marci Lock

Marci Lock is commonly known as the Body Mind Mentor and is a nutrition and fitness expert, life transformation coach, show host, and motivational speaker. She is passionate about aligning your actions with the beliefs to create real change and attract abundance in your life. The true transformation begins with the mind, and her results have proven the power of manifesting and beliefs. 

You may connect with Marci on Facebook, Youtube, and on her website!   

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• Are you interested in growing your business, automating/streamlining things, and staying one step ahead of your competition?

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How To Run A Business? Business Coach | Executive Coach

How To Run A Business? Business Coach | Executive Coach

See 1 of 100 New Videos on this topic & more.

In fact, our research specifically proves 8 Critical Success Factors for small & medium-sized businesses.

Visit www.BestBusinessCoach.ca for more info.

Or https://www.members.bestbusinesscoach.ca/success-research/ for more on the research behind it. 

Transcript:

Well, all a business is:
A person/group of people solving a problem, experienced by another.
Via a product/service.
That's it.

It means:
You have a group doing something, to solve a pain experienced by someone.
And doing it at scale.

A great analogy I like to use is:
I call a business a "Black Box".
Let's say this is a dentist's office.
On one side, people are crying & in pain.
Put them into the black box, it will fix all their problems.
[relating to their teeth.]
On the other side of the box, they come out happy and satisfied.

This is what a business is.
So, how do you run a business?
To run a business,
A) You need to have a problem to solve.
B) Identify people having the problem.
C) Solve the problem for them on win-win terms.

That's what it is.
I've also heard a couple of rules of thumb.
Like for a company, you need 3 key people.

1. Product Person.
-A person involved with the product/service.
-In charge of quality control.

2. Finance & Operations Person.

3. Marketing & Sales Person.

All 3 are different.
That is one thing I've heard about how you run a business.
 
Last year, I hired 7 different research teams.
To go through all the scientific literature availabl,e to find out:
What are the Critical Success Factors for Small & Medium-Sized Businesses?

We found 8.
8 critical success factors.

1. Self-Efficacy.
2. Strategic Planning.
3. Market Intelligence.
4. Marketing Strategy.
5. Sales Skills & Strategy.
6. Money Management.
7. Business Operations.
8. Business Intelligence.

1. Self-Efficacy.
When you wake up, do you plan your time well?
Do you get things done on your to-do list?
Are you effective at communicating your ideas?
If you hired someone to perform a role, but they fail to do so.
They are not effective in their responsibilities.
Self-Efficacy is the ability to have:
Energy, skills & capacity to get things done,
To communicate effectively.
To collaborate with others towards goals.
This is the self-efficacy factor.
It's leadership, team work, communication, time management, etc..

2. Strategic Planning.
You might be the best swimmer.
But if you jump in a pool with no water, you'll get hurt.
You don't want to invest in something that is disappearing.
Strategic planning makes you diligent.
To understand the landscape.
What are the other options out there for consumers?
What are the problems consumers are having?
Where are things in the industry going?
Supply chain considerations.
Labour market conditions.
What is your strategic plan for bringing something bigger, faster, cheaper, newer to the market?

3. Market Intelligence.
This is part of strategic planning but a little different.
It's about knowing who the market is.
What pain point are they experiencing?
What's happening in the market?
It's having a connection to the reality of their world.
You don't want to use resources on making a product.
Then realize your product is already obsolete.
There are a lot of products launched & failed because they were too advance for society.
It is not only about marketing.
It's also understanding the situation of the industry.

4. Marketing Strategy.
You need a way to communicate with people at scale.
Identify interesting facts about what you do.
Help educate people. Find ways to bring them into your world.
So you can communicate & interact with them.

Marketing is about connecting at scale.
Through mass emails, producing content, ads, etc.
Then narrows down to where you have sales.
This is where you'll have intimate talks.
Speaking to them 1:1.

5. Sales Strategy & Skills.
This can be different for different price points.
Different products & services.
Or different severity of pain requires different sales strategies.
If you have the right strategy but the wrong salesperson, you won't get results.
Or if you have a good sales person using the wrong strategy.
It's not going to work.
Sales Strategy & Skills go hand in hand.

6. Money Management.
Money is to a business like gasoline is to a car.
Money is not everything but it is an accelerator.
To buy more resources or hire more staff.
It's a way to measure how many people you've helped.

The concept is:
Do something for society, with limited resources to create abundance.
Making the most out of limited resources.
That makes a business helpful to society.
Because it creates MORE value.
[Sum is greater than the individual parts]
If you run out of money, your movements' limited.
You can't invest.
You can't market your product/service.
You can't keep up.
Money management is very important.

7. Business Operations.
This involves things like:
Meeting rhythms, hiring processes, training processes.
All things holding your company together we consider business operations.

8. Business Intelligence.
This is about the feedback loops.
It's about knowing how you're performing.
Knowing each angle of your business.
Knowing if your customers get what they want.
Knowing how efficient your process is.
How's your marketing doing?
It's the feedback loops to let you know how you're performing.
There are leading & lagging indicators.
Sales are a lagging indicator.
Because it's based on the quality of your marketing, follow-up.
The interaction with your sales rep & quality of your service.
Plus you need satisfied customers to get repeat sales & referrals.

In the beginning,
Find someone willing to pay to have a problem solved.
Getting sales to prove people are willing to pay to have it done.
Then build a sustainable means to continue it cyclically.
Ideally for years, and for many many many more people.

That's how you run a business.

If you want more information on topics like this,
Go to www.BestBusinessCoach.ca.

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Do You Have What It Takes to Succeed in Business

In the modern era, the world of business has gotten more and more competitive. To succeed in business, you need to shore up as many advantages as you can. You should also commit to showing up and doing the work. 

Now, you might wonder how you can start getting things done. You won’t be remiss in looking to others for their tried and tested tips.

Daryl Urbanski shares his valuable insights on how you can succeed in business. He discusses five ways to improve your mindset in business. He also shares his research about the eight critical success factors for small and medium-sized enterprises. Harnessing self-efficacy is crucial. We also get some actionable tips on consistently focusing on your goals.

Want to learn valuable tips and strategies to succeed in business? Then this webinar episode is for you. Daryl will share his management tools, routines, and habits so you can be successful too. Remember that success is achieved when you chase excellence regularly. 

Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:

1. Learn five ways to improve your mindset towards achieving your goal to succeed in business.
2. Discover the eight critical success factors of a successful business owner.
3. Find out valuable time management tips, energy increasing strategies, and other ways to be productive.

Resources

• The Improvement of the Mind by Isaac Watts
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

Episode Highlights

The Tale of Two Athletes

• Imagine there are two people who both want to go to the Olympics and win a gold medal.
• The first one decided to figure it out on their own. While the other one got a coach.
• Both have the potential to win a gold medal. Yet, it is really rare for someone to make it on their own.
• Why do we instinctively think that the one who has a coach will be more successful?
• The more engines you have in your vehicle, the faster you can get to your destination. Thus, getting a coach is a significant advantage.

Five Ways to Improve Your Mind

• The first thing you need to do is to observe.
• The second one is to self-study. In this path, there can be a lot of trial and error.
• The third way is to obtain lectures and formal education. Here, you receive one-way communication from an expert.
• The fourth way is through shared group goals and experiences. You can learn through observing how other people overcome their challenges.
• Lastly, you have to follow your gut intuition. You need to harness the personal experiences and reflexes you built over time.

Overcoming Obstacles as You Improve Your Mind

• Daryl hired seven research teams in Uganda, Nigeria, Canada, America, and Australia. 
• They helped Daryl’s team look through scientific literature about what it takes to succeed in business.
• They reviewed the top 26 studies and found eight critical success factors.

Self-Efficacy

• The most important critical success factor is self-efficacy.
• Your efficacy or ability to get things done does matter. But to succeed in business, your whole team must be effective.
• If you’re not effective, you’re not going to be able to get things done.

Strategic Planning

• You can be the best at what you do. But without a strategic plan, yours is a failed effort from the beginning.
• Having a strategic plan involves being aware of what is happening in your field or community.

Market Intelligence and Marketing Strategy

• Market intelligence requires you to be connected to what is happening on the ground. 
• You need to examine your customers, competitors, and even the state of politics.

• Marketing strategy is how you deliver your message to your target communities.

Sales Skills and Strategy

• You need to be able to match your sales skills and strategy to the industry and your consumers.
• For example, if you’re selling a rental property, your strategy will be different for university students versus working professionals.

Money Management, Business Operations, and Business Intelligence

• Money is not everything. But if you do not have it, your business is not going anywhere. 
• Likewise, money mismanagement can let your business down.
• Business operations refer to the team meetings, the hiring process, legal compliance, and other things needed to keep your business working.
• Business intelligence refers to feedback loops. How is your business doing?

The Key to Succeed in Business

• As you build your personal experience, you get better. But life can still get in the way.
• You need to keep your goals in mind to move forward.
• One thing you can do to move forward is to take inventory of your life constantly. You can do this by journaling about the different aspects of your life.
• List down things you think you need to do. Out of the list, think about what you can delegate to team members.
• People are way more intelligent and capable than they believe they are. But often, they are too distracted that they lose sight of their future.

Increasing Your Energy Levels

• Look into the areas of your life weekly and find nuggets of motivation.
• Motivation is not just about how you manage your time but also your energy.
• If you have a low amount of energy, you’re only going to get an equal amount of tasks done.
• No matter how efficient and organized you are, if you do not have enough energy, you’ll rely on stimulants to get through your day.
• Health is a huge component in achieving your goals to succeed in business.

Why Your Habits are Important

• We are what we repeatedly do. 
• The habits you have are so important because they lead to excellence.
• Try to participate in events that increase your knowledge about business and investments.

Time Management Tools

• List down your top three goals for the day and the five most important tasks of the week.
• Do not be busy; be productive. It is all about getting things done.
• Use the Pomodoro technique. Work for 25 minutes and take a short or long break after. The idea behind this is accountability.
• If you want to be successful at something, you need to have daily and dedicated focus and time. You can use a checklist to get things done.  

What You Really Need

• You need education to help you point you in the right direction. 
• Then, you can look into motivation and the tools to help you need to get there.
• Unfortunately, life is a competition in certain aspects. 
• To have an advantage, you need to improve your mind.
• Everyone can succeed in business. You just need the time, attention, and focus.

2 Powerful Quotes

“Setting goals that are meaningful to you can be motivation to get everything else in your life organized.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Resources

• Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
• Tomato Timer 
• Getting Things Done

Enjoyed This Interview?

Daryl shares some great insights on what it takes to succeed in business. He gives us ideas on improving your mind, the critical factors to success, and the importance of good habits. He also gives us some actionable tips to help you start reaching your goals. If you enjoyed this, be sure to subscribe and share it with your friends!

Post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also post a review and share it! If you enjoyed tuning in, then leave us a review. You can also share this with your family and friends.

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PS.

• Do you already have a successful business, meaning you're up, running, and paying your bills with some profit left over?
• Are you interested in growing your business, automating/streamlining things, and staying one step ahead of your competition?

📨 If you can answer YES to all these questions, please reach out to me through https://www.members.bestbusinesscoach.ca/problems-we-fix/ and describe your situation, goals, and the best time/way to contact you.

Check out this episode!