Feeling Wobbly in Business? Part 1
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Ever feel wobbly in your business?
It can happen when you're being bold and doing new things in private practice, and also when you are having a hard time.
I describe "the wobblies" as feeling uncertain, doubtful and sometimes outright shaking in your boots while doing something new.
I quite literally feel shaky sometimes when I'm in this place.
Especially when I'm experiencing a crisis of confidence.
Whether you're being brave and bold or you're navigating a dark night of the soul in business, feeling wobbly happens.
Here's how I deal with this - Part 1 (Part 2 next week.)
First, it helps to know that THIS IS NORMAL.
For YEARS, I thought feeling wobbly meant "success in business was not for me."
I used it as evidence AGAINST myself.
I doubled down on my stinkin' thinkin' when it happened.
My thoughts would become dramatic, I'd eat lots of cookies and I would secretly search for a job that I had no intention of applying for.
After 20 years of running my own little business, I have developed a knack for seeing my way through this.
Here's the first thing that helped: I read memoirs about successful people, studied with famous mentors who make millions per month, and with mentors who have quiet, 6-figure and multi-6 fig businesses - and guess what?
They ALL experience feeling wobbly from time to time. No exception.
This helped me realize that feeling wobbly is part of the landscape of going for it in your private practice or small business.
No matter how big or small your business is, feeling wobbly happens, and it's okay.
It's not a sign to turn back.
Keep going.
Second, feeling wobbly in business comes and goes - FOREVER AND EVER.
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Wait! Hear me out.
Feeling wobbly happens the first time you do something new like start charging a higher rate for your services.
Then, later on, when earning well is no biggie, it shows up when you try to do the next new thing.
This is a recurring thing that happens. It ebbs and flows.
If not, you're probably coasting in your business. (Been there!)
The more you normalize feeling wobbly is not a "one and done" thing, the less it will mess with you.
Third, consider feeling wobbly as a sign that you're changing (and not that something is wrong with you or your business).
Change work - from fixing the nerdy external parts of your marketing, to the inner mindset work too - is funny business.
One minute you're like "I've got this."
The next you're like "I know nothing and why is this hard!?"
It's certainly like that for me.
Here's another thing that helped: I've studied brain health and personal performance for business owners for years to help me and my clients show up and do the hard work.
According to brain experts everywhere, feeling weird and wobbly is exactly what happens when your brain makes new neural pathways (aka you change).
Let it happen.
TV, social media and magazines, only show you the before and after of success, and not so much the middle part of change where feeling wobbly lives.
I'll leave you with this for now:
Feel wobbly = It's your brain and nervous system catching up with your vision.
Feeling wobbly = You're changing and becoming who you want to become.
Feeling wobbly = It's part of the landscape of having your own business.
Allow feeling wobbly in your business to be there without making yourself wrong.
Tell yourself, "Yes, I'm feeling wobbly and that's okay because I'm changing, learning new things and figuring things out."
Next week, I'll write about what I do in addition to this way of thinking to get myself through feeling wobbly in business.
Stay tuned for part two!
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I was ready to start my own boutique practice as a clinical pharmacist and health coach. I had the bones and professional experience but had no clue how to create the business. I was jumping all in and needed this to be effective quickly. 3 months. 3 months of working with Karin and I had a functioning and thriving business. It still seems unreal. It's not. It's real. - Kalin Johnson, PharmD, KalinJohnson.com
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Karin
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