SJ: The one day that I did the power lifting competition. I really tried to stay in an athlete bubble. And I don’t know if you’ve heard of the term of keeping in your athletes bubble. So that’s keeping you. Self in a bubble. You’re not really looking at what anyone else is doing. You’re not looking at what’s happening on the floor.

You just there in your zone. Whether you warm it up waiting. Back from the stage or you’re watching in the crowd, you stay in your bubble and you not letting what’s happening to others, really affect how you’re feeling. And of course you were there, you supported the lifters. Like you’re screaming at them, tell them to drive and push because you want to be encouraging.

And, I was in a category of a group of amazing ladies. Like they were so inspirational. But how to make a point of not comparing myself and not looking at the scoreboard with the numbers. I didn’t even look at my own numbers. Like I had no idea where I was that whole time. The competition. My job that day.

And my goal was just to approach the bar. [00:01:00] And do everything that my coach had taught me to do. So telling myself, once I lift up the bar that the bar is light. Taking my brace breath, following the cues of my mind, quads core hips, depending on what the movement was.

And it taken me.

But that was my golf the day. That’s all I need to do. No matter what move I was doing. That was my job. Didn’t need to know the weight. Didn’t need to know what other people were doing. That was my focus. And it taken me. W like the amount of time it took me. To get there on that day. And I was thinking. Just slightly or the ladies, it all took their. Own amount of time to get there on that day. And they all had their own unique journey to get there. And I thought that was so beautiful. Yes, we were all there to squat bench, dad and. Try and get PBS and whatever it was that our goals were.

But. [00:02:00] Our unique journey to get to that point or the same, like we’re all at the same point at the same time, but everyone had come from a completely different point and everyone was there for their own reason. I just thought that was cool and so unique to them. And that’s the same in business. We’re all doing our own businesses. Or doing them for our own reasons. And everyone’s timings and journeys are unique.

And. It’s so important to stay in your bubble. Not to be trapped by the comparison. I think it’s okay to pop your head up, cheer others on celebrate. But having that security, knowing that it’s okay to keep your eyes on your own lane. And to do what your coaches told you to do. Bryce breath telling yourself that the balls live. You accuse, quads, core hips for me. Whatever your cues are that you’re telling yourself, whatever the word God’s giving you, prophetic words, [00:03:00] whatever they’re unique to you. And do not be distracted by what others have been prophesied.

What does a doing that business? Blah, blah, blah. The main thing. Is to keep in your lane. And. What I found really helped me. By doing that is having the right coach handler. Community. Of people around me to help me stay in that lane. And also if the accountability, which is point number two, that we’re going to go on to.

So that is literally coach. Accountability and community. So for us to stay in that bubble and to continue on our unique journey, we need to find the right people to put around us. And I found. That. Though the people might be different in the different aspects of the business to powerlifting. That actually all merging into one kind of now, my coaches. My coach, she runs her own business. [00:04:00] Like we still talk about business because we’re both business owners. But yeah it’s finding those people and sometimes it can feel really hard to find a coach that you click with. Who knows your industry. And can teach you the things in that industry. But. That’s the ultimate.

If you can’t find just the coach, then find the community. And with that, once you start me and people, when you start talking about it, you can then set up the accountability. If you can get all three and find all, sorry, I think, you are. Set up for success. The accountability have to keep going. The push that each week showing up.

Okay. What we’re going to do this week or month? However. Much is that you meet that is. Going to keep you going because This doesn’t happen overnight. Business doesn’t happen overnight. And. Having the bare minimum of just like having that community around us for the accountability is [00:05:00] like a really good bar to set and then finding maybe individuals around us, we’re going to be getting the highest growth. I’m making sure that you’re on track through the days through the weeks, through the months. It is priceless.

And that’s one of the reasons why we’re doing. The business reset days is for that accountability that we’re doing within the membership, the thrive reset days. And. It’s about having that accountability of, okay. You said you were going to do this last quarter. Never really Conway. Have you done it? What’s that look like?

What worked, what didn’t work, and then pushing that on for the next quarter. What we’re going to focus on next. And sometimes you don’t even need to pray about it. God just knows. And he will provide the people around you. But you can be consciously praying about it too. But he’s there for each of us. And I think if we’re open to be taught and to be teachable, And to really embrace the [00:06:00] people that God puts around us and taught them just as much as we. They wore to us. It’s amazing. What you can achieve. Which means me on to number three, which is consistency.

So with the accountability. It helps us to be consistent.

And I think. To be consistent. We really need to have that belief in ourselves that we’re worth having this success. Like for me, it was I’m worth showing up for each day to lift those weights, to get to that competition. Or I’m worth.

Being it’s. My self worth is worth me showing up each day at the gym to get stronger, to be able to get my mind in a strong place, to be able to make. Big decisions. I had to find that within myself. And I think that you need to find that in yourself too, if you don’t have it, that self-worth. And self-love. Not the [00:07:00] vein love.

Just the self-respect love the actually, no, you know what? I’m worth this. I’m worth showing up for myself. Consistently. And it doesn’t mean that you have to. Do something. A level of a hundred percent all of the time. I actually think it’s quite the opposite. So when I say consistency and showing up. Again, I know the palace didn’t reference that if I was still lift at my a hundred percent each time, each training day. Whether it’s high reps, low reps. I would burn out really quickly.

Like you can’t keep. To a hundred percent. All of the time. That’s what the competition days are for there for you. To do your 90 to 95%. And, you don’t want to go to a hundred percent and hurt yourself, but you want to push yourself as much as you can. To failure. If you can get to failure. But in the training in the everyday business. We want to be working out what our 80% is.

So [00:08:00] what site? 82% effort in consistency that will allow us to keep showing up to keep being regular and keep being consistent without burning out in the first few weeks. For example in your marketing. What can you do that takes up 80% of your effort. That gives you the biggest results. So that you can keep doing it each week and keep being consistent. That might be working out what converts the best. Is it social media marketing is email marketing.

Is it blog posts? I don’t know. Just lots of examples. But working out what is working best for you? That can give you the biggest results that, you can keep doing consistently to keep getting those results and doing that. Not thinking you have to go a hundred percent and do absolutely everything that all the marketing gurus tell you, you have to do. And thinking this is way too much and way too overwhelming.

And I can’t do this. No, it’s about, okay. What’s my 80%. [00:09:00] Of my efforts that I can do that I can put in each week where I’m not going to burn out. Yes. We might do launches where, we are going, oh, a hundred percent. But I don’t think that’s wise to do. All of the time. Focusing on not doing the business stuff because you think you should, but working out what does work, what’s the best bang for your buck? And being consistent with that. And I think that this is the same thing with your products and your services as well. What products or services aren’t serving us very well now, what sells the most? That brings in the most profit. What services is your sweet spot, where you can make the best dollar, et cetera, et cetera.

Working out what we can do. And what we can keep it within marketing services, all aspect of our business, where we’re not going to burn. And our team out. And our efforts out. Number four. I’m going to have a drink. Number four, trusting the process. There might be some things in your business that you don’t like doing. We all have it. And your business coach might be [00:10:00] pushing you. That would be comfort zone or you might’ve decided to. Do a course, and it’s pushing you out of your comfort zone. I know for me doing pin squats. Oh, that’s when you set up your safeties, you go down to your deepest point of your squat and you should be able to place. The bar onto the safeties. You still have to. Have your muscle and bodies and everything braced and turned on. But you have to let go. And then the idea is to wait a second and then drive up. And drive it with good form. I like you every week when I come to do them. And it is a mindset thing. But I know that my coach has put them in there for a reason because it’s going to build endurance, holding my brace and breath is going to come in really handy when it comes to lifting the really heavy stuff. Like I have to trust that she’s put them in there for a reason, even though I might not like doing it. I have to trust [00:11:00] that process.

And so you might have. Be doing a course or be working with a coach. And they’ve told you to do things that make you just go, Ooh.

However. I want to encourage you to trust the coach trust what they’ve put forward to you to try and your business. Even if it feels uncomfortable and it hurts. And again, it’s about showing up for ourselves and going, you know what, I’m just going to do that. I’m just going to show up for myself today.

My business might feel a bit your key, but I’m going to trust the process. I’m going to learn from it. And we’re going to see what happens. So number four trust in the process. Number five. Never given up. Likewise. With sorry, like others. I’ve had personally quite a few big life changing events happen over the past few years. And I know. Everybody is going through their own unique journey that we’ve said all of us have different things [00:12:00] happening and it’s relevant to. What we’ve experienced and what we’ve gone through. But I encourage you to never, ever. Give up, like it could have been so easy for me to. Stop drop everything. Took the towel is all too hard. But I know. That I’m worth, again, it comes down to worth and showing up for ourselves, which is one of the points actually. But. If I’d have given up on the train and for example, That would’ve had a flow on effect on everything else. Like I knew that my worth as a wife and as a human. Things needed to change. And I knew that bike in my house and my mental health back on track. Was it. It gave me the life.

It gave me the energy to trust life, to trust the process. Two. There was that aspect and there’s also the spiritual aspect. So diving into God, praying deep, having prayed [00:13:00] mornings pre. Three days. Getting into the word, understanding lots of logic. And then, there’s a whole process of that. But I know that.

It was. It took me a hell of a lot of years. To get to that competition.

I had lots of stuff going on in the background. But I never gave up. I knew I needed to get my body back on track anyway, to be able to serve God and do the things that I want to do for God. But it took ages to get there. Ages and ages. And business is the same. You might be feeling like this business is taken. I hate this. To get off the ground. Or to get traction.

I know they generally say five years. I think that’s a really big generalization for Building and getting traction within a business. You need to be in it for the long run. Business is a long run thing. We [00:14:00] pivot when we need to, we make changes. To the program just as we do with training programs for like power lifting. But don’t give up. Change brands.

If you need to evolve, pivot. But don’t give up. You will get there. You will learn. You will keep applying what you’ve learned. And you’ll get there. And then number six is turning up for yourself. So I’ve said this a lot so far, and I think it’s super important. And I think realizing that. No one’s going to do this life for you.

No, one’s going to.

Come and do the hard work. No, one’s gonna give you a pill. That’s going to magically help you lose weight or magically help you. Build your business.

Okay. God himself didn’t create happen in Hearst by not showing up. Like he did his seven days of amazing things that happened. He had to go through that whole [00:15:00] process. To get everything in place. And he showed up. Like he showed up and you need to show up. Shell each day and do what you need to do. Both just isn’t a silver platter. But you are worth showing up for. And you have that unique value and unique perspective. That you’re worth turning up each day to work towards your goals and to work towards your business, your mission, whatever it is you personal mission. Being consistent with just this, just showing up. Because you’re worth it.

We’ll get you there. And that’s what I believe is so important to learn.

Like what marketing strategy are you going to put into place today? And work towards tomorrow because you’re worth putting in the effort of planning for your business. God’s put you on here because he loves you. [00:16:00] And to be. And you’re worth that. Like you’re worth that. And yes, we don’t get our worst from God from what we do. Like it’s through faith, not through works. But.

If God’s given you a dream, you’re worth it. Your worth showing up for it each day. Number seven. God will provide the people and the resources. Things might feel like they’re falling apart. You might have one pound, $1 left in your bank account, but God has you. He has your situation and he will provide, it might feel stressful. Not gonna lie. When we go see these both building. Seasons. Firsthand myself.

It can feel super stressful. It can feel like the world is swollen. But he will provide it will come. Least expected ways. For example, All right. To send out an email [00:17:00] to some clients through the week. I really didn’t want to send out like it wasn’t. It wasn’t the end of the world, but it wasn’t great news that I needed to send out to them.

And I was just dreading it. Like I did not want to send these emails out and I can just. I was sat, praying to God at my laptop. And please let these emails be received well. I’ve written them the best I could, but please let them be received well, and I just felt so sick and in the mouth, but I had to do it.

I knew I had to do it. And Sue that one of the clients responded. And they actually, some work came through. From the email that I was dreading sending out, I almost didn’t send out because I just felt so sick. So even in the most unexpected ways, God can provide, I wasn’t expecting positive response from it.

I wasn’t leasing. I was expecting was more work. God provides. And he provides in the most unique. Like unexpected ways. Not what we think or. [00:18:00] How we think it’s going to come in even out sending out bad news, God. Brought work to me, it was really humbling and really.

I don’t know, just really unexpected. Have that faith. That not only you wear the show note every day, but that you are worthy. Not. That God’s going to show up and provide the resources for you. Another big aspect for me is. Learning that God is my husband. Now in this season of separation. Of not having the earthly postponed. I knew that God was my husband. But I haven’t. Lived in that reality of that. And I had such a weird day. Do you have the day. Where I was. Roaring. I went to the woods and I just had a really good cry with God and processed it. But one of the key points was that was thinking. I don’t have. Like an earthly husband to rely on anymore. That it really hit home. And then it was, God [00:19:00] is my husband.

How do I live like that? Now? Like, how do I live in that full faith? With the money, like in the money side of things? Yes. I know God had provided resources. And. Like he’s been amazing and all these amazing testimonies, but in that one moment, I was like, I don’t have the earthly anymore. Like, how am I meant to do this now? Like, how do we do this?

God.

I, it was just such a weird feeling. You might have gone through this yourself. It’s such, there’s so many weird things that come up in. And separation and, I want to be as respectful as possible, and this is my own journey, but yeah. He does provide even. And once I sorted my mindset out again, I’d reminded myself of all the times that God had pulled through. For me. In that moment and all the times he’s pulled through for you. In your moments, it’s so important to keep reminding ourselves with that.

So then we can go, actually, I’m feeling this now feeling scared. [00:20:00] For ya, all those things. But look at how many times God’s already pulled through. We’re going to get through this. And I think it’s. Pulling ourselves from. Earthly fear. Back into that grace zone. But heavenly kingdom mindset that my God is bigger than this. No matter what.

Which leads me. Onto the next point. Makes me on to point number eight.

We do life in his strength and power. And the hours. And I was reading Zachariah for recently. And I actually think I’m going to do a mini series on it, through the podcast. I don’t want to go into it too deep, and I’m not going to pull the verse apart right now. But the main point of that. Here’s one not to do. Anything in life and our own strength, but in his. And again, it’s going back to that grace zone of am. Am I looking at this from an earthly perspective or from a heavenly. [00:21:00] And getting ourselves back into that gray zone.

So I’m going to leave it there because we are going to explore that more. I don’t know if it will be this side of the year on that side of the year. But we’re going to explore Zachariah four. And how that can relay. To our businesses, which I’m really excited about. We know that.

Yeah. I don’t know if you know the story, but anyway, there’s a lot of, there’s a visions, this tools that God passes via Zachariah to, I want to say zero. Bubble I think is how you pronounce it. I’m just going to call him as a roof.

But it’s like absolutely an amazing testimony. But today’s stories be testimonies to you, lady. That you are capable of so much and you are capable of so much more. Than you realize because. [00:22:00] Of who God made you your unique journey. How much you have at your disposal at disposal. And because of the hand friendly family that you are a part of. All the glory be to God.

He is amazing. He has you every step of the way. And the most ugly and most beautiful mess times he has. You never give up on your dreams. And enjoy. The learning. And the journey. I hope this has encouraged today. Oh, my. SJ. And you’re listening to the Christian women in business podcast and we’ll catch you next week.