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Learn to Visualize Success As An Entrepreneur and Take Action

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Learn to Visualize Your Success and Take Action

      3:14

    • 2.

      Preview Life's Coming Attraction

      1:35

    • 3.

      Warm Up Exercise

      2:06

    • 4.

      Inner Critic Exercise

      8:08

    • 5.

      Goal and Intention Setting Warm Up Exercise

      2:22

    • 6.

      Intention Setting Exercise

      13:31

    • 7.

      Six Phase Meditation

      12:08

    • 8.

      Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail

      4:17

    • 9.

      Managing Time

      5:58

    • 10.

      Creating a Vision Board

      7:44

    • 11.

      Thank You!

      1:08

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Within the lessons you will be learning how to develop the mindset of a successful entrepreneur! If you’re planning on starting up a business stay tuned because this course will be providing you step by step mental tools you'll need to start any business with the right state of mind. This is an interactive course where you will be putting your thoughts into action. These tools are fun and simple yet effective, and these are techniques you can use on a daily basis…the materials needed for this course will be a notebook or journal, blank paper, pens, colored pencils, and and most importantly an open mind!

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1. Learn to Visualize Your Success and Take Action: Greetings and welcome to think it, believe it, and receive it. My name is Victoria holds and I'm a certified hypnotherapist. I'm also certified as a life coach, comprehensive nursing assistant, and Iraqi master teacher. I have studied at the hypnosis motivation Institute located in Tarzan of California, where I received extensive training on many modalities and techniques in hypnotherapy. Additionally, my training include behaviorism, relationship strategies, personal development, neurolinguistics programming, modalities and energy healing, and much, much more. And today I am so very excited to share with you how powerful your mind truly is. And I can't wait to show you how changing the way you think can truly change your life. If you are someone that wants to start a business, but you just can't seem to get past the fears, doubts, and feeling lost. Then you came to the right place. See, many turned to marketing strategies, financial aid, or even feeling they need more knowledge. However, as much as those things can be a great asset for business, those are not the true key essentials that you'll be needing. In fact, what you need is what you already have. And together, we will dive deep into the subconscious and discover mental mastery, strategic and creative thinking and problem-solving skills. We will break away any mental roadblocks in the way of your true destiny. In these upcoming lessons, you'll be learning the mindset of a successful entrepreneur. So if you're planning on starting up a business, stay tuned, because this course we'll be providing you step-by-step mental tools. You will need to start any business with the right state of mind. This is an interactive course where you will be putting your thoughts into action. These tools are fun and simple, yet effective, and you can use these practices on a daily basis. The materials needed for this course will be a note book or journal, blank paper, pens, colored pencils, and most importantly, an open-mind. You will also be provided with worksheets as well. At the end of this course, you'll be assigned a project that will be consisting of you creating a vision board that is a physical representation of your entrepreneur goals. Let's get started. I'll see you in the next lesson. 2. Preview Life's Coming Attraction : Preview lives coming attractions. Learning objectives for preview lives, coming attractions. Learn journaling techniques and exercises, set and achieve goals for your business, career and personal life. Gain insight into your behaviors and beliefs, filtering out unnecessary information. So the important information gets through by utilizing visualization and all of your senses. Exercises and techniques, journaling, soothing the inner critic, goal and intention setting. Six phase meditation by the shin lucky any of mine Valley and vision board. Creative journaling benefits reminds you of your successes, promote gratitude, improves your communication skills, helps you to solve problems more effectively. Releases negative emotions, tracks, behavior patterns, awakens your inner voice, spurs creativity, sets your intention, captures your personal story, strengthens discipline, aids and the ability to manage your emotions. Removes blocks and or challenges, reduces stress and many more. Let's get started. 3. Warm Up Exercise : Let's begin with a little warm up exercise that will get you focused and in tune with yourself. And what you would like to accomplish in this course for your business. Begin by writing the prompts and your note book or journal, and then write down your answers. Your prompts are what I feel right now. What I wish to accomplish in this course is my goals for the coming week are. So go ahead and pause the video to write down your answers. Once you have finished writing down your answers, resume the video. Now, have warmed up to the idea of accomplishing a goal. Let's find out what your inner critic Cassie is saying about your intentions. The inner critic, or critical inner voice, as a concept used to refer to a sub personality that judges and demeans a person. According to Psychology Today, the critical inner voice is formed out of painful early life experiences in which we witnessed or experienced hurtful attitudes toward us or those close to us. Inner critic can be harsh and prevent us from accomplishing certain goals, especially in business relationships and overall life situations. Starting up a business can be very intimidating. And you'll notice that when your inner critic likes to come forward a lot more. In this next exercise, we're going to meet the inner critic face to face. Once we hear that inner critic has to say, we will then reframe it to where the inner critic becomes a friend instead of a foe. 4. Inner Critic Exercise : Inner critic exercise on a blank piece of paper began to imagine and draw what your inner critic looks like. You don't need artistic skills. This is for your eyes only. Or if you'd like to share it, you can. It's up to you what you would like to do with your drawing. And your drawing can be represented in many ways. There is no wrong way. This will be a timed exercise to allow the subconscious to project your inner critic onto your blank sheet of paper without your conscious interfering and creating resistance. Grab your blank piece of paper and pens, colored pencils or crayons. I will provide music to help you relax and focus. The music will be timed for five-minutes so you don't have to pay attention to the clock. I will return to let you know when time is up. Side note, it can be helpful to name your inner critic. This way you can actually address it as you would when you were speaking to someone. You can also give it a silly voice like Mickey Mouse for example, to make it less intimidating. Alright, let's get started. Time is up. Great job. All right. Now that you're drawing this complete, take a moment to look at your inner critic and enter the following prompts. What is your inner critic saying to you when you think about achieving a successful business? How does that make you feel? Take a moment and write down your answers. Become aware of what your inner critic is saying. Recognize that just because you think something doesn't mean it's true, our thoughts are often exaggerated, biased, and disproportionate. Now that you have given your inner critic and opportunity to speak, It's concerns, doubts, and worries. You will now take a moment to be a supportive friend and reassure the inner critic that together you can accomplish your goals. Let's put it this way. If a good friend or a family member came to you and said exactly what your inner critic is saying to you. What would you tell them to let them know that they have what it takes to accomplish their goals. Write down your answer and your notebook or a journal. If a friend express feelings of self-doubt, hopefully, you want to say, you can't ever do anything right? Or you're so stupid. No one likes you yet. We're often quick to say those things to ourselves. Instead, you'd be more likely to offer a fern compassionate words of encouragement like you made a mistake, but it's not the end of the world. Or it's unlikely that today's performance will actually get you fired. Treat yourself equally as kind as you treat a friend and apply those words of encouragement to your life. 5. Goal and Intention Setting Warm Up Exercise: Goal and intention setting. Now that you know your inner critic is just a good friend that needs words of encouragement from time-to-time. It's time to get your goals and intentions and gear. Don't be surprised if your worrisome friend, inner critic comes along. As you are writing down your answers. Just approach the worries with compassion and reassurance. Then say, Thank you for sharing your concerns. I appreciate your good intentions and I'll take those concerns into consideration. But for now, let's move on to accomplishing these goals. It's important not to ruminate and these thoughts, just as you would redirect a friend in need, you wouldn't want them sitting there for hours or days and their negative thoughts. Additionally, this will be a timed exercise, so there won't be much time for your inner critic to convince you of its concerns. You will have ten minutes to write down your answers. One time is up, you can always go back and make changes. Don't worry about errors, and don't worry if something doesn't make sense at this time. Just write down the first things that come to mind. Let's get warmed up. Before we start the initial goal and intention setting. Let's start with a little warm up exercise. Grab your note book or journal, and write down the prompts, and then pause the video to write down your answers. Your warm up, goal and intention setting prompts aren't. Write down one Nietzche, just one. Decide on one price. One service, one social media platform. One focus. This is going to help you filter out the guesswork and get more specific on what you need to act on it. Go ahead and pause the video so you can write down your answers in your notebook or journal. 6. Intention Setting Exercise : Set your intention exercise. Before we begin, grab your note book or journal to write down your answers. Set your intention for achieving your goals. As an entrepreneur. When you set your intention, you are making a decision to take action and make a plan. The more passion and emotional energy you can put into your intention, the greater your ability to manifest what you desire when writing out your goals be very specific. The more specific, the better. In this next part, just write down the questions. Then we will go back and write down the answers with the timer set for ten minutes. Visualize and imagine what it will look like when you achieve your goals. As an entrepreneur. How will your life be even better? Attach a failing to your goals? What will it feel like when you achieve your goals as an entrepreneur? What obstacles or challenges, if any, are preventing you from achieving your goals as an entrepreneur. How can you overcome them? Why do you wish to attain your goals as an entrepreneur? The more powerful the why, the easier the ham. What action steps do you need to take an achieving your goals as an entrepreneur? When do you wish to achieve your goals as an entrepreneur? Each goal is to have a completion date. When writing out your intentions during the timed exercise, Be sure to choose power words such as I am or I will. The words I want imply lack of. Not only does this help you to create a clearer picture of where you want to go? This is the start of reconditioning your mind and creating new neural pathways that will take you into autopilot as a result, take you into where you want to be. As you are writing down your intentions for your goals. Also, keep in mind to think smart when achieving your goals. Specific goals, specific, measurable. Are you able to track the progress of your goals attainable? Are your goals realistic, time-bound? Do you have a specific date you want to accomplish this? You can now pick up your pen and note book or journal to answer the questions you wrote down. I will be playing music for ten minutes this way you don't need to focus on the time. Again. Just let the information flow naturally and don't force it. You can always go back and fine tune it. Once it's complete. I will return when the time is up. Hello, time is up. You did amazing. Proceed by finding a comfortable and quiet area where you won't be disturbed for the next exercise. 7. Six Phase Meditation : Sex phase meditation. You have just set your intention for achieving your goals. You have a plan of action and you know how to call him the inner critic. You were able to see Phil and get a good sense of what it would be like when you accomplish your goal. However, let's take this a bit further and actually get a good sense of what that life is going to be like for you. Sit back and get nice and comfortable with your feet flat on the floor. As I take you on a little meditation journey to preview your life's coming attractions. With the sixth phase meditation. Begin by closing your eyes and get yourself in a comfortable position. Take a deep breath and allow your body to relax. Just taking a slow and steady breath in through the nose. Slow and steady, exhale out of the mouth. As your body begins to relax. Give yourself permission to quiet your mind and allow yourself to be open to wonderous possibilities while letting go of anything that is no longer serving you. Taking another deep breath in through the nose and a slow and steady exhale out of the mouth. As we go in to the six phases. Phase one, compassion, compassion for yourself and for others. Envelop yourself and compassion. And have it expand out to all people and all living things in your city, state, your country, and the planet. Phase two. Gratitude. Choose one to three things. You are grateful for in your personal life, your career as an entrepreneur. And about yourself. Breathe in her attitude. Phase three, forgiveness. Choose a person that you wish to forgive. State the following. I forgive you. And I ask that you forgive me. Phase for future dreaming. Visualize and imagine three years ahead. Your ideal adventure, spiritual growth. As an entrepreneur. What does it look like? Sound like? Phil Knight. Saturate the senses. Breathe it in. Phase five. Perfect day. Visualize. And imagine how you'd like your perfect day to unfold. Know that I simply setting your intention, you are creating your perfect day. Phase. The blessing. Embrace the feeling that everything you desire is being supported. And now slowly open your eyes, knowing that when you see yourself living in abundance, it will attract it. And that imagination is everything. It is the preview of coming attractions. 8. Fail to Plan, Plan to Fail: Fail to plan, plan to fail. Learning objectives for fail to plan, plan to fail. Provide a benchmark and milestone markers for measuring success. Formulate a plan, action. Get overview of ways to communicate your specific purpose for your business to customers or clients and others. Learn how to create a solid foundation to build upon. Envision your purpose, organize your ideas for your business. Business plan, benefits. It will help you steer your business as you start and grow. Helps you realize this is not as hard as you think. It will help you to reach business milestones. It can help you get funding. There's no wrong way to write a business plan. Time to grab your notebook or journal and a pen. Pause the video and write down your answers to these following questions. What is my business? What does it do? What sets my business apart from my competition? What services or products and my providing? What tools am I using? What is the reason for my business's existence? What is my overall business goal? Pause the video to write down your answers. When you are finished. Resume the video. Next, let's talk about where you want to go. Where you want to be, something you'd like to be doing maybe one year from now. Each should include key benchmarks of achievement in your business. Stated as if you're writing an overview on the last day of that year, recapping the important accomplishments you have achieved during that year. Elements to consider would be business goals reached, financial, etc. Completion of areas for growth and expansion in business. For example, office space, continuing education and or certifications. Shift from old job to new career, ex cetera. Achievements in specific areas of business. Seminars, client load, aftermarket products, et cetera, should describe your business in detail. Stated as if you're writing an overview of the state of your business on the last day of that year. Take some time to visualize and imagine what your business is like. Be sure to include all the details, paint colors, decorations, people involved, etc. The more you do, the better you'll be able to see what you want. Set some goals you'd like to see yourself having achieved by one year from now. Describe your business in detail. Really get specific. How much detail can you possibly put into this? The more, the better. What you see, smell, taste, hear, and fill in each area of your business. Business goals reached. Where, how you see yourself in your picture, customers or client load types of clients, new products or achievements in areas of specialization and focus. Then apply those same concepts when you see yourself about three years from now. Put these goals summary, you can see them every day such as your vision board or write them down on a card and carry them in your pocket. Take that card out of your pocket and read it. Often. 9. Managing Time : Managing time successes, something achieved by the minority of people. Therefore, it is unusual and not to be achieved by following the usual likes and dislikes. Success is going against our natural preferences and prejudices. In other words, it cannot be achieved by doing what comes naturally to us. The vital ingredient for success as forming the habit of doing things that the ones not reaching their goals don't like to do. How are successful people able to form the habit of doing these things regularly while the ones struggling to succeed seldomly do them at all. Much less form a habit of doing them. The answer is quite simple. Successful people are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. The ones struggling to succeed are influenced by the desire for pleasing activities. There are inclined to be satisfied with such results that can be obtained by doing things they like to do. In the beginning of their career, the successful entrepreneur forms the habit of planning and putting their plans and actions far in advance. They will stick to that plan as much as possible, obtaining the greatest good out of every available. Our. This may sound a bit complicated. As humans, we faced distractions that can slow us down. It is natural to yield to these distractions. For instance, getting wrapped up and unproductive activities. But remember, success is unusual and not to be achieved by our usual likes and dislikes. These acts can be grouped under two categories. Goal achieving or tension relieving. The goal of achieving axes normally productive. For example, setting goals, following up with clients or customers, creating something that will take your business to the next level. Tension releasing acts are going on social media for endless hours posting memes, having long drawn-out, unnecessary conversations with people that are not connected to your profession. Productive goal achieving acts lead to pleasing results. While unproductive tension, release and acts are merely pleasing activities that do nothing to move us forward. A course people need to relieve their tensions to by taking breaks. However, one of the secrets to success is learning how to keep unproductive time to a minimum. We all either no people or heard of people that claim a few hours a day is all they really need to put into their jobs in order to get along. There. Obviously mistaken. As a result, their mistakes cost them success. There never has been. I don't believe there will be a time where a person can achieve something outstanding by only working a few hours a day. Success just doesn't come easily. It requires hard work, dedication, perseverance, focus, time. All of us have a tendency to waste time. Maybe it's because we don't realize it is one of the precious things will ever own. Every day. And every year, everyone starts out with exactly the same amount of time, which is 24 hours. The way people make use of their time shows up in the results they achieved. Think of yourself as a farmer, and you have an endless field of possibilities of growth. As a farmer, you must prepare your filled with proper soil. Now, you can choose what seeds you would like to plant. Once your seeds are planted, you must nourish your seeds daily, usually even twice a day. As your seedlings start to sprout, you have to make sure that these sprouts do not get destroyed by pest. As a farmer, you are consistent with nourishing and protecting your plants. You are aware if you go a day without watering, nourishing, and protecting your crop, that it can lead to slower growth. Being full of pest, or even worse, the crop dries up and diminishes. So as you continue daily to care for your crop, you see it blossoming, was bountiful fruits. With time, you'll be ready to reap the harvest. Your mind is that filled. The soil, is an idea. The seeds are your plans and goals. You nourish your plans and goals by practicing a productive and positive mindset. Doing you're thinking, believe it, receive it exercises twice a day for at least 30 minutes. And putting those exercises to action. Protecting your plants from those pests or your negative thoughts. Self-doubt, worries, and people that influence you negatively as a result of staying consistent, nourishing your ideas and goals every day, you will gain the result you are wanting. It is all up to you to put these ideas and actions to use. I have nothing but faith in your capabilities of achieving your goals. Now, as time that you have faith in your idea, will leave it as possible and know that you will receive. 10. Creating a Vision Board: Vision board. You have the vision. Now, let's make it a physical representation of your life. Attractions that are on its way. No matter what you put on your vision board, you must have the intention to achieve it. Having a vision board creates better intentions as you use your vision board to start every day with a focus. Benefits of a vision board. Creates better intentions, makes your dreams cleared. Use creativity provides motivation, enhances productivity, provides focus. Boost, chances of success makes you happier. Boost determination pushes your desire. Purpose of a vision board. Vision boards act as accomplice or guiding star to keep you moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how many unexpected distractions you have to deal with in your day-to-day life. When you create a dream board and display it where you can see it every day. It helps remind you of the bigger picture, what your ultimate purpose in life is. Your board will allow you to take action and bring you closer to your dreams, rather than pushing you further away. What to put on a vision board. As you start your vision board journey, I encourage you to look for pictures that represent or symbolize the experiences, feelings, and possessions you want to attract in your life. You can use pictures from magazines, photographs from your own personal collection, images from the internet, whatever inspires you. Be creative. You can include not only photos, but power words, inspiring quotes, illustrations, personal affirmations, purpose statements, or anything else that speaks to you. You may want to include a picture of yourself on your inspiration board. So you can literally see yourself surrounded by all of the different things and experiences you'd like to attract into your life. If you do, be sure to choose a photo in which you are smiling and looking happy. As you gather your images and other vision board ingredients, be sure to consider all areas of your life. Not just your income and professional goals, but also your relationships, your health and fitness, your free time, your spiritual time, and how you want to live in community with others. You can choose to make a vision board that encompasses all of these areas. Or you might want to create separate boards for each period of your life. As you create your vision board, keep it neat and attractive. Be selective about what you place on your vision board. And remember that less is often more. Use only the words and images that best represent your purpose, your ideal future, and words that inspire positive emotions in you. There is beauty in simplicity and clarity. Too many images and too much information will be distracting and harder to focus on. Vision board ideas to consider. Exactly what you add to your goal setting vision board depends on what you want trying to manifest in your life. For example, revolve this around the business. You want to create. Financial goals. If you are hoping to attract more money into your life, you may want to include images of actual cash or the items you would like to buy with that money, such as your own home, a car, and a bike, etc. Relationship goals. If you are looking for romantic love, you may want to include images of happy couples doing romantic things, such as enjoying a fancy dinner, going for walks in nature, traveling, cooking together, snuggling up on the couch, whichever activities you must dream up, enjoying with a significant other. Happiness goals. If you are looking to experience more joy in life at images that evoke that sense of joy in you. These could be images of nature or happy people laughing or cute animals. Whatever causes you to feel the emotion. You want to experience. Spiritual goals. If you're hoping to find greater spiritual understanding and contentment, include images that evoke height of spiritual enlightenment you seek. These could be images specific to your faith, tradition, or they could be serine images from nature that awaken the sense of harmony. You're looking for. Travel bulls. If you want to experience more travel and adventure, include images of the exact places you would like to travel to, and the types of experiences you would like to have when you go. By featuring images and other elements that express the places, things, and experiences you want to manifest in your life. You will unlock the power of law of attraction and find it easier to attract the resources and opportunities required to make your dreams come true. Just be sure to check in with yourself first and confirm that your vision board ideas are in full alignment with your goals in life. Otherwise, you can find yourself manifesting a situation that aren't in harmony with your vision and purpose. By incorporating just the start of these few exercises and techniques, you have begun to activate your reticular activating system. This is located at the base of your brain, in the brain stem, through sensory input. What you see and hear, it fires up the cerebral cortex and filters out what you deem important. This is accomplished by what you focus on. The reticular activating system, also known as AS, will put people, places, situations, and events in front of you in order to support you and achieving your goals. So as you can see, your desk to attain what you focus on. In other words, let's get to thinking it. Be leaving it and receiving it. 11. Thank You!: Thank you so much for letting me be a part of your journey. Take the timeout as well, and thank yourself for taking the first steps in creating a more positive and fulfilling life for yourself. If you enjoyed the think it, believe it, receive it course. Stay tuned for the next course, where we will be attracting your soulmate, client or customer. We will be getting clear and specific on the client or customer that you want to attract. Elevator pitch. Getting your head in the game, getting to know your dream client or customer, learned to communicate more effectively and meeting your soulmate, client or customer through hypnosis. Again, my name is Victoria holds. And may you continue to think and believe it and receive it? I'll see you next time and the next stage of your journey into success.