The Fierce Business Babe Podcast Ep 111: My Business Scaling Mantra

In today’s episode I am going to be talking about business scaling mantras. I have come up with some amazing mantras that have really helped me to scale my business. These things I tell myself every single day when I wake up in the morning and I hope that you may be able to relate to some of them as well.

My Business Scaling Mantras

By: Melissa Lin

Today, we are here to talk all about my business scaling mantras. I have come up with some amazing mantras that have really helped me to scale my business. These things that I tell myself every single day when I wake up in the morning. These things that are posted around my office. These are things that I have in my notepad. These are things that I write out in my journal to reflect on and I'm so excited to dive into them today because you may be able to relate to some of them or maybe even me just speaking into some of my mantras are going to be able to help you shift some of the stories that you currently have in your life and your business and maybe those stories that you have right now aren't really serving you. Maybe they're holding you back. Maybe there is a limiting belief for you right now. Well, we’re going to try and shift some of those today.

So I want to share with you some of my mantras that I have created and have stuck by in my life and my business every single day for the past year-and-a-half, two years or so, if not more. Now, these mantras are ones that have been a game-changer. When I say game-changer, I MEAN it. They literally have been a game-changer in the way that I show up every single day. Showing up on social media, the way I show up for my clients, the way that I show up in my relationships, the way that I show up in life because we all know how we do one thing is how we do everything. So how you are in your life, your day, today is how you most likely are going to be in your business as well and your relationships. So, we’re going to dive into these and I'm so excited because mantras can really be so powerful for you.

Limiting Beliefs

Now, before we actually dive into them. I want to first dive into some of the limiting beliefs in the stories that I've had in the past because you may relate to them and maybe you're feeling some of them right now in this moment. So, I have been in the online space since 2014. It's almost crazy how long it's been. I feel like it was ages ago that I started my Instagram and really started in the online space. You bet that I have had some big limiting beliefs and some big stories that have really held me back. A lot of these stories, almost all of these stories, actually, were not serving me. Now when I say story, what I mean is a mindset story, which was a story or a belief that I told myself about me. Stories, I told myself about what I could have, stories and beliefs around maybe what I couldn't have, what was possible for me or maybe I didn't feel was possible for me, maybe I felt it was impossible.

All of these things are stories. They are things that we tell ourselves and the most dangerous thing about these limiting beliefs and the stories that we tell ourselves. These are what we believe to be true in that moment. I was chatting with some of my clients in the Fierce Business Academy, because you know they are in the beginning stages of your business. We have a lot of limiting beliefs, a lot of fear holding us back. Right, a lot of us hold back, and don't start when we really want to because we don't feel worthy of it. We don't feel ready. We’re worried about what our family is going to think of us, and what our friends are going to think of us. We’re worried about strangers on the internet and social media or worried about those mentors and other people that we looked up to what they’re going to think. All of these “wink-wink” are limiting beliefs, they are things holding us back. Stories that we've created. We’re going to get into that today.

And so, these limiting beliefs basically tell us what we believe is true and what isn’t true. And if we believe we can’t do something you're not going to be able to do it. Like if you tell yourself, there's no way, no way that I'm going to be able to reach a $5K month in my business. You're going to believe that you can't reach your $5K month, no matter how many times I tell you, how much I see possible for you, and that I see you having a $5K month. I can even lay it out. This is exactly what you need to do. These are the steps you need to take. This is what you've got a plan out. Let me help you. Let me guide you. This is actually what I do in my programs, at the Academy to help you hit $5K and then my Mastermind to help you hit $10K along with my other programs and courses as well. Other people from the outside can tell you, but if you don't believe in yourself to the core then nothing's going to change. You're still going to believe you can't do it and you're not going to do it because you're going to self-sabotage. You're going to avoid subconsciously because there’s so much going on.

These stories about you are how you go and act. They create behaviors in your life and your business as well. So, if we believe we can't have something, if we believe that we aren't worthy of something, we're not even going to take that first step, and go after it; like starting your business, for example. If you're reading this right now, I want you to ask yourself, “What's a story that I'm telling myself right now? Am I holding myself back from doing something that I've been wanting to do for so long? What is the reason I haven't done it yet? What's the story that I'm telling myself?” I know that I've had all of these great ideas for new programs and different things I've been wanting to just really push to the next level, but of course, there's always stories and beliefs that hold us back. So, I’m definitely going to go into an example of an old story or two and then go into some of my big business mantras.

So, we are not going to take action if we still believe these stories. We may feel that all of these are real, but what I want to share with you is they’re fictional stories that we've made up. Typically they’re based on experiences that happened to us or experiences that we saw. They aren’t facts, right? We are allowed to rewrite these stories. So I'm going to go into two different stories. I'll share at least two, who knows. I may go crazy and share more than two, but I want to share at least two stories with you.

Saving Money to Feel Safe

And now the first one one of the first stories that I ever told myself was for me to feel safe. I had to save money for me to feel safe. I could not spend money. I had to try and save every penny and not splurge. That was a story that I told myself because of the experiences that I saw with my parents. Love you, Mom. Love you, Dad. However, my parents' money mindset growing up is what I really learned from. Right? My parents love you, mom, love you, dad, but my mom would drive 20 miles across town to save $0.03 a gallon and we would try to save every penny that we could, so that created stories in my head of “I can't spend money. I'm not worthy to spend money. I don't deserve to buy that thing that I want. I've got to save money. I've got to save for other things.”

So those are the stories that came up for me. Were they true? They were in that moment because they are what I believed. However, they are not facts, they’re fictional. We could rewrite these. We’re going to go into some questions and how we can start to rewrite that. But, that was one of the first stories and you can imagine the impact that made on me. The time it took for me to finally invest in myself and in my business took way too long. I probably wasted, well don't say wasted because the things that I learned definitely help me at some point in my life, but I moved at a much slower pace because I wasn't investing as soon as I could and all of this around those stories about my money mindset that I learned when I was very young held me back. So I rewrote those stories and I actually have an entire podcast episode around money mindset. So feel free to go listen to that if this story resonates with you and you would like to have a better relationship with money.

In that episode I shared some of my stories growing up and how it’s really helped me and now I know that money can help bring me forward and help pay for incredible experiences for me. Money can help me do so many more things that I wasn't able to do it prior without it. So I have an incredible relationship with money now and we are going to talk more about my money mantras in just a moment. So that was one story.

Disappointing Family Members

One of the other big stories was really about me starting my online business and always taking that next step. This is something that usually gets shared in podcast episodes when I'm interviewed on podcast episodes because people are always so interested in how I made that switch from chemical engineering to fitness coach and then business coach. Everyone always wonders; what did your parents think? You went from engineering to this whole different career. So one of my old stories that I told myself, that I truly believed way back in the day, was that I would disappoint my family if I started my own business. Right? I went to school for chemical engineering. My parents basically spent my entire childhood with me, you know taking me to community college while I was in elementary school to get above and beyond in my math and science so that I could just breeze through when I got to college. Which I did, right? It definitely came easy to me, math was easy to me. To my friends in high school, I was literally the math girl. It's so funny. I was going through some year books, and there is a picture of me, I want to say it was either my junior or senior year. There's a picture of me with my name. I was literally labeled the math girl back then, but that’s a whole different story.

So, I went to school for chemical engineering and you know, for my parents and my grandparents and like any other family around me, success looked like doctor or engineer. That is what success looked like to them, right? This is how they were brought up, with their experiences and their beliefs and they were pushing a lot of that on me, and so I believed it too. That was my experience, that's what success was going to look like for me. Was that story true? Was this story serving me? Did I have evidence that supported this story?

Now as we start to ask ourselves these questions and answer these questions, we can start to debunk those stories that we had. Now, what’s actually true? What story can actually serve you? For me, I mean, obviously, I left my chemical engineering job. I haven't been in it for quite a few years now. My family still supports me and my family still loves me. So I created evidence that my family supports me as long as I'm happy. My family will always support me and what I choose to do, because they know that I'm out here, you know, trying to create this incredible impact in the world that is much bigger than just me. They support me and I've been able to rewrite my story and know that my family backs me up. They support me and they love me so much. Now, I know I will never disappoint my family because of leaving my 9-5, leaving my corporate world, and I just want to share with you because you may be feeling this right now, “I want to leave or I'm worried about what my friends and family are going to think about me”. So, I do want to share with you, they may not get it right away, and that's okay. That is okay.

It’s okay for them to understand, that's their decision, but you get to do this for you. These are your stories, this is your life. I know we're kind of getting off book a little bit but this is all about you and what you want to do, your dreams and how we can make that happen. Start to look around you and ask yourself, you know, “These people that I'm afraid of getting this judgment from, are they living the lifestyle that I want to live? Do they have the business that I want to have? Do they have the relationships that I want to have with their family, with their partners, with their friends?”

These are some of the big important things that really help me start to shift, and I started to create new evidence too, in my life, where I love you, Mom. Love you Dad, but they didn't have the lifestyle that I wanted. They didn't travel the world the way that I wanted to. They didn't have the relationships that I was looking for in my personal life as well. So because of that, I knew that my path did not have to look like theirs. So we can start to create new evidence. Start looking and finding new evidence that will serve you and create new stories.

My Business Scaling Mantras

Now in my case, I love to create mantras that I can say to myself daily. Mantras that I can write out in my journal. I have Post-It Notes all over my office, hidden in little areas of my iPad, everywhere, in my phone and remind myself of my new beliefs and my new stories that do serve me.

I'm going to go into my business scaling mantras of 2020 with you right now. I've got quite a few. Originally, I said I was going to just have five when I first started to just outline some bullet points for this post. I think I've got at least six if not seven and I'm sure more will come up. I want to go through some of the mantras that I created and that I believed to be true for me and my life and my business and I know a lot of my clients that use these mantras, they have helped them as well.

So the first one I want to share with you, one of my biggest mantras in the past year or two is “The more fun I have, the more money I make.” This is something I believe to be true. I’ve shared it in posts, I shared it in a few other podcast episodes. This is something that I do every single day. I add fun daily to my life. I add play time every single weekend. I make sure that I'm filling my cup. Some of my biggest launches and some of my biggest months in business have been while I've been traveling. Because I'm out there. I'm filling my cup. I'm out there traveling, maybe on the beach, doing whatever it is I want to do, but I'm filling my cup. I’m adding play and it's so funny because anytime I see a client kind of stuck where maybe they haven't signed a client in a week or two or they're just not going where they want in their launch, I can sense that they’re usually overworking. They haven't filled their cup. Self-care is so important and play time is a part of self-care. Anytime I see this with a client, I tell them, like this is the coach's orders here. I tell them to take a day off, step away from the computer, turn things off, turn Asana off. Log out of Asana, logout of slack, whatever we've got to do, delete Instagram and Facebook. For 24 to 48 hours- step away. Go to the pool. Go take hubby out on a date. Whatever it is; go cuddle with your fur baby if you need to for a day, but get out and fill your cup. Go and do something that you get to fill your cup and play and enjoy. Any time I do this with a client, they come back, literally within 24 hours of R&R time, they’ve got a new client. They have new sales coming in. When you're filling your cup, people can sense that energy when your cup is filled. Your energy is on a different level. And so anyways, that is one of my big mantras. The more fun I have, the more money I make. Every single day I'm going around the house like literally dancing to it. it is so true for me. It's one of my big big big beliefs.

The next one and I love this one too, “The more I spend, the more money I make” and this is so, so, so true. Me investing in myself. I have spent so much investing in my life, my business, my relationships, all those things and the more I do that, the more money I make. Right? Me investing in my business coach, my mentor. Me investing in my health and fitness. Me investing in other courses and other things, personal development. The more I invest ,the more money I spend ,the more money I make. It comes right back to me in folds and more. Treating myself, celebrating wins, taking myself to a spa day, the more I spend, the more money I make. Does that mean that I'm going to go and spend every dime that comes in? No! I’m a business. I get to be very profitable as well. Investing into my team, right? If I'm able to invest the more I invest into my team, again, spending money investing our business, the more money I can make. I have more space to bring in more clients. We just hired one more team member this week. So probably a few weeks old ones this post goes live and we will be hiring at least one more before the end of 2020. Which is super exciting and it gives me the space to help more people and impact more clients. I'm so excited for that.

Now the next one that I get to go through this next mantra that I believed to be true, is “There’s always more, it's always this or better. There's always more”, right? There's always more clients out there, every year, an abundance of everything out there for you. If you feel like things are so amazing right now, you can't even imagine it getting better. Know this, It can get better and things will always go up. “It's always more, it’s always this or better.”

This next one, this next big mantra, big business mantra of mine. Big life mantra is “I am capable of creating anything I desire. Anything I desire I can create it”. A business, leaving my 9-5, going traveling around the world six months out of the year, going and taking, you know, a trip across to Asia. Whatever it is. I can create anything. I'm so capable of everything inside of me right now. I have everything I need to create and anything is possible.

Another one of the big, big, big, ones, and they are all pretty big mantras of mine. So definitely write them down if any of them resonate with you if you’re like, “Yes Melissa, you're on point right there”. This next one is definitely like dear to my heart, “I'm always doing the right thing at the right time, life is happening for me and I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.” This is something I truly believe, like we are all in this moment exactly where we're supposed to be. If the launch didn't go exactly how we planned, there’s a reason behind it, right? You're exactly where you're supposed to be. Maybe in your launch, maybe you didn't get everyone in your group coaching program and maybe it's because the universe is bringing you to private clients that wanted to work with you right there at that moment. Everything is happening for you and you're exactly where you're supposed to be. This is something I truly, truly believe.

Now those are some of my big mantras and I'll go through them again really quick so that you can jot them down so you don’t have to go back and pause and what not. “The more fun I have, the more money I make.” “The more fun I have, the more money I make.” I’m already planning for trips in 2021 because of course, Covid-19 2020. Unfortunately, I could not travel as much as I was hoping but I'm already planning for 2021 trips. So, “More fun I have, more money I make.”, “The more I spend, the more money I make.”, “There's always more, it's always this or better,” and then, “I am capable of creating anything I desire and I'm always doing things right at the time I'm supposed to. Life is happening for me. I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be.”

Action Item: Journal A Limiting Belief

Now, I do have an action item for you today. I want you to go ahead and journal about a limiting belief or a story that you have right now that is not serving you. Answer those questions that I asked earlier and create a new mantra that serves you. Go ahead and share it with me on Instagram, feel free. Send me a DM and share with me your new mantra. I would love to chat with you about it. Do this. Send me a message. I don't bite and I can't wait to hear all about it and I will see you next time!

Topics we cover include:

Limiting Beliefs
Saving Money to Feel Safe
Disappointing Family Members
My Business Scaling Mantras
Action Items

And so much more!

Times to check out:

(6:45) Limiting Beliefs

(11:35) First Limiting Belief Story: Saving Money to Feel Safe

(14:24) Second Limiting Belief Story: Disappointing Family Members

(19:48) My Business Scaling Mantras

(26:23) Action Item: Journal a Limiting Belief

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