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INTRODUCTION – HOW IS LIFE IN THE MUD?

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Have you ever had the misfortune of getting stuck in the mud while out for a walk through a field or forest?

In either case, you set out on your trip with great intentions but as you travelled further along, the path became hard to traverse. Pavement turned to gravel which turned to mud. Or that grassy field became rocky and then muddy.

Yet, instead of stopping to figure out a better path, go back a bit or call out for help, you forge on.

For a while, you think it’s not too bad and you are able to continue, but before long it gets more and more difficult to make any progress.

Before you know it you are stuck. You can’t take another step because your foot or worse both feet are stuck in the mud. The more you try to get yourself out, the worse it becomes. You eventually realize you can’t get out on your own and the only way out is to get some help.

I use this analogy to paint a picture of where you are now, but this time, you are not out for a walk.

This time, you are an intelligent, hardworking, honest, independent minded, heart-centred entrepreneur who despite your best efforts to create a successful business that helps others, is stuck in a place I like to call MindSetMud™. Your mud is getting in the way of your success, and how you ended up here and what your mud is like is as unique as you are.

I know being stuck in MindSetMud™ can be a very lonely, disheartening and frustrating place, especially for independent types.

How do I know?

I’m an intelligent, hardworking, honest, independent minded, heart-centred entrepreneur too and I’ve been where you are now. I’m just a few steps ahead of you on the other side of the mud.

In fact, when I close my eyes and visualize what my mud looked like when I was where you are now, it looked like a vast dried up, sunbaked empty expanse of clay where I was stuck smack dab in the middle of it up to my shoulders unable to move!

Yup, it was gross; and it was incredibly frustrating and disheartening to say the least.

Sound familiar?

How did I get out?

I finally stopped trying to get out on my own.

I finally asked for help, but not in the traditional sense.

I literally looked up (at the Universe) and said “I give; Please help me understand WHY I am so stuck and HOW I can get out."

Then, I watched for signs and the answers came – fast!

In no time, my dried up clay began to turn into a calm lake, then to a beautiful tranquil ocean. Sometimes when I close my eyes, I am calmly swimming in it and other times, I am walking along the shores and it feels FABULOUS.

Why was I stuck?

Well, I’ll touch on that more throughout the course, but as it turns out, I was looking for answers in all the wrong places.

My stuckness (yes, I made that word up) had nothing to do with what I thought it was.

It wasn't tied to needing to know more about how to market & position my business.

It was something much deeper and something much more personal than that.

It was me!

I not only put myself into the mud, I was keeping myself in the mud.

And the same is true for you.

YOU have put yourself into the mud and you are keeping yourself there.

But WHY?

This course is designed to help you to understand why, AND to show you how to get out.

It’s time to dive into the world of MindSetMud™ so you can get out (and stay out) of the Mud.

Let’s get started…..

Note: Worksheets for each the exercises in this unit are located in the next section. Feel free to download the .pdf's if the layout is helpful for you.

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