​Not everything in your life can be a priority.

Many important things will compete for attention over your lifetime, but there are not enough hours in anybody’s lifetime to give attention to everything that could potentially be a priority.

Determining your basic priorities is a key exercise in moving toward more efficient use of your time.

This episode is here to provide you the tips for prioritizing:

• Set the right reward
• Chunk down tasks into more manageable chunks
• Delegate
• Protect your time blocks
• Learn to say “no”
• Continually check yourself to see that you’re working on the most significant things.
• Assume ownership of your time

Guest featured in this episode:

Therese Skelly is a formal psychotherapist who now mentors business owners and is a speaker of her signature talk, business mindset mastery, how emotions & energy impact success.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• Real life examples of women when they realize their business challenge is really more deeply rooted
• Why classic business and marketing strategies fails to address the root energy issues
• Simple ways to keep your energy high
• Top tips for emotional mastery so you can be unstoppable
• And much more

Guest featured in this episode:

Julie Theis is a Business Coach & Online Marketing Strategist and Psychology Expert to high level entrepreneurs.

She went from a life of homelessness, fostercare, and chronic poverty to building a 6-figure coaching and consulting empire.

Leading with her bachelors in applied psychology and masters level education in business psychology Julie has passed the secrets of resiliency, strategy, and marketing onto her clients so that they can go on to massively increase their income, influence, and impact.

Things you will learn in this episode:

• About her childhood of poverty, pain and abuse
• Barriers she had to crush to get to where she needs to be
• What to do when feeling not ready
• How she looks at failures
• Top tips for personal development
• And much more

Guest featured in this episode:

Bernadette Merciniak is a brand photographer for small business owners and entrepreneurs who create and inspire.

She works with coaches, strategists, CEOs to help them hone in on their brand and create powerful imagery to deploy that message in their marketing. 

Things you will learn in this episode:

• What is personal brand photography and how is it different from regular photography?
• Why is personal branding important?
• How is working with a branding photography different from working with a branding coach or branding consultant?
• Who is branding photo shoot best for?
• What do you need to prepare for before a branding photoshoot?
• What are some mistakes you see entrepreneurs making with their photos?

Overcoming Fear (especially fear of change)

Studies have shown there are six stages of FEAR

Where are you stuck in the change cycle?

1. Discontent— In this stage you start to grow increasingly unhappy and discontent with an area of your life. It could be your career, relationships, family, business anything. 

2. Breaking Point— Eventually your level of discontent continue to grow and builds up so high that you cannot take it anymore. You reach that certain “breaking point,” either through burnout of fighting it or due to a dramatic event happening that triggers the break.

3. Decision—You decide you’re truly ready to make a change and declare that you will no longer tolerate the undesirable situation. 

4. Fear—Usually, shortly (or even immediately) after your feelings of empowerment, you encounter your fear. You become uncomfortable and anxious about the idea of changing. You start doubting your decision.

5. Amnesia—The fear of change grows strong enough that it makes the original situation look much better than you originally thought. You perceive the original situation as less anxiety-producing than the change. 

6. Backtracking—Most people choose to go back to or stick with the item they wished to change. 

So how can we break the cycle?

There is really two ways:

1. Extreme Pain: You have a breaking point that is severe enough to push through the change cycle. For many people, unfortunately, it takes an extreme circumstance to push them to evolve, such as major financial loss, job loss, loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, a severe accident, or a nervous breakdown. You see, your Higher Self knows what you truly want and will lead you to it. If you resist changing long enough, something will happen in your life that will put you in a position where you have NO CHOICE but to change.

2. Self-Honesty: You have the humbling experience of realizing that there’s a part of you that doesn’t really want to change. You are comfortable with your habits, with what you know. You have a lot of fear that holds you back. You have many self-limiting beliefs. You receive some sort of benefit from staying where you are. You are unhappy because you want to be unhappy. You are addicted to the situation. You believe your pain is you; it’s your story. You can see your resistance to letting it go. Only after reaching this level of self-honesty can you truly choose to change.

Listen to the complete episode to hear more of these explained in depth and Lucy’s own story of overcoming some of her fears.