With the Spring Equinox just passed it seems appropriate that the last two weeks have seen lots of transformations happening at Business HorsePower – both for me personally and also for my clients and horses. As the weather warms up the horses are beginning to shed their winter coats and lose the woolly mammoth look they have had over the winter and soon will emerge as sleek, refined animals. As I’ve been watching the process I observed how for my young pony Bracken in particular losing her coat is tough. It makes her really itchy and so she spends all day scratching herself and rubbing herself on the fence posts.
I’ve also been noticing a similar trend with my clients – no they haven’t been scratching on the fence posts! – but as they have been losing and shifting their beliefs particularly about money and it hasn’t always been comfortable for them. You see our limiting beliefs are just like a nice, woolly coat. They keep us safe and warm. We think that they protect us and for some time they serve that purpose. But eventually, if we are to grow and develop, we need to shed them and find a new coat to wear. One that serves us for the current season we are living in, and not the old season that has gone by.
You see many of our beliefs are established when we are children and are often adopted from our parents and our primary care givers. Whilst these beliefs might have served us as a child many of them are not serving you now. So what are your beliefs? Are they those of an adult or a young child? Do you have a 12 year child running say your relationship with money, or is it an adult? If your inner child is still running your relationship with money, you might want to lose that woolly coat and find a new one that better serves who you are right now.
This is exactly the experience that one of the private clients had last weekend. Whilst we were working on his business and creating new marketing systems and strategies it became clear that his relationship with money was still being run by a 12 year old child. It was fascinating and rewarding to see the transformation my client made as they shifted these old beliefs and transformed their relationship with themself and money. They are now empowered to move their business forward and charge what they’re worth for their services. That’s a real transformation and one I was privileged (with my horse Toby’s help) to facilitate.
I’d love to hear which limiting beliefs you want to shed this Spring.
Julia Felton (aka The Business Wrangler) is the founder of Business HorsePower. Business leaders, entrepreneurs and executives hire her to accelerate their business performance by harnessing the energy of their people to work more collaboratively together. By aligning purpose with actions the team achieves exponential results as everyone starts pulling in the same direction.
Julia believes that business is a force for good and through designing purpose-driven businesses that leverage the laws of nature, and the herd, you can create businesses founded on the principles of connection, collaboration and community that make a significant impact in the world.
