Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan - #447: Realize Your POTENTIAL with Heather!

Episode Date: July 24, 2024

After such an amazing response to Heather’s “Elite Mastermind” program, she’s created a special program to connect with you ASAP!   For people like you who took that step in taking action for your goals, she’s offering a 50% discount for her new “Mini-Mastermind” in August.   Given all the access points and interaction, Heather must cap the group count – it will close fast!   Click through to see all the benefits and specifics, and book as soon as you can to secure your seat! Do it today and you will receive a 1:1 pre-call with Heather to map out your August strategy, goals and plan! Let’s go - pay over time options at link below:    https://heather-monahan.myshopify.com/products/seminar-registration In This Episode You Will Learn About: How you can bounce back with positive thoughts after a setback. Ways to EMBRACE uncertainty to overcome challenges. What breaking past your limiting beliefs does for GROWTH. Resources: Kajabi is offering a free 30-day trial to start your business if you go to Kajabi.com/confidence Get 15% off by using code CONFIDENCE at LolaVie.com. Visit heathermonahan.com Overcome Your Villains is Available NOW! Order here: https://overcomeyourvillains.com  If you haven't yet, get my first book Confidence Creator Show Notes:  Have you ever caught yourself letting that little inner voice hold you back from taking risks or SMASHING your goals? Top tennis champs set themselves apart with killer mental resilience, bouncing back with positive thoughts after every mistake. For me, self-talk and positive visualization aren't just buzzwords—they're GAME CHANGERS. They helped me tackle my limiting beliefs and build up my mental toughness. It's this mental strength, not just skill or coaching, that really makes the difference. Being kind to yourself and practicing positive self-talk can help you challenge limiting beliefs, unlock new possibilities, and build UNSHAKABLE confidence. So, how do you talk to yourself?

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So a couple of things that came up that I thought might add value to you or might be helpful in some way and wherever you are today, right? We all have good days. We all have challenging days. We're all faced with different situations, but I'll tell you this. One thing I know for sure, if you're on the hamster wheel and just reliving Groundhog Day over and over, you are in trouble. Please pump the brakes, do something different. That is a death trap.

That's called circling the proverbial bottom of the sink. Like you're going nowhere but down, right? No, we are not meant for that. We are meant for so much more. So I'm gonna challenge you, whatever it may be, sign up for a new class, join a new program, you know, commit to an accountability partner, do something to get you, like one small thing

can jumpstart everything and start you down a completely different path of change, growth, personal growth, and potential within you. And that's what we're all here for, is to live that potential within us. And far too many cemeteries are full of potential that was never realized. Don't let that be you.

Don't let that be me. No, we gotta push each other to go for more to make this world a better place. And anything can change in an instant, it's up to you. Okay, I'm hopefully gonna give you some good solutions on how you can make some change and you can do that today. So two different things that came up that I wanted to share with you.

One, I was watching a video, really successful guy, actually local in South Florida. He was talking about some research that he had accessed from a professional tennis coach. and the professional tennis coach was looking at the top absolute top top top three of the best world champions in tennis and then looking at the difference between them and the top 25 right so if you're the top 25 in the world in tennis I wouldn't think there's probably all that much difference But he had found some very specific things

Something very specific actually that made these individuals perform better differently and above the top 25, right? So, you know most people would think like oh, it's obviously one person's more skilled than the other, you know Obviously one person had a better coach better better parents, started younger, right? They practice more, they've had more in-person tournaments. I'm sure there's a million reasons. But what is interesting to me is none of those were the determining factor. In fact, he said, it didn't matter what age they started at,

didn't matter necessarily, you know, who had the most prestigious coach or went to this school or had the wealthiest parents. All of the people, all the tennis players that he was looking at in the top 25 pretty much were similar around skill set and talent and the amount of time they worked and had comparable in regards to all had really good coaches, right? Like there wasn't any big differentiators that they could point to. So they continued to research, like, why is it these top three keep winning? What is different?

So, again, look, it's a pretty fair level playing field, right? It's the skill sets the same. The talents are very similar. The coaching is very similar. The situations are very similar. There's no big smoking gun you can point at. What made these top three the top three and why consistently were they winning? Well, guess what they found. This is so cool. So interesting.

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What the top three had shown or expressed or was witnessed when they were being evaluated was completely different. The differentiator was within a couple of seconds of making the bad shot, missing the shot, hitting the ball out, doing something that obviously they were not happy or excited about, the difference was they grasp onto a positive thought. So I found this so interesting. It's all about a mental game, right? It's not so much a physical game. Of course I'm not gonna go be a professional tennis champion because I've never put the work in. I don't have the skill set. I don't have the coach, right? Like I don't have those baseline things

those other people had, but the one game changer for the top three was how they spoke to themselves and how they spoke out loud and how they changed their thoughts. Even though they did something wrong, even though they did something they weren't hyped about, they came right back to a positive thought.

Like this next one's gonna be better. And it just reminded me, you know, Kobe Bryant talked all the time about how he saw every shot was going to go in. He just saw it. He knew it ahead of time. It didn't matter whether you're LeBron James in basketball, that confidence that he hits, so he knows he's going to win. If Steph Curry, same thing, meditating and visualizing before every game, him

winning, Same thing with Tom Brady you know in the NFL as a quarterback before every single game seeing himself completing all the passes winning the games winning the Super Bowl. It goes back to the thoughts that we hold in our mind what we believe to be possible if we're choosing to beat ourselves up or if we're choosing to cheer ourselves on and you know I've told this story so many times. My son is huge into this. Ever since he was a little kid,

he's had me right on the bottom of his shoes. I can, I will, I can do all things. And the reason he has me do that is so if he's halfway through a game and getting low and feeling a little discouraged, he can remind himself that it's the positive thoughts and the belief that will turn everything around for him in the game. So I encourage you today,

don't let yourself play that cop out game that somebody had a better coach or somebody had a better skillset or somebody's prettier or smarter or moves faster. Instead, start equipping yourself with the fact. The sooner you can move to a positive thought, the sooner you can visualize the positive outcome. You don't need to know how you're going to get there, but the outcome that it will be

there, the sooner you can own and feel that belief and start getting excited about it, bringing that energy forward that this is going to happen, the sooner it actually will. If you want to improve your performance and no matter what in your race at work in building your business Visualize it feel what that's gonna feel like shift to the positive It's okay to notice a negative everyone's gonna notice a negative once in a while and none of us are nailing it every day Oh my gosh, I have plenty days and I'm frustrated with myself, but it's about feeling that frustration and letting it go My old shrink used to always say how's that working out for you? Beating yourself up not real. Well doesn't work out real well

That's why there are people at the bottom of the list and the ones at the top are forgiving themselves Encouraging themselves and seeing the outcome and visualizing the outcome that they know to be true for them So I know this to be true for you start speaking speaking to yourself with kindness. Start giving yourself grace. Start encouraging yourself. If success was easy, everyone would have it. Okay. Another cool story I wanted to share with you. I'm so proud of this guy.

Okay. So for, gosh, two decades, I had a huge team. I was in corporate America. I was a C-suite executive in media, blah, blah, blah. Okay. So I had a lot of guys on my team, right? And one of the guys ran the national sales division for me. We worked together for, gosh, 10 or 14 years and became good friends. But obviously we worked together and we traveled a lot too. I was his boss and so I would travel with him to LA, to New York, to Chicago to

go on real big pitches together. These were huge multimillion dollar pitches that when we closed them, you know, had massive positive impact on the company. He was super important to me. Obviously, take good care of your good people and they'll take care of you and be there to support them and encourage them when something big's on the table. Anyhow, we had this great relationship. Since I left the media business, we haven't seen each other much. I've talked to him a few times, but haven't seen each other. He lives in South Florida. Well, recently he'd been giving me a hard time like, hey,

I haven't seen you. When am I going to see you? And so I said, OK, I'm making time. We're doing it. So we met for dinner. This was just a couple days ago. And wow, I had no idea what I was walking into. And I want to share this story with you because I wanted to

inspire you the way it inspired me. He had stayed in the media business long after I did. I was fired six years ago. Well, wouldn't you know, he shared with me that during the pandemic, so I guess it was 2020 or 2021, another way of getting fired is when you're in sales, they cut your commission, they pull accounts away from you.

They take things away from you and put you in a negative situation. Some people will stay and accept that, which is really bad because it crushes your confidence and your self-worth and is a really negative spiral effect. He didn't. They came to him and said, we're going to take this, your number one account away from you. Happened to be a lawyer, a legal account, a personal injury lawyer,

which was a huge, huge account in media. He was like, what, are you kidding me? Obviously you're firing me, and obviously I am not putting up with this. So he got in his car, went over to see the attorney. Super smart move. Not knowing what he was going to do. Had a family to provide for,

had only been in this business, right, for decades. This is what he was great at, had huge success in, had a huge network and reputation in. And he went to that client really distraught and just said, hey, I don't know what I'm going to do. And he was feeling like there was no possibility. And this is where it's so important. Who you surround yourself with is everything. Just as we were talking a minute ago about the importance of positive thought,

you gotta get around positive thoughts, especially when you're in these downturn situations with a lot of negativity. So we went to his client, he had a great rapport and great relationship with this client, thank goodness. And the client spoke life into him and spoke a belief that he didn't even think of. The client said, why don't you leave that industry then,

since they're telling you to leave, and why don't you represent me? And instead, why don't you leave that industry then, since they're telling you to leave, and why don't you represent me? And instead, why don't you start your own company? Why don't you go to work for yourself? And why don't you focus on the things that you do great, and you put my media schedules together for me? You become the expert for attorneys and showing and teaching them and representing them how to deliver the best results, leveraging and utilizing media.

So basically flipping the script on what he had done his entire career, right? Because he worked for the media companies forever. He would go sell the attorneys, but now he would be representing the attorneys and selling the media on cutting the best deals possible. He flipped the script and he had never thought of it. I had never thought of it, right? But it made all the sense in the world You're an expert at something but just because you're an expert in something doesn't mean it only has to look one way

You have to be willing and open-minded to see what uncertainty could be. How else could we envision this? What else could this look like? So he decided to immerse himself in it and go for it. And that was three years ago. And I will tell you this, I have never seen this man happier. He is in a completely different relationship at home now, so happy. Like there's a domino effect around getting rid of negative people from your life and limiting beliefs and stepping into potential impossibility. His business has exploded. He's making more money than he's ever made. It's incredible. And now he's the expert that represents attorneys and personal

injury lawyers all over the country. He's made a huge name and brand for himself around something that three years ago didn't even exist, all by stepping into possibility, all by seeing that rejection as a redirection to something so much bigger that he never even considered. So that's what I'm asking you today. What are you not considering that's in front of you? What are you not thinking about because you're on the hamster wheel just running, keeping negative people around you that are speaking self-limiting beliefs into you and you're not really stepping into your potential.

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commitment. That was one. The second one was, it's too much money, Heather, for where I am right now in my career, I just can't make that level of investment. So that's on me now at that point, right? How can I pivot and create a different product solution or remove the barrier to entry? And I want you to think that same way about your business, right, like when we get that feedback,

that's feedback to help us get better, offer a different solution, find new partners, create another way to remove the barriers to entry and allow people to do business with us because they still have the same problem that we know that they had that we know we can solve. So here's what I came up with. I'm super excited about it. As you know, it's my birthday month. August is my birthday.

I'm so excited. I'm so hyped. I have more energy than ever in that month. And so because I've been getting all this feedback about the mastermind being too much of a commitment, too much of a financial investment, I hear you, I'm responding to you, and I've created a one month running with me, running with the team for one month, like-minded people running together all around confidence, all around accountability, all around goal setting. Here's the thing, it takes 90 days to spin up a pipeline to do anything in business and in life, right? Like you've got to put the work in. Start now. Don't let the back half of your year be the part where you let everything go. Let's let this be the jump point where you go for more. You hold yourself accountable.

You elevate yourself to be in a group of like-minded people pushing you to go for more. You're going to get an email from me every day. We're going to meet together on August 5th, August 12th, August 19th, August 26th, each week for the month of August at 5 PM EST for one hour on Zoom. I'm answering all of your questions. I am getting into how to make sure you are your most confident self We are gonna have the opportunity for you to be a part of a group that holds one another accountable I've had so many people in my groups lose weight land new jobs leave Relationships achieve massive goals pitch themselves for the promotion take the stage speak up for themselves create boundaries. It's

take the stage, speak up for themselves, create boundaries. It's unbelievable what we've been able to see happen when we bring a tribe of like-minded people together going for more. If you felt like my programs were too expensive, too long, I've removed all the barriers to entry, okay? This is for you, it's one month, it's for the month of August. We're gonna celebrate my birthday,

we're gonna have a lot of fun, and we are gonna help you achieve your goals and reach your dreams because cemeteries are already full of unrealized potential. We don't need any more of it. Let's realize our potential while we are still here. You are worth it and I am in it with you and this team is gonna make sure

you hold yourself accountable because we're gonna meet each week for four weeks and we are going to get it done. Success does not happen alone. It happens when you're a part of a team like Minded People holding each other accountable. Okay, and to even make it better, I partnered with Klarna, which is an affirm, which allow you to pay over time. So if the money is a challenge for you, I don't think it's going to be because I cut the program in half. It's 50% off right now for you for one month. This is the lowest price point I've ever done and you can also pay it over time I don't think it's going to be because I cut the program in half.

the link in the show notes below. You'll see some of my former clients, what they say, what it's like being a part of my group coaching programs. It's worth it. It's the change you need. It's the kick you need. And I promise you this, investing in you is the best investment you'll ever make. I will see you in August.

And for anyone that signs up today, this is coming out. You know what? I'm giving this offer for you guys because you are important to me. You are my podcast listeners. You are my fam. Okay. This is the week of July 22nd. If you pull the trigger on this, this week, it's 50% off.

I will also do a one-on-one phone call with you ahead of kickoff to make sure we've got your blueprint for success set up. I want you to win. I want you to realize your goals and I want to be there cheering you on. Okay, until next week, keep creating your confidence. Hit the show notes below. Get the link for August. This deal is not staying in place for much longer. Pull the trigger now and I'll see you on the other side of success. I couldn't be more excited for what you're gonna hear. Start learning and growing. Inevitably something will happen. No one succeeds alone. You don't stop and look around once in a while.

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