Actionable Steps to Overcome Inaction

You KNOW What to Do…So Why Aren’t You Doing It ?

Picture this. You wake up, grab your coffee, and think, Today is the day! You know what to do and today, you’re going to own it. You’re going to make the tough decisions, set boundaries, charge your worth, stop over-explaining yourself, and maybe even conquer your inbox, and overcome inaction (finally!) 

Fast forward two hours: you’re scrolling through emails, questioning your career choices, eating a snack that was probably meant for lunch, and wondering why your to-do list looks like it was written by someone who doesn’t like you very much. 

What happened?

It’s not that you don’t know what to do. You do. You’ve read the books, sat through the webinars, you have the skills, the resources, the certificates and even a roadmap. You know how to overcome inaction. But something is standing between you and actually doing the things that would move your business forward.

You can’t measure it, you can’t see it and it definitely doesn’t come with a spreadsheet. That something? Is mindset.

The Most Overlooked Business Strategy Everyone Ignores & The Key to Moving Forward for Long Term Success.

As we know, businesses love strategy. They’ll strategise their marketing, their sales, their growth plans, retention plans, their recycling strategy and even the important Friday social club. As long as there’s a strategy they’ll know what to do. But mindset? That’s often where businesses go, “let’s just do a team yoga session and call it mental wellbeing. (Meanwhile, their employees are still overwhelmed, disengaged, and quietly thinking about quitting.)

Mindset isn’t just personal development and positive thinking. It’s a business’s unconscious strategy that determines:

• How you handle challenges and setbacks.
• How you view opportunities and risk. 
• How you show up when things aren’t working
• Whether you speak up or stay quiet in a meeting 
• Whether you charge what you’re worth or keep giving “mate’s rates” to everyone, even those you have never met before.
• Whether you take ownership or just hope things get better
• How you overcome inaction
• How you lead, price your offers and close sales with conviction or fear.
• Whether you scale your business or just scale your stress levels

Mindset isn’t a nice to have, it’s the foundation of what’s driving your business in the background. 

Why You’re Stuck and How to Move Forward. 

How Fear of Failure Stops Progress and Keeps You Stuck:

1. You’re Letting Your Past Failures Drive Your Business- both personal and professional.

• Ever made one bad business or personal decision and then convinced yourself you should never trust your instincts again? That’s because your brain is wired to avoid pain.
• You’re terrified to raise your prices in case someone won’t pay
• You hired the wrong person, now you micromanage everyone or worse, decide to do everything yourself.
• You launched something that failed, now you avoid taking risks , 
• You had negative feedback once, and now avoid putting yourself out there.

If this is you – you’re not making decisions from strategy, you’re making them from past unresolved wounds which impact the future of your business.

2. You’re Playing Small… or Trying too hard

Some of us are hiding in our business, while others go way overboard trying to prove they are valuable, which can look like: “I’m going to work 80 hours a week and say yes to everything so no one questions my worth!” ( Ladies, that happens in family life as well).

Both are exhausting. Neither are necessary. The goal is not to “prove” your value, the goal is to own it.

3. You’re Reacting Instead of Leading

You didn’t start your business just to put out fires all day.

And yet, here you are. Every day something new pops up. Emails. Client issues. Tech problems. Sick children. Suddenly, you’re spending more time reacting than actually moving forward. 

We need to get you back on track to what’s important and inspiring, because motivation pushes you but it’s an outside influence and runs out fast. Plus it can get expensive if you constantly have to motivate yourself or your employees.

Inspiration comes from within and pulls you forward, and that’s where real momentum comes from. Plus, and this is important…inspiration in any organisation influences from the top down.  

So if you are the one in charge and you are not inspired…you will infect the rest of your organisation with the same lack – lustre feeling. It will be mirrored back to you. So the first step is always to get the leader re-inspired.

Mental agility is the next true growth skill

The Blame Game: A Guaranteed Way to Sabotage Your Business

Let’s talk about blame and how to overcome inaction.

If you’ve ever been part of a business (or, let’s face it, a family), you know that when things go wrong, everyone loves to point fingers.

• “It’s the economy’s fault.”
• “It’s marketing’s fault.”
• “It’s my family’s fault
• “It’s my team’s fault”
• “It’s the algorithm”
• “Mercury’s in retrograde”
• ”It’s a full moon”

Blame is easy, but it doesn’t solve anything. It keeps you stuck. Sometimes for days, weeks, months, years and yes, even decades.

Great businesses and leaders don’t blame, they take ownership. And when everyone on your team, including you, operates from ownership instead of excuses, (which is usually fear of change in disguise,) things start moving forward instead of just going in circles.

Mindset translates to the type of business owner you are according to this Forbes article

Business Isn’t Just About Profit – It’s About People

At the end of the day, businesses that only focus on profit miss the point. Business is about people. Your team, your clients and YOU.

When your business ignores mindset here’s what happens: 

• You feel exhausted, overwhelmed and underappreciated. So do your team.
• You feel like you’re over-giving and getting nothing in return. You start to disengage. And that is expensive when you are paying people that disengage.
• You get burnout, resentment, and staff turnover. (Which is not a fun way to lose money.)

But when your business prioritises mindset:

• Employees feel valued and appreciated, not just useful.
• Business owners feel energised and creative,  not drained.
• Decisions feel clear and not like you’re playing a game of business roulette
• You are able to overcome inaction.

Mindset Matters – So Here’s Your Challenge to Keep Moving Forward:

Start treating mindset like an actual business strategy instead of a “get fixed quick strategy or hack” out of the latest book. 

Here’s your challenge:

• Stop thinking you can fix external problems without adjusting your internal perspective. You are wired to avoid pain so you don’t always have the right perspective on new situations.
• Stop waiting to “feel ready” before making decisions that will change the game for you. Courage will always come before confidence!
• Stop assuming that working harder is the answer. You don’t need more validation – you need to trust yourself.
• Stop assuming you can scale your business without scaling your mindset. Your mindset can be the bottleneck in your business or the breakthrough.

My question to you is:  Mindset is already influencing everything in your business. Are you being driven… or are you in the driver’s seat? Because here’s the truth, companies that scale their mindset alongside their strategies don’t just grow. They lead. Read more here

If you’re ready to take control and align your mindset with your business or personal goals, I’d love to help. I offer a complimentary 30-minute Clarity Call where we can explore how to scale your mindset alongside your business goals and set you up for sustainable success. Let’s connect: remarkablemindset.com/contact

Mandy Beverley – High-Performance Mindset Coach & Facilitator at Remarkable Mindset