What’s Holding you Back from Living Your Vision?
September 21, 2009 by Annette
Filed under Lifestyle Vision Success
Are you feeling frustrated taking loads of actions, yet sick and tired of not getting the results you want? Do not make the mistake of pushing harder and putting in extra hours only to find yourself feeling even more exhausted just wanting to get away from it all? There seems to be a universal common belief that we have to try harder, work harder, work long hours etc. to get the results we want in life and business.
Please do not interpret the language of ‘hard work’ in the same category of ‘persistent inspired actions’. If you are a self-managed person (meaning managing how you spend your time instead of it having control of you) that is when you know you are living your life and business vision success.
Yes, action is the vital key word towards achieving success and maintaining momentum in closing the gap from where you are in life to where you want to be. Yet action alone will only see you depleted if you do not have a matching belief in what you want to achieve.
For example, if you are a business owner working long hours and your belief is that you need to put in the long hours to succeed at the detriment of you missing out on time with your family (and vice-versa), then you will automatically set your business schedule up matching that belief. Do you notice that each year you tend to be spending longer hours with little reward financially, emotionally and physically. As the years go by you will feel yourself even more frustrated and lacking energy (not to mention loss of passion for your dream in setting up a business in the first place).
I am sure you can relate to this! What you need to do is to take inspired action combined with changing your beliefs and then your results will be as you want them to be. Yes, it takes a conscious effort and practice each day to change your beliefs. So set up a reminder system i.e. set your alarm every hour as a reminder to repeat your new affirmative statement. One of mine is “I am a millionaire money magnet with money flowing easily to me each day”.
Begin to challenge your beliefs by looking at your results. Whatever your results in life are IS your Belief!
Thoughts + Action + Positive Self-Statements + Reflection (repeat) === Vision Success




Author: Annette (172 Articles)
Annette Stanton is the Founder and Director of International Life & Business Coaching, a company devoted to teaching self-employed professionals, coaches, entrepreneurs and healers worldwide how to consistently live their inspirational lifestyle and business vision...with purpose, passion and prosperity. The Author of highly acclaimed book (now in it’s second edition) The Power of Vision…The 7 Secrets to Personal, Business and Financial Freedom. This book is designed to help you take yourself, your life and your business to the next level of success with more clarity and more confidence. While Annette is best known for her expertise in lifestyle and business vision success, her students share that her biggest impact comes from her philosophy of “Designing your Life and Business to create an Extraordinary Lifestyle™” – ensuring both, your life and your business, revolves around your own personal values. This, Annette says, is the most important key to bringing a business owner their ultimate happiness, abundance and wealth with a soul-satisfying lifestyle. You can learn more about Annette and her courses, programs and products at www.AnnetteStanton.com.au