There is one main energy that can take you out of business extremely fast and that is the energy of competition. I can honestly tell you that when I first started off in business, I spent a lot of time surfing through the Internet reading newsletters of other folks who were out there doing work that was similar to myself. The mistake was not the researching; the mistake was not the reading and not even just the witnessing or acknowledging what others in my area were doing; the mistake was the feeling and the energy that it generated in me.
That feeling and energy was very closed. As soon as I saw something that somebody else was doing, it was like a dagger through my heart. I would immediately feel like, 'What's wrong with me? Why am I not doing that? I should be doing that. How can I make that happen for me and really, really fast?' And I would set off on this whirlwind of taking what I had just seen and trying to immediately put it into action in my business.
Sound familiar?
But what I learned from this was very important. I learned:
(1) I was miserable;
(2) I was constantly in a place of feeling like I didn't measure up.
And as a result those two energies were immediately activated in my business, so whatever I did actually end up creating in my business, didn't go very far. It didn't have a powerful effect and half the time, I can honestly tell you I didn't really know what I was creating anyway - because I didn't feel connected to it. The only thing I really felt was fear - that I wasn't doing what I needed to be doing in my business, and whatever I was doing wasn't good enough because it wasn't like this other person that I had just read about, heard about, or looked at. It created this huge outpour of energy - a lot of really frantic wheel-turning and wheel spinning that really didn't produce very many results.
What I've since learned and am now here to share with you and what I am holding as an intention for you is to evolve from the energy of competition to the energy of collaboration.
So let's start right now ... what I'd like you to do is to get a piece of paper and draw a triangle. Then divide this triangle into 5 sections. I'd like you to leave the most room at the top; I'd like you to make this a big triangle.
The first level at the bottom, label 'Playing NOT to Lose'. This level right here is where we operate from doing just enough to get by. You can think about this level in the sense of 'I'd better perform or else I'll be in trouble'.
The next level up, level 2, label 'Playing to Cruise'. This is activating just enough energy so you can continue to move forward but in a very status quo way. This has you operating from a bit more than just enough, but you're just cruising along. There really isn't much movement or much growth.
That brings us up to level number 3, 'Playing to Improve'. So here is where a shift in beliefs begins to occur. This is the beginning of a new way of operating, a new way of being in business, and a new way of just being in life overall. It's the beginning of the understanding 'Maybe I can actually create more than I thought. Maybe I'm better than what my past has had me believing up until now.' It's this level when entrepreneurs really begin to actively engage their thoughts, their feelings and their energy in connection to whatever task is at hand for the sole purpose of improvement: of your business, your life, your self.
And that up-levels you to level 4, "Playing to Compete'. This is where you begin to believe that you're capable of beating out your competition and being the best. Again, a tough place to be in. The ego mind will tell you 'You've arrived. This is the only way people succeed in business.' It'll definitely move you forward much more than 1, 2, and 3, but, as I shared before, it'll only move you so far and it can have you feeling frustrated and asking the question, 'Is this all there is?'
And that means you are being shown that you are ready to up-level to level number 5.
Level number 5, 'Playing to Create and Playing to Serve'. This is the highest level energy that becomes activated when an entrepreneur moves from competition to creation. It's about being able to be the best that you can be IN ORDER TO serve in the highest way. In this place you know that creativity and fear CANNOT co-exist. You "compete" only with yourself simply so that you can be available to serve in a better way and a higher way than you were yesterday.
This level, level 5, is rooted in a spirit-based consciousness that has you operating from thoughts of love and abundance. Fear and scarcity have no place at this level of thinking; this is where EnergyRICH® entrepreneurs are fearlessly seeking becoming all that you have the potential to become.
At this level, you are open to operating from a powerful belief energy. You are open to that deep, spirit-based knowing that you cannot fail. You can only learn and grow. And with this potential in front of you and your fear behind you, you're able to move beyond the boundaries of competition, beyond the limitations of competition, beyond the energy of restriction that comes from competition, and then you are able to create. From this place, this spirit-based consciousness, you are then able to create what average entrepreneurs out there believe is impossible.
Then, everything in your business becomes fun because you really start to see it as a game of creation in which there is no way to lose, only gain. To allow yourself to continue to create and then that is movement forward. Always.
You are open, energized, and your business is in the energy of expansion.... Beautiful.
Your EnergyRICH® Call To Action
1. Really examine these 5 levels of an EnergyRICH® mindset.
2. Activate what I call energetic responsibility: take this moment to just be honest with yourself and identify the level that you currently inhabit most often in your business. Where are you operating from most of the time? There's no right, no wrong and no judgment. There's simply acknowledgment. Where are you operating from the majority of the time? Level 1, level 2, level 3, level 4, or level 5?
3. Make a commitment to spend as much time in level 5 energy as possible. And begin by brainstorming ways you can have yourself in that level 5 energy as often as possible, so that you can follow through on step number 2.
