The Inner Game of Online Entrepreneurship – 12-Week Mindset Mini-Series

byGail-UK

3.8K followers

3 months ago

Hello again, lovely WA family,

I truly hope that you are all having a wonderful weekend, whatever you are doing.

In my last WA Challenge post, I hinted about a surprise at the end of the week, and this blog is the start of it!

This month marks 8 years since I joined WA, and one thing I’ve learned over and over is that building an online business is as much an inner journey as it is an outer one. Perhaps even more so if you believe some of the things I write about on my website and the struggles we all have with ourselves.

But I've been thinking about who I am and what I have to offer a lot recently, and I decided that as the WA 90 Day Challenge comes to an end, I should set myself another goal and follow that through to the end of the year. So I've come up with a mini training series that I hope will help some of you in your own online journey.

Now I'm still learning about many things here at WA, so this series is not going to be about how to rank in search engines, how to post on social media or the next shiny object to chase - as I'd probably just say the "Starship Enterprise" and "Beam me up, Scotty" but that would be just showing my age.

Tools, training, and traffic strategies are all vital, of course, but the truth is, your mindset can make or break your progress. It’s what helps you keep showing up when things get tough, and it also encourages you to celebrate the small wins on the way to the big ones.

So I've decided to share a new 12-Week Business Mindset Series here at WA, all about The Inner Game of Online Entrepreneurship.

12 Weeks To Work Together

Each week, I’ll focus on a different mindset shift or inner challenge that online entrepreneurs face. These are short, practical reflections designed to spark discussion and give you tools you can use right away. And although I will be focusing mainly on online business, there will always be crossovers into general living, too.

Here’s a sneak peek at what’s coming:

1. Dream Big, Start Small
2. Taming the Fear Monster
3. Your Why Is Your Superpower
4. From Comparison to Inspiration
5. Progress Over Perfection
6. Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
7. The Long Game Mindset
8. Bouncing Back from Setbacks
9. Becoming the CEO of You
10. Resetting Goals & Always Moving Forward
11. Building Entrepreneurial Confidence
12. Success Without Burnout

I'm going to commit to posting one each week, starting on Sunday 28th September, ( I have to complete the 90 Day WA Challenge first!) But hopefully, by the end of the year, there should be a complete mini-series you can dip back into whenever you need a mindset reset.

Who Is This For?

This is for you if you sometimes:

• Feel overwhelmed
• Are not sure what you're doing
• Don't really know what a business mindset is?
• Feel underconfident about starting a business
• Question if anyone will listen to you
• Get confused over self-development and business jargon
• Need to look up what 'jargon' means...
• All of the above!

Hands up if that's you!

Well, I'll let you into a little secret - it's me too - at least it was me a few years ago. I've come a long way in that time a,d I wanted to share some of my knowledge with you going forward.

Playing to my strengths

Now, I may not know everything about websites, but one thing I do feel confident sharing with you is my journey of self-development and mindset practices, because these have made me who I am today. I'm a teacher at heart and have been all my life, so the desire to share things that I have found useful is deeply rooted. I've also been a life coach and mentor, and my life is deeply rooted in NLP, personal development and transformation. I've been working with these for as long as I can remember, and that's a long time since I tell all my students that I'm 150!

Like all of you, I'm sure, life has had its fair share of setbacks and disappointments, but I'm still here, still positive and still trying. And I want to help us all to be the same.

So, we'll discover new things (or remind ourselves of old things) by walking along together, sharing stories, and maybe doing a few exercises to keep our brains ticking over in the right direction sometimes, too.

I'd love to have your company on this new venture because it's you who will make it a success or not.

As Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism, is widely reported to have said: "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear."

So that means that there must be at least a few 'students' out there, who are ready!

And I’d love this to be a conversation, not a monologue. So as we go along, please share your own experiences, questions, and tips in the comments, because that way, we can all learn from each other.

See you soon for Week 1: Dream Big, Start Small.

To our continued success,

Gail

INTRO TO SERIES QUESTIONS...

• What's your experience with personal development and mindset practices?
• Do you love them or hate them?
• Will you help me by sharing your own experiences on this journey?
• Let me know if this is something that interests you.