368: How Your Mindset is Sabotaging Your Business Success (and What to Do About It)

Are you working harder than ever but still not seeing the results you want in your business? The problem may not be your strategy, your team, or even your market; it COULD be your mindset. In this episode of Profit by Design, we uncover the hidden ways your thinking might be holding you back, and more importantly, the shifts you can make to move forward with confidence. Melissa Kay and Dr. Sabrina Starling explain how you can identify the limiting beliefs that are costing you profit and freedom, the most common mindset traps for entrepreneurs, and practical steps to rewire your thinking and unlock business growth. Don’t let your mindset be the bottleneck in your business! Join us to learn more!

Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential production.

Show Highlights:

  • The limiting beliefs common to business owners
  • The reality of shifting my mindset by asking curiosity-learner questions
  • A helpful resource: Change Your Questions, Change Your Life by Marilee Adams
  • Don’t try to figure it out by yourself. Seek out a community to support you.
  • A big limiting belief for business owners: “I don’t have enough time.”
  • Ask, “Are my limiting beliefs serving me, or causing me anxiety or stress?”
  • Journaling can be a game-changer when it comes to mindset.
  • Melissa’s examples of powerful questions that can help hold yourself accountable
  • Decision-making out of love and abundance, not fear and scarcity
  • The guilt we carry for taking care of ourselves–Why?
  • Dr. Sabrina’s advice to business owners who are struggling and feeling defeated
  • Want to know what’s holding you back? Reach out for help! We can support you! Get clear on your next best step by taking the Better Business Better Life Assessment.

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About The Author

Tap the potential of your team and double profit!

Sabrina Starling, Ph.D., PCC, BCC, The Business Psychologist, is the international bestselling author of the How to Hire the Best series and The 4 Week Vacation®.

The third generation in her family impacted by entrepreneurial hustle culture, Dr. Sabrina is transforming the story of success from long hours and grinding it out to work that supports and enhances life.

Hustle culture often means sacrificing our health, well-being, and relationships, all for the sake of success. Dr. Sabrina’s research shows this leads to burnout and pain in our relationships. There is a better way. Work supports life, not the other way around!™

Dr. Sabrina is revolutionizing the workplace with concepts like Work Supports Life™, 4 Week Vacations®, $10,000 an-hour activities, 25-hour workweeks, and unlimited vacation and sick time in highly profitable businesses winning the war for talent. She inspires transformation in a world where work often overshadows life, sharing insights from her ongoing research with over 650 entrepreneurs and their high-performing teams.

Featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Thrive Global, Dr. Sabrina is the founder of www.tapthepotential.com and the globally top-ranked Profit by Design Podcast. Listed in The Daily Hustle’s Top 50 Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022, Dr. Sabrina is on a mission to get 10,000 business leaders taking the Work Supports Life™ Pledge.

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