Hello friend! How are your income goals coming along? Are you reaching them every single time or do you sometimes feel like something else is hindering you? đťÂ No need to worry, it’s totally normal!
In today’s video, I’m talking all about what happened when I hit my first income plateau and the three things I did to push through to the next level.
WHAT IS AN INCOME PLATEAU?
An income plateau is a comfort level with money that youâre willing to let yourself have, and willing to let yourself earn. Everyone goes through this at some point in their business, and it is quite terrifying at the time, but it’s quite normal! Iâll give you an example of what that can look like for you.
Say you have a comfort level of having $2000 in your bank account, and then an expense comes up, like a bill or something for your business, and you suddenly have to spend $300, if your comfort level is $2000, you will do everything you can to get it back up to $2000. Youâre energetically uncomfortable with having any less than $2000 in your account.
Same also goes with if your comfort level was $500. Say you suddenly make a sale for $500Â which then you have $1000 in your account. Because your comfort level is $500, you will actually make yourself spend, get rid of or a bill will come up of $500 just to get yourself back down to that comfort level that you have. Do you see what I mean here?
Another Example that I have is last year, in July, I was sort of having the same problem. I was earning the same amount of money each month, and I really wanted to progress to the next level which was $1000 at the time. And for whatever reason, I just couldnât break it. It just wasnât happening. I donât know why, I couldnât figure it out. It wasnât like I was doing anything wrong, my income was increasing, but it just wasnât pushing through.
So I really just had to step back and recess because I knew that this wasnât something that I was doing wrong. It almost was like I was blocked energetically, if you know what I mean. So I decided to take some time off, and I grabbed my book that Iâve had for years now, which is âGet Rich, Lucky Bitch!â by Denise Duffield-Thomas.
I went through the book, and I realized that I had a lot of money blocks that were starting to pop up at this time. I was starting to think, âOh, crap! Is this all that Iâm ever going to earn? Iâm not going to break through any kind of threshold. Thereâs never enough, I might as well give it up now, it’s the end of the world!”, and obviously, it wasnât. But it was a block that I was hitting at the time which I needed to clear, so the first thing that I did that I got out of the book was:
I started writing down my goals
Something I really noticed was that I wasnât that consistent with my goals, and I was actually quite wishy-washy about them. And what I was doing is I was saying, âOh, Iâd love to make $1000 this month, but Iâd be totally okay with $500 or $10,000 will be totally okay, right now, but Iâll take $5000. Thatâs totally okay with me.â And basically, I wasnât clear enough. The universe cannot provide you your goals manifestation if you donât even know what they are.
I had to get really clear on what my goals were. So I started writing down my goal every single day. My goal was $1000 every month, and I started getting into a habit of writing it down every day, and I swear, once you switch your mindset like that, once you get focused on something, itâs like it happens. It just manifests itself. You literally make it happen by the focus that you have on it.
I started to get more sales – more than usual. People were giving me gifts that were sort of monetary related. My mother-in-law gave me money. It was like little things started popping up, so I was like, âOkay, weâll see how this goes.â
The next thing I did was:
I decluttered everything in my house
I cleaned out my wardrobe, I got out anything that I didnât like, didnât want, or I just didnât feel resonated with where I wanted to go in my life. I got rid of books that I didnât read anymore, I got rid of a lot of kitchen ware, I cleaned the whole house, I vacuumed, I mopped the floors, and I just cleared out any crap that was lying around the house.
Doing that cleared out all the old stale energy that was in my house and my environment, and it made room for fresh new energy, for fresh new income energy. So once I did that, more sales started popping up, and I started to get more ideas on how I could create new income avenues, so I was like, âOkay, this is good. Better.”
And then the final thing that I did that was the most important thing and cemented it all together;
I cleared my money blocks
And I used two specific exercises that Denise teaches in her book, and that was a forgiveness exercise, and an emotional freedom technique exercise.
The forgiveness exercise is where you take about an hour or so and you write in a sheet of paper every negative thought youâve had about money or any memory that you can remember that was negative around money. And then you go through each item on the list, and you read out loud, and after every line you say, âI forgive you, I love you, and Iâm sorryâ, and thatâs it. Thatâs all you need to do, and for whatever reason, it clears out that belief.
Youâll find that you canât even remember some of them when you go back to them, and then some might still trigger you a little bit. You just got to keep going back to it it all the time, and thatâs it, thatâs all I have to do, and it makes a huge difference to your income.
The next one is an emotional freedom technique which is a bit more technical, which is a bit more technical, so I have a link to Deniseâs post on how to do it.
And once I did all that, it was like I instantly broke through to the thousand dollar mark, literally every month. And that just goes to show that you can clear your blocks, you can break through the income plateau that youâre experiencing right now. Itâs not definitive. Itâs not the end of the world. It can be overcome.
Are you currently having your own income plateau? What tips are you going to take and implement?
