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Shameless Leadership

608: 4 Things That Are Stopping You From Getting Started

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Education, Management, How To, Business, Self-improvement

4.7800 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

What are the stumbling blocks that are holding you back from starting? More often than we’d like to admit we stop ourselves from starting. We make up all sorts of stories about why now is not the right time, how we’re just not quite ready, how we need more information or skills before we start, how we should wait until we have more time & energy.   Behind these stories are a lot of excuses we make in order to stay in our comfortable bubbles. But, if we’re being really honest with ourselves, we might have to admit that staying in our comfort zones gets pretty uncomfortable after a while. Staying comfortable for too long breeds a new kind of discomfort - regret, resentment, wondering “what if I had just started way back when??”   In today’s episode I talk you through 4 things that are stopping you from starting: Insecurities and the stories you tell yourself as a result of them A lifelong erosion of self trust A lack of connection to your intuition Infrequent practice using your voice and stepping into leadership and into action As we dig into these 4 concepts, it is likely that you’ll be able to connect some dots that will allow you to start taking small steps toward the things you really want, the things you very much deserve and the things you are very much qualified to do. Link mentioned: Sign up for my Plan & Prep Pajama Party   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 606.

0:04.4

Show notes for this episode, including any links mentioned in the episode, can be found by going to

0:08.4

shamelessmom.com and clicking on episode 606.

0:16.7

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy.

0:18.8

I'm your host, Sarah Dean.

0:20.6

I'm here to give you and other

0:22.2

passionate, driven, unapologetic moms, tools, resources, and a little bit of humor to help you lead

0:28.3

more positive, powerful, and purposeful lives every damn day. One of the best things about the

0:33.7

Shameless Mom Academy is our community. So be sure to join us in our free private

0:37.7

Facebook group to connect with other shameless moms just like you. You can find us over at

0:42.7

shamelessomom.com forward slash Facebook. All right, let's dive into today's episode.

0:52.6

Hello, shameless moms. Happy Monday. So happy and always honored to be here with you and

0:58.0

be in your ear. Thank you for spending time with me today. Okay, I'm really excited about this

1:03.6

conversation. I get giddy toward the end of the year because it's a time for me to be

1:10.2

reflective and it's a time to slow down.

1:12.5

And it tends to be a lot of hurry up and hustle before the slowdown. So I'm very excited about

1:17.7

the slowdown part, but I am definitely in the hurry up and hustle phase of like get all the

1:21.8

things done in early December in order to slow down in the end of December. And so maybe you're

1:27.2

with me. And so maybe you're with me.

1:28.2

And so as I'm doing my hurry up and hustle, I am recognizing that this is a season.

1:32.9

And also I'm being really thoughtful about what I'm spending time on.

1:36.3

And I'm being really thoughtful about what I'm saying no to, which is really important.

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