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The beginning of a New Year is a traditional time for change and improvement. Most of us attempt to make some sort of change for the better. Quitting smoking, losing weight, making and saving more money are all common examples.

Unfortunately, many people fail in their attempt at change. They don’t realize that before any tangible and visible change can happen, less visible and harder to articulate changes must first take place. Their mindset needs to shift.

If you are seeking to increase your business and your financial success, recognize that the change that you need to make must occur first on the inside.

There is a definite connection between mindset and money. I learned this as I was growing my own business. So, if you feel like you know what you’re supposed to be doing, but you’re not getting results, you may need to discover the connection too.

If you are doing all the right things and still bumping up against a brick wall, there is a good chance that it’s not what you’re doing that is the problem. It could be that there is some pattern of sabotage that’s blocking you from getting the results that you deserve to get.

If you’ve been frustrated, working hard, dreaming about having more, and maybe even feeling guilty about wanting more, sometimes a kind of desperation can take over.

And that can lead you to looking for that one thing, the quick fix. Feeling that sense of urgency, that need to know that one thing, can actually become an obstacle for you. Your own impatience can be a pattern that blocks you from getting to the answer as quickly as you would like to.

So, even if you’ve read The Secret, taken courses, and done the affirmations, the results that you desire may still elude you. Why? Because sometimes the workshops, trainings and books aren’t always helpful at bringing about the change on the outside.

Sometimes all you really get from them, if you’re not careful, is just a better way of articulating your dysfunction.

They just give you more labels for describing your limitation.

“Let’s explore your abundance or your scarcity mindset” or whatever,

Having an intellectual conversation about your beliefs isn’t going to effect the change that you want. You already recognize that if you’re doing all the right things and still not getting the results that you want, something going on inside of you needs to change.

And to be honest, if you’re not getting the results you want, how do you really know you’re doing all the right things? Maybe that’s part of the problem. If you feel “I know that. I know that,” but you’re not producing results, you really only know something on an intellectual level.

It is only when you have that knowledge on the deep down, gut level that you can translate it into results in your life.

If you’re not there yet, try to have a bit more open-mindedness. Maybe there’s something left to learn.

Looking back from where I am today, it’s easy, with hindsight, to see different points of the journey.

I recognize that what stopped me from getting here sooner was arrogance – a feeling that I’m intelligent and I’ve read the books and I’ve got this figured out. I didn’t have it figured out. And it wasn’t until I admitted that to myself and the people around me that things started to change for me.

You need to focus on what that change needs to be for you. Focus on what’s going to make the difference for you.

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Bernadette has launched her new programme Stepping UP, and 2010 promises to be an exciting and profitable year! You can hear all about it on her teleseminar http://is.gd/6iiNS

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