No matter how successful you have been in the past when you step into your next level, the stakes get higher. As you are breaking new ground, and growing in a different direction, the challenges that come at you are a lot bigger.

I remember a client who had been a very successful business owner for years before she decided to reinvent herself.

Applying the many skills from her professional life as a top saleswoman for a well-known fashion brand and running her own lifestyle business for years, she decided to develop her legacy project in a different country.

Halfway through the estimated budget that initially was in the low six figures ballooned into a 7-figure venture that she didn’t think she’d be able to fund on her own.

Being faced with throwing in the towel and abandoning the project midway through, we sat down at my dining room table to hammer out a strategy and I wasn’t going to let her get up BEFORE we found a solution.

One of the things we did is that I gave her a simple exercise:

Write down the exact figure needed to successfully complete the project on top of a large post-it sheet and put next to it the words

HOW I CAN …

Then I asked her to come up with at least 20 names, ideas, and resources… that came to mind.

After some initial resistance, she got to work. Many times as she wrote, she shook her head as if to say No, not happening.

I told her NEXT.

What’s the next one? Keep going!

Two hours later, she had written 20 things on her list and in there she found the exact amount of money needed to complete her development project – in assets she had forgotten she owned.

Over the next few months, the construction wrapped up and today she owns a thriving internationally recognized business that is truly her legacy piece because it encompasses every single one of her passions and utilizes all the skills she honed over decades.

Next level, next devil, as the saying goes.

Yet this story is proof that sometimes all it takes is just a small recalibration in how we tackle an issue: asking entirely different questions is what brings about the solution.

That’s when it matters most that you have somebody who is not emotionally involved in your problem in your corner to help you navigate the obstacle course so that you can get to the finish line.

This took literally two hours.

The result: The project was finished. The business was able to open on time and because of her savviness, it was profitable in year one.

If you want to learn more about how I can support you in your next level of success, connect with me here.

~Simona

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