Falling Out Of Love With Your Business: How To Decide When To Pivot And When To Persevere

Today’s episode of the podcast is all about what do you do if you are not happy in your business, or if you think you might need to pivot.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST What to do when you feel out of alignment in your business The questions to ask yourself, to move towards a solution Practical ways to explore all the available options If you found this useful, then one of your friends might too - so please go and send it to them or share it on your socials, I would greatly appreciate it. And if you haven't yet given me a five star review on Apple, I would love it if you did!   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Check out the Dream Business Club Find out more about my 1:1 Coaching Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter   Transcript Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast. And as always, I am your host, Teresa Heath Wareing. How are you doing? So. If you are new to the podcast, welcome. I forget to welcome new listeners and this might be the first episode you've ever listened to. So if you are new, welcome. If you have been hanging around with me for some time, then I appreciate you greatly. And I'm so grateful you are giving me your time because I know the world gets busy and our time is so precious. So I do not take it lightly that you are spending your time with me. I appreciate it so much. So today, We're talking about What do you do if you are not happy in your business, if you're falling out of love in business, or if you think you might need to pivot? So we're going to talk about all that, but before we do, I just want to give you an update. So as you will know, for those long term listeners, I used to do interviews and I got to a point where I'd done a ton of interviews and in all honesty, it was getting more work than, than my normal work. So. We were getting a ton of applications every single day, and the time it was taking me and my team to process them, decide, go back to them, book in interviews, do the interviews, and all of that stuff, it was just becoming like a beast, and becoming an unworldly amount of work. So I decided to take a break this year, and pretty much at the beginning of the year, I paused the interviews, and I just did a load of solo episodes. And... I'm ready to go back to interviews, which is very exciting. So, first off, I have got a ton of interviews already recorded that are actually mostly people from my membership, but they also happen to be amazing at what they do, or I absolutely wouldn't have them on, just so you know. I'm not just being kind to people who are in my world. But obviously if they are amazing, then why not get them on the podcast? So that's cool. So we've got people talking about social media. We've got people talking about, Facebook ads, like real proper experts. Who know what they're doing? Google shopping ads. We've got people talking about how to be brave and put yourself out there on social media. We've got people talking about, how to set yourself up on Google and all that good stuff. So lots and lots of good and interesting, conversations coming your way. I want to buy chat GTP, which during it, I changed the name from chat G P T to chat G T P. So you'll just have to excuse me for that, but basically lots of cool interviews coming. So they are coming back next week. I'm super excited about that. It's just really nice to have conversations with people again. And as I've said before, if I am not the expert or if there is someone better than me on a given subject, then it makes sense for me to get them to come on and talk about it, not the fact of, you know, me trying to bundle my way through an episode. So that is going to be fun. But today let's talk about, what do we do if we are not happy in our business? Because one thing I want to get clear first off is you can have bad days in business, but still love what you do. Okay. And there is absolute guarantee that that is going to happen. There are going to be days and there are going to be points in your business where it is so hard and you doubt that you're cut out to do it and you feel unhappy and frustrated and all the other good stuff. But that doesn't mean you're not happy in your business anymore. It just means that you are having a bit of a tough time and struggling. So that's the first thing. That I want to kind of get clear. This isn't about I've had a bad day. Let's change our business. This is a more ongoing thing of, do you know what? I'm just not feeling it anymore. And when we talk about these kind of things, it kind of comes down to alignment. You know in your body and As people in general, especially females, we shouldn't ignore our intuition. We shouldn't ignore what our body tells us. There is a good reason why it's not feeling right. So we need to kind of tap into that. We need to think about that. So. You know, I'm not suggesting you do all the woo things. If you want to, that's great. If not, don't worry about it. I'm just saying, like, normally if something is out of alignment, and you'll know it if you've had clients, I've had clients before where you've gone and met them and you thought, this isn't right. Like something just does not feel right, but I can't think of a good reason why not to work with them. You work with them and it turns out to be an absolute disaster. So. That's what I'm talking about. That's when it's not an alignment and when your body is probably correct in telling you that this thing isn't right. So, what if you've not been happy in your business for a while? What if it's not felt for a while? Now, how long is a while? It's really hard to say and it depends on how tolerant you are. Now, If you work with a coach or are in someone's world like being in my world where you're a club member and you can come and speak to me then it first step is really helpful to have a conversation because sometimes when we're in our own heads it's really difficult to actually be super subjective about what it is we are struggling with and whether it really is a case of actually this is not an alignment or whether we're just having a hard time and therefore In having that hard time, we're now doubting whether we want to do it and whether it fits. So having a conversation with someone is really, really happy. And like I said, subjective, great. My partner, my husband is phenomenal. I love him. He's super supportive. However, he is not the person I would have a conversation like this with because he has his own agenda. Whereas a coach, if I go to one of my coaches that they don't have an agenda, so they can be really analytical with me. So the first thing is to sit down and decide what is it that you're not happy about, okay? And this is where we talk about becoming the scientist and not the judge. So don't judge yourself going, well, I should be happy and I've created this thing or, you know, I should be grateful or it's not fair that, you know, this, this, this, that's, that's just putting a load of rubbish on you. You don't need that and it's not gonna help. So becoming the scientist and asking your questions about what don't I like about it? What is it right now that I don't like about it? And that will really help you understand if it's in alignment. I had someone come onto a coaching call once and they were like, I think I'm going to stop. I'm done with my business. I don't think it works for me. I'm not happy. I think the concept doesn't work. And was basically at the point where she was about to pull the plug. And we had a conversation and I said, if you had customers, cause she was struggling to get some customers. If you were full, fully booked, would you feel the same way? And she said, no. And I was like, okay, so it's not the business. It's the fact of... Because you haven't got customers. You are concerned that your customers are validating to you whether this business will work. You don't feel great because you haven't got customers. You feel like you are not good enough. And we worked through it and it wasn't the reason she wasn't unhappy with her business. She just was so frustrated and so down and so done for like she was so like basically, You know, felt defeated in her own business because she wasn't getting clients. So asking yourselves, what is it? Why am I not happy with my business? Asking things like, what do I love about my business? What things do I enjoy doing? What don't I love about my business? And another thing to go back to, and we did this exercise recently in the club, every month we do mindset sessions. And one of the mindset sessions we do every year is the values exercise. And it's such a good exercise. If your business is no longer in alignment with your values or your values have changed, then that might be why it doesn't feel great. So doing a values exercise is really, really helpful. So, what do we do if we've...