448: Stop Being the Bottleneck, Change Your Habits, Escape Scarcity Thinking and Amplify Your Success with Melanie Benson

Melanie Benson from Rapid Cash Strategies is a Profit Amplifier, and has a gift for guiding fast­-paced, mission­-driven entrepreneurs to thrive in their small business. Melanie can quickly identify what derails you from productivity and progress – ultimately freeing you to scale your influence and income without overwhelm.

Melanie hosts the weekly podcast, Amplify Your Success, is author of Rewired for Wealth, co­author of Entrepreneur.com's Start Up Guide to Starting an Information Marketing Business and has her success tips featured in magazines such as American Express OPEN Forum, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Woman's Day, Parenting Magazine, and University of Phoenix Alumni Magazine.

She is on the Executive Team for the Women Speaker's Association as well as is Council Chair for the Association of Transformational Leaders.

Quotes:                                                                                                                                   

“The thought ‘I can't afford it’ is probably the single biggest bottleneck that exists. What we're doing is telling our mind that we can't. When we lead with ‘I can't afford it,’ it literally shuts our problem-solving brain down.” – Melanie Benson

“Success and comfort don't always hold hands. We have to be willing to step out on that ledge and not know how to do something in order to achieve things we've never achieved before.” – Melanie Benson

“Just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean you shouldn't go for it.” – Melanie Benson

Takeaways:

04:50 Your mindset is the primary driver of business success, acting like a water hose that can either trickle or flow with opportunities.

11:34 Making a bold decision without knowing the entire path is more powerful than staying stuck in fear and uncertainty.

16:24 Avoiding failure can actually cause you to repeat failures by keeping you trapped in scarcity thinking instead of success energy.

20:41 Identifying your high-payoff business activity is crucial for quickly moving the income needle forward.

24:24 Building a team is essential for business growth, as you'll eventually hit a point where you cannot expand if you're working alone.

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Filed in: Archive 2: 2017 • Interview • Podcast • Productivity