1. ANCHORING & CREATING A PATTERN:

Anchoring an emotional state. How many of you experience this… You go to open your bank account or your online sales platform… and you hold your breath and brace for impact?

Are you experiencing a stress response BEFORE or AFTER you see the amount? Would it be valuable for you today to understand how you’ve linked these together — and how you can UNLINK them, so that you intentionally choose your emotions around money? 

Well, today I am going to break down three phases of understanding what you’ve connected, the bigger picture of what you’ve linked, and how to break this pattern so that you can choose a new money vibration. How many of you experience this… You go to open your bank account or your online sales platform… and you hold your breath and brace for impact?

Are you experiencing a stress response BEFORE or AFTER you see the amount?

Now, if you said after — sure, the initial, very FIRST experience of your interpretation around seeing your money triggered a stress response…. But now you feel anxious BEFORE you even see the numbers… HOW? Your brain has automated that response for you. If you’re visualizing it, your brain doesn’t know the difference between real vs. imagined SO it’s going to create a physiological response based on the thought. 

Think about this though … IF you’re experiencing the stress response BEFORE you see the money in the account — The MONEY isn’t really causing you the stress and anxiety. 

How so? Because you’re experiencing the emotional response BEFORE the stimulus (aka – numbers in an account. … what is triggering the stress response is a THOUGHT [and/or] the pattern that you’ve created, practiced, and wired. Which is really one in the same. 

For all you know, you could log in and see thousands of dollars more than what you THOUGHT you had, right? But if your stress response is turned on, you’re not anticipating more…. chances are you have a lack or low vibration thought that is preceding logging in! 

When I say lack, I am not saying good or bad, I am simply referring to a thought that contradicts your deepest desires. For example — for one person, a thought, “I have 10k in the bank” would be a cause for massive celebration — they’re finally out of CC debt and in the green! … while for another, who had a million in the bank prior to that moment, it could be a sign of financial collapse. 

So it’s all neutral UNTIL you give it context — and the context of your desires is what determines if it’s a lack or abundant thought. Once we can accept that we are choosing to feel a certain way and have trained ourselves to experience life and money a certain way, we create an OPENING to shift it. 

Let’s look at your STRATEGY.

2. WHAT IS YOUR Stress Strategy?

Not in the sense of having a business strategy, in this context, a stress strategy, or motivation strategy, or procrastination strategy — there are steps for how you achieve a specific emotional state or outcome.

How do you access STRESS? “I’m just ALWAYS stressed.” Are you stressed while you’re asleep? No? Okay, so not always. What causes you to choose to feel stress? What TRIGGERS your stress?

Our bodies intuitively want to achieve Homeostasis. That said, many of us have actually lost sight of what TRUE homeostasis feels like in our bodies and minds. From the spiritual lens, you might call that place in your mind-body-soul: ALIGNMENT. And so our “normal” becomes stressed. Or other versions and manifestations could be… 

What’s comfortable = fear.  The people who are always waiting for something to go wrong and find negative things to focus on when things are good. Or. What I’m used to = worry. My extended family has so much worry as a part of their set point and their ancestral lineage, they even show love through worry. Or. Emotional set point = anxious

This could be the person who, especially with the pandemic, is at home, unable to work, or are forced to work in a different way. They’re crawling out of their own skin. They can’t not do, because when they pause, they realize how much chatter is actually going on in their minds.

By intentionally challenging these paradigms or simply by experiencing new stimuli, you’re being forced to look at patterns and beliefs and assess why you’ve been doing things the way you’ve been doing them.

If someone has programmed and / or has been in an environment that reinforced this programming, when those things are taken away — for example, job is on hold, salary is inactive, but the person cannot DO DO DO, they DON’T have those things that cause stress and this person thinks, “Ahhh, who am I? I don’t feel like me!”

They will either recalibrate to this new way of being OR they will FIND things that bring them to their “normal”. Stress can become a bit addictive, like watching a TV show with high drama.

When stress is someone’s “normal”, they may self-sabotage (for example, procrastinate) to subconsciously engineer a scenario where they feel stressed. 

This is the greatest moment to look at your patterns, beliefs, and specifically for all things, but for today, specifically for money stress. Because right now, the only thing anyone is certain about, is that things are uncertain. With that, we are being given permission to pause… and in that, the most valuable asset of all. TIME. The one thing money can not buy. The one thing you cannot get back. 

So coming back to Money Stress Strategy… What causes you to choose to feel stress? What TRIGGERS your stress? We can create a map of how you run this program and how you execute this strategy. What happens first: Do you see something? Hear something? Think something? Feel something? You might also know where it ends — sitting down at your computer looking at my bank account.

We can also walk it back from there… Do you see something? Hear something? Think something? Feel something? What is the series of experiences?

It may be something like… 

First, I see someone post about their money wins on social media. 

2. I feel a knot of anxiety in my gut.

3. I think to myself, “How come they can do it but I can’t?”

4. I feel defeated.

5. I think, “Well maybe I got a new sale? I should check.”

6. I feel a surge of anxiety and hope.

7. I see there are no new sales.

8. I feel stressed.

9. I tell myself, “I’m not doing enough.”

Now once you are aware of your strategy, you can intentionally break that pattern. 

With my high-level private clients, I host breakthrough day sessions where we do deep work on releasing these old patterns and rewiring new ones. If that is something you’re interested in, feel free to DM me on IG @heyjencasey and we can chat about working together. 

For now, when it comes to breaking the pattern, you can choose a new thought, a new action, you can throw in a physical move like jumping jacks or push ups to literally break the neural pathway in the brain that is running this sequence – this strategy. You can jump up and down in celebration and say, “I’M RICH!”

Here’s the thing I’ve seen…

People without money who experience money stress often believe that money will solve all of their problems… 

But without also removing the pattern, what I see happen is that the money stress stays, and — it’s never enough – or they think it’s a fluke – or it’s going to get taken away – or they panic about taxes or fill in the blank — sooooo even when this person has their best month in business, they’re still not happy…

Because it’s not about the money. It’s the strategy, the pattern, the pathway, and the story they’ve built around money. 

The money was the symptom and the symbol – it’s the tangible that measures the energetic flow of thought. 

You are not your patterns. 

You are not your programming. 

We’ve wired ourselves to go through a set of things to achieve an emotional set point. 

Why is this work SOOOO important as business owners?

Well, to RUN a business, there is an exchange of a service or product for MONEY… so healing your money story is pretty essential…

When you don’t do this work, it’s going to COST you in more ways than one. 

Right now in particular, with everything happening in the world, I see entrepreneurs in 2 main camps, of course with a whole lot of gray variations. Ends of the scale though are — 

Those who are being reactive instead of pausing and being proactive… they’re metaphorically flailing around like their business is on fire and can’t remember to stop, drop, and roll. 

Those who are pivoting, planning, and problem solving.

3. Interpretation

Negative Forecasting = Assuming you don’t have the money or won’t have the money…. Data Driven = knowing your numbers — like P&L, your projected rev for the year, etc. and making business decisions on what is actually in the bank.

“I’m going to have to lay off a team member.” How did you come to decide that? Looking at other influencers and seeing them let people go? Looking at your monthly rev, but nothing else, and making a decision from an assumption? Looking at the panic on social media and seeing people say that selling is bad? (which is a podcast for another day!) OR —

From looking at your OWN numbers and projects — making an educated decision about how much money you have, how much you project to bring in during these times, and any project pivots you may do moving forward.

For one of my clients, she wasn’t 100% happy with someone on her team, who was still in a 60 day trial period, and they were delivering B work in the role. Even though they weren’t aligning with the core values of her business, she felt bad letting them go. 

WELL, as soon as things in our world began shifting with the pandemic, she was gifted 2 things, 1. Clarity and 2. Permission. Clarity on where her business blindspots and money leaks were… and permission to get the right person in the right seat.

Profitable Business Owners do not build their businesses on assumptions.

This is why the inner work is so key… a great relationship with money BEGINS in your mind. 

Even IF someone knew how to read their numbers… if they allowed their emotions to take over before LOOKING at their numbers, or operating from fear, the knowledge would be useless because it wouldn’t be utilized. 

4. Break the Pattern

I’m going to give you the simplest way right here: Celebration 

Far too many entrepreneurs are in that DO DO DO DO state – can’t take a break because there’s too much to get done! They have not yet learned how to pause and celebrate. When we celebrate, we are in a state of gratitude. We are recognizing ourselves for our accomplishments — you’re the boss, so you’ve got to give that to yourself.