Have you ever hit a glass ceiling in your life? A roadblock that you just can’t seem to figure out?

They sneak up on you, don’t they?

Maybe you’ve been able to rely on hard work getting you where you need to be up until now.

You’ve hustled your way to where you are – those long hours, tireless research, and big investments of your time, energy and money will get you places… to a point.

 

That point is your glass ceiling. And in 2015, after 6 years of being in private practice, I hit my first one…

Then in 2020 when I was diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer I hit my second.

 And here we are in Dec 2022 and that Glass Ceiling is still around – because there will always be some mindset shift we need to make.

Especially as clinicians who become business owners

Hard work got me to 2020.  I had tried a number of things to take the pressure that I had been experiencing until 2016 ‘off’

Things like

• My own personal coaching and mentoring
• Attending training and development 
• Employing staff  – both clinical and support staff 
• Building team 
• Attending conferences as a delegate 
• Taking breaks away from work 
• Creating a course
• Creating a workshop
• Building a membership community 
• Selling coaching 
• Creating a two day event 
• Speaking at conferences
• Writing a book 
• Creating another book 
• Podcast guesting 
• Blogging, blogging and more blogging 
• Social media – posts, videos LIVES,
• Guest article writing 
• Sponsorship of events 
• Adding to my clinical skills

Increasing my expertise got me there. Putting my heart and soul into my business had carried me through.

And yet by 2020 (and this is before the covid era)
slowly but surely… the return to my efforts began to diminish. I couldn’t hustle my way out of this.

Hard work had stopped working for me.

Previously when ever there had been a financial need – I would simply do more clinical or coaching work.

When we had client’s who needed support – I would simply serve them.

When my consulting team were overwhelmed and needed assistance, I would get stuck in and work directly with their clients. 

I had created a whole new glass ceiling in my business that again, relied completely ON ME! 

That was NOT the answer to the years of COVID and cancer.

And it’s not the answer to you growing a business that serves you rather than you being the servant to your business.

Like me, you are going to reach a point in your practice (if you haven’t already) where hard work just doesn’t cut it anymore.

And at this point, you are going to be desperate to figure out what’s causing it.

• Is it a saturated market
• Am I burned out 
• Should I sell retreats 
• I just need more staff, but staff who will invest in my business as if it was their own
• Does my website need redoing 
• Do I need another course, 
• Do I need to become a consultant in something 
• Do I need to change direction
• Offer a new service
• Create a new income stream

Nope.

Nope, nope. nope. Nope!

Your glass ceiling is personal. YOU are your glass ceiling.

When I hit this most recent  glass ceiling this  year, my coach called me out on something I just couldn’t see.

The truth was that something in me had to change…

My belief that I was the ONLY person who could do it the RIGHT way!

And if you read the post I wrote back in 2016 of the same title you will note that well, that’s the same issue Jo.

Yes – and from 2016-2020 I thought I had been dealing with it, and I had been.

But we only know what we know right. 

AND this is why it is so important to have someone in your world who you can trust to help you with your own perspective. 

You see, I am a control freak. Someone called me out on this in 2015 and I nearly fell off my chair – I had no idea I was a control freak. Because I always felt like my work world was out of control – The truth  was, I was not  not in control of my world of work.

In 2022, my coach called me out on my perfectionism – Saaaaayyy WHAT???  I’m not a perfectionist, I don’t do anything perfectly, my spelling and typos are testament to that. 

I am hearing many of you who know me laughing right now…. saying really Jo, I could have told you that. But hey – we all know we can’t coach ourselves, right?

So I’m here to tell you this today:

When you’re struggling in your practice, spinning your wheels, feeling stuck, it seems natural to turn outward and diagnose something external as the cause.

But you might have heard the saying before: most business problems are personal problems in disguise.

And that glass ceiling that you’ve hit, the one that is holding you back from growing how you want to grow, living the lifestyle you want – it’s a personal one.

For me, it’s control.

For you it might be security, or significance, or variety, or love and connection.

And it all comes down to figuring out how you can get out of your own way. Because I’m guessing that beating yourself up and promising to be better hasn’t been working for you, has it?

So, Fabulous health professional… isn’t it time to remove that Glass ceiling for 2023, so that you can define success on your terms, and have someone walk with you to get there?

THis is your invitation to make a time with me so we can discuss how I can help you move beyond your own glass cleaning in 2023.

Book your FREE consultation with me here 

https://JoMuirhead.as.me/FREE-Consult

Until then, 

Go  be your awesome self 

Jo