COLOURS OF BUSINESS

Four Pillars of Success

By Guest Faculty Columnist, Emma Romano • International Academy of Universal Self Mastery

Hello you amazing, AWESOME readers,

Firstly, I would like to introduce you to ME. My name is Emma Romano. I love my life of high frequency, training practitioners and mentoring natural practitioners in their business - to get them back in the black.

I have the absolute pleasure of spreading the word of self-healing (in a natural way, with love and light) all over the world. I am married to a very gorgeous Italian man and am the Mum of two teenage boys (ok, I know I’m supposed to say young men but, they are 17 and 18).

My family doesn’t end there though, as I have a huge dog called Teddy who’s over 120 pounds and is such fun. Plus a gorgeous black cat Rodger (ok, so Rodger is a girl, but that’s another story)! But enough about me!

Wooohooo!! So, in life, health, career, wealth and spirituality, I am WINNING!!

BUT, yep, here it comes, life was not always like this for me. Let me explain.

Firstly, let’s use the metaphor of the two colours being:In the RED = broke & brokenGetting into the BLACK = success, wealth, health etc.So, what does “being in the black” actually mean?

It means you have money in the bank! Imagine all parts of your life being like bank account. Now, are you currently in the red or the black?

Picture this: If you were to open four bank accounts and name them:

- Health- Career- Relationship- Wealth

Ask yourself for each of the accounts: are they in the RED or are they in the BLACK?

For me, ALL of them were in the RED. And I say that with big capital letters because my life was a struggle. EVERY part of it. I was suffering with PTSD, anxiety, I was sick, I was broke AND I didn’t love myself. Actually, I didn’t even really like myself to be honest. I was living pay cheque to pay cheque and could not see the light. Sound familiar?

Then things really changed for me. I learned some amazing things on my journey of selfhealing and was able to heal my PTSD, anxiety and Multiple Sclerosis. Oh yeah, I had that too.

The darkest days of my life were also my best. How can it be both you say? Let me explain why! It was 2014 and it was at this moment, it was the true turning point of me getting my life back into the BLACK.

And you know what, I am going to share with you right here, right now how I began on that journey. There are 4 Pillars to Success in my philosophy, and today I am going to share the first step.

The first and most important thing I did was to take full responsibility for where I was in life! This was a hard pill for me to swallow in the beginning, but I soon realized that there was such huge selfempowerment in this.

A situation might not be my fault, but how I choose to deal with it, and what I do next is my responsibility. If I am blaming old events, circumstances or other people, or making excuses, I am stuck in victim mode and there is no action I can take. I am powerless. If I take responsibility, there is an action I can take.

Responsibility versus Victim is a fundamental concept for me. I think it is one of the biggest tools for producing change. When something happens TO you and not FOR you, you acknowledge that thing, and then that puts you in Victim. You’re pretty much powerless to do anything.

But when something happens, and you ask, “How did I make that happen, or how am I responsible for this?” That question helps you find the cause, which then helps you to change the behaviour. If you constantly blame someone or something else for your pain, you literally become powerless to do anything about it. This is called living in victim.

You can’t always control what happens in your life.

You can however, choose what you do with it, how you react, your attitude, the meaning of it – and what you do next.

Put that in context with your business. For example, if you say, “I can’t get any clients”, it suggests that you are unable to get any clients at all, which is disempowering and in victim. If you take responsibility for your ability to get clients, you empower yourself to find a solution, and it becomes “How can I get more clients?”, and then you can find a solution.

Yes Emma, but HOW? I hear you asking me.

EXERCISE

On a clean piece of paper that is folded straight down the middle: write down on the left hand column all the ways you are stuck in your business or personal relationships. ex: I can’t get clients.

Now on the right hand side you write down how you can take full responsibility for these issues. Are these issues on your left side of the chart a real reason or just an excuse? As soon as you realize this at a conscious and unconscious level, you will start seeing things in a very different light. You will start seeing the action you can take behind the issue, not the shame, blame and no action way.

You can use this exercise in any area of your life where you are feeling stuck, just by changing your mindset from Victim to Responsibility. This was a fundamental step for me in taking action towards changing my life, instead of waiting for my life to change.

Now there were of course more steps to getting in the BLACK, and unfortunately there isn’t enough space in this article to walk you through my entire process for this, but I have outlined them in my free video course “The 4 Pillars of Success in your Natural Therapy Career”.

My four pillars philosophy works for anyone in any career so I invite you to check it out (see the flip view of article for link to free on-line course). You can also find more information on my practitioner training courses and workshops at www. emmaromano.com.au

So you amazing soul reading this. Remember to have a beautiful day and that the BLACK is only 4 steps away are you ready to achieve it?