Welcome to Visionary’s Pursuit, a podcast where we explore what it takes to turn your bold and inspiring ideas into reality. I'm Carolina Zuleta. I'm a life and business coach and your host for this podcast. I'm thrilled to have you here.
Hi, and welcome to episode 38 of the Visionaries Pursuit Podcast. As always, I'm so grateful that I get to connect with all of you here. Before I jump into today's episode, I want to remind you that this is your last chance to sign up for the Visionary Mindset Program. I have to tell you, I am so excited about the people that have already joined.
We have. Brand new entrepreneurs, people who have been very successful in corporate and they're starting their first business. We have people who already completed their first round of angel investors, and they're taking that leap into selling their products and their services to many other people. And we have people who have had their own business for a while, but have a.
Bigger idea for it. They wanna reach more people, have more clients, and that's what they're gonna be working on during the next six months. So if you have been listening to the podcast, reading the emails, maybe you've seen the Lives I've done in social media and in your heart or in your mind, you've been thinking about this program, I want to encourage you to book a 30 minute consult with me.
Tell me about your vision. Tell me about the doubts or challenges you might have right now. And together we'll decide if this program is right for you. Nothing makes me more happy than helping visionaries make their ideas reality, and I truly believe that if you've been thinking about this resonating with this, it's because it's meant for you.
So let's chat. You can go to the link right here in the description of the podcast and get those 30 minutes with me and we can explore together. So now into today's episode, I wanna go back and tell you about a story. So when I was working at Morgan Stanley, my boss, who from any perspective you would say, she was a very, she still is a very successful woman.
I. You know, make seven figures a year or more. She's had an incredible trajectory. Her clients love her. She's really, really good at what she does. She told me she was working with her own executive coach. She was the first person to tell me about the concept of coaching, and she was the first person to invite me to a weekend long transformational program, which really changed my life since back then.
I think it was 2007 or 2008 where I learned the concept of coaching, of maximizing our potential on the importance of working on our self concept. I have not stopped seeking support, being part of a mastermind, having my own personal coach, being part of a group of coaches. I've always had other people supporting me in becoming the woman that I am and the woman I wanna be.
Sometimes I look back and I wonder what would've happened if I hadn't had all this support throughout the years. That is an impossible answer because this is the life I have. I didn't take that other path, but what I do know. Is that the level of fulfillment, the quality of my relationships, the peace I feel about being myself, the mom I am, the businesswoman I am is.
A result of all these years of investing in myself, challenging my thoughts, challenging my beliefs, doing things that at times have felt really hard, but have felt very rewarding. And today, what I wanna do is explore with all of you while investing in ourselves is fundamental, is essential. When we are visionaries, when we are ambitious people, when we resonate with the idea of maximizing our potential, what that means is that in this lifetime will never be done.
There will always be a new goal and way we wanna expand. That is currently outside of our comfort zone. So I want you to imagine that right now, your comfort zone is the size of a dime, not because it's small. But we're gonna imagine that it's that big and inside of it are all the things that you feel comfortable doing.
Perhaps you're a very successful entrepreneur and you have a profitable business with lots of clients that is making X amount of revenue a year. Or maybe you're a corporate leader, you know how to lead teams. You've already had incredible accomplishments. Again, we're gonna imagine. All those things that you're successful at that you know how to do very well today, fit inside the size of a dime.
But because you're a visionary, because you are an ambitious person, I also know that you have a goal, that you have a project that is sitting outside that comfort zone, and we're gonna imagine that there's a whole new area outside that dime that is your potential. We're gonna imagine that your potential currently is the size of a quarter.
So the difference between the size of the quarter and the size of the dime is your opportunity for growth. And the way you're gonna grow when you're gonna expand that comfort zone is by working on yourself, by starting to believe in a new way about what you're capable of. Starting to think in new ways and strategies to be able to reach that next level.
And then one day you will, you will become the person whose comfort zone is no longer the size of a dime, but it's the size of a quarter. And then you'll also get another project or another vision that is outside of that new comfort zone, and it will continue to move and grow like that for the rest of your life.
Because you're a visionary and because when we're visionaries, what we wanna do is expand ourselves to the last of our days. We wanna continuously be creating, we wanna continuously be learning. We wanna continuously growing our impact, our revenue, our wealth. And it's in that gap of growth where having support is fundamental.
I was recently having a conversation with a friend who is very excited to start a new project. She has a new goal for her life, and she was telling me all about it, and then she said something around the lines of, yeah, it's incredible with how much I've done that. I'm wanting support to get this other thing.
It almost feels like I should be able to do it on my own. And what I told her is, I have no doubt that you can do it on your own. Absolutely you can. But it wouldn't be the smartest strategy because no matter how successful we've been, we still have a human brain and our human brain will still present to us limiting beliefs, limiting thoughts, blind spots.
So I told her, let's look at the most successful athletes in our lifetime. Let's look. For example, at Roger Federer, I think he won around 20 grand slams, and after winning the first one that positioned him as the number one tennis player in the world, he didn't fire his team of coaches, trainers, even though he knew how to play tennis really well.
He was the number one in the world, and he had already the success of winning a grand slam. He didn't fire his team. So he went on with his team training, supporting him, helping him work on his physicality, but also someone who was helping him manage his mind. Then he went on and he won a second grand slam and a third grand slam, and a fourth and a fifth, and then he won his 10th grand slam.
He met that after winning 10 grand slams. He could think, well, I could do this on my own, but that's not the way successful people think. Successful athletes understand the importance of being surrounded by doctors, trainers, physical therapists, coaches that are helping them perform at their best. Having won 10 grand slams doesn't mean that now he can go on and win on his own.
Maybe he could, but why would he try it on his own when he knows that part of the formula for success has been to be surrounded by these people? So he kept his team and then he won 15 Grand Slams and he still didn't fire his team. He kept them and he did 20 grand slams, maybe more. But his entire career he had people around him supporting him to be at his best.
And this is why my best clients, the ones who have the biggest visions, that are the most ambitious. Renew their coaching packages year after year because they have decided that part of their budget is going to be invested in their mind, not because they're incapable and not because there's something wrong with them, but because they want more.
And honestly, that's the reason why I continue to invest in myself. By now, I've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in my own personal development, and probably I could say that I've read so many books and learned from so many teachers that it's not that now I'm investing in something to learn this idea that it's gonna blow my mind.
I'm not looking for someone to give me a magical solution, but it's because I understand. That if I can improve my mindset in one or 2%, that will create a lasting impact that is way bigger than one or 2%. One way you can think about it is a pilot who, if they adjust their path one to 3%, they'll land in a completely different country than if they didn't.
These little adjustments we do in our day to day, week to week, this one or 2% have the possibility of taking us to a path that is significantly bigger, more successful, more fulfilled. Then if we don't do those some days ago, I was with my closest friends telling them about a conversation I had with a peer coach.
And I casually said that coaching session was so powerful to me that I would've paid $500 for it. And one of my friends immediately asked me, so tell us what is it that she told you? And I had to stop for a second because it wasn't that this coach had given me. A tool or a strategy that blew my mind.
What I was referring to was that this coach helped me see a pattern in my thinking that I've been repeating over and over that is currently limiting me, and when she was able to point that out, I clearly saw it. I was able to adjust, and quite frankly, because of that adjustment, I got some new clients.
And it wasn't that this coach had told me about a strategy that was like this secret, and that was gonna completely change my business. What this coach did was point out a thought pattern that I've been having for a while, that in that moment was limiting the way I was selling my programs, the way I was communicating about what I was doing.
And when she told me this and I saw it clearly, I adjusted right that one or 2%. And that adjustment brought me paying clients. And that's why I continue to invest in myself because I am playing that infinite game. I am playing the game of ever expanding, ever growing, ever learning, and having a bigger impact with who I am.
And that's what I've seen the most successful people do. Successful people are not going about it alone. They're surrounding themselves with mentors, peers, coaches, training programs that are constantly expanding the way they think. Why I felt in love with the coaching profession is because as coaches, we don't believe that we are.
Fixing someone or that people are broken or they need us because they're struggling. What I believe as a coach is that my clients have infinite potential, and that by doing this work by week after week, growing the awareness they have of how they think, challenging those thoughts that are limiting them.
Then they're gonna continue to expand that potential and live lives that are more fulfilling, more successful, create more money, have better relationships, better health, all the things they want.
What else do I have to say? I. I don't know. So I want you to consider that if right now your stories, I should be able to do it by myself. I shouldn't need help. That really is a limiting belief. Of course, you can do it by yourself, but why would you? One of the things I learned from Tony Robbins that stuck with me is that he says Experience is the most expensive way of learning something.
And it's true. If there is someone that has the knowledge of something you want, why would you spend days and days trying to figure it out? It's a smarter way to go Pay for that knowledge, for that wisdom, for that insight, and then save years of time trying to figure it out and just know that and keep going.
Experience is the most expensive way to learn something. If there is someone that has the knowledge you need to be able to get to your goals. The smarter path is to pay for it instead of taking you days, months, years, to figure it out. I actually believe that's why our kids. Are way more advanced now than when we were kids, and it's because we've gotten so smart on how to educate them, how to help them see life in a different way that these kids are learning at paces that are way faster than us.
It's because we're paying for the experience that other people have had, so we can learn it fast and then we can get further along. Scientists today are not gonna spend years trying to figure out calculus. They pay someone to teach them calculus, so then they can use that calculus to take knowledge further along.
And that's what I think we can do with ourselves. Invest in learning, yes, strategies and tools, but also invest in looking at our minds so we can go further than we could even imagine. So if you're a visionary, an entrepreneur, you have big ambitious goals. I want to invite you to consider not going at it alone, but to create around yourselves an incredible team of professionals that are gonna help you go further than where you can go by yourself.
And if what I've been telling you resonates with you and you are interested in the Visionary Mindset Program, go ahead, book a call. Let's talk. I would love to be that support for you. I. All right, my friends. I'll see you next time.
If you're currently pursuing a big, bold idea and would love some support, let's talk. In my coaching program, I'll teach you how to manage yourself, your own thoughts and emotions. as well as your team and your money so you can turn your beautiful idea into a reality. Go now to carozuleta.com slash consult that is c a r o z u l e t a dot com slash consult and complete the form to book a complimentary call with me.
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