In this Expert Insight Interview, Allyson Chavez discusses the power of making decisions and why it is so difficult for some people. Allyson Chavez is a prosperity and success coach for ambitious God-centered women who want phenomenal success with ease, to bend time and space, achieve their goals without hustle or grind, and reshape their reality and feminine energy.

This Expert Insight Interview discusses:

• How Allyson Chavez got interested in the science of making decisions
• What happens if you put off making decisions
• Deciding whether you want to live in a hostile universe or a friendly one

Allyson’s Journey

Allyson Chavez became interested in the science of making decisions because she had difficulty making decisions for a long time. She second-guessed any big decision that she wanted to make. Being in that back-and-forth place put her in a spin, and it was mentally exhausting to be indecisive about everything.

As she learned more about what decisions are, she realized that she needed to share her message with people, giving them a different perspective about decisions and taking the angst and agony out of making decisions with just a tiny tweak in their viewpoint.

Postponing Decisions

If you continue to postpone making decisions, the difficult ones will get even harder and the opportunities will disappear. Whenever Allyson had a decision to make about joining a program, learning a new skill, or anything else, she would remain in the indecision phase until the opportunity passed, and she would feel relief that she didn’t move forward with it.

Later on, she would realize that she had missed an opportunity to change the entire trajectory of her life, and here she was, relieved that she had let an opportunity pass her by because she was so hung up on making a wrong decision.

Hostile vs. Friendly Universe

The biggest thing Allyson learned about decisions is that they don’t always have to relate to doing something. Instead, decisions are most often about something. For years and years, Allyson chose to live in a hostile universe, so every decision she had to make was hampered by this fear of messing up.

Once she decided that she lived in a universe designed to support her, one that was friendly to her desires, it helped her get into the driver’s seat for the first time in her life. She then understood that everything would always work out and it would be okay.

Our Host

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP! is rated in the top 2% of most popular shows out of 3,320,580 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.

In this Expert Insight Interview, Victoria Whitfield discusses what it means to be a visionary in this day and age. Victoria Whitfield is a business reiki master for entrepreneurs. She preaches loving yourself and loving your business at the same time.

This Expert Insight Interview discusses:

• The problem of workaholism and burnout
• The mindset shifts necessary to achieve great success
• The concept of the inner visionary and the inner anti-visionary

Burnout and Workaholism

Workaholism is very real. We are rewarded for working hard, and we define people as good or bad depending on how hard they work. That approach can get us onto a slippery slope where we keep working harder and harder to prove ourselves.

Unfortunately, this is not a sustainable way to live, and many people end up working so hard that they work themselves into the hospital or into burnout. Entrepreneurs also often burn out their teams because they just keep adding more and more tasks.

Mindset Shift

We know most of these things intellectually, but it is a question of actually putting the changes required into practice. The truth is that we live many different lives during a lifetime, and sometimes we get stuck with a perception of ourselves from the past instead of taking a step back and realizing that we have evolved, developed, and increased our experience.

Unfortunately, many people seem to believe that they must remain within whatever persona they have existed in for most of their lives, and we could name this persona the anti-visionary.

Visionary vs Anti-Visionary

Inside each and every one of us, there is an inner visionary. This is the part of our personality that pulls us forward and helps us make quantum leaps in our lives and businesses. It is there to shake up not just our lives but our business and perhaps even the industry we operate in.

On the other hand, the anti-visionary is the part of our subconscious that wants to play it safe and not “upset the apple cart.” This side of our personality is cautious and does its best to handle quality control. The anti-visionary is essential too because everybody wants stability in their life. However, at the end of the day, if you’re going to achieve massive success, you can only reach it by listening to your inner visionary.

Our Host

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP! is rated in the top 2% of most popular shows out of 3,320,580 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.

How to feel comfortable in public speaking? In this Expert Insight Interview, Seth Donlin discusses developing confidence in public speaking to deliver your message right. Seth Donlin is a Founder and Head Coach at Awen Coaching, a marketing and communications coaching firm specializing in coaching entrepreneurs to identify, attract, and connect with their ideal clients.

The interview discusses:

• The fundamental fear
• The Imposter Syndrome
• Authenticity on the stage

The Fear

The most fundamental fear that people have when it comes to public speaking is being thought less of by a group of people. Public speaking is a skill to be taught and becomes pretty easy once you overcome initial obstacles. Obstacles arise once you start getting too much into your head. When having a regular conversation with friends, people are usually great speakers. But the moment they stay in front of an unknown audience, they start to analyze everything they say or do.

The key to public speaking is to shift the mindset to serve the audience. Public speaking event is not about the speaker but the audience. The speaker is providing some value for the audience. Thus, the more you focus on adding value for the audience, the less time you will have to think about negative things.

The Imposter Syndrome

Probably all people felt at least once in their lifetime the Imposter Syndrome. And the ones who haven’t are definitely not experts on their subject matter like they think. Everyone who knows their subject matter also knows that there is so much unknown left to discover. Thus, if you experience Imposter Syndrome, that means you know quite a lot, and you should be sharing your expertise with the world.

Moreover, being an entrepreneur means that you will be doing 95 percent the same thing as your competitors, and only five percent will be different. Thus, to succeed, you have to be ready to make those five percent as you go. Do not be afraid to be creative and try new things. You might succeed right away, or you might fail and learn a lesson for the next time. Successful entrepreneurs constantly operate on that five percent edge where they do things as they go.

Authenticity

The common mistake people make is trying to create a persona for the stage. Instead, be authentic. Be the best version of yourself on your best day. Think of the day when you were 100 percent best you and recreate how you felt, thought, and acted that day. That way, you are performing for the public but in a very authentic way. Moreover, when you are telling stories, go with the relatable ones. Nobody wants to hear crazy stories, but the ones they can resonate with and understand the point.

Our Host

John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. A globally acknowledged Sales & Marketing thought leader, speaker, and strategist, he has conducted over 1500 video interviews of thought leaders for Sales POP! online sales magazine & YouTube Channel and for audio podcast channels where Sales POP! is rated in the top 2% of most popular shows out of 3,320,580 podcasts globally, ranked by Listen Score. He is CSMO at Pipeliner CRM. In his spare time, John is an avid Martial Artist.

In some interesting conversations I had recently, we were discussing how fear of failure holds many people back from achieving their full potential – which is obvious and something we all know. There is, however, an equal or even greater fear that holds others back and that is actually the fear of success. So consider the following for a moment and see if you have ever had these feelings or questions about an opportunity or undertaking that you ultimately decided against:

1. If I take this new opportunity my life will change and I have just established a routine and lifestyle I am comfortable with.
2. This new opportunity will bring additional exposure and I will be more in the spotlight than ever – am I ready for that?
3. There will be a whole new level of expectation of my performance, do I really want that kind of pressure?
4. What if I discover that I don’t like the new opportunity?
5. I might miss my current colleagues and friends & maybe they won’t act the same towards me anymore.
6. What if I am really not good enough and get found out?

As humans, our psyche can trick us into believing that it is protecting us from making mistakes by putting all of these thoughts into our heads. The reality is that it is just our natural fear of change that works overtime when the potential for success presents itself. As you can see from the list above, our mind races ahead, adds two and two together and gets 150. The antidote to fear of success is, like most things, to take one step at a time.

First, obviously, you need to land the opportunity – many people don’t even put their name in the hat because they get caught up in a “but what if…” merry-go-round that eventually makes them settle for the safe and known.

The second step is rather than looking at what impact the opportunity may have on your current circumstances, focus on all the new positives that the new situation will bring for you.

The third is to remember, in life very few things are forever and can’t be changed – if it ends up not working out then simply try something else and use the experience to grow.

And remember with most opportunities in the life that present themselves, it is better to regret something you tried than live with the regret and the unknowns of chances never taken.