Ep. 79: Your off week = the hardest work you will ever do - a podcast by Iva

I have miscommunicated big time with our clients, and with you. Let me set the record straight here.

Here it goes.

Week 8 is NOT a week off.

It’s not a week of relaxing, doing nothing, and binge watching television.

Week 8 is the hardest work you will do of the 8 weeks.

It’s the inner work where you put the past in the past, heal as much as you can, and receive inspiration for the following 8 weeks.

Here’s what I have seen happen. People either

1. Forget all about week 8 and work anyway
   
   


2. Get their eyelashes done, get a massage, and do a family vacation (which, let’s be honest, is not necessarily at all relaxing, or inspiring)
   
   

If you want to grow your business, you have to grow yourself. This happens by running your business, taking daily emotional risks, moving through fear, but also, slowing down before you speed up again.

That is what I do every 8 weeks.

That is not to say I don’t do fun stuff. Lexi and I have done a lot of beaching as well, but 6 - 8 hours a day I am doing the inner work…

I always bring this back to the tomato plant concept.

Your plant won’t continue growing if you don’t weed out what has been holding your tomato back and don’t pour some water and sunshine at it, and that is what week 8 is.

Week 8 is about your tomato... 

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