Our thoughts and beliefs determine how we feel and act. So it's important to think on purpose. 

We sometimes believe that we can't think any differently than we do because we point at all the evidence that supports a belief.

But in fact, you can always find evidence for what you believe. And if that's the case, you may as well think and believe something that helps you move forward with your goals.

Learn more about the Self Confidence Formula: https://truepotentialacademy.com/confidence/

Sometimes we believe our own stories so much that we think that they are facts.

I believed the story about my eyes for many years and someone had to point out to me that the story may actually be wrong.

That's when my journey towards more self confidence began.

Discover the importance of recognizing the stories you tell yourself. Perhaps those stories need to be changed.

To learn how to do that you may like to join my new program: theselfconfidenceformula.com

Self confidence is something you can cultivate and actively learn and the Self Confidence Formula I developed will make that easy and practical.

In this episode, learn the importance of self confidence and how you can get more of it for yourself so you can cope and grow in any situation.

Want to join my free class go to https://40plusstyle.com/confidenceclass

Are you a perfectionist?

I used to be one. However, I've learned to let go of my perfectionism so I could grow my business.

In this episode of the True Potential Podcast, find out why your perfectionism can stop you from reaching your goals and prevents you from developing true self confidence.

This is the first of shorter episodes that will give you tidbits of any wisdom I have.

In this episode, I talk about how to connect with the current moment which is so important at a time like this.

The world is in a bit of crisis at the moment and it can feel difficult to cope with all the changes and restrictions.

But there are actually quite a few things you can do. And one of the key things it to learn how to manage your emotions, especially around anxiety and fear.

In this podcast I discuss how you can use my ABLE framework to better manage your mindset and emotions. You will learn how to not let your emotions get out of control so you’ll be able to keep your head cool and make the right decisions and focus on the right tasks ahead of you.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How to use the ABLE framework to manage your mind and circumstances you find difficult to cope with
• The importance of awareness
• How you can allow emotions
• The importance of practicing new beliefs
• The right actions to take
• How to correct when things go off the rails
• why I love Audiobooks as one tool to relax
• ABLE: Awareness, belief, lots of action, evaluate

Find links and show notes at https://sylviavandelogt.com/able

I teach a simple framework for confidence and business success, which is summarized by the word ABLE. (Find out more about this in my podcast on how to get successful in business and life.)

It stands for:

• Awarenes
• Belief
• Lots of action
• Evaluation

Today I want to dive a little deeper into the first step, the A: awareness.

Awareness actually stands for 2 important things you need to do as your first step

You need to become aware of your thoughts on a daily basis as they create your results. This is the key to getting the results you want. (find out more in this episode why you don’t yet have what you want).

But it also stands for awareness of the reason you’re in business in the first place.

You want to know your big why

That is important, because creating a successful business can be tough.

It’s challenging as your brain will keep telling you that you can’t do it:

• That it’s too hard.
• That you’re too tired to do this difficult task today and that you need a rest.
• That others are doing something similar to you and that your work is not needed.

It’s in those moments that your Big Why will pull you through.

Show notes at https://sylviavandelogt.com/why

What does success mean to you?

Do you feel you are successful?

I believe I am.

And that's because I choose to feel successful.

I can find lots of evidence for it.

Success is a choice.

That doesn't mean I don't see plenty of evidence of why I'm NOT successful.

I see that too.​​

But these are simply the results I haven't achieved yet.

And even though I'm successful I still want to go after those results as well and go after them.

In this week's episode discover how to be successful. You''ll also discover a 4 steps framework on how you can get the results you want in your life.

https://sylviavandelogt.com/success

One of the most important skills you can learn is self confidence.

It's a bit different from confidence.

According to Wikipedia:

Confidence is a feeling of self-assurance arising from an appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities

I couldn't find the definition of self confidence on Wikipedia which assumes that they believe it's the same thing as confidence.

However, I believe it's something different. It's a definition I learned from one of my mentors: Brooke Castillo.

Self-confidence is being secure in yourself and your abilities. It’s your ability to trust yourself, knowing that you can experience any emotion (including humiliation or failure) without being harmed.

In this podcast you'll learn how to build supreme self confidence. Yes, it's something you practice and learn!

What you’ll learn in this podcast

• The difference between confidence and self confidence
• Why traditional advice on how to become more confident doesn't work
• How to practice self confidence
• The most important question you can ask yourself when you're in the midst of a difficult task and you feel like giving up
• A simple exercize you can do each day to build your self confidence

Check the show notes at https://sylviavandelogt.com/confidence

Have you ever thought of reinventing yourself?

Perhaps you feel this itch somewhere inside you that tells you're capable of more.

You feel that you're ready for a change.

You know that you haven't quite tapped into your full potential yet.

Perhaps it's time for a reinvention!

In today's episode of the True Potential podcast I talk about how you can recognize this feeling of unfulfilment, why you would want to reinvent yourself in the first place and my 3 step process to make it happen and get the results you want.

What you'll learn in this podcast

• Should you reinvent yourself?
• How do you start the reinvention process?
• My 3 step process for reinvention that I teach in my program
• Ideas on how you can reinvent yourself
  
  

https://sylviavandelogt.com/reinvention

If you're into style and follow stylish women over 40 on Instagram, you may know Melanie Kobayashi or Bagandaberet as she is known on Instagram.

You will see a very stylish, very funny woman who is not afraid to be different.

What you may not know is that it took her a while to become that.

In fact, the personage that she shows online used to be her alter ego, Ms Bag.

However, through taking consistent action and little steps that sometimes scared her, she is more and more becoming like her alter ego, the person she portrays in her photos.

A confident woman who is not afraid to take massive action towards her dreams.

She is tapping into her true potential more and more.

Her Instagram following is growing rapidly.

And while doing that she has modeled for brands and is being featured in their commercials and growing her business.

If you want to know her secrets and the behind-the-scenes story of the fabulous Mel, you will love this week's podcast.

Those little actions don't seem important when we do them and they can be uncomfortable but they take you on a trajectory to the result you want.

What you'll learn in this podcast:

• What you can do to get more confident
• How seemingly small suggestions can have a big impact
• How you can reframe your 'job'

In this episode I discuss the benefits of coaching and myself and Karen have added it to our programs.

One great tool I use in my programs is the coaching model. It's a brilliant tool that helps you get really clear on why you don't yet have what you want and how to get it.

I'd love for you to learn this tool too as it can be really useful for your self coaching too.

And rather than just hearing how beneficial it has been for me, I thought I would invite another coach, Karen Kjaerulff, who is also a nutritionist and certified lifestyle medicine practitioner also share her opinions.

What you can expect in this episode:

• Why she and I both added coaching to our programs
• How coaching work and why it's so beneficial
• What is the coaching model?
• What's an urge jar and how do you use it?
  
  

Check out the show notes at https://sylviavandelogt.com/model

Welcome to 2020!

Are you ready to make this year your best year or even best decade ever!

I am.

But in order to do that, you need to know what would make it the best year or decade?

What do you really want to achieve?

What do you want in your life by the end of 2021 and the end of 2030?

And what do you already have and can be really grateful for?

These are the questions that we ponder in my latest podcast. 

I will explain the big benefit of creating a bucket list: a list that includes everything that is important in your life.

Not only will it include the things that you want but also the things that you already have.

I've actually created a very comprehensive bucket list guide for you where you can simply tick off everything that applies to you and add your own items too.

You'll get it for free when you sign up for my FREE Bucket List Challenge which starts on 13 January.

All details at https://sylviavandelogt.com/challengepodcast

Do you have any regrets?

I think if we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us have some form of regret.

And if you’re still thinking about it from time to time, or if you find yourself saying ‘I should have….’ a few too many times, you haven’t fully processed the regret yet.

Or taken action upon it.

Sometimes regret can be the perfect teacher.

It can inform us what our next goal should be.

It can remind us that it’s worth pursuing our new goal when things get tough.

That’s what this podcast is all about.

I’ll be sharing stories of some of my regrets and how I’m currently using these feelings of regret to go after something.

Listen to this podcast and discover how you can do the same.

https://sylviavandelogt.com/regret

2020 is almost upon us and I'm excited!

Are you?

Have you already given the new year some thought?

Perhaps you're ready to make this new year special and amazing!

Perhaps it's time to believe something new about yourself and your capabilities so you can make it happen.

That's what I'm discussing in this week's podcast.

You can listen to it below.

Why is believing new things so important?

As we've already discovered in previous episodes, how you feel depends on what you think. What you think repeatedly becomes a belief.

You need to believe in a thought that puts you in a state of mind, a feeling, that lets you take the actions you need to do to achieve your desired goal.

I'll be discussing 4 stages of belief that you'll go through and how to tackle the most challenging one: stage 2

You'll learn:

• How to believe new things
• The 4 stages of belief
• Why stage 2 can be challenging but so worth it!
• How I personally developed the belief that has allowed me to have the successful business I have today

https://sylviavandelogt.com/believe/

Would you love to feel more confident with your appearance? Then this podcast is for you. 

How can you feel confident with your appearance and your clothes?

You may think that you need to find exactly the right dress.

Or that you need to understand all my dressing guidelines for your body type.

But it's actually a lot easier.

There's only one thing that you need to master to feel confident in your clothes and that's what I'll be sharing in this podcast.

You will learn:

• The one thing you need to master to feel confident with your appearance and your clothes
• How your life can change just from changing your mind about something you don't like about yourself; I'm sharing a personal story that changed everything for me.
• How to feel confident with your appearance even without makeup or the perfect dress.

Links mentioned in this podcast:

• My style website
• Download your free reinvention guide
• Join the bucket list challenge

If you've listened to my podcast on why we don't yet have what we want, you will have learned that we want most things because of the way they make us feel.

Most of the time you do the things you do in life because of the way you want to feel.

You want to feel happy, or accomplished or excited.

On the other hand often we don't achieve the things we want, because achieving it and doing the actions that are necessary to achieve it, just feels too awful.

When we start feeling awful, we may do external things to make us feel better like buying a new dress or buffer with food or alcohol.

How great would it be if we could manage our feelings so we can feel better more of the time AND not let the bad feelings get in the way of our dreams.

That's what I discuss in this podcast. I talk about how to manage your feelings and how you can learn to feel better.

This is what you'll learn:

• External things that make you feel better
• How to feel better from the inside out?
• What determines how we feel?
• How can we take control over our feelings?
• How to pursue a goal from a feeling of abundance?
• How to tap into the feeling you want to create ahead of time.

Want to tap into your truest, highest potential in 2020?

Will 2020 be the year where you reach your goals, reinvent yourself or do things that feel impossible to you?

I'd love to teach you the tools I've used to make it a reality. I'm organising a FREE Bucket list challenge, where we'll look at all the things you'd like to do next year and create a plan to make it a reality.

It's starting in the third week of January but you can already sign up for the challenge now so you will not miss it!

Let's make 2020 your most AMAZING year ever and join the challenge for FREE below!

Links mentioned in this podcast

• How to build self confidence
• Join the bucket list challenge
• Download the guide: how to reinvent yourself after 40

Enjoyed this podcast? Share it with others!

In this week's podcast I speak with the fabulous Suzanne Carillo whom I have featured previously on the blog here.

She is a great example of a woman who has turned her passion into a business.

It took her a while to find her perfect business, but through her blogging and trying out several other little businesses she discovered her big WHY and what's she is truly passionate about.

In this episode discover:

• How to find your passion business
• The benefits of blogging and how it can help start your business
• Why a big why is essential to cope with the down days of running a business

Would love to hear your feedback on this week's episode at the show notes on 40plusentrepreneur.com.

Have you thought about coaching as an online business model?

Then this could be the podcast episode for you!

Willo Sana is a Transformational Business Coach who empowers visionary entrepreneurs with heart-centered action.

In this episode discover:

• How to follow your own genius
• How to get started with a coaching business
• Why it's important to invest in yourself
• How to enjoy the journey of entrepreneurship, the highs and the lows!

Enjoy listening to this episode and I can't wait to hear which ideas from this conversation you are going to adapt for yourself and your business.

It is very busy in the online world and it is getting harder to get noticed! 

No matter what online business you have, website traffic is needed to grow it. You need eyeballs on your offers to make important sales. 

This week I am sharing 6 traffic strategies that have helped get my site up to 500,000 visitors a month. I discuss the pros and cons of each strategy and share my own experiences using these strategies. 

The 6 strategies are 

• SEO and website content creation
• Pinterest
• Email
• Facebook 
• Interaction with other websites
• Paid traffic

Find out how to use these strategies effectively and take your online business to the next level!

Lyn Slater is the Accidental Icon.

While pursuing a career as a college professor and taking courses at a New York fashion school, Lyn was searching for something to combine her existing skills and interests while expressing her creativity.

Around 4 years ago she started her blog Accidental Icon. Lyn labels herself a cultural influencer and has built a large international following, traveling globally in her role as Accidental Icon. Her instagram has more than 557,000 followers.

Lyn has modeled for brands such as Valentino and Mango and has been profiled extensively in the fashion world. One of her first ever profiles was on 40+Style and you can read her style interview here.

In this episode of the 40+Entrepreneur podcast you will discover:

• How and why Lyn chose to start a blog
• Why values and ethics are important as an Influencer
• Why she is doing the opposite of everybody else
• How creativity needs feeding through daydreaming
• Why embracing technology is key to success
• What direction her future plans may take

Have you ever wanted to start an online business and wondered which business model is the best one for you? 

On my way to the business success I have today with 40+ Style, I tried out a few of these models. Sometimes you need to try different things to find what will suit you best. There are several questions you need to ask yourself: What do I want to do day to day? How many hours do I want to work? Which of the online business models suits my personality? How much customer interaction do I want to have? How much freedom do I want to have?

In this episode I outline 7 of the most common online business models and examine the pros and cons of each. From a one on one coaching business to blogging or creating online training courses, there are many different ways you can develop your own online business to give you the freedom that you want. I hope this episode can help you find the model that is right for you. 

When you're starting an online business there are a million things you can do to promote it. But what is most important and what role does content creation play?

Molly Watts and Angela McDade are the creators of the online business Five for Life helping mid lifers create longevity habits for a longer, happier, life. They are about to launch their Five For Life planner so they are keen to get as much visibility for their business as possible.

In this episode Sylvia answers Molly's questions around content creation and how it fits into growing traffic to the Five for Life website.

You will discover:

• Why blogging is important for any website
• Reasons you should always align your articles with your own product
• How to do keyword research
• How to do content curation the right way
• The power of a freebie to grow your mailing list