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[00:01:00] Hey, my friend, what is up? And welcome back to another episode of Do Life Big. I am so excited to have you here today on today's episode because it's gonna be a really good one. So get ready and buckle up. Today we're gonna be talking about something. That has the power to completely shift your life and your business if you're willing to go there.
So you ready to go there with me? I think you're ready to go there with me. That's why you're here, right? Let's be honest. we're talking about the difference between addressing the fruit and healing the root Now. Stay with me here because this might sound so simple, right? But it's one of the biggest reasons why people stay stuck.
So often, so many times, whether it's in life or it's in business, we focus on the symptom. We focus on a surface issue. What is the problem? We focus on the part that we can [00:02:00] see, the part that we can touch, the part that we can measure in business that might look like something like plateaued income.
Inconsistent action. Fear of being visible, spinning your wheels and strategy after strategy. Right? And when that happens, our very first instinct is to ask, okay, my hand comes plateaued. Being inconsistent. What do I need to do now? What should I do? What's the action that I need to take to fix this? What new strategy should I try?
Right? We go to immediately, what do we need to do? What's the action that needs to be done so that we can change this situation so we can fix this problem? But here's the truth, you don't have an action problem. You don't. You don't have an action problem. You have a root problem.
You can take all the right actions in the world, but if the root is off, if your mindset, your beliefs, your identity, are still rooted in fear or self-doubt, or shame, [00:03:00] those actions. They will not produce fruit that you're hoping for. And this isn't just true in business. This is true in your life as well.
If you're feeling stuck in feelings like guilt and shame and comparison and anxiety, those are all just the fruit. Those are all the fruit. They are the visible byproducts of something so much deeper. And that brings me to something that I heard at church this past weekend that it really just hit home.
You know, the pastor said something and just hit home. The light bulb went on and I was like, you know what? This is gonna be my next podcast episode. I love this because it's so true. I. The pastor was talking about how often we try to clean up the fruit in our lives. The fruit being those things that we don't wanna deal with.
The shame, the guilt, the fear, the pride, the insecurity, the jealousy, all of that. There's so much more and we think, I've gotta get this fruit off my tree. I've just gotta get rid of this fruit off my tree. I've gotta clean it up. Let me just pluck at it. Let me cut it out. [00:04:00] Let me hide it. But here's the thing. Fruit doesn't grow on its own. Fruit is always connected to what? A root, it is always connected to a root, a long root that goes way down deep inside of you. And if you never address the root, which is how most people live with so many different areas in their life, if you never address the root, if you never look at what's feeding that fruit, guess what?
The fruit is just going to keep growing back. So if shame is the fruit, what's the root? If fear is the fruit, what's the root to that? If your income isn't growing, what's the belief underneath that? Because I can tell you right now that when my business was plateaued at that two plus year period, at the multi six figure mark, I addressed the problem.
I addressed the fruit. The fruit was. My income's plateaued. Shit, what do I need to do? I'm gonna work harder. I'm gonna [00:05:00] work longer. I'm gonna stay up later at night and get less sleep. I'm gonna read more personal development. I'm gonna invest in a business mentor. I'm just gonna keep grinding and grinding and grinding until eventually I break through this plateaued income that I've been at.
And guess what? I did all that. And guess what? It led to? No income, growth and nothing but burnout and stress and anxiety, because guess what? The fruit was the plateaued income, but the belief that was feeding that fruit was a bullshit belief that wasn't serving me at all. And the bullshit belief that I had, and the thought that was running through my head was, maybe you just aren't cut out to go as far as you had hoped in this business.
And so it didn't matter what action I took. Didn't matter how hard I worked, didn't matter what I did, nothing was changing, that plateaued income because the root was, I don't really believe that I have what it takes to go as far as I want. Do you see what I'm saying? So we wanna change our life by changing our circumstances, but real [00:06:00] change, like real true.
Lasting change. Uh, it starts underground, man. It starts deep within you because when you heal the root, the fruit takes care of itself. So let me just say that again so that it really sinks in. You don't fix your life by trying to force better fruit. You fix it by transforming the root system. Guess what?
That requires something that most people aren't willing to do. It requires you to look deep within, and a lot of people don't wanna look deep within because it scares them. They're afraid of what they might find or how hurtful and painful it may be. But it is 1000% essential if you want to truly change the fruit.
So that means that you've gotta do the deep work and you've gotta look within. That means you have to start asking harder questions. That means that you have to start getting brutally honest with what you actually believe about yourself and about your worth and about what's possible for you. you've probably heard this before, but it's worth saying it again.
[00:07:00] Your life is a reflection of what you believe to be true. It is, write it down. Your life is a reflection of what you believe to be true, and not just consciously, but subconsciously. So if you're saying, I wanna grow my business, but deep down you believe you're not worthy, or that people won't listen to you, or that you're probably going to fail, then guess what?
The belief is the root. Your results will always match it. If in your personal life you feel stuck in cycles and things of anxiety or guilt, perfectionism. Procrastination, you don't need to hustle harder to feel yourself. You need to go beneath the surface. You need to ask yourself, when did I first start feeling this way?
What story am I telling myself? Whose voice am I hearing in my head? And is this even true?
Because here's what I believe and here is what I know. You are not broken, you are not behind. You are not unworthy. You are worthy right here, right now, just in this moment, how you are, you've just been [00:08:00] trying to clean up the fruit without ever getting to the root. Today, this can change for you today.
This can be the change. So here's what I wanna leave you with. I want you to take some time this week to pay attention to the fruit in your life. Not just the stuff that's going wrong, but I'm talking everything. I'm talking, your habits, your emotions, your business results, even. Your reactions to things, your relationships, all of it.
Pay attention to it all and then ask yourself, what root is feeding this? What belief is underneath this? What's really driving this pattern? Those are three great questions to ask yourself.
Once you see it, you can shift it. when the root is healthy, when it's nourished with truth and identity and love and alignment, the fruit grows differently. It just does. It becomes effortless. It becomes so much more natural. It [00:09:00] becomes abundant. And not because you worked harder, but because you became rooted in truth and you addressed the root.
And that's what I want for you. And that's what we're doing here. So if today's episode resonated with you, send me a message on Instagram at Katherine Reuter. I would love to hear what kind of popped up into your head. I. As you listen to this, and if you're really ready to go deeper in this kind of root work, you 1000% need my Mindset Accelerator program, which you can get completely for free when you become a member of the Empowered Moms Business Circle community.
I'll drop the link in the show notes so that you can click it and you can get all the information on that, but you've gotta get yourself in there so. Until next time. Keep digging, keep being awesome. Keep growing. Keep doing life big. And thanks so much for being here. You know, I love you. I think you're awesome, and I will see you the next time.
All right. Bye.
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