The Real Reason Spiritual Business Owners Feel Behind Right Now (& What to Do in Q3 to Shift It)
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If you’ve come to the halfway point of 2026 and you’re not as far along as you’d hoped, this one's for you.
Maybe you had big grand plans for 2026 and they just haven't eventuated yet.
This isn’t about beating yourself up or feeling guilty. This is about where you’re at right now, and where you want to be by the end of this year.
We're not here to play the “self blame” game because that’s not helpful. But we're also not here to make excuses.
Because if you're looking for an excuse, you will find one.
As a mum of three with a ten month old at home with me full time while I run my business – I could very easily find an excuse not to do what I need to do in this season. But I'm not letting that stop me from going for my goals.
If your goals matter to you, you need to prioritise the actions that get you there and meet the universe halfway. Your actions speak louder than words.
Today I want to break this down into three areas where I see spiritual business owners get stuck: mindset, strategy, and support.
In my experience, when you're not progressing on your goals, the block is sitting in one (or more) of these three places. Once you know where the block is, you can actually do something about it.
Why You're Not Moving: The Mindset Block
The reason most of us stop moving usually comes down to one thing: discomfort. Taking action on your goals stretches you outside your comfort zone, and when we stretch ourselves outside our comfort zone, it's uncomfortable, it's scary, and that's when the self doubt can creep in.
Once you know that you're the one getting in your own way, you need to be the one to make a decision to change that.
What you're doing right now isn't working.
If your goals are important to you, you need to commit to them, double down on them, and decide that going after them matters more than staying comfortable.
Building a Spiritual Business Strategy You'll Actually Follow Through On
Where it can all fall apart next is when you sit down and don’t know what to do. You have a goal, but you don’t have a clear plan for what it actually looks like day to day.
And it's not just about having a plan, it's about making sure you actually follow it.
If you've been procrastinating for the first half of the year, we want to safeguard you from that happening again. How is the second half of 2026 going to be different?
Here are four practical things I've found genuinely helpful:
1: A weekly planning session. Separate your planning from your doing. Take fifteen to thirty minutes at the start of each week, a Sunday reset or a Monday morning ritual, and map out your key tasks for the week. So when you sit down to work, you already know exactly what you're doing and you’re not making decisions in the moment about what to prioritise.
2: Do the hard thing first. Sometimes doing the easy task first can work well because you get into a flow. But if you're consistently leaving the hard things at the bottom of your list, and they keep getting transferred to tomorrow's to-do list, start prioritising those tasks first. You'll feel so much more accomplished, and the things you've been procrastinating on usually take far less time than you thought.
3: Remove friction. Make the things you want to do easier to start. If you want to record content, get dressed for it in the morning and have your setup ready to go. If you want to pitch podcasts, have your pitch template ready, your topics sorted and your research done. The harder something is to start, the easier it is to procrastinate on. Make starting as easy as possible.
4. Body doubling. Working alongside someone else, virtually or in person, helps you to stay focused and accountable in a way working solo doesn’t. It's why I love our co-working sessions inside the Spiritual Business Mistressmind.
Support & Accountability to Actually Get It Done
Sometimes you can have a solid mindset and the best laid plans, and still get stuck in actual implementation. This is one of the reasons ongoing support in your business is so valuable.
It's easy to follow the plan when everything's going well.
It's a lot harder when you've had a bad day, when you're in your luteal phase or when things aren't moving as fast as you'd like.
Having accountability and support to keep moving through those moments is important – someone to bounce ideas off, to come to when you've hit a wall, to troubleshoot with in the moment and sanity check your decisions.
This is how you collapse time around your goals.
You could absolutely do this on your own. But up until this point, you haven't been. If you set goals six months ago and you're still trying to do it solo, why not bring in that support?
Plan Your Q3 With Me At The SBM Open Week
If you want support doing this planning work in real time, I'm running a Q3 Planning Workshop as part of the SBM Open Week at the end of June.
Four sessions over four days from the 29th of June to the 2nd of July.
Q3 Planning Workshop: 90 minutes where you'll walk away with a clear, strategic plan for Q3 tied directly to your business goals.
Lunch & Learn Roundtable: Hear directly from three of my current Inner Circle clients on how they approach sales in their business for consistent cash.
Co-Creative Co-Working Session: Dedicated time to work ON your business alongside the community.
Guest Masterclass: Sales Pages That Sell On Repeat with the wonderful Tahryn Bolt.
Come and experience what it feels like to have the accountability, community and strategic support to create consistent cash in your business.
Tickets are $22 for the first 20, then $44 after that.
