Raise Your Floor to Unlock Your Potential
What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your ambition - it’s your tolerance?
Most people focus on reaching for the ceiling - their next goal, achievement, or income level. But the real transformation happens when you raise your floor.
Your floor is your minimum standard. It’s the baseline of what you allow, accept, or expect in your life, your business, your habits, your relationships.
And here’s the kicker:
Every time you say yes to something below your floor, you reinforce your old identity.
Every time you say no to what no longer aligns - even when it costs you comfort - you raise your floor and signal to your subconscious that you’re ready for more.
🧠 But What Is the Floor, Really?
Your floor is the version of you that you’ve outgrown… but haven’t yet released.
It’s the client you keep to “be nice,” even though they drain you.
It’s the habit you don’t question anymore - but secretly resent.
It’s the self-doubt you carry like a second skin, even though your results prove otherwise.
In Benjamin Hardy’s work on identity and transformation, he notes that your floor is what determines how much of your potential you’ll actually live into. Because your future can only expand to the level that your minimum standard allows.
And here’s the cost:
When you say yes to anything below that floor, you pay with your energy, time, clarity, and confidence. The opportunity cost is steep.
“Raising your floor isn't about being ruthless - it's about being real with what no longer serves your future self.”
🤯 Why Is It So Hard to Say No?
Because your past identity is still attached to that lower floor.
To raise your standard, you have to be willing to grieve the old version of you - the one who was okay with crumbs, chaos, or chronic over giving.
This is where hypnotherapy becomes a powerful ally.
You can’t just willpower your way into a new identity if your subconscious is still anchored to the old one.
In sessions, I help clients reprogram the beliefs that made those lower-floor choices feel normal or necessary. We get to the root - not just the habit, but the identity underneath it. And when that shifts, everything else becomes easier.
🧬 The Neuroscience of Raising Your Floor
Your brain loves efficiency more than success.
That means it will repeat familiar patterns - even painful ones - unless you consciously interrupt the loop.
Every “no” sends a signal to your Reticular Activating System (RAS) - the brain’s filter - to stop prioritizing what doesn’t align.
Every “yes” to something nourishing builds new neural pathways that align with your next-level identity.
This is why small, consistent choices matter more than grand declarations.
Raise the floor, and your ceiling naturally rises with it.
🔎 Quick Recap: How to Raise Your Floor
Identify your current floor: What are you tolerating right now that’s keeping you stuck?
Audit your yeses: What are you agreeing to out of guilt, fear, or habit?
Normalize saying no: Even if it’s awkward. Even if it costs short-term comfort.
Expect a gap: There may be a dip between letting go and leveling up. It’s part of the process.
Rewire your identity with subconscious tools: Hypnotherapy is one of the most efficient ways to do this.
Surround yourself with expansion: Get in rooms and circles that reflect the level you’re growing into.
💬 Final Thought
Your floor is your foundation.
When you raise it - intentionally, courageously, and consistently - your entire life reorganizes around a new standard.
So ask yourself:
What are you still saying yes to that your future self wouldn’t tolerate?
💫 Ready to Raise Your Floor?
If you're done trying to think your way into a new reality, I’d love to help you rewire the patterns that are keeping you stuck.
Together, we’ll raise your floor - and watch your life rise to meet it.