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Let’s dive deeper into our conversation about expanding your abundance limits.Last time I asked the two really important questions, from Gay Hendricks’s book The Big Leap:“How much love and abundance am I willing to allow?”And “How am I getting in my own way?”
Read MoreIt’s Self-Improvement Time! A new year propels us to new goals and resolutions to make better things happen in our life. What gets very tricky – down right challenging – is when the new habits (did anyone say “better diet and more exercise?”) become inconvenient, hard, and so unfamiliar that we give up on them before January is over. My intention for 2018 is to expand my Abundance in every area in my life and business and make that expansion real and sustainable throughout the year and in future years to come.
Read MoreBusiness can be a dreary drudgery sometimes. The best remedy is light-heartedness and not taking yourself so seriously! As our habit for this week, I have a bonus treat for you that will help you have more fun and less stress. Usually I give you a written article in case you are a reader rather than a video watcher. But today, it’s video only because it’s an interactive session that will make you feel great as you play along. Watch it here and look below for more information if you want to know more about this practice.
Read MoreIf you cringe at your mistakes or stop yourself from taking the next step in your business or feel completely confused and overwhelmed, this habit is for you! It’s a simple practice from Eastern philosophy. It can take the weight of perfectionism off your shoulders and get you back into action. Watch the video or read the article below to learn about this habit.
Read MoreAre you ready for the next Habit That Enhances Your Success? Well, it is Community & Support. Community and Support. As you probably have noticed, if you’re not going to a workplace every day, it can get pretty lonely sitting behind your computer and working with your clients and trying to get it all done. Watch the video or read the article below to remedy this problem in your business.
Read MoreYou’re probably not doing this enough. Sure you may be busy and harried, but it you are not practicing this habit daily, you are not enjoying the success you desire. Of all the habits to cultivate, this one is the Golden Key. Take a look at the video or the article below to see how you rate yourself on this make-or-break habit.
Read MoreAmping up this habit will definitely boost your business and move you ahead faster than you might imagine. The most successful people do this often and consistently through their day and week. In fact this ability is often exactly what they are paid handsomely for. The faster you get at this habit, the faster you will progress in your business as you grow your success. Watch the video or read the article below to learn about this Habit that Encourages Your Success.
Read MoreDo you ever stop to do this simple step? Before you go networking, before you write an email, before you have a sales conversation? If you do, you may notice that you get better results – almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you don’t, it’s time to adopt this Habit that Encourages Your Success on a regular basis! Watch the video to discover what practice I’m talking about or read the transcript below. And let me know what you discover when you make this practice a habit!
Read MoreDo you ever wonder what challenges your colleagues face every day? I sure do. So I thank everyone who responded to the survey I posted a couple of weeks ago. You may find their answers helpful to you just as I do.The most frequent responses are: How to make more money (about 75% of respondents and how to get more clients (about 58% of respondents). Does that surprise you? No, it doesn’t surprise me either.
Read MoreDo you ever wish you were more confident? When you are presenting your ideas? Asking for a sale Saying how much your services or programs are worth? From talking to hundreds of women business owners like yourself, I’ve learned that your answer is probably, “Yes”.
Read MoreThere’s just so much to worry about, right? Politics, the economy, the weather, terrorism, children, education, elders, the environment, health care, and when Joel Berry II’s hand will heal so he can return to play his senior year on the National Champion UNC Men’s Basketball team. Okay, that last was for some levity amidst all the things we have to worry about, but I do think about it because I do love my Tarheels!
Read MoreIf you are on Facebook, you’ve likely seen the many “Me too” posts shared there – to date there have been 1,400,000 of them. The point of these posts is to focus attention on how much sexual harassment, assault, and abuse women experience. Each post makes my heart ache. And when a beloved younger relative posted, “Me too”, I cried.
Read MoreIt lurks in the soul of almost every woman I’ve ever talked to.
Tons of research and well-respected books delve into it. There’s much debate on the cause and the cure for it. And yet it continues to plague even the most successful of us. I have a new spin on it. Watch and let me know what you think of my idea about how to remedy this difficult challenge to you and your business.
Read MoreYou will probably say this to another person 100 X faster than you will say it to yourself. It may even feel forbidden to tell yourself this. And that’s a shame. Because you must say it … often.
Read MoreI’d like to talk to you about another habit that can handicap your success. And that is: you don’t say no.I know. Saying no can be difficult. It’s also known as “setting a boundary.” And setting a boundary can be easy. Enforcing it can be harder. So we’re just going to talk a bit today about where you don’t feel like you can say no.
Read MoreToday, I want to talk to you about the habit of not asking. I see this in so many people. I see it in myself, too. And I know that the more we ask, the more we have the opportunity to succeed. We also have more opportunity to be told no. But unless you ask, you don’t know if it’s a yes, no, or a maybe. So how this shows up is that, maybe you’re too shy to ask. Or you don’t think you have the right to ask. Or you’re afraid that somebody’s going to say no. Or worse yet, criticize you. So what this leads to are missed opportunities, that you take less action, and you proceed less quickly—because the next stepping stone may have shown up if you asked for it. And if you don’t, then you’re kind of left where you are.
Read MoreToday, I want to talk to you about one habit that I see that handicaps people’s success. And in particular, women entrepreneurs’ success. And what is a habit? A habit is a repeated practice. And because it’s repeated, it sometimes will go unconscious—and we don’t even think about it. Like, driving to a familiar location, you probably don’t have to think about it very much. But these habits can get in the way of our success. And so, I want to talk to you about it—and what you can do about it to begin to turn it around.
Read MoreImagine my surprise when Carlos Watson, CEO of Oxy.com, a digital media company, spoke on the PBS Newshour about his belief that students should learn to sell. They should also learn to read and write and do math and probably to code to get a job when they graduate. I believe that Carlos’s message is not only for students. It’s for YOU if you have a business.
Read MoreMarketing what the market will buy. I want to talk to you about a client that I talked to today. And she is really bright, and has been really working with her marketing and getting feedback – which, until we talked today, I don't think she was really able to hear. Because she had an idea of what she wanted to provide. And the market was saying, "We want something different." Which she can provide. And what she was doing – and I know, because I've done this many times – is thinking, "Well, I want to give what I want to give." And they're not buying it. So what's the problem?
Read MoreThere is an injunction against women being powerful. I wanted to talk to you about a big revelation I had yesterday. On Wednesday, I had a conversation with my coach about why I hold back from being more successful in my business by helping more people and really making more money. And our conversation was challenging, and it also made me want to go deeper into what has been holding me back personally. And I did think it was personal. I thought there was something wrong with me. It's like, "Oh, I'm just built that way." And what I realized is, that's not true. What I realized is, there is an injunction against women being powerful. And that includes being successful and having money of their own making.
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