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Jump Into Your Best Life

Edmund Hillary said, “It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” It’s true. We think it is the mountain that must be conquered but it is what’s happening on the inside that paves the way. Many people doubt that they can create something really significant in this world. Self-limiting thoughts creep in and they wonder if they have what it takes or question if they are worthy of it. When you’re stepping into your greater greatness, a lot of emotions surface, like worry, doubt, blame, impatience, pessimism. The list goes on.

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Savor the Moment

For many years, I found it difficult to live in the moment. I had all of this energy frequently thinking about the next step and moving through each moment. For high-achieving entrepreneurs, being in the moment can be elusive. Throughout the years, I’ve found the following strategies helpful: 1. Eliminate Distractions. Finding yourself with your family yet still connected to your cell phone? Shut it off completely and enjoy the conversation. Savor each moment asking questions and using it as an opportunity to find out more about the other person and their interests.

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2 Keys to Building Unstoppable Momentum in your Small Business

If you have worked harder for someone else than you have in your own business, you’re not alone. In my recent Entrepreneurial Edge System 3-Day Intensive, this self-limiting habit seemed to be a popular pattern. It shows up by procrastinating, justifying a delay (it can always be done tomorrow), and not following up with a sense of urgency. So how do you build unstoppable momentum when you just feel like being lazy? There are two keys critical to building unstoppable momentum:

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Have You Made This Major Leadership Mistake?

Being a leader isn’t always easy. A big part of successfully growing your business depends on motivating others in the most optimal way. Whether you have a team of employees, are coaching others, or are leading a committee, it can be a mystery on the best ways to inspire others to get the job done. Many leaders think the best way to motivate is to put pressure on others. The major mistake is that putting pressure on others works only a part of the time.

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When Speaking, Add the Bookend Method to Get More Clients

When you add speaking to your Marketing MixTM, it catapults you into the one-to-many conversation expanding your level of influence. There are many advantages to speaking, too. As a Speaker, you: • Leverage your business by serving many more people in your area of genius. • Promote your business through targeted venues. • Add revenue streams by either being paid for speaking or selling other products and services in the back of the room once you’re done speaking.

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How to Boost Your Productivity

Have you ever wondered why you perform better with some work activities and yet procrastinate on others? When your business is rapidly growing, it can be challenging to keep yourself and even your team consistently motivated. Generic organizing techniques might work for a while, but they are often ineffective in the long run.

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So Exactly How Does a Systems Approach Work for Small Business Owners?

When you adopt a systems mindset, you begin to look at how one area of your business affects the other areas simultaneously. So what’s this systems mindset and how does it work, you ask? According to the INCOSE Systems Engineering Handbook, a systems thinker “knows how systems fit into the larger contents of day-to-day life, how they behave, and how to manage them.” “Systems thinking is a unique perspective on reality – a perspective that sharpens our awareness of wholes and how the parts within those wholes interrelate.”

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Hey, Have You Seen my Personal Power Anywhere?

The other day, I was looking all over the house for my brand new pair of shoes. I checked the usual places, searched the unusual places, and even rummaged through unexpected places. Eventually, I found them unde eath a chair where they lay waiting for me to find them again. Of course, if I would have put them where they belonged…well, you know the rest.

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Manage Your Metrics to Grow Your Business

It’s not only the time of year to plant flowers and spruce up your outdoor living space, it’s also the half-way mark for businesses. It’s the perfect point to assess whether or not your plan is working and make any course corrections. As the saying goes, you can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Automation: Time Saver and Convenience Maker, but Don’t Forget This One Thing

Information technology has changed the way the world conducts business. A letter that once took weeks to get from Point A to Point B is now delivered instantly with a mere push of a button. Automation has also made it possible for small businesses to streamline their processes, get a handle on their overhead, and improve their profitability. While automation can be a time saver and convenience maker, don’t underestimate the power of personal touch. Isn’t it nice to know there is a real human being behind the email or recorded phone message?

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Systems Give You Freedom

There’s nothing worse than waking up in the morning realizing you created a successful business but it is taking over your life. You get caught up in the excitement of launching your latest project or marketing tactic only to realize you have to keep it going consistently for it to attract clients.

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Leveraging Your Exte al Thinker

Isn’t it interesting that we know each individual has a different style of communicating and doing things, but many people never really realize why that is? Yet, when we realize how individuals behave, we can be more effective in providing information the way the other person wants to receive it, often helping in communication, sales, and providing solutions.

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Tactics Successful Entrepreneurs Use to Keep Their Minds Sharp

In doing some research for an article years ago, I came across an excerpt from John C. Maxwell's book, "Developing the Leader Within You". Maxwell tells a story he read in a Norman Vincent Peale book where Peale was walking through the twisted streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong and came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were samples of tattoos available where you had an unlimited amount of choices. One of those choices was a tattoo that read "Born to Lose".

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How Psychographics Strengthen Your Small Business Marketing

Whether you’re starting up your business or have been in business a while, you must be exact to attract your ideal clients. However, when the going gets rough small business owners cast a wide net hoping to pull in someone. They quickly become disappointed when their prospect pipeline dries up.

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Creating Conscious Conversations

We are inundated with depressing stories each day and it permeates our conscious thoughts. Just turn on the evening news to hear the latest negative messages. You may find yourself living in “not good enough” or “not ‘this-or-that’ enough.” When the conscious thoughts change to “I’m thankful ...

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The "AND" Option

Have you ever been stifled when choosing between two options? Every time you tried to weigh the pros and cons, you came to an impasse? What if you took a different approach? Instead of looking at a right-or-wrong, this-or-that, all-or-nothing approach, you could asked yourself, “What is the “and” option?” That is, what if you took a bit of both choices?

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Keeping in Touch Is More Important Than You Think

With just 4% of people willing to do business with you the very first time they hear about you, keeping in touch with your prospects is more important than ever. The other 96% will do business with you only when trust has been established. Yet, business owners continue to work hard at talking to prospects, networking, and implementing business-awareness marketing strategies, but lack solid systems to cultivate trust and stay in touch with those people whom they meet.

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One Major Factor That Goes Into Building a Business Model that Works

Your business model describes how your business creates, captures, and delivers value. There are key ingredients that go into its development, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, and operational processes and policies. While there are many factors that go into developing your business model, there is one key ingredient often overlooked by entrepreneurs: Your Inner Entrepreneur.

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The Key to Being a Resilient Entrepreneur

As I was catching up on my reading with Inc. Magazine, I noticed a familiar quote in the article, 50 Inspiring Quotes on How to Start a Company from Scratch by Contributing Editor, John Brandon. "8. The problem is that many entrepreneurs start with good intentions to create a new mindset system but then slack off. The solution is to make that system part of your daily routine." --Lisa A. Mininni, president of ExcellerateAssociates.com

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Building Up Your Endurance

In high school, I ran on the track team. While I was often placed in the sprinting events, my true passion was long distance. My coach never put me in long distance because I was built with a sprinters body not a long distance one. But I knew that to finish any race involved mental stamina and I could finish a long distance race if given the opportunity.

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Do You Have A Pre-Qualification System?

Does this sound familiar? You meet a prospect and play phone tag. Months later, you arrange a meeting, you give away valuable ideas and information during the introductory meeting and you wait. You go through this process over and over and over. Eventually, someone does business with you. If you’re lucky, about a year later, you’re actually working with that new client. The problem with this process is that you’re at a disadvantage for several reasons: 1. You are in pursuit mode. Unless the prospect has an immediate need, you are in a position of having to convince them.

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What Rules – They’re Just Guidelines

Fran excitedly hops into the conference room where Accounting is meeting and is just thrilled that she just landed one of the biggest accounts of her career and the largest in the company’s history. Rather than the excited response she anticipated, she was riddled with questions about how the contract was going to be implemented.

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Using the L Word to Grow Your Small Business

Have you ever asked yourself, “How can I get it all done and get my business to the next level?” This is a common questio I get from my new small business clients. In fact, recently, I received an email that read, “How do you manage to keep up with your emails, clients, customers and travel? You are just amazing and my hero!” When at a meeting last week, I got a similar question from a networking colleague, too.

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5 Defining Elements for Creating Demand for Your Products and Services

There are a variety of ways to create demand for your products and services. Most new entrepreneurs forget the defining elements that start creating demand. Try these elements with their corresponding action steps to increase interest in your products/services. 1. Be very clear on your preferred client and understand the underlying problems not just the symptoms. Action Step: Most new entrepreneurs forget to ask their customers their main source of frustration or challenge.

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Attract What You Want in Life and Your Business When You Do This One Thing.

We’re bombarded every day to produce, expand and accumulate more. All of this has its place; however, it’s opposite - learning to let go - is essential to attract amazing things in your life. If your days are so jam packed, there is no space for new things to arrive. At one point in my life I kept so many old clothes that I knew I would fit into some day. This resulted in a packed closet with nothing to wear.

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3 Tips to Get More Leads Every Time You Speak

There it is – you just made the decision to add speaking to your marketing mix so you get in front of your ideal prospects. You work hard at securing your first gig and are thrilled because you have your first real shot at getting in front of a room filled with your ideal prospects. So, you work for hours getting your speech down cold. You spend a lot of effort working out the slides and you think you’re ready. You deliver your speech and are quite pleased with your presentation. You’re relieved to finish your presentation, people clap, and some people take your card.

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Score More Clients With Candence

Have you ever been absolutely mesmerized by the rhythmic nature of a drum line? If you have, there is that defining moment when the drum line comes together to create an amazing show leaving the audience captivated by their cadence. As a business owner, it is important to captivate your audience. Your consistent action creates a cadence. The cadence creates a connection with your prospects. Saying it another way, you get on a roll and get noticed.

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Steady as She Goes

Originally a maritime reference, the phrase “steady as she goes” referred to the ships that navigated difficult waters. It was important to keep the ship steady so that it didn’t take on water. The old ships would sail along especially well in predictive seas. The first sign of unpredictability, however, can put the ship into chaos requiring a strong leader at the helm. A similar analogy can be used to describe people who are naturally hardwired as stable and methodical. They will go with the flow steadily and deliberately plotting their way to their destination.

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Remove Your Invisible Barrier to Attract More Clients

When visiting my parents one bright sunny weekend, I noticed that my mother had a beautiful plant with purple flowers resting on her window sill. As I was admiring her plant, a hummingbird approached the window desperately trying to reach these flowers. He must have tried three or four times each time banging his beak against the window. I thought he must have learned his lesson when he flew away to pause on a nearby wire. As he darted his head back and forth, he shook off his frustration but looked completely confused as to what just happened.

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The Biggest Mistake When Hiring Internally

Have you ever wondered why you can be completely energized one day and completely drained on another day? There are certain activities in your environment that will energize you and certain other activities that will drain you. The reason you’re energized (or not) is tied directly to your natural wiring. As my clients discover, your natural wiring is biological. You’re born with it and it stays with you your entire lifetime and will affect every part of your business from hiring to daily activities.

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Speaking for Profit: 4 Insider Secrets for Success From the Start

When you decide to add speaking to your mix of marketing, it can be rewarding and revenue generating. Speaking gives you an opportunity to get in front of your ideal clients and earn additional income. Below are several insider secrets to set you up for success from the start: 1. Create A Compelling Signature Talk Title. Newbie speakers make the critical mistake of giving their talk a title that does nothing to entice event planners to book them or compel their audience to attend their presentation.

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6 Surprisingly Simple Steps to Integrating Social Media

Are you still trying to figure out how to integrate social media into your Marketing Mix? You’re not alone; many small business owners are confused about how to blend social media into their business. You might have signed yourself up for LinkedIn or Facebook but you find yourself wondering if social networking really works. Then, weeks go by and you keep hearing about how important social media is to growing your business but aren’t quite sure what next step to take.

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Architect of Your Destiny

The Architect of Your Destiny is Yourself How do you get to the next level? This is a questio I often get from the entrepreneurs I work with. Whether it is a five figure entrepreneur who wants to go to six figures or six to seven figures, I always think of some of the quotes of the wise Jim Rohn. Jim Rohn, a very successful mentor, speaker, and entrepreneur influenced many lives for before his passing in December 2009. He had a natural gift of speaking and engaging you in his stories. The ‘next level’ in your life or in your business means different things to different people.

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Where Does Your Fear Come From?

Have you ever been stopped by fear – fear of conflict, fear of taking risks or fear of failure? The problem is, it is innate for some people and holds them back from doing what it takes to get more clients and create a life and business of their dreams. We’re all naturally hardwired a certain way. This hardwiring impacts how we communicate, how we behave, and how we give and receive information. There are both strengths and limitations with your hardwiring.

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When the Mind is Clear, Action is Focused

In a world of continuous connectivity, creating focus is a challenge for even the most disciplined small business owners. Some studies even suggest that only 20-30% of focused time is spent on priority areas. The news of the day, email, and texts can have you getting sidetracked never accomplishing those three most important things on your task list.

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Do You Like to Be Challenged?

Frequently, small business owners are excited to build their business, but often have lulls in their motivation. What most people don’t realize is that you derive your motivation from your natural hardwiring. When you create awareness about your natural hardwiring, you will be able to tell when it is working for you and when it is getting in the way.

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Not So Different After All: Social Online and Face-to-Face Networking

If you’ve been feeling that social media networking is invasive or a waste of time, you’re not alone. The ability to reach many people inexpensively has become popular especially with small business owners, some of them brand new entrepreneurs. With so many people trying to navigate this technology, there are a lot of missteps and misconceptions, but much of it has to do with the underlying mindset going into it.

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How to Create Your Tipping Point

How to Create Your Tipping Point In his book, The E Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber said "It’s been said, and I believe it to be true, that great businesses are not built by extraordinary people but by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” His statement couldn’t be more true especially for the small business owners. What you find in successful small business owners is that they create extraordinary results by creating a system, a way of doing things consistently, which produces their tipping point.

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Are You Ready for Growth?

Imagine one day you wake up, jump out of bed, and are excited about starting your day. You head toward the kitchen to pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit down to breakfast. As you start zoning out while drinking your first sip of java, your excitement turns into anxiousness as you think through all of the things you need to get done that day. An overwhelming realization that you can’t possibly get it all done starts to envelop you.

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Rev Up Your Speaking with Your Million-Dollar Signature Story

One of the best things to draw in new clients, quickly establish credibility, and create massive momentum and exposure in your business is speaking. Whether you organize your own workshops on a regular basis or get booked to speak in front of groups or associations, it works well to consistently fill your prospect pipeline (and it’s a strategy I’ve used with great success for many years.)

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How to Use this One Handy Piece of Marketing Real Estate to Get More Clients

There is one piece of handy marketing real estate that you may have forgotten about that can easily attract more clients. It’s something you look at every single day. It’s that space right below your email signature. When this space is used in the most optimal way, you will entice your reader to take action, establish credibility and get more clients.

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Entrepreneurs: Systematize and Monetize Your Business

One of the great equalizers for small businesses is that commerce continues to evolve and grow on the internet. According to the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce, “e-commerce grew faster than total economic activity…” While many naysayers are hyping the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, others are finding great wealth on the web. Almost every aspect of daily life is influenced in some way, including the way we communicate and how we network. The web and technology is making it easier for the small business owners to compete.

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