[Online Marketing] Five Tips on How to Start Your Own Movement

Online Marketing, Movement, Change, Motivation

We've seen with the rise of social media and the Internet, that it's never been easier to have your voice be heard in the world today. A great recent example is all of the interest and awareness around the Invisible Children Kony 2012 video campaign. This is simply further proof that people who have a cause or want to start a movement, can do so extremely effectively with the internet. This means you can be the media. You are a publisher, if you want to be. If you have a mission, cause or … [Read more...]

[Marketing Opportunity] Use the Law of Attraction to Create Opportunity

Law of Attraction, Motivation, Inspiration, Success

In the mid-1990s I paid a small fortune for business training, creation of a logo, and paperwork and everything I thought I would surely need to look like a professional in my chosen field. I realized that I needed to start finding people and telling them about my business. I researched and joined all different types of business groups and associations with expensive dues and terribly boring gatherings, trying to drum up business. Nothing much came of those efforts - a client here and there - … [Read more...]

[Business Practices] Avalanche of Online Overwhelm? 3 Things that Can Help You Stay Organized and Productive Online…

Business practices, success, motivation, organization

Overwhelm. It’s the new normal for everyone from stay at home moms to the CEO of a multi-million dollar business. Now with smartphones, instant access all the time, it seems like we’re under avalanches of overwhelm. But does it really have to be that way? Here are a few ways to boost your productivity: Online Calendar – Everything is now online, our personal lives, our business lives and our social lives. Sometimes it feels overwhelming to remember everything there is “to do”! For … [Read more...]

[Self Empowerment] Are You Addicted to People Pleasing? 3 Tips to Recovery.

Self empowerment, Inspiration, Success

Do you know someone who can’t say “no”? Someone who puts their needs behind everyone else’s wants? Who may kick themselves after saying “yes” yet again? Someone who finds themselves running around like a chicken with their head cut off trying to make everyone else happy? Could this be you we’re talking about? Both of us have been serious people pleasers in our past relationships, to the detriment of those relationships. People pleasing is a disease and there are always 2 (or … [Read more...]

Smart Business Practices – Letting Go

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One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make, particularly in the beginning, is trying to do everything. They think they are the only ones who can “do it right” or they’re bootstrapping it. So they end up trying to do absolutely everything and don't want to delegate tasks to others. Here are 3 ways to help you let go: 1. Make a “Stop Doing” List - We always make “to-do” lists. I want you to make a “Stop Doing” list. What are those things that you do not need to be doing? … [Read more...]

Inspiration – Dealing with the Personal Pebbles in Your Journey. 4 Steps to Keep Moving Forward…

Motivation and inspiration for moving forward

  What happens when “real life” happens to you and you’re trying to start or grow your online business? It will happen. No matter how strong or capable you feel, when disaster strikes in your personal life, it can be difficult not to allow that to seep over into your business. Here are 4 steps to stay on track, even through tough times: Deal with your personal stuff – Sometimes entrepreneurs create a “tough as nails” veneer and carry this into all areas of life. It’s ok to be … [Read more...]

Entrepreneur’s Credo – What All Business Owners Want…

Entrepreneur's Credo

I was doing some research for a client's new listbuilding promotion and I came across Thomas Paine's Entrepreneur's Credo. It blew me away that something written so long ago still resonates with those of us with entrepreneurial blood running though our veins. Entrepreneur's Credo I do not choose to be a common man, It is my right to be uncommon … if I can, I seek opportunity … not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen. Humbled and dulled by having the State look after me. I want to … [Read more...]

Why New Year’s Resolutions SUCK (What To Do Instead…)

Why New Year's Resolutions Suck

There, I said it! Every year, tons of people make New Year’s Resolutions and a few weeks later… serious guilt sets in because those great intentions have turned to dust. So, not only do those great plans fall by the wayside… but there’s a whole new set of “bad feelings” around what you wanted to accomplish. How is that helpful to get you where you want to go…? Sometimes, you don’t have enough “motivation” in the beginning to make those dreams and plans stick so you have to … [Read more...]

Do You Enjoy Being a Hater? 3 Tips to Help You Become a Lover…

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Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of hating. It seems like a lots of people really enjoy hating, being angry, complaining, disdaining, throwing rocks all over the web. And while I agree there are things that need changing in our society, some kind of action like volunteering is preferable to simply hating and spreading negative sentiment. And there's a lot of random hating going on for things that aren't worth it. Worse, there’s rabid hating for and about people who are successful. This kind of … [Read more...]

Marriage, Faith and Beautiful New Beginnings

Jeff and Maritza Wedding

On January 1, 2011 Jeff & I officially took the plunge and got married in a very small, immediate family only wedding... We all agreed it was the one of the most heartfelt weddings we've ever been a part of... And the easiest!   My Mom, Victoria (my adorable niece) and I whipped everything together in about a week. We got the pastor we wanted, the dress took about an hour and a half, the cake was rush ordered in 30 minutes, the flowers even less because I know the shop owner … [Read more...]