Is Your Mind Still Getting In Your Way?

We’ve all heard the talk about positive thinking and how our own thoughts can create our reality.  And, it is hard to argue that positive thinking is in any way a bad thing.  But could your negative thoughts really be a bad thing?  Could your own mind be part of your stumbling block?

The reality is that positive thinking is an extremely powerful force. I am not talking about the law of attraction or the power of attraction. Rather, your personal power to navigate change and challenges effectively, and maintain your personal power. If you are or plan to be a business owner then you have to acknowledge that your success is dependent upon your ability to think and stay positive and embrace the challenges that come your way and learn the valuable lessons hey have to offer.  If you choose to be taken over by challenges and sink into negativity, questioning your vision and your abilities you will sink.

Keeping focused on your vision and staying open to the possibilities; are two of the keys to staying positive. Some businesses die from lack of creativity and willingness to change when necessary.  Keeping your positive outlook and evaluating the possibilities as they arise will keep your business on a positive swing. Open your mind to the possibilities that can keep your business successful and not add you to the heap of the dead and dying.

Stay Focused On Your Plan:

Look back at that original vision and plan.  Evaluate where you are right now and where you need to refocus.  Often business owners get distracted from the plan by the day to day business.  It is a perfect time to look back and see if you are still on track.  It is also an opportunity to decide if your plan needs to be revised or changed.  Staying open to the possibilities also leaves the door open to add new products or services to your offerings.  It is important to evaluate each of these in alignment with your overall business plan.  Do they fit well?

Keeping your mind out of your way is easier when you are focused on your plan and each decision you are making fits well into your business and marketing plan.

You may have decided on one course of action to get the business started. Now could be the perfect time to niche into a more defined product. Here are the advantages:

- More targeted marketing strategies

- Higher sales

Success has its own rewards, but only if you are willing to pursue it. When you allow yourself to dream big, the sky is the limit. You won’t grow without the attitude and vision to see beyond where you are now.

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List Building -- Does It Help Grow a Business?

The Power of Lists for Small Businesses

Small businesses are also using list building to expand their reach in market-place. Being a small business owner, focusing on building a targeted list of interested prospects can grow your business, but it starts with you sharing YOU and your knowledge through content.

List building should be your top most priority of your marketing strategy. Generating a valuable list can be challenging for small business owner. A list has the power to become the focal point of your business. When you have a list of customers, you can keep them informed of new services or products and increase revenue through repeat business. When you have a list of interested prospects, your first goal is to build rapport and educate.

You do not want to start off selling.  It is a real turn off to people, as they do not like to be sold.

Building Rapport can be achieved through your emails and through your content.  Provide value, right off the bat.  Give, give, give.

This includes educating. Educate your prospects about you, your business and your solutions to their problems, but do it with a style that is not salesy, pushy or overbearing.

You want to think about the "What's In It For Them" as you develop content.  Can you provide them with your expertise and help them learn HOW to solve a problem that they are having?

List building helps you to reach the perfect audience.
List saves your time, money and other resources
You can customize your message to the correct audience to get a better return on your investment.

With list building, you will be able to get huge success in your niche market if you do it in a correct way. Here I am going to show you the strategies to empower your list building –

- Reveal products to the new audiences with Joint Venture:

Joint venture is one of the most effective list building marketing strategies where you advertise or promote a product and service of another party or to a segment of your list. The commission is generally divided into 50/50 but some of marketers set it as high as 75%.

Joint venture helps you to build a deep-rooted relationship with a specified list that have happy customers and you can sell them numerous times. It is not one-time deal when you have closed a sale and deal is completed. In real, you get a new customer that will be happy to from you again.

When you have a joint venture partner endorsing you, that helps the people on their list to be interested in your offering.

- Creating Specific Videos to motivate the prospects:

Videos are the quickest method to grab the attention of your audience. By creating short and informational video, you enable them to get complete info about your products or services

Before starting with videos, you need to keep in mind the 10 X 10 X 4 content creation formula which includes –

- 10 most general queries regarding your business and 10 prime queries your visitor can ask.

- You can create 20 videos to solve these issues within a three minute video.

- You can also build four more video that have the basic focus on leading prospects into your sales funnel and facilitating ultimate purchase.

You can include a link of your website with relevant keywords in the description field and create a channel on video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion etc. or you can create them via Facebook LIVE and then share them to other sites.

- Hosting Free Webinars Offers New Sales Opportunities

Webinars are a great method to build interest, get leads for your list and possibly make sales.  With the help of webinars, you can add a punch to increase your email list which enhances your communication with customers.

GoToWebinar, Zoom and ZohoMeeting are the popular webinar services that have some pros and cons. You can include a “BUY NOW” button at end to hamper your marketing efforts.

Or even better is to create an On Demand Webinar that people can register for and attend whenever they want. You can use an incredible service such as Webinar Kit to accomplish it.

The bottom line -- list building should be prioritized.  Get people on your list FIRST, then build your relationship and then make an offer.  Do not reverse the order because people will RUN.


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3 Simple Morning Routines

Simple Morning Routines to Start Your Day with Purpose

How often do you groan when the alarm goes off?

You hit the snooze button and repeat until it's essential you must get up. Now you're running late, grab a coffee, stagger out of the door still yawning, skip breakfast and start the day feeling rushed and resentful?

Or perhaps you begin your day scrolling through emails and social media before you even get out of bed, so your mind is distracted from the get-go.

There are some simple things you can do to start the day calmly, mindfully and purposefully before you reach for your cell phone. Try these three techniques to get your day off to a better start.

1. Breathe mindfully and connect to your inner self

Before you get out of bed, before you even open your eyes, take a few moments to focus your breathing and connect deeply to your inner self.

Take three long deep breaths through your nose, gently and slowly breathing out through your mouth. Then return your breath to its normal pattern, noticing the breath, and the rise and fall of your chest and belly as you breathe.

2. Bring to mind your intention for the day

How do you want to feel? What state of mind will support you best? How will you choose to connect with others?

Resolve to check in with your intention during the day and adjust your mindset and behavior accordingly. What impact do you want to have in the world today?

How can you take the best care of yourself as you go about your daily business?

Set a simple intention for how you want to be in your day. Make it a positive, straightforward statement. I can be as simple as Today I want to be kind to myself and others or Today I will stay calm and grounded. Make it appropriate for where you're at and what you have to do.

3. Hydrate -- NOT just coffee!!

You know you need to drink more water. Make it easier on yourself by starting the day with a big glass of water, before coffee, before breakfast, before exercise.

You can keep a water glass or bottle on your night table so you can start the day as you mean to go on - well hydrated! Follow your first glass with another before you have your coffee.

Make your second glass an Ayurvedic drink of warm water with lemon. That is a traditional way of giving you a boost of Vitamin C, detoxing and stimulating your metabolism.

Create your daily practice to maximize your day!

Pick up my guide to meditation -- another daily practice that can help your results within The Purpose Project!!

Adding meditation to your daily practice gives you a few moments or minutes of completely private mindfulness time.

It is a time to quiet your mind, take a break and rest from your go, go, go life. Slow it down and rest.  No, it's not about sleeping... it is about awake mindful rest.

I always thought that meditation seemed too hard. How do you quiet your mind?  But the guide gives you some real world ways to spend just 10 minutes per day meditating.  It doesn't have to be hard.  It can be simple.

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Join the Purpose Project and dive deeper into figuring out YOUR life's purpose.  What makes you dance?  What gets YOU into the flow?

Inside the purpose project you will find a beautiful guide book, checklist and video guided training.  It's actually not training, but more of a process of looking at yourself, your passions and figuring out the answers for YOU.

The workbook helps you organize your thoughts, and really hone in on what matters for YOU.

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Visionary Womenpreneurs Radio with Amanda Blackwood

Trauma vs. Forgiveness - why they don't mean what we've been made to believe

TRIGGER WARNING: In this episode I'm talking with a trauma survivor about their history and recovery. Suicide, child abuse, and PTSD are common themes. This episode covers a difficult topic and parts of the conversation may be hard to listen to, but so important. Amanda's story is one of incredible courage, resilience and inspiration.

Amanda Blackwood is an accomplished artist and author, public speaker, podcast host, trauma recovery mentor and a survivor of human trafficking. A portion of every book sale goes to help fight human trafficking. Amanda lives in Denver, Colorado with her rescue cats and supportive husband who keep her sane. "When I managed to escape human trafficking, I was left with mental and physical scars for many years. The anger wouldn't fade until I learned the truth about who I was, what forgiveness really means, and how to finally let go of the past. So let's have a discussion about the power of forgiveness, and why it doesn't mean what we've been made to think it does."

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Amanda is the author of the Growth From Darkness Series with the first book available now: https://growthfromdarkness.com/workbooks

Other books that we discussed are available on her website: https://growthfromdarkness.com/amandas-books

Amanda also co-hosts a podcast "Detailed Pieces" https://growthfromdarkness.com/podcast

You can find organizations to support locally that are working to end domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. It is so important that we each raise our awareness and recognize the danger that is here in our communities. I personally work with DASI, a local non profit that has the mission to end domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. I do my work through a business women's networking organization called BW NICE that organizes women business leaders to raise awareness and funds in their local communities. Be sure to check out organizations that you decide to support and work with.

Contact host Donna Price at: https://CompassRoseConsulting.com

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How Accountability Is Key To Self-Discipline

Accountability is important if you want to succeed in disciplining yourself.

If you've ever tried disciplining yourself on your own, you know just incredibly hard it can be. And it's really no fun. You have no one to share your successes and rewards with, and over time, you may end up eschewing your goals altogether because you had no one to push you or cheer you on to continue working on your goals. So you just up and quit.

Accountability is important if you want to succeed in disciplining yourself. It comes in two forms: self-accountability and accountability to others.

The first key: self-accountability

Self-accountability is pretty self-explanatory and works great when you have a strong sense of ethics, integrity and self-control. You wont cheat on yourself and you'll keep yourself pushing forward and upward.

To make yourself accountable to yourself, you'd need to start off by writing down your goals and what steps you need to take to get there. Then you need to start a daily journal where you write down all the things you've done for the day.

If you have had doubts about your abilities, if you've questions about your sanity or your fears, write it down. And then make sure you write the answers to your negative thoughts so that when you ask the same question again in a month or so, you'll have the answer to look back on and you should be able to appease your doubts.

As you can see, this method is quite lonely and can get boring which is why I suggest the second method, accountability to others.

The second key: being accountable to others

Accountability to others is simply letting other people in on your goals and asking them to help you reach them. Depending on your arrangement, you can ask your accountability buddy to give you a good talking to if you ever get tempted to do something that's detrimental to your success. So choose your buddy wisely.

Pick someone you know has the discipline to actually help you out and would probably have a vested interest in your success. A spouse, parent, sibling, best friend or even your psychologist can be your accountability buddy. Someone you look up to, someone you would like to impress and someone you'd hate very much to disappoint.

Being accountable to yourself and to somebody will change your perspective about reaching your goals. You'd be more conscious of every step you take and you'd have the discipline to actually stick to the path you've chosen to follow.

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Daily Profitability Practice

Do you have a daily profitability practice? That is your business growth practice.

How do you connect with new prospects?

My daily profitability practice is largely built on my Content Repurposing Strategy. I use content publishing as a large part of my daily profitability practice.

What do you do to increase profits in your business?
What is your daily practice for growing your business revenue?

Create a plan.

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Having a daily practice can totally shift your business outcomes. It is part of focusing ON your business instead of IN your business.  CEO's and business leaders NEED to be the leaders that focus ON the business. It is your vision, your strategies and your actions (practices) that totally shift what is and is not happening within your business.

Profitability practices are essentially the daily practices that lead new prospects to your business and keep them moving through your process. If you are just "winging it" or using "HOPE Marketing", then you most likely will not have daily practices that produce predictable and reliable results for you.

Once you do have those types of results -- then you are in LOVE with marketing and your business is scaling UP.

 

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5 Actions to Take To Create a Self Care Daily Practice

Add Self Care to Your Daily Practice

Where does self care happen? If you think it stays solidly at home, you're not alone. Most people would expect self care to be something which takes place after the workday is over.

What if you considered self-care something which can happen anywhere? How would this change your life? Read on to discover five actions you can take at work daily to practice self care.

Get Out More

The idea of escaping from your workplace might seem pretty appealing, especially when you've been having a rough day. Sometimes your best form of self-care is to get out for a while. If possible, take some of your breaks outside. Go for a short walk. Breathe some fresh air. This will help restore your equilibrium and feel better about the rest of your day.

Initiate Conversations

It doesn't matter whether you go to work or are working at home, you probably still have coworkers. Taking a few minutes to connect with them, even in a short text or conversation helps to build connections you sorely need. This is more than just networking. We all need to feel like we're not alone. Building work friendships starts in these conversations and keeps you feeling like you're not alone. You especially need this when you're spending a third of your day with these individuals.

Ask for Stuff

Self care makes sure your needs are met. This means having conversations with your boss when you have questions or concerns, and in making sure you're part of things, especially on projects you feel passionately about. Self care means sticking up for yourself to get these things when you feel like they're not being offered. Doing these things is what makes work meaningful and fulfilling.

The same is true for your personal relationships. Ask for what you need from your partner or family or friends. Don't expect that people will just know or can read your mind!!

Drink More

No, you don't need a shot of tequila. We're talking about water. Staying hydrated is one of the simplest forms of self-care which is overlooked more often than you think. Did you know 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated? This affects cognitive function, which in turn affects your work. Is it any wonder self-care means drinking water throughout the day?

I have to concentrate on this. When I am cycling, I drink tons of water. When I am in my office -- I drink coffee!! I work to drink at least two water bottles per day off of my bike!!

Play Games

Gamify what is not usually a game!!

Work becomes more interesting when you feel like you're challenged. Sometimes this means you have to be the one to set the challenges. Make your day interesting by setting mini goals for yourself. Set a timer and try to beat the clock when it comes to getting things done. See how much of your To Do list you can cross off before the end of the day. Be creative and have fun!

By doing all of these things daily, you'll find your workday is much more interesting and you get more done. More important, you'll feel better, both mentally and physically when you get in the habit of self-care at work.

Self care is up to YOU. You have to decide to focus on your own self care. No one is going to do it for you. Especially as an entrepreneur, it is critical to have a personal self care plan. When you spend time each month focusing on your self care, being intentional about it, your business will benefit. When you get consumed by your business and neglect your self care, then business suffers.

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