When you shift out of being an under-earner and make a stand for financial success in your life, you will find that every goal, dream and calling you have will be more “do-able.”
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Guest Article By Drew Gerber, co-founder Wasabi Publicity and PitchRate (Discover more great wisdom on Achieving Your Dreams during Answering The Call Virtual Summit, starting February 7th) Why bother? Why would I? Why me? Why not? The perennial whys. Truth is, we have reasons for just about everything thing we do, from why we chose [...]
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Last week I finally started reading “The Storm Before the Calm” by Neale Donald Walsh. As I was browsing through the first few pages this quote literally jumped off the page at me. “What is needed here is not a revolution on the ground but a revolution of the mind.”
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Guest Post, by Dr. Brad Semp, Host of www.busyness.tv. When you’re too busy, it has a negative impact on all facets of your life. Those of us in the entrepreneurial world have a tendency to think about the negative aspects of busyness in terms of how it makes running our businesses harder. If we expand [...]
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I was having one of those moments when the old me and the emerging me collided. It always happens in a nano-second, usually when a comment from someone else resonates so deeply that it forever alters my way of being. I was attending a fund-raiser where Marcia Wieder, founder of Dream University, was the keynote [...]
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We’ve all heard the phrase, “Ideas are a dime a dozen.” Especially when bright shiny object syndrome kicks in and you start chasing all kinds of opportunities without any real clarity of what’s a viable business idea. But what about a big idea? How is that different from all the other ideas swimming around in [...]
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Nancy is like every entrepreneur I know. Highly creative and visionary, she has a million ideas. First she wants to be a coach. Then a mentor tells her she should offer workshops. Then she decides she should offer consulting in her old industry. Then, confused and full of angst, she hears about how one guru [...]
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When I was in corporate America, it was so easy to take a vacation – I was getting paid for it! As an entrepreneur, I find months slip away and I’m still going full speed ahead. “Who’s got time for a vacation?” is a phrase I hear often from my clients and friends. What is [...]
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It happened again. A great idea just dropped in. It’s the big one. The one that will generate MILLIONS and make a big splash on the industry! You jump in and start working on it. You share your idea with your team and everyone is furiously burning the midnight oil to get this program up [...]
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Over the last few years I’ve noticed a growing fascination in the business community with “bigger.” Growing a mailing list of 10,000, 50,000 or even 100,000 followers. Amassing hundreds and thousands of clients. Achieving a million (or even a billion) dollars in revenue. Conquering a niche. But is bigger really better? Have you ever stopped to wonder what the cost for achieving bigger is? What you might have to give up?
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Do you have all your revenue eggs in one basket? It’s the classic situation many entrepreneurs find themselves in – and it’s a precarious place to operate your business from. If you have one big client, one main offering or one key industry that provides you most of your revenue, then you have left yourself [...]
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Jason read an article somewhere about how hiring a mentor who had demonstrated significant success could help short-cut his path and eliminate the frustration of doing the wrong things so he began the process of searching for a success coach.
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Living just outside Los Angeles, Melanie has spent the last 10 years exploring the secrets to sustaining a successful thriving business without recreating a job. With freedom being one of her core success principles, Melanie spends her free time in search of the best spas and beaches in the world. |
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Melanie Benson Strick, the Big Idea Catalyst, helps thought leaders uncover the biggest way to unleash their brilliance without losing their sanity or their soul. With over 12 years in corporate America and eight years as a business owner, Melanie works exclusively with big thinking, heart-based entrepreneurs who are frustrated trying to run a successful business. Co-author of Entrepreneur.com’s “Start Up Guide to an Information Marketing Business” and faculty member for StomperNet, Melanie has a solid reputation for authentic but direct training and mentoring on 6 figure plus business success.