100% Entrepreneur

I am so excited to announce that I am officially 100% Entrepreneur. I was finally able to leave my full-time employment, and come home and realize 2 of my biggest dreams, to be a stay at home mom and continue the expansion of my growing internet empire!

Stay tuned as I continue to update the progress of my life and the realization of even more of my dreams and goals!

Also look out for my company blog, where I will be posting case studies of marketing campaigns I am building for new clients, and other internet marketing related news!

Being an Entrepreneur While Raising Balanced Kids

“If you treat an individual as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

As I was reading it, it occurred to me that this was the answer to a monstrous challenge I have been dealing with for the last few months. I have been struggling with really defining my parenting style with my children. Now if you have children then you know the saying well that they do not come with an instruction manual, and depending on your own childhood you may look to your past child rearing for some sort of basis to start with.

Now for me there are a lot of good things my parents did, and of course there are some things that I wouldn’t dream of doing as a parent, mainly because I remember how I felt as a child. I try to always put myself in their shoes, and ask myself would I have liked it if my parents treated me that way. Moving on to my ah-ha moment, a light bulb clicked for me and this quote became the philosophy behind how I wanted to raise my children.

 I have two VERY different children, one is somewhat serious yet witty and very independent and emotionally resilient, and can easily snap back from setbacks, where as my other is a jokester, playful very loving, mischievous, yet has high emotional sensitivity and a “the world is over” mentality when challenges and setbacks occur. Now my challenge was trying to raise them, without jealousy of “You treat him/her better than me”. But this quote helped level my parenting to a very simple equality status.

Simply: to treat them as they ought to be and they will be what they should be. But I take that a step further as children are highly visual, and that is WE (as parents/people) must first be what it is that we are encouraging.

Independent, sound, responsible, loving, supportive, understanding, resilient, and balanced both physically mentally, and spiritually.

As a mom and entrepreneur, it is a constant battle to manage their needs with the demands of accomplishing my goals as women, a person (human Being). However, the greatest part of life is just having the challenge at all and the awareness to flow with it. And notice I said flow, not solve, not conquer, not resist but just flow.

Sometimes we can’t solve all our issues right then. And that was my challenge, I couldn’t resolve the looming issue of growing toddler tensions in my household, however I was aware of the challenge, and made the choice to flow with it, and wait for the moment the universe would give me the ah-ha for my solution.

I still can’t change the yelling temper tantrums from time to time, but I do have a working solution. Lesson learned: In life, business, parenting, and relationships we have the power and the choice to treat people as we want to see them (both negatively and positively) and they will become that way. If you meet a stranger, that is rude, loud, obnoxious, demanding treat them as you would want to see them, humble, grateful, respectful, peaceful, and caring.

 This may be hard at times, but make the effort, and you will see that in that moment or in a moment when you have moved on and forgotten about that person they will reflect back at how you treated them. Now the choice is on them, but congratulations you did your part!

Habits Can Make You a Millionaire

I have been studying and reading a lot about wealth, and the minds of the ultra wealthy, not the plastic happy :-p

And one common denominator between all of them is their habit forming abilities.

We are all capable of owning this power because it’s a part of our DNA, but unfortunately many of us missed that lesson in school, oh yeah that’s because our school system doesn’t teach us that.

Developing habits works simply like this, you have a creative thought (likely about something you desire or want to change or incorporate in to your life), and you then obtain the knowledge needed to decide on the actions needed to bring the thought into a reality.

If your mind decides that it is reasonably doable, the combination of your actions and conscious thought process, begin to migrate in to the back of your head (sub conscious- the place that operates your breathing, heart beating, blinking eyes etc) and form as a subconscious habit, something that you just begin to do naturally and without another thought.

When this thought moves on in this manner, it frees up your conscious mind from the daunting task of trying to hold on to all your creative thoughts.

See we tend to make our conscious minds work more than they are capable of; they are only able to think a creative though, and decide if it’s doable.

But if you keep thinking up stuff yet never do anything about it then your conscious mind begins to get crowded with thoughts, and your anxiety/fear begins to grow. This is like a symptom of “Overloaditis” of the mind. A disease that preys on us all.

There is too much information coming at us every day, so it’s important that you learn how to channel your priority thoughts, and start clearing out your mind database.

I highly recommend your David Allen’s Getting Things Done-The Art of Stress Free Productivity, this book really helped me do a mind dump on my creative thought, and how I organize my focus.

I also highly recommend meditation. Mainly because meditation helps that loud mind of yours to shut up and focus on the joy of being even if only for a few moments, and when you come back from this meditative state you will find that you seem to operate with much more refine clarity, and habit forming will begin to become much more of a natural process, as it should have always been.

When building your business, be sure to take one creative thought and work on it until it becomes habit forming, then and only then should you move on to the next marketing strategy or business idea that you may have.

Let these lessons also apply to every area of your life, they truly are life altering. A few months to a year from now I would not be surprised to see a dramatic change in the quality of your life!

Fear = Lack of Knowledge

 

The biggest life lesson I’ve learned has been the understanding of Fear.

Where it comes from, why we experience it, and how we can overcome it. Many people live their lives enveloped with fear. Fear of flying, fear of public places, fear of starting a business, fear of investing, fear of so many things.

I am no better than the next person, I still have certain fears. However I have discovered a very interesting and consistent cure for fear. It’s called knowledge.

When you fear something, the best thing you can do is learn about it.

There are 2 ways to do this, the long way and the relatively short way. The long way is inspired by the cone of learning process, you can read about it, hear about it, then begin watching visual presentations about the subject of which you have fear, then move on to discussions with others, but the most important and most valuable way to overcome your fears is to face it straight on, or depending on the risk find a way to simulate the real experience.

Think about the first time you road a bike, or the first time you got a job, you were likely afraid of what was to come, you weren’t sure what to do or how to do it, anxiety is also a form of fear, so is depression, all of these things come from a lack of knowledge.

Gaining knowledge is now much easier to come by since the age of the internet. If you are afraid of moving forward to the next level with your business or marketing, you need to settle those fears and anxieties with obtaining knowledge.

During my journey as an internet marketer, I plunged through my fears, getting knocked down bruised, and hurt. Only to realize that I had failed because I had lacked knowledge on something, so I went out and searched for how to learn what I had feared and failed at.

I got my knowledge and went at it again. I repeated this process as many times as possible until I received my desired result and was free to move on to another goal. I continue to operate in this way. This is the part of journey that makes life so worthwhile and a true blessing. Don’t let fear ruin your blessing called Life!

How Do You Define Quality?

I am deeply disgusted by the lack of integrity in some businesses.

The other day after picking up my children from summer camp, I decided that I would forego cooking dinner that evening and stop by my local KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) and do the family style dinner. KFC for my family and many others here in the southern states in the USA has traditionally been a great placed to get that good home style cookin’ for a good price especially for families of 4 or more like mine!

Well ever since this Recession hoopla started many businesses have begun to cut back on the quality and size of their food! And KFC I am assuming has jumped on that ship and are on the fast track to sinking.

We decided to go for the Create your own bucket and get 2 sides and 4 biscuits for around $20 and some change. We went with popcorn chicken, the original chicken, and some honey barbecue boneless wings, our sides were potato wedges and the infamous Coleslaw!

We were psyched, mouths watering and everything as the lady in the window handed us our bag and we sped off. Of course we all had to dip in on the car ride home, and boy were we disappointed.

For starters the popcorn chicken was just popcorn, pure batter, absolutely no chicken. Then the original chicken was dried up and the chicken itself was tough and barely any on the bones, weird! The honey barbecue wings were good; however the potato wedges were more like potato skin slices, as there was no potato to fill out a wedge.

And that infamous Coleslaw, not so much it was runny and thinned out, definitely more “Cole” then slaw in my book. But most disappointing, those deliciously fattening biscuits were bite sized teaser trials. The biscuits seemed to have shrunk by 50%.

What the heck happened? So much for a good purchase and quick dinner, we were highly P- O’d, but I didn’t bother going back, I just let it go, but I officially want to say that KFC has lost a good customer!

I understand that the cost of food is increasing, and people are losing their jobs etc. But money is still being spent people, and we still got to eat.

Now more than ever businesses like KFC who “were” known for their generous portion sizes for the great deal should stay consistent, because many families are making more prudent choices on how to spend their money, because they still need to eat!

When these families decide to go to KFC thinking they will get their money’s worth, they will be gravely disappointed! What a shame.

There is a lesson I learned here, be consistent with the value you give today and tomorrow. Always give your best knowledge, tips, and tricks when it comes to marketing your business.

That’s how the word will spread about you as a leader, people will start talking, and saying “hey you know so and so, you can always be sure to get your money’s worth on anything they put their name on”.

Be sure to under promise and over deliver. I am interested to see what happens to KFC in the coming months, because right now if they keep that crap up, they’ll be in line behind GM- Bankrupt!

Stop Stressin’ About Money

A lot of you are probably all ready shouting but we are in a recession, inflation is on the rise, I got to cut back on my expenses, etc. I hear you loud and clear. But there is a simple answer to your growing concerns, Change the way you think, and change your relationship with money. See money is like water very abundant, thanks to the Federal Reserve ;-p

You need not stress about your lack, but rather channel your powerful ability to “think” into creative ways to increase your income!

Building your business out of desperation and lack will only get you more lack which will increase your stress, anxiety and desperation. Choosing to review your current financial situation from a place of pure creative thought, allows for an abundance of positive outcomes to come flooding your way! Be mindful of how you speak of your financial circumstances, your thoughts and words define your reality!

You Call That Crap, Valuable?

I wonder what goes through some folks’ minds when they create some of the marketing materials they promote. They are about as effective  as standing on top of a building and shouting at the top of your lungs in a random city for someone to buy from you, No one will hear you…period!

However trying to explain this to a novice marketer is like talking to a flippin’ brick wall. But like clockwork the journey tends to eliminate the screwballs one by one. And only the serious screwballs survive, they’re the ones that stick around long enough to get clonked in the head with a big fat reality check, and that monumental Ah-Ha moment kicks in, and there marketing style begins to take a turn for the better.

I say that, because that was me, and every leader that I know we’ll likely tell you the same, we all started as screwball marketers once upon a time ago, so the lesson of the day is just stick around long enough getting bad results, but with a ever growing desire for success in the pit of your gut, and the good universe will slam you front center with the reality you need to make it happen. But please be advised the journey is tough, challenging, rigorous, and so not sexy, but well worth the investment!

Power of the Subconscious Mind

There are two types of mental activity going on inside of you, your subconscious mind and your conscious mind. I don’t want to become too philosophical in this post so, I am just going to speak of my recent understandings of the depth and mystery of the subconscious and conscious minds.

Simply put, from the depths of our subconscious mind, is where we form habits, it is from that part of our selves that all things both in our internal body such as our heart beating, breathing, blinking, etc continues to occur.

 It is from that place we continue to partake in habitual behaviors such as driving even while talking on our cell phones, how we can love someone and yet not fully understand why.

Our conscious mind determines what our subconscious mind will do. If you truly desire an outcome or for things to change in your life, you must first make a conscious decision to change it, decide on what you want, think it and let it resonate into the depths of you sub-consciousness.

Once the subconscious mind captures this thought, there is nothing more that the conscious mind needs to do. The subconscious mind will now work diligently to bring forth the desire in your present reality, but you must keep your conscious mind alert and ready to act quickly when the opportunity arises. That is the power of the subconscious mind.

6.5 Billion Customers

There are about 6.5 Billion people on this planet, and they all have needs that absolutely need to be met and this makes them a customer and a target for someone else. It is true that there are a few remote individuals that do not have access to the internet, but that’s perfectly ok, because for the people who do have access, they have more than one need, want or desire that needs to be fulfilled.

That’s where internet marketers come in, and why the internet is such a powerful place to strategically align yourself for profit, and drastically change your current reality. The only thing that you must do in this game is find out what people need, and simply connect them to the solution! That’s it! It’s very simple.

I simply enjoy the idea of connecting people to the resources and information they need. Think about it, we do it every day for free when we over hear other people mention a lack or a need that they need to fulfill. If we have any knowledge on the subject, we make a suggestion to them. If they are ready to buy, which the degree of their urgency determines that, then they will go to the store and purchase our suggested item.

 If you can recall you probably told them a story, about what you had been experiencing prior to the product (this is how you related to them), then your experience after using the product, ( this inspired them), and then you told them where to go and get it and maybe even how much it cost (this was the offer you laid out for them).

That in a nutshell is marketing, and why having 6.5 Billion customers is so profound, because people buy things in that manner! It’s been proven by top psychologist, just research buyers psychology, or the psychology of advertising, etc.

However the degree of which that person knows, likes, and trust you, is a very important factor in, increasing their buying power! The higher this level is, the stronger the possibility that the other person will buy from you.

This is why network marketing companies tell you to go after your friends and family first, but you must be careful with this, because the 2^nd most important factor is giving them what they are already asking for.

This is why so many networkers fail, because they are force feeding their opportunity down people’s throats. Most people have no desire to be entrepreneurs, they are raised to be employees, and I know I was. That’s why, the Robert Kiyosakis’, Donald Trumps’, Wayne Dyers’, Eckhart Tolles’, and the countless other brilliant authors of the world write what they write, in order to help ignite and expand the mind of those that have not yet discovered the power behind taking back control of their lives. And until that happens to a person, you cannot force them into your opportunity no matter what.

Figure out what you know, and what you don’t know go learn it, but do it quickly, then go out in to the market find the people that have a strong and urgent need, build a relationship with them, and then naturally connect them to their potential solution, if you do this enough times with enough people, you will create a massive fortune for yourself, and everybody wins! 

Be Remarkable

One thing that you will quickly notice about most online entrepreneurs, they are all shouting in unison the same crappy marketing pitch. They are all marching to the same drum, and all though they are together making a loud statement, i.e. “Don’t Buy from Me”, no one individual is capable of standing out from the other.

 That’s why you have to stand out from the crowd, and be remarkable. There is only one you, in this world. You are unique in your own way, and people will be attracted to you. You will develop and following of people, that will grow to trust and like you, and see you as a point of contact for their wants, needs and desires.

 If you have done things right from the beginning, there should be no need to convince people that you are the leader they are searching for, they should already know. Step out, and start being valuable in your area of expertise. DON’T SELL! Please save yourself the embarrassment.

Your ultimate goal is to become a connector, to connect your followers to great resources, which you truly believe in, not just because you can make a big profit when they buy them. Don’t betray them with your greed. Let them pull their own wallets out; don’t go diving in their pockets. Please, just be remarkable. I guarantee your success if you are!