Selling Yourself Short

Have you grown tired of employers telling you what you are worth; telling you how much your skills, abilites and experience is worth? And yet for the sake of survival, because we need the money, we let them.

But what is that doing to our self-worth? Can we really keep telling ourselves, “‘but I know I am worth more than that, but for now…” And then the next job, and the next job we say the same thing.

Today, I had an interview with a well-known company who wanted a ridiculous commitment from me, but they were not willing to compromise or change their policy in any way to benefit me. I firmly told them, this is not for me. I cannot do this. Still unemployed, but thumbs up for my self worth! For more information about Selling Yourself Short, click on the link and read my article on Triond.

Ways to Change your Mindset & Embrace Abundance

What would your life look like if there were no remnants of the poverty mindset? What would you have to do to stop living paycheck to paycheck and build wealth?

Here’s the biggest secret of people with wealth: They are usually more frugal than the stereotype would suggest. Materialism is not the disease of the wealthy; it’s the disease that causes the pay checkers to keep themselves broke. Wealthy people save (or borrow) money to buy “income generating assets.” The poverty mindset causes people to save (or borrow) money to buy assets that lose value or cost them money – cars, boats, houses, vacations, etc.

Here are four specific ways you can redirect your spending (time and money) to buy something that will return wealth:
1. Start a business
2. Invest
3. Buy real estate
4. Network marketing

Weekly Tips to Promote Your Business – Part 2

1. Many churches hold festivals throughout the year, health fairs, and community projects! Contact them about getting a table or a booth. They will love to have additional information presented to the people!

Make sure you take products with you along with business opt fliers, plenty of catalogs; business cards etc. Make up entry blanks that gather the customer’s info so that you can initiate contact with them again!

2. Join your local area chamber of commerce! They are always holding local business events that you can participate in.

3. College Campuses! Dorms & Housing Students are always looking to spend money! A lot of college students are also looking for an extra income so target them with your Business Opportunity too!

Drop off fliers and business cards to the College Student Center! They usually have bulletin boards, tables and other things where you can leave your information at for FREE!

4. Contact your local area Welcome to the Neighborhood Group! Ask them about you leaving mini catalogs, fliers, business cards, discount coupons, freebie mini gifts, etc with them.

They are always looking for additional items to place in their Welcome Bags!

5. Contact your local area hospitals and ask for Human Resources Dept. The Majority of hospitals hand out New Mommy Diaper Bags filled with products, samples and other stuff for New Moms who just had a baby!

It's FREE for you to add in your information! You will receive new customers and new recruits by participating in these types of programs.

Weekly Tips to Promote Your Business

1. Take a small zip close baggie (snack sizes work well) and include the following in it:

Your Business Card, Business Opportunity Mini Flyer, a Piece of Candy such as hard candy or a lollipop, your specials or discounts etc.
Hand these out to the bank tellers, retail cashiers, at your kids sport events, every where you go!

You can also buy cute little beaded change purses at your local dollar discount store!

2. When staying at hotels & motels leave a mini catalog, business card & discount coupon and the mini coin canister for the maid! Put her tip inside the mini coin canister!

Be creative when you leave tips for Hotel Maids, Waitresses, Waiters, Hair Dressers, etc. Don't just hand them your business card, make it memorable!

3. Print out flyers with your contact info (not your personal address), your website address & email address along with any current specials you are offering.

Then contact local area mobile home park offices, apartment complex rental offices, housing developments etc and ask them if you can leave fliers in their office or hang on their tenants doors. Give the office employees a free gift or discount on their personal orders.

4. Contact local area bridal supply stores, bridal gown stores, caterers, tux rental centers, wedding DJ's etc. Ask them if you can leave your business cards & fliers about the great (Company Name) Bridal Gift Registry for them to give to their customers.

Offer store owners a free gift or a personal discount for helping you spread the word about your business.

5. Daycare Centers! They are excellent to contact and leave business cards and/or fliers at!

Find some items that cater to children or to moms and make up a flier!
Print out a flyer; attach your business card & a discount coupon.

Questions People Ask When Considering Starting Their Own Business

• Usually the first question is – “What could I do?”

The answer to this question will bring endless possibilities. There are hundreds of things among these possibilities that you could do, and even more that are unique to you. And, of course, whenever could comes to mind, couldn’t, rush in closely behind. You can come up with a long list of reasons of why you couldn’t do what you are considering. Don’t get caught up in could and couldn’t, try asking this question; ‘Do I want to?’

If your answer is no or not really, or not sure, look elsewhere. If it is yes, then explore it further.

• The next most common question people ask themselves is “What should I do?”

You may find that you and everyone else have different views about what you should do. Once you start thinking about should, shouldn’t - is right around the corner eliminating another deposit of possibilities. There are always reasons you shouldn’t do virtually anything you’ll ever think of doing. When you find yourself getting stuck in should and shouldn’t, immediately ask yourself “According to whom?” Then ask, “What is actually likely to happen if I do or don’t?”

• The next most common question people ask themselves is “What’s the best thing to do?”

The search for the perfect venture can be as immobilizing as the world of shoulds and coulds. What might look like the most lucrative choice, for example, might be at odds with what you would most enjoy. Or what you would enjoy most might look too difficult.

This question can lead you into seemingly impossible choices.

If you want to start on your own business, stop asking questions like “What can I do?” “What’s the best thing for me?” “What’s hot right now?” “Is this a good opportunity?”

• The question to ask is “What do I really want to do?”

Begin instead asking yourself what am I looking for in life. Where do I want my life to go? What’s my destination? What do I want? What is most important to me right now?
The answer to that question usually begins with “All I want is….” some peace of mind, a little money in the bank, a little time to myself, a little respect, a chance to show what I can do, to have a little fun, to get out from under my boss’s thumb.

And be totally honest. Because within the most honest answer to that question lies the path to what you were designed to do.

Although this is not all you want, but it’s what most important to you right now.
It’s what foremost in your mind. As soon as you attain it, you will quickly move on to all the other far more desirable things you want.

Dash Diet Action Plan

The DASH Diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) has been proven in several research studies, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to lower blood pressure and cholesterol without medication. It is the diet recommended by the NIH for lowering blood pressure. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend this eating plan for everyone. And the DASH diet forms the basis for the USDA MyPyramid. The DASH diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, low fat or nonfat dairy, and includes lean meats, fish and poultry, grains, nuts and beans. It will help lower cholesterol and will support healthy weight loss. It is flexible enough to meet the lifestyle and food preferences of most people.

Dash Diet Plan

Top 10 women Entrepreneurs to watch!

Today, EEW Magazine celebrates these 10 outstanding women, along with every other woman with enough gumption, courage, and resolves to pursue all God created her to be!

Valorie Burton Company: Inspire Inc. Seven years ago, Valorie Burton's successful PR firm, The Burton Agency, felt like nothing more than a burden. Then came her turning point... Read her story

Valerie Daniels-Carter Company: V & J Foods. Her dream began in 1984, when she opened her first Burger King restaurant in Milwaukee. Today, Valerie Daniels-Carter is one of the most respected franchise owners in the United States. Read her story

Traci Lynn Company: Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry. Dr. Traci Lynn has rapidly grown her company, Traci Lynn Fashion Jewelry to over 1000 consultants. She shares her success philosophy. Read her story

Verdia Johnson Company: Footsteps. She rose to become Vice President and General Manager at Stedman Graham & Partners. She attributes her success with her own company, Footsteps, to trust in God. Read her story

V. Gail Warrior-Lawrence Company: The Warrior Group. When V. Gail Warrior-Lawrence founded The Warrior Group with her husband Wayne Lawrence back in 1997, she didn't know it would grow into a multi-million dollar company. Read her story

Holly Cooper Company: Divas in Training Public Relations Inc. She was fired from her job on the spot and says, "It was the best moment of my life!" Today, Cooper's elite client list is rapidly growing and expanding. Read her story

Chioma Isiadinso Company: Expartus. Her passion for education was sparked during her childhood in a college town in Nigeria. She didn't know that her passion was linked to her wealth and prosperity. Read her story

Rumia Ambrose-Burbank Company:SDE Staffing and Services Firm. Find out how Rumia Ambrose-Burbank turned a partnership with a former employer into a $75 million company. ead her story

Simone O’Leary Company: Keller Williams Centurion Realty. In 6 years, O’Leary has grown her firm’s revenue by more than 650 percent and increased the number of agents she employs by 300 percent. Read her story

Patrice Clayton Company: Harlem Tea Room. Though Patrice had been successful in her corporate career, she wanted something more. So she followed her spirit and branched out on her own. Read her story

Investing in Others

No one becomes rich unless he enriches others. Andrew Carnegie

There is only one place, where you can invest life, money and time and not lose it – in people. If you invest in others and show others how they can succeed, and help them to achieve personal success, then your own success is assured.

People are one of the most important assets one can ever invest in. When we help others, we help ourselves. No one lives to his own self. Egotistical thinking believes you should gather what you can and consume it on yourself. But a self-centered person will eventually reach a point in his life where it is impossible for him to mature and be fulfilled.

Rabbi Harold Kushner remarked, “The purpose of life is not to win. The purpose of life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people’s lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.”

Investing in others is one of the most productive things you can do. On the cover of Coaching Millions, by Milana Leshinsky, are the words, Help More People, Make More Money, Live Your Ultimate Lifestyle.
What you invest in others will be multiplied and duplicated a hundred times over. What a great return on your investment!

When you invest in others, this action sets spiritual forces into motion; this is a spiritual law. Knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free. Ephesians 6:8
If you help someone else obtain success, you will receive those same blessings.
Whenever you help another person, you will receive something in return that affects your affluence, values and principles throughout life.

There is joy in helping others succeed! Giving of your time and efforts from the heart, recognizing that your joy and fulfillment is in the giving, will keep you from being frustrated or dishearten if that person don’t use your principles to succeed. This is the joy of giving!

Richard Shipley, president and CEO of Shipley Associates, offers this advice; “Work well with others to help them achieve their own victories, yours will follow.” more

Coaching or Mentoring

At first, they seem very similar. Both are one-on-one relationships where the coach or mentor invests in someone he or she believes in. Both involve regular meetings, use covenants to structure the relationship, and use support, encouragement and accountability to help people grow.

Now here’s the difference. A mentor is a more senior individual who imparts what God has given (wisdom, opportunities, and counsel) to a more junior person. A coach draws out the abilities God has put in someone else.

Instead of giving counsel, the coach asks questions to help the person think things through and take action on what he chooses to do. By pushing him to think instead of offering advice, the coach builds the person’s decision-making ability. And because the person developed his own solutions, he really “owns” them and is more likely to carry them out.

When mentoring, you are teaching a person, letting him draw from you or learn from your experience. When you’re coaching, you’re pushing a person to draw from his or her own resources and experiences. Coaching is helping people learn instead of teaching them.

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Invest in Today!!

The bridge between our past and our future is today!
Many would-be successful people have everything they need to become wealthy, but they haven’t mastered the final step: action. They can’t seem to move from theory into practice which produces reality.

A decision starts the process; discipline finishes it. What choice will you make today? Invest in today. Sow seeds today to invest in your future!

There is an old saying, "If you keep on doing what you're doing, you will get the same results."

What a difference a day will make!

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"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." -- Napoleon Hill

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"When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited."

— Brian Tracy: Pre-eminent sales and entrepreneurship expert.

I have a dream.... and I haven't fulfilled it yet!

There are seasons in every woman’s life when she asks herself this question - "What happened to my dreams?" How did I get off track?

And as we make our list of why our dreams remain unfulfilled, we will soon identify that the actual reason is self. Most of us are waiting for someone else to fulfill our dreams, such as a spouse, children, friends, etc.

We have read the success stories of hundreds of women who have followed their dreams and wondered - how did she do that? She started her own business, a CEO of a well-know company, a book on the best selling list, a powerful figure in the community. But when we look a little closer at their success stories, we soon realize that most of their success was set in motion with a childhood dream, a desire to solve a problem, or from their own adversities or personal frustration of which they have turned into a profitable asset.

It didn’t take a lot of money, everything wasn’t in place, and some didn’t even have a great education, just an idea, desire and courage! The problem most of us have is the faith to step out and believe in what we dream.

There is a section in this world "that has our name on it!" There is a problem in this world "that is waiting to be acquainted within us!" There is a childhood dream that still grips our heart and won’t let us go! We were not placed on this earth for a normal existence.

Its 2008 the year of new beginnings! Let’s get started women! No more excuses! It’s time to manifest the wealth that is already within!