THE NEW ECONOMY ENTREPRENEUR SUCCESS DISTINCTIONS - TAKING YOUR BUSINESS (and Life) TO THE NEXT LEVEL

I’m about to reveal to you the Little-known Distinctions that Have Helped me Take My Business (and my life) success to the Next Level. These Distinctions Might Offend You … But If You Keep Reading On, They Could Help You Do the Same Too!

I welcome you to this message or post or mini-course or life-break-through program – or whatever you want to call this post on my blog.  I’ve taken over a week to compile this for you because it’s important … for you.  I have never written a blog post so direct, so revealing and possibly even offensive before, but something has been shifting in me in the past months and in this past week, it became clear that now was the right time to share it.  And now is the right time … because you have arrived here to receive it.

These are my truths, my beliefs, my values that I have decided to share with you – you will choose how much, if any of what I reveal, permeates your business and future success.  Also, this is my way of REALLY getting in underneath you and your truths, beliefs and values – if that is what you want me to gift to you.

In other words, on a superficial level, you will find this information interesting.  And if that is what you take away from it, I’m happy for you and it was worth my time to prepare that experience for you.  BUT,  you need to know, if you are more open, more receptive and more ready right now than you have ever been before, these insights can be used to begin your business ascension now – that means absolute life transformational insights along with practical pathways forward that you begin right away.  If I help you to that extreme – or anywhere in between, YOU made it worth my time to share this with you.

So, here we go …

Something I think is true about you – as you look forward and move forward there are some ‘things’ that appear  in your way right now and it’s making it harder/slower to make your next move and get to your next point in your journey of greater business (and life) success.  I call these blocks – some are big like impenetrable walls and others are small like a pebble or stone.  These ‘blocks’ are omni-present and no matter how much success you create (whatever your measure of success means), blocks of all shapes, sizes and magnitude will be present.

Your success will be met either fast, slow or never simply by how you ‘manage’ yourself into and out of, around, over, under and through these blocks.  Just like driving a car on the road, the journey of succeeding in your business (and life) is travelling a pathway or roadway with all kinds of different and even some recurring ‘road-blocks’ — that’s just how it is.  There is no paradise or utopia or ‘arrival point’, just that many things can get easier in many ways (especially when money issues are sorted) and they can get more exciting too because core needs are met so it’s easier to connect with happiness.  But conversely they can get more complex and more stressful too.  So I propose to you that success is about how you choose to experience the journey and how you choose to move forward and ‘negotiate’ each of these omni-present blocks.

I realized, with absolute clarity, after 18 years in business that ‘success‘ in business (and life) was not about ‘arriving’ at some magical utopia (you’re already there) and expecting or desiring road-blocks to go away.  It was about creating greater success (taking your business and life to the next level) by recognizing that the block exists, identifying the type of block and exacting a strategy and plan to transcend it.

Now we haven’t even started yet but in that last sentence I have already given you a distinction.  Did you get it?  … It’s not one of the 3 distinctions I’m here to share but a significant one because it’s the framework for making my success distinctions become your success distinctions too.

And taking that idea of transcending blocks, the most powerful position you can put yourself in right now is with the conscious thoughts about developing  and adopting into practice strategies that will give you the complete power to overcome any block as they emerge, and re-emerge.   And it is my 3 key distinctions that I would now like to share that have given me the strategies and allowed me to put into practice powerful and practical processes to get exactly what I wanted – although let me say that ‘how’ or ‘where’ I ended up at a point of awareness I had achieved a desired outcome seems to differ – and greatly – from my original vision, but the outcome was achieved.  Why?  I believe that’s because other people have been involved along my journey and their version of an outcome (vision) differs from mine and it’s the blending of the two or more visions that creates a final outcome.

In case you and I have not yet had the time to ‘tell our stories’ of entrepreneurship, here’s a quick snap-shot of my business background.  I grew up in a business family, my parents owned and operated a plumbing and gas-fitting business with around 20 employees and they did it with a lot of pressure  of raising a family and with very little money or business acumen.  The local ANZ Bank Manager was also our family manager as the business was run on over-draft courtesy of the bank and meetings at his office were a regular part of my dad’s monthly business cycle.  I learned a lot about how to live life under hardship.  Money talk in our home was always hurtful because we lived in financial hurt reality.

My parents actually did an extra-ordinary job raising us kids to pursue our dreams and they supported us in every endeavor we wanted to explore.  The only ‘flaw’ I saw in that regard was that when we wanted to give up, they made it too easy for us to do that – they never challenged us to not quit.  We did not have alot of ‘material things’ (I had ’hand-me-down’ barbie dolls that I absolutely CHERISHED) but my parents always found money to pay for the education, experiences, courses, classes, activities that us kids wanted to do.  They never said NO to us developing ourselves and they never denied us the right to pursue our dreams even though their life experience was not going well.  I think this was good grounding for becoming conscious around money (albeit a bad framework) and committed to personal development – two key factors to taking your business (and life) to the next level.

I started working part-time at 14 years old.  At 15 I had two part time jobs and at 16, 17 and 18 I worked 3 part time jobs – until I completed High School.  My family ‘disintegrated’ when I was 14 with both parents ‘going their own way’ and me living at friends’ houses so I could complete school – so I had to fund my lifestyle.  I think this was good grounding for becoming focused, taking action and learning the art of ‘transcending blocks’ so I could keep on my pathway to the vision’ I held of my next success – which at the time were the most basic of needs – shelter, food, clothing, heat, etc.  Focus is another key factor to taking your business (and life) to the next level.  It also taught me that others are interested in their WIIFM ahead of yours.  I also learned about behavior and how to get along with others, with respect for their wants and needs (to a fault I might say, but I learned from this to not be  so self-indulgent that I draw life force out of  others.)  Obviously, it’s taken another 30 years of life experience since then to be able to articulate that to you.

At 18 I got my first full time job, which I ‘hustled’ to get in fashion, which gave me an opportunity to let my creativeness flourish.  I think this was good grounding for developing my imagination around selling and being able to listen and learn what people really wanted (sometimes people cannot state it you have to figure it out)… and discovering that meant I could give them what they really wanted from me.

Meeting my first husband at 18 and married a few years later, I found myself able to craft  a vision of the life of our dreams – which we did.  I had drawn on previous life experiences for what I did not want as much as what I did want … and together we embarked on this WONDERFUL plan for a fulfilled life.

I started my own first business in 1992 as an executive admin and marketing consultant to business and government agencies and contracted myself for professional services.  From that, I started my 2nd business in marketing and event management (previously I worked as a Corporate Trainer then Trainer of  Trainers and Marketing Manager for the training organization I worked for.  So I drew on these skill sets for both my 1st and 2nd businesses).  In my event management company I learned the value of time for dollars and the price you pay on a personal level when your time is tied to a client outcome.

I grew this business on the back bone of working for the Federal Government and directly for the [then] Deputy Prime Minister, The Honorable Tim Fischer on their international Trade and Investment Conferences.  With budgets of $3M, I quickly learned how to play the game at that level and I let my business consciousness expand to be able to accept that level of money responsibility (and expectation).  I also learned that people on wages do just enough to get paid so they can feed their family and that the people around you can indeed impact on your ‘pursuit of excellence’.  This is when I began to understand that the resolve you have for an extra-ordinary life is set by the resolve you have to develop an extra-ordinary mindset because the way you think affects the way you act (actions) and act-out (behavior) and they have a direct impact on the results that you get in your business and your life.

At this point (1996) I took my business on to the internet.  (my story about getting started in business on the internet)

Feeling the frustration of not expressing his own entrepreneurialism, my husband purchased a Powder-Coating business, putting our house under a very large mortgage and within weeks of acquiring it, we discovered we were sold the ultimate ‘lemon’.  Forced to borrow more, we innovated and broke industry norms (we knew nothing about the industry really but relied more on our imagination, determination, focus and commitment to our life plan).  We developed processes that had never been down ANYWHERE in the world before and like a couple of wide-eyed kids, we ‘went for it’.  Well as it turns out, eventually it worked!  A lot more money went in to the redevelopment of the entire business than I could have ever imagined we would spend (and spatterings of my own parents’ experiences around money began to repeat themselves.  I learned that leverage was crucial to fast-tracking and that if you want to innovate without any benchmarks, you better have a deep pocket and a ‘big heart’ – cause you’ll be pushed to your limits professionally and personally.

It wasn’t enough that we had already gone so far down the debt hole, we diversified the business and began our own metal manufacturing plant as well.  These businesses operated 24/7/365 – employees on 3 shifts and a management team to oversee it all.   On Saturday’s I would be out in the factory cutting steel ready for welding and/or loading the ovens to bake the paint on metal products, or cleaning the toilets after a factory full of ‘men’ or whatever had to be done – there was no option to outsource, we worked every waking, functioning minute we could to create success.  Then something really bad happened, overnight 95% of our income disappeared out of the business.  By that I mean we lost 95% of our customer base.  How did that happen?  In short, we learned the very valuable lessons about honesty, trust, respect and that not all people think that way, even those that you trust with your livelihood – which is equivalent in many ways to trusting with your life.

At this point, things were desperate and not only were we in a lot of trouble, my husband did not want anyone around us, especially our families, to know what was going on.  This is an immense pressure to live under – the pressure of the bank, the responsibility to your staff (one of which was my dad), the pressure and responsibility to live up to the ideals our families had about us and expected from us, it was quite surreal.  BUT, we ’played the game’ of hiding the truth.  I cannot put into words really what this was like, to essentially, live a lie.  I learned from this experience that you must stay connected with your truth and business integrity always and catch yourself and recalibrate when you stray.  Business integrity begins with personal integrity – I use integrity here to align all those ideals we have about being congruent.  I think if I continued to live my life like that, my life would have already ended, even if only by metaphor.

We rebuilt those businesses - it was quite remarkable really what we did and it was a team effort - including using the power of what I had learned on the internet and eventually (when it was too late for us), my husband sold both businesses for a profit.  He went through a lot.  It would have been really easy to close out and end up in the loop of excessive bad debt and never get out of it.   The reasons for our business success clearly came back to our mind-set and drawing on all the lessons we had learned and overcoming our fears of failure.  The problem was, we did not apply the same quality values to ourselves, our relationship and our life.  And a pattern appeared!

So for the next few years, whilst I was figuring out the internet some more, and selling a few products (often not for profit), I focused on learning about me and learning to love me … and love others.  I learned about the process of ‘letting go’ and giving myself permission to actually find Happiness, in fact it was only during these times that I really began to understand the difference between FUN and HAPPINESS.  And in synchronicity with that, business on the internet provided me with technology to replace staff, automation to leverage time (and staff) and a lifestyle like I had never seen or heard of before – that I had freedom to be where I want and money to do what I want.

I learned that anger was a big block to move forward that hurts yourself the most and that projecting  judgments on others was really a mirror back to what I did not like about myself.  I learned that I really suffered badly from a lack of self confidence (I still get that in tinges today – I’m as nervous as hell writing this to you – nervous about my ability to succinctly communicate my message FOR YOU.)  I learned that ‘your words are your worth’ and I learned that if you cannot find something valuable to say, it’s best left unsaid and that consciousness of that was important.   I also learned that when you find love for yourself, you can love many others – even if you have to let them go, you can let them go with love or if you have to ‘deal with something’ you can deal with it from a position of love.  So I have a saying, you may have heard it before “no matter what happens to you, stay in the love” – that is how you will continue to move forward and help others move forward too.

Things were going well and I started investing in the Stock Market – did a few courses, knew just enough to be dangerous – AND I WAS!  I wiped out EVERYTHING!  Gone, ka-put, beyond broke and it happened right at the beginning of a beautiful new relationship.  Just when things seemed and felt amazing, everything around money collapsed … again.  WHY!!!!  Come on, I’ve been through enough already God, give me a break!  And so he did.

I re-engaged with a book I had been given 10 years earlier, written by a man I have never met and a man who has impacted more lives and the lives of pretty much EVERY Success Guru you can find today – can you guess which book? The book is Law of Success and the author, Dr Napoleon Hill.  It was in reading that book that I FINALLY got Clarity on all my life experiences.  The Lessons in the Law of Success gave me context, meaning, learning and belief and enthusiasm that I could rebuild again.  For the first time ever, I saw LIFE in a whole different light, I became empowered enough to see all those previous experiences so differently – in fact, it does not seem like I am telling you MY BUSINESS LIFE story now, because I learned about Accurate Thinking and I transcended the challenges I was ‘carrying’ with me.

At the same time, things were going ‘gang-busters’ for me on the internet and I was starting to make in-roads into paying off my debts.

The internet continued to grow.  I was asked to organize the very first World Internet Summit and also speak about what I had achieved online.  Out of that, I spawned my next business - the one you know me in today “Web Business Academy – The Education, Tools and Support for Your Greatest Web Success”.  It has been in my role as Head Business Coach and Success Mentor at the Academy that I have learned and shared my greatest lessons about love, life, business and success and I’ve drawn on the experiences in my own life to help others.  I took the time to get recognize my truths, own them in integrity and let go with love.  Love is the single most important decision I have ever made to create greater business (and life) success.  Love Transforms Lives.

Over 18 years in business and a checker board kind of life, I learned that I am and you are a ‘Personal Culture’ - made up of all these different experiences and elements of our life.  We each represent a ’way of life’.  This idea of Personal Culture is founded on identifying our core personal values and core professional values – and those of our life partner too.  If and when any of these core values are out of alignment, you have a problem … or two.

Another way to think of our Personal Culture is to think about it as the culture of a land – say a country. If we were each a country and if we want other people to promote and populate and generate a healthy economy within the culture of our Country, we must present an attractive ‘place’ for others to habitat within.  That is a metaphor for how we conduct ourselves and in a business sense, that personal culture determines the quality of the people and how many of them come to our business and how many pay to stay and stay to play.  So I learned to learn lessons and translate them into powerful forward-moving cultural behaviors within my personal culture – I made my life experiences work for me in every way possible when dealing with people and profit on my journey to greater business (and life) success.

This break-through context has made me very grateful for everything that has happened in my life experiences to date and they draw me to now bring this story right back in to focus … with and for you.  One of the values of my personal culture is very much helping you and enough others get what you want so I can move to my next level of success too.

I have watched and helped 1000s of people around the world to create their greatest web success and I’ve also watched and tried to help many others.  Always the same application, information and support on the part of my team and me – so what’s with the different results that people get in business?  What do you make of that?  Well I have found that it lies in each of our own ‘personal cultures’ and our chosen way of life which includes how we conduct ourselves and what approach we take to challenges or blocks.  You may not realize it, but you have indeed chosen the experiences you are having right now, all of them, it’s all you.

And I know that without developing my personal culture, I could not have developed the wisdom and love one must possess as a way of life to transcend all the business (and life) challenges you will face on your journey to greater success, especially if you plan on being ‘famous’ for what you do.  It takes a lot of gumption, gritting determination and eloquence to make it in the information products industry, speaking industry, and as a business coach, success mentor and author.  People expect more from you when you are in the public eye – because you have created success with fame.  You will only have your Personal Culture to draw on as your fame and fortune grows.  And so many more people will come to depend on you ‘holding it all together’ and then ‘leading’ and then ‘innovating’ and then ‘teaching’ what you know.

Your way of life must be congruent with your ability to cope with these demands projected upon you from people around you – many of whom will not even know the concept of a personal culture and certainly very little awareness of the inappropriate nature of their behavior and incongruent with greater success.  Your role will be to help them transcend, with love and you may even need to loan your personal culture to others at times, until they have developed one of their own.  You must have one to loan.  This is what is waiting for you in the game of your greater fortune and fame.

The “Banyan Tree’ and me are good friends, having meditated on these remarks over many hundreds of hours, and now I share them with you.  Your greater business (and life) success and getting to your next level is not about you having the best product or best process or best resources or even the best people around you (although all these resources working at their optimum will greatly help you) - it’s about YOU being equipped with a Personal Culture of Excellence – so you can attract the right resources to get you to your next level.

If your personal culture is not evolved to cope and your vision is not one for excellence, it simply will not happen for you and you most likely will end up feeling like you just can’t get ‘there’ and that you’re going around in circles - because ‘one foot is nailed to the floor’.  I believe many entrepreneurs fail to make their greater levels of success because of their inability to cope.  Their personal culture did not evolve so what chance was there for their business to ever evolve either.

What you’re getting in your business right now is a direct reflection on the personal culture you have created and that you project.  That is the good and the bad.  I’m sure you’ve heard similar remarks, just with different words, but this is far more than just thinking or just actions, it’s a holistic approach and a lifestyle – a way of life – and it cuts through to the very essence of human beings and right down to a cellular level.  (More about that shortly.)

Let’s be clear before we proceed much further.  Personal Culture is a set of learned beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors which regulate your day to day life. It is: “The way you do things”.   Personal Culture is determined by how we live our life. Every individual lives according to your own beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors – each family has its own set of beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors and does each continent, country, state, city, suburb and each place you to go where you interact with one or more people has its own set of beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors too ( like on Facebook and Twitter).  These are all cultures.    (Thanks to lodestar-coaching.com for these definitions.)

Cultures are often set by default and that is why I have gone to this amount of effort – because I want you to develop your Personal Culture by design!  You choose the set of beliefs, values, attitudes and behaviors that work best for your business (and life). Simple as that!

I want to share with you now 3 Key Distinctions I have used to transcend my business (and life) challenges and transform my life.

These distinctions are not conventional thinking and they could be offensive – but they ARE very powerful and have set me apart.

Re:  Offending You:   So far, so good?  Nothing to be offended by … yet?  Great!  We could be destined to work and grow together in our future.  You may already disagree though with something I have said and you would be right to do so – for you.  I may not have anything to offer you, this is not advice I am about to share but 3 very carefully thought out distinctions, that I’ve taken a lot of time to prepare … for you, in case you agree and want to move to your next level easier and with the insights of someone that may have ‘travelled a little further down the road’ than you have so far.  That is what I now offer to you … with Love.

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Let’s get into it:

Firstly, here’s what I know to be my truths (that pre-text the 3 distinctions I want to teach you):

- there has never been a better time for entrepreneurs than right now and there has never been a tougher time than right now

- the internet represents business growth and success that can be leveraged like never before, thanks to automated technology

- we are living in an ever-increasingly rapid process of living and consuming (and I often wonder where it will all end – do the robots kill us all?)

- something MASSIVE is about to happen to how we do business

- this experience called “Social Media” has barely even started, the internet is only 15 years old

- like a massive climate change in world history, society is about to undergo its own catastrophic metamorphosis and only the strongest entrepreneurs will survive it AND thrive in it.

- what we are about to experience with the internet, social culture and the emerging economies has never been seen before and it is set to spill the balance of power across the world and rock the very foundations of the economy systems and structures as we know them today.

If the advent of the internet, consumption of technology and the ‘new economy’ game of business on social media overwhelms you, wait till you see what’s coming.  It poses a threat to the very foundations of how we live, our governance and how we trade and spend.  I’m talking about things like ‘virtual economy’ and ‘social equity’.  Like never before, the world of business and the world in general will need leaders with strong, designed and developed Personal Cultures.  As we see the corporate business and government structures flatten, the need for these well-cultured leaders will be more important than ever before.  And just like a country, your personal culture will soon have a ‘quality of life’ price tag put on it.  You and every one of us will be exposed like never before … and to survive and thrive means you need to get to work on building your value and equity in Your Personal Culture - quickly!

“I know why I’m in this AND what I want out of it.”

I decided several years ago that if I was going to ‘do this’ it was that I must be at the very top of my game and a provider of excellence as the standard of my personal culture.  In exchange for that, I want people to pay me the price that I request for my tools, education and support services designed to empower entrepreneurs.  And I intended to do that by being the emergent leader because emergent leaders stand the greatest chance to THRIVE!

You have to decide right now – yes today – if you are in this – “The Game” – of business and entrepreneurship to build your fortune and fame. And if you are in the game, what are you in it for?  What do you want out of it.  You better get clear on that … and quickly!

So, you have decided to stay and play – Congrats!  Now, who is going to be the emergent leader in your industry? It should be you!

The emergent leader, in this new and emerging economy is an evolution of a well developed personal (self) leader.

A personal leader is someone who can achieve, through earnest individual efforts, the knowledge and practical know-how:
- to lead oneself through the labyrinth of life while nourishing and realizing your creative potential;
- to become self-aware: alert of what you feel, think, experiences and intuit;
- to be responsible for yourself: and your own thoughts and feelings, words and deeds;
- to live in the present, see the world with an unprejudiced and open mind as it is now , and not as it was in the past or as it might be in the future,

- to strive after wisdom – the faculty of seeing the whole in the ‘parts’ and the infinite in the finite.

The above qualities are not magical; they can be consciously developed, practiced and strengthen.

Those who succeed in realization of these qualities naturally attract followers … and this happens without asking or waiting for society to formally confer on them the title of leader.

NOW, IT’S TIME TO PICK UP THE PACE AND ANTI!

I want to introduce to the 3 key distinctions and invite some of my ‘friends’ to share their insights too into that which will help you develop your personal culture to become the leader in your industry and move your business forward faster in this new and emerging economy.  Enjoy!

KEY DISTINCTION 1:  I EXECUTE APPROPRIATE ACTIONS THAT ARE CONSCIOUSLY KNOWN TO MOVE ME FORWARD TOWARDS MY SUCCESS

I don’t buy into the crap, I don’t gossip, I get on with it … “my life is more important than ‘that’“… period!  I CARE ONLY ABOUT RESULTS!  Results for me, my family, my clients, my peers.  “The drama no longer belongs with me.” I have made mistakes, others have misunderstood me and the one thing I have found is that “no one is pure evil” (Randy Pausch).

Despite everything that’s happened and everyone that’s chosen enemy over friend or envy over love, I go on.  I go on and I execute, as per the ways I know WORK … from proven RESULTS! “I listen to what everyone says but I dont care what anyone thinks.” (Gary Vaynerchuk, Author of “Crush It” and “The Thank You Economy“)

Here’s a snippet from Gary about EXECUTION, I know you’ll love it.

Are You Obsessed Enough for Success Yet?

DISTINGUISH YOURSELF AS A LEADER, GET OUT OF THE GOSSIP ON FACEBOOK, IT IS NO LONGER PART OF YOUR CULTURE …  AND GET ON WITH IT!

KEY DISTINCTION 2:  I KNOW WHAT I WANT AND I AM NOT AFRAID TO IMPACT OR INFLUENCE OTHERS TO GET IT

I draw on my personal culture, built on years of various experiences in business and I make persuasive arguments. I can hold my own when challenged. I can gather and sort data well and I can hold an audience attention.

The funny issue with influence and persuasion is when people say it is “wrong”. These people still attempt to manipulate others in their everyday lives though.  We all have a need to influence or persuade people and leaders with a strong personal culture do it with the intention of improving the life experience of the person/people who surround you.

Whether it’s asking for a cup of water or getting a sale, persuasion and influence occurs many times throughout your day whether you notice it or not. It is an inherent want within each of us to get what we desire, but it is the techniques we use and how we use them that determines if we are successful in getting what we want.

These six principles are effective techniques for influencing people to successfully get what you want (from the book “Create Your Own Future” by Brian Tracy).

1. Selfish – You desire things for yourself.
2. Lazy – You want easier instead of difficult.
3. Greedy – You want more instead of less.
4. Impatient – You want things now instead of later.
5. Ignorance – You ignore inaccurate, unimportant information because you dont need to know everything.
6. Ambitious – You desire something better after taking appropriate action.
7. Vain – You have pride in yourself and your achievements.

I mention these elements of human nature because they may appear to be “evil” at first glance like influence is when hearing you can get other people to do what you want. However, if you think more deeply about each element, the seven elements each have their own degree of usefulness in our lives.

I also have focussed on connecting with people of greater influence and stronger impact than I possess.  I have built these alliances ahead of friends in the community.  That’s not to say friends in the community are less important but it means people of influence and impact can actually assist me to move forward to my greater success – so I invest my time, money and effort with them.  This has proven one of the most successful things I have ever done to take my business to the next level.

Popular feels good and popular looks nice but popular is not an economy.  In fact, trust is far more important in the exchange of money for goods and services than anything.  Growing your business is all about creating lots of trust.  You see, there are people I do not like but I would trust them with my money and conversely there are people I like but could not trust with my money.

Influence and Impact and associating with people of Influence and who have Impact lets me deliver to a confident-in-me market … help my clients get what they want so I can get what I want.  Without those key attributes, I’m just another face in the crowd.

I’ve never shyed from paying – and I pay full price.  I even pay bonuses if someone I purchased something from does an outstanding job.  That is, I have brought expensive gifts like new state-of-the-art laptops and alike for people that I am a customer of – who represent opportunity for me to align with Influence and Impact in my marketplace.

Also, I always think in terms of how I can add-value to them – the people of influence and who have impact to help me move forward faster.  I’ve built an international speaking career with more offers than I can handle because I’ve positioned myself as a person of Influence and Impact.  I have written a published book – being approached to write it due to my personal alliances with people of Influence and Impact.  I’ve been a VIP invite to countless events and in the future I have connections with people like Dr Napoleon Hill 3rd and Oprah Winfrey.  None of that would have happend in my business if I focused on popular instead of influence and impact – THAT is what people want in their Leaders.

Here’s something I learned from studying Daniel Goleman’s “Social Intelligence” book. Most effective leaders laughed 3 times more than mediocre or average performers.  So this is not about intensity or rudeness.  You want to be focused and have fun and consciously seek experiences that bring you happiness.

The key to impacting and influencing others is to build rapport.  Pay full attention to others and then let your brain do the rest.  Which brings me to the 3rd Key Distinction.

KEY DISTINCTION 3:  I UNDERSTAND HOW MY BRAIN WORKS SO I CAN CONSCIOUSLY MANIPULATE IT TO FILTER AND RESPOND TO MOVE ME FORWARD TO MY SUCCESSS

How much do you really know about your brain?  The number one competence that distinguishes Leaders from the rest who are average is the singular drive to achieve – to improve performance, to make whatever I’m working on better, faster, more powerful, more effective.  I have very high INTERNAL standards for success.  I am not driven by what other people say, I KNOW how good something should be and work the hours to make THAT happen.

How do I control that ability?

I came to understand the disempowering nature of the Amygdala and realized THIS is why I continued to repeat patterns of success and failure.  This was one of biggest break throughs for me – to understand something like this took the ‘woo woo factor’ of mindset to the science of our very being.  When we are hijacked by our Amygdala – we operate in a complex, symbolic reality “he’s not treating me fairly”, “she’s dissing me” – these threats trigger ‘the amygdala’ (part of your brain) and our attention narrows and fixates and we get into a state which is sub-optimal … for most aspects of life, especially those that impact on your future success.  We get really done by ourselves when the amygdala kicks in and takes over and we write that really bad email we should never have written or we post that comment on Facebook that did not serve our own personal culture nor the culture of another … and this all goes back  to early childhood behaviors.

I would like to introduce you to Daniel Goleman, author of “Social Intelligence” and many other fabulous works around the concept of emotional intelligence.  In this presentation he is addressing Google staff and sharing his insights.  This video runs for nearly an hour – DO NOT GIVE UP WATCHING IT – it becomes more and more relevant as he goes on and then … it hits you and you want to watch it over and over again.

Could YOU Resist the Marshmellow? – Your Social Intelligence is about to be revealed.

YOUR SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE IS A FORM OF CURRENCY IN YOUR PERSONAl CULTURE.

So would YOU grab that marshmellow when no one’s looking or could you resist? The sudden impulse to act, respond or react is a sign of your amygdala – your attention fixates on what is disturbing you.  The more resistance and control you can exercise, the more your performance goes up.

And now to something I want to share specifically about values and behaviours on sites such as Facebook and Twitter and via written communications like email too.  How are you managing your personal culture in your day to day lives on the internet? It’s been interesting, to say the least, in more recent times to join in the conversations on Facebook with business colleagues and observe the personal culture that many people are displaying and also how few people can control the amygdala – or if they can, choose to erode the intrinsic value of their personal culture.  Have you even stopped to consider your public behaviour as your personal culture?  Do you want people to populate your country because they embrace and love and want to absorb your culture – and stay and spend with you?

YOUR PERSONAL CULTURE IS YOUR FUTURE IN THIS NEW AND CHANGING WORLD ECONOMY

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I want to surround myself and associate with people who are striving for excellence in your personal culture.  I LOVE YOU, THANK YOU AND I’M WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Calling All Web Business Owners, Internet Marketers, Web Designers and Programmers:

“Your Leverage Years are Here!”

If you’ve spent a week, a month, a year or even a decade like me on the internet so far, doing business in some way, then THIS could be the most exciting news going forward and building wealth on the web EVER for you.

We have just completed the first decade of successfully marketing and selling products and services on the net along with new and powerful ways to connect directly with prospects and customers … and more importantly, that technology developments have also allowed many of these functions to be fully or at least semi-automated.

Your experiences, both the good and bad, since you have engaged in any of these functions on the internet may or may not have given you the desired results you sought out.  For many, that was enough to ‘quit’, to ‘give up’ – but unlike them, you continued.  You have developed new knowledge, new skills and new experiences – and YOU are part of the pioneers who ‘were there in the beginning’ – the small group of web entrepreneurs that learned alot.  You have experienced technological functions that make communications, marketing and sales easier - you have developed a whole range of experiences that very few people have actually got to do … yet!

SO, WHAT ARE THE LEVERAGED YEARS EXACTLY THEN?  GLAD YOU ASKED!  It’s a time for you to maximize the return on your investment made in developing your web business knowledge, skills and experience – and that time is NOW!

I’ve prepared a Special Message that will help you to better understand the leverage you may have ’unknowingly’ created.

 

Quotes from Jennie:

“The Internet and Technology have transformed the way we live, the way we communicate and the way we buy and sell.  It’s an extraordinary time for entrepreneurs that have embraced this new frontier of business marketing, sales and customer relationship management.”

“Social Media Centers online are the Web Business Owner Media of the Future”

“Mobile Devices such as iPhones are the Communication, Commerce and Cash Registers of the Future.”

“Profit in Your Pocket = Learning How to Monetize Communication Mediums and Media … it’s not just about learning and doing because everyone else is doing it”

“You must be multi-faceted in your skills and with your products”

“The single most important personal skill to possess for future web success is ADAPTABILITY”

“It’s just not enough to rely on only Search Engines like Google or only Social Engines like Facebook or only Spender Engines like Ebay. Your future web marketing MUST be across all 3 groups, not just focused on Google, not only using Ebay and not spending all your time on Facebook – you need to learn about all 3 engine types for web success.”

EXAMPLE OF ONLINE MARKETING MIX FOR YOUR FUTURE WEB SUCCESS

Presented by Jennie Armato – Head Coach, Web Business Academy

 

If you want to know more about how you can partner in 2010 and beyond with me and my team, using the “Web Success Wizard” tool of empowerment and education, please contact my amazing team at Web Business Academy here … and we’ll catch up with you soon.

I WISH GREATNESS IN YOUR LIFE – YOU ARE PURE AND POSITIVE ENERGY – KEEP YOURSELF IN THAT FLOW.

Here’s to Greater *Profit in Your Pocket*, *Prosperity in Your Life* and *Peace in Your Family*.

ALSO, Please leave your thoughts, comments and feedback below.

With love, Jen xo

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YOUR WORDS ARE YOUR WORTH!

The following presentation was delivered as the ‘morning-starter’ speech at the Crocodile Marketing Inner Sanctum Workshop held in Melbourne and hosted by Pete Godfrey and David McMahon.

Pete and David invited me to share how the power of compelling copy has transformed my life … and the life’s of people I’ve worked with to help transform too, through my business designed to help people solve their problems and improve their position in life, using the true power of the internet.

This Video has a total running time of 23 minutes. Simply click the Play button on the video below and ENJOY!

Here are some photos from the day Think and Grow Rich was presented to me.

 

Here’s are a few pictures capturing the moments when I received my personally autographed copy of Think and Grow Rich from Sharon Lechter, Bob Proctor and Greg Reid.

Jennie Armato and Sharon Lecther celebrating Dr Hill’s Think and Grow Rich.

Jennie Armato and Don Green, Executive Director of Napoleon Hill Foundation celebrate Dr Hill’s work.

In the above presentation that I made to Pete and Dave’s audience, I talked about Napoleon Hill and his Law of Success.

It was his life’s work investigating the components and processes of success, abundance and wealth.  From all of his research, Dr Hill developed 17 Principles of Success.    Principle 1 is “Definiteness of Purpose” – the starting point of all achievement.   He says firstly - find out what you want, then find out how to get it and then do what you have to do to get it.

You may wonder about and even be inspired to start transformng your business and your life right now!  If so, you will have this question … how and where DO I start?

“Transforming your business and your life - through empowering and educating your clients to solve their problems and improve their position in life is a great place to start.”

Watch this FABULOUS short video from Brian Tracy, in his way, he describes the power of Inspired Thoughts and Inspired Feelings to achieve your number one goal in the quickest, easiest way possible..  ENJOY

Please leave your thoughts, comments and feedback below and Please Share This with those you love and know.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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Confucius is An Ancient Chinese Teacher, Social Philosopher and Great Sage Who Still Impacts Life and Business Today.

28 September – China Celebrates his life, his work and the work of all teachers (coaches and mentors) too.

If Napoleon Hill is the “Father of Great Success”, then there’s no question that Confucius is the “Father of ALL Great Teachers” and ran the Best Life and Business Coaching Program … EVER!   Dont know much about Confucius?  Start with this mini documentary, it will enlighten you … if you have a general idea, skip it and read on …

Today, thanks to the internet, many great teachers, educators, coaches and mentors like you are able to share your gift with the world, using your web business as a base for your global message of empowerment and education, in your expert field.  On 28 September each year, China celebrates the birth of Confucius and in line with celebrating this great teacher, they celebrate the work of all great teachers of the world.

Throughout my development as a teacher, coach and mentor in my web business coaching and mentoring program, I have referred to the thoughts and wisdom of Confucious many times – usually in those times of need - where I’ve sought guidance greater than that which I can give to myself.  I am a controversial person at times, I have never been afraid to speak my mind and to speak out when things and people appear out of alignment with intentions of goodness for people.  This has, as you may well imagine, bought me many great allies and also some enemies – something I really prefer not to do, but then I battle with being in the knowledge of ill-intention and not taking action.  It’s in these moments of confusion – (do I speak out or do I transcend the issue?) – that I have sought the clarity of Confucius and Confucianism.

Here are the basic values of  Confucianism that you can use to guide you as a teacher too:

Mercy … Righteousness … Courtesy … Wisdom … Faith

It is on contemplating and reflecting these values that you are able to keep your intentions and actions in alignment with goodness for all people.  I find these values also help you to ‘Let Go’ and let it be.  Helping oneself and others at the same time, by referring to these values, is characteristic of the “worldliness” of Confucianism and Chinese civilization. I hope you adopt this course of ‘counsel’ and refer to them too.

To further help you continue to empower and educate people around the world, using the power of the internet and the best coaching program ever invented (Confucianism), here are eight of my favorite Confucius quotes that make an excellent representation of the attitude, approach and actions of a web business owner and teacher.  (Who would have known something written so many thousands of years ago would directly reflect with relevance to how we live and do business today!)

Eight of the Greatest Quotes of Confucius, the Social Philosopher and Teacher that work  perfectly for Web Business owners, Teacher, Coaches and Mentors today:

1)  If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.

2)  Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

3)  Respect yourself and others will respect you.

4)  The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

5)  When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

6)  Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

7)  He who will not economize will have to agonize

8) I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

… and I thought this one was an excellent ‘Life Success and Happiness’ quote, for those moments when things dont go well with someone else and you really need to let go …

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

… and finally, this from Confucius:

“To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are Gravity, Generosity of Soul, Sincerity, Earnestness and Kindness. ”

Hey, as a side point of interest, even Google Salutes Confucius on this day to celebrate his teachings, work, impact and leaderdship.  It’s their way to make a tribute – by adding his picture to their logo for the day – that’s pretty cool and perhaps representative of the philosophies the people of Google work to align themselves with too.  If that is true, what an excellent example of their leadership (rather than domination).

To all educators teachers, coaches, mentors and people that empower others around the world … I wish you ”Happy Teachers Day”.

Please leave your thoughts, comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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HAPPY YOU DAY !

(Whereever in the World YOU Are)

July 10 is International Happiness Day – A day to remember to celebrate your state of happiness as often and as fullsomely as possible.

No one wakes up thinking …

“May I suffer the whole day”

What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.

 

 

Here’s a short story I prepared on this blog post to celebrate Father’s Day – a symbolic celebration of being someone’s dad.  Fathers Day is celebrated at different times in different parts of the world.  BUT this is not just or only about Fathers, what I’m about to share with you is about experiences of children (and that’s all of us) – we are all children of our biological and/or adopted parents.  This is one common thread we all share along with the lasting affects of these relationships.

Our experiences in childhood really do seem to impact our thoughts, feelings and behaviors in our adulthood and depending on your own personal ability to process, embrace and erase those elements that have the greatest impact will directly affect our beliefs and decisions as adults.  It’s a complicated topic and one that can bring up warm, loving and dark, hurtful memories and that’s something for the Pros to talk about really, not me.

What I want to share with you here is the greater awareness of our words – written and spoken and the impact they can and do have on others, especially children.  It’s very easy to forget this and say things in a defensive state or perhaps as a deliberate attack on someone.  Especially as parents, it’s incredibly easy to snap or go off at a kid going on and on – I remember my own parents – they had immense patience with me and my brothers but occasionally my mum would snap and we’d run for the hills!  Understandable and forgiveable but it doesnt hurt for all of us to take a moment and reflect on the wonderful opportunities and experiences we are given and learn to control our words, live for the enjoyment of  the present – it really IS a gift … and enjoy children, especially when they are exploring their pleasures and feeling fulfillment in their lives.

Have you seen the movie ”The Pursuit of Happyness“?  (Yes spelt with a ‘y’).  It stars Will Smith and his real-life son who play a father and son in the movie.  Here’s a scene from the movie where the father forgets momentarily, the power of his words and the impact they can have on others – and maybe even ‘steal their dream’ (it’s very touching so be ready) …

“Dont ever let somebody tell you you cant do something, not even me

….. You got a dream, you got to protect it!”

Maybe someone close to you - your parent/s, a sibiling, relative of influence or maybe a teacher once told you that you will never be good at ‘it’ … maybe you’re hearing that now as you pursue your ultimate lifestyle by building a profitable and sustainable web business portfolio.  Maybe you’re being affected by it so strongly that YOU have started to believe it too!

A few terse words from someone that matters to you can impact your life for a long time and if you dont have dreams bigger than the ’drama’, you will probably give up … what else have you got?  It seems the EASIEST thing you’ll ever do is believe someone else’s negative perception of you and give up!

As I’m writing this, I am personally experiencing a very difficult time from some people in business that is hurtful, absolutely un-necessary and is designed to affect me negatively.  It’s not easy to let that kind of deliberate anger and fear on their part blow past you, but I know I have to BE bigger than the drama and not let someone else steal my dreams.

(Sharing that with you has made me quite emotional and I feel like a goof sitting here at my computer with the tears in my eyes blurring the words on the screen as I type but I want you know, EVERYONE has someone that can steal your dreams – IF YOU LET THEM!)

Every one of us was given a gift at birth … Napoleon Hill describes it as an envelope marked with the words “RICHES” on it, and inside that envelope are dreams lived, happiness and a fulfilled life.

NO MATTER WHAT, it IS your birthright to complete your human journey to fulfillment and happiness, no matter what anyone around you says – we can choose to concede, we can stand and ’try’ to resist or we can connect with our inner truth and move forward … no matter what … and do it with the belief and bewilderment of a child.  The Pursuit of Happyness, no matter how it’s spelt is a journey you should never want to stop being on.

Maybe you are like me, not perfect, maybe you make mistakes, maybe you say things that (even if you didnt know it) rob others of their Pursuit of Happyness … the journey of discovery and fulfillment is always about being the “BEST YOU … YOU CAN BE” … that’s all anyone can ask of you and me.

Here’s a great song from Coldplay, it’s a 3 minute meditation FOR YOU, FROM YOU.  I have just played it to myself and it’s a wonderful way to reconnect with yourself and understand you really can Do it, you really can Have it, you really can Be it!

The song is set to highlights of the movie and I’ve included the words below so you can follow them, sing them, print them, share them, enjoy them!

“Fix You” by ColdPlay

When you try your best, but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone, but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

And high up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
Just what you’re worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I…

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I…

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Sometimes when things dont go quite to plan for me, I have actually stood in front of the mirror and talked to myself and said things like “You CAN Do This Jennie”.  Of course we cannot fix others, it’s their journey and their pursuit that will help them grow.  Enjoy YOUR journey – Your Pursuit of Happyness (You can Fix You as you Grow).

Oh, Happy Fathers Day to all the dads out there and Happy YOU Day too!

Please leave your comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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Enjoy the Space that Comes with Giving Up and Letting Go … Align Yourself with Love, not Revenge!

If you don’t ‘let it go’ you will never grow. William McMullin

There’s a great ‘Wealthy Life’ Motto I just love, it’s helped me move through challenges with people both personally and professionally (coaching and mentoring can be challenging at times).  The Wealth Life Motto is “If you dont have anything valuable and helpful to say to or about someone, best you learn how to let IT go.” (IT being whatever YOUR issue is with that other person – YES, it’s YOUR Issue.)  I know that’s hard to hear but it’s true.  The moment YOU let it go, it exists no longer for you.

We can make ourselves emotional wrecks and labour over experiences that happened years, months, weeks and even days ago.  These experiences can bring you nothing but an inner misery.  Now for some people, that might be what they actually like – you know there’s comfort in familiar experiences.  Life for them is a series of inner misery experiences, because they have never learned how to LET GO!.  BUT IF YOU REALLY want to live an Extraordinary Life, a Wealthy Life, then you gotta behave like an extraordinary person and learn to let it go … with love.

Here’s a quick insight from one of my favorite Mentors and Authors, Stuart Wilde.  Here he talks about people (you and me when we’re angry) being like a Swamp Monster because we refuse to “Let It Go”.  “If I fight with you … we both get held back ….”

(Turn up the volume, he speaks very softly … and his point is made right away.  I had to replay it a few times to catch the first few lines.)

Have a disposition of COMPASSION and TENDERNESS for Yourself and for Others

… an act of Peace and Forgiveness … and Self-Love

Letting Go is NOT Easy for many people – they can spend years angry and unforgiving – and of course attract more of THAT kind of experience in to their lives.  I think alot of people make themselves sick, mentally, physically and emotionally with anger.  Sometimes we ’pick fights’ for the sake of the fight, when you could just move on. (I know I’ve done it.) We’re a funny lot aren’t we … wonder what we look like as a species being ‘studied’?

It’s time to lift a weight off your shoulders, your mind and your heart …  and Let It Go, with Love.  Teach Your Children by how you LIVE, not by what you say.

Here’s a process I have gone through personally to find forgiveness for my own mistakes and my perceived mistakes of others, to help me and them Move On.

I imagine a small version of the person and that they are floating in a bubble just touching the palm of my hand at around eye level in front of me.  I then take a few deep breaths in and out and as I’m inhaling and exhaling, I’m saying to myself “I’m breathing in love for me, I’m breathing out love for you“.  I do that a few times.  Then on an outwards breath, I blow onto the bubble and the person to ‘float’ them away from me.  I do it with a genuine smile on my face and I say these words to myself “I let you go with love” and like watching a helium-filled balloon disappear in to the distance, I watch them being blown away until I can see them no more.

I do this whole process when I am alone and feeling like I would like and could do with some more self love.  This is particularly evident if I’m awake thinking about someone or something or I’ve driven home mulling over a bad phone call or situation.  It brings an inner peace and love and puts a smile of contentment and love back in to my heart and my face.

Unfortunately many people you encounter in your life will blame you, abuse you and accuse you – for their misery.  A quick and easy process like the one I use can help you keep centered and aligned with love … for the sake of you and the people that really love you – let those that love you experience your true inner beauty and do not let the sum of what other’s misery might project on you to be representative of you.  YOUR LIFE AND THE GIFT YOU HAVE TO SHARE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THAT!

If you cant fix it, LET GO … WITH LOVE and MOVE ON!

Please leave your comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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ATTENTION POWERFUL, BEAUTIFUL WOMEN FRIENDS

Even if it’s not International Womens Day today, Join me in making today AWESOME – I’m feeling INVINCIBLE ’cause I started MY day with this 3 minute Meditation – pick from the 3 versions … or play all of them … Join me!

COME ON … LET ME HEAR YOU ROAR!

Can you hear those applause?  They are for YOU!

(Can you see the conviction in her eyes and voice as she sings “I am Strong …”?)

CRANK UP THE VOLUME AND BELT IT OUT BABY!!  I’m singing it with you.

The United Nations declared 1975 ”International Year of the Women”.  They chose this as the theme song.  And it’s lived on for today’s younger generations of women too, who know you really can have everything you’ve ever wanted, because you now have the power to get it.

Imagine the ‘walls and blocks’ Helen Reddy and many other leading business women would have faced back 30+ years ago.  We are alive at an amazing time for women – it’s up to each one of us to embrace our authentic power and beauty and share our message, through the love and energy women naturally possess and make, live and leave our legacy.  And it’s equally important to support, encourage and empower one another.  Our way, I believe, really can heal the world.

Notice the conviction in this woman’s eyes and voice (you’ll want that too) when she/you declares  …. “I am Strong, I am Invincible, I am Woman”

Here are those powerful, meaningful words (print them out, carry them with you, stick them on the wall, remind yourself YOU ARE INVINCIBLE).

I AM WOMAN (Helen Reddy and Ray Burton)

I am woman, hear me roar In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again

Oh yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can do anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

You can bend but never break me ‘Cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer ‘Cause you’ve deepened the conviction in my soul

Oh, yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

I am woman watch me grow See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo With a long, long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh, yes, I am wise But it’s wisdom born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong) I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

Oh, I am woman I am invincible I am strong

I am woman I am invincible I am strong I am woman

In 2006 Vanessa Amorosi (Australia’s No 1 Pop Rock Chic) honored “I am Woman” with her rendition as Helen Reddy accepted her induction into Australia’s (ARIA) Hall of Fame – notice Helen Reddy in the audience, bopping along on those high notes.:

Make “I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE, I AM WOMAN” as your daily, weekly, monthly mantra too, it will uplift, inspire and excite you.  You really are STRONG and INVINCIBLE … You Are WOMAN!

HAVE YOU SEEN SEX AND THE CITY 2 YET?  This scene of the girls in a Karaoke Bar in Abu Dhabi singing “I am Woman“ is hysterical … hope you get a great laugh from it too.

Let your inner “Samantha” shine brightly today!!

YOU are a Center of Influence, Power and Love   ….   YOU Are Woman!

Please share this with your friends and leave your comments and feedback below. I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

 

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Are you a fan of the writings of Napoleon Hill, like me and thousands of other people around the world?

If so, then add your comments at the end of this post so we can continue to connect, share and learn from his teachings.

I want to share a few of my experiences with his works and how they’ve influenced my life.  I believe it was my mind-set shifts and personal growth that enabled and allowed me to create opportunity and do “Business in My Bathrobe .. from Home and Hotels Around the World” (the name of this blog).

The fact that I used the internet and web businesses as my money-making medium is inconsequential, although it does resonate with me very well as it indeed fits with his teachings, but again, unless I changed the way I thought about life, myself, money, opportunity, peace, self-fulfillment and true happiness, the money (if I still managed to make it without a mind-set shift) would have been meaningless and I would have still been inherently miserable, even though I thought I was a positive, happy person … the truth was only revealed by working through the lessons taught by Napoleon Hill.

Firstly, I’d like to share this video, from Napoleon Hill that captures the very essence of transforming your life (by unlocking your spiritual forces) - to be where you want to be, do what you want to do and have what you want to have.  After this video, I have made notes about the Blessing and 3 steps he says you must take, so you will start benefiting immediately from the power of his work … Enjoy!

In this video, Napoleon Hill says we are given two sealed envelopes at birth.  We decide which one we want to open.

One envelope is labelled “THE RICHES  YOU MAY ENJOY IF YOU TAKE POSSESSION OF YOUR OWN MIND AND DIRECT IT TO ENDS OF YOUR OWN CHOICE   “. It contains these Blessings:

1)  Sound Health

2) Peace of Mind

3) A Labour of Love of Your Own Choice

4)  Freedom from Fear and Worry

5)  A Positive Mental Attitude

6)  Material Riches of Your Own Choice and Quantity.

 

The 3 Action Steps he tells you to take right now are:

1.  On a loose page, write down a clear description of your major desire in life.  The one circumstance or position or thing which you will accept as your idea of success.  (And remember before you begin writing, that your only limitations are those that you set up in your own mind or that you allow others to set up for you.)

2.  Write down a clear statement of precisely what you intend to give in return for that you desire in life … and then start in right where you stand now to begin giving.

3.  Memorize both of your statements – what you desire and what you intend to give in return for it and repeat them at least a dozen times daily and always end your statements with this expression of gratitude for the blessings with which you were gifted at birth.

and the Expression of Gratitude is:

“I ask not for divine providence, for more riches, but more wisdom with which to accept and use wisely the riches I received at birth in the form of the power to control and direct my mind to whatever ends I desire.”

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Here’s some of the succinct and powerful statements in Napoleon Hill’s works that have helped transform the lives of so many …

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LIVE YOUR LEGACY … AS WELL AS LEAVE ONE

Even if your hands are shaking, And your faith is broken,

Even as the eyes are closing, Do it with a heart wide open.

If you’ve ever read any book, audio or attended an event to do with Personal Development and Self Improvement, then you would have come across the notion of Building Dreams, Setting Goals, Making Plans and Taking Action.

As a student on a continuous journey of self improvement for greater self fulfillment (which I believe is the premise of our human existence), I’ve always be conscious of Dreams, Goals, Plans and Action.  BUT like many people, I have not always had a sense of urgency to fulfill and complete some of my bigger ones, because although we all know that eventually we do ‘kick the bucket’, we still think and act like we have the time to ‘get around to doing it’ … whatever ‘it’ might be.

About 5 years ago,  I read a quote from James Dean, that not only resonated with me, but the point of it stuck with me … and it stuck so powerfully that I made it a kind of mantra for my life that I also share with my clients when they first join our client ‘family’.  He said “Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you ll die tomorrow.”

It was from pondering (meditating) on this quote that I got it – that life is about LIVING OUR LEGACY … NOT JUST LEAVING ONE!

And so I started to dream bigger and with those dreams, my goals grew and my Plans grew and myActions grew – I actually found my desire and enthusiasm to do more, have more and be more meant my energy grew and my love of life, of people, of experiences and of myself grew.  My list of things I want to LIVE or experience grew and before I knew it, I had a flood of ideas about experiences I wanted to fulfill while I had the opportunity to do so.

Then I saw a great movie that gave me the idea to start ticking off those life experiences I want to achieve.  That movie is called “The Bucket List”.

Funny movie “The Bucket List” – it brings home the need for every one of us to Plan Great Life Experiences and Move Forward in Your Life to Reach the Summit of Self Fulfillment through experiences.  Here’s the trailer for the movie – if you have not seen it, I recommend you get it out for a laugh.

“WE LIVE, WE DIE … AND THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND ‘N’ ROUND”

Do you have anything on your “Living Your Legacy” Bucket list?

If you have not started a Bucket List yet, I dare you to do it now!

Grab a notepad right now … go on … number the lines 1 – 100.  In no particular order, start listing things you desire to experience and continue to experience in your life.  No matter how big or small, worldly or personal, start your list.

All outcomes start with a desire and that desire comes from your imagination.  Turn your thoughts about your desires into a list you want to experience in your life.  You stand a much greater chance of getting what you want, when you can actually identify it first.  THEN, all that’s left is the plan and action to get it.

I would love you to share any of your Bucket List items in the “Comments” section at the end of this blog post.  Your ideas might inspire me and others too … and also share anything you’ve already ‘ticked’ off your list too.

The theme song for the movie “The Bucket List’ is “Say What You Need to Say” – written by John Mayer.  I want to share it here with you, along with the lyrics so you can print them out if you want to.  I thought you might also like to see how the power of the story of the Bucket List and it’s concept ‘touched’ John personally.

Here is the song “Say What You Need to Say” by John Mayer (below it are the lyrics for you to read and print out)

SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY BY JOHN MAYER

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put ‘em in quotations

Say what you need to say

Walking like a one man army
Fighting with the shadows in your head
Living out the same old moment
Knowing you’d be better off instead,
If you could only . . .

Say what you need to say

Have no fear for giving in
Have no fear for giving over
You’d better know that in the end
Its better to say too much
Then never say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shaking
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closing
Do it with a heart wide open

Say what you need to say

 

Here is a video interview with John, sharing his view of the movie and the concept and how he was touched by it – infact, the movie script brought him to tears (a big admission from a mega star, that I really like)

I have written this blog post after achieving another item on my “Living My Legacy” Bucket List today.  I hope you are inspired to start ’Living Your Legacy’ too - make your Bucket List, then go out and experience it!

Please leave your thoughts, comments and feedback below.

I want to know you were here and if this helped you grow.

With love, Jen xo

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