“When You Have Exhausted All Possibilities
Remember This; You Haven’t”
-Thomas Edison
When Thomas Edison was asked if he felt like a failure and if he should just give up, Edison replied "Why would I feel like a failure? And, why would I ever give up? I now know definitively over 9,000 ways that an electric light bulb will not work. Success is almost in my grasp." And shortly after that, after 10,000 attempts, Edison invented the light bulb.
We might still be without light today if he had just given up!
There is no such thing as failure! The only time anyone comes near to failing is if they do absolutely nothing, not acting creates no results. You have never exhausted all possibilities unless you just give up.
You may have to go through challenging situations or cross bridges of doubt. You may have some fears to walk through or you may need to conquer negative thinking and learn how to successfully STOP getting overwhelmed and stressed however you were not born with fears, doubts and negative thinking, these are learned responses.
Learning to create them means you also have the ability to re-create and re-invent your choices and your thinking!
When you allow yourself the space to move out of your old comfort zone and into a new place to come from and you change your thinking so you believe in yourself, YOU absolutely CAN achieve anything you desire in business and life.
This may seem a little uncomfortable at first and that’s OK, not everything in life will immediately feel comfortable when you are making changes but just imagine if you are achieving all the success you want in life how your business and your lifestyle will change!
I encourage you to make a commitment to yourself that whatever might have that’s been holding you back whether in life or business you are now going to find solutions so you can ‘let go’ and move forward. It’s time to stop tolerating anything and anyone that doesn’t make you feel joyful.
This week is Thanksgiving here in the US. Although you may not celebrate it where you are, this is a really good time of the year to take a look at all the things you may take for granted in your life, all the great things you do have and give thanks to yourself for being open enough to receive these things the Universe provides for you.
‘Til Next Time,
Happy and joyful Thanksgiving,
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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Starting on December 12th – 16th I am hosting a brand new virtual Summit “From Surviving to Thriving!” Sixteen of the most successful entrepreneurs of this decade are going to share with you the many different ways in which you can make more money, attract more clients, become more visible, market effectively and make your business ‘come totally alive’ in 2012. You can access all the interviews live or if you can’t make them, if you register you will receive the recording link. You will be able to access the interviews via phone, web or Skype! Full details and registration at http://www.survivetothrivesummit.com/.
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“Others can stop you temporarily, ONLY YOU can do it permanently!
Life is what’s coming, not what was!”
-Unknown
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Everything in life is about energy both positive and negative. If you allow those old tricky little messages that might still be sitting in the nether regions of your subconscious to get in your way, you are probably running your business and living life on someone else’s dime!
I’ve been saying this for years and yesterday while at an event listening to a speaker I heard it again so I want to share it with you. It’s really important to create your life and your business on your own terms, not on someone else’s.
Stop and think for a moment. Are there times when your business feels like it’s “dying alive!” Almost like the plants I never managed to keep healthy and growing. However much I seemed to take care of them they either died or they didn’t grow bigger and stronger so even though they seemed to be alive they were really just at a standstill or withering slowly away!
I’m not saying this applies to everyone but I’ve been in this place where I felt like my business was ‘dying alive’ and it doesn’t feel good, right!
Where, however much you do, whatever action you take your business doesn’t seem to flow so that you attract your ideal clients and make more money and have the freedom you desire so you start thinking you must be doing something wrong.
Last week I spoke about honesty and this week it may be time to get really honest about your business! Is it something you have great ideas about but they aren’t happening. Maybe like many entrepreneurs I meet you don’t even have a simple business plan that includes a marketing plan! Why not? (you can download one free at www.yourstairwaytowealth.com.)
If you don’t know where you’re going and what action you need to take how are you going to get there? What excuses are you making to yourself? Whose voice are you hearing in your head that ‘you are allowing’ to make you feel afraid to move forward?
Often entrepreneurs don’t succeed because they think they can’t do it as well as someone else or they don’t know enough or they might fail or any other kind of judgmental thinking you are hearing in your head!
Remember your success is your responsibility you don’t have to ‘allow’ these subconscious messages to take over. Yes, I did say ‘you allow.’
If you are not living your life and creating your business on your terms ‘you are allowing’ this to happen. No-one can make you feel anything you don’t want to. Even the words in your head can be diminished so you consciously take over.
When you Change Your Mind, You Change Your Business and Your Life!
Remember to check in with yourself about what you are saying to yourself and if it’s not positive, change the message immediately. Keep doing this and gradually you will find the negatives appear less and less.
Always remember how brilliant you are and that you deserve all the wealth and success you want.
‘Til Next Week,
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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On November’s F.ree Stairway to Wealth Education only call, absolutely no selling I promise, my guest expert will be Sandra Martini – Escalator Marketing who will be speaking about Attracting and Retaining Clients at 7p.m. ET on November 30th. Full details and registration at http://yourstairwaytowealth.com/behindthecurtain/.
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If you are a woman entrepreneur who is really serious about creating business on your terms so you can have the success you want in 2012, apply for a 30 minute “Rapid Results” strategy call with me. Absolutely no obligation! I open more spots for these calls at this time of year than any other time in order to help you to see what tweaks your business might need for the coming year. Email my wonderful client care manager Heidi and she’ll contact you about setting up a day and time. Heidi@yourstairwaytowealth.com |
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy
to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny,
inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
-Golda Meir
Trust! What does it really mean especially having trust in yourself? The dictionary defines trust as “having unquestioning belief in the integrity, strength or ability of someone.”
Can you honestly say that you really trust yourself enough to believe that you really can achieve anything you want in this life?
This is a really important question to ask yourself when you want to create lots of wealth, success and abundance. Without that trust in your own ability you are allowing your subconscious conditioning to take over.
The subconscious is a bit like a naughty child and of course that’s where you retain all your memories from childhood, the bad as well as the good, it’s almost like having the little you living inside of your head.
I know from my own experience and that of the many clients I’ve helped to successfully conquer negative thinking, that often when you realize that it’s the little you coming up with the negative messages you can actually be much kinder to yourself and stop beating yourself up if things don’t go exactly the way you planned.
Life happens as they say! I’m never quite sure who ‘they’ are but lets take it at face value for the time being. Whether in life or business there are going to be things that get in your way! You are going to make mistakes and when you do, if you haven’t learned how to overcome those negative messages and take care of the child inside your head you are going to think you did something wrong and start berating yourself or you might even create obstacles to future success.
I’d like you to remember something. When you have negativity running around in your head you are putting negative energy out in to the Universe which means that’s what you will probably get back! Not only that, but by not thinking positively you can actually dampen your own immune system! What happens when this takes place? You leave yourself open to creating all sorts of negative results within your body!
You have a thought, it translates into a feeling and that feeling equals the results you create. It’s also important to be very aware of the words you use because words you say are the thoughts in your head.
Work on becoming consciously aware of your thinking so you can change a negative thought as soon as it pops in and watch how the results you create change positively.
There’s no such thing as failure, only mistakes that give us the opportunity to learn. Allow yourself to just ‘be’ and give yourself permission to make mistakes and you won’t go into overwhelm when something you didn’t expect happens.
‘Til Next Time,
Have a great week.
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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I don’t work with many private clients anymore so when a spot does open up it usually gets filled very quickly. At the end of the month I have two clients who are ready to finish their program, which means I will have two openings in which to take two new private clients. Before I send out an email to everyone I wanted to announce it here first. If you are ready to increase your income, attract more clients and have more Freedom in 2012 please email Heidi@yourstairwaytowealth.com and we will set up a time for you and I to have a phone conversation. |
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“Sometimes it takes people 12 years
to do what they could do in 12 weeks .”
-Bill Phillips
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Whatever dreams you’ve put on the back burner, with only two months left in this year it’s time to take them out, dust them off and ask yourself if you are living the life you had envisioned 1-3 years ago.
If you are not, I encourage you to take a look at what might be blocking you.
We all have blocks from time to time as things change! Change can be scary and more often than not it’s coming from some kind of fear. I’m no different than you are, I’ve made some changes this year that had a few old demons come up to block me. However, I took action to clear them so I could move forward. You can do this too!
Being busy instead of being productive, procrastinating because it’s easier comes from fear. However, unless you’re being attacked or are in danger, fear is not real, it’s just a thought you have in your head. It’s what psychologists call ‘false evidence appearing real’.
Ask yourself a question, “What’s the worst thing that can happen?” It’s usually nowhere near as catastrophic as you thought it would be once you get it out into the open.
Then, I invite you to close your eyes and imagine what could happen if you just take a leap of faith.
Imagine it’s December 31st and you’re standing with a glass of your favorite drink celebrating all the successes you’ve had during the year. You are feeling tremendous joy as you think about moving into 2013 and making your goals even bigger. Really feel the feelings, imagine the colors around you and drink in all the excitement, make it appear as real as possible so your subconscious picks up the images.
Write down everything you would like to happen by December 2012 including your financial goals so you know where you’re going. Then start thinking of the actions you can take to get there and write those down too. Take it one month at a time and only do one thing at a time so you don’t get overwhelmed.
There are dozens of ways to create visibility. If your mindset is in the right place and you have the planning done so you know what actions you need to take you can move forward and you won’t get overwhelmed.
Start by putting the actions for December 2011 into your calendar so you are ready to move into 2012 with a plan. This doesn’t mean you have to do so many things that you won’t enjoy the holidays! It might just be to create a plan for 2012.
At the beginning of January 2012 put all the actions on the calendar that you intend to take for that month only so you can start moving along the path to achieving your December 2012 vision. Then plan out the month one week at a time. Do this at the beginning of each month and watch the results and money flow in.
Don’t let it take you 12 years to achieve what you could be achieving right now.
You have an inner brilliance and magnificence that can take you wherever it is you want to go all you have to do is tap into it.
‘Til Next Time,
Have a fabulous week.
Here’s to Your Success and Brilliance,
Blessings,
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I have a special holiday gift for you. An end of year “60 minute Rapid Results Strategy” call with me for only $97 (usual cost $197). You will leave the call with a plan and tools to support you. There are only a few time slots open for these special low cost calls so if you would like fast support you won’t want to miss this. Remember it’s an investment in yourself and your future! Click here for the Rapid Results Strategy call. |
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“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals;
others, by their acts.”
-Harold Nicolson
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We can be our own worst enemies and everything boils down to mindset.
One of the biggest changes I made when I forced myself to actually take a look inside was to stop judging others, stop beating myself up if things didn’t go absolutely smoothly and to stop saying I’m not enough and I can’t.
I became the poster girl for the words “I Can” I Am!”
When you judge yourself negatively you are basically abusing yourself. I know that sounds tough but I really want you to think about this and ask yourself a couple of questions:
- When I say I can’t do something have I asked myself why?
- In the past has thinking this way been an obstacle to creating the success and wealth I want?
Why. Such a tiny word that can have such a huge impact! “We don’t know what we don’t know until we know!”
Being able to ask ourselves questions is one of the powers we have as human beings yet I see many people creating obstacles for themselves because they don’t stop to think why they are doing something.
I’m not necessarily talking about money when I use the word wealth. I consider myself wealthy because I have wonderful children and beautiful grandchildren. I consider myself wealthy because I love where I live and the people I meet and the beauty of nature, my clients and my friends.
Tapping into your mindset when you are thinking something negative is essential to your happiness in life not just to your wealth.
Next time you find yourself saying “I can’t” ask yourself why you ’t. Make friends with any fear you may have just don’t let it take over. Fear is not a bad thing it’s about learning how to deal with it so you know why you have fear and then walking through it. Always ask yourself “What’s the worst thing that can happen.” More often than not you will find that the answer really doesn’t equate with the fear. Be more gentle and kind to yourself.
My apologies for no recording this week! I’ve been sick and I still don’t have a voice. Hopefully there will be one for next week.
‘Til Next Time,
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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“One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes;
one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.”
-Chinese Proverb
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Children have no hesitation about asking questions. From the time they can speak their first real words, they will continually ask "why?". It can be maddening at times to answer a question then have them again ask "why?". However, it’s the way they learn just the same way as you learned.
Questions are the life blood of both your business and your lifetime. Without questions we cannot learn and the more questions we ask especially as we get older the more information we learn and the more successful we become in all areas of life.
No question is foolish. Keep asking questions and keep learning, that’s what life is all about.
‘Til Next Time,
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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As I shared on our call last week, the brand new 4 week “THE 2011 Woman Entrepreneurs Business Empowerment Series” starts on November 1st, 2011 – You won’t want to miss this program that will answer your questions and teach you how to convert prospects to clients, how to charge what you are worth and successfully STOP overwhelm and procrastination. This 4 week series will give you the motivation and energy to create your best year ever so you can consistently take your business to the next level. Check out full details at www.yourstairwaytowealth.com/mentor.html. |
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has!”
-Margaret Meade
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Whether in business or personal relationships you really don’t know it all and doing everything alone is not the way to create success. Asking for input, having support and delegating is one of the most important ways to create joy and abundance in life.
When you brainstorm with others, they often see things you are too close to. Reaching out for help in any area of your life doesn’t mean weakness, it actually means great strength.
If you are in any kind of helping/service profession remember, if you truly want to be of service in the world, you first have to be willing to make your own changes when necessary both in business and life. You have to be willing to walk through fear, ask for support and take action.
As that other famous saying goes “it takes a village” so this week’s quote is very apt if you want to make changes in the world, especially for your business and future generations.
‘Til Next Time,
As Always to Your Success and Brilliance,
Blessings,
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If you are not yet registered for the special F.ree education tele/web conference “How to Work Smart Not Hard — Achieve Your Goals Effortlessly in 2012” there’s still time. It’s on Thursday October 13th at 7p.m. ET. If you are on the live call/web you will receive a special bonus “The Stairway To Wealth Gift Package” with hundreds of dollars in downloads from some of the top entrepreneurs in the world today. The link for this will not be on the recording. You won’t want to miss this call so check out all the details Now. www.yourstairwaytowealth.com/smart.html |
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“If You Don’t Act as if Your Name Were
on the Door, it Never Will Be!”
-Patricia Fripp
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Having met Patricia and heard her speak I would say she’s a very wise lady. She started out as a hairdresser and decided that she would take all the wisdom she shared with her clients and she became an extremely well known and prolific motivational business speaker who has now been in the business for over 30 years. This of course is the short version however it shows that it doesn’t matter what you do or where you start, you can achieve your goals if you know where you want to go and you take the right kind of action to get there!
The secret to success is always acting ‘as if’ and then making it all happen. However as Patricia so rightly says “if you don’t act ‘as if’ you are important the chances are you never will be.”
This is a good time to get started. We’re in the last quarter of this year, now is the time to make sure you have all your plans in place so you can start 2012 with a bang and create all the success you want in the next 12 months.
Make a decision that your time is now. Type up a name plate and even if you work from a home office stick it on your door, your desk or wherever you and everybody else can see it. Make your days productive and active and watch the results come rolling in.
‘Til Next Time,
Have a Fantastic Week,
To Your Success and Brilliance,
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One more week! If you haven’t registered yet for the new tele-web conference on Thursday October 13th, “How to Work Smart Not Hard in 2012– Achieve Your Goals Effortlessly” check out all the details at www.yourstairwaytowealth.com/smart.html. You won’t want to miss this! |
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