January 19, 2012 – 6:00 am
Spotlight on Success Show – Episode #14
Today on my show I had the pleasure of a speaking with LaTersa Blakely, Founder of Moms Wearing Multiple Hats, and Owner of Baby Diaper Cakes & Beyond by LaTersa, who provided us with her top strategies for how busy mom entrepreneurs can successfully achieve work/life balance.
LaTersa, a busy mom entrepreneur herself, understands the challenges women face when juggling to be successful moms and business owners without running themselves into the ground. In this interview I ask LaTersa –
- What is the biggest obstacle mom entrepreneurs face when trying to balance work and family?
- What are the top 2 strategies you teach mom entrepreneurs to help them overcome the issue of work/family balance?
- And, how can mom entrepreneurs measure their success balancing business and motherhood?
If you would like more information about LaTersa’s business strategies, and to get your hands on her free tips, please visit her website. Enjoy the show! Continue reading →
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January 18, 2012 – 6:00 am
As I hope you are beginning to realize, you have a tremendous amount of internal power to leverage in life and business, to achieve the results you most desire. A key component to that success is focus.
In Part One of this series, we covered the power behind focus. And in Part Two, I wanted to clarify the importance of directing your focus for maximum benefit. Today, we will examine some of the nastiest barriers to high level focus, and how you can move past any that are holding you back in business.
For the purposes of this post, I will present what I consider to the be the BIG FOUR obstacles that can inhibit your ability to focus at high levels, and provide you strategies for knocking each one down to size – Continue reading →
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January 17, 2012 – 6:00 am
Fortunately for women, communicating with others is usually a strength that can be applied to the business arena. And what better way to learn about how to effectively network and connect with others than from a savvy woman entrepreneur, who know how to leverage her skills. Today, I invited Leslie Josel, Founder of Order Out of Chaos, to share her experiences on the subject. Thank you, Leslie!
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When I first started my own business, I prepared myself for what I expected to be a somewhat lonely endeavor. As every survey ever done on women entrepreneurs has demonstrated, isolation is the most serious issue women entrepreneurs face in their business. Interestingly, women tend to be natural networkers particularly when it comes to home and family. So for women, consciously spending time building business relationships should be natural and easy.
When I began my networking endeavors, little did I know that I had unwittingly joined Continue reading →
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January 16, 2012 – 6:00 am
Your business plan for the New Year was probably set long before the end of 2011. And having a sound action plan is essential to growing and sustaining your business.
Annual business plans typically have a lot of moving parts, but for this post was interested in what entrepreneurs are most excited to implement, and asked –
What one part of your plan do you believe will be the single best way you will be orchestrating a Happy New Year, and why?
Whether it’s taking more time to rest and rejuvenate, fine tune a single aspect of one’s business, or “selling oneself tall,” these entrepreneurs are ready to take 2012 by storm. If you haven’t had a chance to determine how you will orchestrate your own Happy New Year, I hope you will find our contributors’ plans inspiring. Enjoy! Continue reading →
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January 12, 2012 – 6:00 am
Spotlight on Success Show – Episode #13
Today on my show I had the pleasure of a speaking with Maureen Daniek, Founder of Radiance Coaching and Consulting, who provided us with her best strategies for how women can learn to promote themselves in business.
Maureen shares the challenges that women traditionally face that can inhibit them from self-promotion, and how to overcome those barriers. In this interview I ask Maureen –
- What are common situations in business where self-promotion is critical to success?
- Why is self promotion so tough for women?
- And, what are specific steps women can take to gain the support and confidence necessary to advocate on their own behalf?
If you would like to learn more about Maureen and her coaching solutions, please visit her website. Enjoy the show! Continue reading →
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January 11, 2012 – 6:00 am
Last week I began a four-part series to teach you how to develop the Fine Art of Business Focus, and starting with the Power of Focus, pointed out the four major benefits to laser focusing your attention in business. Today, I continue this series with a lesson on Where to Direct Your Focus for maximum reward.
If you don’t learn how to control it, your attention will flit from one thing to the next, and every shiny object in your periphery, which can be quite detrimental to your business success. So instead, you must determine where, when and how to keep your thoughts on task from moment to moment. This discipline starts when you decide what your highest priorities are in business, as well as those tasks that will generate the greatest return on your time investment.
Discovering your highest priorities begins when Continue reading →
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January 10, 2012 – 6:00 am
Have you ever wondered how you might be getting in the way of your business success? If you are the type to burn the candle at both ends on a regular basis, you have some change to institute in your business and life. I am honored to invite guest expert, Diana Fletcher to the stage to share her best tips for how to stop the self-sabotage in your business. Thanks Diana!!
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Do you sabotage yourself? Think about this: Isn’t planning too much and over-extending, a form of self-sabotage?
As an entrepreneur, you are interested in many different areas but if you continue over-committing, you will hurt your business and your health.
Do you over-commit, because each pretty, shiny new idea sounds soooooo good? Then, when you fail to accomplish all of it, do you beat yourself up about it; feel like a failure, or at the very least, think of yourself as not very good at what you do?
You have created this stressful situation.
If you don’t take care of yourself, if you let the stress of trying to do too much continue, you will not have a healthy life or business. Continue reading →
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Today on my show I had the pleasure of a speaking with LaTersa Blakely, Founder of Moms Wearing Multiple Hats, and Owner of Baby Diaper Cakes & Beyond by LaTersa, who provided us with her top strategies for how busy mom entrepreneurs can successfully achieve work/life balance.
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