Do You Take Yourself Too Seriously?

There is a New Awakening

When it Come to Making Your Small Business Plan, is the Online Aspect Giving You Chills?

I’ve talked to many Spiritualpreneurs who seem to have a great fear of running the online aspect of their business, but (and this is coming from a real ‘techno-phobe’ here), having an online business is a lot less complicated than you may think it is!

Having any kind of business starts first at the Inner level – and if you don’t believe you can know what you’re doing when it comes to running your business online, there are a lot of other piggybacking beliefs that are riding on that…

• I don’t have what it takes
• I’m not good at technology
• Everybody else knows more than me
• I don’t have the time
• I glaze over when it comes to learning things like this…

You’ve got all these things rolling around inside your head – it’s sort of like Prego Spaghetti Sauce – ‘It’s all in there’!

So the first thing you want to do is get clear on what the beliefs are that you’re telling yourself – get really honest with yourself – what are you telling yourself about why you can’t have an online business?

Then, while you’re putting together your small business plan, start to identify the areas that you feel like you need more support on. If you’re feeling like, “Oh I just don’t understand blogging. Social Networking – it gives me a headache! I don’t get how to do this or that…”

Well, start out with identifying the areas YOU think are important to having in an online business, and anywhere that you feel you are lacking.

You also want to identify the areas you feel belong in an online business that you really do feel like you have some sense about, because there are things that are really serving you at an inner level with your beliefs, and at an outer level you do have competencies and skill sets and brilliances that are serving you.

People tend to focus on everything they can’t do, everything that don’t know how to do, everything that’s confusing or overwhelming – but you have to remember that for everyone that says they can’t do an online business, there are both inner and outer level reasons you have to address in areas that are both serving you and not serving you.

It’s very important to look at it from both sides.

A good starting point for having an effective online business, whether you understand all the ‘technology’ involved or not, is to simply map it out. Take a piece of paper and make a flow chart.

• OK, someone comes to my blog or website. What happens?
• What do I want them to experience?
• What do I want to have occur?

Map it out all the way down to all the different levels of all the different things you want to offer. Think of it as your online small business plan.

Online business are often based in having an effective profit funnel – you introduce yourself to people through free or lower end products and begin building relationships and credibility, eventually going all the way up through to higher end products – programs, seminars, continuity programs – it goes all the way through. Read more

Are You Asking for Guidance?

How many times have you purchased a program, signed up for a class, listened in on a tele-training, paid for
instructional materials…and then realized 3 months or 6 months or a year down the road that the books are gathering dust in the corner, your class attendance dies off, and none of it seemed to make any difference?

I have seen this very phenomenon with client after client and program after program – something always seems to be missing.  Some key element of connection is not present – it’s like plugging a cord into a wall with no electrical current running through it.

The action is right, but you’re never going to get the desired effect!

What if you could find that missing piece? The spark that you need to give power to all of the learning that
you want to put into action for your business success – for your life success? Read more

Are You Experiencing Dissatisfaction as an Entrepreneur?

“I can’t believe they called me into work this late,” the lady said, looking me dead in the eye. “I swear, this place is a mess, and it’s never going to change.

In all my years I’ve worked here …” blah blah blah.

I hear the same thing over and over again from this one lady at work all the time, and it never changes. Does anyone know why it never changes? Because she’s dissatisfied.

And why is she dissatisfied?

Because she continues to participate in the same process over and over again, and consequently always gets the same results.

Change your process.

It really is that simple. If we continue to do the same things, over and over again, we’re going to continue to get the same result, over and over again, right?

If I say I don’t like my job, but I continue to go into work every day, I’m going to continue to get the same results: disappointment and dissatisfaction in my work.

I have to change my process. I have to apply for other jobs, land one of those jobs, and start going into work there, right?

Wrong. Read more