How can I make it easier?

Everyday millions of business owners are groaning ‘Running a business is SO hard!’

Are you one of them?

I’ve said many times that building a business is like enrolling in the graduate school of personal growth. All your ‘stuff’ comes up to be dealt with, and it will sabotage you if you don’t work on it and through it. But does that mean business has to be hard? And what can we do about it? [Read more...]

Does your business motivate you?

Most small business owners go into business for themselves to do what they love, what I’ll call ‘The Big WHY.’ For transformational entrepreneurs, this is always about making a difference, and being of service to a group of people in a powerful way. Along the way, the stresses of actually running a business, as opposed to doing what you love as a hobby, can make you shake your head, roll your eyes towards the heavens, and say ‘Why am I doing this?’

To be more effective, and take back your power in a situation like this, we’ll actually look at another commitment – marriage – to learn new ways to think about business. [Read more...]

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Was Mother Teresa a marketer?

Do you transform lives, and the world, with the work that you do?

If your dream is to make a difference in the world with your work, and you’ve made that work a business, then yes, you’re a transformational entrepreneur. (Just to be clear – this includes coaches, healers, artists, authors, speakers, trainers, service professionals, and more…)

And marketing probably feels like the worst thing in the world to you. After all, it’s manipulative, pushy, inauthentic, and only designed to benefit you, right?

Not if your work benefits the world. [Read more...]

Top 10 things I learned

One of my clients, Ginny, was celebrating the many things she’d learned in the last year of working with me (things that allowed her to quadruple her income). She wrote it up as a Top 10 Things I Have Learned, and I liked it so much that I asked for her permission to share it.

If every transformational entrepreneur learned these things, not just intellectually but at a core level, we would have SO many successful businesses!

I’m excited to share this list with you. Here it is:

1) Be myself.
2) Someone out there needs exactly what I do. Don’t keep my gifts to myself. [Read more...]

No green M&Ms!

Have you heard the ‘No Green M&Ms!’ story? If not, you’ll love it.

Even if you’ve heard it, you may not know the truth behind the story, and the big message it has for all of us transformational entrepreneurs – it’s all in the video. [Read more...]

I Really Messed This Up

Oops road sign

On a webinar the other day for one of my big group programs, the audio wasn’t working well. After delivering about 30 minutes of content, I switched over to the webcast input to see if there were questions. Instead, there were over a dozen comments about the fact that the sound was bad, and they were having trouble hearing me.

A few days before, I had a new phone system installed. I was trying to improve the quality of my offerings, and instead, the audio quality of this call was barely usable. I did some tweaks that improved the quality for the last half of the call, but I was really disappointed. I care about putting out excellence (don’t you feel that way, too?) and it hurts when it doesn’t happen, despite your best efforts. [Read more...]

Tapping for Money

Genie LampOne of the questions I get asked most frequently is ‘How do I tap for money?’ To which I respond ‘How would you like to get your money?’

Some people seem to think that tapping for money is like rubbing a genie’s bottle. If I just have the right words, the right formula, then I can tap and money will magically appear in my bank account.

If tapping can do that, I have yet to discover how.

But what tapping CAN do is to enable you to easily and joyously accomplish the tasks you need to do to bring in money. That’s where the power is.

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Bumper Car or Sports Car?

Sports carIs your business set up for you to be powerful?

In business, some days are better than others.

On some days, you feel like you can take on the world. You’re in the flow. You’re connecting with new partners, with clients, and everything feels right in your world. And somedays, it’s not that way. You lose a client. You send the wrong email to your list. You feel overwhelmed with your to-do list. You wonder why you ever thought that you could be in business in the first place. [Read more...]

The Information Con Game

It used to be that information was scarce. You had to go to a library, or pay a researcher, to discover the nuggets of gold that you needed to know. Now ‘Google’ is a verb, as in ‘I’ll google that to find the answer.’ My 73-year old mother has figured out she can type in ‘How do I ___?’ and google will give her not just one, but 173,234,432 answers.

Because information was so scarce, in the old days (say before 1995) it was treated as precious. If you went to the trouble to get information, you treated it as valuable, and you made use of it. Now information is easy to come by. That would seem to be great, but it’s led to a new problem that I call the Information Con Game.

If you believe that information is as valuable as implementation, you’re conning yourself. If you believe that information = transformation, you’re conning yourself.

Let me be clear – It’s not that others are conning you about information. If someone says ‘I’ll show you how to make $50,000 in the next three months’ they may very well be telling the truth. (My clients have done this, so I know it’s possible.) But knowing HOW it was done (the information) is not the same as doing it (the implementation and transformation.)

Information is cheap. In order to implement the information, you need many skills that are unrelated to the information, such as perseverance, courage, and a willingness to act. You need tools to overcome what stops you. EFT Tapping is one tool that can help. There are others. But getting the success skills that you need is essential.

If you have the information that you need, don’t con yourself by seeking out more information. That’s an avoidance technique. It’s a great way to avoid taking action, to avoid doing the really scary stuff like putting yourself out there. Instead, find something that will give you the skills that you need to act. Focus on implementation.

Information won’t bring transformation. Only taking action can do that.