Women Get Rich Too!

M$M: Follow the Facts!

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

- Julia Childs

I took some time this week to interview our first featured Woman Owned Business to accompany the launch of our official Women Get Rich Too! website. What struck me most about this very successful and beautiful individual is how the services that she ultimately chose to offer - sort of came to her naturally. People liked what she did and kept asking her, and eventually hiring her, to do this for them! 

Let me follow this reflection with another! Yesterday my children and I drove by a building that has hosted a bazillion (no exaggeration) restaurant/bar style businesses. So this month, it hosts a new Italian Style Bistro. I imagine that the very many previous owners liked their food - or liked what they like - and decided "well, everyone else will like what we like too!" With that thought, they jump in, investment first, into a new business. The more savvy will have a business plan that hopefully is tried and true, while most will develop that the next time around. 

Do you see the difference? The former was developed by facts while the latter by assumption or an idea. Who do you think will last the longest? 

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How to Think Like a Rich Person!

 

As I revisit the road to being broke, what I don't ask is "When am I ever going to catch a break?" or "Why does this always happen to me?"

What I do ask is "How can I make this better?" and "How can I keep this from happening again?"

 

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Surviving Broke!

 

Is your bank starving? Well mine is too! When I first decided to work from home, I knew that there would be growing pains, so my families recent budgetary needs are no surprise to me. However, I do continue to let it upset me and the reason for that, is that I DONT want to be satisfied with broke. I want to be motivated to make things better and brighter at all times. There is not a day that goes by that I am not securing additional forms of income for my family. Sadly, it isn't an overnight process and in the meantime, I am forced, like so many, to budget broke! 

Visit my recent Suite 101 submission for some tips on how to not only survive, but also to overcome being on an extremely tight budget! 

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How to Make More Money During Economical Strain

When you find yourself thinking "I wish I could afford" or "I just don't have the money to," go do something that makes you money. 

If you work from home, find new clients, or complete work already assigned. 

If you have traditional employment, ask for additional hours or take a second job.

If you have a second job, find a third.

Cut back on unnecessary spending.

Use Coupons for things you NEED.

If you have already done all of the above, sell the stuff you don't NEED.

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On Fathers Day - Know Your Role Women!

My husband comes from a very traditional family, with very traditional gender roles. I come from a home that was headed by a single woman, and had blurred or 'no' specific gender roles at all. 

I wish not to, completely emulate either family style. However, I learned my strength to go it alone from my mother, and that has been, over the years my most dominant 'role'. I was stubborn and independent to a fault. So imagine my husbands surprise to have stumbled into me! In this respect, we could have been a match made in hell. But that is not how it turned out, and I have my adoring husband to thank for that. 

We have learned over the years of marriage that 'roles' can be confining and confusing, but also necessary. Yes, I am saying it! I have learned that it is extremely important to know your role, within the family, and this is the case with each of its members. We must know the purpose we serve to support the purposes and needs of the entire family. The key to this, though, is making those roles adaptable to the ebb and flow of family dynamics. This is a lesson that I resisted, and my husband embraced. 

He has strongly headed the household as I embarked on a career. He has worked his tail off to provide for our family whenever I stayed home with a new baby, or pursued  my education. He has worked jointly in both of these arenas with me, whenever that was what our household needed most. 

So, I have learned from my adoring husband, that it is important not to get so stuck in a role that we can't adapt to the needs of each other. I have learned that sometimes our role in the household is to support all its members as they seek new adventures. I have also learned from his very many sacrifices, that he loves his family deeper than any one person could imagine. Serving my husband is an honor, not an obligation! So to him, and to all of your fabulous husbands and dads -

 

A Very Happy Father's Day!

M$M: Sit Up Straight

 

The benefits of sitting up straight are directly linked to your ability to be successful.

• You will appear and feel more confident
• People will take you more seriously
• Oxygen flows better!
• You will have less back and arthritic problems as you age, increasing the longevity of your productivity
• "Sitting and standing up straight makes people look 10 years younger and 10 pounds lighter, she says, but those are just the outward changes." 
• Need I say more?

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Ok! You Found Your Calling, Now What?

I am often met with phone calls or emails from people during their big A-ha moment; The moment when they realize that living  means so much more than what they had previously been doing, and they have discovered their purpose or the desire to make a positive impact in the world. I am blessed to share this opportunity with every single one of them and often coach them through their journey. 

I tell them each the same thing every time, "The ONLY thing standing in the way of you and that goal, is you!" 

 

Believing is Seeing: How to Overcome Obstacles Like Oprah!

First of all, obstacles are self-placed and therefore, are for you to remove. No! I mean it. I realize that all things that inhibit your moving toward success were not created by you. However, your willingness to view them as obstacles is completely on you and you alone. 

Take Oprah, for example. Described as the unlikely hero, she rose past poverty and pain to become a worldwide inspiration. She didn't sign on to quick money making opportunities and sit back waiting on her windfall. Her retirement plan never consisted of daily lottery ticket purchases. She worked and believed that her work could impact the lives of many. She didn't know this from experience or from viewing it in the lives of others just like her. She did this by believing even before seeing. She believed that there was a purpose for her existence beyond what she had been shown, taught, or told. Believing, well before seeing is what lead to Oprah's undying success and it is the only thing that will lead you to yours. 

It's time to begin viewing challenges and obstacles as opportunities to work harder at fulfilling your dreams. These challenges require that you to ask,  "How serious am I about my goal?" Believing in your abilities even well before you have developed them is key to achieving them. 

 

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M$M: Olivia's Vision Board!

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For those very intelligent women who do NOT watch Jerseylicous - You are not missing much. However, I must reference cast member Olivia's recent obsession with The Secret.  As a result of her reading this book, Olivia created a vision board and began to manifest her personal goals. Olivia hangs hers at work and home as a constant reminder. For those of you with little craft skill, here is an online option to creating a vision board.