Some wondered if it’s for them.

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Few things excite me like seeing a team — especially the “underdogs” — come from behind and eek out an unexpected win! Maybe that’s because I’ve always been a bit of an underdog myself.

Underfunded.
Undertrained.
Under-famed.
Under-fancy.

Despite all the “odds,”
despite living in a rural community,
despite being largely unwilling to travel — AT ALL…
I lead one of the most impressive alliances of women entrepreneurs on the planet. The culture of Women Who WOW is one of DO-ing and RESULTS. In fact, if you “whine more than you win,” well… you just won’t stick around very long.

Which is fine by us.

Still, I get a lot of questions about setting New Year’s Goals, and I hear a lot about being “realistic” with our goals… You know, because “I’ve set big goals before and didn’t achieve them.”

BULL FECES, friend.

The reason you didn’t reach your goals is DEFINITELY NOT because you set them too high! Don’t EVER buy into the let’s be realistic (i.e. let’s play so small we never fail) trap!

The reason you didn’t reach your goals in 2017 is because you:

• Set them over the course of one or two days;
• Didn’t get hard core accountability to INSURE your commitment; and
• The goals were never BAKED into who you are and how you spend your time.

I know — intimately — the pain (and shame) of setting New Year’s goals, doing the vision board and sharing with EVERYONE WHO WOULD LISTEN… only to start really doubting myself by March.

Sometimes sooner.

I know the short (exhausting) bursts of effort that I’ve initiated in some effort to catch up or somehow prove to myself that I could do it.

And then the sting of defeat as I dumb my goals down to better match my reality, promising myself that I’d do better next year.

I know the AGONY of ending a year and knowing that I could have — and should have — achieved more.

I HOSTED and WENT TO planning events.
I did the work, a million different ways.
BUT the end result was pretty much always the same:
a somewhat better — warmed up, maybe — version of the previous year.

SOMETHING HAD TO CHANGE FOR ME.
I CREATED…
The CROCK POT Approach to New Year’s Planning!

I now plan my goals entirely differently… in an effort to BAKE them into my reality.

Now, I take the “crock pot” approach to New Years Planning…
over 10 days gently allowing the goals to grow and shift…
and allowing myself to really absorb them…
before then planning EXACTLY how to meet (or, as is now often the case, EXCEED) them.

In this way, my planning isn’t an escape or a retreat.. but an ADVANCE.

This Crock Pot method of New Year’s Planning allows for the fullness of the goals themselves to come to fruition, to become part of my “NEW NORMAL” and to be looked at in various different lights.

ALL of this will be taught in my Plan,Promote, PUSH 2018 program…
But this is NOT about learning.
It’s about DOING.
It’s about bringing YOUR goals into FULL fruition.
It’s about stepping into your FULL purpose,
and maybe even a new identity.

So, I’ve also built in some fun accountability.
And — let’s be honest — some not so fun accountability.
I’ve built in PRIVATE time with me…
And some not-yet-disclosed secrets to insure that YOU come face to face with YOUR goals — all throughout 2018.

I don’t want to do this without you.
I don’t want you to go into another year the same way you’ve done in the past.
I want to walk with you,
shoulder to shoulder,
arm in arm.

Because 2018 CAN be your year.
So, let’s make it happen. JOIN ME.

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Few things irritate me more than people who are always trying to FIND something important.

I’m not talking about the infinite number of mornings where my husband can’t find his wallet, his keys or his socks… although this happens more frequently than ANYONE may imagine, lol… #kiddingnotkidding

I’m talking about the REALLY important stuff… like time, or money or even yourself.

Newsflash, #bosslady:

You’ll never FIND the TIME to do what’s most important. You’ll have to CREATE that time, SET IT ASIDE and then PROTECT it.

While there are infomercials and ads teaching us how to “FIND” money owed to us, I’ve found it much more effective to CREATE the money I need or want.

“Let me see where I can FIND the money” may be more reasonable coming from someone with J-O-B. After all, they make what they make. But, for an #entrepreneur? Oh no… we CREATE our income and sign our own paychecks. We don’t “find” extra money… We ALWAYS create it.

It’s what we do.

And don’t get me started on all of these DROVES of women investing in courses and retreats and books designed to help you “FIND yourself.”

SERIOUSLY???

There is no “YOU” to find. You are a #drivenwoman. You are a creator. A job creator. An income creator. A messenger. Maybe even a preacher of sorts.

And you CREATE yourself.

every.
single.
day.

FINDING myself would mean looking backwards.
Looking for what supposedly already “is,”
All while my BEST POSSIBLE WORK can only be created TODAY.

I don’t want to find myself. I want to create and re-create myself every morning. Who do I need to be today? What am I called to be today? How can I grow today?

You see, all successful #womeninbiz are CREATIONISTS.

We may want to FIND a great spa, the right car, the perfect bag, amazing shoes, or whatever…. But everyday, we CREATE our world, our future, our paychecks, our opportunities.

On repeat.

If you’re a seriously driven woman entrepreneur and you’re not already a member of #womenwhowow, we’re closing our doors soon to new members. Check us Out here: WomenWhoWOW.com.

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I saw a post — a simple question really — about quitting what you don’t really like to do and doing more of what you LOVE. So friggin’ simple.

And yet…
And yet….

So few business owners are willing to do it.

Unwilling to fire that client that never refers, to pull the plug on that program of yours that’s — let’s face it — dying from anemia anyway. Unwilling even to change your schedule around to fit your personal preferences.

I HEAR you tell me that you want something “more.”
Something more profitable.
Something more “aligned.”
Something you’re more proud of,
Something more FREEing (time-wise, financially, and personally.)
Something more rewarding.

Something with more impact and less stress.

But mainly, what i HEAR you say is that you want something with less SOUL-CRUSHING COMPROMISE.

Less chasing clients. Less cutting back on your proposals so you can lower the price and get the yes. Less wondering where your next client is coming from. Less SOUL-CRUSHING anxiety about when — or whether — this business of yours will ever really be what you imagined… what you think it can be…

I get it.
You want what you were BORN for,
and nothing less.

This is what you SAY, anyway.

But what I SEE is this white-knuckled, fear-based grip on what you have RIGHT NOW. What I SEE is you holding on so TIGHTLY to what you tell me is unacceptable and “not enough.”

You TELL me one thing, but SHOW me something else.
You TELL me you want something more, better, different, but you SHOW me your ironclad commitment to what you have going on right this very minute.

Oh, friend…. I HAVE been here myself.
Of course.
Tied to “what is” by some imaginary fear of “losing money,” and some VERY REAL monetary needs.

I’ll tell you in a minute how this ended for me. For GOOD.

There’s an amateur, cheap little picture that is displayed in my parent’s house. It’s out of place. The frame sucks. The baseball-themed artwork is child-like and the colors don’t “go.”

But here’s what it says,
“YOU CAN’T STEAL SECOND WITH YOUR FOOT ON FIRST.”

True in baseball / softball.
Even truer in business.

You CAN NOT create what you really want while holding on — with a death-like grip — to what you have RIGHT NOW.

It just won’t happen.

Let me tell you how I personally made the leap… how I personally let go (and continue to let go) of “comfortable” things that threaten to DETOUR me from my ULTIMATE VISION… things that may HINDER my ability to go after what I REALLY WANT. (I call it PRUNING.)

First, there was NO WAY I was letting go of anything concrete (bird in hand and all) without an equally concrete vision of what I was going after instead.

My vague little daydreams…
Even my vision boards…
Or my New Year’s Resolutions…

they were all fancifully VAGUE. Beautiful, but not concrete.

NOTHING releases your grip on “what is” like a CONCRETE vision, a true awareness of what it SHOULD BE.

Once I saw what I really wanted,
In living color,
even when it was only in my journal….

Releasing the “unacceptable mediocrities” of today became EASY when I knew exactly what I was trading them in for.

So, stop telling me what you WANT.
And SHOW me.

But first, show yourself. Write it out. Be specific. Spend a 1/2 day on it. Answer questions like,

• how will I spend my days when my business is where it SHOULD be… where it DESERVES to be?
• who will I work with?
• what will this work look like?
• what does my office look like?
• what programs do I offer?
• how often am I launching?
• how many people do I see each week?
• what will I NO LONGER DO? (this is key) What will I no longer do for free? What will I no longer do regardless?
• What behaviors will I no longer tolerate? From myself? From others?
• how will I eat?
• how will I travel?
• how will I take care of myself?

PAINT A PICTURE THAT COMPELS YOU TOWARDS IT.
PAINT A PICTURE YOU LOVE MORE THAN THE “COMFORT” OF TODAY.

And then, leap. If you’d like a safety net… PM Me on Facebook about a full day in-person-intensive with me, or even a one-off strategy session.

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Consider this a call to action for all seriously driven women entrepreneurs… an abbreviated field guide for you to claim YOUR space in this world and in your market.

I may not know WHO you are BY NAME, but I DO know where you are.

You are at that intersection of being able to look back with pride at all you’ve created… while being able to clearly envision what’s JUST OVER THE HORIZON for you in business and in life. It’s not that you’re discontent. It’s that you don’t want to leave any stones unturned, when it comes to your potential… and what you can do for:

• your market.
• your clients.
• your family.

Make no mistake… I know you’re doing well. People look at you as a success, even. Still, YOU know the truth. You know that you’re capable of SO MUCH MORE.

You’ve invested in the blueprints, in the events, in learning how to do a webinar. You’ve bought software to automate this or that. You’ve written your book. You did a full year of blogging. You’ve invested in all manner of things that were supposed to catapult you into YOUR IDEAL BUSINESS.

Some of it even worked.
A little.

But you’re still “not there,” not where you DESERVE to be… not where you were BORN to be.

But in a practical sense:

Your income still doesn’t reflect your true value or your deep expertise. Your clients aren’t immediately re-upping. You don’t yet have a waiting list for people wanting to work with you, so you’re always worried about one of them dropping off. You have launches that go cold, seemingly falling on deaf ears. Referrals aren’t happening as they should. You spend too much time on what you don’t love in your business and too little time on your MESSAGE, too little time serving in ways that LIGHT YOU UP.

You maybe feel ALMOST ready or even ALMOST there.

But not quite…

SO, WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON?

You know you were born for more.
You know you’re not living up to your full potential.
You don’t question your own value, and actually get irritated with prospects who do.
You’re CERTAINLY not lazy. You’re working and doing all you know to do.

You wonder when you’ll FINALLY have not only the INCOME you want, but — perhaps even more importantly — the INFLUENCE and IMPACT you desire as well.

I’ll tell you EXACTLY when: WHEN YOU GO ALL IN. DAILY.

When you replace the question of “Do I feel motivated to do ___________?” with the statement of “I know I am CALLED, so I can’t wait to ___________.”

When you stop taking your emotional temperature every day and JUST SHOW UP…

When you stop worrying SO DAG ON MUCH about the exact steps it will take to get to your ideal business… and just START SHOWING UP as if it were already happening.

HINT: This concern over “EXACTLY HOW this or that will happen” will keep you in PREPARATION mode. Taking weeks to build out funnels, a month to finalize a blog post, obsessing over the “right timing” for this or that. Yuck. THIS APPROACH has huge potential to keep you BUSY and BROKE.

Always launching.
Always re-working.
Always prepping.
Always “almost ready.”

Always.
Almost.
There.

Conversely, staying focused on your vision, while staying in ALIGNED ACTION towards that vision DAILY will keep you in PROFIT mode… even when the HOW isn’t exactly clear.

You can keep doing business in a way that feels like you’re pushing a boulder up a steep hill…. or you can strip away all of the BS that hinders your progress, mutes your voice, dims your light…. and

MAKE
IT
HAPPEN
TODAY.

How does this work exactly? I’ll tell you right here and now.

1) STOP EVERYTHING ELSE FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR. Get into a quiet place. Do you think better with a cup of coffee? A glass of wine? Near your favorite indoor water feature or beside a roaring fire? If so, do that or go there.

2) ASK YOURSELF ONE QUESTION: WHAT DOES MY IDEAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? Please don’t be content with an annual dollar amount earned. Think also about who you work with, which hours you work, what you DO during those hours, how you spend your time, where, with who, doing what. How do you feel? What does your morning look like? What / where do you eat lunch? Really paint a picture in your mind of what your IDEAL SUCCESS will look like. Write it down.

3) Now you know where you’re going. That picture, though, isn’t currently your reality. So,you need to build a bridge between where you are right now and where you want to be. To do this, ASK YOURSELF, WHAT WOULD I DO TODAY, IF I WERE ALREADY WHERE I WANT TO BE? Construct your day according to the answers you write down.

DO THIS EVERY DAY.
DO NOT WAIT TO “MAKE IT” IN ORDER TO DO IT.
TAKE STEPS EVERY SINGLE DAY THAT ALIGN WITH YOUR ULTIMATE VISION.

THIS IS THE WAY YOU BUST BEYOND YOUR CURRENT REALITY AND BREAK INTO YOUR IDEAL… In a way that feels natural and in flow.

P.S. It is not too late to join other WILDLY driven women entrepreneurs like yourself.  We’re waiting for you… and can help you create the business WORTHY of your call.  We’ll  pull back the curtain on daily success strategies, secrets, and habits that will not only elevate you into your RIGHTFUL place in your market, but also give you MAXIMUM PROFIT and ULTIMATE FREEDOM. Learn more here: WomenWhoWOW.com.

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