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How To Get Focused

Does your long list of "to do" leave you with a feeling of overwhelm? Or, perhaps you're just simply having a difficult time getting focused?

Guess what, you're not alone. During some point each day many home based entrepreneurs just like you find themselves wondering if they will ever complete the long list of to do that keeps growing or just be able to get back on task with a positive mental attitude.

Below is a simple reflective exercise that can help you get in tune and moving forward in 60 seconds or less.  It's called the me/body check in. 

How to do the Me/Body Check In

1. Stop what you are doing, stand up, close your eyes.
   • On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being totally distracted and overwhelmed and 10 being completely focused and grounded, where are you?  This is your "me" number.
   • On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being I physically feel horrible and out of sync and 10 being I feel great, where are you? 

Using Google Adwords Before You Create an Info Product

Some times being too smart and overflowing with the "it" idea for an information product is just about killing me...I'm thankful that I finally got learned a thing or two in info product development and tried out creating Google Adwords in conjunction with a simple survey site.

It's hard to believe that I kept thinking about my information products and my journey as kind of a Kevin Costner and Field Of Dreams idea - build it (with passion) and they will come, in fact they (all those clients) will just be lining up and clamoring to purchase what ever I and you create.

Myth #1:  build it - your information product, get it out there and then tweak it over time

• Ideas...very good
• Having passion very, very important.
• Creating some thing that people want also, very and let me repeat very important.
• Creating some thing that I'm pretty sure people want, after all I know a few that do....not such a great idea...that is unless you test it first and ensure there is mass appeal.  It's kind of like the prince carrying around Cinderella's glass slipper and trying to see how many people it will fit.

Deep Thoughts: Choosing Both In Life

Deep thought and deep quote for the day,

Choose Both

Poor people think "either/or"; rich people think "both."

You can be kind, generous, loving, spiritual, balanced,

do work you love and be really, really rich.

I remember when I first left my corporate sales work six years ago.  At the time I felt burnt out. I traveled a lot, had moved quite a few times, my life was very much type A.  Within my work I loved my clients, but often felt frustrated with the direction coming from above - especially the disconnect between what was said and the actions. 

What was said, serve your clients well, develop long term relationships, we're in this for the long run.  Long term relationships are a win/win.

What was actually wanted, bottom line results that didn't always support the client relationship. One of the phrases I most often heard was, did you hit your number?  Your number only being as good as yesterday, today is a new day.  Do what it takes to make it "the sale" happen - translated into short term relationships.

My initial paradigm after leaving corporate work and going out on my own (without a real plan I want to add), it took courage to walk away from the security of what was my "knowing" about

Defining Moments: Making Friends With Water

Oil and water have a similar compatibility as Eli and water - they don't easily mix and they are definitely not friends, at least yet.  We are in the first series of swim lessons for Eli.  Although I had felt some parental pressure from others to begin earlier, swimming is something I decided I would wait for him to let me know he was ready. I just kept hoping it would be before he missed out on some great opportunity or had a bad experience.

So life continues...infant swimming and toddler swimming classes and ages passed and we didn't attend them. Even though baths mean water from the neck down - we figured any amount of water was good water. My husband and I took advantage of any opportunity we could to get him in the water like having his cousin Austin (age 7 and a good sport) lure him in in for a friendly bath.  Thankfully Eli believes his cousin is better than the crust on any bread and his opinion counts.  We also found ourselves succumbing to things such as  purchasing the $20 Dora bath toys with the floating island and using them as bait...Eli could only play with them in the tub. 

Even with the best bath buddies and toys in order not to get his hair wet or washed  Eli will cry so hard he breaks into a sweat, pout, pick up a book and tell me he is too busy reading, he's too hungry, he has to poop, and he even hides, all of this and more are included in his long list of reasons why he doesn't need to get his matted down hair washed right now.  My personal favorite is that he's very sleepy. He even jumps into bed and pretends he asleep.   I have to admit that we don't wash his