When Was the Last Time You Fell in Love with Your Business?

Have you been in business for a few years and suddenly you aren't feeling the love?

Have you hit a plateau of growth? 

Maybe you are just tired of the same conversations with your clients?

What do you do? Chuck it all and move to the Caribbean? (You probably would have done that if you could!)

Seriously, do you find a new business and start over or ??

Here are 5 ideas for how to infuse new life in your business and discover what’s next – and, at the same time, fall back in love with your business.

1.    Ask your business what it needs. Yes, I’m serious. Talk to your business. Sit down with a journal or your laptop and have a conversation, just like you are interviewing your business. What is working? What is not working? Where has the life dribbled out? Where does it want to go? What is secretly exciting you in your business but you’ve been holding it back or holding it small?

2.    Go on a creative business retreat. It’s really hard to grow, evolve or move your business to a new place when you are in the same routine. Schedule some time to get out of your home office, your outside office (if you have one), and even your life if you can. It will do more to open up new ideas just from being in a new environment. You’ll meet new people, feel different energy, and new possibilities will reveal themselves.

3.    Take a current program or product or launch and give it a new twist. Instead of reinventing your whole business, how about re-invigorating just a part? If you are getting ready to launch another program or relaunch a product, what could you do differently to make it more interesting, more fun, more creative? Brainstorm a list: “If I were more creative/risk-taker/bold, I would do these 10 things…” Then pick 5 and step in!

4.    Talk to your mastermind or business girlfriends. Ask for their help. What do they see as potential for you? What are your strengths? What would they like more of? What help do you always give them and how can you put that into your business? What is it that you do brilliantly?

5.    Hire a great business coach. It’s really hard trying to grow your business alone. Hiring a business coach who resonates with your style of business will give you fresh perspectives, will help a new project be easier, and will re-infuse your business with new life. It’s crazy to figure it out yourself! Smart business owners know that another’s perspective is invaluable and another’s experience will make the growth happen so much easier and quite frankly, it’s more fun!

Follow these steps and watch your business open up, and you’ll absolutely fall back in love. 

En-joy!

Laura 

If you would like to use this article in your newsletter or blog please feel free to do as long as you include our credit information: Written by Laura Howard West, Center for Joyful Business, http:/www.joyfulbusiness.com I would also appreciate it if you'd send us a copy for our media files. ©Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.

Laura West is an award-winning online entrepreneur and president of The Center for Joyful Business. 

Invite in the Voice for What's Next in YOUR Business!!

I just got back a couple of days ago from my own personal creative retreat on St. Simons Island at an amazingly beautiful hotel. As soon as I walked in the door of the hotel room, my DNA shifted, ideas were buzzing, and new possibilities opened up! It’s amazing what ocean and a beautiful environment does for you and for getting out of your normal, habitual routine. I felt myself being the Business Goddess Millionairess!

Business Goddess Millionairess?

Yes - to me that metaphor is about being so filled with abundance and possibilities where I know - I can feel - I can do anything.

Now that I'm back home, I am full of confidence and a sense of purposeful expression. I have been in a place of asking for what’s next in my business – not just from an idea place, but from a soul-nourishing place. I really feel myself finally opening up and feeling excited about what’s possible. Getting out of your familiar environment and routine really helps, especially when it's beautiful.

Here’s where I stayed AND where my upcoming NEW retreat is also being held: www.OceanLodgessi.com. It’s truly amazing, beautiful and inspiring at every turn!

I would love for you to be here with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat coming up in April. This retreat is for six women entrepreneurs only, and I already have one spot taken out of the six. I am so excited about the potential that these six amazing, heart-centered, passionate female entrepreneurs will create with me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business retreat.

I’m envisioning and setting the intention that these six seasoned women opening to the voice of what’s next in their businesses.

Imagine getting clear about what’s next. Stepping into your soul’s purpose in a big way with grace, ease and life nourishing prosperity! You will be supported and inspired to create what’s next for you here with me, these kindred spirits, and this delicious location. I know I was - and still am, even back in my "normal," everyday environment.

To find out all the juicy details and to apply for one of the five spots left (one is actually already taken - and I'm just announcing it to the public today!), visit www.joyfulbusiness.com/deepretreat.

Breathing deeply... feeling expansive and grounded - and wishing that for you!

En-Joy

Laura
 
PS: When was the last time you fell in love with your business? Remember it again. Join me at the For the Love and Soul of Your Business intimate retreat.

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I truly love hearing the stories of how you love the manifesto, your rituals, I’ve seen photos of it hanging in your offices, and more stories of how you have shared it with your business girlfriends.  I am truly honored and equally inspired!

Just last weekend I was on St. Simons Island on a creative retreat and met a friend for tea.  She introduced me to two new entrepreneur women and we got to hear their creative business ideas…then one of them exclaimed “YOU’RE the one who created the Business Goddess Manifesto!”  I just loved hearing how it inspired her day!

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EN-Joy

- Laura

14 Strategies for What To Post on Your Blog

One of the greatest tools on the internet is to have a blog focused on your business movement – the thing you are most passionate about in your business. It’s a great way to establish credibility, visibility and your expertise in a particular area.

My clients often get excited about a blog and get it up and going and then ask, “Now what do I post?”

If you’re still a little stuck, here’s an easy checklist to keep handy:

• Long, thoughtful, provoking and inspiring articles – every now and then. You don’t want to overwhelm your blog followers with three or four blog posts a week that span several screen lengths. But once in a blue moon – go for it!
• Short thoughtful, provoking, and inspiring articles – get the difference? You don’t have to write a novel. Just a paragraph or two.
• ”How-to’s” – 3 steps, 5 secrets, 3 tips types of articles. For example, three things you need to pack for a day-long hike. Or five must-haves in your make-up kit.
• Quotes – yours or others. You can just post the quotation, or you can explain why this particular quotation is particularly inspiring to you.
• Resources – this is where you share your favorite things: books, tools, other coaches/consultants/experts.
• Quick stories about something that happened to you that highlights a perspective you believe in
• Poems or songs about your movement that would be inspiring to your tribe
• Events you are offering/leading – yes, you can even post sales-type posts in your blog. (Which is really handy when you have your blog linked to social networks.)
• Stories about your clients – their shifts, aha’s, awarenesses, why they work with you, results, profiles. Stories show what you do, much better than you just telling what it is you do.
• Updates, feedback, buzz about events you are leading, such as “The top 3 questions I’m getting from women entrepreneurs who are thinking about coming to the Business Goddess Retreat”
• Stories, themes or trends you are seeing with your clients. This article is an example; all my SpiritRICH™ clients are asking what to post on a blog!
• Free checklists - you probably have all kinds of “get started quick” type of lists – use these as special blog postings to generate credibility and expertise
• Any events where you are appearing, being interviewed, telesummits, and the like. Let people see what you’re doing!
• Photos – photos – photos! They are inspiring! Of you, your surroundings, your clients, people you are with, you and your mentors.

For a robust blog which positions you as an expert in a certain area you’ll want to aim for 2 -3 postings a week and you’ll soon have a bevy of blog postings and your tribe and fans will notice!

Last tip for blog success: I ride the wave of energy and write several postings when I’m in a particularly reflective writing mood, which I can post-date and publish later. This allows you to write while you are in the writing mode and then spread your postings over several weeks.

Most of all, let out your authentic self – your readers want to know who you are and what you are about. Writing in your authentic voice allows you to really connect with your reader.

En-joy!

Laura

 

If you would like to use this article in your newsletter or blog please feel free to do as long as you include our credit information: Written by Laura Howard West, Center for Joyful Business, http:/www.joyfulbusiness.com I would also appreciate it if you'd send us a copy for our media files. ©Copyright 2010. All rights reserved.

Laura West is an award-winning online entrepreneur and president of The Center for Joyful Business. If you are ready to shift your marketing and mindset for more success with joy and ease, get your free report: Business Attraction Success

Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business Tele-Summit

If you've been following me in my articles, on Facebook, and on Twitter, you know that I feel we all have unique gifts and passions - and that it's those gifts and passions that allow us to do our great work in the world, and to truly make a difference.

Wilma Allan of Community Soul is holding a tele-summit called Tap Into Your Personal Power and Transform Your Life and Business. Isn't that what we all want? And because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you are able to attend as my special "VIP" guest FREE of charge.

This special arrangement gives you access to a carefully selected panel of some of the world’s most successful online women entrepreneurs as they share their closely guarded secrets to their own success including me! I spoke today and Wilma Allen will be interviewing the specially selected panel to talk about exactly how they have overcome obstacles, kept life and business on track, sometimes against all odds, and how they have tapped into their own personal power to achieve and maintain that success.

According to Wilma, it really doesn't matter what business you're in. She believes that if you have a passion and you adopt the right mindset, you can become successful. Achieving success is all linked to how effectively you are able to tap into and harness the phenomenal power that we do all have inside us. And this will all become much clearer when you listen to these unique women and what they will be sharing with you on this tele-summit. Only then you will begin to understand how you can also do this for yourself!

Register below and save the date for the kick off interview with Lisa Sasevich! Lisa talks to Wilma Allan about why she wanted to put together this free event for YOU.

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--->> Here’s What You'll Discover When You Join This Unique Tele-summit and Listen to These Exceptional Women<<---

• How to make CONSISTENT, ON-DEMAND TRANSFORMATIONS in your life, no matter what stage you are at now, regardless of what’s gone before

• How to take a NEW LOOK AT FAILURES and how that can transform HOW you achieve

• You will learn how to really UNDERSTAND PERSISTENCE and what it can do for you and your business

• All the things you DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT TAKING DECISIONS and how that will open doors you didn’t know were there

• How to DISCOVER YOUR ‘BURNING DESIRE’ and why you need one

If you’re wondering whether this is really possible, or whether harnessing personal power is a rare gift given only to a select few, that’s exactly why you should register for this tele-summit. As you listen to these 16 exceptional women, you’ll realize that they started out, quite possibly where you are now, and that you also have that same unlimited power. Then you will begin to understand how you can tap into that power, too!

As my VIP guest, you can register for this tele-summit, schedule your favorite calls into your week and benefit from the wisdom shared in these fascinating interviews.

Below is a brief glimpse of what you can expect to hear from these extraordinary women:

• Their own personal stories that have shaped their success

• What has been a stumbling block for them and how they overcame those obstacles

• The key factors that they believe have ensured their success

• What it is that drives them and how they have harnessed that

• And each of these women will reveal to you how they have taken life-changing decisions that have moved them to the levels of success they now enjoy

• And much, much, much more!!

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If you are one of the dedicated minority who REALLY want to learn from those who have already been where you are now, treat yourself to the benefit of the accumulated wisdom that is being offered to you and register now for this tele-summit.

And remember, because I'm co-sponsoring this tele-summit, you can attend as my special "VIP" guest at no charge!

Grab your FREE access to this unique tele-summit which will reveal how you can tap into AND harness the phenomenal power that is inside you, and THEN transform your life and business...

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En-Joy,

Laura