5 Creative Planning Tips for a Joyfully Successful 2010

A couple of weeks ago in December, I offered five Creative Planning Tips for a Joyfully Successful 2010. In case you missed them, here they are again in one place. If you like these tips, check out the sale on the Joyful Business Guide at the bottom.

Tip #1: Schedule a creative planning day on your calendar
This time is important. It isn't an urgent fire you have to put out, but it will be some of the most important time you will spend on your business. This time will shape the success of your business, your focus, and the outcome for your entire year! It can be a half day, whole day or a weekend. It will be worth it to focus on what's possible.

Make sure you spend the time planning. Don't use it as a clearing house for all those daily to-do's. Use it to actually plan 2010.

Tip #2: Get out of your home office
I find that creativity, sparks, ideas, and inspiration don't usually come when I'm sitting at my desk. Going to a new environment like a café, a friend's retreat house, the lobby of a beautiful hotel, or even renting a lovely space for the day will shift my energy. What does shifting energy mean? Instead of having a "head down - what needs to be done next" focus, I'm able to have a "heads up and looking at the horizon" type of perspective.

By shifting your location, you are able to shift your perspective, and then you shift what's possible. New ideas come to you. Just the act of planning to go on a creative retreat outside of your office will subconsciously start pulling new ideas and thoughts toward you. Suddenly you will find that you are making notes of ideas to explore when you have your retreat time. Your commitment will cause your creative momentum to start moving in that direction.

Tip #3: Bring creative supplies
You don't want to develop your marketing strategies, creative ideas, and inspiration with a boring yellow legal pad. Pack your favorite markers, pens, or pencils, add some colorful, fun sticky notes to capture spontaneous free flowing ideas, bring paper or a tablet for making mind maps of ideas (a great way to access your right-brain creative thinking before your left-brain logic kicks in).

Do you have stickers or a favorite pen that you love writing with? Do you have cool big planning calendars or pads that you can't wait to dive into?

I find that the more I can support my creativity around planning for making more money, rolling out big marketing campaigns, or committing to a big project or that new platinum program - then the more tapped in I am to my creative flow, ideas, inspiration… And it's so much easier this way!

So - whatever makes you giggle with delight - bring with you on your creative planning day.

Tip #4: Set the stage for inspiration
I find that inspirational ideas don't always just happen when I say it's time. It's better to prime the pump. When I go on creative retreat time, I bring an inspirational book. Something by Wayne Dyer or Marianne Williamson works well when I want to be called into my purpose and passion; SARK books work well when I really want freedom to express my joy.

Bring along your favorite magazines like O, Ode (an entrepreneur type magazine which will help you get you sparked), Inc Magazine (with stories of other entrepreneurs and small business owners). Read a few pages to get the creative juices flowing and ideas moving.

I also find that connecting with my mastermind group or a coach will open up my inspiration in all new, big ways that I would have never thought of on my own!

Tip #5: Bring your Joyful Business Guide™ system
The Joyful Business Guide system provides the smart business tools you'll need - for getting clear about your ideal client, marketing system, team planning, and vision story, along with the attraction tools for setting your intentions and focusing on your projects.

I hear stories all the time from entrepreneurs all around the world using their Joyful Business Guides in cafes, libraries, cabins in the mountains, and at oceanside retreats and having a surprisingly wonderful time planning for their business. (It's like they are breaking all the rules! Planning and joy working together!)

And to help you more joyfully plan your successful 2010, I'm offering $50 off the Joyful Business Guide system.

The Joyful Business Guide usually sells for $249. Through Friday, January 8, you can get it for only $199. Use coupon code JOYFULLYCREATE to save $50 off the Joyful Business Guide. Click here to learn more and get your Joyful Business Guide.

Do you have the tools you need to plan an amazing 2010?

En-joy

Laura
 
P.S. This isn't just a product I sell.... The Joyful Business Guide is a system of tools for right-brain creatives, and I use it myself - everyday. It's helped me grow my business and double my income in 2009. What can it do for you and your business?

Inspiration for Today’s Woman

As I think about what my purpose and passion in life is, I find that I'm really stepping into the role of leading women to their most fulfilling, authentic, successful lives and businesses. I want to see what's possible for women entrepreneurs.

So when I get asked to participate in a movement for women to lead inspired lives, I sit up and take notice.

I'm excited to partner with Aspire Magazine and offer their subscribers some really great bonuses to help them live an inspired life.

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What's Possible in 2010 for You?

I wanted to let you know about a special program I'm launching, SpiritRICH™ Platinum Group Coaching and Mastermind Program. I designed it with what *I* wanted in a mastermind and coaching program - including what I know you need to grow your business with grace and in alignment with who you are. This is an affordable, accessible level to work with me one-on-one as well as to get the rich power of like-minded women entrepreneurs.

Here's a snapshot of what the 7-month program looks like:

Bonus Launch Call (for people who have signed up before November 11) November 11, 12:00 p.m. EST

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Official Launch Call December 2, 12:00 p.m. EST

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Monthly Private Coaching Calls w/Laura (six 30-minute calls) 1st Wednesday in January, February, March, April, May, June

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Attraction Marketing and Money Mindset Topic Calls (five) 3rd Tuesday in December, January, February, April, June, 12:00 p.m. EST

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Two-day SpiritRICH™ Platinum Group Retreat - with an extra bonus ½ day session - Your Guide to Authentic Financial Success January 28-30 in Virginia Beach, Virginia

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Monthly Group Mastermind Calls led by Laura (five) First Monday of every month (December, January, February, March, April), 12:00 p.m. EST

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Weekly Group Mastermind Calls Every Monday at 12:00 p.m. EST

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Open Q&A Calls (two) January 19, 2:00 p.m. EST; May 11, 3:00 p.m. EST

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Virtual Creative Retreats (two) December 29, April 22

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Spirit Doll Virtual Creative Retreat with Thea Sheldon February 26

With the private, one-on-one coaching, the weekly masterminding, focused marketing calls, an in-person retreat, and still more features, it's a full, robust program that will launch your business and your life into 2010.

You won't find this much personal coaching and mentoring anywhere else. You might find group masterminds or private coaching, but nothing that combines the power of the two.

One of the primary areas we'll be focusing on is premium and platinum-style programs for your business. Think about all the things you can do (and that you want to do - that you know you need to do to really launch your business to successful heights):

• One VIP day a month
• Virtual Business Retreats
• Premium Programs
• One Private Platinum Client

If you're drawn to these ideas for your business, but you're unsure of how to get there, that's what the SpiritRICH™ Platinum Group Coaching and Mastermind Program is all about - giving you the support, guidance, and mentoring you need.

To read more and to send off for the SpiritRICH™ Platinum Group Coaching and Mastermind Program invitation and application, visit www.joyfulbusiness.com/spiritrich/.

And if you get your application in by Friday, November 13, you also save $1500 off the deposit AND you get an extra 1/2 day workshop, Your Guide to Authentic Financial Success, at our in-person retreat.

Looking forward to working with you to make your business LEAP,

Laura
 
PS: Is your business is ready for something bigger? Are YOU ready for something bigger? Is 2010 your year? Get the support you need with my SpiritRICH™ Platinum Group Coaching and Mastermind Program - join us now! We already have 4 SpiritRICH™ business owners in the program – make sure you get one of the 8 spots left! It’s an intimate group for maximum coaching!

Don’t Miss It: SpiritRICH Business Teleseries!

The world is shifting, and there's a different way to do business than what we've been taught or modeled.

Traditional business has been built around a model of "get it done & get it done quick." It very much requires a lot of masculine action-oriented energies and strengths. That has served us well in the past, but now, especially for women (and honestly, for men too), it’s time for business to change.

It's the idea that both the feminine and masculine energies have a place - and should have a place - in business and life. That your business is one nourishing part of your life, not an energy-drainer or all-consuming. You want a business that is an outlet for your passion, a business that helps you change the world or makes it better in some way. And your business should provide you with financial success so you can continue to do your world-changing work.

As women, we can't continue with the current way of being in business. As women, we can't continue to drain our energy trying to do it like someone else who doesn't understand our natural strengths, our individual rhythms and our lifestyle priorities.

It's a brand-new way of doing business--and there aren't many models out there and certainly not a map of how to go about running such a business.

That's what the SpiritRICH™ Business Teleseries is all about. I want to help women entrepreneurs understand that they can grow their business to wildly successful heights while at the same time honoring their whole lives –whether it’s children, parents, travel, hobbies, vibrant health or (and) life purpose.

Join me for three calls (while they can all be listened to individually, they'll be the most powerful when you join us for all three):

• Thursday, November 5: The 5 Shifts Happening in the World For Women Entrepreneurs – and Why YOU Need to Know About Them to Be Successful!
• Thursday, November 12: The 7 Traps that Keep Women Entrepreneurs From Authentic Success
• Thursday, November 19: What You Need to Know To Market Yourself Like a Business Goddess

*All calls are 3:00 – 4:00 eastern

The first call is tomorrow on those very shifts in business. If you want to be successful in your business, you have to know what these shifts are all about! Join me as I encourage you to think differently about how you run your business, and how you show up in your business.

Click to read more and to sign up now!

I look forward to having you on the first call tomorrow!

En-JOY!

Laura
 
PS: Be part of the movement - sign up for the SpiritRICH™ Business Teleseries now!

Press Release: Ladies Who Launch Partners with Laura West

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ladies Who Launch and The Center for Joyful Business
Create The Fresh Entrepreneur

Ladies Who Launch, the first new media company to provide resources and connections for women entrepreneurs, has partnered with Laura West, Founder and President of The Center for Joyful Business, as their Fresh Entrepreneur Expert.  Laura is creating a Fresh Entrepreneur workshop and workbook package for their licensed leaders to host around the U.S., Canada and soon worldwide as well as, offering Fresh Entrepreneur Expert advice to the Ladies Who Launch community on our website.

The Fresh Entrepreneur workshop is designed to help women entrepreneurs launch to the next level in their business growth and success with a modern approach to planning, growing and doing business. This workshop and product materials include the seven essentials for launching to the next level and a strong focus on the modern way of growing a business with the foundation of life mission and vision. The program extends to creating multiple streams of income to real marketing strategies using current media plus practical action tools with current success mindset management tools.

“The Fresh Entrepreneur workshop is unique in that it honors the feminine approach to launching by actually combining wellness strategies with business growth tools. It addresses the fact that women view their lives holistically, integrating their businesses and their lives,” states Victoria Colligan, Founder of Ladies Who Launch.  “The workshop is the first of its kind to combine real case studies with lifestyle components as they relate to business growth; this is a groundbreaking brand new offering to the community of women launchers everywhere.”

“I am honored and excited to support creative women around the world birth their creative dreams and take them to the next level of success through The Fresh Entrepreneur workshop and materials,” said Laura West, Founder and President, Center for Joyful Business.  “This is an ideal collaboration as we are on the leading edge of creating the new paradigm of business needed to integrate the mind/body/spirit approach to a holistic and healthy business that serves its clients while honoring lifestyle and the impact it makes on self, family, community and ultimately the world.”

About The Center for Joyful Business
The Center for Joyful Business is a personal and business growth-focused company supporting creative lifestyle entrepreneurs to create healthy and holistic businesses based on spirit-rich principles of joy, authenticity and prosperity. Laura West is known for her mindset and confidence shifting style and creating a feminine style of building a business that is personally fulfilling and financially successful. More information about her programs, products and speaking can be found at www.JoyfulBusiness.com

About Ladies Who Launch
The Ladies Who Launch company mission is to make entrepreneurship accessible to any woman with a project, dream or aspiration to start her own business and be successful. The company has a worldwide online community with resources, success stories, assessments, forums, and classifieds – all designed to help women entrepreneurs at all levels be successful. The company has franchised Local Communities in over 25 cities in North America.  More information can be found at www.LadiesWhoLaunch.com

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Your True Intuitive Potential - Are You Living Your Purpose?

Did you know you might be only harnessing 25% of your Intuitive capabilities?

If so these are signs...

You have dreams that don’t come to fruition.
You sabotage your ability to be prosperous.
You make friends with people who are not aligned with who you are.

Find out more at: http://www.joyfulleadership.com/pii/piipage01.html

Please join us for a free teleclass led by my LPE, Life Partner Extraordinaire, Marc West.  I do believe that to really succeed as an entrepreneur you need more than great marketing ideas and one of those key ingredients is being able to tap into your intuition for decisions, ideas, divine downloads and trusting in your path. 

Marc is truly an Intuitive and is passionate about helping the rest of us deepen our access to our intuition and be able to tap into it with ease and confidence.

I hope you’ll sign up for this teleclass and join us for a wondrous journey!

With training you too can tap into being the abundance steward of
your business. Find out more at: http://www.joyfulleadership.com/pii/piipage01.html

En-JOY!

Laura

"Step Into The Spotlight" 5-part Teleseries by Laurie Mandato

I want to introduce you to one of my Magic & Miracles Platinum clients, Laurie Mandato, of Imaging Joy.  She has been experiencing amazing growth and opportunities in her business this year.

The reason I wanted to tell you more about Laurie is that she is an image and style consultant for “Spotlighters” – that’s what I call those of us who have a mission in our business which includes getting in front of the spotlight to speak and be seen.

It’s one thing to finally have crafted your message, you’ve got this great opportunity to speak in front of your most ideal amazing potential clients…you’re feeling great about what you are up and then you start thinking about what you’re going to wear…

All that powerful inner work you’ve done and outer marketing work….comes falling down as you wonder….what really looks good on me…what’s appropriate for my audience and feels authentic?  This is where Laurie comes in. She understands this journey and in fact has put together a 5 part Teleseries specially for you, as someone in the spotlight.

DETAILS:

Register now for the "Step Into The Spotlight" 5-part Teleseries by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, May 22, and you'll receive a free *signed* copy of Fashion Feng Shui®: The Power of Dressing with Intention by Evana Maggiore (a $24.95 value).

If you are ready to step into the spotlight with confidence and style, sign up now at http://www.imagingjoy.com/teleseries.

En-JOY!

Laura