Ready to become part of one of the most important movements in 2010?

Join myself and hundreds of beautiful souls on November 2 – 4, 2010 in Los Angeles, California

(Make sure you check out the PS in this email to see who is already committed to becoming part of the Smart Women Change the World Movement this Fall!)

Why Us and Why Now?

I am sure by now, you have heard the Dalai Lama’s quote about the western woman and our mission. No? He said, “The world will be saved by the western woman.”

And I personally believe  it will be the “entrepreneurial” western woman that saves the world!

I know, it is a bold statement for sure.  But bold statements lead to bold action and to much needed positive change.

To make sure you are ready to do your part in saving the world, I am hosting what will be a life-changing magical 3 day event this Fall!

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo is designed to empower and encourage growth from within—which is exactly what our world needs right now.

Join me and over 300 other women and men as we reconstruct what it means to live on purpose, live in passion, and live profitably.

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

The Agenda

PreConference VIP Party
Starting at 6 pm on November 1 (night before event starts), over 100 VIP guests will network and enjoy cocktails!  Not sure if you are a VIP guest, email us info@smartwomeninstitute.com

During Day 1 you will learn about the Most Powerful Business Models that exist in the world today!

•Learn the most important biz models for the fastest growth of your business online and offline
•Learn key strategies that position you and your company for the highest payoff
•Learn how to structure your biz so you can make more and work less
•Learn how to create boundaries and structure your company processes for more balance and freedom
•Learn how to brand your company website so that your visitors want to stay and play

Smart Women of the Year Award Ceremony

At the end of Day One: Enjoy a beautiful awards ceremony where we will honor three sensational and successful women with a Smart Women of the Year Award.   All three women (Rhonda Britten, Kris Carr, and Amyilya Antonetti) created companies that are of service to the world and create positive change in the world each day!

All three have previously been featured on Oprah for their life-changing work and we are excited to have them each come and inspire you with their acceptance speeches!

During Day 2 you will learn about the Most Powerful Mindsets you should have on your Entrepreneurial journey!

•Learn how to think like and act like a CEO so you can leverage the highest ROI on all of your future joint venture partnerships
•Learn the core behaviors of visionaries and why and how these behaviors allow you to adapt to A New Way of Being that invites even more high-level success
•Learn how to structure your Product and Service Funnel for strategic long-term growth
•Learn multiple marketing strategies and completely map out your core marketing campaigns for 2011 before you leave event
•Learn how to plan the “Big Picture” and understand the micro processes
•Arm yourself with knowledge on “Equity” and future “Exit Strategies”

During Day 3 you will learn about the Most Powerful Behaviors you should have to Attract Health and Wealth Into Your Life and Business!

•Learn how to use the powerful “why” question in your business and in your life
•Learn how to tame the high-energy entrepreneur into a focused and graceful leader
•Learn how to leverage a top notch business image that allows you to graciously lead with purpose
•Learn how to build and empower a virtual and local teams that allow you to run your global company from your home office or an outside office
•Learn how to integrate Marketing 2.0 with traditional marketing methods that increase your profits faster!

PLUS, you will enjoy these amazing breakin sessions from our faculty, some of the most inspiring and successful speakers in the world!

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

The BreakIn Sessions

Illuminating Beauty™ – Become the Best You Can
and Live a Beautiful Life Inside and Out with Tamara Gold

Real transformation and success starts with knowing who you are, right now in the moment.  Beauty starts on the inside and it affects all areas of your life. If you truly desire to become the best you can and live a beautiful life, you’ll want to start here. Learn beauty and style secrets that create superstars and how they grab your attention and become magnetic. You’ll walk away with insider tips and inspirational insights to help you look at yourself, your life and your business in a whole new…  beautiful way.  It’s not just about the makeup. Illuminating your beauty is key to your success.

You will learn:

•How makeup relates to your life on every level as Tamara shares her “Makeup Metaphor”™
•How we’ve been conditioned by the media and what that means to the entrepreneur or leader stepping into a new or existing business.
•The key essential steps that will make you look like a superstar in your industry
•A new understanding about your style expression in everything you do.

Million Dollar PR Secrets for Every Budget: How to Leverage Strategic Public Relations for Business Growth with Stacey Johnes and Regina Novickis

Every business has a story worth telling. The media will gladly cover that story when you frame it in the right context.  PR is still the best free vehicle to market your business to a large audience…  up to millions of people at one time once you are seen in national media.  And it’s not just about fame for fame’s sake. Once you get that story, you’ll gain valuable attention for your business, driving more clients, deals and ultimately, profits! We’ll teach you what you can do immediately to get media attention (including radio, television, print and online); and how to leverage your media coverage to skyrocket your profits.

You will learn:

•Three easy steps on how to secure television, radio, print and online media coverage immediately
•Strategies implemented by million dollar business owners to leverage their PR coverage for business growth
•How even the smallest budget can begin to generate coverage for big profits

How to Say ‘No!’ to Info-crap, Embrace the Cutting Edge and Leap to the Head of the Pack with Andrea J. Lee, CEO of The Wealthy Thought Leader

Are you tired of putting all your effort into marketing something you sweated to create, and producing nothing but a tiny little output like 5 sales? Add insult to injury you get 2 returns and less than nothing to show? Join Andrea J. Lee and discover how to cut through the noise in an overwhelmed market and dominate your category with ideas that turn into real cash quickly.

You will learn:

•How to innovative in a profitable way, simply.
•Ways to expand your reach and impact by building a following that comes to you, instead of pushy, in-your-face tactics to build your list.
•How implementing a 10% innovation to something you already have can create 6-figure results with almost no cost.
•The secret to being seen as the go-to innovator and leader in your market, un-catchable by your competition.
•And, most important, how to get the confidence to put your stake in the ground, bypass the traffic jam in your market and reap wealth from your thought leadership.
•In a world where there’s too much information, you must ensure your content is the best it can be. Your market thirsts for you to lead them in the way only you can! Let’s make sure we give you exactly that.

The Money Map to Freedom: Building a Sustainable
Business Around Who You Really Are With Grace,
Ease and Harmony with Alexis Martin Neely

A 6-step Money Map framework for choosing the right business model for you based on who you are, how you serve, the people you serve and the lifestyle you want to have and how to build this business on a solid foundation that ensures grace, ease and harmony in your life.

You will learn:

•How to Build Your Own Authentic Business Model Based Around Who You Really Are, the People You Serve and the Life You Want to Have (So You Can Finally Stop Following the Leader and Become the Leader You Know You Are)
•The Three Principles of Powerful Feminine Leadership That Will Allow Us to Make the Choice to Stop Doing Business Like Men and Begin to Experience Grace, Ease and Harmony in Our Businesses
•Why the Open-Hearted Agreement Documentation Process Is the Secret Key to Happiness In Your Business Life (and How You Can Save Buckets of Money, Grief and Heartache by Learning to Create Your Own Agreements Instead of Hiring a Lawyer)

Get Empowered To Become Financially Free!
with Linda Jones

How to improve your financial situation, take control of your money, have more confidence, and get on the path to financial freedom.
You will learn:

•The steps she followed to become a millionaire at age 38
•The best money engine right to grow money now
•How most millionaires and billionaires on the Forbes 400 Richest made their money
•What to look for in a mentor
•What’s Good Debt and Bad Debt
•The one thing that is the foundation of all wealth
•How to have a wealthy mindset
•How to turn your inner wealth picture into reality
•How to bridge the gap from where you are to where you want to be in business
•Why using debt for education is ok

PLUS SO MUCH MORE!!!

The Location

The Smart Women’s Business Conference and Expo will be held in Los Angeles, California at the beautiful Sheraton Gateway. The Sheraton Gateway offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the Los Angeles International Airport.  And as a benefit of being a registered attendee of our conference, we have secured a special room rate of $109 (plus taxes).

***Special Bring A Big Thinking Friend Offer***

We wouldn’t be creating a movement if we didn’t make it easy for you to spread the word about this amazing event and truly create more positive change for those people you know and love and want to help uplevel too.

So during the month of September, you can bring a BIG THINKING friend completely free on two conditions:

1) This friend should also be an entrepreneur or have an interest in entrepreneurship so they can truly understand and support you.

2) They are able to hold space for you to think bigger for yourself and for the world… “No negative energy allowed”

If your friend passes *the test*, then you can invite them to accompany you to this life changing event.

All you need to do is write their name and email in the comments section at checkout when you register at http://www.smartwomenevent.com/register-now

That’s All You Need To Do…

Our team will take care of everything else and contact them to fill in a online registration form to officially register.

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

See you in a few months!

Love Sheri
CEO of Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning

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By the way, want to see the names of the amazing women and men already registerd for this event and committed to being part of this amazing movement? All of whom you will meet during November 2 – 4!

Sheri McConnell, Rhonda Britten, Kris Carr, Amyilya Antonetti, Alexis Martin Neely, Tamara Gold, Stacey Johnes & Regina Novickis, Andrea J. Lee, Linda P. Jones, Daria Boissonnas, Carrie Jacobs, Linda Rivero, Kiva Leatherman, Patricia Selmo, Ruth Reiner, Karen Wilson, Mark Satterfield, Beth Schneider, Linda Sivertson, Elaine & Phil McConnell, Chelsea Moser, Ciara Daykin, Simon Daykin, Lindsay Miller, Melanie Benson Strick, Nisha Jackson, Ivy Singletary, Kirin Christianson, Elenie Tsarhopoulous, Shelley Riutta, Kate Karans, Lisa Smith, Teresa Roebuck, Kelly Emmerson, Wendy Dahl, Bennett Cohen, Diane Cunningham, Lora Sasiela, Beverly Bergman, Blair Wagner, Rebecca Reese, Barbara Saunders, Sandra Baptist, Julia McCutchen, Larissa Parks, Sherry Borsheim, Laurie Knight, Consuelo Meux, Tammy Kniffin, Carla Stokes, Karen Hilgefort, Camille Gaines, Daphne Houston, Brenda Rivas, Maria Cornelio, Katherine C.H.E., Michelle Nightengale, Tina Forsyth, Cindy Greenway, Michelle Hanisch, Kim Morris, Donna Duffy, Maureen Wielansky, Rebecca Franklin, Ana Mercedes Kranzlin, Shauna Harper, Angela Khouth, Laura Cross, Sandra Parker, Cheryl Heller, Amanda Graybill, Terri Park, Michelle Norman, Alyette Keldie, Alison Rothwell, Karen Knowler, Laynita Ward-Cichy, Denise Haney, Carmen Coker, Geanine Thompson, Sholon La Bar, Camille Gaines, Jeanna Lynch, Maria Packwood, Mariah Allen, Denise Haney, Lisa Goodwin, Mae Robertson, Karen Ritchie, and many many more registering each and every day!

Hurry and Register today before we are sold out: http://www.smartwomenevent.com

PSS
Do you want to feature your biz in front of these amazing women and men?

Make sure you check out our Sponsors and Exhibitors page at http://www.smartwomenevent.com/sponsors-exhibitors

Here are just some of the exhibitors that have already signed on to network with you!

- Vervante
- Audio Acrobat
- Women’s Radio
- International Assn of Online Business Managers
- Global Institute of Awakening
- BooJee Beads
- Wise Workshops
- Global Action Network of Entrepreneurial Women
- Global Institute of Wealth for Women
- Thought Partners International
- Global Institute of Visionary Executives
- And many more!

Hi Creators and Big Thinkers!

I want to personally invite you to join me on a special, complimentary call to discover how to make 2010 a truly magical year!

A few months ago at our annual event, I pulled back the curtains on our brand new programs for 2010!

The Smart Women Success Programs offer entrepreneurial training and support and they also allow you to choose an emphasis on creating a “membership business” if you want. Nothing else like this exists anywhere else right now!

Our three levels are Membership, Mastermind, and Inner Circle.

And no matter which level you choose, you will receive insider business tips, exclusive networking opportunities, structured training, and access to personally ask me questions each and every month!

If you want to grow a business fast, yet gracefully–I am your “coachsultant”.

If you want to surround yourself with genuine, authentic, caring women–my masterminds are a perfect choice because the women I attract each year are just that!

2009 has been a phenomenal year for all of my clients, many of whom share their successes here: http://vimeo.com/7806109

And here is a picture we took during their mastermind photo shoot in LA earlier this year…

As I said, during my October Annual Event a few months ago, I debuted next year’s programs, and the majority of our 2010 Mastermind and Inner Circle spots have been filled. Here are the beautiful women I have accepted so far:

• Daria Boissonnas
• Karen Wilson
• Linda Jones
• Kiva Leatherman
• Carrie Jacobs
• Morna McEver Golletz
• Ruth Reiner
• Patricia Selmo

So only a few spaces remain – is one of them yours?

Because our office has received many inquiries I am hosting a special, complimentary call explaining all the details of all three levels of support.

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A Complimentary One-Time Informational Teleseminar:

“Make 2010 a Magical Year!”

LIVE with Sheri McConnell

Monday, December 14, 2009, at 1 pm Central

(11 am Pacific, Noon Mountain, 1 pm Central, 2 pm Eastern)

Call in number: 1-800-662-6992

Code: 1020261

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On this one-time call, I will be sharing:

* all the details on exactly what is included in my 2010 Smart Women Success Programs

* how to know if you are ready to take the leap and invest in your own ability to succeed

* some tips on how to let your brilliance emerge and hit the ground running in January

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Even if you’re just curious, come join us and listen…

And if you are ready to learn more now and try to grab one of the last few slots, visit us now at http://www.smartwomenprograms.com

Hope to “hear” you on the call!

Supporting you,

Sheri McConnell-CEO

Why You Should Organize for Tax Time

Organizing for tax time helps you avoid misplacing important receipts and documents. Your stress level will be lower because you won’t be rushing around at the last minute trying to get to the tax preparer and/or post office. Being organized for tax time also helps you save money because you are more likely to keep track of deductions if you have a system and you won’t be charged a higher fee for having your tax preparer go through your piles of receipts.

How and What To Organize for Tax Time

The only way to organize any object is to assign a home to it. Designate a filing cabinet or storage bin made to hold hanging folders for your year-round paper storage. Create folders for receipts, credit card and bank statements, etc. You will make a folder for anything you spend money on and need to keep track of for tax purposes. Have a filing schedule. I usually take one day a month to pay the monthly bills for my three businesses and to do all my filing. During the month, I put all my documents into one of two places until my filing day. This keeps everything organized with very little effort. I have one folder designated for current bills to be paid and then a lateral shelving unit that I stick everything else in for all three businesses and for my personal documents. No matter what, no less than once a month, I file everything from the shelving unit into my filing cabinet in the appropriate folder.

Now, where do we file our papers? Each year, you should designate a large accordion envelope or section of your filing cabinet to your tax papers. Some of the tax papers you will be filing will include your W2s, 1099s, mortgage interest statements, bank interest statements, real estate tax statements, investments statements, and receipts for charitable donations. Most of the papers/receipts you will file will fall into the following categories: salary, real estate, medical, childcare, and investments.

How Long Should I Keep My Financial Records

First of all, make it a habit to throw away as much as you can that you don’t need to keep like the envelopes that come with your statements, your ATM slips after they have been recorded in your check register, credit-card slips (don’t forget to shred them if they show your credit card number), utility, phone, and cable bills after you have paid them.

Now, on to the documents you should hang on to. Hang on to all monthly statements of financial accounts (bank, investment, etc.) one year until you reconcile them with the year-end statements. Hang on to federal and state income tax returns and related receipts and statements for at least three years. One investment company recommends keeping all tax returns and related information for six years if there is a possibility you may have under-reported your income by 25% or more. When it comes to business equipment or home improvements, you keep those records as long as you have the item (printer, house, etc.).

Simple Tax Time

Everyone has a different financial situation and these tips are offered as guidelines to simplify tax time. Being organized at tax time and year-round should allow you to lead a calmer life and to have greater control of something that you can, and should, plan for. I hope a few of these tips helped and that you have a stress-free tax season as we head into the next year.

In fact, your mindset makes or breaks your success in this life in three ways:

One—Believing in Abundance

Right now you believe many goals are attainable and many are not. The way we were raised and our current environment dictate our beliefs and unless we are challenged and taught to believe differently, we stay stuck. Today—open your mind up to abundance. Take a goal and rewrite it in an abundant mindset. Try to make yourself believe that you can accomplish it even if there is a nagging voice saying “no way!” Then put it where you can see it every day. It can be a financial goal or the number of articles you want to write next year. Whatever you want to accomplish, have, or do. It doesn’t matter. Think abundantly and think big for yourself.

Two—Manifesting What You Want

Once you begin to think more abundantly and do it enough that it becomes a practiced mindset, then you will begin to easily manifest what you need, want, and deserve in life. Since manifesting is done in the mind, it in itself is another mindset. You should begin to consciously manifest what you dream of and what you need to accomplish your dreams. That is why writing down your goals is so powerful. It forces you to consciously manifest your wants and desires.

Three—Welcoming the Change

The third mindset and the hardest and most important is being open to change. Many of us are very fearful of change and don’t recognize that we are resisting an abundant life because of the safe choices we make. Me included. We limit ourselves because of that risk of failure. We get used to believing what other un-abundant thinkers think because at least then we don’t have to put ourselves out there and fail. Change is good—it helps you grow. When you begin to expect change and thrive in the middle of it, you will increase your speed at which you succeed at your goals.

[tags]Sheri McConnell, abundance, manifesting, mindset[/tags]

Create a Timeless and Focused Marketing Plan for Your Business
As you probably have heard by now—you aren’t in the business of (fill in the blank here). You are in the business of marketing. Your marketing must be automated and systemized. Period.

Create Passive, Income Generating Information Products
Create your own advances and get paid to create information products. Many, many target markets are considered “information hungry”.

Build Your Most Important Asset… Your List
Success on the Internet is about providing high-quality information, solving problems AND the list.

Use Social Networking Sites Such As Facebook, Linked In, My Space, and Twitter
Used strategically, social networks extend your brand and funnel thousands of new leads into your business funnel each and every quarter.

Create A Very Profitable Internet Launch for Your Information Product or Book
Set up correctly, these launches generate thousands and tens of thousands dollars of income, new leads for you, and all your partners.

Create Your Own Certification Program
Certification programs aren’t just for large companies. Solo online entrepreneurs can also benefit from building and creating a certification program within their company.

Build Your Own Virtual Team
Learn how to find, build, and manage a virtual team. The key to “leverage” is the team. We all have weaknesses. Don’t make the most common entrepreneurial mistake: thinking you can do it all.

Approach, Create, and Solidify Long-Lasting Joint Ventures
All successful businesses are built on thriving relationships–on and off the Internet. And with all relationships, you should focus on who and how you attract partners.

Know Which Publishing Options Are Right for YOU
Learn what your publishing options are and make a choice based on the path that is right for you based on your personality, strengths, and weaknesses.

Double Your List Size With A Virtual Event
One of the best strategies for growing the list is an online virtual event with multiple partners or joint ventures. Give customers free access and structure the event correctly and it is a huge list builder.

Develop Your Intuition
Most entrepreneurs spend so much time focusing on all the “outside” stuff that they forget to get help on learning how to “think” like a CEO. Your success and ability to run a profitable company depends on your leaning how to develop your CEO intuition.

Use Visual Tools To Set Goals and Stay On Track
All successful entrepreneurs incorporate visual components into their strategy planning. They spend as much time planning as they do in the marketing, operations, finance parts of their business.

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Want To Use This Article In Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete blurb with it:

Sheri McConnell is the CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. and the president and founder of two national organizations, the National Association of Women Writers-NAWW and the International Association of Web Entrepreneurs-AWE. Under the same corporate umbrella she is also the owner of two high-level product and consulting companies: Create Your Group and My Millionaire Friends. You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and find out more about all four of her companies at www.sherimcconnell.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and two cats.

I read this paragraph below recently in one of Dan Kennedy’s newsletters and loved it. It really resonated with me. I also think that as a woman, I had to learn the hard way that “fixing or firing or fleeing or forgetting” could be productive behaviors in business. Reread this paragraph a couple times at least and in my opinion this is so powerful it is worth reading every day during the first year of business.

“Business is about confronting an endless parade of problems and disappointments–people bearing bad news. If you are not up to that, you may very well need to exit stage left. Resiliency is the numero uno characteristic required: take a hit, re-focus fast, and get on with the fixing or firing or fleeing or forgetting or whatever other productive response that may be possible.”

To your success,
Sheri McConnell-CEO

[tags] what is business about, business, Dan Kennedy, resiliency, productive response, Sheri McConnell, productive behaviors [/tags]

The following are 4 core values I use to live a balanced life and achieve my dreams easier.

One–No Guilt Allowed

One of the biggest struggles for women today is learning to say no without guilt. One of the core values I teach my coaching clients is to adopt this new rule into their lives called—No Guild Allowed. Guilt can hold you back from many of the goals you want to accomplish if you let it. Guilt doesn’t make you a better mother, or employee, or even more fit. Most of us know this, yet we still allow ourselves to fester in guilt. Guilt actually creates an imbalance in your life because you are left with feelings of inadequacy.

From now on when guilt creeps into your life—take action by noticing that the emotion is present and replace it with positive choices or joy as quickly as you can. As you retrain yourself to purge guilt, you will notice how much easier it is to move forward and accomplish your goals.

Two–Embrace Positive Choices

“The art of positive choices helps you to create the life you want. Positive choices help you to discover what truly makes you happy and realign your priorities. Life is a series of additions and subtractions. You control the calculator.”
~ Gail McMeekin ~

Another core value that allows you to achieve balance in your life is being able to make positive choices. What are positive choices—these are choices that propel you forward… they benefit your mind, your body, and your soul. These choices allow you to feel productive and focused because they are in alignment with what you really want to do on a daily basis. And remember—how we live our days is indeed how we live our lives.

Three–Cultivating Moments of Pure Joy

“The worst sin—perhaps the only sin—passion can commit, is to be joyless.”
~ Dorothy Sayers ~

One of the best things I personally ever did was follow my heart when EVERYONE else thought I was crazy. The first time I did this—I was scared, but at the time I was so miserable, I didn’t really feel like I had a choice. From that experience I learned to trust my gut and I learned that to follow my dreams meant that I was the architect of my life and that it was actually up to me to cultivate moments of pure joy in my life. For me-that means I spend most of my time either with my kids having fun or I am in the process of creating. Creating—for me is writing or decorating. To follow your dreams—you will have to take giant leaps and be willing to get your hands dirty before you learn how to cultivate a life full of joy.

Four–Practice Conscious Living

Another core value that will help you achieve balance is to practice conscious living. People who achieve their dreams do it with a plan. They may start out simply doing something they are passionate about, but eventually to achieve substantial results, they had to sit down and map out a plan. They made changes in their lives and began to live in a very conscious way. They began to pay attention to what they said yes and no to. They began to choose how they reacted to negative people and situations. They began to consciously choose to surround themselves with other people who had fun accomplishing their dreams. They decided to be disciplined about their choices and they also chose to consciously enjoy every moment they could going forward.

From this day forward, begin to practice conscious living—make sure you aren’t on autopilot. How do you know if you are on autopilot? Sometimes making excuses or blaming others can be a sign that you are living your life on autopilot. Sometimes situations in our lives or behaviors we have learned from our childhood can be the reason we don’t know how to live life in a conscious way. One of my favorite phrases ever is “You do better when you know better.” Don’t look back, just look forward. And don’t wait another day to get busy living life in a way that feels joyful to you.

Want To Use This Article In Your Ezine or Website? You have my permission, as long as you include this complete blurb with it:

Sheri McConnell is the President and Founder of two national organizations–the National Association of Women Writers and the Association of Web Entrepreneurs. She teaches women writers and entrepreneurs how to discover, create, and profit from their intellectual knowledge. Sheri has a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management and a Bachelors in Social Work.

She has four published books for women writers and in February 2007 she started a new site— www.createyourgroup.com and published Create Your Association–The Complete Blueprint and Tool Kit for Building a Profitable and Sustainable Membership-Based Business for anyone wanting to create a profitable membership-based business from their home.

Her latest venture—a high level product for lifestyle entrepreneurs–My Millionaire Friends is at www.my-millionaire-friends.com. You can visit Sheri and see all her companies at www.sherimcconnell.com and to access her free article archive. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, a weenie dog, and two cats.

[tags]Sheri McConnell, NAWW, AWE, CYG, MMF, National Association of Women Writers, Association of Web Entrepreneurs, Create Your Group, My Millionaire Friends, accomplishing dreams, dreams, guilt, positivity[/tags]

I wanted to share a really great post. I had the pleasure of interviewing Christine Kane last year at the National Assn of Women Writers. She is a singer/songwriter and much more. In this post, she discusses 5 Simple Ways To Invite Delight. I love them and so I put her 5 below and then linked to a few past posts where I had already practiced a version of what she suggests. Feel free to do the same and share… and remember, You Have Choices–You Are the Architect of Your Life.

Side note on inviting delight into your life even when it seems really hard. I personally learned many years ago after my divorce that I was the only one who could truly create or rebuild the life I desired for my children and myself. I couldn’t blame him or his family or even myself… I could only get busy learning to do it different and do it better. This mentality helped me to reinvent my mindsets and our lives completely.(I plan on blogging on 3, 4, and 5 in the upcoming weeks)

Christine Kane’s “5 Simple Ways to Invite Delight”

1 – Create a “Here’s What I Love” List

My version is the 37 Reasons I Am Grateful

2 – Create a “Fun To-Do’s” List

My version is 10 Things I Want To Do By The Time I Am 40

3 – Create a “Friends I Want to See More” List

4 – Consciously Choose to Enjoy Something In Your Day

5 – Do Things Imperfectly On Purpose

To your success,

Sheri McConnell
www.sherimcconnell.com

[tags] Christine Kane, 5 Simple Ways To Invite Delight, You Are the Architect of Your Life, Architect of Your Life [/tags]

Hi Friends and Big Thinkers!

Have you heard me talk about the Leverage Triangle yet?

As entrepreneurs, we all have 3 elements to work with when we start a business: Time, Expertise, and Money. Most new business owners have very little of each of these in the beginning—but as they grow their business they begin to have more of each and thus more leverage. Successful entrepreneurs learn to leverage other people’s time, expertise and money too.

BUT…

What determines the amount of success you will have and also how fast you will achieve it?

YOUR MINDSET will determine your success at building wealth more than how much money you have, more than your level of expertise, and even more than the amount of time you spend on building your wealth. If you aren’t operating your business with proven Millionaire Mindsets, you won’t be able to leverage yours or anyone else’s money, expertise, and time exponentially.

Here are just a few of the Mindsets I encourage you to explore as you build your wealth:

• Your Relationship With Money Itself
• Your Ability To See The Bigger Picture & Then MORE IMPORTANTLY Step Into It
• Understanding LEVERAGE & ROI and Using The Principles In EVERY Area of Your Life
• Building A Community To Serve That You Are Passionate About
• Understanding That YOU Are The Most Important Resource You Have YET You NEED a Team To Accomplish Your Goals
• Using Technology Allows You to Build a Brand and Expert Status At Lighting Speed
• Plugging Into Proven and Multiple Business Models Is Smart
• You Must Surround Yourself With People Who Are Doers
• You Must Be Willing To Take Risks and Have Sense of Adventure & Have Fun
• Systems and Automation Are Keys To Making Millions
• You Attract Specific Opportunities When You Believe Those Opportunities Are Possible

If you need help learning how to think like a millionaire and much more — visit me at www.my-millionaire-friends.com

To your success,

Sheri McConnell–www.sherimcconnell.com

[tags] Leverage Triangle, mindset, taking risks, adventure, specific opportunities, my millionaire friends, Sheri McConnell [/tags]

It is a really good list.

Make sure you read them all at http://actionplan.blogs.com/weblog/2007/12/ten-year-end-ma.html

This one below is one of my favorites because this one tool is permanent and long-lasting and will open doors for you years and years after you publish. I have scheduled speakers for all of my companies based on a book that they have written. And those speaking opportunities often led to further joint venturing.

Your book is the key that helps you unlock doors and start new professional relationships and joint ventures. I witness this almost on a daily basis.

Here is Robert’s two cents…

8. A Book Creates Instant Credibility
The words author and authority come from the same root. As an author, you are seen as a person with extensive or specialized knowledge about a subject. And you are. Ever notice who’s on the radio shows and giving talks? Authors. Why not take the first steps to becoming one this coming year? You’ll have a powerful marketing tool you can use for years.

To your success,

Sheri McConnell–www.sherimcconnell.com

PS

If you need help becoming an author–visit that National Assn of Women Writers.

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