Smart Biz Tip of the Day

Manifest a Brand New Reality Through Journaling

Dear Smart Women,

Some of you may know that for ten years I was the CEO of the National Association of Women Writers before reinventing the company into the Smart Women’s Institute™.  For years I was happily down in the rabbit hole serving a target market of primarily women writers.

That journey was just what I needed in my thirties as I learned how not to be a super mom anymore to my children (thank goodness!) and I learned how to create an extremely profitable company that didn’t require I work more than 25 to 30 hours a week on average.

The reason the writing journey was so important for me and I believe it is for you too (even if you don’t think of yourself as a writer) is that the physical act of putting words on paper is healing and it is the best tool I know of to manifest a new reality with in the very near future.  Along my journey of changing into a new person over and over again, you can bet I was journaling as I figured it all out.  Somedays I was letting the universe know what I intended to do and other days, I was mapping out entire plans and the steps to make it happen.  And somedays, I needed to vent about what wasn’t working in my life. Remember frustration leads to change.

To help you commit to the journaling process, I offer a few tips.  Enjoy!

Just write, don’t think.

Make a list, write your intentions for the day, week, or year.  Or just write something you are grateful for. Commit to a daily practice and I promise you that journaling is one of the best tools I know of to support the process of cultivating a higher self.  Of course once you are committed, “think” all you want.  But in the beginning while trying to create the habit, I find it is best for people not to think too much.

You are brilliant.

The more physical space you give yourself to express your real thoughts and feelings, the more wisdom will emerge.  I call this tapping your brilliance… the more you do it, the easier your newly discovered brilliance begins to flow.

Speak your truth.

If you are not honest with yourself in the physical realm on paper, the universe knows you are not ready to move forward and grow.  You will uplevel when you are ready to learn from yourself and the universe.

Practice makes juicy.

Perfection = Poison  Honestly, I wish the word “perfection” didn’t exist so we wouldn’t even know what it meant.  Women especially would be much better off!  My suggestions for a truly enriching  journaling experience are to develop a ritual, show up for yourself and connect deeply to the voice inside you as often as possible.   Five minutes or five words can be just as powerful as five pages.

Supporting You – One Smart Step At A Time,

Sheri McConnell

Smart Women’s Institute™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

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Dear Smart Women,

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week! So happy to have you as part of the Smart Women Family.

And a special welcome to our latest Smart Women Members that I met in Atlanta last week. I had such a blast this last week with my brilliant friend Christine Kane (See her below when she accepted the Smart Woman of the Year award earlier this year). I spoke at Christine’s UpLevel Live event on the Infinity Business Model and the attendees gave me lots of collaborative feedback on this new business/life paradigm. Very juicy and exciting times we live in.

Become an Author In Our Next Book!

Title and Mission of Book

The Smart Women’s InstituteTM is proud to open up the opportunity for you to participate and be an author in the 5th book in the Smart Women SERIESTM.

Our first 2012 book title Smart Women Embrace Transitions – How to Lean Into 2012 with Your Body, Mind, and Soul will be a compilation of tips, advice, inspiration, and stories from women who have “thrived” through transitions.

The mission of our next book is empower women to embrace change as a catalyst for growth and to share how this is especially important moving into 2012.

Your stories regarding transitions such as career changes, marriages, child birth(s), adoptions, deaths, health changes, etc. are encouraged.

Special attention given to submissions that integrate 2012 specific advice into the story or after the story.

LEARN MORE NOW at: http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com/2011/12/become-an-author/

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Take Care!

Sheri McConnell

Smart Women’s Institute™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

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Smart Health Tip of the Day

Dear Smart Women,

We tend to be an all or nothing kind of culture.  We either take care of ourselves or we don’t.  Overboard or no effort at all.  You get the idea.

I wanted to share this video above to help all my left and right brained smart women out there get back on track.  With just 30 minutes a day of just about any type of full body movement (like walking!) you will be happier and smarter and shinier!

And if you use time as the excuse, I guarantee you that much of what is on your daily list is there to provide a release.

What do I mean?  I mean the coffee you drink, the favorite show you watch, the shopping you do, the book you read, the Facebook you check… all of it PROVIDES A RELEASE at some level.  You are essentially trying to feed your soul.  When your soul isn’t being fed–feelings and emotions build up that must be released.

I’ve found that exercise feeds my soul on an emotional level as well as a physical level.  Try it.

Pay attention to the “release” you feel each time you allow more air to enter your body and each time you cause the blood to circulate in your body.

I just have one question for you.

“How Will You Use Your 30 Minutes?

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Supporting You – One Smart Step At A Time

Sheri McConnell

Smart Women’s Institute™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

Dear Smart Women,

How are you? I haven’t been able to work much this week because I am having a blast spending time with the kids. I just love the freedom of owning your own business and being the boss. As long as you keep the machine running and have built scalable passive parts in the business, you absolutely can take off a lot and still make way more money than those trading hours for dollars. As many of you know this is my passion–helping women really believe (because you have to do that first!) that this is possible and then showing them exactly how to do it. Is it work? YES. Is it worth it to work really hard for a few years doing the right things to reap the rewards for decades? Another big YES.

Anyway… I get passionate about my WHY. Back to the kids. On Monday, I took my oldest daughter to Texas State University so she could tour the campus. We had a blast. I went there back in the early 90s so I know the campus pretty well. Here are some pictures of out self-guided tour (aka The Fun Tour). Then yesterday was movie day and today, we head to Sea World. We are packing a lot into this week because my 9 year old nephew is in town and I want him to go home thinking I am the best aunt in the world of course.

I hope you enjoy this week’s video, Smart Women Self Care. I just finished reading two pre-publication books and they both deal with self care so I wanted to give you a little preview and some tips too.

And I chose this week’s article on transformation because it occurred to me earlier this week when I heard about Borders going out of business this year (along with the space program, Oprah show, and Blockbusters and many more I am forgetting) that business isn’t about marketing as much as it is about constantly transforming. I know many of you have heard, “If you’re in business, you are in the business of marketing.” Yes, marketing (getting our message out there) is so important, but if we aren’t willing to completely transform ourselves and our businesses all the time as our customers and subscribers are constantly transforming, then we will eventually go out of business. So the message here is that you need to be flexible and imperfect and play in your business to survive the decades in front of you. Had Blockbuster or Borders done that, they might still be around. Would love to hear your thoughts on all of this on our blog.

Take Care!

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

This “intro” was taken from our latest newsletter. Not getting our newsletter? Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

Title and Mission of Book

The Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning is proud to open up the opportunity for you to participate and be an author in the 4th book in the Smart Women SERIES ^TM

This year’s book title Smart Women Live Their Why – How Women Entrepreneurs Are Living On Purpose and In Passion will be a compilation of tips, advice, inspiration, and stories from successful women who live all over the world.

The mission of our latest book is to empower women who are just starting their entrepreneurial journey as well as those women who have been in profitable businesses for decades. We want to remind people to never negatively compare the beginning of their journey with the middle of another persons. Instead, we want them to feel the potential and the possibilities in front of them when they read our stories.

Submission Details

• 1500 to 2000 words (usually about 3 to 5 pages)
• Submission deadline is July 15, 2011.
• Possible ideas:
  • Tips on how to live your purpose while running a business
  • Stories of how you survived a breakdown in your business and how it ended up leading to a breakthrough
  • Inspiration on how you became successful and key points that you believe would inspire other women
  • How to balance your life and your business
  • Time management tips that help women stay sane and on purpose

Feel free to email us with your ideas too!

AND you can use past content as long as you own the copyright to it.

History of the Smart Women SERIES ^TM

The Smart Women SERIES ^TM has a inspiring track record. Our 2010 book, Smart Women Live Their Why for instance reached No. 11 on Amazon over all at launch and then was the only female authored book in the top 25 books in business. Sheri McConnell, the managing editor of this years book was the past CEO of the National Association of Women Writers for over 10 years.

Here are some of the books in the Smart Women SERIES ^TM:

Launch Details

Our latest book is due to be launched on September 1, 2011 and should start shipping no later than September 15, 2011.

This year’s book will be launched at the same time we start our 30 day virtual event happening from September 1 – September 30th!

All authors also have the opportunity to participate in our Virtual Conference and Expo which will have audio and video components to it this year.

In addition to the initial 30 day launch and the book being included in the basic level of registration at the virtual event, we will be adding this book to our Smart Women Catalog and website, and Sheri McConnell (CEO) will launch another PR campaign to promote book in the Fall.

And finally as an author, you agree to send one solo email regarding the book to your entire list in the month of September.

• We will provide the solo email and you may add to it to personalize (Note: when you pay the fee below, you are agreeing to this broadcast in September. We will also include a copy of this agreement in writing and require signatures as we move forward into production process.)
• We will have anywhere from 30 to a maximum of 40 authors promoting in month of September.

Deadline for Registration Fee

All authors will pay a one time fee of $597. Registration fee should be paid ASAP to hold your spot in the book. Submission deadline is July 15, 2011.

This fee covers:

• Editing of your submission
• Photo included on cover and bio and photo in book
• 25 free copies shipped to you as soon as book is produced
• Right to purchase all future copies at cost, $6 each
• Right to co-promote and participate in future book signings and/or leverage our brand for PR opportunities. See History of Smart Women Series above.

This is truly an amazing opportunity for women like yourself to partner with us and share your brilliance while at the same time using Smart leverage to grow your own business. The positioning alone is worth the $597. And by the way, we do care about quality, so if for any reason should we not be able to accept your submission, you will get a full refund of the author fee.

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Dear Smart Women,

Welcome to all the new Smart Women Members this week! So happy to have you as part of the Smart Women Family.

Here’s another photo from our Smart Women’s Grow Your Business Intensive on the Riverwalk in San Antonio, Texas. This was a brand new training that I prepared and I can’t wait to do this again for more people because of all the huge uplevels that were experienced. Interestingly, half of what we worked on to grow your business had more to do with behaviors and mindsets of the business owner. Just goes to show that success of any business is so dependent on the visionaries ability to keep moving forward (shifting) and breaking through unproductive lower value behaviors. And speaking of shifting, stay tuned next week when we share a brand new opportunity to be in the next Smart Women Book.

Take Care!

Sheri McConnell

The Smart Women’s Institute for Entrepreneurial Learning™

http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com

This “intro” was taken from our latest newsletter. Not getting our newsletter? Sign up by clicking on “Send My Kit” at the TOP of this page and you’ll also receive our FREE Smart Steps to Success kit!

“Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams & reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis

I absolutely adore this quote. I feel myself expand each time I read it.  When I found it earlier this year, I realized I’ve grown accustomed to living in this place.  I’ve been practicing awareness and shifting and walking back and forth on the bridge between dreams and reality in bigger way for over a decade now.  And from the outside, I am sure you can tell because so many dreams have been fulfilled. So I’d like to share a few ways you can create a life that allows you to live in this electrifying (and sometimes scary!) fulfilling space.

Always Have More Than One Dream At A Time

The best way I know how to deal with the length of time it takes to reach some of our dreams is to have multiple dreams at one time.  Write them down so they become physical on paper and anchored in the universe and that is the first step to making them become a reality.

Be Careful Who Your Smart Five Are

You’ve all heard how we do anything is how we do everything.  And one of the best ways we can do things better is to be extremely conscious of who we spend time with.  I call it my Smart Five.  Who are the five people you spend the most time with?  Are they positive people?  Are they supportive?  I know how hard it is to truly look at this area of your life.  I get it.  I let go of a bi-polar mother and walked away from an abusive marriage in order to protect the dreams and future reality of my children and myself.  If you feel like it is time for some restructuring in this area, shift gracefully by putting up boundaries that allow you to have some empty space so you can manifest healthier people into your life.

Be Aware of Relationship Flow

Back when I was independent and loved everything in my life to be perfect, I suffered.  Then I discovered the power of being interdependent and the beauty of flowing relationships. These are relationships that allow you to give without fear of not ever receiving. Helping other people make their dreams a reality is an interdependent way to live.  Being in relationship flow with the entire universe (and the people in it) means that you know if you really need anything, it will come to you when it is supposed to or not at all.

Feed Yourself Along the Journey

Living in the space between dreams and reality requires lots of energy.  So feed yourself knowledge (the mind), real food from the earth (the body), and find something creative to do that makes time disappear (the soul).  This is one of the biggest reasons people don’t dream. They simply don’t have the energy to.

Let Yourself Shift for Higher Value

There is no way that dreams can ever become reality if we aren’t willing to let go of what is lesser value in our current lives.  It doesn’t mean that we don’t still love them and that we didn’t grow from having them in our lives.  It just means that sometimes to make space for higher value in our lives, there are activities and people that must be let go.

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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 the Smart Women’s Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning (formerly the National Assn of Women Writers-2001). You can visit Sheri, access her free article archive, and grab lots of free stuff at http://www.smartwomeninstitute.com. Sheri lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, their four children, and two really cute weenie dogs.

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