From So-So To So Success – Book Launch Radio Show

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Join Sharon Michaels as she talks about her Kindle ebook From So-So To So Successful: 10 Personal Development Tips For Women In Business. Sharon shares her beliefs about the importance of personal development and reads an excerpt from her book. It’s all about Women Enjoying Success!

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5 Practical Ways To Grow Your Network Marketing Business

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Over the years, I’ve learned several network marketing lessons. One of those lessons is that in order to succeed and thrive in network marketing, you must treat it like a business. Just like with any business, there are certain things that must be done on a consistent basis to keep it growing and productively making money.

Here are five practical ways to consistently grow your network marketing business:

1. Keep Sponsoring New People and Promoting Your Products - Set a personal sponsoring and retailing goal each month and don’t stop until you reach or exceed them.

2. Don’t Try To Push People To Success – Some will, some won’t, next. The people on your team have to want to succeed. You cannot drag them over the line of success, it won’t work out successfully for either of you.

3. Build Width To Find Leaders – From your personally sponsored Representatives/Consultants/Distributors will come your future leaders. Let me ask you this, would four solid business-building leaders direct to you help take you to the next level?

4. Create Depth With Those Leaders – Help your leaders duplicate what you are doing so they too can find their four leaders. This gives you strength and stability. This also gives your leaders a strong team of their own.

5. Don’t Wait For Anyone – LEAD!!! – Become a role model to your team. Everyone on your team should look at you and say, “I can do that!” Lead by example. Lead by consistently working your business. Lead by reaching your own goals.
 
 
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Come to My Virtual Book Launch Party

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You are cordially invited to my Facebook Virtual Launch Party for my newest Kindle ebook – From So-So To So Successfully: 10 Personal Development Tips For Women In Business . . .

Stop by my Facebook Launch Party page this Sunday April 21st anytime between 10:00 am – 7:00 pm PDT.

I’m planning some fun activities for you:
** Fun games
** Great Trivia questions
** Freebies and gifts
** Video of book readings
** Ready-to-use how-tos and tips
** Favorite personal development quotations
** And, so much more . . .

Stop by and say “hi”, ask me questions, share your thoughts and your favorite personal development quotations, tips and how-tos.

I’ll be placing new and fun things on the Launch Party page at least every 15 minutes all during the party. You’ll want to stop by often!

Here’s a direct link to my From So-So To So Successful Facebook Launch Party page:
Sharon’s Facebook Book Launch Party

Here’s a direct link to Amazon.com if you’d like to buy your Kindle ebook now:
From So-So To So Successful: 10 Personal Development Tips For Women In Business
 

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6 Steps To Ongoing Motivation – Infographic

In this colorful and informative infographic, you’ll find six ongoing steps to help keep you motivated and going positively forward day-to-day. Your ability to stay self-motivated and to keep going forward even when the going gets tough, is what makes the difference between the women in business who “hope” to succeed and the women who actually do succeed.
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If you would like a free “PNG Image” of this infographic to place on your blog or website, please let me know using the Contact Page in the tool bar and I will email one to you right away. I have sizes 1000 W x 2300 H and 700 W by 1610 H.
 
 
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What’s Your Money Mindset?

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Join me, Sharon Michaels, as I explain the difference between a wealthy mindset and a mindset that focuses on lack of money. This is one of my favorite Women Enjoying Success broadcasts because I show you how to start and maintain a positive moneymaking mindset that will have you taking the positive actions necessary to create and enjoy abundance and wealth. Have pen and paper handy – you’ll want to make notes and jot down some “aha’s.” Be sure to turn your speakers up. . . It’s all about Women Enjoying Success!

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All Women Enjoying Success broadcasts are available 24/7 right on your computer and also as free podcasts on iTunes. You’ll find over 200 past Women Enjoying Success broadcasts to choose from on various professional and personal development topics. Here is a direct link to Women Enjoying Success Radio with Sharon Michaels
 
 
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Perfectionism Can Destroy Your Healthy Self-Esteem

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Perfectionism can destructively chip away at your healthy self-esteem. There is a definite relationship between the need to be perfect and low self-esteem. People who “need” to look at themselves and expect nothing less than perfection with everything they do, are setting themselves up for self-sabotage.

~ Perfectionists believe that if they don’t accomplish everything perfectly, they must be not good enough.

~ Perfectionists rarely, if ever, allow themselves the thrill of a job well done.
When measuring yourself by what you don’t accomplish rather than by what you do accomplish, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment and frustration.

How are you ever going to feel good about yourself if you consistently zero-in on the mistakes? Perfectionism robs you of the personal satisfaction of a job well done.
The need to be perfect quickly leads to a distrust of the ability to judge what’s good and what isn’t. When you can’t trust your own feelings of self-worth, you look to others to define and affirm your self-esteem.

As you continue to allow outside sources to set the standard for your accomplishments, you are chipping away at even more of your healthy self-esteem.

Perfectionism only allows one way to enhance self-esteem — that’s by being perfect.
When a perfectionist believes she isn’t perfect, she feels guilty, frustrated and unhappy. Perfectionism is a never-ending negative cycle of self-abuse.

Striving for perfectionism means never allowing yourself feelings of accomplishment and self-satisfaction. Strive instead to do the best possible job under the current circumstances.

Perfectionism often leads to “catastrophizing.” What is Catastrophizing? It is the negative thought pattern that can make mountains out of molehills. Catastrophizing is a behavioral pattern that will rob you of potential happiness, self-satisfaction and healthy self-esteem.

About 90% of all the negative things you fear, will probably never happen.

Why spend valuable time and energy worrying about things that may never take place?
Worrying about potential problems can get you into more emotional trouble than actually risking and taking action. Constantly worrying about what might happen in the future won’t lead you forward. If you’re not going forward, you’re either going backward or standing still.

When you’re constantly worrying about negative outcomes, do you think your self-esteem suffers? You bet it does! Healthy self-esteem is based on going forward in positive and powerful ways.

Perfectionism and catastrophizing chip away at your self-esteem until you begin doubting yourself and your choices. The positive or negative choices you’re making everyday mold your self-esteem. What have your choices been like lately?

 

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What To Say When Introduced – Emily Post – 1922

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I love history, especially when it shows us how women were “educated” to act in society and business. The following advice is straight out of Etiquette, by Emily Post published in 1922. This classic book set the standard for how “ladies and gentlemen” were to behave in proper society. Emily Post’s book had been the etiquette gold standard for generations. The following is from Chapter III – Greetings.

Something we should remember for your next networking function? Honestly, good manners are never out of date or style . . .

What To Say When Introduced

The correct formal greeting is: “How do you do?” If Mrs. Younger is presented to Mrs. Worldly, Mrs. Worldly says “How do you do?” If the Ambassador of France is presented to her, she says “How do you do?” Mrs. Younger and the Ambassador likewise say “How do you do?” or merely bow.

There are a few expressions possible under other circumstances and upon other occasions. If you have, through friends in common, long heard of a certain lady, or gentleman, and you know that she, or he, also has heard much of you, you may say when you are introduced to her: “I am very glad to meet you,” or “I am delighted to meet you at last!” Do not use the expression “pleased to meet you” then or on any occasion. And you must not say you are delighted unless you have reason to be sure that she also is delighted to meet you.

To one who has volunteered to help you in charitable work for instance, you would say: “It is very good of you to help us,” or, “to join us.”

Informal Greetings

Informal greetings are almost as limited as formal, but not quite; for besides saying “How do you do?” you can say “Good morning” and on occasions “How are you?” or “Good evening.”

On very informal occasions, it is the present fashion to greet an intimate friend with “Hello!” This seemingly vulgar salutation is made acceptable by the tone in which it is said. To shout “Hullow!” is vulgar, but “Hello, Mary” or “How ‘do John,” each spoken in an ordinary tone of voice, sound much the same. But remember that the “Hello” is spoken, not called out, and never used except between intimate friends who call each other by the first name.

There are only two forms of farewell: “Good-by” and “Good night.” Never say “Au revoir” unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person. Never interlard your conversation with foreign words or phrases when you can possibly translate them into English; and the occasions when our mother tongue will not serve are extremely rare.

Very often in place of the over-worn “How do you do,” perhaps more often than not, people skip the words of actual greeting and plunge instead into conversation: “Why, Mary! When did you get back?” or “What is the news with you?” or “What have you been doing lately?” The weather, too, fills in with equal faithfulness. “Isn’t it a heavenly day!” or “Horrid weather, isn’t it?” It would seem that the variability of the weather was purposely devised to furnish mankind with unfailing material for conversation.

In bidding good-by to a new acquaintance with whom you have been talking, you shake hands and say, “Good-by. I am very glad to have met you.” To one who has been especially interesting, or who is somewhat of a personage you say: “It has been a great pleasure to meet you.” The other answers: “Thank you.”

 

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Women In Business – Time To Start a Business

This is a great infographic about the number of women starting businesses. Some good information! Looks like now is the time to become your own boss. Leave a comment and let us know about your business . . .

Infographic: Women in Business © CreditDonkey

Infographic: Women in Business © CreditDonkey

 

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30 Success Tips To Motivate and Inspire

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Here are thirty practical and inspiring success pearls of wisdom to motivate and support you throughout the next month. Focus on putting into action one success tip each day for the next thirty days and you’ll find yourself ready to achieve and succeed.

Success Tip: “The daily practice of gratitude is one of the conduits by which your wealth will come to you.” Wallace Wattles

Success Tip: Carry your most important goal in your wallet and day planner. Look at it often and see it as if it were already reality.

Success Tip: “I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.” Martha Beck, author

Success Tip: A minute of thought is worth more than an hour of talk.

Success Tip: Ask for what you want, not what you don’t want.

Success Tip: “Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.” Eleanor Roosevelt

Success Tip: Pay yourself first – as a regular habit, at least 10% of your earnings should be set aside in savings.

Success Tip: The whole world stands aside for the person who knows where they are going. Have you written your goals?

Success Tip: “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Wayne Gretzky, Hall of Fame and record holding Hockey Player

Success Tip: “The key is not to prioritize what is on the schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey

Success Tip: “The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.” Lee Iacocca, Auto Executive

Success Tip: Many financial experts recommend paying cash for everything – that way you can keep better track of your spending habits.

Success Tip: Just 15 minutes of laughter a day provides the same benefit as 2 hours of sleep.

Success Tip: “Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.” Dorothea Brande, Writer

Success Tip: Be conscious of the Law of Attraction and expect the things you want, not the things you don’t want.

Success Tip: Financial experts say that being organized is one of the key factors to financial security.

Success Tip: No opinion of you is more important than your own.

Success Tip: It is easier to keep up than to catch up.

Success Tip: Healthy self-dialogue fosters healthy self-esteem.

Success Tip: Don’t have to reinvent the wheel – do what successful people are already doing. Read the bio’s, attend the webinars, etc.

Success Tip: “If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.” Whoopi Goldberg

Success Tip: “Dig the well before you are thirsty.” Chinese Proverb – Have you written your goals and developed a workable plan of action?

Success Tip: Your thoughts first thing in the morning can set the emotional tone for the day. Do you wake up with a smile?

Success Tip: Positive thoughts can create unlimited potential!

Success Tip: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Dr. Wayne Dyer

Success Tip: Relax!

Success Tip: Create balance – 1. What’s important to you, 2. Evaluate your importance list and 3. Focus on your principle priorities first.

Success Tip: “Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom.” Marilyn Ferguson, Author

Success Tip: Generally, women who have financial goals are more focused and determined to succeed financially.

Success Tip: Focus on one particular positive thought for the entire day and watch how positive your day becomes!

Success Tip: Concentrate your time, emotions and energy on what you’re doing right – not on what’s going wrong.

Success Tip: The ability to set priorities and then start and complete a job quickly are highly profitable business qualities.

Success Tip: “You can’t be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.” Author John Maxwell

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Creating A Self Development Plan

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I’m often asked if there is a way to create a self-development plan. The answer is “yes.” Begin with those areas in which you’d like to improve and work step-by-step toward the future. Self-development is a whole lot more fun when you have a plan and then work that plan one bite-sized piece at a time.

I believe self-development is an on-going process by which you change what isn’t working in your life into something that will better serve you in all areas of your life – personally, professionally and financially.

Where to start? Here are a few suggestions:

1. This may sound simple enough but often times it takes some heart-felt soul-searching – decide what you’d like to improve. You can’t work on everything at once. My recommendation is to begin with one area of self-development and allow it to gradually expand into other areas.

The truth is that change begins in small increments. Long lasting change doesn’t happen overnight. Patience is an important element of your self-development plan. Let me ask you this, if I could wave a magic wand and change any thing in your life today, what would you have me change? Another way to say it would be, where are you experiencing the most discomfort in your life? The answer to these questions can be a good starting point on your self-development journey.
2. Self-development is an on-going commitment you make to yourself. It’s not something you stop and start whenever the whim strikes you. It is a continuous commitment to developing your highest potential and most fulfilled life. The second element of your self-development plan is the on-going commitment you make with yourself to enhance your life for the better.

Self-development is really like learning a new skill. It takes time and effort. There’s an on-going commitment to reading, listening and providing yourself with the best of the best tools to help take you from where you are now to where you want to be in the future.
3. Change begins one small step at a time. Your self-development journey starts with a workable plan of action. What are you willing to do on a consistent basis to improve personally, professionally and financially?

A written plan is an important element because it helps focus on what you want to accomplish now and into the future. Whether it’s learning a new professional skill, or achieving a financial goal or beginning a weight loss program, your plan should be in writing. Think of a self-development plan as a road map toward the future.
Here are some ideas:
1. In detail describe what you’d like to improve about yourself personally, professionally or financially.

2. Write out what you’re willing to do to improve this area. Example: Taking a class, reading books, listening to informational CD’s, etc.

3. How many hours per week are you willing to commit to on-going self-development?

4. How are you planning to measure your improvement? Will it be in pounds lost, in raises earned or increased feelings of self-satisfaction? Improvement often comes in small increments and it’s important to emotionally acknowledge your progress.

5. How do you plan on rewarding yourself for a job well done? It’s vital for on-going self-development to give yourself credit when credit is due. We all like to be appreciated and it’s extremely important to appreciate ourselves!

There’s no cut and dry plan for self-improvement. It’s what fits into your plans and lifestyle. At the end of the day you want to be able to say, “Today I’ve done my best to take positive steps forward.”

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