by theEmother | May 13, 2012 | adventures with daughter, entrepreneurial mothers, MEinc, single parent l single mother
Congratulations on another fabulous year!
(If it hasn’t been so fabulous, then lets talk.)
I love this time of year.
Daughter and I have our tradition now where we sit down and mindmap our goals/dreams for the coming 12 months.
Exhibit A (to the left) is last years offering. I can’t wait to dig into it and see what we “asked” for, and what we got! Then we do the same thing for the next year…
A most rewarding way to spend Mothers Day morning, for both of us 🙂
by theEmother | Mar 22, 2012 | business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, MEinc, single parent l single mother
“Just as we need strategy for business success, we need to plan for successful lives. Without one, we allow all kinds of forces to push, pull, twist, and turn us into mental and emotional pretzels. Our inability to say ‘no’ pushes us into time-wasting activities; a lack of strategic direction allows us to be pulled down a career path we never wanted; good intentions to volunteer in the community are twisted into negative comments when we’re not able to meet the time commitments; and we’re emotionally turned around when the relationship we let wither finally ends.”
Strategy for Personal Success: Discovering Your Purpose By Rich Horwath for ChangeThis.com
by theEmother | Mar 8, 2012 | entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women, MEinc, single parent l single mother
I could not let this day go by without acknowledging International Women’s Day.
Whether the role we play is large or small, no matter, we play a very important role nonetheless. I want to personally thank you for your contributions, and long may they continue in the future.
Why not take time out today to reflect on what you’ve done and what you’ve achieved…
And give yourself permission to be Proud. I know I am.
Happy International Women’s Day…
Cheers Denise
by theEmother | Feb 27, 2012 | business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, MEinc, single parent l single mother
Given that we women influence 80% of the purchases made, imagine the power we wield if we got really deliberate about how to use said influence? Time to start thinking about it…
“We are, to some degree, what we buy. Or at least we can become a bit closer to who we want to be based on the products we use, consume, and wear. As consumers our brand alignment can function not only as a means for public self-identification, but also as an important source of self-affirmation.
The brands we purchase can become, in a sense, our personal position statement.
Each of us can define ourselves publicly, and we can simultaneously feel good about who we are privately, as a direct result of our consumption patterns.”
The Substitution Economy: How Small Changes in Our Day-To-Day Spending Can Shake the World… By James Marshall Reilly for ChangeThis.com
by theEmother | Sep 22, 2011 | build a Mother of a Business, business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, EXIT execution, MEinc, SELL your Mother of a Business, single parent l single mother, so you think you're in business
Not a truer word spoken…
People often ask me how I became successful in that six-year period of time while many of the people I knew did not. The answer is simple: The things I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do. I found it easy to set the goals that could change my life. They found it easy not to. I found it easy to read the books that could affect my thinking and my ideas. They found that easy not to. I found it easy to attend the classes and the seminars, and to get around other successful people. They said it probably really wouldn’t matter.
If I had to sum it up, I would say what I found to be easy to do, they found to be easy not to do.
Six years later, I’m a millionaire and they are all still blaming the economy, the government, and company policies, yet they neglected to do the basic, easy things.
In fact, the primary reason most people are not doing as well as they could and should, can be summed up in a single word: neglect.
It is not the lack of money – banks are full of money. It is not the lack of opportunity – America, and much of the free World, continues to offer the most unprecedented and abundant opportunities in the last six thousand years of recorded history.
It is not the lack of books – libraries are full of books – and they are free! It is not the schools – the classrooms are full of good teachers. We have plenty of ministers, leaders, counselors and advisors. Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach.
The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply neglect.
Neglect is like an infection. Left unchecked it will spread throughout our entire system of disciplines and eventually lead to a complete breakdown of a potentially joy-filled and prosperous human life.
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline. And as our results suffer, our attitude begins to weaken. And as our attitude begins the slow shift from positive to negative, our self-confidence diminishes even more… and on and on it goes.
So my suggestion is that when giving the choice of “easy to” and “easy not to” that you do not neglect to do the simple, basic, “easy”; but potentially life-changing activities and disciplines.
To Your Success,
Jim Rohn
So what are you finding easy at the moment … success or neglect?
(excerpted from The Challenge to Succeed CD series)
by theEmother | Jul 21, 2011 | build a Mother of a Business, business ideas & thinking, entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women, PrimeTimers, single parent l single mother, women in business case studies
The co-founder of the Huffington Post marks its arrival in the UK with a lecture on love, guilt and getting what you want. She talks to Celia Walden.
Fresh off the plane from LA, the Greek American author, businesswoman and co-founder of internet newspaper the Huffington Post – bought by internet provider AOL for $US315 million ($298 million) in February this year and launched in Britain last week… read the full story & more
I love this time of year.