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Are You Living Your Life or Someone Else’s?

January 4, 2010

Don’t Just Dream About Your Future…Start Living It Today!

How many times have you had to put what YOU want on hold because you had another “priority”? And how many times have you thought that you had a shot at finally being able to start that business, learn how to paint that painting, begin working on that album or anything else you’ve ached to do only to have to put it away once again because “the time wasn’t right” or someone else needed you to support them, instead?

When is it going to be your turn?

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Partnerships Of Excellence – not just for business

October 16, 2009 | No comments

I am an only child. I am a solopreneur, I do a lot of my work alone. Well, sort of.  You see, I have built Partnerships of Excellence to help me out.

What are these Partnerships of Excellence and how do they happen? I define PE’s as relationships where others who do what I cannot do well out of natural ability and love of the task working with me in a relationship for mutual gain.

Loosely translated that means I find people who love doing the things I’m less than effective doing, create a relationship with them and entering into a partnership where my skills help them and theirs help me.

Anyone who has ever worked in a flexible environment knows about this – you have those people who are amazing at writing and do it as effortlessly as breathing. The writers can’t balance their checkbooks to save their lives. They would go in search of people who love balancing checkbooks and don’t give it a second glance since it’s so easy for them, but can’t write a sentence that makes sense.

partnershipThese two hook up to create a Partnership of Excellence and both win — the writer writes and the checkbook balancer balances checkbooks.  Both are happy and both are much more effective because they’re doing what they love and what is natural for them instead of agonizing and pushing to complete tasks they hate and which take twice as long because they’re so repugnant.

Think of this in a relationship – if you are the one in the couple who loves to cook, dvr’s hours of The Food Network for your day off, and writes up menus in your sleep, then you do that part. If, on the other hand, you are the one in the relationship who can’t boil water without burning it, and your significant other is a whiz at preparing tasty meals but can’t pick up after themselves to save their lives and you are a compulsive neatnik, you let them do the cooking and you clean.

Partnerships of Excellence. They work.

In business, these are critical. You cannot and should not be expected to do 1529h0044everything well; why waste your time doing what frustrates you and stresses you out? Don’t you have tasks you just HATE to do? Of course you do. Finding others who enjoy doing those same nasty tasks and offering to do the things they hate to do, providing you’re better at them,  is just good sense.  All it takes is a conversation to find out where assistance is needed.

So take inventory of what needs to be done,  look around at the next networking event you attend and see if there is someone there who needs what you do well and does what you don’t. Easy breezy.

One caution – this has to be a PARTNERSHIP, the pendulum has to be perpendicular for it to work. Ethics and fairness must play a factor.

Got Powerhouse Plexus?

September 3, 2009 | No comments

I love words. I chew them up, digest them, integrate them and tear them up. My word this post is “plexus”. I’ll get to why in a second.

What is a plexus? I’m glad you asked:

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plex⋅us

/ˈplɛksəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [plek-suhs] Show IPA

Use plexus in a Sentence

–noun, plural -us⋅es, -us.

1. a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.

2. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.

Origin:

1675–85; < NL: an interweaving, twining = L plect(ere) to plait, twine + -tus suffix of v. action

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Now, why this word at this time? I was searching for the exactly perfect word for a new group I want to start. I’ve been collecting Powerhouses for some time; women who are outstanding in their fields and who are willing to be part of something bigger than themselves. I am delighted to say, I’ve amassed quite an impressive collection. But I needed a cool word to describe the group. I started at Powerhouse Posse, but then looked up the definition of “posse” and it didn’t fit into the context I sought.

Then I found “plexus”. This works much better.

So, I guess what I have been doing is created a people plexus; a network of cogent powerhouses who are all working towards a common goal – success by service. The members of my Powerhouse Plexus are men and women who come from heart, who see what’s missing and guide others to fill in the gaps and live powerful, passionate and possibility-filled lives. For me, anyone who comes to me as a client is one of the most wonderful gifts, because those people have recognized that the next step for them is a partnership of excellence and that they don’t have to do it all alone!

Have you started creating your Powerhouse Plexus yet? Here are the requirements for mine – start making your list of attributes to find yours.

1) The participants in the plexus need to have recognized the need for partnership

2) The participants in the plexus need to have a sense of something bigger in the marketplace and not come from a scarcity mentality*

3) The participants in the plexus must be willing to help

and lastly

4) The participants in the plexus must be proactive, personally powerful and living their own dream.

So? Who’s in your Powerhouse Plexus?

Doing BUSINESS: Everything Old Is New Again

February 14, 2009 | 5 comments

tiedyepanelNow, let me establish first of all that I am three years older than dirt. I’ve been around the block so many times, there’s a permanent ridge carved in the sidewalk. For most of my years, I’ve been an entrepreneur, mostly on my own, having to figure out the who, what, when, where and why and for how much by trial and error.

For the last ten years I’ve been working on learning how to do eBusiness; with websites, blogs, social networking, and all that jazz. Here is what I have come up with. One on side:

  • It’s very easy to get distracted by all the “need to do’s” out there; need to learn html, need to get a blog, create a website, get into Twitter and Facebook and all the rest of it.
  • It’s very glamorous to be touted as an online expert, an impressive force, in the new web-based world of high tech and fast tracks.
  • Info-products are great tools and they’re easily published and acquired

However, business is business and there are certain undeniable concepts to doing business that will never EVER change (nor should they)

  • There are buyers and sellers to every concept, whether it’s a physical product or an idea
  • Dedication to putting the “other guy” first will always get you further
  • A basic tenet of doing business is “Find a need and fill it”
  • What is now called a “niche market” used to be called “area of specialization”
  • The first step to communication is relatedness, learn about the person you’re talking to – do a little research before you meet.
  • What sells, has sold and will continue to sell and that’s YOU, not your product
  • People love to buy, but hate to be sold
  • You can’t hide behind the internet – you need to make personal contact!

I don’t think these things will ever change. The concepts and practices that build business and sales still apply and still are benchmarks to strive for.

Blogs are like potato chips – you can't have just one

November 24, 2008 | No comments

As if I didn’t have enough to do, this past weekend I started two more blogsites. They’re an experiment and we’ll have to see if they take off, but for now, they both fulfill a need for me to focus.

I’ve been doing a lot of drilling down and tightening my marketing, trying to identify whom best to serve and I’ve identified several places where I believe I can be of service and the new blogs specifically address those areas:

1) Confused? will hopefully explain a lot of the technical jargon, techniques and whys and wherefores for entrepreneurs new to solopreneurship, ecommerce and working at home. It is my intent to untangle the spaghetti of advice for those just beginning to explore social networking, setting up a business (including advice for finding webhosting companies, creating domains, setting up blogs and websites, shopping carts, merchant accounts and so on.)

2) Back To One will be my resource to reach those who believe they have lost everything and to help them find within themselves the way to begin again and not be stopped cold by the loss. We will discover the following:

A process for dealing with grief that was not convenient to face at the time a disaster occurred

A process for separating the event from the meaning we’ve attributed to it

A method to climb back out of the hole and begin to rebuild our lives and our fortunes.

I do hope you’ll stop by and check out my new babies. Leave a comment or two to start the ball rolling.

I’ll see you there.

Until then,

Work well, play well, be well.

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