Welcome!! Happy January 2011

Happy January!! Welcome!

I am honored to have you visiting my site and reading my blog. You have come to the right place if you are an entrepreneur, or want to be, and need some support and encouragement. You will find detailed ideas, resources and inspiration to help you keep moving your business and your success forward! Each month I will have a new welcome message with a theme of topics to focus on.

This month is the month of reinvention! You are starting the year with a fresh clean start and a list of ideas and aspirations that you’d like to explore. Be the #1 celebrity in your own movie! Your role is to shine extra bright and leave thoughts of being a ‘tough act to follow’. What if that were your theme this month? Be a tough act to follow!! What would that look like? How would you behave differently? What actions would you step up and tackle? What fears would you overcome? This is your month to set the tone for the rest of the year! Reinvent yourself and be the super star you know you can be!!

Increase Productivity In The New Year- 3 Great Tips!

As the year draws to a close, it is a time of reflection and of anticipation.  We reflect on all that has happened this year – our failures as well as our successes.  The wise business owner will analyze this data and begin to prepare for a new year, a year of more productivity and success than we ever thought possible!

I have some tips for you as you contemplate a new year:

1. Don’t wait until the end of the year to assess, analyze and make course corrections.  I’ve mentioned this before, but instead of Continue reading »

Business Success Is Based On Action

Success is a choice that you declare with your actions, not your words. There are many people doing  outstanding things and experiencing success that we may think of as lucky, or in the right place and the right time. I believe we make our own luck and that we can become lucky by spending a great deal of our time in preparation for the success we desire.

What does preparation of success really look like? It starts with a priority project and ends with Continue reading »

Be More Productive – Social Media Is Not A Time Trap

How much time do you waste on socisl media? Building your network online is very valusble if you plan out your time and stick to the schedule. Social networking online can get s bad rap, but it is just one of many business strategies to use that increase your online presence and brand awareness. Being productive with your time online will allow you to spend more time on direct income producing activities. It all starts with a vision of what you would like to create, and it ends with taking consistent action.

One way to spend less time online is to set a schedule and use Continue reading »

Welcome!!

Hey there!! Welcome to my action habits blog. I am really excited to share with you the ideas that I run across, read about or come up with all by myself. I am thrilled you are here!! Please comment and share with me what you think about the different posts.. your feedback is much needed if I am going to be the best me I can be!! Thank you!!

I am fairly new online and really having fun with learning all about technology and having an online presence, which is a new passion of mine. I have been a business coach and consultant for over 7 years and I am currently reinventing myself so I can be more of my fullest potential!!

I have been traveling the world for the last few years with my husband and best friend and just completely loving my life!! This picture of me was taken in Greece while we lived there last year for a few months. I learned how much I value freedom and flexibility. I also learned there is a price for that and we pay with the currency of discipline and responsibility. Everyday we have the opportunity to earn and deserve our lifestyle by the action we take in continuing to move our businesses forward, regardless of where we are!

Thanks again for taking the time to get to know me!! I hope you’ll give me the opportunity to learn more about you. Join my community with the home page opt-in or leave some comments.

I wish you all the success you desire! Don’t just dream about it, Take Action!!

A Thriving Business – Referrals From Satisfied Customers

Business may be good, but it can always be better. One way to serve more people and get more clients is by referrals. Word of mouth is great for business and also good for the bottom line. What would your business look like if you could double your customer base? With the right attention to detail you can increase your business with the help of your current satisfied customers. This will be a focus of mine in the new year and here are some of my ideas to take action on:

1. Build a stronger sense of community among Continue reading »

Marketing Inspiration For The Holiday’s

The Internet, T.V. and radio ads have been working overtime for ‘Black Friday’ and even ‘Blue Friday’ (K-mart) promotions. In the U.S. it is the biggest and craziest shopping days of the year. As an entrepreneur and small business owner, here are some ideas to use this day as a business brainstorming day for taking new marketing action to increase your sales and attract more customers.

1. Pay attention to the marketing specials, promotions and ads displayed. The big companies pay thousands of dollars for creative advertising companies to come up with powerful catch lines. What could Continue reading »

3 Strategies to Improve Productivity When You Work At Home

If you are working for someone else to earn your paycheck, there are built in systems to see that you stay on track.  Quarterly or yearly reviews are standard.  And when you go to work in an office somewhere other than your own home office, usually you are surrounded by people who are watching what you do, or are at least aware of what you accomplish by the day’s end.  Not so when you work at home.  When you are your own boss, too many times bad habits can creep in and create a much longer work day and the result is you are sabotaging your creativity and productivity. 

What are these habits and how can you correct them? 

1.Addictive Internet behavior.  Do you really need to have Continue reading »

Increase Business Productivity – Break Free From Email Overload

There’s no getting around it – email is here to stay!  As wonderful, handy and useful as it is, email can absolutely sabotage productivity unless you pro actively have a plan to avoid this.  We now get a crazy amount of email coming from all directions – some wanted, and most probably not.  The problem is that all those messages come flying in our In Box all mixed up, leaving us to do the sorting.  We dare not miss anything important, but it’s a daunting task to wade through the sheer volume of emails that now arrive in every business owner’s In Box. 

First of all, this may sound like a time management issue.  But upon closer observation, I believe it to be an information management issue.  There have been studies done by focus groups that report Continue reading »

Best Life Now – Achieve Victory With Your Full Potential

Each of us has unused potential. No matter who we are or what we have created and accomplished, we have more that we are capable of. If you are not doing new and uncomfortable things regularly then you are not moving forward. It is not always easy to move forward every day or else everybody would be doing it. What does it take to enjoy the victory of living each day to our full potential?

We all have great potential and moving forward by doing whatever it takes is a big part of expressing that. When is the last time you made a 100% commitment  to the accomplishment of a goal.? When is the last time you remember being determined to do whatever it would take to succeed with a project? It is that commitment that will Continue reading »

Better Your Best Contest – My 2010 Story

The results are in and the ride has been well worth it! I am excited to share with you all the details. Earlier this year I entered Armand Morin’s contest called ‘Better Your Best’, it is a contest open to gold and platinum members of AM2 (a special coaching group I belong to for Internet marketing). The contest is about sharing where you are and what you have accomplished over the course of a year that has made your business new and improved. There are 2 categories to enter under.. either improve financially or improve by systematizing your business. I choose to grow my business financially. This seemed like a no-brainer because I had been making $0 each month online and could only improve!

The big prize was $25,000. There were 7 of us who made the finals. Each of us a star in our own right and each of us proud to have made it to the final cut. The final decision came down to Continue reading »

No Longer A Perpetual Participant!!

Success is on my mind! It has been for as long as I can remember and it has always been something that I desired and set goals to achieve. I am no longer that person who puts the idea of success out there to hope for some day. I am a person who takes action and each day I accomplish new levels of success. I have crossed the line from thinking about it and hoping for it and knowing in my heart that I deserve it… to really getting up and doing something about it!

I am thinking about what it was that really helped me to cross that line. I was starting to think that “it is now or never”. I have wanted greatness for myself and never seemed to really go out on a limb to get it. At the time, I thought I was working hard and taking action, but I was mistaken. I was in a false state Continue reading »

Top 7 Productivity Tips For Business Success

As an entrepreneur you are probably always on the look out for productivity tips. Our days go by fast and we have complete control to be productive or to just run on the hamster wheel. It may not always feel like you have a choice, but you can set out to take back as much control as you need to to make each day a great day that continues to move your business forward. Here are 7 productivity tips:

1. Start your day knowing what the most important things are that need to be accomplished: Only about 30% of people set a daily schedule. And of those 30% Continue reading »

3 Ways To Take Your Social Media Relationships To The Next Level

With modern technology it is easy to connect with people. We have friends, followers, fans and connections through social media sites, blogs and online groups. The main sites include Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and YouTube. It is wonderful to have a growing community, but how connected are you really? It isn’t enough to build the numbers and be popular online, you want to cultivate those connections and turn them into relationships. Here are a few ideas to take your social media connections to the next level:

1. Set up phone dates. Hearing someone’s voice and talking with them will help you get to know someone on a more personal level. Make a list of about Continue reading »

High Productivity – Understand the Real Value of Time

It’s hard to believe, but we have the same amount of time in our day as the President of the United States, the Governor of our State, and the top achiever and producer of any Fortune 500 company.  No matter who we are and what our job is, we have to accept that time given is a level playing field…we all start with the same 24 hours in a day and we end with the same 24 hours spent. 

So what prevents us from having a great sense of satisfaction at the end of a day? Most of our frustration is due to Continue reading »