TODAY'S INSPIRATION...THE OPTIMIST!!!

PROMISE YOURSELF....

To be so strong that nothing  can disturb your peace of mind;

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet;

To make all your friends feel that there is something in them;

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true;

To think only the best, to work only for the best,  and to expect only the best;

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own;

To forget the mistakes of the past and  press on to the greater achievements of the future;

To wear a cheerful countenance at all times  and give every living creature you meet a smile;

To give so much time to the improvement  of yourself that you have no time to criticize others;

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger,  too strong for fear; and too happy to permit the presence of trouble;

To think well of yourself and to  proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words, but in great deeds;

To live in the faith that the whole world  is on your side so long as you are true  to the best that is in you.

The Optimist Creed by Christian Larson.



TO YOUR SUCCESS!!!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

YOUR SUCCESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK...

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. But you have to act on them if you're going to be successful. Distant pastures always look greener than those close at hand, but real opportunities are right where you are. You must simply take advantage of them when they appear. You can start where you are at any time.

Success is all around you. It's not in your environment, it's not in luck or chance, or in the help of others. Success is in yourself alone.

You don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What you need is to use what you have. Learn to seize good fortune, for it is always around you.

You must go to success, it doesn't come to you.

Open your own doors to opportunity.

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

Achievement - Do You Have the Belief That You Can Achieve Great Things?

By Jan Malloch

Setting goals and achieving them is one of the most Satisfying feelings that you will ever experience. If the feeling is so wonderful, then why doesn't everyone in the World achieve great things in their lives?

Unfortunately, there are people who simply don't and won't set goals and will therefore achieve very little. Negative thinkers will often settle for going through life without much thought of trying to improve their thoughts.

There are others who genuinely believe that they are not capable of changing their circumstances. They believe that this was the hand that they were dealt, so they just have to get on with it.

I find this incredibly sad. Achievers are people who understand that they have a purpose in life and that we are here to be happy. We are on Earth to learn and to grow and to gain as much experience as we can. We are here to reach our full potential.

Those who think that they cannot achieve great things and make major changes in their lives are denying themselves the right to genuine happiness. Take time to think of what you could achieve in your life to make your circumstances better, and to enable you to enjoy life more.
Make a list, and plan how you will go about achieving your dreams. And then take action.

Believe in yourself and in your abilities. You can achieve whatever you desire if you have the faith that you can do it.

I challenge you to think of something that you can achieve today. It doesn't matter how small it is, but the important thing is that you do it. I can assure you that you will feel good about yourself, and that you will want to achieve more.

Please don't let the days go by with so little to show for your time here each day.


TO YOUR SUCCESS!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!

FOLLOW THE PATH OF OTHERS TO SUCCESS

You can learn from other people to make up for your lack of experience in any area of life.

Be open and receptive to the people around you. They have things to teach you.

Take advantage of the people that have made the journey ahead of you.

Try to pick the right role models. Don't look for people that make you feel good or entertain you. Look for people that can help you. Role models are more than people you like and admire. The key is to look for people that will help you to be more successful. You can learn from the mistakes of others.

You can learn different approaches to overcoming challenges. Learning "what not to do" is as important as learning "what to do."

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!! Positive Attitude and Health

How Our Attitudes Affect Our Health

We do several things to protect our health, such as eating right, exercising, dressing warm in cold weather, taking vitamins, practicing good hygiene and avoiding people who have contagious illnesses, such as the flu or colds. After taking all those precautions, many people still jeopardize their health simply by having poor attitudes.

Attitude affects every aspect of our lives - for better or worse - including our overall health. The mind is incredibly powerful. Have you ever heard the expression ‘I think, therefore I am’? Well, that probably means that you exist, because you think - but you should learn to look at it from a different point of view ‘I think I’m well, therefore I am.’

Some people look for things to be wrong with them. Some might call them hypochondriacs, but mostly, they just always expect the worst - even from their own bodies. This mindset can actually cause illness. This has been proven in scientific experiments where people who believe they are ill are given drugs to treat the ‘illness’ that aren’t actually drugs at all - they are basically sugar pills. But the person, believing they were being treated with medication for their illness, recovered, and no longer felt ill.

Alternately, people who really are ill have found that they heal faster when they stay in a positive frame of mind. This positive mindset allows them to follow their doctor’s orders easier, and expect good things to come from the treatment. They look forward to the things they will do once they are well - and in most cases the mind, in its own mysterious way, takes those thoughts and helps the body heal faster.

A positive attitude helps prevent specific health problems as well, such as migraine headaches, stomach ulcers, heart problems, and muscle aches. This is because when a person has a positive attitude, they have considerably reduced stress levels. Stress can cause headaches, stomach ulcers, heart problems, muscle aches, and a variety of other health problems. By reducing stress, you reduce the potential for these health problems.

A positive attitude does not guarantee that you will never have a health problem, it just reduces the possibility, and then it works in your favor to overcome any health problems that you do experience.

To Your Positive Attitude & Health!!!

Setting Attainable Goals For Your Home Based Business

When starting your own home based business, it is important to establish realistic, attainable goals that will motivate you to perform optimally and keep your business on track for its most critical objectives. Setting goals for your home business is considered by most experts to be one of the most important elements of any business plan. Here are some of the key factors to remember when setting goals for your home business.

1) It is admirable to set goals that seem out of reach because they may cause you to work harder than you thought necessary. However, it is also important to set goals that you can actually achieve on a regular basis. Achieving the goal, however modest the goal may be, leaves an imprint of success in your memory, and will confirm your subconscious belief that you can in fact "do it" when it comes to your business.

2) You can set goals for your home business in different tiers, allowing you to monitor and achieve short-term goals regularly, while tracking your progress to attain broader, long-term goals. By focusing on the shorter-term goals of daily performance, you will be on track to reach you broader, long-term goals.

3) Reward yourself for success. When you reach one of your goals, pause for a moment and reward yourself with a compliment, note or gift that indicates that you have done something positive for your home business. Rewarding yourself for such accomplishments will add positive reinforcement to your work routine, and give you something tangible to enjoy for your efforts.

These goal-setting tips have worked for thousands of home based business owners who wanted additional motivation and direction for their business. One of the best ways to get started setting goals for your business is to simply sit down with a pen and paper, and write out the specific actions you feel need to be taken to make your business more successful. Keep what you have written close to your work area so you won't forget that you are serious about achieving the stated goals. The more often you see your goals in writing, the more likely you are to work hard to achieve them.

To Your Success!!

The Power Of A Positive Attitude!!

Quote..."A positive Attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes."

A Positive Attitude helps to cope more easily with the daily affairs of life. It brings optimism into your life, and makes it easier to avoid worry and negative thinking. If you adopt it as a way of life, it will bring constructive changes into your life, and makes them happier, brighter and more successful. With a positive attitude you see the bright side of life, become optimistic and expect the best to happen. It is certainly a state of mind that is well worth developing and strengthening.

Positive attitude manifests in the following ways:

Positive thinking.

Constructive thinking.

Creative thinking.

Expecting success.

Optimism.

Motivation to accomplish your goals.

Being inspired.

Choosing happiness.

Not giving up.

Looking at failure and problems as blessings in disguise.

Believing in yourself and in your abilities.

Displaying self-esteem and confidence.

Looking for solutions.

Seeing opportunities.

A positive attitude leads to happiness and success and can change your whole life. If you look at the bright side of life, your whole life becomes filled with light. This light affects not only you and the way you look at the world, but also your whole environment and the people around you. If it is strong enough, it becomes contagious.

The benefits of a positive attitude:

Helps achieving goals and attaining success.

Success achieved faster and more easily.

More happiness.

More energy.

Greater inner power and strength.

The ability to inspire and motivate yourself and others.

Fewer difficulties encountered along the way.

The ability to surmount any difficulty.

Life smiles at you.

People respect you.

Negative attitude says: you cannot achieve success.
Positive attitude says: You can achieve success.

If you have been exhibiting a negative attitude and expecting failure and difficulties, it is now the time to change the way you think. It is time to get rid of negative thoughts and behavior and lead a happy and successful life. Why not start today? If you have tried and failed, it only means that you have not tried enough.

Developing a positive attitude that will lead you to happiness and success:

- Choose to be happy.

- Look at the bright side of life.

- Choose to be and stay optimistic.

- Find reasons to smile more often.

- Have faith in yourself and in the Power of the Universe.

- Contemplate upon the futility of negative thinking and worries.

- Associate yourself with happy people.

- Read inspiring stories.

- Read inspiring quotes.

- Repeat affirmations that inspire and motivate you.

- Visualize only what you want to happen.

- Learn to master your thoughts.

- Learn concentration and meditation.

Following even only one of the above suggestions, will bring more light into your life!

Positive thoughts will lead you to financial success and it will help you find the true riches of life for yourself and your family. So whatever it is in life that you want, you must begin today to become a "positive thinker." Once you do this your future success will be unlimited.

Wishing you a very Positive Day!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

SUCCESS IS ON YOUR HORIZON...

I read this yesterday in our team daily newsletter and I absolutely love this and just wanted to share.





You can start at anytime if you want to be successful.  But you have to start. You won't accomplish anything if you wait for all the possible objections to be overcome.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Don't be afraid to live.  Don't wait for things to change.  Don't wait until you have more time, until you are less tired, until you get the promotion, until you settle down, until, until, until. Don't wait for a major event in your life to occur before you begin to live. Begin where you are. Work where you are. The hour you are wasting now, dreaming of some far off  success, is crowded with tremendous possibilities.

When you take the first step,  your mind will mobilize all its forces to assist you.   Once you have started, all that is within and around you will come to your assistance. The only way to start down the road to success is to start.

TO YOUR SUCCESS!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

YOU CAN GO ANY WHERE WITH A GOAL!
A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder. Goals are dreams that are written down.

The purpose of a goal is to focus your attention. Your mind will reach toward achievement only when it has a goal. There is no achievement without goals.

Establish a goal worth working for. Your goal will keep you going in tough times. Always have something ahead of you. Continuously visualize your next step. Keep moving after you achieve your goal and set another. Momentum is maintained by always having something to look forward to. Constantly give yourself something to work for.

Do what you can do well, and do well whatever you can do and you'll achieve any goal that you set for yourself. You can plant your dream with a goal.

TO YOUR SUCCESS!!

PERSERVANCE FOR HOME BUSINESS SUCCESS!!

What is required to be successful in your home business? Before we can answer, you must understand what "success" means and what common characteristics successful people have. If you are reading this article, you probably want to be successful and possess a strong sense of perseverance which will pay off in achieving your dreams. The truth is that only a small percentage of people will ever achieve their full potential, and those who do are the ones who persevere toward their goals.

“Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that.” -- Michael Jordan

Success is generally looked upon as achieving favorable results and gaining wealth and/or fame, but you must realize that success is different for each individual. For some, a yearly income of a few thousand dollars would be a success, but for another individual it may be several hundred thousand dollars. Whatever your definition of success is, there are several personal characteristics that are common denominators among successful people.

Goals are an important factor in realizing success. Without goals that are realistic, how can you know when your success level has been reached? Successful people set goals for their home business, and perseverance of these goals pays off. Goals should be specific, realistic, measurable, time related and attainable. Your goals can be changed as often as necessary until you reach your ultimate goal, and it will happen if you persevere. Completing your tasks one at a time and then moving on makes the task easier and you can see immediate results.

If you want your home business to be successful, the following facts, tips and words of encouragement can help you achieve your dreams if you try hard and understand that "perseverance pays off" when starting your home business.

1. Here are some facts about a well-known man who realized that perseverance pays off by overcoming the odds and finally achieving his goals: Beginning at age 31 up until age 60, this man failed in business twice, was defeated in legislative races twice, survived the death of a sweetheart, suffered a nervous breakdown, lost three congressional races, lost two senatorial races, one vice presidential race and was finally elected President of the United States at age 60. That man was Abraham Lincoln. His fighting spirit epitomizes the word perseverance!

"If all else fails perserverance prevails"--Unknown

The first step toward attaining success is understanding how to persevere and acquire some of the traits that successful people share.

2. Passion - Successful people have a driving force that pushes them forward and sets them apart. They have a desire and energy that drives them to reach their potential, which is an inherent part of their personality. This particular trait can be learned and acquired if you weren't born with it. They keep their goals in mind 24 hours a day. The passion within these individuals is deeply rooted and will sustain them through the hard times so they can reach their objectives. Failure is not an option.

3. Belief - Most successful people will tell you that you can succeed if you think you can and are willing to work toward that success, but to do so you must have realistic goals and believe in yourself. Even in the face of adversity, you must persevere and continually strive to accomplish each task on your way to success.

4. Strategy - A good strategy, or game plan, can make or break you. You should have a workable strategy that will give your projects direction and that point you to success. Designing a good strategy will help you achieve your objectives and overcome all obstacles along the way.

5. Energy - Without the vitality, enthusiasm and perseverance to be a mover and shaker, it will be very hard for your home business to succeed. Success is a by-product of mental, physical and spiritual energy that urges us on toward achieving our goal. You can if you think you can!

"There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time." -- Goethe

Author: Ian Canaway

TO YOUR SUCCESS!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!

IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO WIN
UNLESS YOU RUN....

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you're ready or not to put your plan into action.

It's up to you to take the first step.  The first step will take some effort, maybe pain.  But after that, everything that has to be done is real - life movement.  Once you're moving, you can keep moving.

If you can get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The only true failure lies in the failure to start.  Eighty per cent of success is showing up.

Winning starts with beginning.

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!

SUCCESS IS A CHOICE YOU MAKE

Success or failure?  It's always your choice.  You alone have the responsibility to shape your life.

Once you understand this, nothing and no one can deny you success.  There's really no one to stop you but yourself.

More powerful than all the success slogans ever written is the realization that everyone has but one boss.  That boss is you.

Your life will always be to a large extent what you make of it.  No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but you.

If you want to be successful, you can be successful.

To Your Success!!

Some Exciting News For All Women in Home Business!!

I have such exciting news to share today with all Women in home business and all women who want to have a home business. For the last few months, my mentors have been working on a special project that will help each and every one of you reach great success in your home business. And here it is....

Association for Women in Home Business (AWHB.org) has officially launched!!!!!!! And I am inviting ALL of you to be a part of it!! No matter what your home business is, YOU are welcome!!!! CLICK HERE to go there now and become a founding member!

This Association was created with YOU in mind! Imagine if we unite together and share our knowledge and expertise how much easier it would be to reach our goals and how much easier it would be for us to get to our destination. Imagine once we reach our destination the FREEDOM we will experience!

Now, more than ever, it is important for women in home businesses to support each other's businesses. Women entrepreneurs are the ones that will be bringing healing and change to the world - spiritually, politically, economically -- and it starts with you and your business. We are here to be to be on this journey with YOU and support your dream and vision! Whether you are:

• In a home business and need help promoting your business.
• Seeking a new home career.
• Seeking simple and practical ways to attract more prosperity into your life by working less, making more money, gaining more free time and enjoying more bliss.

Do you feel the above is describing you? If you said "YES" then please join us on this journey of success. Together we will learn, grow and prosper. The association will help us to reach new levels in our home businesses. It will be so much fun and exciting!!!

CLICK HERE to join today!!

We Are Strong, But Together We Are Stronger!

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!

ALL PERSONAL GROWTH INVOLVES CHANGE

Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change. It involves risk as you step from the known to the unknown.

All your growth will depend on your activity.

Your strength and growth will come only through continuous effort and struggle. There will be no development without effort.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer of life. Your trials, your sorrows and your grief's will develop you.

When good or bad fortune comes your way, you must give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

What happens to you is not as important as your reaction to what is happening.

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

SUCCESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK...

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. But you have to act on them if you're going to be successful.

Distant pastures always look greener than those close at hand, but real opportunities are right where you are.

You must simply take advantage of them when they appear. You can start where you are at any time.

Success is all around you. It's not in your environment, it's not in luck or chance, or in the help of others. Success is in yourself alone.

You don't need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What you need is to use what you have. Learn to seize good fortune, for it is always around you.

You must go to success, it doesn't come to you.

Open your own doors to opportunity.

To Your Success!!

SUCCESS TOOLS FOR YOUR HOME BUSINESS!!

Here are some of my favorite success tools that I use on a regular basis as a Work At Home Mom:

1.  Vista Print is the place to start and get all of your marketing materials for FREE.  Everything from business cards to postcards, magnets, thank you cards, pens, t-shirts and the list goes on. You can find free offers everday on Vistaprint. Just click on the banner below to get started with your free business cards and much more!



2. FreedomVoice is a premier Toll Free Virtual office system. It will save you time and money. It's easy to set up and easy to use.  Most wahms are working their home business on the Internet. So it's important to have an 800# which will increase the number of calls receive on a daily basis. To start with your free trial today, click on the banner below:



3. GoDaddy has long been committed to meeting the Internet needs of small business owners. Low-cost domain name registrations, do-it-yourself Web site builders and so much more. Domain names start as low as $7.49. It's  a great source for getting your own website and will make a huge difference in your marketing.



4. Homestead is a simple and affordable source for building a website. You can create many sites through Homestead. I built my first website with them and even as a beginner, it was really simple. It walks you through everything step by step. Click on the banner and try it free for 30 days.


5. Blue Mountain is a great source for sending FREE Ecards to all those special colleagues, clients and team members on their birthdays, holidays and special occasions. Click on the banner below to start you free trial today:



I hope these help you as much as they have helped me to be successful in my home based business!!

To Your Success!!





 

Setting Attainable Goals For Your Home Based Business

When starting your own home based business, it is important to establish realistic, attainable goals that will motivate you to perform optimally and keep your business on track for its most critical objectives.  Setting goals for your home business is considered by most experts to be one of the most important elements of any business plan.  Here are some of the key factors to remember when setting goals for your home business.

1) It is admirable to set goals that seem out of reach because they may cause you to work harder than you thought necessary.  However, it is also important to set goals that you can actually achieve on a regular basis. Achieving the goal, however modest the goal may be, leaves an imprint of success in your memory, and will confirm your subconscious belief that you can in fact "do it" when it comes to your business.

2) You can set goals for your home business in different tiers, allowing you to monitor and achieve short-term goals regularly, while tracking your progress to attain broader, long-term goals. By focusing on the shorter-term goals of daily performance, you will be on track to reach you broader, long-term goals.

3) Reward yourself for success.  When you reach one of your goals, pause for a moment and reward yourself with a compliment, note or gift that indicates that you have done something positive for your home business. Rewarding yourself for such accomplishments will add positive reinforcement to your work routine, and give you something tangible to enjoy for your efforts.

These goal-setting tips have worked for thousands of home based business owners who wanted additional motivation and direction for their business. One of the best ways to get started setting goals for your business is to simply sit down with a pen and paper, and write out the specific actions you feel need to be taken to make your business more successful.  Keep what you have written close to your work area so you won't forget that you are serious about achieving the stated goals.  The more often you see your goals in writing, the more likely you are to work hard to achieve them.

To Your Success!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!!

Happy Tuesday!!! This inspiration is from my NVP's daily newsletter and I wanted to share with you today. Daily action steps no matter how big or small will get your closer to your goal of success!!

THE TIME FOR ACTION IS TODAY 

You must be ready when an opportunity comes before you. Luck is the time when your preparation and opportunity meet.

There is a tide in your affairs, which, when taken at the flood, will lead you on to fortune and success.

By the law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again, not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in it's own period, and each obeying its own law.

As events tend to repeat themselves, the tide of opportunity will come to you.

Be prepared and your chance for success is sure to come. Seize an opportunity to change your life.  You can change chance into good fortune if you are ready.

Look around you. The only sure thing about your luck is that it will change.

To Your Success!!

Happy Veteran's Day!!

God Bless those who gave their lives and those who are currently fighting for our freedom as we enjoy the comforts of our homes and families.

I usually spend this day off with my kids running to a department store to get their photo taken for our Christmas Cards. This year I decided to save time and money. Every year I make an appointment and get the kids all dressed up. It ends up NOT being alot of fun. Even though we have an appointment, we end up waiting at least 1 - 1 1/2 hours before it's our turn. And I hear "I'm hungry" and "Are we almost done". Well last year, I didn't like my Christmas greeting card. And it ends up costing quite a bit of money too. So today, we slept in and have enjoyed a nice big breakfast together as a family.

But I did get my Christmas greeting card photo done!! I just went to SNAPFISH and uploaded some really nice photos of the kids, picked out a background and now all I have to do is place my order!! I love it and it was so easy. And the best part is that I saved myself and family time and money:)

So, here is my preliminary card. And now I still have the entire day to work at home and enjoy my kids on their day off!

My Christmas Card 2010

 Have a great day everyone and enjoy and be grateful for all of your loved ones!!!

TODAY'S INSPIRATION!

Happy Weekend To All!!!

This inspiration is from my NVP's daily newsletter and I wanted to share with you today. We all reach our goals if we take it one step at a time!!



A MOUNTAIN IS CLIMBED ONE STEP AT A TIME 

Everyone who got where they are had to begin where they were.  Your opportunity for success is right in front of you.

To attain success or to reach your goal, don't worry about having all the answers in advance.  You just need to have a clear idea of your goal and move toward it.

Don't procrastinate when faced with a difficult problem.
Break your problems into parts and handle one part at a time.

Develop a tendency toward action. You can make something happen today. Break your big plan for success into small steps and take the first step right away.

Success starts with a first step.

Here's To Your SUCCESS and AWESOME Weekend!!