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Are you a spiritually conscious woman? A woman entrepreneur in business for yourself?
Have you ever wondered what it would be like for you to Discover Your Inner Samurai? About how powerfully vital you'd be in your life and business once you did?
Watch this short, 4 minute video and wonder no more!
Second - The "Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Video Toolkit" walks you through the practical steps of:
Best yet? It's absolutely fr*ee!
Our Turn
Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit combines both the
energetic alignment and practical know-how:
in language that is easy to comprehend and understand,
with videos that are fun and entertaining, and
worksheet templates that are a joy to complete.
Get your Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit now!
Enjoy!
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Many of you, I know, have read the Abraham-Hicks book, Money and the Law of Attraction. There are lots of great reminders and gems in this book. I'm re-reading it myself and think this quotation is particularly powerful for the spiritually conscious businesswoman to keep in mind.
When considered from an Inner Samurai perspective, the world is truly an amazing place with unlimited opportunities for alignment:
To see your world through the eyes of Source is truly the most spectacular view of life, for from that vibrational vantage point, you are in alignment with - and therefore in the process of attracting - only what you would consider to be the very best of your world.
What do you think? Great reminder, yes?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Inner Samurai Business thought for the week:
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
- Mary Kay Ash
What do you believe?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
How do you know if your niche is a good niche for you?
"Well that's easy," you say. "If you've found a niche market that is hungry for your product or service and is willing to pay for it, and is large enough to flow the kind of income you want to you, then you've found a good niche."
From a practical standpoint, that's true enough.
However, as a spiritually conscious businesswoman you're just not focused on the practical. You're focused on the energetic, too. So, how would you answer this questions from an energetic standpoint - from an Inner Samurai Business perspective.
How would you know if your niche is a good niche for you, energetically?
Here's how:
You Know Your Niche is Good if . . .
So, how's your niche? Good for you?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Second - The "Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Video Toolkit" walks you through the practical steps of:
Best yet? It's absolutely fr*ee!
Our Turn
Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit combines both the
energetic alignment and practical know-how:
in language that is easy to comprehend and understand,
with videos that are fun and entertaining, and
worksheet templates that are a joy to complete.
Get your Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit now!
Enjoy!
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
What's wrong with the touchy-feely advice
that's so popular now-a-days telling people to stay positive, say
affirmations, and just think good thoughts?
Positive thoughts and affirmations have hit the business world by storm. It seems that every time I turn around, someone is asking me about an affirmation they can use to increase money, get more clients, or get along better with their colleague.
Here's the problem with affirmations: They only work if you know how to use them correctly.
Guidelines for Using Affirmations Correctly
1. Stop looking for the one thing that will make the difference.
Positive affirmations are like the chocolate chips in a delicious chocolate chip cookie. If someone asked you what made your chocolate chips cookies taste so good and you said, "Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips are the key," they might say, “ah-ha” and run right out and purchase those specific chips thinking those chocolate chips would be what they needed to make a delicious chocolate chip cookie.This is one of the things people are doing wrong with affirmations. They are looking for the one thing that will make the difference to their business success. And by doing so, they focus on the one to the exclusion of the all.
2. Don’t be so far out with your affirmations.
The mind does not value what it hasn’t invested in. Said another way, the mind does not invest in what it does not know. One of the common mistakes of saying positive affirmations is intending them too far ahead of your current business situation. Repeating, “I own a million-dollar business" isn't likely to create that business for you when you are barely making a profit. The difference between what the mind currently sees and the intended affirmation is just too great.Instead, focus your intentions no farther than your mind registers as attainable. Next, align your actions with the fulfillment of your vision and add positive affirmations in support of that direction. Then, your mind will register that as attainable and invest in it as known.
3. Be on the look out for hidden hope.
Hope is just a nice way of saying that you’re not sure something is going to happen, but you sure wish is would. Affirmations that hold the energy of hope are really negative affirmations in disguise. Hope is not the same as knowing, without a doubt, that what you intend is going to happen. Fervently repeating affirmations that hold the energy of hidden hope will not help bring what you intend any closer, any sooner.
What
has been your experience with saying positive affirmations. Have they
worked for you? If so, please share with us what you did to insure
their success!
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Inner Samurai Business thought for the week:
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path with take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey
Which significant step are you taking now?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Is virtual office space right for you?
It very well could be if you are:
Here are five compelling reasons to consider virtual office space for your business:
1. You want to expand your business without increasing your overhead.
Virtual office space is a low-risk alternative to renting a conventional office. Not only that, they come fully equipped with meeting rooms and private office time. You no longer have to worry about missed calls or missed opportunities. Your virtual office becomes a seamless extension of your home business with dedicated administrative support services.2. You want to protect the privacy of your home and personal phone numbers.
Having your home address and telephone number on your business cards when you were just starting up was okay. Now, your business is expanding and your home needs to be safeguarded. Your virtual offices comes with its own contact number and a high-profile business address that protects your personal privacy while making it easy for your clients to do business with you.3. You're tired of being distracted by calls and administrative tasks.
When you were just starting out, you needed to do it all. Now, you can't do it all. It's time to streamline your efficiency and increase productivity by turning over your administrative tasks to someone else.
Virtual offices come equipped with a professional, full-time receptionist, trained to answer calls, screen them, and forward them to you. In addition to phone reception, your virtual office assistant can do data entry, copying, printing, and faxing. He or she can also handle your scheduling, take reservations, order fulfillment, and collect your mail and forward it to you.4. It's important to you to project a professional image to your clients.
Virtual office space is a great option if you are a home-based business owner preferring to work at home while maintaining a business identity at a professional business address. A virtual office is an easy, cost-effective way to enhance your business image and make an impact at a fraction of the cost of renting office space.5. You want the to be able to live and work anywhere in the world, cost effectively.
Most virtual office providers are located in major cities around the world, giving you the maximum amount of freedom and flexibility to do business just about anywhere.
Services vary depending on which plan you choose. Costs range from between $100 and $350 per month for a standard package to $10 per hour for a la cart services. For the home-based business owner needing or wanting to have a global base of operation, look for yearly specials for as low as $350 for the year, in select major cities.
For more information, here are two virtual office spaces to check out: Intelligent Office and Office Suites Plus.
Are you ready for a virtual office space?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Second - The "Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Video Toolkit" walks you through the practical steps of:
Best yet? It's absolutely fr*ee!
Our Turn
Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit combines both the
energetic alignment and practical know-how:
in language that is easy to comprehend and understand,
with videos that are fun and entertaining, and
worksheet templates that are a joy to complete.
Get your Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit now!
Enjoy!
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Inner Samurai Business thought for the week:
It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.
- Ellen DeGeneres
How much do you need to lose?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Today . . . I am thinking about this question that came in from one
of our readers wondering about what products and services are in demand now.
If you have a small business question that you'd like for me to answer, let me know.
Q: What product or service is currently in demand?
A: When I work with clients who are interested in starting up businesses, sometimes they don't know what kind of business to start up. When this happens, I take them through the Niche Clarity Program to help them connect their inner knowing and passion with profit. I've found this to be the best way for the spiritually conscious woman to start up her business.
Your question, on the other hand, comes at the start-up process from an outer perspective. From this perspective, the attitude is, "Let's see what's in demand first, and then I'll decide if it interests me." Because you want to start up a business that is both interesting to you as well as in continuous demand in the market, there is value in combining the inner and outer approaches.
As I have been watching start-up trends over the past five years, these ten areas have seen consistent growth and shown up repeatedly on many of the small business trends blogs. They are general in scope and offered as a starting point for further exploration before making a definitive decision about the direction of your start-up.
1. Software and Computer Systems Products and Services
2. IT Services
3. Financial Advisory Services
4. Employment Services
5. Science and Technology Consulting
6. Day Care Services
7. At-Home Services
8. Green Services
9. Health Services
10. Digital Products
Three Key Resources
Do you have any other suggestions? If so, leave a comment and let us know. And, if you have a small business question that you'd like for me to answer, let me know.
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Second - The "Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Video Toolkit" walks you through the practical steps of:
Best yet? It's absolutely fr*ee!
Our Turn
Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit combines both the
energetic alignment and practical know-how:
in language that is easy to comprehend and understand,
with videos that are fun and entertaining, and
worksheet templates that are a joy to complete.
Get your Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit now!
Enjoy!
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
This is an oldie but goodie video that we all need to keep in mind as women entrepreneurs.
212 Degrees - The Extra Degree by Simple Truths is a little over 3 minutes long. It is packed with some great photography and powerful information that drives home how just one extra degree can make all the difference to our personal and business success.
Inner Samurai Business thought for the week:
If you have entrepreneurial dreams, you have to live it and breathe it. You have to treat the idea like a baby, like your child. You don't sleep when you have a new baby. I didn't sleep. I didn't have weekends. I worked nonstop.
- Tyra Banks
How's your baby?
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert
Today . . . I am thinking about this question that came in from one
of our readers.
If you have a small business question that you'd like for me to answer, let me know.
Q: I so desperately need a vacation but am afraid to take one. Help!
A: Taking a vacation can do wonders for you and your business. After all, I'm currently on one!
Entrepreneurial women often get so caught up in the day-to-day responsibilities of maintaining and building a successful small business that they forget to take the much-needed opportunity to relax, recharge, and regroup.
Taking regularly scheduled vacations can help you to avoid burn-out and reduce stress, get reconnected with your family and friends, and put you back in touch with your inner strength and source — what I call your Inner Samurai.
Five Tips:
1. Repeat after me: "Taking a vacation is necessary for my personal wellbeing and success of my business."
2. Schedule your vacation in advance, and stick to those dates.
3. If it is an extended vacation (as mine is to China), begin your vacation while still at home by allotting several front-end days for packing, tying up lose home and business ends, and relaxing before you get on the plane, train, or in your automobile.
4. Factor into the back end of your vacation several re-entry days to get yourself back into the swing of things at home and business. Longer, if you'll be dealing with jet lag.
5. Plan to limit (or disconnect completely from) work-related communication (i.e., phone calls and e-mails), so that you can spend your vacation focusing exclusively on whom you're with, where you are, and what you're doing.
P.S. - Refrain from scheduling any important commitments for the first few days after you return.
That's my answer and I'm sticking to it!
Do you have any other suggestions? If so, leave a comment and let us know. And, if you have a small business question that you'd like for me to answer, let me know.
Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business ExpertAward-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success
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