Discovering Your Inner Samurai Blog

Business Made Easy - Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Toolkit

Attention: Spiritually Conscious Women Business Owners

"If you're finally ready for that Aha! moment that will transform your business from simply doing what other people expect to a life of success and happiness, this 3-step toolkit is what you've been looking for!"

This Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit delivers a powerful one-two punch of both energetic and practical answers that make owning the business you really dream of not just possible, but inevitable.

First - The "Doing What You Love: Multiple Streams of Passion" report helps to energetically ground you in a business perfectly aligned with your dreams.


Second - The "Turn Your Business Dreams Into Reality Video Toolkit" walks you through the practical steps of:

• Creating the perfect name for your business.
• Crafting a compelling and exciting business statement.
• Building your mission statement with a plan and purpose.
• Clearly define and target your niche market.

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.

All together, you'll have an end result that will leave you energized and excited about the direction of your business.

Get your Turn Your Business Dreams in Reality Toolkit now!

Enjoy!

Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert

Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success

 

Women Entrepreneurs Tips for Success

Several years ago, I began keeping a "tips for success" list. Not the usual kind of list from famous people who have been successful. Rather, a list of success tips from ordinary, every day people who have worked hard and become successful in their life and business.

Who are these people? My former clients. 

I thought you might enjoy reading some of the gems from my client's success tips list:

• What ever you do keep it simple!
• Be a product of your service!
• Learn the things that work for you and don’t stop doing them when success starts to come your way!
• You may have to spend a little money to make some!
• In order to be great you need to be good first! In order to be good you may have to be bad first!
  
• Be bold! Great and mighty forces will come to your aid!
• Life begins at the end of you comfort zone!

So what do you think about these tips?

If you were going to add a tip or two of you own, what would you say?

Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert

Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success

 

Are You Thinking About Becoming a Home-Based Business Owner?

Becoming a home-based business owner is more popular now than every before, and it's very attractive to many women entrepreneurs.

That's because people associate working from home with flexibility and freedom. And with so many mom entrepreneurs opting to stay at home while raising their families, running a business from home makes sense.

Here are some of the Pros and Cons to consider if you're thinking of becoming a home-based business owner.

Pros

• You'll save on start-up costs.
• Lower operating costs.
• No more commuting.
  
• You can live and travel almost anywhere in the world and still conduct business.
• Time with family.
• Work anytime you want.
• Family members can easily get involved with the business.
• It's convenient.
• Everything is in a central location - work, play, sleep, eat.
• Can wear anything to work.
  

Cons

• Vulnerability to interruptions.
• Temptations and distractions - TV, laundry, fridge, sleeping in.
  
• Need for space when your business expands.
• Cooped-up at home.
• Work bleeding over into family time.
• Privacy.
• Outside employees may not like coming to your home to work.
• Hard to get motivated sometimes.
• Isolation without other professionals around.
  
• Running a business and taking care of your family at the same time.
  

There's my list of pros and cons. What have I missed? Anything you'd like to add to the list? Please do!

Let us know!

Susan L. Reid
Inner Samurai Business Expert

Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success

 

Mom Entrepreneurs – Easy Solutions to Three of the Most Common Problems of Running a Business from Home

Being a mom entrepreneur and running a business from home is more popular now than ever.

With rising gas prices, long commute times, and wear and tear on the family, mom entrepreneurs opting to stay at home while raising their families just makes sense.

The problem is that the freedom, flexibility, and convenience associated with working from home is easier said that done. Balance can be difficult to achieve, isolation tough to deal with, temptations greater and distractions endless.

When this happens, both home and business suffer. Productivity falls off, arguments increase, children act out, and moms who would rather run their business from home so they can be near their children, are forced into returning to the tradition work world in order to help support their family.

It breaks my heart when I see this happen, especially when I know it doesn’t have to be this way. 
If you’d like to avoid this happening to you, here are easy solutions to three of the most common problems associated with running a business from home:

Three Most Common Problems and How to Fix Them

1.    Dealing with isolation. Being a home-based business owner means you don’t have much opportunity to socialize around the water cooler, walk down the hall to collaborate with colleagues, or brainstorm ideas with other professionals. Plus, except for trips to the grocery store, picking up kids from after school activities, you don’t have much time to yourself.

Solutions: Remember to take breaks throughout the day just for you, not for doing laundry. Go for a quick walk to revitalize. Line up a babysitter and attend one professional event a week. Join mompreneursonline.com and take part in a forum. 

2.    Make-do office space. One of the problems with running a business from home is that there often isn’t much space in your home to dedicate to your home business. As a result, you make-do with working from a desk in a bedroom, the kitchen table, or living room couch. This leaves you open for constant interruptions.    

Solutions: Your home office needs to be a designated place just for work. Preferably a room with a door. If possible, keep the door closed when you are working and closed when you’re not to insure that your business life does not spill over into your private life and vice versa.

3.    Everything in one location. If you are used to working outside the home, bringing your business into your home can be an incredible challenge. Where there used to be a separation of work and home, now it’s all under one roof. Here you do it all: eat, sleep, play and work. Temptations are greater and distractions endless. 

Solutions: Decide what your business hours will be and stick to them. Work out your schedule with your family in mind, and display it prominently outside your door. Clearly indicate when family time is. Also school events and family outings. Since you’re so used to doing house related things when you’re at home, making a schedule will help organize your time and control your temptations and distractions.

No matter how long you’ve been a mom entrepreneur, chances are you’ve run into these problems. Running your business from home takes organization, discipline, and dedication. The good news is that now you have three solutions to the most common problems associated with home-based business ownership. These solutions will help you get control of your day and make running your business from home a smart decision for your entire family.

Susan L. Reid
The original Accidental Pren-her™
Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success

Tribute to the Olympics - Mom Entrepreneurs

The Olympics are over. It's been a thrilling Summer Olympics and I have enjoyed watching our women athletes compete.

This week is devoted to blogging about the Olympics. Each day I'll post a tribute applicable to women entrepreneurs.

First up: Mom Entrepreneurs.

You don't have to give up your aspirations to be a mother.

China's Xian Dongmei was the first mother to capture a gold medal at the Olympics in judo. Melanie Roach of the U.S., a 119-pound weightlifter, finished sixth. She is the mother of three and one of her children is autistic. Japanese judo icon Ryoko Tani has been at the Olympics five times and won medals each time, her last time as a mother.

The 2008 "mommy" athletes are showing women entrepreneurs worldwide that motherhood does not mean you have to give up on your entrepreneurial dreams, and telling daughters around the world that it's okay to keep growing, striving, and being who you are.

Have you been watching the Olympics? What has inspired you most as a mom? If you are a mom entrepreneur, we'd love to hear from you.

Susan L. Reid
The original Accidental Pren-her™
Award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success