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Note from Susan
January 1, 2010
Happy New Year!
According to numerology, 2010 is a "three year" (2+0+1+0). This means that 2010 will be a year of leadership - your search for it as well as your personal challenges to achieve it.
What this means from a business perspective is that it will be up to you this year to create a vision for your business. Then plot a course that will rendez vous with that vision. To help you do that, read this week's article, "Don't Set Any Goals this Year…without Applying the 60-40 Rule."
And just in case you have not yet taken the time to find a place of peace and quiet where you can reflect on 2009 and make way for what you want to attract in 2010, take a moment to do so now with last month's fun exercise, “Out with the old. In with the new.”
Happy Vision 2010!
Success is assured. Greatness is. Beauty surrounds. All is well.
Write You Inner Samurai Business Plan in 60 Days Teleseminar
Start your New Year off right with an Inner Samurai Business Plan!
What is an Inner Samurai Business Plan, and why do you need one?
An Inner Samurai Business Plan is a plan that precisely defines your business, identifies your goals, and serves as a blueprint and inner-inspired vision board for your business’s success.
Inner because we'll be making sure that your business is aligned with what fuels you from within: your passion, joy, and strong desire to be of service and make a difference in the world.
Samurai because of the strong, confident decisions you'll make, fully knowing what's true for you, while sustaining yourself to act on that knowing with integrity, honor, beauty, and grace.
Although many businesses have been started without the benefit of a formal business plan, most businesses do not succeed for long without one.
In this Write Your Inner Samurai Business Plan in 60 Days Teleseminarwe will address the main elements of an inner inspired business plan. You'll learn how to write an executive summary, how to describe your company, product, competencies, and market needs in a way that is aligned with your value system and guiding inner principles.
You'll look at your competition, determine the products and services you'll offer, and decide what you need to do to market and sell your business. You'll also make decisions about how your business will operate, what action plans need to be put into place for its success, and how to determine the funds that you need both now and in the future.
When you're finished, you will have put together an Inner Samurai Business Plan that is from 30 to 40 pages in length. It will look professional. It will also give potential lenders or investors everything they need in order for you to obtain financing. Most important, you will have an inner-inspired blueprint for success that will make you feel proud of what you are offering to the world, excited about your direction, and confident in your success.
What Are the Facts, Mam?
The particulars: • We'll meet six Wednesdays between February 17 and March 31. • At 7p eastern. • For 75 minutes. • If you can't make a session, no worries. All sessions will be recorded.
You'll receive: • A comprehensive Inner Samurai Business Plan Toolkit, • All necessary worksheets, • Organizational flow charts, • Video segments.
The cost: • $147. • Since this is the first time I've offered this seminar I'm able to offer you a special "first timer’s" price. After this first time, the price will go up.
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If you think this is something your business would benefit from and you would like to be included in all future Inner Samurai Business Plan communications, please email me: susan at alkamae dot com. Include "ISBP" in the subject line and your full name and email address in the body of the email.
Featured Article
Don't Set Any Goals this New Year...without Applying the 60-40 Rule
It’s that time again—the time when people traditionally set resolutions for the New Year.
Have you noticed, though, that setting long-term goals doesn’t work? No matter how convicted you feel about your New Year’s resolutions, the more rigidly you adhere to whatever goals you’ve set for yourself, the harder it will be to reach them.
Why? Because the problem with goals is that they are made in the present, to be fulfilled in the future. But the present is always changing. That means the future is always changing, too. So, if you’ve created a static goal for a future time in a dynamic and ever changing present, it’s almost impossible to attain that goal. This is why, after the first couple of weeks of working toward your goal, setbacks often occur. Before you know it, you’re off the mark, struggling to get back on task, wondering if you will ever reach your goal.
Not all is lost. Human beings aren’t static, so why should their goals be? There is a way to meet your goals and to accomplish all that you have set out to achieve this New Year. The only thing is, it’s different from what you’re used to doing, and it will require setting aside your old way of setting goals. This new way of setting goals is what I call the 60-40 Rule.
The 60-40 Rule
Never heard of the 60-40 rule? Well, now you have. The 60-40 rule states that, once you set a goal, 60% of your action is to be taken in the present; only 40% of your action is to be taken in the future. This rule does three things that the traditional way of setting goals does not:
It takes into account the dynamic, ever changing present that we all live in.
It sets the intention for your goal to be fulfilled.
It puts you in energetic vibration with prosperity and abundance, making manifestation of your goals just a matter of time.
Of course, you can increase the percentage of action to be taken in the present to 70%, 80%, even 90% or more. The higher the percentage of action in the now, the faster your goal will be reached. However, there still has to be some percentage in the future —even if it’s just 2%. After all, that’s what makes it a goal. Still, anything less than 60% in the now makes your goal just a wish, a want, and a dream that may never be fulfilled.
Contemporary spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says it best:
There’s nothing wrong with goals and trying to fulfill them—as long as the main focal point of your attention remains the present moment. It’s like being on a journey and knowing where you want to get to, but realizing at the same time that the entire journey ultimately consists of one step—the step you’re taking at this moment. That one step is all there ever is, and so you give it your fullest attention. In other words, the step you’re taking now is primary, the destination – the goal – is secondary. If the destination becomes primary, you will become stressed and anxious and you will miss life. You will suffer, and the destination will not make you happy even when you get there, when you attain your goals.
Do yourself a favor this New Year. Don’t waste your time setting goals if you aren’t committed to spending 60% of your action toward your goal right now, in the red, hot present. Whether in business or in your personal life, set attainable goals that you know you can reach, rather than rigid, ultimatum-driven goals that are doomed from the start. Then, follow the 60-40 Rule to achieve them. Take 60% of your action toward your goal today with only 40% of your action remaining for the future.
Remember, you aren’t static. Why should your goals be?
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About Susan L. Reid and Alkamae®
Dr. Susan L. Reid, Small Business Expert and Business Catalyst, brings the gift of inner vision and insight to spiritually conscious businesswomen ready to run their businesses confidently, effectively, and fully aligned with their deepest inner principles.
Twice award-winning author of Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman's Journey to Business Success, Dr. Susan revolutionizes the way women do business in the world through the transformational process called Discovering your Inner Samurai.
Discovering your Inner Samurai is not a theory or a strategy.
It is a primal yearning spiritually conscious women can’t deny that drives them deep within, aligning them with their inner guidance system, inspiriting and inspiring them with the confidence and strength to prosper and thrive. Why “Inner Samurai?”
Inner because the voice resides deep within her being (to distinguish it from the voice inside her head).
Samurai because of how powerfully it stands, fully knowing what's true for her, sustaining her to act on that knowing in every moment of every day with integrity, honor, beauty, and grace.
The word "alkamae” means "to transform."
Therefore, Alkamae is the place where spiritually conscious women naturally come to transform their sacred inner voice into the central guidance system compelling their personal and business success.
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