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4 Challenge Yourself to a Breakthrough

My JV partner and I have set some lofty goals for ourselves, among them is list building and jumping our business to the next level.  We’ve been trying all sorts of things to meet those goals.  We have participated in giveaways hosted by others and have hosted our own giveaway.  That was moderately successful for our first try.  There are things we could have done better and will do better in the future, however, it was a fantastic learning experience and the support for the participants was humbling.

We have participated in list building challenges and in the Ultimate Blog Challenge.  These have also been moderately successful in addition to helping us both to stay on track, push ourselves to meet the commitment and connect with new people.

The other day we asked ourselves, “what can we do next?”  We decided to host our own challenge, the Rock Your Business in 28 Days Challenge.  We are very excited about this event.  From November 1 through the 28^th we will provide a list of business boosting activities in the areas of mindset, blogging, systems, administration and operation, finances and more.  There will be daily emails with suggested activities and resources.  We’ve already created the opt-in page, the Facebook Group for the challenge and have started promotion.  And people are signing up to participate.  You can imagine the big smile on my face when I logged onto to check the registrations and found a lot of them.

I am really looking forward to this challenge.  We’d love for you to participate in the challenge.  There will be something for those who are new to small business and those who have established businesses and want to break through to the next level just we do.  And who knows how many new ideas you may come up with that you hadn’t thought of or tried before.

If you are interested, you can sign up here.  There’s no charge and you don’t have to buy anything to participate.  Come and join us, it will be fun, it will an opportunity to find more motivation, support and get stuff done that you’ve been meaning to do.  We hope to see you there.

In the meantime, what have you been doing to meet your list building and income boosting goals?

0 The Kick Starter Strengths Assessment

I talk a lot about identifying your passion and building a business doing what you love.  There’s another element that is just as important as having passion in your business and that’s leveraging your strengths.  It is never a good idea to try to build a business around something your strengths are not a good fit for.

For example, you don’t want to become a personal exercise coach if you don’t enjoy exercise, or be a professional writer if you don’t have command of the language or can’t read well.

There are many tests out there that you can take to help identify your personality type, your intelligence level, your IQ and more.  Most of them require that you pay a fee to access them.  I found one that is perfect for young people in particular from Andrea Samadi of AchieveIt360.com.  She calls it the Kick Start Assessment and it is designed to help your teen identify their natural strengths.  Knowing what your strengths are provides that extra boost of motivation and allows teens to focus their energies in a productive way to succeed with their goals and dreams.

This assessment is free and you can find it here – http://AchieveIt360.com.  You’ll find the link to the assessment below the video on the left side of the page.

I hope you’ll encourage your teens to take the assessment.  Not only will it help pinpoint their strengths, it can serve as a great conversation starter for you to have a more indepth communication with them.  Also, I took the assessment and found it useful for myself.  It was validation of most of what I thought my strengths are.

I hope you’ll post the results after taking the assessment.  I’d love to hear about your and your teens experience with it.

My business partner and I are hosting the Rock Your Business in 28 Days Business Challenge next month.  It’s a fun event where we provide you with a list of business boosting activities throughout the month so you can Rock It in your business.  There will be suggested activities for blogging, mindset, systems, administration/operation, finances and more.  It’s free so sign up now at http://www.rockyourbizin28days.com/28-day-business-challenge/.

If your business needs a boost, or if you just need some fresh, kick starter ideas, join us for the challenge. Continue reading

0 12 Things that Successfully Convert a Great Idea into a Reality

I found this great info graphic to share with you.  I may have to put this into my next book.

Have you had an “aha” moment or a million dollar idea that you wish to build a business with?  This great infographic illustrates 12 things that must have to make that a reality.  The very first thing is to have belief and confidence in your thought as well as actions.  If you don’t believe in yourself or your idea, who else will?

Secondly, build your dream team.  These will be experts or people who have the experience of building a business that can help you with great advice.  I can’t stress the importance of having mentors and coaches to help you along the way.  All twelve of the steps outlined on this infographic are essential.

Additionally, if you wish to excel as an entrepreneur then you should follow the 5 golden rules which include being inquisitive and asking questions, taking massive action on the solutions you identify, setting up targets that are achievable within a given time frame (goals people, this means setting goals), maintaining a pool of creative inner circle and looking after the vision, mission and values of your organization.

Commit to memory each of the ten mistakes this graphic indicates that can shatter your business and end your dream.  Learn them and then do not make any of these blunders!

I hope you enjoy this graphic.  Do you see anything here you may not have known already?

Learn about my new group coaching program, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs where I train adults who work with teens and young adults to teach them to become entrepreneurs.  Email me at Julia@julianeiman.com to schedule a free call.  The webpage for this program is currently under construction.  The new coaching program is scheduled to being Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and I’m offering a substantial discount for early registration.

0 Search for Your Passion by Asking Yourself These Ten Questions

Yesterday we looked at why it is important to build your business around your passion.  It’s this passion for your work that is your rudder and provides the motivation to keep moving forward.

Here are ten questions to start you on your passion quest.If money were not an object, what would you do all day long?

 Is there anything that makes you feel really good while you do it?

 What activities are you doing when the hours just fly by?

 How could you help other people by doing what you love?

 What contribution are you here to make?

 What difference do you feel you were put on the planet to make?

 What specific group of people (niche) can your passion serve?

 How will you make your mark in the world?

 What will your legacy be?

Were you able to answer all the ten questions?  Do they give you any insights as to what you are passionate about that you can create a business with?

Learn about my new group coaching program, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs where I train adults who work with teens and young adults to teach them to become entrepreneurs.  Email me at Julia@julianeiman.com to schedule a free call.  The webpage for this program is currently under construction.  The new coaching program is scheduled to being Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and I’m offering a substantial discount for early registration.

2 Not Having Passion in Your Business – The Third Mistake that Blocks Success

Passion is an important asset in business.  It is the fuel that keeps the fire burning, it is a great motivator and the energy that gets you out of bed in the morning. 

Passion creates momentum.

People find it very difficult to say no to passion.  Clients, prospects, and employees will all sense your passion and want to be a part of it.  Passion is contagious.

In my own experience, when the agency I worked for went bankrupt and I was unemployed, I decided that I never wanted to work for someone else ever again.  It was my time to shine and build something for myself.  I thought it would be easy to take the cumulative experience of my many years of working with youth to develop a business.  I worked hard at learning how and then structuring the business using what I know.

After a while, I discovered that I was creating all sorts of road blocks for myself.  When I stopped to analyze why that was happening, I realized that I wasn’t really excited about recreating my job as an entrepreneurial business.  I love my work, but there was a lot about the job that I didn’t like at all.

I thought long and hard about what part of my job I really loved and when I hit on the answer to that, my whole being changed and I felt energized and excited about moving forward.  Now when I talk to people about what I do, they almost always remark about the passion they feel I have for my work.

If you are just starting out or have been trying to get your business up and running for awhile, it might serve you well to take some time and figure out if you love what you are doing.  If not, try to focus in on the aspects of your work that you love and build your business around that.  You’ll find satisfaction and success a lot faster that way.

To learn more about The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs program, email me at Julia@julianeiman.com to schedule a free call.  The webpage for this program is currently under construction.  The new coaching program is scheduled to being Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and I’m offering a substantial discount for early registration.

4 Not Getting Clear – The Second Mistake in Business that Blocks Success

The second most common mistake new solopreneurs and small business owners make is not having clarity around various aspects of their business.  Without having a clear vision of who, what, where and when regarding your business, you will most likely spend a lot of time marketing and trying to get your message out and not attracting the people you should be targeting.

It’s fairly easy to embrace the entrepreneurial spirit.  Having a clear, distinct, mapped out path is the hard part.  At times you may feel as if you are not disciplined.  More times than not, it is an uncertainty on your destination.  If you did know where you were going, you probably would know what you had to get done.  If you do not know where you are going, no road will get you there.  Ask yourself, what can I do better than anyone in the world?

Define what you want with absolute clarity – You must know what you want before you can go after it. More than just wanting a goal or ideal you must want and accept the feelings, emotions, thoughts, freedom and/or obligations that will certainly accompany your goals.  Begin to think about why you want this thing, what it will mean to you.

• What will meeting this goal look like, feel like, and how will it change
  your life?
• Do you know what it will take to meet this objective?
• What are the costs?

Many times people want something but only think about the good things that will come from having attaining it.  You must be very honest about the sacrifice and hard work that will be required to attain this goal.  Without question everything worthwhile will require sacrifice.

Take the time in your business to define your goals, to create a visual of your end result, to identify your target market and more.

Brian Tracy, one of the world’s leading authorities on personal and business success says this about clarity, “Clarity – Eighty percent of success comes from being clear on who you are, what you believe in and what you don’t.”

Are you clear on what’s at the end of your road?

To learn more about The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs program, email me at Julia@julianeiman.com to schedule a free call.  The webpage for this program is currently under construction.  The new coaching program is scheduled to being Tuesday, November 5, 2013 and I’m offering a substantial discount for early registration.

2 Making Difficult Choices in Business

Sometimes we get so busy doing things that we think are necessary for our business and often they are.  However, there comes a time when we have to step back and ask ourselves these questions:

Are the things I am doing enhancing my business or taking away from it?

Is doing these things the best use of my time?

What can I be doing that would be more effective?

Right now I have just launched one product – The Youth Empowerment Telesummit Downloads and CDs which are also being posted at JV Zoo, I am launching my new book, Pick From the Passion: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs to Start a Business next week, and shortly after that I am launching my new year-long program, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs.

I’m very busy writing copy, posting on social media, and recruiting affiliates to help me sell these products and blogging.  I am also an affiliate for other people who are launching their new things right now as well.  I’ve been promoting some of them like crazy because, after all, I would earn a commission on anything they sell as a result of my referral. 

Today I had to step back and ask myself if this is a good use of my time?  And actually, it isn’t.  I did have a few referrals sign up for a free webinar I’ve been promoting and hopefully they will sign on to the paid course that follows or buy some product from the seller.  It’s great product, fabulous information too, but the majority of the folks that follow me aren’t looking for this information, so the chances are that they won’t buy.  Still, I couldn’t say no to this promotion.

Another friend in an entirely different field – health – is promoting her new program and she’s been promoting for me, so reciprocating is a no brainer.  Besides, most of my followers are interested in health and how to reduce stress, as am I.  That makes more sense to me, so watch for these promotions because I’ll be posting them soon.

The answer to my questions is that doing other promotions right now is NOT the best use of my time for two reasons; one because it’s taking time away from creating copy and planning my own promotions, and two because all this work may or may not yield any return on the investment I’m making with my time.

My dilemma though, is that I can’t say no to these folks who are asking me to help because they help me.  So, I’m still promoting and hoping that will pay off in commissions, and I’m working longer hours and am more tired working on my own projects.

There aren’t always easy choices even when the answers to our questions tell us we should be doing something different.

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If you answered yes to any of these questions,

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6 I Am on a Mission to Empower Young Entreprenuers

I’m doing something really scary for me; I’m starting a global movement to end youth unemployment.  That’s right, GLOBAL!

With all of my heart, I believe that we need to step up and create some sort of income potential for our youth.  My friend Alan Miles of hmroomph.com wrote in my first book, 31 Powerful Lessons Empowering Teens and Young Adults to Develop an Entrepreneur Mindset,

“One of the challenges of the next decade is how we’re going to create enough jobs – especially for young people.  Recession or no recession, the nature of work is changing, workforces are shrinking in the major companies, new patterns are emerging.

The most important is the growth of self-employment and new start-ups.  Already numbers in the US and across Europe are at record highs, and that’s where most of the growth in the employment market is coming from.  Some commentators predict that half the US workforce could be employed in micro-businesses by 2020.”

Alan is a human resources consultant and achievement management specialist so he knows what he speaks of and speaks of it with some insight.

I believe that is incumbent upon us as parents, teachers, life skills professionals, coaches, and mentors to empower our youth to develop an entrepreneur mindset.  We need to start in elementary school.  There are many examples of young kids, ages eight and nine and up, who have had a great idea and with the support of the adults in their life have created a successful business so it can be done.

It starts with a mindset. That is why I developed a training course for adults who either currently work with youth or want to develop a youth centered business. 

My certification course, The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint – Empowering Young Entrepreneurs, includes the materials you’ll need plus weekly calls, plus personal coaching sessions with me plus a FREE FOR LIFE membership in our members forum where you and can stay connected, receive support, further training, tools and mentoring to stay on track and build a successful business.   We also provide a site for your clients to mastermind with each other and receive free training and mentorship.

There is also an optional module on how to build a youth centered business – where and how to find clients and support in doing that.

The program is suitable for anyone who works with young people whether in a classroom, through an service provider agency, in a life skills program or private coaching business, after school program, summer camp or other venue.

There is an investment required for this course.  Some might say the fee is high, however, when you realize that this one time investment provides support, masterminding and ongoing training for as long as you want it, and that part of the proceeds are funding the global movement and will train volunteers who work with homeless youth for free, then you realize that this investment is actually a bargain; a bargain not only in your own career and for your clients or students, it is an investment in economic independence for young people around the world.

The Monetize Your Passion Blueprint: Empowering Young Entrepreneurs will be launching in a few weeks.  Until that time, you are welcome to contact me at julia@julianeiman.com for more information, or check at this blog site on the services page.  Anyone who enrolls prior to the official roll out of the program will receive a huge discount.  I also have a generous affiliate opportunity so get in touch now, before the program launches and the huge discount decreases.

Join me on this global mission and together let’s have a huge, positive impact on the youth unemployment crisis.

Own the amazing content filled series The Youth Empowerment Telesummit.  This program will provide you with practical, easy to implement strategies to engage the tweens, teens and young adults in your life to improve communication, build trust, and empower them with life skills.

0 What is Being Asked?

I was just checking in with some of the groups I’m involved with on one of the social media sites and left with a take-away that is a great lesson for young entrepreneurs or anyone really.  Briefly, one person asked if anyone had suggestions on what skills to teach young people before they leave home to live on their own.

Immediately, as a life skills professional, I thought of at least 20 things that I could list for her.  Not wanting to repeat what others contributed, I read all of the replies.  My immediate thought was, “huh?”

Interestingly enough, not one of the replies provided what she was asking for.  Each and every person who responded gave her a list of core values that kids should have to be a good person; things like courage, perseverance, integrity, honesty and other such qualities.

“Hmmm,” I thought, I wrote a book about all these things – 31 Powerful Lessons Empowering Teens and Young Adults to Develop An Entrepreneur Mindset, yet, I didn’t get the sense that this is what the poster was asking about.  She said “skills” not values or qualities.  I had to wonder if maybe I had misunderstood what she was asking for because all of these other people were answering the same way.

Then, the poster appeared again and thanked everyone for their thoughtful answers and asked if they could now provide some simple skills like how to do laundry.  That made me laugh because I had been doubting myself and wondering if all these seemingly unrelated answers were what she was looking for.

Only one of the previous posters came back and suggested she teach them how to use a bank.  I posted my reply listing about 20 skills.

So, you are probably wondering what my take away is? It is just that you should be very sure what someone is asking for  before you answer because someone like me, who does understand, will come along behind you and wonder why you didn’t get that question before you provided an unrelated answer.  You then appear as some who is confused, unsure, or disconnected.  If you aren’t sure, ask the poster for clarification.  It’s a good lesson that we often see the world from our point of view, but that isn’t necessarily what someone else is asking for.

I think it comes down to being a good reader in the same way you need to be a good listener.  Take a moment to really read what is being asked and if what you want to say really answers the question or not.  This poster specifically asked about “skills” not values or qualities.  She was looking for answers that included teaching kids to cook, how to search for an apartment and understand a rental agreement, how to buy and care for clothes, how to access health care, and so one.

What would you have provided as an answer to her question?  Do you know the difference between skills and values?  An entrepreneur would certainly know the difference.

4 Book Recommendation: Success is a Decision; Leaders Create the Life They Want to Live

I am so pleased to tell you about this fabulous book created by my friend, Dr. Linette Montae (formerly Linette Daniels) of EmpowerMoreYouth.org and her very talented daughter, Danette Nixon of EmpoweringYouthForSuccess.com.  Together they are known as The Youth Success Duo.

Success is a Decision; Leaders Create the Life They Want to Live was designed to help tweens and teens learn to think things through, make good decisions, set goals, develop problem solving skills and become self-empowered.  In other words, empower them to develop a success mindset.  If you know me at all, you know that I am about developing a positive mindset, an entrepreneur mindset in my case.  The success mindset is very important to an entrepreneur so this book is a natural for me to recommend.

This book isn’t for reading  – it’s food for thought.  There is a quote for each day of the year followed by two questions.  The first question on each page is “What does this quote mean to me?”  The question is followed by space to write a response.

The second question varies from page to page.  Here’s an example – the quote for July 13 is, “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.” Earl Nightengale.

The two questions are “What does this quote mean to me?” and “What is the consequence if I don’t follow this quote?”

Other questions include “what am I committed to. . .” “how can I apply. . .” “what have I noticed. . .”

These are questions designed to make the reader think about what the quote means and how it might apply to them; how they can use the wisdom from the quote in their daily life.

These quotes were hand-picked from hundreds of quotes these two ladies read through.   Each one was deliberately chosen because it conveyed a great message, core value or life skill concept and is meant to provide young people with deep thoughts to ponder and figure out how they will benefit if they apply the message to their own life.

When reading through the book, I found myself answering the question so you might want to order two copies, one for the young person in your life and one for yourself.  You can purchase this book and learn about their other products in the store at their website, http://empoweringyouthforsuccess.com/store/.