2 Reasons Your Spouse Doesn’t Support Your Business
27 Jan

2 Reasons Your Spouse Doesn’t Support Your Business

By Lisa In Blog, Entrepreneur, Mindset, Shop Talk, Work Life Balance /   7 Comments

What are you supposed to do when the person you love more than anything in the world doesn’t support your business?

This question comes up often and, while it leaves me feeling caught between a rock and hard place, it makes a great topic for my Shop Talk series. Who am I to tell you what to do when your spouse doesn’t support your business goals? I’m not a relationship expert, but what I can tell you is that it probably stems from one of two things – and possibly a third, but that third one is a big outlier.

Let me tell you what my theory is…

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Need Answers? Be Still and Listen
03 Jun

Need Answers? Be Still and Listen

By Lisa In Blog, Business, Entrepreneur, Featured, Featured, featured-content, Work Life Balance /   7 Comments

“I say the universe speaks to us, always, first in whispers. And a whisper in your life usually feels like ‘hmm, that’s odd.’ Or, ‘hmm, that doesn’t make any sense.’ Or, ‘hmm, is that right?’ It’s that subtle. And if you don’t pay attention to the whisper, it gets louder and louder and louder.

I say it’s like getting thumped upside the head. If you don’t pay attention to that, it’s like getting a brick upside your head. You don’t pay attention to that—the brick wall falls down. That is the pattern that I see in my life and so many other people’s lives. And so, I ask people, ‘What are the whispers? What’s whispering to you now?” — Oprah Winfrey

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Social Media Burnout
15 Apr

Social Media Burnout

By Lisa In Blog, Featured, Featured, featured-content, Marketing, Social Media, Work Life Balance /   2 Comments

Social media is a tool. It is a tool to help you build relationships and connect with others online. It’s open twenty-four hours a day and, if you own a smartphone, you may find you are highly connected which makes you a prime candidate for social media burnout.

You may be finding that you are too connected and without even realizing it, social media may be consuming your life.

You wake up in the morning, grab your phone, scroll through Facebook, check Twitter, back to Facebook, read notifications, click on a post that captures your attention, check Instagram, LinkedIn, back to Facebook and suddenly you realize you’ve just lost an hour of your day.

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Why Hire People to Do What You Know How to Do?
28 Aug

Why Hire People to Do What You Know How to Do?

By Lisa In Articles, Ask Lisa, Blog, Business, Entrepreneur, Featured, Featured, Human Resources, Leadership, Work Life Balance /   No Comments

Do you ever wonder why coaches hire coaches? Or wealthy people hire financial advisors? Or social media consultants hire other consultants?

People hire other people to help them do what they already know how to do for one big reason and it is the difference between getting slow or fast RESULTS.

Curious? And no… I am not asking you to hire me. That’s not what this is all about.

You know what to do already.

That isn’t the problem.

The problem is rationalization and procrastination, both of which take you away from doing exactly what you know you should do. It could also be a lack of confidence that is causing you to doubt yourself and that’s why you haven’t taken MORE action.

The MAIN reason you HIRE someone to help you is to get from point A to point B in the shortest period of time so that you can get RESULTS faster. 

You want to save yourself time, effort, possible failure, and you want to get results faster.

For example, you wouldn’t hire someone who is broke to teach you how to make money. You hire someone who has a proven track record making money so they can show you exactly how they did it so you can FAST-TRACK your own results.

That’s the ONLY reason to hire someone.

Let’s look at sales for example.

You should hire an objective person who is not caught up in day-to-day office politics, who doesn’t buy into the rationalization in your head, and who will help you to roll up your sleeves and get it done because getting it done means getting results faster.

They will encourage and CHAMPION you to get the sale and help you recover when you get a no.

Uber successful people hire others to help them do what they know how to do better and faster. Selling is a skill and for most small businesses, is typically the biggest gap that exists inside of your business.

This is a gap because YOU are the ONLY person really responsible for sales.

If you worked for a big corporation you would most likely have a Sales Manager or a VP of sales who would help you strategize and figure out the best game plan to get RESULTS.

You hire someone to help you do this when you are self-employed because it works on any scale whether small business or giant corporation.

In The Sales Pilot segment of the Pilot To Profit Program one of the things you will learn how to do is change your whole mindset around sales and money. You will learn a step-by-step system that you can follow for selling. You will be challenged to sell more than you have ever sold before and to share your results with the other members of the program.

For a small investment, you could literally change the course of your results in less than two months.

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