For those of you blessed with loving and supportive partners or with money to invest in your business and fall back on, I salute you. For those of you out there struggling to juggle the innumerate demands on your time and energy and occasionally despairing at ever getting everything finished, you have my fullest sympathy and compassion.

Even those of you who can leverage their time with supportive family set ups, however, will still appreciate that time is a precious commodity and potentially every hour spent in the rest of your life outside of work can cost you dearly, if not in dollars, in terms of angst associated with separation from that lynch-pin in your life.

So why is it that so many would be women business owners are still not ‘making it’ on a par with their male counterparts? Well, rather than start to analyse societal barriers to success here – I talk about this at length in my supportive networks (meet me in WarriorForum.com) – today I want to fess up about a habit to which I am chronically prone and against which I battle on a daily basis… that being the spectre of Procrastination.

I am out of bed at 6am every morning, ablutions, sartorial arrangements and breakfast being complete on the hour, I am ready to set myself and pooch features up for the day (yes he is four-legged – I am single!) with our morning constitutional.

I find myself then ready to complete ironing my face and arranging my war paint for the outside working world by 8am. Shocking as this may seem to some, this two hour preparatory time is essential as a single working woman without means yet to make alternative dog-walking arrangements.

By 6pm my working day is finished and it seems that by the time dinner is over with and dishes are dispensed, twelve hours have already elapsed.

I look forward to the day when I return to merely working for myself in order to create the kind of leverage that I need to effectively delegate some of the domestic responsibilities to an employee. Meantime, like so many women who are self-employed part-time, who do not have children and receive state support, or are unfortunate enough not to have means to not work for another for the mainstay of the day, my energies for my own enterprise are depleted somewhat by the taxes on my time imposed by financial commitments which have to be met to maintain domestic stability.

Something has to give and more often than not, the risk is that I let my dreams of financial freedom and power over my time slip in order to pay my bills consistently. This wage slavery is common and added to by those other factors which determine womens’ days are made shorter.

At such times, I feel it to be both a blessing and a curse to be single; right now I at least get to determine freely what time I do have, albeit this is tempered by the need for me having to under-take all of the domestic responsibilities, which could so easily be shared (even if not completely evenly!)

My determination to break free of drudgery and mediocrity keeps me tapping away here and edging forward with my internet dreams… little by little. I feel so close to that fresh grass on the other side, I can taste it on this side of the fence!

My naps and pottering around the home is in decline, my television gone, my family responsibilities and guilty pleasures are coming back under control. It’s time to press ahead once more. It’s Summertime almost and I have been working at my internet marketing for a year now.

My results are not as great as I would have them, but I am still learning and very close to earning. It’s a matter of decision and remembering my reasons why I chose my radical departure from my past professional life.

I have been re-reading T. Harv Eker again (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind). He’s right, this past few months I have allowed procrastination and excuses to creep into my habits and have stood in the way of progress. Well I am declaring here again today that my persistence is about to become stronger again, because I have re-found my purpose and belief.

And here’s the real clincher people… Remembering one’s reasons why. Here’s what I mean… Last year I wrote 66 reasons why I wanted to become rich… I was on my way to writing 100 reasons, when I put the book away because my drive had become so strong by then. Since then numerous personal challenges have chipped away at my persistence at building my business.

I am one year on from deciding to go independent… as good a time as any to take stock.

Tonight I am going to dig out my 66 reasons why I want to become rich and what’s more, I am going to read them out loud to my dear sister and declare my deadline for becoming one of the many online millionaires. Speaking one’s desires commits you to pursuing them… Especially when I know my sister, Sarah will hold me accountable if I let myself down…

Here’s a glimpse for you, reader of three of my reasons for wanting to become an independent woman business owner:

1 I want to be accountable to nobody but myself and the team that I choose to work with.
2 I want to be free to buy whatever personal indulgence I like, whenever I like, without thinking of my budget
3 I want to put all of my skills and knowledge to work and find out what I am really worth

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The British Elections are over… at least for now… Chances are that we are about to enter a protracted period of instability and decline as never experienced before in British economic history. Now these days I understand the power of negative perspective and thinking, every day I choose my glass to be at least half full! But financial instability against an uncertain political backdrop is inevitable.

The middle classes are set to disappear from the map in the next twenty years or even less. For the past thirty years, the post war optimism has been giving way to a trend towards increased polarisation between rich and poor. Twelve years of a Labour Government committed to the eradication of poverty and explicitly legislating to decrease inequality in society has succeeded in merely tinkering at the edges.
The writing is on the wall for those who choose to look and bear the pain and weight of that reality.

Modern gangsters and crooks do not wear stripey vests and wear eye masks or stockings over their faces; they wear the finest Saville Row suits, are financially educated and occupy seats of power. Their risk is spread and tentacles far reaching.

During the electioneering, little was spoken of the depth of crisis Britain and western nations are in. The implications of the economic circumstances of Greece’s bail out by the IMF ($11 billion!), Spain, Italy and other EU nation difficulties are barely understood by the average Joe, but the hunger to know what is really going on has never been greater.

Thatchers’ children are waking up to the reality that individual effort does not guarantee comfortable future prospects. Baby boomers are thanking their lucky stars that their pension schemes are at least guaranteed, even if their cost of living is not and the idealistic left leaners suffer in quiet desperation, wondering if we are all going to Hell in a handcart.

The truth? It is all out there is a giant, messy jigsaw, the pieces of which are scattered, but not irretrievable. Now is the time for you to gather in your scattered energies, spent keeping family, body and soul together during the economic crisis that has brought us all to such a time.

Right now, “the greatest wealth transfer in history” is taking place and those who want true self-empowerment need to know there are steps they can take to not be left behind. You can learn what is really happening in the economy, between the headlines and find out why some topics are excluded from general discussion. Be aware too, that no matter what the bad news is, there are industries which will prosper by working with the trends.

The same mistakes which led to the Great Depression are being repeated as we speak. At that time, the most millionaires that were ever created in history came through. Believe it or not, every minute nowadays, a millionaire is created. You can be one of them too, if you know which steps to take. Staying in the day job is a sure fire way to end up in a pauper’s grave after sacrificing your life to a stream of employers who are unlikely to thrive long enough to value you as a loyal worker.

In the coming years, money is predicted amongst those in the know, to flow away from the uninformed faster than any time ever before and into the bank accounts of those pulling the right strings. Consider for a moment… What you know and understand about money will determine whether you increase your wealth or are consigned to the struggling majority, increasingly in irreversible poverty. Every one of us is but a few thousand pounds from poverty. Any life-crisis can tip the scales forever. Tragically, this is more true now than ever before.

For those of you old enough to have spent many years building your nest egg, for security in your senior years… Avoid your hard-earned money in your retirement account being taken from right under your nose. Find out what the government is planning for your wealth in order to bolster their own legitimacy and avoid potential complete societal breakdown. This is no longer doom-mongering, but realistic projections of those in the know.

The rules of money making are changing forever even as you read this article. The question is whether you are prepared to look into the abyss and brace yourself against the winds of change threatening to blow you and millions of others like you into it. If you are in paid employment now, take a look at how long you are likely to be in that job or ask yourself how secure you feel.

There is only one way to gain control over your financial destiny now and that is to substitute the risks you already run for banking on yourself. Invest in your own future by seeking out businesses to invest in which are countering current trends.

You can certainly do worse than investigate network marketing and online businesses. Forget whatever you have heard about ponzi schemes and pyramid scams. There are truly successful businesses out there, where ordinary people, either by choice or by force of necessity, are learning a whole new skill set or building upon their existing professional experience and achieving incredible results, which fly in the face of the current economic downturn.

If you want to learn more, take a look at an article I have written on the pros and cons of network marketing.

Rest assured… We have not seen the last of the elections in the UK yet… And the longer the instability, the rockier our financial future as a nation… Joining the online entrepreneurial club makes more sense than ever now.

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Robert Kiyosaki and Robert Trump co-authored ‘Why We Want You To Be Rich’, in which this iconic, entrepreneurial duo identified network marketing as the door through which the ordinary man in the street can walk to un-dreamt of wealth.

In his latest analysis of wealth creation, Kiyosaki refers to the “eight wealth building assets” inherent in a network marketing business:

• Real world business education
• Profitable path to personal development
• Circle of friends sharing your dreams and values
• The power of building your own networks – rich people build networks; poor people look for work
• A duplicatable, fully scaleable business – very few business owners or entrepreneurs have
• Incomparable leadership skills
• Mechanism for genuine wealth creation
• Ability to build big dreams and have the capacity to live them

Couple this professional endorsement of the industry as a legitimate and viable vehicle to become wealthy together with the trend towards entrepreneurial investment in this lucrative business model and the moves of multinationals to embrace its growth potential and you have some pretty powerful reasons to investigate MLM or network marketing as an option for achieving your own financial freedom.

If you are presently investigating network marketing as a career for yourself and are somewhat bemused by the choice available to you to work from home nowadays and worry about making the wrong business investment decision, here’s some pointers as to what to start to consider during your research and selection process; see the first in my series of ‘Self Employed and Rich‘. Now, push the button for the fast lane…

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So now you have decided it’s time for some life changes in issues that matter the most to you. You took a huge step maybe from thinking it was impossible, to believing that perhaps… just maybe…it isn’t foolish to dream. It is possible to create the kind of lifestyle that is going to set you and your family free and help them get what they need for a happier, healthier and wealthier life.

So what now? What are your first steps on this road to changing your world and those of others? Well let’s be totally clear from the start… YOU need to be ABSOLUELY CLEAR in your own mind what it is you want to achieve in life. This is a mindset you will build all of your dreams and achievments upon. Set your goals for: short term, medium term and even long term, because when the going gets tough, you need to know exactly where you are in the process and which direction you are going in to stay focussed. In short, your mindset is crucial to you staying on course.

Let’s be frank here; if we can sometimes get tangled up in our own minds, we sure as hell are going to get tangled up when sailing in strange waters and drown!

So keep your mind and diary fixed on regular goal setting and decide to do whatever it takes to get what you want, however, uncomfortable or even costly in the short term. I promise you, I have been there and am not even close to land yet! But I can see it ahead and that is what counts, because I just keep steering towards it, whatever the heat or tides bring! If you want to sail out this way too, I’ll not be too far away to look out for you too!

So what about this dream you have to become wealthy and do so ethically? What has that to do with tides and attitude of mind? Well, the truth is that we are into turbulent tides these days – climate change is not just about the weather any more; there’s a global recession still going on. The market environment we are now in no longer offers simple solutions to putting your money where your faith is, especially if you want anything approaching an ethical investment . This new world order demands your bravery and constant commitment.

People are sceptical that business and entrepreneurs actually can – or even have the will to – do things differently; business ethics are way down the list when profits are squeezed . On one side your family and friends want to tell you that your new business start up is madness; what you are doing won’t work and the government is certainly making it damned difficult for the small business owner, what with taxation, complicated employment laws, red tape and regulation, yada yada yada.

Speaking for myself, I have to remember that my values are now connected stronger than ever to the market as an entrepreneur and I have to steer a careful route through the slip streams, by taking advice and even getting second opinions if in doubt. Independent business owners we may be, but none of us are in this alone; there are plenty of others out there who also want to do ‘good works’ with their wealth. There are more of us out there than we know who have come from nothing, but succeed through setting a goal and having the sheer determination to achieve the goals we set.

The business ethics systems, constraints and hoops to be jumped through are merely there because society agrees that the selfish pursuit of wealth for greed aline has to be reigned in and checked. Without constraint, too many people can get hurt. If that happens, all hell can break loose, just like the riots that spread form the USA and went on all over Britain all those years ago – and let’s be clear, today is not so different from the recession back then.

As entrepreneurs, so long as we stay out of where we do not belong, we will find ways through whatever daily struggle we are faced with in business. So for instance, it’s increasingly vital that we operate a more ethical business position, give good service to our customers and do no disservices to our competitors. Making a fast buck at others’ expense is no longer a viable way to do business, if you are in it for the long run. If your business is online, business ethics are even more crucial as reputations can burn on this fastest of media. Profits can be smashed on the rocks of even a single poor transaction… The net is potentially the equivalent of there being a meeting of all your neighbours to discuss your bad habits and deciding to have nothing further to do with you!

I recently heard a retired business man saying that we have to remember to celebrate when things go right for us in our business, because 95% of the time, things will go wrong in spite of our smart goal setting! This could have put me off; the very thing I was pouring all my passion and money into letting me down…

But the point is we only get one life and we can either sell it to someone else for a pittance, living month to month in misery and frustration, being constantly broke between pay cheques, or be free of all those endless daily compromises. I am convinced that the struggles I faced working for others as an employee were still so much bigger than ANY constraint I might have to face working for myself. And believe me when I say that I have had some pretty tough days since starting a business online!

My team have kept me moving in terms of my business goal setting. My business community want my success; I want theirs. We are accountable to each other through mutual commitment. Whilst I truly feel this in my heart and even in my guts, I also know that at last I am working with people who are not only working on their businesses, they are working on themselves too and their professional commitment is what makes the difference to my wanting to achieve better also. We know that we are all CONNECTED. The success of each is to some degree dependent on the next person; this forms the basis of our business ethics. This business is how life really is; it’s the web of life…

Greed and over-inflated egoism is not an issue in my new community. Blind self-interest has no place in a community committed to supporting each other. Even those earning incredible sums in this business have kept their humility, because they are grounded in a bigger vision of how they want the future to be for people other than themselves. They want something different and they are so committed to their dreams and passions of creating a community of millionaires online, that they are willing to do whatever is necessary to enlist others in their support network too.

It’s a beautiful thing, when you see this community mindset in action. Whenever I think about it, it gives me goose-bumps… I feel like the wind is in my sails and the sun is out and land is in sight. I just have to keep steering towards my goal and here’s the thing… setting and achieving my goals makes me immensely satisfied even when the sea gets choppy and I’m spitting out salty spray!

Our unchartered waters are the ocean that leads us to our brave new world and that of like-minds. Come on in the water’s lovely…

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Working with a business coach is one of the best investments you can make for yourself and your business, because your results are directly determined by your perspective and your approach. Participation in coaching means that you are forced to look at yourself and your business in a structured and more importantly take action in an explicitly accountable way.

Business coaches help you identify and clarify your goals, seek solutions, overcome challenges, and achieve your desired results. Ultimately, they help you get closer to your dreams. The business coaching relationship acts as a catalyst in helping you to achieve your results faster by exploring your ideas and plans in a focussed setting.

Business coaching is profitable because it is action-oriented. Gentle but systematic exploration and even painfully honest challenge and established accountability help you remove your own obstacles to progress, or find ways around circumstances that you cannot change in order to get closer to where you need to be to achieve greater success.

But effective professional coaching does not come cheap. So how do you get the most out of this investment in your business coaching and your professional guidance?

9 Ways To Get Business Transformation From Business Coaching