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Business startup advice, tips and strategies for female entrepreneurs. Deciding whether entrepreneurship is right for you? Why do women start businesses? What motivates anyone to dive into entrepreneurship with her heart and soul? How do you know whether business ownership is right for you?

It's been said that behind every successful entrepreneur is a passion - a passion to create, a passion to express, a passion to fulfill a dream.

The answers to these questions are as varied as the 10.6 million privately held businesses in the United States that are at least 50 percent woman-owned. These businesses generate $2.5 trillion in sales and employ 19.1 million people, according to the Center for Women's Business Research in Washington, D.C., founded as the National Foundation for Women Business Owners. And each owner has her own story.

What Are Your Success Anchors?

Written by Liz Dennery Sanders. Posted in Entrepreneur? Got What It Takes

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There are many ways to reinforce your path to success

 

For entrepreneurs and executives alike, it can be challenging to stay positive, focused and motivated when times are tough. Women owned businesses should know that whether it's a client behaving badly, the loss of a big account or a dip in the economy, it can be hard to remember why you're in it for the long haul.

We all need reminders about why we are doing what we are doing. When we see them we recall our own strength, determination and vision. I call these success anchors. When the waves are rough and the boat is in jeopardy of tipping over, we need the anchor to keep us grounded.

There are many ways to reinforce your path to success and stay on track. Here are a few of my favourites:

Create A Vision Board

Find images, words, quote, etc. that motivate and inspire you and put them up collage-style somewhere that you will see them every day. What do you aspire to? Perhaps you want to be on Oprah or speak to a room of 1000 people. Find pictures of those things and put them on your vision board. Spend just a few minutes a day looking at your board and really get into the "feeling" of it all happening.

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How To Manage Entrepreneurial Overwhelm

Written by Liz Dennery Sanders. Posted in Entrepreneur? Got What It Takes

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The secret to success as an entrepreneur is to balance your tremendous drive

 

Part of being an entrepreneur is juggling many things at once - projects, deadlines, people and opportunities. You have a never ending (and always growing) to-do list. Do you ever feel like you want to hit the pause button and yell from the rooftops, "Whoa, stop, I want to get off!" I sure do.

As an entrepreneur, you consume lots of information, learn new things, start new projects and don't want to feel like you're ever missing out. I have found this to be a recipe for disaster if not managed and balanced with a little decompression. It's a huge fallacy that if you are not working you're not being productive. Some of my best ideas have come when I am relaxed. And the truth is, we're much more focused and energized when we give ourselves time to rest and rejuvenate.

Here's the deal: If you're always "on" - always producing, thinking, analyzing and doing, you're going to burn out. You're going to feel tired, frustrated, scattered and maybe even depressed. The secret to success as an entrepreneur is to balance your tremendous drive, creativity and "doing-ness" with some unplugged time. Hey, I didn't say it was going to be easy, but it's absolutely necessary if you want to maximize your potential and really thrive.

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In Business It's All About Diversity

Written by Eva Gregory. Posted in Entrepreneur? Got What It Takes

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Diversity and your business

 

Have you ever found yourself bored with life, of the "Same Ol" thing, or the repetition of a job that just does not make your engine rev? Did you know that there are many people plagued with the same challenge?

The quest for how to make life more exciting. Surprisingly, the same answer works for those looking for a bit of a change in life, and for those looking to safeguard their lifestyle, in a word - diversity.

Diversification - a word familiar to most successful entrepreneurs; is a rule of thumb for not being caught by surprise. To find many things to invest money in, or different types of services to perform, so that if the bottom falls out of one market, project, or client all is not lost. It is the foundation for "multiple streams of income," a phrase that has become very popular in the last several years as more and more people search for avenues to make money and build financial security. An example of multiple streams of income is someone who is an actor, a director, a producer, and a writer. Always having something to fall back on when something else may not pan out.

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