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T’is the season…

I’ve been decorating and shopping…

One of the things I love to do is come up with a great idea for someone and shop online…

And this is what brings me to this post…

I have to get this off my chest —

If you have your own business, I don’t care how small your business is…

I have 1 thing to say to you that could be the difference between success and failure (especially during the holiday season)!

MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU!

Please don’t make people have to jump through hoops to give you money for whatever you offer!

I don’t care how good your business or product is…

If it isn’t easy to give you my money, I’m gone and giving it to someone else…

Here’s an example:

I wanted to buy a gift certificate for someone in my family who lives accross the country.  I know that they love this one business in their area so I looked for the website –

• No website (Strike 1)

Then I looked them up online to get their number and called and left a message.  They called me back and said if I wanted a gift certificate they’d be happy to help but I need to email Susie (and then they gave me Susie’s email address.)

• Adding a step for me to take (Strike 2)

When Susie emailed me back she said she would be more than happy to create a personal gift certificate for me and that I could just swing by to get it and they accept payment in the form of cash or local check.

• Minimal payment options (Strike 3)

Keep in mind that I am more persistent than most people who would have stopped after strike 1 or 2.

What did I do?

I deleted Susie’s email and went to my second idea for a gift for this family member. I purchased it and had it on it’s way to me already gift wrapped in 5 minutes.

Please tell me you see the lesson here…

You could have the best business in the world but if you make it hard to do business with you, you will  lose that business…it’s as simple as that!

Look around you as you shop…

Notice the places that make it difficult and the places that make it easy and learn from each of them.

I notice this everywhere…stores, coaches, actors, entrepreneurs, people looking for jobs etc.

Start with that one goal in mind and see how you can adjust things…

And if you don’t have a business — how can you apply this principle to your life?

Leave me a comment of how you are going to apply this as of today!

Go Big!

Kristen

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Which are you?

At this time of year there tend to be 2 types of people…

(I’ve talked about this briefly before, but now that we are full swing into the holiday season, I want to really get into it!)

Most people have some changes and growth they want to experience in their lives…

And as I said, there are 2 types of people…

1. The type that sees the holiday season as a time to enjoy AND a time to get a jump start on moving themselves forward toward the changes they want to see in the new year so that when January 1st comes they already have a running start.

2. The type that sees the holiday season as a time to enjoy AND put on hold until January 2nd when they plan to immediately jump in and start working toward the changes they want to see in their lives.

So, which are you?

Please be honest…

Tell yourself the truth…

Are you ready to get a jump start on the New Year or have you already pressed the hold button on your life until 2010?

If you are ready to get a jump start, that doesn’t mean you have to go crazy and stop enjoying the holidays etc.

In fact I actually recommend taking small steps — we just want a running start not complete changes by January 2.

That’s why I gave you the 15 minute a day challenge between now and Dec 31.

Imagine how great it will feel to see some progress by the New Year instead of feeling like you are just starting as of January…

How great will that feel?

If you have the pause button on, you can un-pause it…

If you want to that is…

So…

Which are you?

Remember even the smallest running start is momentum…

I’m excited to help you gain that momentum…

Today we begin!

You are extraordinary!

Go Big!

Kristen

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Success in 15 minutes a day — will you commit to yourself?

Experiment time!

There are 39 days left in 2009…

I thought an experiment to see how far you can move forward while still enjoying the holiday season was appropriate!

First let me ask you this question…

If I told you that you could significantly move your life forward between now and January 1, 2010 and it would only take 15 minutes a day…

Would you commit to dedicating 15 minutes a day EVERY DAY for the next 39 days?

I’m going to assume you answered ‘Yes’!

So this is what we are going to do…

Starting today and going through Dec. 31, 2009 I want you to do 1 thing each day to move yourself forward…

Here are the rules:

• You MUST do 1 thing each day
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST take 15 minutes or less to do…
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST push your comfort zone
• The ‘Thing’ you do MUST make you feel like you have somehow moved yourself forward toward one of your goals

Got it?

It is up to you if you are going to focus on one area of your life to move forward for the next 39 days or if you are going to focus in several directions…

Either way, you WILL see a huge difference IF you absolutely commit to do this AND you follow through.

To help you out, I want you to leave a comment now stating that you are taking part in the challenge and what your focus is.  I also want you to tell me what it is you will do today.

This is another case of you are either in or you aren’t…

I know it’s tough love…but if you are just going to try to commit 15 minutes a day, you aren’t going to get where you want to go…

15 minutes…to move toward the life of your dreams…

• I KNOW you can do this…
• Commit to it now…
• Leave a comment…
• Tell me you’re in…
• Tell me your focus…
• Tell me what you will do today!

Have fun with this!!

YOU ARE EXTRAORDINARY!

Go Big!

Kristen

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