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- The List About You. - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe have a critical message for you today. It will take you 60 seconds to read it. Don’t say there’s not enough time. For you or someone else (share it), this message will be life-changing. A few truths we’d like to remind you of: Asking to get paid when you’ve earned it is not ...
Views: 1742(1 vote) - GET SPECIFIC ABOUT YOUR HEALTHY LIFE - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe wrapped last time with you writing some action steps that you are willing to commit to in order to make your health a priority in your life. Its all part of our Building Your Legacy series. Today, we are going to get even more specific with some tips and tools to increase your muscle, ...
Views: 1909 - BACKING INTO THE MONEY - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe’re still in the Career category of the Building Your Legacy Series, so today is going to be fun! Why? Because we are talking about money and how to make it! This, perhaps surprisingly, is one of the most neglected conversations we see with women entrepreneurs. But we’re going to be clear ...
Views: 1544(1 vote) - WHO’S IN? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHO’S OUT? - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaIf your friends are making things feel like too much work and things are going nowhere, its time to unfriend. We are continuing our discussion in the Building Your Legacy series today. If you are here for the first time, start here. If you are ready to add on, we are building on the last ...
Views: 1607 - YOUR ENTOURAGE MATTERS. - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaToday, we are moving on to another category in our Building Your Legacy series: Friends & Colleagues. As we’ve said before, these are in no particular order of importance. We’ll spend plenty of time talking about your Career, your Health, your Finances, your Faith & Love, your Family, and the ...
Views: 1706 - FAMILY MATTERS. - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe are moving to the Family Category today. (Yes, even posted a pic from a favorite family weekend of Aly’s here). We were tempted to jump into the Career or Financial Category, but we want to cover Family first because when you begin to shape your career brand, you will want to first be clear ...
Views: 1826 - HOW TO MAKE HEALTH HAPPEN - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaBusted. It doesn’t just happen. You have to take action and make choices to make your health a priority- especially when you’ve tied it to your legacy. This is personal growth 101. Oh YEAH, we forgot to mention: Aly is a former nationally certified personal trainer and has a degree with ...
Views: 1728 - A Dozen+ Free or Low-Cost Resources for Entrepreneurs - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe know what its like to be an entrepreneur. Like all businesses, you’re just trying to increase revenue and decrease expenses. Meanwhile, it’s just you juggling it all… or at best, you have a few folks helping now and then…which of course does the opposite of decrease expenses if you don’t see ...
Views: 1629 - How To Build Your Coaching Practice - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe think coaches are great. We believe everyone should have them. In fact, even having been named “among the best coaches in the nation,” we still hire coaches ourselves. So it goes without saying that many of our clients are coaches, too. It sounds easy: Know what you know, share it with ...
Views: 1691 - 7 Reasons Why You Should Just Say No - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaYou know what its like. You’re racing around the office to get that last stack tackled- yes, the one that your boss just handed you 5 minutes ago, even though you needed to be driving home 10 minutes ago. As you race, two colleagues fly in and ask “if you have just a minute” to review the 43 ...
Views: 1633 - Self Help: When and How to Un-Friend in Your Life - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe are not beating around the bush today. If you want your business to limitlessly grow to both big profits and big fulfillment, you have to start with what makes you joyful. Including the people around you. So we gotta’ ask: Why are you agonizing over that consuming “friendship” that exists in ...
Views: 1667 - At Home Businesses for Women: Soapbox Warning - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe get it. You work from home, so you have a free pass to spend the day in your pajamas behind the computer while juggling loads of laundry and dishes, right? Wrong. Fair warning, we are about to be on our soapbox and hold you accountable for the way you operate your business. If that makes ...
Views: 1763 - Give it Up: Converting Free Consults Into Paying Clients - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe sometimes offer free coaching sessions for particular group members, promotions, etc. If we didn’t convert them to paying clients, we’d lose buckets of time and money by giving away freebies. So its our job to serve them, and convert them, so they can continue to grow their businesses ...
Views: 1580 - In Business and Life, What Not To Do - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWe spend a lot of time helping choreograph your World Tour of Success by sharing tips and resources with you. But today, we want to walk with you on your journey and share with you a few things "NOT" to do. Understand the value in knowing what you don't know yet, and that far outshines what we ...
Views: 1550 - AND THE GREATEST OF THESE….IS LOVE - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaThe need to love and be loved is one of the 6 basic human needs we teach about in our Heart & Sold series. Because the need to love and be loved is so fundamental to humanity, it often explains the motivations behind our behaviors. We act in certain ways…. we do and don’t do things often for the ...
Views: 1656 - YA GOTTA’ HAVE FAITH - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaCircling back to the Faith category in our Building Your Legacy series. If you have been riding along in the series, you already spent time a few days ago defining what role faith would play in your life. It was a highly personal reflection, and we hope that you did not let any one or ...
Views: 1558 - THE LOVE TUNNEL - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaHave you taken the Love Language quiz? We hope so! This article will be quick, really to just get you straight to your work: Define what you want your love relationships to look like. Write a separate definition for the top 3-5 relationships in your life. This definition cannot be a “what it ...
Views: 1672 - WHY WE DID THIS SERIES: HOW DO I FIND MY LIFE’S PURPOSE? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaAs motivational speakers and mentors, one of the most common questions we hear is, “How do I find my life’s purpose?” The answer is simply that we all have one unifying purpose. Our purpose is to teach each other and to protect each other. That’s it. From an evolutionary perspective, if we ...
Views: 1430 - Leading a Visionary Life Does Not Require Eyesight - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaAndrea has another eye surgery next month. This one is unique because it will be to remove a cataract that is progressing in her left eye….the only eye that she has any vision in. Typical cataract surgery is routine, but Andrea’s other conditions and eyesight limitations make this surgery ...
Views: 1562 - On Being Sad - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaThe funeral was Friday. Perhaps you read our last post, so you knew it was coming. We knew it was coming, too, after a 15 month battle with cancer…but it was still beyond painful. Our dearest friend of nearly 30 years is gone. He was 39 and leaves behind a 16 year old son and a 9 year old ...
Views: 856 - On Being Joyful - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaWell, you knew we couldn’t have yesterday’s post, “On Being Sad,” without having today’s post: On Being Joyful. That’s because when “Sad” happens, it is in large part as a consequence of our circumstances. Something has occurred, or some one has behaved in a way that perhaps brought sadness. But ...
Views: 1585 - The Letter - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaDear Incredible You, Yes, you. The one reading this. We are just stopping by to remind you how beautiful you are. No matter what circumstances exist, and no matter what others say, you are beyond beautiful. Your imperfections and the times you failed are what make you that way. See, your ...
Views: 1796 - Turn Victim into Victorious - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaYou are not a victim. The word itself is defined as “something or someone harmed by an act or circumstance.” The word is one of our least favorite words in the English language because it implies such helplessness. In the case of a violent crime victim, for example, the very idea puts our ...
Views: 1851 - It’s Not About Your Circumstances, Already! - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaI’m not waiting for the circumstances to get better. I’m simply using them as stepping stones through rough water. See, the break in our blog posts lately have not been without reason. On the trail of Andrea’s journey with her prosthetic eye, this week has set off yet another series of ...
Views: 1717 - How to Stay Motivated - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2012 from Aly and AndreaIt might be the number one question we are asked. “How do I stay motivated when I have all this bad stuff happening?” Its code for: “How do I get happy when everything is crappy?” One of the most difficult things about obstacles in your life is that they are often have the appearance ...
Views: 1883 - Have and Have Not... What We Should Have Learned in First Grade - by Submitted on May 06, 2010 from Aly and AndreaWhen Andrea taught first grade, her students would often jostle for the coveted position at the front of the line. Anyone that was “less than” first in line would complain about their position. This is what seven-year-olds do. And guess what? It doesn’t change much as we grow into adults. We ...
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