She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur
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She Means Business: Turn Your Ideas into Reality and Become a Wildly Successful Entrepreneur
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Overview
Are you ready to turn your ideas into reality and build a wildly successful business?
There has never been a better time to say yes! With a computer and an Internet connection you can get your ideas, messages, and business out there like never before and create so much success.
In this book, Carrie Green shows you how. Carrie started her first online business at the age of 20—she knows what it’s like to be an ambitious and creative woman with big dreams and huge determination . . . but she also knows the challenges of starting and running a business, including the fears, overwhelm, confusion, and blocks that entrepreneurs face. Based on her personal, tried-and-tested experience, she offers valuable guidance and powerful exercises to help you:
• Get clear on your business vision
• Move past the fears and doubts that can get in the way
• Understand your audience, so you can truly connect with them
• Create your brand and build a tribe of raving fans, subscribers, and customers
• Manage your time, maintain focus, and keep going in the right direction
• Condition yourself for success
. . . and so much more!
If you’re a creative and ambitious female entrepreneur, or are contemplating the entrepreneurial path, this book will provide the honest, realistic, and practical tools you need to follow your heart and bring your vision to life.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781781808870 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Hay House Inc. |
| Publication date: | 02/21/2017 |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Sales rank: | 485,535 |
| File size: | 3 MB |
About the Author
Read an Excerpt
IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU
In 2011, when I created my Mission: Success Challenge, I knew the first thing I had to do was work on myself. I knew that I had to take 100 percent responsibility for my life, my dreams, my goals, because I was the only one who could show up for them.
In my experience, working on yourself – conditioning yourself for success – is far more important than any business strategy, because if you don’t have the right mindset you’ll get in your own way and won’t be able to create the success you want.
So, the first step in turning your ideas into reality and becoming a wildly successful entrepreneur, is to look inward.
That’s what we’re going to do right now.
When I set off on my Mission: Success Challenge, one of the things I realized early on is this:
As entrepreneurs, the one thing we have to keep on doing is showing up for our dreams and our ideas, because we’re the only ones that can turn them into reality.
However, the problem is that we’re constantly getting in our own way. Whether it’s our fears and doubts, or the fact that the people surrounding us don’t think we can do it, or because we think we don’t have the time or the money, or the know-how to make it happen. Whatever the challenge, we often choose to think that we can’t get around it.
But, in order to succeed, we have to be prepared to push past all of the resistance –fear, overwhelm, chaos, lack of time, money, and any other obstacles that get in our way – in order to show up and say confidently, ‘Hello dream, let’s be a team. I’m here for you and will do all I can to put you out into the world.’
Even though we might be scared, we have to dig deep and show up.
We have to be prepared to do this right at the beginning of our entrepreneurial journey and keep on doing it, because we’re forever coming up with new ideas and dreams along the way, in order to grow and flourish.
Every single part of our entrepreneurial journey will begin as an idea that will only become reality when we show up and bring it into the world.
Even writing this book was an idea that came to me one night while I was falling asleep, over four years ago now. At the beginning, I was so excited and inspired, and couldn’t wait to get writing. I wanted to show up, I was trying.
But the more I got into it, the more overwhelming, confusing, and messy it became. I began to doubt myself and procrastinate. I put the book off for a year. Then, one day, I received an email from a high-powered book agent in New York, who’d read my interview with one of her clients. She loved what I was doing with FEA and was really interested in working with me to create a book.
I was ecstatic! I’d already written a lot of the book so the timing seemed perfect, and it was the kick up the backside I needed to get on with it. So I sent her all my work so far, and she said, ‘Carrie, this is great, you just need to send me three expanded chapters and we’ll go from there.’
‘OK, I can do this!’ I thought, but weeks and months rolled by, and for whatever reason, I wasn’t showing up for it. I emailed her to apologize for the delay and she told me to take my time.
More months rolled by and at this point I was just embarrassed that I’d passed up such a great opportunity. I really wanted to write the book, but I kept coming up with reasons and excuses as to why I couldn’t, rather than just doing it. Bottom line: I was getting in my own way.
Another year went by and while I thought about the book on a regular basis, I didn’t take any action and when 2015 rolled around, I set my goals for the year and intentionally left the book off my list. I just couldn’t bear another year going by having my book on my list and still not writing it, while having it constantly weighing on my mind.
But, as I often find in life, the universe was clearly paying attention and was probably thinking, ‘Ha, you think you can just drop this? I don’t think so!’ because one morning in February, an email appeared in my inbox from the Commissioning Editor at Hay House, asking if I’d like to meet to discuss the possibility of doing a book with them.
I guess I was doing the book after all, but this time I showed up, I got out of my own way, and I took consistent action toward making this book a reality.
Life is constantly nudging all of us to play bigger, to share our messages, to turn our ideas into reality, to chase our dreams.
We were born to do great things and to dream big. If they can land men on the Moon, put robots on Mars, and fly space probes all the way to Pluto, you can achieve your dreams, and they’re probably a lot closer to home. The thing is, you’re the only one who can show up for them.
In life, we have so many amazing opportunities that come our way, so many dreams and ideas that we come up with, and we truly owe it to ourselves to make them happen. But so often we don’t grab all the opportunities. We don’t bring our ideas to life because we don’t show up for them.
We dwell on all the problems, rather than concentrating on all the solutions and opportunities. We get stuck in a routine where we hold ourselves back, procrastinate, and put our dreams on hold. They stay locked inside our minds, never seeing the light of day, even though we’d really love to put them out into the world.
So what’s the problem? Why do we do this?
Table of Contents
This is No Accident xii
Thank You Internet xv
She Sets Off on Her Entrepreneurial Journey xix
Part 1 She Shows Up for Her Dreams
It's All about You 1
You Are Your Biggest Problem 5
What It? 8
The Little Voice in Your Head 10
Overcoming Resistance: The Three Cs 13
Crack Yourself Open 16
Becoming Unstuck 19
Give Yourself Permission to Dream 22
Enroll in the University of Opportunity 27
Make the Decision to Be Curious 29
Bring Your Vision into Focus 34
Write It Down, Make It Happen 38
Create Your Future History 40
Hello, Google 49
The Doubts Creep Back in 51
Watch Your Thoughts 53
Be Willing to Choose Different Thoughts 56
Make Friends with Discomfort 58
Be Grateful for What You Have 65
Believe More 67
Ask the Universe for It 70
It's All Just an Experiment 74
The Checklist: She Shows Up for Her Dreams 76
Part 2 She Gets Herself Out There to Shine
Let's Talk Business 81
Even Though It's Hard, It's Simple 87
Step 1 The Heart and Soul 90
What's It All About? 90
Your Mission 92
What Do You Stand for? 95
Step 2 Your Audience 98
Who Are Your Audience? 98
You Can't Please Everyone 105
Step 3 Engaging Your Audience 107
How to Make Your Audience Fall in Love 107
Delight Your Audience 108
Expressing Your Brand 112
Communicating with Your Audience 114
Serving Your Audience 119
My First Creation 123
How Will You Add Value? 128
Be YOU 132
Step 4 Building Your Audience 135
The Internet Is Your Stage, Get Out There and Shine 135
Network Like Crazy 137
Thank You, Facebook 140
Finding Your Magic Formula 143
Step 5 Let's Talk About the Money 151
Move Past Your Money Blocks 151
How Are You Going to Make Money? 157
Your Growth Game Plan 165
Be Relentless 171
Moving Past Comparisonitis 173
Connecting the Dots Going Backward 175
The Checklist: She Gets Herself Out There to Shine 178
Part 3 She's Unstoppable
Honor the Process 181
You've Got to Have Persistence 184
Keeping the Faith 187
You've Got to Practice Like Crazy 191
Consistency Is the Key 194
How to Avoid Overwhelm 197
Growing a Team and Finding a Mentor 208
Gather Your Business Friends 215
Listen to Yourself 218
Don't Carry Your Mistakes Around with You 221
Celebrate the Wins 223
Take Care of Yourself 226
Resist the Urge to Keep Putting Things Off 228
When It All Feels Impossible… 229
You Are Here 234
It All Slots into Place Eventually 236
The Checklist: She's Unstoppable 239
Thank You 241
The 28-Day She Means Business Challenge 243
Acknowledgments 255
About the Author 259