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Date: 2011.12.05 | Category: Women | Response: 0
Seriously can you imagine if somebody decided that this Christmas there would
not be cranberry sauce with the turkey? Even if it’s the canned stuff that’s
more like jelly than cranberries it’s the tradition that is important right? If
you’re like my family you have always had turkey with cranberry sauce at
Christmas and probably Thanksgiving too. It’s just what we do: I’ve never really
thought about it when I started to prepare my own festive meals until one of my
children balked at the idea of cranberries and turkey. Well mostly they balked
at the thought of eating turkey but the cranberries didn’t thrill them
either.
Here’s how the conversation went:
Me: “What do you mean you don’t want cranberries with the turkey? Wait you
don’t want turkey either?”
Child: “Mom you know I’m vegetarian I don’t eat turkey and the cranberries
are not organic and they’re full of sugar. I’m not putting that into my
body.”
Me: “But we’ve always had cranberries. My mom served it to us: all of our
relatives serve cranberries with turkey.”
Child: “I know mom but I don’t want any..no offence but it’s not my tradition
it’s your’s.”
Me: “But what’s mine is your’s….it’s always been that way…” voice
trailing off as I begin to question the whole concept of doing something “just
because.”
Child: “Mom I’m not having any. You can serve it if you want but I’m not
having any..”
Me: ” Ok…ok I get it you don’t want it…”
End of conversation but most certainly not the end of the thought process for
me. What did it mean to have traditions and why do we follow them? Is it simply
something we do because that’s the way it’s always been done?
That thought led to think about money and traditions and here’s what I’ve
come up with .
In my family the tradition was that money was hard to come by: money was
finite: money was something to be taken very seriously: money meant control and
a lack of money meant no control: money was to be saved for a rainy day…money
was a struggle that would never get easier.
You know what? I’m with my kids on this one: I’m throwing out the cranberry
sauce and the money traditions this year! I’m done with struggle and fear and
scraping by and making do….What about you? Do you have any money traditions
that you’re holding onto just because that’s the way it’s always been?
Speaking of traditions enjoy this piece from Time…
Now go be fearless.
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Date: 2011.11.28 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
Million dollar business ideas have no boundaries, age limits, race restrictions, time lines, or economic class. They can occur when you least expect them.
For psychologist Roger Adams, it occurred during a midlife crisis and divorce. For management consultant Mercia Tapping, it happened after a 10-year battle with allergies and the search for a cure. Ruta Fox was a freelancer running out of work when she said “Ah” to her “Aha” moment. Searching for the million dollar business idea is less a product of business planning and market research and more born from observation and frustration.
The Aha! Effect
It’s a flash of quick insight leading to an obvious answer, the proverbial light bulb moment, or eureka event. When it happens, your life will never be the same.
Roger Adams was burnt out and hated his job. On vacation in Huntington Beach, Roger was reminded of “a happier time watching the kids, working at the roller rink, and growing up as a kid around skating. Seeing kids going by on their in lines and skate boards and I thought there has got to be something new out there,” reflects Adams.
It was then the proverbial light bulb over the head occurred. “I got this idea for a shoe you could walk and roll on,” says Adams. He headed for the garage and started cutting up running shoes and placing wheels on them.
After putting together a few designs, Adams thought to put the wheel in the heel. Falling several times, Adams realized he had to stagger his feet to balance. “The fall and the getting up the 4th time is when the hair on the back of my head stood up and I had a vision like I never had before. I just knew this thing could be successful,” says Adams.
The eureka moment led to the creation of the running shoe with a built in wheel and a new sport called heeling. Texas-based Heeling Sports Limited has grown rapidly with sales in over 50 countries and is on track to reach over $40 million in 2005. Heelys is now one hot international trend.
Today’s million dollar business inpsiration is taken from About.com/small business information.
http://sbinformation.about.com/od/bizopportunities/a/milliondollar.htm
If you’re like Roger Adams in this article and are fed up with your job there are other choices available to you. When you’re stuck in the mud of despair it’s often too cloudy to see anything but more muck. Want a change? Don’t know where to start? Working with a life coach will offer you a new way to look at things: to shift your perspective: to clear away the mud. Want to try a sample session?
Contact life coach Jan to set up your time for a sample session. Isn’t it time? Aren’t you just tired of doing things that you hate doing? Contact Jan at jan@helpingmillionsmakemillions.com to set up your free session right away!
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Date: 2011.11.25 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
There are days when even I decide that I’ve had enough..ok well maybe not days but certainly minutes. I wonder if people like Oprah or Martin Luther King Jr. or Arlene Dickinson or Rick Hansen ever felt like throwing in the towel?
Don’t get me wrong here: I’m not projecting negative energy I hope what I am trying to do is step into the truth of never giving up on your dreams. In this case it’s my dream: my dream to teach a million women to uncover their passion: turn it into a profit and earn a million dollars doing what they love. This is not an overnight project for me or for any of the women involved. It’s not an easy to do project either: this takes hard work and commitment and these women are prepared to do both. They’ve drawn the line in the sand and they’re going for it…I admire their courage…
Helping Millions Make Millions is the movement and sometimes when I share that with folks: well they look at me kinda strange like perhaps I’ve just escaped from the hospital or I forgot to take my medication that day or I’m just plain delusional. Those folks probably gave up on their dreams a long time ago and I’m not going to let them be dream vampires to me..
I have a picture on my vision board that looks like a crowd of a million people: it’s from Martin Luther King Jr’s speech at Washington in which he is quoted ” I have a dream….” his famous speech and eventually it came true: this dream of dreams. That photo is my inspiration for my own dream of teaching a million women how to become empowered financially….”I have a dream” ” I have a movement” I continue to be inspired by the women who are already on this amazing journey: from teacher to dog walker/ from logistic transportation to dog groomer/ from stay at home mom to wellness masseuse/ from stay at home mom to teacher…They are my inspiration: thank you my friends for believing in your own dreams: for drawing the line in the sand and going for it no matter what. You keep me humble and grateful.
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Date: 2011.11.16 | Category: Women | Response: 0
When I was a teenager in high school I took several of the mandatory math classes. My preference was music and language but I had to take math if I wanted to graduate. Back then we had grade thirteen (yup I’m aging myself) I did pretty well in grade nine math but it wasn’t my favourite class for sure. Grade ten math was a nightmare. Apparently I liked nightmares back then because I was given the opportunity to repeat the nightmare for another year. For two years I tried to understand what the teacher was trying to teach. Here’s what I learned from this man who called himself a teacher.
1. If you weren’t a jock you didn’t count
2. If you were a female in his class you had one purpose: to be beautiful. (strike two on that one)
3. If you tried to ask questions you were called stupid or idiot or dummy and stood the chance of having the chalk eraser thrown at your head. ( I know because it happened to me until I learned to stop asking)
4. If you didn’t understand the work you sure as hell didn’t ask the teacher for help.
5. If you didn’t ask for help and didn’t understand you sure as hell had better not let the teacher know that he had failed at his job.
Bottom line: I stopped going to class and I failed grade ten math twice. Same teacher same class same failure.
In that class I came to believe that I didn’t know much about math which was ironic because my first full time job was at a bank. I stayed there for many years and moved up in the ranks fairly quickly. Actually I did understand math: I didn’t understand those teaching methods in grade ten: big difference.
Now about 40 years later here’s something you all should know.
The CBC did a documentary in March of this year called “The F Word” In it they quote the statistic that women compromise 53% of the population in the world and earn 1% of the wealth. Do the math ladies! That means 43% of the world earns 99% of the wealth!
I am pretty certain my math teacher from way back when would think that this statistic would actually be ok but I sure don’t. I hope you find this startling too: startling enough to want to change the numbers. You ready to be a change maker?
Women in business will be the ones to start up our ailing economy and here’s a cool and fun math kinda graph to show you how that all works. from Open Forum.
Women support local: women shop local: women support other women in business who support other women in business: well you see where I’m going with this. Women don’t just make money and hoard it they share it out: they support their communities and their communities don’t just survive they thrive. Want to be part of a movement like that? Want to be a woman who helps to change her entire community? If you’re not sure how to start but you know you have a great idea consider hiring a life coach to get you started on the right track.
Do the math ladies.What’s the elephant in the room? Women and wealth. We ARE the 99%: change that.
Now go be fearless. Jan
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Date: 2011.11.06 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
She flew off the back of a moving motorcycle but she doesn’t remember it. They tell her she flew thirty feet in the air and landed on her face. That accident was a year ago and she’s still trying to pull the pieces of her life together. She hasn’t been able to work because she suffers from the effects of a severe concussion. It’s likely she won’t be able to go back to the work she had been doing for the last 25 years.
I met her at the swimming pool today. We were both going to the same aqua fit class and I wasn’t sure where to go and she did so we walked together. I was grateful for her help and happy to speak with somebody new. She’s fearless this woman: she wants to work: she doesn’t want to stay home and not do anything meaningful in her life. I sensed she had a lot to share so I closed my mouth and opened my ears and waited.
Turns out she’s pretty scared of what her future will look like if she can’t work at the same career. Turns out she’s pretty devastated after finding out she may never go back to this job. Turns out it’s no wonder she feels the way she does :that’s pretty dam scary.
I believe we were meant to meet so that she could share her story with me. Choosing to keep myself still and quiet and present during our time together allowed her to open up to me in a way she had not done for quite some time. I was honoured that she felt comfortable enough to trust me with her story.
You know what I learned from this remarkable woman? We all have our challenges: some are big: some not so much but it depends on how you look at it personally. Hearing her story left me wondering how big my obstacles really are….it’s all perspective isn’t it?
Well I’ve given myself a huge challenge and some days it feels just kinda huge. Helping a million women make a million dollars in their life time by turning their passion into profit: that’s the challenge. Most people believe it can’t be done but I don’t believe them. Why do I want to do this? Good question and it’s a long story but here’s the short version. The elephant in this room we call Earth is this: Women make up 53% of the population. Women earn 1% of the wealth…WE are the 99% ladies. That’s gotta change and if it takes me to be one of the change makers well I’m up for it.
How about you? Do you believe you can make a million dollars doing what you love?
Share it out friends I’d love to hear your story.
Now go be fearless.
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Date: 2011.05.05 | Category: Peace movement | Response: 0
No they were not of course but the whole notion of war crimes got me thinking about the opposite to that. The world is in, it would seem, a state of great flux, news of a leader from other countries being murdered, cries of justice, cries of shame, cries of hate..nobody is immune it would seem.
Obviously I do not own the rights to this video…John Lennon and Yoko Ono with Give Peace a Chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZC7sqImaM
I wondered what Gandhi, Mother Teresa, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr. would think of this, I wondered what they would do and here’s what I came up with..a movement, they’d all start a movement, a peace movement. Well they’re not here and I am most certainly not a world leader like these esteemed leaders were but what the heck ya gotta start somewhere with somebody so here we go.
We’ve all heard the term “crimes of hate” and we’ve all been exposed to historical stories of people who were accused of such atrocities. My learning was beget from the history books written during the Nazi regime, Anne Frank was a favourite book of mine, tragic, true, sad….It matters not what era you grew up in there will always be a time when one can look back and see how one culture is trying to eliminate another culture. My husband is from Belfast, he grew up just as the Troubles were starting…
It just feels to me like everybody is living in fear and, since I’m all about facing that fear and living a fearless life here’s what I’ve decided to do… I’ve launched a “crimes of peace” movement. People will be charged with crimes of peace for working on creating change, creating peace…they’ll be served peace bonds much like bail bonds (only these aren’t legal documents) and they’ll be eligible to win a prize. Yup, once a month I’m going to go through all the submissions, that’s where you all come in, and pick a winner. That person will win a $50 prize, I know it’s small but I’m funding this through my coaching business Living la Vida Fearless Coaching Services, for now.
So, go on out and start your own peace crime, document it, send it in, write about it, share it out with me to put up here, however you’d like us to know about it and we’ll take it from there. C’mon folks you up to it? I don’t know about y’all but I’m just getting tired of listening to the news and hearing of, yet another, way that people have learned to kill each other. Come join me won’t you? Now there’s an idea for a Mother’s Day gift…
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Date: 2011.04.05 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
If you’re starting a business and looking for small business grants in Canada, you have to check out the federal government’s Self-Employment Program. It’s one of the best small business grants in Canada in my opinion although technically it’s not a small business grant at all.
Grants for starting a business are few and far between. But Canada’ Self-Employment Program can provide the business start up money you’re looking for. The program’s mandate is to “provide financial assistance to eligible individuals to help them create jobs for themselves by starting a business”.
The Self-Employment Program will provide either regular Employment Insurance benefits until the end of your benefit period or financial assistance for living expenses. It may also provide temporary financial assistance related to the costs of participation in the program, such as, for instance, the costs of dependent care or transportation.
So if you’re looking for business start up money to help cover living costs until you get your new business up and running, the Self-Employment Program will do that. And just like any small business grant in Canada, you don’t have to pay the money back.
Additionally, the Self-Employment Program offers the entrepreneurial training and advice that makes starting a business so much easier and gives the new business a better chance of success. The Self-Employment Program is often delivered as a course package where you get the chance to learn specific business skills that you may be lacking and are guided through the process of preparing a business plan. In most cases, you will get one-on-one advice on how to develop your new business – invaluable for anyone just starting out.
What’s the catch?
Not everyone is eligible for the Self-Employment Program. Generally, to qualify you need to:
- be receiving Employment Insurance currently;
- have received Employment Insurance benefits within the last three years (or within the last five years if your Benefits period included a maternity or parental claim).
Other conditions may have to be met. The Self-Employment Program is administered by the various provinces and territories, so the additional eligibility requirements, and sometimes even the benefits the Self-Employment Program provides, vary from province to territory.
To participate in the Self-Employment Program delivered in Vancouver, B.C., for instance, you need to also demonstrate that you have the necessary skills and experience to make your business idea work and to make a personal investment of cash, inventory, equipment, or borrowed funds equal to 25% of a year of your EI benefits. There doesn’t seem to be any such requirement in Quebec, where the Self-Employment Program is also open to unemployed people who do not receive any public income support and those whose employment status is unstable.
You can find more information and a link to a map of provincial agencies who deliver the Self-Employment Program in each province and territory at Service Canada’s Self-Employment page.
As for participating in the program, you have to be prepared to commit to working full-time on starting a business for a period of about a year, so this program is not for people who are thinking of starting a business in their spare time.
If you qualify though and are prepared to make the commitment the program requires, the Self-Employment Program is a truly golden opportunity. You can see why I call it one of the best small business grants in Canada. The program offers the kind of business start up money many people need – money to support themselves while they work on starting a business. But it also offers so much more – the skills training and expert advice to make your new business a successful business. All of this information was taken from Susan Ward at About.com…
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Date: 2011.03.16 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
Well it’s official, tomorrow is the day people around the world celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Even if you’re not Irish the idea of drinking green beer appeals to many people.
Here’s something else I’ve noticed over the years, people really want to find that pot of gold, you know the one at the end of the rainbow….
Well my friends I’m happy to tell you that I have figured out where that pot of gold is and I’m sharing it with you today!
Now, I can tell you this secret because I’m an Irish citizen, have been for almost thirty years, even though Ilive in Canada. I hope that I’m not spreading any national secrets like Wiki Leaks but I’m pretty sure it’ll be ok to do so.
First off, what’s the reason for wanting to find a pot of gold? That’s a question I ask people and here are a few answers. ” It would make my life so much easier.” “I deserve it” . “I know once I have that much money I’ll be happy.” “I worked hard all my life it’s my turn” ….
Ok then if you found the pot of gold what would you do with it? This is the part where people get stuck…they just believe that they would like loads of money but then they’re not sure what they’d do with it. Oh sure, they’d pay off bills, buy a house or two, a fancy car, but then what? If you don’t have a vision how do you know if you’re on the right track?
I’ve studied hundreds of business owners and entrepreneurs over the years and many of them would appear to have found their own pot of gold. They have the cars, the houses, they take nice trips, they wear fancy clothes…Ask any of them and I bet you a pot of gold that the reason they are successful comes down to two things: love what you do and be prepared to work hard, very hard, for what you want. Tada! There you have it folks, there’s the pot of gold! No magic formula, no rainbows to climb over…hard work and love what you do. So, you want to find your pot of gold? Well you’re in luck because I’ve started a movement called Helping Millions Make Millions. I am going to teach a million women how to begin making a million dollars by turning their passion into profit! You in? Are you ready to start working toward your dreams or are you going to keep looking for that pot of gold? Be fearless, Jan
janet@helpingmillionsmakemillions.com
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Date: 2011.03.07 | Category: Women | Response: 0
International Women’s Day is being celebrated this Tuesday, March 8. We’ve had hearts and souls forever, we’ve been considered persons for 100, and that’s in countries where we’re “free” to decide. In some countries women still have less value than cattle.
In honour of the day, the anniversary and women around the world, I’ve created a one day only coaching offer that 
should not be missed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuLrhoq1Hzg
Check it out, pass it on, and I’ll talk to YOU soon. Living la vida fearless, Jan
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Date: 2011.03.03 | Category: Career Path | Response: 0
I often ask my clients what they’d do if there were no limits…It’s a great exercise as it really pushes one to think beyond what they believe to be true. That’s what coaching is all about, push beyond the boundaries of one’s truth to the real truth of what is possible, not what they think is possible. So, with that said, I want to share 
a success story with you today that is based in 1939. It was shared to me today by a school principal and it’s a great story! Follow the link I’ve included here to read the full story online
http://www.snopes.com/college/homework/unsolvable.asp
