Entrepreneurship
Are You Investing In Yourself?
My dad has said on more than one occasion, “If you want to make an enemy, send someone a check for $50 every month for no reason. Then after a few years of that, just stop sending him the check. He’ll be livid.”
I’ve come to realize that there is a lot of truth in this statement. I see it playing out in my own family. We’ve had a good stretch of abundance, and my family members have come to expect things to just flow. “Mom will figure it out. Mom will give me the money for that.” But, lately, I’ve had to be a bit smarter with my money. Some people become very upset when Mom has to say “No.”
At times I let this get to me, start doubting myself and my choices, But, then I remember you can’t plow under a garden and expect green beans to grow tomorrow. I’ve taken a major rebranding leap in my business, letting my flagship site (IdeaMarketers) go because it was doing more damage than it was good. Some people don’t really understand why this was necessary. But, I did what I felt was right. Google was penalizing people with articles on the site, and I couldn’t in good conscious keep promoting something that could harm people. I took it as a sign that the time was right to follow my own passion and message and created IgnitePoint.com as a way to do that.
Some people who had articles on IdeaMarketers write me, very angry or hurt. They believe I’ve done them a great wrong by closing the site. Funny, the ones who gripe are never the ones who contributed monetarily to the site. The ones who complain are the ones who got a service free for over a decade. Now, that I’ve had to shut the site down, they believe I’ve done them a great wrong.
I’m learning a big lesson in life. You cannot invest in someone else if they will not invest in themselves. In fact, the more I do for free for people, the less likely they are to do the work, and the less likely they are to reap results. People only value what they pay for. When you enable people, you end up with those who do not respect you, who use you, and who blame you when you can’t deliver the free goods anymore.
For any success in life, there is a sacrifice required. There are dues that must be paid. You can’t grow a plant full of green beans unless you sacrifice a bean to the ground. I’m learning that I can’t pay other people’s dues for them.
I can’t keep giving things away for free thinking that I’m doing some great service to the world. I’m not. I’m actually performing a disservice because I’m making folks believe that they’ll magically be successful without any effort on their part. People must sacrifice for their own dreams. If a person isn’t willing to invest in their success, they will never reap it. That investment might look like money, time, energy, or resources. But the investment must be made by the person who wants the reward.
Once an investment is made, then other people can invest in you, but not until you’re willing to invest in yourself.
This principle has been driven home for me lately by witnessing those in my mentoring programs (that I started offering at the end of last year). The people who pay to be in them get far better results than any of the people I gave my services away to for free over the years. I thought that since I had a good flow of money coming in from my flagship site that I should use my spare time to help people with their businesses and not make them pay – that it was my way of giving back. But it didn’t work. I believed in them more than they believed in themselves. Had they invested in their own businesses, they would be much farther along now.
People who are investing in my programs are getting books done. They’re stepping into their messages more fully; they’re forming joint ventures and improving their bottom lines. Had I offered these mentoring programs for free, I guarantee you there would be no such results.
Lesson learned: From now on I won’t be investing in anyone who doesn’t invest in themselves first. It’s for their highest good and mine.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
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If you’re ready to get noticed, get clients & build a loyal following in 2013 and beyond, I’d love to work with you in 2013! Find out more about my Ignite Your WOW Mentoring Program here.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
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Start sharing your message as it is now! Take the IgnitePoint Challenge today.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
Sharing Your Message Perfects It!
Let me prove to you that your message doesn’t have to be perfect before you can share it… Watch this and ask yourself: “What if Marnie had waited to build her business until she’d perfected her message?”
The truth is… 1) Your message can change the world 2) Sharing it perfects it. 3) People are waiting on you to show them the way!
I hope my story will help you capture the vision of what you can do NOW.
Take the IgnitePoint Challenge Today and share your message.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
What’s Working Online with Business and What’s Not?
Creating a WOW in your business requires cutting through the noise and being heard. Methods that worked six months ago aren’t working now. Blame it on whoever you like (the economy, the government, Google, etc). But playing the blame game won’t help. Neither will sitting there immobilized. What will? Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps and discovering how to play the game in an ever-changing marketplace!
Sometimes that requires using new tools. Other times it means re-inventing yourself (like I’m doing right now). Constantly, it means going the extra mile to deeply connect with your audience.
I’m pulling together a group of my colleagues on a panel discussion telecall to share what’s working and what’s not in online business. Join me for this free call Wednesday, December 13th at 1:30pm ET. Details and registration are on IgnitePoint.com
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
Women Entrepreneurs – Believing Is Achieving!
My friend Laura West and I are passionate about the possibility of creating your own future — intentionally shaping your world! We put our heads together Saturday in Atlanta and part of what we came up with were some affirmations for women entrepreneurs.
Today I gathered some of these together for you in a video. Remember, what you can believe, you can achieve. Really let these affirmations sink in as you watch them. Anything is possible! And don’t forget to join Laura for her upcoming 30-Day Passion Project!
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is, everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you … the minute that you understand that you can poke life … that you can change it, you can mould it … that’s maybe the most important thing.” – Steve Jobs
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
If marketing were an Olympic sport…
…I would be a champion. So says 3-time Olympic diver and event expert Daphne Bousquet. She has named me to her dream team of Marketing Champions and I am thrilled beyond words.
Daphne has asked me and the rest of her Marketing Champions to share our Gold Medal Secrets starting on July 27th. If you are keeping up with the big event in London, you will know that that coincides with the Opening Ceremonies. No accident, I am sure.
Over the course of the 2 weeks, you will get some great secrets that will help you in your marketing, including tips about video, speaking, online marketing, networking, workshops and seminars and so much more.
All you have to do to get these secrets is to register here. It is absolutely free.
Plus, Daphne has promised to share some of her insights and stories from the Olympics. Not only is she a 3-time Olympian, but she also has more than 20 years experience in event planning marketing. She sees beyond the competitions to find the Olympic ideas that can help you in your expert business.
So go for the gold this summer and claim your Gold Medal Secrets here.
PS. Register now at Gold Medal Secrets so that you don’t have to miss a single secret. Once the flame is extinguished, so are the secrets.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
Final Puzzle Pieces Clicking Into Place
I was talking to a friend, telling her how I feel my new book Light the World: How Your Brilliance Can Shift the Planet is the pinnacle of all my work and learning up to this point… that I feel like a huge puzzle piece has clicked into place, and now I “get” the big picture of where I’m going and what I should be doing. She asked me to articulate what that piece was.
I’m grateful she asked because it helped me articulate exactly what it was…
The biggest puzzle piece has been the realization that all the people I’ve been drawn toward spotlighting are (or can be) tribal leaders who guide others out of bondage to freedom. Last month, when I read in Oliver DeMille’s FreedomShift that a world shift is coming and the way to insure a Freedom Shift is to create
a) more entrepreneurs b) more independent thinkers, and c) more tribal leaders….
I realized I’d been doing this for years, but didn’t know why I was doing it. I definitely didn’t see the grand design or “end game.” Thus, my efforts were sporadic and sloppy. Now that I see the big picture, I’m doing everything with laser focus, intention and on a bigger scale. This passion is fueling my projects and things are falling into place.
The book is currently available on Kindle, and the paperback version should be on Amazon by the end of June. Grab your copy, and if this vision for lighting the world and creating a Freedom Shift resonates with you, please join me and other Light Bearers:
a) Visit DestinedForFreedom.com to learn from other Light Bearers on all aspects of freedom (personal, emotional, spiritual, physical and financial).
b) Join the The Light the World: Destined for Freedom Facebook Group and create quality relationships with other like-minded individuals who are ready to light up the planet and find their way to ultimate freedom.
c) Join me live in St. George, Utah on Thursday, July 5th or Salt Lake City, Utah on July 7th for a free workshop. Email me at marnie@marniepehrson.com if you’re interested in attending and I can get you the details as they are finalized.
About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
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About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
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About Marnie PehrsonAre you a Light Bearer? Take the FREE Light Bearer Assessment. It's a quick and easy way to find out where you are in the Light Bearer Process... Marnie Pehrson is a best-selling author, speaker, certified SimplyHealedTM practitioner, platform builder and publishing coach who shows you how to ignite the WOW-Factor in your life and business through the power of synergistic relationships and collaboration. Find out how you can work with Marnie here.
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