You’ve been asking questions on how to drill down
on the right steps to take on growing your business.
We are listening and answered them in THIS episode.
In this episode we drive in deep on how to keep yourself
on track when you are a busy person. We give you options
on figuring out what’s best for you.
Lisa
PS I just have to say my favorite part of this epsiode is the monkey.
Do you love your monkey?
Are you implementing the fundamentals to be a happy business owner?
You can’t be happy growing your business if you aren’t taking care
of the elements that ensure your business is successful.
I have five juicy tips on how to attract happiness into your business and life.
Time for happiness! Oh, yeah, baby. Happy Dance!
Lisa
P.S. Seriously, comment below the video
and tell me what you are going to start
doing to be more happy in your business.
Now is the time for you to succeed.
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Step it up to success!
Lisa
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You’ve been asking questions on how to drill down
on the right steps to take on growing your business.
We are listening and answered them in THIS episode.
In this episode we drive in deep on how to keep yourself
on track when you are a busy person. We give you options
on figuring out what’s best for you.
Lisa
PS I just have to say my favorite part of this episode is the monkey.
Do you love your monkey?
Recently I was on Hollis Chapman Show. Below are some of the answers I gave him in the fun interview.
Hollis Chapman: Tell us a little about yourself, and your business?
Lisa J. Peck: I am Lisa J. Peck, known as the Step It Up Queen, and I have been helping entrepreneurs and business owners grow their business and balance the needs of home for over 18 years. I am personally a mother of 8, currently have five teenagers with four of them girls.
HC: Share with us your thoughts on your slogan: “grow your business on your own terms.”
LJP: One of the lessons I think we as a society are learning, is that having it all is not so fun. There is a shift in society where people don’t want to be told how to do business or how to do their life. What they want is to do things their way. There are growing trends of people doing their businesses from their homes, husbands staying home and not wanting to miss out on raising their kids, and baby boomers who don’t want to be shoved into retirement.
More and more people want to build their business working when they want, playing when they want, being with their family, and doing things they want.
If we are going to counteract the negativity that has been in the media saying everything is doomed then we must first start with ourselves and our businesses. By honoring who we are and our values, we serve our clients and customers better and consequently we are bettering the world.
HC: Video promoting is a great tool; I love yours! Share some tips with us.
LJP: First tip on video promoting is to get comfortable with the camera and forget the ego. The camera is a liar. It will make you look fatter and older… just pretend that doesn’t exist. If you get caught up in your image and how you look, you will not get your message our there and you will not be helping the people you are meant to serve. So as you are learning to get comfortable with the camera, remember lots and lots of self-love and acceptance. Celebrate your courage for trying it out, because it is not easy.
Another tip: keep on doing it. It gets easier. The more experience you have the better it is. Plus I would also say you can do things that you never imagined. I have had a major hang up my whole life with memorizing, and the cue cards weren’t working because you could tell that I was reading. So I decided to make it a game. How many lines could I deliver without messing up?
Absolute miracles happened. I have been able to do things that I never thought I was able to do and I caught on pretty fast. I would have never known that I was capable of doing that if I hadn’t made it a game and seen what really was possible.
HC: How do you attract happiness in your life and business?
LJP: To attract happiness, the first thing you need to do is figure out what happiness is for you. Sounds simple, but a lot of people don’t even know what it is that makes them happy. And it isn’t as easy as simply doing more of one thing. Most of us are complicated people who need a mix of different things in different measures, and at different times… like a recipe. It is a lot of fun work to figure out what it is that will bring you more happiness and how much.
A great thing to do is to implement a regular practice in your life wherein you know that if you do certain things it will put you in your best mental and physical state. For some people it is meditating, for others, reading something spiritual every day. A lot of people do better if they are regularly in nature. For me, I need to journal and read. Figuring out what those things are and doing them can dramatically improve your happiness level and the success that you achieve.
HC: Lisa, you teach that so much in success is about dealing with doubts. What if you are not getting the clients and things just are not going as smooth as you wish?
LJP: Doubt is one of those things I haven’t met anyone that doesn’t have it now and then. It is one of those things that can completely take you down if you are not careful. One of the best ways to deal with doubt is to get really clear on what it is saying, what is it that you are worrying about, and look at it realistically. Is what you are worried about true? Is there something you can do about it? If so, what, and by when, are you going to do it? If you can’t do anything, what is the worst that can happen? Will you survive that? Can you handle it?
Almost always you can handle it. If not, then I would advise you to get some support team in your life so you can handle it and move on. To me, the worst thing is not trying, not seeing if you can do it even if you don’t think you can. You might be pleasantly surprised and if you fail, oh well, what’s another failure. At least you have more information now and know that way didn’t work.
HC: You suggest: Do the small things first to grow your business. Could you give us some examples?
LJP: Small things to grow your business can be as simple as taking three action steps a day, every day. For example, if your business is reliant on marketing, making sure you spend an hour a day on marketing. Or, if you make most your money when you make phone calls, making sure that each day no matter what is happening you make three phone calls—no matter what. Another small thing that would make a huge difference is to know your financial numbers and statists of production Know how much money you have booked for that month and how close you are to your goal.
HC: A lot of small business owners and entrepreneurs struggle with how to get a competitive advantage. Are we born with it, or can we build it?
LJP: Everyone can have a competitive advantage if they do their homework and figure out what that is. Really, to have the competitive advantage is to be yourself and know what your gifts are and how that benefits other people and blesses their lives, and communicate that. There really is not competition because each person is unique and does things in their own way and is meant to help certain people. My ideal clients are movers and shakers, the people who want to change the world. There are a lot of people who don’t want this, so they aren’t my clients. There are a lot of people who do want to change the world and out of that group I only need a small percentage to be completely booked. To find those people, the more I show up being me the more people who I can help will respond. And the more I show up as myself, those who I can’t help will be disinterested.
HC: Lisa, you seem to love doing your new TV show… It is short and has great tips on growing your business. Why the TV show?
LJP: I am doing the show Biz On Your Terms because I was told over and over that I have a unique presence, that I am different, and that the message people are most responding to wasn’t coming across in my blog posts or even my radio show: but people got it from me when I was live. Since I can’t duplicate myself, and I do want to help as many people as possible, it seemed I needed to do TV for people to truly get me. Another reason is that video is quick and easy for people to get a lot of information from. I want to best serve, and most people are extremely busy, so TV is a fun way to give them great tips on how to grow their business that only takes them 5 minutes to get the information they need.
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HC: You describe having a solid, clear, concise 90 day focus for the start of the New Year. Could you comment on that?
LJP: We can be motivated on one huge project for about 90 days. I love boiling down that project into a sound bite—no more than five words, something catchy that I can keep as a focus to make sure that my business is moving forward. It is an easy thing to do that makes a huge difference in your business.
HC: Final question, Lisa: For what do you want to be remembered professionally?
With answering that, I want to offer a gift for your listeners. Claim my free gift and Discover how to Grow Your Business on Your Own Terms Today at www.BizOnYourTerms.com
The legacy that I would love to be known by is that I helped others to truly Step It Up in their lives and business and live life fully and on their terms.
Whose drum do you dance to? Photo: theloushe on Flickr
Sometimes I wonder what drum everyone else is listening to? It seems like I am always listening to a different one than the rest of the world.
Like for example, today is Christmas Eve, I am at my office excited to catch up on my work that has been nagging me to get done. Of course I put the roast and turkey in the oven before I came here. I decided to cook both since half my family wanted roast and the other turkey. I have already done my shopping, put laundry in, and will be leaving in time to put on an elaborate meal for the family. So I walk into the empty office building that many other businesses rent out and my heart sings. I see my green couch that just invited me to work and I am happy. I relish the time to be able to focus for a few hours with no interruptions.
No one else is here. In fact most of the time I come to the office no one else is here. I work strange hours—Saturday mornings, after five during the week, and sometimes I make it here before seven in the morning. I know for a fact that most of the people in the building don’t even know who rents my space. They have never seen me. I rarely see any of them. I keep getting people wanting to rent my office. Nope, never. This is my refuge. This is my place to focus even if I show up and work here when no one else is working.
Sometimes I wonder where everyone else is. What are they doing that I seem to be missing out on? Then I have to sigh and smile to myself. I teach other misfits to grow their business on their terms and seriously that is what I am doing. I play with my kids in the middle of the work day. I workout during the middle of the work day and then I work when everyone else is playing. Does it really matter? Well, yes it matters. I am glad that I live and work this way. I am glad that I have the freedom to do it in the rhythm that works for me and I hope to help many others to have this freedom, because even though sometimes I feel out of touch with others’ drum beats, I just love dancing to my own drum beat too much.
In today’s segment of Biz On Your Terms, Lisa J Peck shows us five fundamentals to obtaining happiness in life and business!
Small business owners need to be hyper aware of their actions.
One thing about following your energy, you need to know when to really crank it and when to hold back. There are certain actions steps that need to be honored on a consistent basis to keep the trust of your clients. Make sure you know what needs to happen daily, weekly, bi-monthly, and monthly, and do those regularly.
If you have a hard time maintaining consistency, go back to and do more work on honoring your values. What is your big vision, what are the goals, what are you trying to create? Make sure that you are really aligned to what you said that you wanted. If not, work on what you want to create until you can be consistently excited about the path that you have chosen. Also look at it as if you are following your energy.
You will not be able to move forward in your business and
maintain it if you do not honor the things that are uniquely personal
and important in your life.
These important things are called your values. I am not talking ethics,
but what I am talking about are the kinds and levels of experience and
meaning you need in your life to make you feel complete, to make you
feel like a human being and that life is worth living.
Often times, people don’t honor all the top three. When that happens, they
get frustrated and start sabotaging themselves subconsciously. For
example, if they don’t have enough fun in their life and that is one of their
top three values.
Or, maybe they aren’t learning, and that is what they highly value, therefore
they lose tolerance for doing the routine things in life and business.
In order for you to move forward and grow your business it is important to
look at what your top three values are. Are you addressing those values in
your new launch or current projects or whatever steps you are taking to
maintain or expand? If what you are doing is not honoring your top three
values, how can you refocus what you are doing and get it more in
alignment with what makes you feel alive in this world?
For instance, say you are someone who values and really needs to connect
with nature, and having regular time to be outside doesn’t seem to be
fitting into the work needed to grow your business. What if you decided that
you will brainstorm in nature?
Photo: Salvatore Lovene on Flickr
Or, after you spend a certain amount of time working on a project, you
will go for a ten minute walk outside? This way you are honoring your
value of nature and getting your needs met, which in turn means you
will be more energized and able to work harder less stressed.
In other words, when your needs are met generally, you can work specifically
with greater proficiency and endurance. This is very important in order
to get the results at work that you want.
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