How to Design Your Day – Time Management for Women Entrepreneurs

When you don’t have a routine, life just sort of happens to you.

The day either gets wasted as you try to decide what to do, or you find yourself tangled up in the wants and needs of everybody else.

“One of the most important crucial steps of your journey is your routine.” -Ray Higdon

The beauty of designing a set routine is that it forces us to prioritize and decide what is important to us.

 

Recently, I was inspired by Ray Higdon’s new book Vibrational Money Immersion Think and Grow Rich for Network Marketers.  I’m only 60 pages in and I feel like FINALLY! I have a strategy to get unstuck and accomplish all of my goals.

If you are tired of postponing your prosperity, then it’s time to

DESIGN YOUR DAY.

  1.   Determine what time you are going to wake up.  Every day. Day in and Day Out.  (including weekends)

2.  Design a “Morning Routine” by writing down every activity that you are going to do before you “go to work” (i.e., Meditate, Read, Journal, Exercise, etc.)

On a side note:  The benefits of Daily Exercise:  controls weight, combats health conditions and diseases, improves mood, boosts energy and promotes better sleep.

3.  Write down at least THREE income producing activities that you will do every day, day in and day out. (i.e.; write a blog post, shoot a video, do a podcast, post on social media, email 25 prospects, etc.)

4.  Fill the middle of your day with your appointments, commitments, networking meetings, presentations, etc. (5 Ways to STAND OUT and be OUTSTANDING at NetworkingFREE ebook)

5.  Have a closing time for your work day so you don’t feel like you’re working all the time.

6.  Design a “Bed time Routine” as well.  Do the same thing, every day, day in and day out.

Successful people accomplish their goals by doing the same things over and over again.

 

Internationally recognized expert in time management methods and goal setting techniques, Rita Davenport, said:  “You have a purpose or else you wouldn’t be alive today!

For I know the plans I have for you“, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” -Jeremiah 29:11

 

Are you still with me?  

I believe God has an individual plan for each person.  Through personal development we can access our skills and qualities, discover our purpose in life and set goals in order to realize and maximize our potential.

This ‘Design Your Day’ technique is just one of the basic principles of The Lipstick Method (a transformation program for women entrepreneurs).

If you’re serious about embracing your God-given beauty & purpose and making your mark on the world, I invite you to get started today with this Downloadable DesignYourDayTemplate

Design It and then Do It!

 

Did you find this helpful?  

I encourage you to follow the ‘Design Your Day’ technique for the next week.  By the end of that time, you’ll be noticing significant changes in your life, and this technique will be on its way to becoming a treasured, life long habit.

PS – If this inspired you, please LIKE, COMMENT below and SHARE this post with your teammates, your business partner your mastermind group and even your FACEBOOK friends!  They will bless you and thank you.

PSS – As a business woman, it’s important to have a daily Beauty Routine.  Did you know that women who wear makeup earn up to 30 percent more than women who don’t?  SIGN UP to receive helpful beauty and fashion tips, tricks and tutorials so you can attract your ideal client and make more money!

Sources: The Lipstick Method

 

 

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What To Do If You Suck At Network Marketing?

What To Do If You Suck At Network Marketing? Don’t worry.  You are not alone.
“HELLO, My name is Nancy and I suck at Network Marketing”. There, I said it. Admitting this is my first step into recovery and so begins the journey to achieve higher levels of productivity, prosperity, success and well-being.
I started in Network Marketing in the 90’s. Like most people do, I entered a company only to get discounted products. Words like: upline, downline, sponsor, commission, qualification and residual income were not in my vocabulary. I was simply playing with stickers and making pretty photo album pages.
In 2006, I joined a skin care Network Marketing company and set out to make “gangster money” and drive a White Mercedes Benz.
TEN YEARS in…. I’m not driving the Benz; instead, I’ve been riding the struggle bus! Oh, sometimes the struggle bus takes me to Downline Drive and Commission Corner – but because I can’t see myself there (poor self-image), I’M STUCK!
This past Saturday I attended a training by Ray and Jessica Higdon in Fort Myers, FL. It was a Home Business Intensive – training geared toward Network Marketers. Who is Ray Higdon?
If you’re in network marketing, you may have heard of Ray and Jessica Higdon. They are an awesome Power-Couple who have gone from being regular people, like you and I, working full-time jobs, to becoming top MLM earners & now they train other network marketers to do the same.
I first met Jessica back in 2009; while working together at a makeup counter. We both left that job and lost touch for several years.  I’m so happy that recently, we reconnected.
I believe that MLM, Direct Sales and Network Marketing is one of the smartest things you can do with your time and money in today’s economy.

The three main reasons why I like Network Marketing is: 1) I get to build my fortune, not someone else’s; 2) Time Freedom; and, 3) I get to surround myself with like minded, fun, ambitious people. However, I’m frustrated… because I suck at it!
When I saw that Ray and Jessica were doing a local training…I knew I had to be there!

 

I’d like to share my “take aways” from the Business Intensive Training with YOU:


Why I suck at Network Marketing…
I’m not successful because as a Leader I don’t make it easy for my customers or my team.
I don’t do the things that I wish my team was doing.
Everyone has different goals and I “feel” like I disappointed someone – so I didn’t stay.
I heard it was “Easy” and It’s NOT! (Stop pitching “easy”)
Because I didn’t have success in the Fast Start Program, or get my car bonus in 18 months, (or for 10 years) – I was comparing myself to those network marketers with the Super Hero Powers instead of focusing on what happened “good” this week.
I don’t have reusable resources that I can share with my team or my customers (videos, blog posts, PDF’s, etc.)
Desperate eager energy to make money is keeping me from making the money.
I allowed certain people to be in my organization that don’t share my core values.
When I talk to people about my opportunity, I sound like I’ve been abducted by aliens instead of sounding like me. There is no “magical script”

More reasons why I suck at Network Marketing…
Instead of finding people who “want” what I have, I am looking for the people who “need” what I have. Everyone is not for me and I am not for everyone. Duh!
And because I don’t have a mantra that I say to myself before I speak to someone, make a video or do a presentation, I don’t have the confidence I need.
I don’t have a success system in place.
I super suck at follow up!
I don’t look at myself as an owner of a business.
I don’t have a network marketing mentor.

And I realize the NUMBER ONE reason I suck at Network Marketing is…
SELF-IMAGE
“The “self-image” is the key to your personality and your behavior. Change your self image and you change your personality and your behavior… The “self-image” sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. It defines what you can and cannot do. Expand the “self-image” and you expand the area of the possible… The development of an adequate, realistic “self-image” will seem to inspire the individual with new capabilities, new talents and literally turn failure into success.” – Dr. Maxwell Maltz

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Just to be clear… I’ve been in the fashion and beauty industry for more than 12 years. I’m passionate about this field because I struggled with my self-image and confidence. Today I help women entrepreneurs discover and develop their personal image, purpose and potential. I love to help them feel and look good. But for me, as far as building a NETWORK MARKETING business, I battle with self-sabotaging behaviors and I want to be as productive and prosperous as possible and so

On Saturday, after attending the event, I decided to get off that struggle bus and get on the SUCCESS TRAIN!

First Stop- Get rid of those self-limiting beliefs.

THIS IS MY 21 DAY JOURNEY…. WHO’S WITH ME?

I would like to hear from you. Please comment below and share some of your struggles with having a Home-based business.

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