It’s one of the amazing things about ourselves

February 17, 2016 By

Being empowered is what I’m talking about!

Did you know the opposite is forbid? That’s just horrifying to me. Empowered is independence. It’s freedom, positive sense of self. It’s feeling an accomplished state of self-responsibility and self-determination.  How beautiful is that?

Well it’s also the subject of my next training in the training series 5 Key Money Areas, are you ready to find out?  I hope so, listen here then pop back to share (or email me personally at kim@kimravida.com) just how empowered you feel – or if you aren’t feeling empowered just yet, what is taking you away from being empowered?

The secret is only you can empower yourself, so start now.

As a business owner, it is important for you to empower yourself and others, especially your team, clients and other people who come into contact with you.  Tell me, where are you excelling or where are you falling down here?

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What valuable opportunities are you actually making for yourself?

February 16, 2016 By

My blog yesterday was about how action is the key to success. It was in regards to money (one of my favorite subjects if you haven’t already guessed =).

As a business owner it is important to be in action in many areas of your business. I recently committed to doing a month long blog challenge; you may know this if you read my blog. It’s posting a blog a day (now that’s a lot of action). Did I mention that I was blogging 1-2 times a month before this?

At first I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it but I said yes in spite of not being sure. And boy am I glad I did. I wanted to share with you what has happened for me because I decided to participate and take an act every day toward my results.

How we do one thing is how we do everything

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How we do one thing is how we do everything, I was able to use the steps I outlined in my article yesterday “An awesome way to be powerful in making money” because the steps applied to my action on blogging daily and away I went.

Here is what I learned:

  • I am more disciplined than I was giving myself credit for.
  • It’s easier than I had thought.
  • How to have fun with this process.
  • To navigate in WordPress (I didn’t do my own posting before).
  • How to link back to previous articles.
  • To create images to share on my blog posts.
  • Why it’s important to create intriguing titles.

The really amazing part though is how much more confidence I have had with myself.  AND there is still two weeks to go!  Imagine what will happen for me in the next two weeks.  I can’t wait.

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Have you ever taken an action that you learned more from than you thought you would? I would love to hear what happened for you. Feel free to post here or email me privately at kim@kimravida.com to share.

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An awesome way to be powerful in making more money

February 15, 2016 By

Action is the key to success.

If you are not taking regular money actions, you are missing out on a powerful way to make more money.  And as a business owner, I know that you want to make more money.

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Are you sticking your head in the sand when it comes to managing your money?  If you aren’t reaching your money goals and getting the income/financial results you want, you aren’t taking powerful money actions.  So what do you do in order to do that?

  1. Determine your #1 money goal and write it down. Example:  I want to make $100,00 this year.
  2. Figure out the steps you need to take in order to reach your end result. Steps might include: I will track my income. I will pay my bills on time. I will commit to a weekly money date.
  3. Create a step-by-step plan (schedule) for each of these steps. Using what you come up with from #2, layout the exact steps you will take and then schedule them to be done. Using the examples from #2: I will track my income daily; I will pay my bills on the 10th of each month; I will have my money date every Friday at 3:00pm.

By focusing on what you want and then scheduling them to be done, it ensures that you will take action to reach your results.  Once you get into action, you get into momentum which moves you forward and has you seeing results.  Remember the saying a body in motion stays in motion?  That will be you!

Here is to your taking actions and attaining your results!  If you haven’t listened to training #4 on action of my free webinar training series, listen now.

I would love to hear your thoughts and what you plan to do for your success.  Feel free to post here or email me personally at kim@kimravida.com to share.

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What will make you motivated toward success?

February 14, 2016 By

I’m motivated by quotes. When I write my monthly ezine I love to find quotes that go with what I am writing about and I also like to find quotes and use those to motivate my writing.

Today’s quote:

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream” C.S. Lewis.

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It is for those of you who have said “I can’t do that, I’m too old.” We are never too old.

Please don’t let that stop you. Imagine if you were to start right now to set a new goal or on your dream?

  • What would that feel like?
  • What would happen for you because you did start?
  • How would you grow?
  • What would you experience?

The answers are unlimited, there is so much you would experience. Go forth and do what you want to do, realize your dreams and know that you are never to old for anything.

Please share with me your dream either here or privately at kim@kimravida.com.

I know you have it in you to go for it!

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What will make you awesome in your business?

February 13, 2016 By

AZI spent last week in Tuscon, AZ where it was warm. I love the heat and being from New England where it is quite cold this time of year it was a welcome break. I was there to attend a training workshop. It was fun to get out of my office and to be with other like-minded business owners.

I always come home feeling refreshed and ready to get started. When I travel for business I always set an intention for what I want to get out of the trip and what one thing I want to change when I return.

One of my intentions for this trip was to spend time with the high earners because I want to up-level my business and in order to do that I need to up-level myself. Business is about making money and in order to do that I need to continuously make changes to myself and how I do things.

Being with other successful business owner gives me the space to think bigger and think differently as well as to renew what I desire in my business.  I learn by being there and I come back to my office energized and ready to take my business to the next level. It is always exciting to come back and get started on the next phase of my business.

“The Starting Point Of All Achievement Is Desire” –Napoleon Hill

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What about you? What will make you awesome in your business?

Please share or feel free to email me personally at kim@kimravida.com. I am excited to hear what you have to say.

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Are you doing all it takes to make more money?

February 12, 2016 By

When it comes to making money it’s not just about what you do to bring money in but how you handle money as well.

What I’m taking about are the actions you take with your money.  Actions such as:

  • Tracking your income.
  • Paying your bills on time.
  • Filing your receipts in an orderly fashion (just stuffing them in a draw doesn’t count).
  • Sending out your invoices on time.
  • Having an empowering conversation with a client who hasn’t paid you for some time.

Taking action is what will start the momentum, and help you to build and maintain it.

Try this, start saving $10.00 a month in an envelope.  My clients find that when they do it they want to save more, and they also pay more attention to their money actions so that they can do so.  It’s a jumping off point for them and they start to see amazing results that happen just from this one exercise.

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If you own a business, you need to take consistent money actions that allow you to run that business as a business.  If not, it is as if you are saying that you do not respect the business.This carries over to yourself personally and your clients as well.

I talk more about this in the 4th webinar 5 Key Money Areas training.  Hop on over and listen now and then determine what ONE thing you will start to do right now.  You must get into action in order to reach your success.

Comment or drop me a personal email at kim@kimravida.com to let me know what your one thing is!

 

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Do these two things if you want to make more money.

February 11, 2016 By

financial freedomDid you think I was going to say forgiveness and boundaries?  Probably not.

When it comes to making more money, why is it important to forgive?  Often, when it comes to money you may not recognize that you may need to forgive in order to move forward.  It’s important to recognize that your relationship with money was formed by what you grew up with.  If you ever heard ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’ or ‘you have to work hard to make money’ you more than likely were imprinted with someone else’s beliefs that you took on for your own.  And more often than not you also created some of your own beliefs that are getting in your way of financial success.

Forgiveness is important when it comes to making more money.

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Beliefs that we have and operate by that aren’t our own (and here is the shocker, sometimes we don’t even know that isn’t how we feel until we dig a little deeper), have the unseen power to hold us back from realizing our potential.

Last week I began a 6 series free webinar training on 5 Key Money Areas in order to help you eliminate the gaps that could be holding you back from making more money.  Click here to listen to the forgiveness training to have a clearer understanding about how forgiveness can help you create a new family money legacy for yourself and the people who are important to you.

The area of boundaries is also key to your financial success because boundaries can be road blocks that you have placed on yourself or they can be solid supports that you use to honor yourself.  If you often feel uncomfortable discussing money or have not substantially increased your income over the past year, you could have a boundary issue.  A lot of small business owners have this problem.  It’s important for you to value yourself while honoring others so that you make and keep more money.  In this webinar training you are going to learn all about boundaries and how to close the gaps you may have.  Click here to listen to how you can do just that!

Click here first to listen to the Forgiveness Training and then listen to the one on Boundaries.

Boundaries can be road blocks or solid supports, which are yours?

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Do you have clear and present boundaries?

February 10, 2016 By

Do you remember the Tom Clancy book or movie, “Clear and Present Danger”?  Well if you don’t have clear and present boundaries you most definitely could be in danger!  This applies to all areas in our lives such as people and money.

Do you remember this:  “Warning!  Warning, Will Robinson”?  It was what the robot on “Lost in Space” would shout whenever there was danger. Boundaries protect us, they help tell not only ourselves but others what it is we will have in our lives and what we won’t. Take behavior, if you have weak boundaries you more than likely tolerate a lot of bad behavior from others. When it comes to your business and money, you may be giving your services away, over-delivering with a client or even working for free (though you might not even realize that part) and what about how you manage your money? Wait, you are managing it regularly, right?

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Are there some money boundaries that you need to set, maybe draw the line at over-spending, running up credit card debt or paying your bills late?  Maybe you have some behaviors around money that are holding you back from increasing your income?  Are you thinking to yourself “I never thought about this”?  That’s ok, I didn’t either.  However, now that I do know about it and know the ways in which not being aware of it impacted my income, I’m happy to share my knowledge with you.

Today’s the day that the 3rd training in my free webinar training series The 5 Key Money Areas is released and it’s all about Boundaries!  Go ahead, take a listen and let me know your thoughts.  I’d also love to hear one of the boundaries you want to change and what you will do about it.  Please comment or email me privately at kim@kimravida.com and let me know.

When you set solid, positive boundaries for yourself you have the power to set yourself free. Now that’s a powerful place to be.

“Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.” –Nelson Mandela

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Are you allowing your past to run your present?

February 9, 2016 By

Be honest here.  Are you allowing your past to run your present?

You may say no, nope, not at all. Great and let me ask you, have you ever said “that didn’t work well, so I’m not going to do that again”? Or what about “I already did that, it didn’t work for me”?

Well if you have then you are allowing your past experience to impact your present day results. I’ll give you an example. A client of mine wanted so badly to increase her income. She told me she would do anything in order to do so. You probably know what is coming, right? Well, she didn’t want to do this and she didn’t want to do that.

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When I would ask her why her response was that she had done that before and it didn’t work. That’s very valid, I’m not discounting that.  However, the problem was that she wasn’t open to analyzing why it didn’t work. That left her unable to learn from her efforts.  Notice I did not say “mistakes”. I believe there are no mistakes, only learning opportunities. The inability to learn from her efforts kept her firmly rooted in the past.

There are no mistakes, only opportunities to learn.

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In order to move forward, it is important to look at what didn’t or isn’t working in order to do what will work. When you are stuck in the past because of disappointment, fear or limiting beliefs you compromise your future.

In business, I like to look at ROE – Return On Everything, something I learned from Sandy Carter of IBM. And in looking at ROE knowing what didn’t work and why is just as valuable as knowing what will work.

In order to increase your income, you must know first the 5 Key Money Areas, what holds you back from moving forward and having the courage to do both. Because once you know that the past has no power over your present moment, you are free to make decisions that will bring you to where you want to be and having the results you want to have.

“The Past Has No Power Over Your Present Moment” — Eckhart Tolle

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When it comes to increasing your income, being in the past and in fear can have a direct impact on your results. If you would like to increase your income my free webinar training series the 5 Key Money Areas will help you do that. Below you will find the links to the first two trainings and make sure you follow me on Facebook and Twitter to get access to each subsequent training sessions (there are a total of 6 short trainings).

Training 1:  5 Key Money Areas

Training 2:  Forgiveness

I’d love to hear your comments on this post, the trainings or anything you would like to share. You can also email me personally at kim@kimravida.com if you’d like to keep your comments private.  I look forward to hearing from you.

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It is truly up to you!

February 8, 2016 By

The good news it is truly up to you.  The bad news, it’s truly up to you.

That means there is no one to blame, no one.  It is all truly up to you.  I like that actually.  As a recovering people pleaser I like to know that my success in my life and in my business is up to me.  I have the say, I can have it my way.  If you have been participating in my free webinar training series the 5 Key Money Areas recently you already know that you can have things your way.

The trouble is, it is easy to get comfortable where you are but you know what, the excitement, growth and yes success is truly outside that comfort zone.All progress takes place outside the comfort zone

 

How do you know you are in your comfort zone?

  1. You have trouble creating new ideas.
  2. You can’t seem to create momentum.
  3. You aren’t signing up new clients.
  4. You haven’t increased your income.
  5. You just don’t seem to be energized to get things done.

If you found yourself shaking your head yes to one or more of these, it’s time to shake things up and get things moving!

Here is a great quote that supports stepping outside your comfort zone.

“All Progress Takes Place Outside the Comfort Zone.” — Michael John Bobak

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In the event that you are just hearing about my free webinar training series the 5 Key Money Areas you can access the first two trainings below.  Make sure to follow me on Facebook and Twitter to be able to access each subsequent training session as they they are released.

Training 1:  5 Key Money Areas

Training 2:  Forgiveness

Share with me your thoughts and/or ways that you have moved yourself out of your comfort zone here or feel free to email personally at kim@kimravida.com.  Looking forward to hearing what you have to say.

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