JUMP CONSULTING

Ok – hope you are all sitting down. We are about to separate the girls from the boys. This “I can’t do it attitude” isn’t going to cut it on this board anymore and if I do not stand up to you to try to inspire, motivate, and challenge you then you are not getting your monies worth. I say all of this with love…tough love.

First and foremost – you are your own worst enemy!

Take charge! Entrepreneurs are the ones that don’t give up. They get knocked down and jump back up quicker than they went down saying – GIVE IT TO ME AGAIN! Some of you are thinking with “poor me” minds and I am not going to be apart of it. I really care about all of you and hate to see you making the same mistakes I made.

Listen, the secrete to all of this is to act like your poop doesn’t stink. Networking groups, clients, power partners, vets, pet shops, EVERYONE likes confidence. If you believe in yourself and your business, others will too. If you don’t then why should others believe in you? Now of course you are all thinking – “Well Danielle, I believe in myself.” But is that always the impression you are pushing fourth when you meet others?

If you think that your goals are not good enough maybe you should have given them some serious though they deserved at the beginning of the year when we were trying to drive it all home. Goals are IMPORTANT. Choosing the right goals for you are important. I don’t care if your goal was to clean your desk all year or if it was some big complicated thing. Do you think I achieve all of mine? Heck no! I am human.The important thing is that I have a goal.

SHOOT FOR THE MOON AND IF YOU MISS YOU WILL FALL AMONGST THE STARS!!!

I spent FIVE YEARS doing my first business all on my own. The first step you need to do IS to take control. Take control of yourself, your life, your finances, your relationships. I truly believe that a business is a mirror of many people. Personally I STINK at managing money. It is my single most difficult task with the business because there are soooo many pieces to the pie before Danielle even gets her share. So what did I do? Hire my weakness!!! That was the best advice I ever got. Hire your weakness.

Come on you guys – you CAN do this. You CAN succeed. YOU are the ONLY ONE telling yourself that you can’t. Heck – Laura’s and I’s goals for this board haven’t even come close to being reached! We planned for it to be MUCH more busier than it is now and we personally feel like we are banging our heads against the wall because we know the things that this forum has to offer is so much better than anything else out there! So WHY aren’t people joining at the rate in which we hoped for? Or WHY are the ones who have joined not participating????? We do not achieve our goals with everything we do. Although I know that I focus on the things I HAVE done and appreciate that. I even did away with that stupid long to do list I used to have that seemed to never end. Now, when I wake up I think of three major things I need to get done and DO THEM. At the end of the day I feel accomplished and motivated that I got things done.

Motivation…. I know that is a big one for many of you as well…,what do you fill your ears and eyes with though out the day? Is it motivating things? Where there is a will, there is a way. I downloaded Chet Holmes book 12 Marketing Successes and have been listening to it non stop over and over again…. Walking dogs, taking hikes, driving around…. It keeps me inspired. I carry around Dan Kennedy’s book (which I wish people would make more comments about too, but hey – I am ok with it. I am learned a lot on my own) and read it when I eat lunch, waiting for an appointment, or whenever I have 10 minutes…. It is about making things a priority in life. It is about having the pig headed determination to succeed that Chet Homles’ calls it.

If you tell yourself you are going to fail and you can’t do it, or you don’t have enough time…. Then you will fail.

This was inspired by one posting… but intended to be a general comment to everyone and not to one person so please do not take it personal.

We have all been (or are) there. The question is, are you going to get IT, or is it going to get YOU? Personally, IT doesn’t have a chance with me bc I am going to stomp on it every chance I get.

What do you have in common with the president? What do you have in common with Oprah?
What do you have in common with the Pope, with Donald Trump, with you governor, with all your friends, with all your clients, with me? With EVERY SINGLE PERSON on this earth?

What is that ONE THING?

Before I get a head of myself…I want to immediately dispelled the age old saying of “I’m too busy.” or “I don’t have time.” That is honestly a bunch of hogwash and if you say that I CHALLENGE you to omit those phrases from your vocabulary. If it is important enough, you will make time. Right? After all, you are not going to miss your loved ones funeral. You MAKE TIME for that. Yes, that is taking it to an extreme, but sometimes things need to be taken to extremes to really drive home the point.

Ok, back to the ONE THING… what is the one thing that we ALL have in common? There are ONLY 24 hours in the day. How is one person able to rule the free world and one person can’t even get through 20 emails? How is one person feeling like they are buried in their business and the other is running 20 businesses? Hmmmm…

My point is to give you all and encouraging PUSH. No book, forum, coach, or community is ever going to *give you* the golden ticket to have better time management. Time Management is something that an entrepreneur needs to make a priority to themselves. This is the same for finances. Without these two critical topics, a business and a business owner can stay in limbo for a long time. If you are not happy with where you are at now… stop doing what you are doing and try something else!!!

So I encourage you… when you listen to the time management webinars, when you read the time management books, when you learn different tactics, don’t waste your time by time *just* listening and watching them…. unless you will make a sincere promise to yourself to implement the strategies you learn.

The toughest part in learning isn’t changing the cognitive, it is changing your behavior. Finish strong!!! “YOU CAN DO IT!”