Kids have it right

A lot of kids get a bad rap these days. We hear much lamenting about when I was young we this and we that, and kids today are spoiled, and don't know what life is all about... but kids still have it right.

 
I was introduced to this boy this week, I absolutely LOVE him and simply can't get enough. I have probably watched this video 15 times. 


Kids live in the moment. They don't put their dreams on hold, they don't set their happiness aside for another day. They have it right.

I read a blog post today by Jane Powell (love her too). She gets it too. 

I forgot for a while myself. 

It's easy to forget. We go through college and someone tells us it's time to work for what we want, and grow up and stop living with our heads in the clouds. Then we go to work and we put our dreams and our happiness on hold for "someday".

Luckily for me, my run on the hamster wheel was interrupted. My life changed when my husband was laid off in 2005 from a corporate job that had made him so depressed he was a completely different person. We likened the layoff to when a loved one has been really sick for a long time, and they pass away. It’s sad, but it’s really a relief that the suffering is over. We decided it was our last best opportunity for him to pursue his life long dream rather than go back to doing what he hated somewhere else. 

We took a huge leap and walked away from a 70K income and invested another 70K in the additional training he needed.

We decided we didn’t need to suffer any more. My husband’s happiness in his career was more important than his income or our lifestyle. I didn’t know how, but I knew I’d do anything to work it out.

So I started my business alongside my corporate position to supplement our income. I found in helping my husband make his dream come true, I not only found a dream I didn’t even know I had, but I figured out that life is supposed to be good and happy. Every day.

We enjoyed an AMAZING summer along the journey while he was building his hours.
I'll tell you... I can't WAIT until we own our own private plane. I loved driving to the airport and just getting in the plane. I loved the FBOs, kind of like a first class lounge, but it's for the private aircrafts. I loved being able to watch Mike and Jay or one of the other pilots he flew with fly the plane. On a trip back from Atlanta, GA we saw the most amazing lightning storm. Cool stuff!

We learned that it is truly never too late to bring your dream to life. At 43 years of age, my husband got hired as an airline pilot! No more sitting in a cubicle for him. We learned that anything really is possible!

And we’ve figured out that life is about each day, making the most of who we are, where we are and most importantly who we are with.

I look around and see that it wasn’t just me experiencing this - we all get so busy living life, that we forget to Live Life.

It is now my mission in life to help people find their happiness every day. Whether that is making their whole home sparkle and smell amazing, or creating a special space where they can escape and regroup, or giving them the chance to reconnect with some of the most important people in their life, or helping someone create a new career and like me, learn to dream bigger dreams.

It's easy to forget. And it's funny. You know the people who make amazing things happen in the world... the innovators, the memory makers, the Disneys and Gates and Mother Theresas of the world... they never stop dreaming. And that's what makes them great.


So today be a kid. Go out and play. Share what you will do for the sheer joy of it! Share the dream you dare to dream!

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Finding your joy by finding your joy

As a woman entrepreneur, I've been strolling down the path of learning this past year. Learning about marketing. The learning curve is HUGE and the amount of information available is immense. It's incredibly easy to get overwhelmed and swept up in the maelstrom of dos and don'ts, promises and trials and errors. 

In the direct sales industry, it has become clear to me that the one area of training that we are lacking is marketing. As a business sub category, direct sales has some of the best training out there. Sales training, leadership training, recruiting training, personal development training. But as a small business, and direct sales is a small business, if you don't have marketing, you're not in business.

In this journey I've been on, I've learned loads about niche marketing and finding your message and creating a personal brand. 

I had the joy of spending time this past weekend with my dear friend and direct sales colleague. She is starting on this same journey. We were discussing this personal brand strategy and we hit on a topic that I think bears sharing with all women entrepreneurs, whether you are in the direct sales industry or not. 

When you are developing your personal brand, and we all need to market ourselves, unless you happen to have a singular business. We all do something that other people also do. However, no one will do it quite the way we do, and that is what we need to sell. 

But sometimes it's tough to see ourselves clearly, and even tougher still to pinpoint our unique business strength. 

I think the key is finding your joy. We all started our business because of a sense of passion or purpose, and if that isn't why we started, nearly all of us have developed a passion or purpose along the way. But as with many other aspects of running a business, we become inundated with lists. 
Lists of personal development goals, lists of administrative tasks, lists of ideas we want to try to boost sales or retention. We have lists of lists of lists.

Focus on your joy. There is something, maybe a few things, that you do in your business that totally bring you joy, that turn you on, that make you glow. That is your brand. That is your purpose. That is your gift. 

There are lots of things that you have to do as a business owner. Some of those things can be delegated, and if you can delegate, that is the best.
We've all heard the quote:  "Find something you love to do, and you'll never work a day in your life". For many of us, that is what brought us here, but sometimes we forget along the way. 

To truly find your joy in each and every day, remember and focus on those things in your business that bring you joy. Not only will this boost your marketing, but it is another way to find your happy place day after day.

Share what brings you joy in your business!

With Love and Laughter,
Shannon