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Part of my mission here at Family Business Ideas is to teach you how to include your children in your work at home business or at least give you wonderful resources to help you with your children while you grow your business.
I am a huge advocate of reading and teaching your children the love of books. Heavens! I sell books so I’d better love them. I have a friend, Lisa Roberson, who has created a super cool subscription service. [click to continue…]
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One of my favorite books that I try to read at least once a year is the book titled Think and Grow Rich. I especially like how you can plan your business using the principles discussed in the book.
In continuing the series on Hill’s book let’s take a look at our second step in the subject of creating desire. I bet you didn’t think you could actually take action to create desire, but you can. Besides serious focus we need to do not only change our thinking in our endeavor to become successful online.
Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.
Let’s dig into this a bit. I love action steps. I want to do something to make my goals happen!
In today’s vernacular this step would be termed as “paying it forward”. Here’s some helpful questions “What’s it all for and what am I willing to give in exchange for this success?” Perhaps the what, which may be defined as your why, can be replaced with the word who. Profound sentence, huh? … Who is it all for? Why do I want success so badly I think about it all the time?
… and what am I willing to give to achieve this success?
For me, one of the exchanges has been [click to continue…]
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As we prepare for the New Year I always recommend that entrepreneurs, especially work at home entrepreneurs, take time to reflect and set goals for the upcoming year. Be sure to look at the things that went really well in your business this past year not only what did not get done and is going to be rolled into next year’s goal setting.
As you reflect on your good progress note how and why that happened. Don’t gloss over it and notice the negative. Our minds gravitate toward majoring on our failures, but we need to retrain ourselves to see potential. Take time to notice your success before you write out your goals for next year. Now you’ll be in the right mindset to think about your goals you have for your next full year in business.
Be sure to include a few motivational reads along with your year’s plans. One of my favorite books that should be read at least once a year is the book titled Think and Grow Rich. Go to that link for a free text download.
Mindset is everything and the actions that accompany that mindset is what puts the 3% of this nation’s people who are rich at that level. I will be continuing my blog series on this book and the steps every business owner should take very soon.
Until then …
Which books are your ulmitate favorite motivational reads? Tell me in the comments below.
To your success!!
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Having a list of valuable books to sell online not only helps you know what is valuable (who knows what lurks on your bookshelves!) but a list of titles helps you know what to look for while you’re out. It will pay you many times over. I have spent hours putting such lists together for myself as a online bookseller for my own personal training and the training of my helpers.
I share my book sale winners each month so you can create your own lists. Last month’s post has some real jewels that will make you some very good money. The list is at this post url http://familybusinessideas.com/1664/valuable-books-lis/.
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Top Ten Sales for September
FOL stands for the Friends of the Library. I have included a link to the online maps of the local used book sales at the libraries. These are the organizations that sell books which were donated to raise funds for various public libraries. The lower dollar amount is what we paid for the book we sold.
After you read each lead go to eBay or Amazon and put the title in the search box then you will see the closed auction or listing with a picture of the item. You have more valuable books imprinted on your brain if you take a look at the cover graphics. Additionally, you will discover title keywords that the sellers used to sell their books. It is vitally important to use your keyword real estate wisely on eBay’s listings. [click to continue…]
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Let’s face it making money online is hard work. For you to work online it takes focus, but not only focus, it takes a gut directed drive or a deep desire to make it happen. I talked about the steps required for this drive outlined by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich . In my first post in my blog series which debunks wrong thinking on what it takes to succeed online Think and Grow Rich Pt 1; What Will Work Online Passion or Desire? I mentioned the difference between passion and desire. Hill’s book gives us a blueprint in how to achieve this required desire to be very successful in our online career. If you aren’t familiar with the book it’s in the public domain and can be downloaded for free. Think and Grow Rich PDF
Here is a summary to chapter one titled Step 1 Toward Riches: Desire
Thoughts are things. Think about what you want and know what that is in your very core. Wishing will not bring you success but dreaming will if the dreams are put into action. Desiring success to the point of obsession with planning definite ways to acquire it through goal setting will bring these dreams to reality. Backing those plans with thoughts which do not recognize failure will bring you what you desire even quicker. A quote from Think and Grow Rich supports my view:
Put your dreams across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they” perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
Now on to the first step to develop desire toward your goal of making great money while you work online.
Step one in creating desire: Be definite to the amount you would like to earn . This can be as little as $100 a week to $100 a day to thinking really big to several hundred a day. [click to continue…]
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