Inspiring Lives Magazine Summer 2016: Issue 1 | Page 21

be doing every day? What would the weather be like, your home, your routine? How would your life change, and more importantly, how would the lives around you change and be effected because you feel this happy and live each day using your gifts…live each day doing what you were meant to do? How far away are you from this life? How could it work? What steps do you really need to take in order for you to get there? If there are 20 steps, can you break them up into four groups of five steps to help create a timeline? Having a time frame will help you see the reality of reaching your goals and help motivate you to keep going. Being an entrepreneur almost always signifies that what you have to offer for money (you have to make a living) is going to help people. In some way, you will offer your ideas, skills, gifts, time, or products, and it will help solve a problem for them and change their lives. Even if you are selling clothes, a simple product offer at a discounted rate can mean the profit from their purchase from you goes to a charity. There is always a way to help others, especially a group of people or a community that is personally important to you. I do this with my own businesses, and we help several charities now. It feels amazing to be able to give. If you could help a group or a community of people, what impact would you like to make? How improved would their lives be because of your donations? Why would this not work? Several reasons. It doesn’t “No matter what path you start, your gifts are a living call to you to return to the setting where you really thrive.” Photo: Kara Hoffman Photography S o you want to do some “crazy business” on your own despite the opinions of others who say it would never work. Right? You wrote out your intentions, created a list of goals, pasted up some vision boards, meditated on it, and have no idea where to start taking action. Well I, for one, am absolutely elated for you. I know first-hand what this means for you—using your gifts to help others, intending the success, firing up your passion to drive you into action, and personally reaping the benefits. It means despite obstacles, nay-sayers, negative opinions, fear, and maybe even the fact you view past trials as failure, you are going for it anyway. But hey, who are we to tell the thousands of women all over the globe who are major success gurus that it cannot be done? Success is a wrapped gift box. Each one is wrapped differently for each person; the vision is unique for everyone. What does an entrepreneurial empire look like to you? Write a list of people who you know, or admire, who are doing what you want to do and are who you aspire to become. Read about their history. You will find out many started without being set up for success and figured it out along the way, paid laser focus and attention to their own inner voice and guidance system, and went for what made them feel happiest. Remember five years ago when you had that vision of what success would mean for you? How close are you to that goal? Have you been listening to doubt and the opinions of others? Get yourself around 5–10 people who are more successful than you are. Listen, learn, ask questions, and feel good, and that vibration will return to match it. If you are reading this, chances are most likely that you have read it all before. But just in case, let’s list the keys to success, and see which ones you need to polish. What makes you happiest? The answer here is a key to finding out what your gifts are. How would life look for you? Where would you be living? What would you SUMMER 2016 INSPIRING LIVES 21