Do you ever give any thought to wellness? I certainly don’t. It seems to me that only people in the wellness industry actually think about it.

But I read an article today that just blew my mind - the way the contributor links wellness and hunger to desperation for clients. Are you desperate for clients? How does your hunger show?

Anyway, it’s a worthy read - have a look at it. Hopefully you’ll come away with a desire to have a true wellness plan for business that will keep you well-fed and therefore a stronger magnet for prosperity.

Article: http://biznik.com/articles/are-you-too-hungry-to-go-shopping-for-clients

Warmly,

Tia

If it makes you feel uncomfortable calling yourself “the expert” in your particular field or industry, try writing it down, reading it a few times over and then possibly even saying it out loud.

With internet marketing, it’s crucial to be an expert and equally as crucial to let people know that you are an expert.

The truth is that the day you began charging for your work is the day you considered yourself an expert. In my opinion, there are novices and experts. Novices don’t usually charge for what they do, so if you’re charging, you are an expert by default.

Experts haven’t necessarily “arrived.” There’s no solemn law that says that if you’re an expert, you have learned all there is to know about your work. You are continually growing, learning, and improving so don’t let the feeling that you don’t know all there is to know hold you back from calling yourself the expert.

Once you’ve gotten comfortable with the fact that you’re an expert, do what experts do:

• Submit articles - free and paid. Seek out those who will pay you for your writing but don’t limit yourself only to those experiences.
• Participate in forums by offering your advice. No one likes it when they ask a question in a forum and an “expert” replies saying only, “I have the answer you need. Contact me.” That’s not active participation! Be proactive and involved and offer your advice.
• Put a LOT of good content on your website that you can link to later. Be thinking ahead. I’ve posted all sorts of Wordpress-related content on my website that I can now refer to in forums, blogs and articles. Instead of just linking to random, “salesy” pages on my website, I can now link to good, solid, informative content that helps people. This is a great way to increase the quality links coming into your website.

Going through challenges is the quickest and most effective way to reinvent yourself to become the new and improved you. — Kurek Ashley, How Would Love Respond?

Have you ever encountered a challenge in business? Perhaps you tried something that you thought would work. You gave it a bit of time and then gave up. Instead of making money, you lost money! In your eyes, you wasted previous dollars doing something that could have been spent on something else…something that would work.

I’ve faced business challenges before - financial, marketing, organization, etc. Challenges of all kinds, actually.

Recently, I was faced with a business challenge on a personal level that was really trying for me. Looking back, my perception of the situation is entirely different than it was at that moment, but I will whole-heartedly admit that my initial thoughts were completely negative. I thought, “What in the world? Why me!? Why am I being picked on? What’s so wrong with what I’m doing?”

The problem with thinking those kinds of thoughts is that I was focusing on the problem, rather than the solution. Instead of asking myself, “What’s great about this?” I was telling myself, “This isn’t good. I don’t deserve this. I should pack up and go home.”

Fortunately, I consulted mentors and I picked up a book that quite literally changed my entire way of thinking, and I was able to see the light in the perceived darkness. I started asking, “What’s great about this? How am I going to grow from this experience?”

And grow I did.

I titled this post “The Reinvention” because that’s exactly what I decided to go through - a reinvention. I put away old ways of thinking about challenges. Instead, I reinvented myself and created a new reality for me.

I decided that I wanted to change my world, my reality, my situations and my results. I realized that I didn’t like the things I was going through and that if I didn’t want to go through them anymore, I would have to change my patterns. In order to change my patterns, I needed to change my thoughts.

The you that you are now is the one who is doing what you’re doing now, and that’s why you have what you have now. — Kurek Ashley

Next time you face a challenge - and you will face challenges - consider your thoughts, because thoughts are so powerful.

When I changed my thinking, what was happening actually changed - really! Remember that events are just events and it’s our perception of those events that creates our reality. We are 100% in control of our reality. I decided to stop being the victim and reinvented myself as the creator - the creator of my own reality.