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Turn Your Passion Into Cash-Women’s Business Empowerment Summit Training Call

Last night, Tuesday the 13th of May 2008 we started the
WBES Free Teleseminar Series.

Every Tuesday through the 29th of July I will host a 1 hour
training call.

On this week’s call I will share my formula for turning your passion into cash.

There will be a special surprise on this call you don’t want to miss!

On this call you’ll learn:
– How to create your business and your life on your own terms
– Why you need a compelling vision for your life
– 7 step process for turning your passion into cash
– 4 keys necessary to reach your desired outcome
– Why you must be a master communicator

Lynn Pierce, founder of the “Women’s Business Empowerment
Summit”, brings you over 25 years of successfully teaching how
to combine business and personal development to reach the
pinnacle of success and live the life of your dreams.

Known as the Success Architect, just tell Lynn what the life of your
dreams looks like and she’ll create the blueprint to get you there.
She shows you how you can be wildly successful living life your way
and fitting your business into your life rather than the other way around.

Lynn’s life serves as a personal case study! In a short 12 months
after cracking the entrepreneurial blueprint code, Lynn Pierce created
3 different live events in 3 different cities, developed 6 new information
products from scratch, appeared in national magazines, was interviewed
on numerous radio shows and increased the subscriber base of her
ezine by 600% while still vacationing 8-12 weeks a year and moving
to another state!

She is co-author of 5 books including the #1 Best Selling, “Wake-up…Live
the Life You Love”, and has been featured in 5 more, and Lynn’s book,
“Breakthrough to Success; 19 Keys to Mastering Every Area of Your Life”,
is available at www.Amazon.com

The Short Cut To Success

There’s one common theme that shows up over and over in emails, blog posts, Ask campaigns and phone calls. Year after year, it’s always the same. But I don’t think I ever realized the extent of what you were asking for, until now. Do you know what I’m talking about?

You want a short cut, not just a process, but a short cut for the system, a short cut for the program, the Cliff notes of the book, you want the magic pill.

Poof, it’s done.

Actually, now that I’m writing this I can think of a couple Internet marketing things I’d like that magic pill for myself, but I’ve never found one and I don’t believe it really exists.

I’m not saying it’s an inherently bad thing to want it boiled down to the barest of effort, to almost eliminate the learning curve. I know it’s not that you’re lazy. I get that you’re totally and frustratingly overwhelmed. There’s way too much information and too many offers and too many programs that say you can’t live without this new and improved tool that will instantly transform your business.

In very few instances that may be true.

But it’s not always possible. Most of the time there is some level of work on your part and a learning curve involved. How much time, money and effort will vary depending on what you’re doing and also to a certain extent what level of success you choose to achieve.

You do consciously or sub-consciously choose your level of success by choosing your level of commitment and the level of education you decide to buy. Yes, I said buy, because most high level education that leads to lasting success is something you buy. From a $7 report to a $100,000 a year mentoring program. You choose.

I understand your financial ability plays a role in what you buy, but you need to understand that your financial situation will rarely shift on it’s own without you taking a leap of faith and possibly putting something on a credit card, or a few credit cards. In the first 2 years I was learning this business I built up quite a library of resource that helped me grow and I was initially putting out a lot more money than I was taking in. I took a leap of faith. Without doing that I don’t believe I would be where I am today.

Most people need more to be successful than just one quick fix and that’s what I’ve been thinking about the last few days. I’ve been asking myself how can I put together all the different pieces I teach into a cohesive package that delivers exactly what you need.

So I’ve laid all the piece out here for you. If you think there’s one you need right now grab it and run with it.

There are 4 areas that will help you build your business and also allow you to live the life of your dreams. It’s a process and you need to cover all four areas to sustain the success you build.

1. Introspection: Who are you? What do you want in your life? What will make you change?

2. Out-Picturing: What is your passion? How are you going to design and create the life of your dreams? What will the business be that funds all this?

3. Sales and Communication Skills: How are you going to speak to your target market about what you’ve created? What kind of branding,marketing materials, sales copy, talks, presentations are you going to create to bring in new clients? What is going to be the foundation of how you speak your business in the world? How will you learn to effectively communicate with your clients?

4. Putting It All Together and Growing: Where will you get the tools, strategies,and training to continuously take your business and your life to the next level?

That’s why I created “Women’s Business Empowerment Summit” and men do attend, more every year.

Here’s some of your comments that have been keeping me up at night working on a way to put it all together to give you the easiest, most streamlined solution:

“I’ve spent the last 2 years or so chasing the wind online (and spending a ton!) but learning all the “outer ring” aspects like marketing, sales copy, writing articles, etc., etc., etc.I just can’t find “that” niche for me.”

“I feel like I’m tied up because once I get that piece of the puzzle I think I could move rather quickly. But like you said, most of the material out today doesn’t really show or teach you how to dig that out…most assume you already have that or just tell you to use PLR materials which I really don’t want to do.”

“I know I have side stepped topics in the past because of ‘this has already been addressed’ only to see someone else recycle the topic in a new package.”

“you are talking directly to me about the “expert” that discourages you from getting out there with your message.”

“I have always been known as an “ideas” guy, but I am miserable at putting things into action.”

“…multiple interest, but when it comes to narrowing choices down and implementation, I fail miserably”

“To actually hone in on a certain niche, and be able to express my single most passion has been a trying journey. Spending untold dollars on courses on both personal development, and learning the ways of internet marketing has been continual, but now it is time to stop and just go for it.”

“Converting one’s true passion into a monetarily successful reality can be daunting.”

All 4 elements are essential even if you feel like you have one specific piece that’s holding you back. The thing is, you’re willing to go there at a different rate of speed and to a different depth than someone else may be. And then there are the fears-known or unknown-that have kept you where you are right now, or at least moving forward much slower than what’s possible for you. Honestly, if it wasn’t scary for you on some level, you would have already done it. And most often the blocks you are aware of are the symptoms, not the cause.

If you’re ready to get your life on track and build a business that will have a solid foundation, then the best way to do that is to take the weekend and get it done. If you want everything all wrapped up into one neat little package, a stripped down ‘essentials only’ system to getting past all the concerns that are expressed in the comments below, I’ve been listening to the requests for a live event.

If you’re interested in being notified when and if this is going to take place (the Bay area seems to be the spot), send me an email with “count me in” as the subject line. With my move to Maui, I’m looking at my schedule to see if I can make it work to do this in June.

The questions you want to ask yourself are, “how much is it costing me to take lesser action in my life today than what I know is possible? And how long am I willing to settle for less?”

It is possible to move past all of these concerns in a matter of hours, just one short weekend. Are you ready?

If you’re reading this somewhere other than my blog, please go to http://YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog and post your comments. I do not have the ability to answer individual email questions but I do respond to comments posted here.

Lynn Pierce, the Success Architect, has taught people how to combine
business and personal development to reach the pinnacle of success
and live the life of their dreams for over 25 years. In addition, she is also
the founder of one of the most exciting annual events for women entrepreneurs,
“Women’s Business Empowerment Summit”. Now she shares her keys to
success and life mastery with you. You can get the first five lessons of
“Change One Thing, Change Your Life: A Personal Transformation System”
at http://www.yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com

Before You’re Ready to Create Product You Have to Create You

Reply to Van’s comment on yesterday’s post:

It’s 7:00PM and I just finished a day of mentoring that I’m doing at my house this weekend. I know you want a worksheet, I’d want one too, but it’s not possible. I put 110% of my knowledge and my energy into delivering exactly what you need to get where you want to go. It’s not a cookie cutter process. Why? Because I’m working with real people and we go deep to clear the block that have prevented you from already being where you want to go.

Today we worked on exactly what you’re talking about Van, the internal blocks that prevent you from moving forward. It’s not anything that can be boiled down to a worksheet unfortunately. I appreciate the level of honesty and candor you were willing to show in your comment. That say a lot about your desire to have a shift in your life.

It’s a very individualized process. Everyone is willing to go there at a different rate of speed and to a different depth. It can be challenging and scary. Honestly, if it wasn’t scary for you on some level, you would have already done it. Especially since you’re already clear on what a couple of your blocks are, but really they’re just the symptom, not the cause.

And you’re not alone. We talked about those same issues today.

If you’re ready to get your life on track and build a business that will have a solid foundation, then the best way to do that is to take the weekend and get it done. I may possibly arrange to do something in the Bay area next month if I get feedback that enough people are ready to move forward.

If you’re not that serious or you’re in no hurry, buy my book and do all the exercises, which depending on how close you are, could make some instant shifts, but it will at least start a different internal and external conversation for you.

The book in itself can change the quality and focus of your life if you do all the exercises and take the action steps. It would be very powerful if you and your wife both did it. Then when you’re ready, take the weekend and come and get it done.

The reality is, very few people can do it on their own and they end up spending a lot more time and money trying to do it cheaper, but it doesn’t work and after a couple year’s they’re still in the same place wishing things were different or still looking for a magic bullet to instantly create a business.

The difficulty is not in creating the products. It’s in the discovery process that gets you to the point of creating the product and the foundation of removing the blocks and the introspection and personal development that gets you ready for the success you’ll achieve so you don’t get to a point and sabotage yourself and create one of those famous ‘made it, lost it and had to make it again’ stories.

You Can Create Your Own Products and Be the Guru

I was just reading Jerry’s comment on the “3 Ways to Position Yourself” post below and he commented on how he could relate to the story of the woman who came into my program thinking she had one passion and it turned out she had one that was much bigger and way more lucrative and also my ability to “see” what she couldn’t. You can read the rest of his comment with that post, but he ended by asking what services offer to, in his words, “help me identify and implement action that can get me going in pursuit of a gratifying and fulfilling vocation.”

To answer Jerry’s question. A place to start on the low end would be getting my book on Amazon y clicking on the cover on this blog site. That’s not the fastest way to make things happen and if you’re the kind of person that does better when someone’s holding you accountable, which most people do, there are other options.

I do have different ways I work with people depending on how quickly you want to get things accomplished. I think the best way is always to show up at a location, spend a couple days together and just get it done. No more talking about it, just do it. I do that as a small group closed door intensive, but not on a regular schedule, and I don’t have another one planned. I also do a limited amount of private mentoring clients at $1500 a month with weekly sessions for a 3 month minimum.

One reason this is such a hot topic is that most of the gurus teaching product creation are really teaching packaging and marketing of a product-not creation, so if you don’t already have your topic and your content nailed down, what are you going to do with what you learn at one of those $5000 weekends?

I’m not going to name names, since a lot of these gurus are my friends, but I know many people who start at the part where you already have whatever it is you’re going to be selling all ready to go. Why? Because they don’t know how to teach you to find ‘your topic’, not just ‘a topic’. They don’t know how to draw real content out of you, out of your passion. In fact a lot of these guys, and I don’t hold this against them, because it’s not what they’re an expert at, but they tell you to create content by just interviewing a bunch of people!

That’s not your content! It doesn’t do anything to position you as an expert, and this whole Napoleon Hill was a reporter and made his fortune by interviewing other people is a cop out. You’ve got great content inside you, now you just need to get it out. And your content will be so much more powerful than simply interviewing other people. If you’re going to build a following, it’s because of who you are and what you have to teach, not because you know how to ask question on the phone. Anybody can do that.

The post Jerry commented on resonated with several people who emailed me and didn’t post a comment, and I answer those emails by asking them to post a comment so everyone can benefit from the answer to their questions because that’s the only way I can answer. There just isn’t enough time for me to answer everyone individually, sorry. I get plenty of comments like “It must be meant to be because you really spoke to me!!”, and one woman who said if I would organize a live event in the Bay area to teach everything I’ve been talking about, she would get at least 10 people there.

I love to teach and if I had time I would blog and answer your questions all day long, but I have other projects. I’m actually doing a small mentoring group at my home this weekend, the last event before I move to Maui the middle of the month. I may consider doing a live event over the summer if you’re really serious about taking action and not only discovering your passion, but also allowing me to help you consciously design your life blueprint so you can live the life of your dreams, because personally, I don’t see any reason to live any other way. And then together we’ll create what your product line will be and what your business is going to look like and I’ll teach you the sales and communication skills you need to make your business a success.

Well, that’s what I would teach if I was going to do this and I’m not kidding, this isn’t a marketing ploy, I really don’t know if I can fit it into my schedule before Women’s Business Empowerment Summit in August, given the fact that I’m just moving to Hawaii. If I do decide I can do it, is there anything else you’d want to learn or does what I’ve said about cover it?

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3 Ways to Position Yourself When There’s Already a Big Guru In Your Topic

I agreed with the comment posted on my last post by Steve Pohlit so I thought I’d hop over to his blog and comment.

Once I was there I decided I had more to say on this and wanted to share it with you.
My post on Steve’s blog:

You commented, “I know I have side stepped topics in the past because of ‘this has already been addressed’ only to see someone else recycle the topic in a new package.”

I wanted to share with you that this is incredibly common. So many times a person feels that there is already a guru at the top of that topic and they are not at that person’s level. And what happens is they abandon that topic altogether, when there are several ways to position yourself as an expert in that situation.

In fact, you’ve just inspired me to write a blog post about that right now so I can tell my readers as well how to do that.

Thanks Steve!

Ok, so there are 3 ways you can enter a market that in your mind already has a huge guru that you don’t want to compete with or don’t believe you can-see, there are those beliefs again.

1. What does this guru say that you disagree with?

2. Where is there a gap in this guru’s system or where do you see a step missing?

3. What new information do you have to add to this topic that would make a difference to your audience?

Let me give you an example. I had a client who came to into my process thinking that her topic was gardening. In her mind she had a passion for it and thought she could write an ebook. That in itself is a small, very easily attainable goal.

But once we started going through the process, what showed up was that she was extremely passionate about helping blue collar people, like herself, build huge financial reserves and move toward financial independence on a very low salary. She had a gift she didn’t recognize.

Why? Because to her it was just something she did! She’d not only done this for herself, she’d done it for relatives, co-workers and countless people at church and never thought it was anything to get paid for or a possible business.

It’s the same story over and over with so many clients. It takes a mentor who knows the right questions to ask to pull out what’s already inside you and show you the magnificence of the knowledge and talent that you’ve either ignored or discounted. The world needs what you have to share, they’re waiting for you. And yes, I’m talking to YOU!

That big guru isn’t the be all and end all for every person. You have your own perspective on the topic that will draw a different segment of the market to you. You may have a style of speaking or a simplicity to the way you present the material that makes you you more understandable than any other guru who’s ever taught on this topic.

My client said, “You mean everybody doesn’t know this?”, as she glanced around the table at the other mentees with their mouths hanging open. She couldn’t believe this was something she could get paid for and the rest of the table couldn’t understand how she didn’t know what a gift she had. And yet they were soon to discover, neither did they.

That’s what I do. I see these gifts in people. It’s very easy for me to have a conversation with you, have you do some exercises and I can see what’s inside of you that you can’t access by yourself. I also can see the whole product line unfolding in my head as we talk. I don’t question it, I just pay attention and tell you what I see and then help you create it. And yes there was a time that I just did it for free-I did a lot of this for free…because I didn’t think it was any big deal, it came so easily to me.

I have never found anyone that didn’t have a topic they were passionate about that was also profitable that could be turned into product.

So don’t discount yourself because you’re not the big cheese. When the gurus started out neither were they. And yet they believed in themselves enough to take a chance, take a stand, step into their power and go for it.

Look at what’s holding you back from throwing your hat in the ring. It’s not because someone bigger is already there. That’s an excuse.

If you need help, I’m here.

P.S. If you’re reading this anywhere besides my actual blog, please go to http://YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog to post your comments so everyone can benefit from your thoughts.

How do you juggle all the different projects in your life?

Things are very busy for me right now. How about you? Spring is a time for cleaning out the old and welcoming in the new.

In the next couple weeks I have a lot going on. I’m doing an event at my home, 2 book signings, my birthday and moving to Maui. Did I mention I have a lot of packing to do?

I’m turning 52 and every year I wonder if this will be the last year I’m happy about how old I am. I know a lot of women my age don’t like to broadcast their age, but I look at each year as gained wisdom and a rite of passage so I like to announce it.

I feel great, I’m happy with the way I look, the way my life is unfolding and I’m excited to see what the next year will bring. Speaking of looks, this may sound really strange, but ever since I made the decision to move to Maui, I swear lines on my face are going away. Could it be stress relief?

I’ll let you know the locations of book signings next week so you can come and see me if you’re in AZ.

I’m holding a small closed door intensive at my house teaching people turn their passion into cash by first discovering what that is, then consciously designing the blueprint for the life of their dreams and looking at how their business fits into that plan.

If you ever wondered how I do so many things at the same time with very little help, and keep my sanity, come and join us. I can fit a couple more people. There’s no sales page for this because I decided to do it during a special bonus call for people who had ordered my Turning Passion Into Cash CD and I wanted it to be strictly on the basis of it resonating with you, not a sales pitch.

You can listen and then email if you’re interested:

http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=2263872

The bonus of working one on one with me on your business for free when you register for “Women’s Business Empowerment Summit” ends Friday.

Click on the link in the side bar to register.

I know you’re thinking it’s only April and you have plenty of time, but pricing goes up and bonuses are eliminated, so grab your seat now-and your hotel room, before they’re sold out.