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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

Are you blooming or in pain staying the same?

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What’s New
The Paid for Life event last weekend with Frank Kern & Mike Koenigs in San Diego was great. I always enjoy spending time with Mike & Rocket and their extended Traffic Geyser family. The Hotel Solamar is a Kimpton property, just like the FireSky where I’m holding Women’s Business Empowerment Summit next weekend. Kimpton is great for that cozy intimate hotel feel. So look for me to be doing an event there soon, and the weather was absolutely wonderful all weekend.

I’ve been telling you about the books I’m reading and now my mastermind is reading my #1 favorite book, “The Magic of Believing” and it’s great after having read it more times than I can count to see it through new eyes. I was so excited about the group doing it that I went out and bought a fresh copy to highlight all over again!

I’ve had an idea rolling around in my head for a while now about doing a book club for you. It would be done as a membership and I would send you the book each month that we’re discussing and then we’d have a private members group discussion about what we learn and a whole bunch of other benefits.

If that sounds like something you’re interested in, send me an email with book club in the subject line and your thoughts on what you’d like to have it look like to be of benefit to you. I’ve been thinking about this ever since my book came out last year, so I’d like your opinion as I get it put together.

This week’s article is straight from a friend’s email to his list. Yesterday Mark Widawer emailed saying that his laptop was stolen on vacation from his hotel room while his family was sleeping in the room! Today he shared some tips to safeguard your computer and your information before this happens to you. Unfortunately we always think we’ll get around to this stuff later. If you have tips to share, please post them on both of our blogs so everyone can benefit.

We are now only one week out from Women’s Business Empowerment Summit. All the faculty members are really stepping up and giving us some great content you can use before you even get to the summit on the training calls.

We are running calls right up until the week of the event. I’ve added a couple new faculty members so go to the site and check out the additions to the line-up. You’ll have a chance to learn from some top experts that don’t normally come out and speak, so I’ll bet you may not have even heard their names before!

Tonight I’ll be interviewing Judith Gerhart on Divorce Your Way, discussing the financial aspects you need to know to protect yourself.

When you go to register for the calls, on the next page you can grab your seat for the summit in August. Our $99 hotel rate room block ended, but as of now they are still honoring that rate. There are hot deals on airfares all over the place, so book yours today.

The best way to get up close and personal with the faculty is to do the VIP upgrade package. Only 30 attendees will be having lunch with our faculty members. That give you 3 days with a lot of one on one time. What could you do with an opportunity like that?

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

Take 2 minutes to create an account on Twitter, at least to get your name before someone else takes it.

Just go to http://www.Twitter.com
Then visit my page at:
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And click “Follow” that is displayed under my photo.
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How to Protect Your Laptop from Fire, Theft and Other Tragedies

This article is by guest author Mark Widawer who sadly had this experience.

Yesterday, I told you about how my laptop computer was stolen from inside my hotel room…while I was sleeping just a few feet away.

Hard to believe, but true.

I was pretty well prepared for such a disaster — better than most, but not as good as some — and my business was saved because of it. But there were other things I could have done — and had always intended to do but hadn’t that could have either prevented the theft in the first place, or helped me to recover even faster.

You might think that what I’m about to recommend to you is a bit excessive. Well I’ll tell you, “It’s always too much until it’s not enough.”

In other words, you might think that doing one or two of these techniques is enough — and you might think it’s excessive. I promise you it’s not. If you lose your computer — either through an accident, or theft, or fire — you’ll need everything on your side to recover your personal information, your business, and your identity.

It’s always too much until it’s not enough. Remember that. Adopt it as your defensive motto for any part of your life.

Today we’re going to cover ways to protect your data and your computer. If you’ve used the tools or advice in the past, go ahead and leave a comment on my blog at http://www.TrafficAndConversion.com. I’m sure there are other people will read this and appreciate your input. If you’ve got questions about any of this, go ahead and ask them.

1) COMPUTER LOG-IN – Always password protect your computer. Require a password each time your computer is rebooted or wakes up from sleep mode. If you have multiple users on your computer (for you, your spouse, coworkers, etc) then also make sure that their logins are password protected. Otherwise, someone can log into their account and get to your data.

2) LOJACK FOR LAPTOPS — I had meant to install this ever since I got my new laptop, but always thought I’d have more time — no such luck.

If I had Lojack for Laptops, I could have activated a search feature, which would work with the local police to help locate the laptop as soon as it was connected to the Internet. (Doesn’t work in every country, but it will definitely be on my next machine.)

http://www.LojackForLaptops.com

Lojack for Laptops has a Premium version which allows you a very special feature, assuming want to keep your data top-secret: You can set Lojack to delete your data if it is stolen. That will keep your data away from someone else’s prying eyes, but if you ever recover your laptop, you won’t be able to get the data either. But that’s why you back up your computer, right?

3) LOCAL BACKUP – Here’s a bit of good news — I have good backups of my laptop, so I’m able to recover all of my data. I use Acronis True Image because it is fast and very easy to use. My entire 160gb hard drive backs up in just two hours…if I need to do a complete backup. But, it’s a simple matter to schedule an automatic “incremental” backup every week or every night so that all of the changes are saved in just a few minutes.

You can get a copy at Acronis.com or you can go here to get an instant 20% coupon. http://www.MarkPrefers.com/acronis

VERY good software, and much better than the names you are probably more familiar with.

4) ONLINE BACKUP – If you have a local backup, why do you need an offline backup, too?

Well, there are two VERY important reasons. First, if you are traveling and lose a file — or your whole computer — you can access your online backup instantly from anywhere.

Second, if your home or office (where ever you keep your local backup) is robbed or has some other disaster (fire,
earthquake, etc), you still have another backup somewhere else, safe and sound.

I use Mozy which lets you back up your entire computer — no matter how big the hard drive! And unlike many similar services (Carbonite, etc), it will also backup external USB drives.

You can get a free account to back up up to 2 Gigs of data for free at http://www.MarkPrefers.com/mozy, but I gotta
tell you…the full service is just $5 a month.

HIGHLY recommended.

5) PASSWORD PROTECTION – Today’s browsers like Internet Explorer and Firefox, have the ability to keep you logged into some of your favorite sites, and to even log you in automatically.

Well, I advise against memorizing your passwords using your browser. Instead, use a program like Roboform (http://www.RoboformFreeTrial.com).

I have literally hundreds of websites I log into every week. If I had to type them all in by hand, I’d easily lose an hour a day both by typing the passwords and by having to remember and guess at the rest. I use Roboform, which lets me remember just one password to unlock them all. Not only will Roboform fill in my usernames and passwords, it will fill in my address and credit card info, too. But, its password protection is strong, and my data — even in the wrong hands — is protected from their prying eyes. I’m glad I’ve got Roboform.

Lots of suggestions have poured into my blog at http://www.TrafficAndConversion.com, and I’ll share some of those with you, too.

I’d like to thank Mark for sharing his experiences and hopefully saving many of you from the same experience. Please post any suggestions you may have on his blog as well as mine to share the information with all of our readers.

If you would like personal mentoring, send me an email detailing what you would like help with. As your mentor I hold a bigger vision for you than you hold for yourself. When you have faith and a team that believes in you, it gives you courage. When you don’t have to do it all yourself, all things are possible for you. Commit today to go for your dream 100%.

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

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog

I’ve been nominated for President of the United States

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“It is never too late to become what you might have been.”
George Eliot

What are you waiting for?

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What’s NewI’m getting ready to leave tomorrow for a weekend in San Diego. I’ll be checking out a hotel for another event I’m doing and attending a charity event being held by my friends Mike Koenigs, Frank Kern and Vivian Glyck to benefit JustLikeMyChild.org After spending time in the desert I’m looking forward to the cooler weather and seeing the ocean.

I’m still reading the books I bought for the long holiday weekend and a few more I dug out of a box in my garage-most of my books are packed waiting to be moved. Maybe that has something to do with the article last week and this week referencing books and the power they have to improve your life.

This week’s article follows up on last week’s article where I gave you a suggested reading list. You can find all the articles posted on my blog. This week’s we’ll talk about how to use them as professional development tools.

I am so happy with the training calls for Women’s Business Empowerment Summit. All the faculty members are really stepping up and giving us some great content you can use before you even get to the summit.

Tonight I’ll be interviewing Scott Dennison on increasing conversion rates with video and next Tuesday is Michelle Price on Social Networking Savvy for Women Entrepreneurs.

And if you missed Brendon’s call on Tuesday about non-profit & corporate partnerships, unfortunately Instant Teleseminars was experiencing a problem and the webcast function and recording were not working properly, so only the lucky people who were on the phone line got to hear Brendon Burchard.

The best way to get up close and personal with the faculty is to do the VIP upgrade package. Only 30 attendees will be having lunch with our faculty members. That give you 3 days with a lot of one on one time. What could you do with an opportunity like that?

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

Take 2 minutes to create an account on Twitter, at least to get your name before someone else takes it.

Just go to http://www.Twitter.com
Then visit my page at:
http://twitter.com/lynnpierce

And click “Follow” that is displayed under my photo.
(That’s all there is to it.)

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“Not only strike when the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.”
Oliver Cromwell

Are you ready to make something happens in your life?

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If you are in the U.S. I hope you had a great long holiday weekend for the 4th of July.

I had a friend in town last week and when we went to lunch near a Barnes & Noble I had to go in and stock up on books for the long weekend. I got 5 and one of them that I would highly recommend is “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coehlo. I’d love to hear what you think of this book if you’ve already read it.

I really took an extended, more like a 6 day weekend and took it easy. Then I found out one of the reasons why I felt so compelled to relax was that I was over-doing a mineral complex I just started taking and it was working like a natural Valium (don’t ask me for the name, I’m not prescribing). I had to ask the person that put me on the minerals why I was still so tired when I had gotten all this rest.

So the moral of the story is to always be aware of how your body is reacting to anything new you’re taking in the form of supplements or food. I didn’t take any today, just to make sure it was out of my system before I start the reduced amount. But I’m still a little groggy.

Never the less, I’m doing a ton of interviews again this week about Women’s Business Empowerment Summit and how to turn your passion into cash.

I’ve added 2 new faculty members that will be posted on the site shortly, Scott Dennison on Unlock The Secrets to Converting More Of Your Site Visitors into Sales With Online Video
and Michelle Price on Social Networking Savvy for Women Entrepreneurs.

The WBES training calls are incredible this year. I think this is the best year ever with many new, cutting edge topics and faculty members you haven’t had access to before. We’ve got another great call tonight on how to get an infusion of cash for your business with Rex Wisehart.

And if you missed Mike’s call on Tuesday about generating traffic with video, he blew us away with what he taught!

When you go to register for the calls, on the next page you can grab your seat for the summit in August. Our $99 hotel rate room block ends tomorrow. There are hot deals on airfares all over the place, so book yours today.

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

Take 2 minutes to create an account on Twitter, at least to get your name before someone else takes it.

Just go to http://www.Twitter.com

Then visit my page at:
Tweets by lynnpierce

And click “Follow” that is displayed under my photo.

(That’s all there is to it.)

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“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”

Thomas Edison

How close are you?

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What’s NewI am getting so much done this summer. How about you?

I’m doing a ton of interviews about Women’s Business Empowerment Summit, my book, “Breakthrough to Success” and how to turn your passion into cash-my favorite topic.

I hope you’re listening to the free training calls for WBES because our faculty members are delivering some amazing content! You haven’t missed anything because the calls are all available on replay.

When you go to register for the calls, on the next page you can grab your seat for the summit in August. Not only do we have a great hotel rate of $99, but there are hot deals on airfares all over the place.

In fact, for those who are smart enough to not buy into the media hype of doom & gloom, you can get some of the best travel bargains I’ve seen in years!

If I wasn’t in the middle of preparing for the summit, I think I’d be spending the entire summer traveling. I booked my airfare for a trip to San Diego in a couple weeks to hang out with Mike Koenigs and Frank Kern and got a better deal than I did in March & April.

This week I’ve written the article I promised you last week on Tiger Woods. I find inspiration in how other people live their lives so whether it’s last week’s article on Tim Russert (which you can access on my blog) or this week’s article on Tiger, let me know if you enjoy these type of articles.

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

Take 2 minutes to create an account on Twitter, at least to get your name before someone else takes it.

Just go to http://www.Twitter.com

Then visit my page at:
http://twitter.com/lynnpierce

And click “Follow” that is displayed under my photo.

(That’s all there is to it.)

Tim Russert, Tiger Woods and the Red Cross

Like I said last week, I’m still in Scottsdale and it’s way past hot! We’ve had a heat advisory for the last week, but that’s nothing compared to what some of you are dealing with in the middle of the country with all the flooding. My heart goes out to all of you dealing with that.

This is also a good time to remember that charitable organizations need your donations now. I heard that the Red Cross is taking loans out to be able to keep doing their work. That’s a real shame, because even though one segment of the population is cutting back because of the economy there are still more than enough people with money who can donate.

Last week I also mentioned how we are more interested in people when we feel a connection with them. Well, that was certainly borne out by 2 things this past week; the sad passing of Tim Russert and the drama at Torrey Pines created by Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate.

I wrote about Tiger in my book, “Breakthrough to Success” available on Amazon.com, but this is a whole new story on many levels that I’ll tell you about next week.

I decided to do this week’s article on Tim Russert and what we can learn from the way he lived his life and his passion.

On another note, every Tuesday and Thursday through the 29th of July I’m hosting 1 hour training calls.

Debbie Bermont was absolutely fabulous Tuesday night and if you weren’t on the call live and didn’t do the bullseye exercise, make sure you listen to the replay and do it now.

I just got finished recording the interview with J.T. Foxx which was canceled due to technical difficulties of J.T. not being able to get on the line last week. We now have over 1250 people registered for these calls!

It was worth the weight and J.T. has a fresh and wonderful perspective on how to promote yourself to millions. He is a breath of fresh air when it comes to being open and honest about how to get to the top.

And if you have any fear of promoting your fabulous self or your business, you’ll learn how to overcome that tomorrow on our interview with Dr. Jim & Dr. Judith.

These calls are all building on each other and I would encourage you to take the time and go back and listen to every single one. There are nuggets of gold in all of them.

There are some amazing deals on airfares out there now, so book your flight for the summit in August right away.

Don’t forget to reserve your seat before the $99 hotel room block is gone:
http://WomensBusinessEmpowermentSummit.com

John Assaraf has “The Answer”

I’ve know John Assaraf for several years, we’ve spoken on the same stage, he’s interviewed me for his One Coach program and I’ve been to his home, yes the one the talks about in “The Secret”.

John is the real deal and now with his partner in One Coach, he has released a new book I highly recommend you put on your summer reading list.

“The Answer” is the new book that does for business growth what “The Secret” does for personal growth.

Authors John Assaraf and Murray Smith have applied the simple principles they share in “The Answer” to build 17 successful businesses, some of them from zero to billions in sales and value. If you’ve been looking for “The Answer” to growing your business, achieving financial freedom and living an extraordinary life, you owe it to yourself to check it out.

Go to http://www.readtheanswer.com/

You can watch a clip of John & Murray on “The Big Idea”, download 2 chapters of the book, and see for yourself what “The Answer” is.

Also, this is a beautiful site they have put together. If you’re an information marketer you need to check it out from that aspect as well.

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“A mind stretched beyond its original form can never return to that form.”

Albert Einstein

Are you stretching?

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I’m still in Scottsdale and it looks like I may be here until after Women’s Business Empowerment Summit and it’s starting to get hot! At least we’re not having some of the awful weather other parts of the country are.

I’m always interested in weather because having lived in resort areas all over the U.S. and Mexico, and with the amount of travel I do, I’m usually personally familiar with the areas I see talked about on the news.

It’s just human nature that we’re more interested in things we feel connected to. I want you to feel like you know each and every one of our faculty members for WBES and that’s why we do the teleseminar series where you get to meet each one and get tips and techniques you can use in your business and your life before you even get to the live event.

Don’t miss our WBES training call tonight with Kevin Nations.
You’ll learn:

How you can double or even triple the prices of your professional services and then to have your clients thank you for it

How to get maximum value and a waiting list of clients for your professional services

And so much more…

Kevin is the Ultimate Profit Mentor who likes to have fun and make a ton of money in the process. His strategies are designed to create the leverage and the focus to take his clients through the six figure monthly income barrier.

I’m very excited to let you know that the Women’s Business Empowerment Summit is quickly filling up. With the first 5 preview training calls done and many more to come before the August 1-3rd summit, we have over 1100 of you registered for the series, so if you aren’t listening, register now. You’ll get the links to all the replays in your welcome email.

http://www.WomensBusinessEmpowermentSummit.com

Remember to join the conversation on my blog where you’ll also find each week’s ezine posted for your comments.

“5 Keys to Developing the Courage to Go for Your Dreams”

How do you develop the courage to go for your dreams?

That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? Because if you don’t learn how, it will not only cost you the millions you could have earned, it will cost you the realization of your passion and your purpose.

It’s a lot of fun planning the vision for your life and the action steps you’re going to take to live your passion. It’s another thing to keep moving forward as it all starts to become real. That’s where the fear sets in and you start to wonder what ever made you think you could do this.

Here are 5 keys to developing the courage to go for your dreams:

1. Move Past the Fear

I’m sorry to tell you I haven’t found a magic pill for this. It has to come from inside of you. Nobody can do it for you. And it all starts with your vision.

There is so much more to creating a vision for your life than just discovering your passion. There’s so much more than just writing down some goals. I would venture to say that you’ve done that before and it wasn’t enough to get you where you want to go.

Fear not! There’s a system for creating a vision for your life, just as there is a system for anything else you want to be successful at. The question is whether you will take the time to learn it.

Discovering your purpose was only the first step. To walk through your fear, you have to be clear on where you are going.

2. Create a Strong Vision

You need a vision that is so strong you can’t possibly walk away from it.

Once you have a strong, compelling vision that’s based on your passion and purpose in life, how could you let anything stop you?

When you know what you want and you’ve visualized it over and over and over until it becomes part of who you are, how could you stop?

When you see yourself in the life you will have upon the realization of you vision, how could you stop?

The answer is, you can’t! You can’t stop; it’s impossible! You can drag out the process, but as hard as you try, you can’t stop!

3. Stop Projecting Future Catastrophes

Are you aware that 95% of the things you spend your time worrying about never happen? So, isn’t worrying about the outcome of things you haven’t done yet ridiculous?

Once you realize you’ve invested so much of yourself into your vision that there’s nothing that’s going to stop you from creating everything you’ve envisioned, what’s the point in letting your fears delay the inevitable?

And it is inevitable. With the vision you’ve created, you’ve tapped into the Universal Laws and everything you need is being drawn to you as we speak.

You’ve used the law of attraction by being clear on what you want and asking for it. You’ve used the law of creating a vacuum by clearing out a lot of the things that no longer fit in your life to make space available for something better to show up. Think about it.

You can run and you can hide, but eventually everything you visualize will come to you if you take all the necessary steps. So why fight it? This is what you want more than anything, isn’t it?

Are you crazy?

Why would you spend your time discovering your passion and creating a vision for it if you had no intention of following through?

Are you the kind of person who does things like this for an intellectual exercise?

Well guess what, the joke’s on you. You’ve created a process you can’t stop. It will move forward whether you have chickened out or not. So what’s the point in trying to avoid your future success?

4. Get Out of the Way

When did you want something so bad you could taste it and then decide you were too scared to go for it?

The only courage you need to go for your dreams is the courage to get out of your own way. Just take a deep breath and move aside.

If you look back over your life, I’m sure you can find many examples when you did just this.

So the next time you feel like your courage to go for your dream has abandoned you, just tell yourself there is no reason to fight it. Falling into your fears can postpone your success for a while, but you can’t stop it, so why even try.

Get back on that horse and keep riding to the finish line.

5. You’ve Always Had It, Dorothy

The good news is you don’t have to worry about how you’ll develop the courage to go for your dreams. You already have it.

When you feel like it’s too big for you to go on, look at how far you’ve come already.

The bottom line regarding courage comes from the Wizard of Oz.

Towards the end of the movie, Dorothy thinks she’ll never go home. Just then Glinda the good witch shows up. She tells her she’s always had the power to go back to Kansas but she didn’t tell her before because she wouldn’t have believed her. She had to learn it for herself.

But to find out how to unleash the power she had inside, she needed to ask for help. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you need.

So my little Dorothy, you’ve always had the power inside you. All you have to do is have someone show you where it is. You’re so much stronger than you give yourself credit for.

Get a mentor if you aren’t achieving what you want as fast as you want it. You may need an outside perspective and a little refocusing. Because when your actions and your purpose are in alignment everything falls into place. Things just flow. I can help you get there.

I’d be happy to mentor you to successfully:

* Make your dreams a reality

* Develop specific, targeted goals

* Take action on your goals

* Create a plan that gives you the courage

* Create a simple step-by-step personalized blueprint to follow

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. If you aren’t reading this on my blog, you can get the first five lessons of “Change One Thing, Change Your Life: A Personal Transformation System” at http://www.yourbreakthroughtosuccess.com

I would love to have you share your opinions and personal insights on my blog where I’ll also post this article.

http://www.YourBreakthroughToSuccess.com/blog