Creating Wealth & Success

Can You Let Time Stop Managing You?

Do you often wonder where your day has gone? Does your "To Do" list frequently have as many or MORE items on it at the end of the day than it did at the start? Do you feel overwhelmed and stress is becoming a familiar companion? If this sounds like you recently, putting some time management techniques to use should help alleviate the load.

Where to begin? First, start by examining all of the components of your life and determine how important it is to you that each task or project be completed. This question alone can be very empowering and definitely very enlightening. What would be the impact if the task were not done at all? Is the task something that really needs to be done, or is it something that you feel should be done? Shoulds are a big No-No; they just get in the way of important things. If you decide that it is not very important that you get it done, I guarantee that you have uncovered a personal "Ah-Ha" and probably stumbled over a main road block. If it's something that you can let go of, by all means do that. If per chance you feel that you can't just eliminate the "should task" from your list all together, what if you set it aside to check in on at a later date? Shelving it for a while may be just what you need to take the step to eliminate it totally.

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Eva Gregory, our official Law of Attraction Expert

Emergency Preparedness: Get Out of Debt

About fifteen years ago my husband left his career job and got a cash settlement from his employer. After a lifetime of racking up credit card debt and paying it off with bonuses, only to max out our credit cards again, I paid off the cards and swore that I would never let us get in that kind of shape again. Since then, I have used credit cards, but have always paid them in full before the due date. I have no idea how much money I have saved by avoiding the interest, but I do know that it sure feels good.

A couple of months ago I started reading the Dave Ramsey book, "Total Money Makeover." I think I'm a good money manager already, but I love reading about saving money and wanted to see what he had to say. By the end of the second chapter, without any warning, I jumped up out of my chair, pulled my only credit card out of my wallet, and cut it up! It was a little scary, but I felt like I was in control.

Dave had stories in there of couples who had good jobs, who used credit cards, and even paid them in full each month. One of the stories made a real impression on me because this couple thought they had it all together, and then without warning, the husband lost his job.

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Joyce Pierce, our official Family Preparedness Expert

5 Essentials You Need to Know to be a Go-To-Goddess

As a women entrepreneur you probably have in your business vision As a women entrepreneur you probably have in your business vision to be well-known in your industry and to easily attract clients and opportunities to speak, write and contribute: I call this being a Go-To-Goddess.

Being the Go-To-Goddess means having enough confidence in what you offer and how you change people's lives so that you are at the top of the list for other people to recommend you for clients, to the media, and to their colleagues for joint ventures. Getting to the Go-To-Goddess level means it gets easier to attract clients and opportunities. But to get there, you have to commit to 5 things.

5 Essential ingredients to be a Go-To-Goddess:

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Laura West, our official Attraction Marketing Expert

Internet Marketing Tips: Five Secrets for Writing (and Selling) from Your Heart

Thank goodness online writing is soooo different from compositions that we had to do when we were in school! Lucky for us, our reader is not a critical schoolteacher, red pen in hand, grading our work. Instead, our online readers are real people, just like you and me, who want to learn something and get inspired.

Years ago, I practiced at writing "corporate speak." My proposals and reports where carefully crafted to keep out EVERY aspect of my own personality, thoughts, and feelings. I got so good at it I could have been dubbed the "Stepford Writer."

When I started my own business coaching firm and began marketing on the internet, I had to adopt a completely different style of writing. I needed a style that was deeply personal and expressed my brand authenticity. It hasn't been easy. Believe me, many pieces never saw the light of the computer screen before they were dispatched to the trash with a stroke of my delete key.

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Kendall Summerhawk, our official How to Charge Expert

7 Awesome Income Strategies

If your idea of giving yourself a raise looks like hitting all the local networking events in the hope of getting new clients, I can certainly understand it.

I’ve been there… I remember joining my local Chamber of Commerce, then attending weekly events hoping to make even a single connection that’d lead to a client. What I didn’t know is that it’s not about networking or making a connection - it’s about building relationships, and that took time, a lot of time.

As a mom of two small kids, I simply didn’t have the time to dedicate to this strategy, so I started looking for other ways to generate cash quickly to stay in business.

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Milana Leshinsky, our official Multiple Income Streams Expert

Top 100 Multiple Income Streams Women - Part I

Although Internet marketing and information marketing is still dominated by men, there are many women who are building their multiple income streams empires.  In the next few posts I’ll be featuring some of the most successful women entrepreneurs who turned their passion into a multiple income streams business online!

First, here are the criteria I used to identify them:

    * Content-rich blog

    * High quality web site

    * Clear strong personal brand

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Milana Leshinsky, our official Multiple Income Streams Expert

I Lied! Actually, This is the First Step to Freedom!

I recently wrote about firing your worst client as the first step to freedom . . .

Let's take one step back though. Before you let go of some of your income you so much rely on, discover your passion. I am not being "woo-woo" about it - not at all. I am simply saying that you must love what you do, "and you'll never work another day in your life" (Confucius).

Am I working right now? I have no idea ... it certainly doesn't feel like I am. I am just journaling, very much like I used to do when I was a teenager. I was definitely one of those "Dear Diary" girls, and between the ages of 11 and 18 my diary and I was inseparable.

So as far as I am concerned, I am just having fun writing, which also happens to be a part of my business.

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Milana Leshinsky, our official Multiple Income Streams Expert

What’s New?!?

Hopefully you’ve noticed that it’s been quite a while since we did our last blog post here at Identity and Destiny?   But, don’t worry – we haven’t abandoned you – we just had a little administrative work to tend to.  When we went over 1,000 subscribers to the web site and blog, our former host was no longer able to support our site.

The good news is  we outgrew our former blog host.   The bad news is it meant we needed to upgrade.   Anyway – thanks for staying connected.  We now have a host that can handle tens of thousands of subscribers.  Depending on what God decides to do…that should hold us for a while!

So how are you?  How has your summer been?

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Tom Wolf, our official Life Purpose Expert

Step Three to Building Your Profitable Tax Lien Portfolio

Your first step to building a profitable tax lien or tax deed portfolio was deciding why you want to invest. This will determine how you are going to invest. Will you invest through a self-directed IRA or with after tax funds; in your own name or through an entity; in tax liens, tax deeds, or redeemable tax deeds? Once you determine how you are going invest, the next step is to decide where you will invest. What state and county are you going to invest in?

Once your done with steps one and two, the why and the how, it's time to concentrate on the what. The third step to building your profitable tax lien portfolio is finding the tax sale information. You need to find out when and where the tax sale is held and obtain a list of properties that are in the sale. For most areas this step will be easy, you just need to know where to go and who to contact to get this information. Sometimes you will have to pay for it and sometimes you will be able to get it free of charge.

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Joanne Musa, our official Tax Lien Investing Expert

Manifesting What You Want

What does it mean to manifest? What was the first thing that popped into your mind? Was it 'to create, to come to be, to bring to reality?' Close. The definition is: 'clearly apparent to the sight or understanding!' Did you know that an infinite number of things are manifested every day? That's right! Each thought, each vibration, each feeling or belief manifests a response. Be it positive or negative, good or bad.

One of the most powerful things to understand about manifestation is that what comes to be in your life began with a thought, feeling or action by You. Compelling, isn't it? The wonderful person you met, the great new job with full benefits, or the perfect house with all of that closet space and the finished basement, all began with your thoughts. Did you pat yourself on the back? Go ahead. Please give credit where it is due! On the other hand, the lack of funds, break-up, and business standstill are also of your making. How does one harness this powerful tool to create the things that are wanted, instead of the things that aren't? The answer is by becoming more in tune with your thoughts, feelings, situations, and actions. The more aware you are of where your thoughts are wandering to, the more control you will have over what is being manifested.

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Eva Gregory, our official Law of Attraction Expert