Oprah Winfrey is one of role model. She is a wonderful example of what an "Attitude of Gratitude" can do for a person. She had this really impressive “Thank You” message and I wanted to share it with you.
Happy Thanksgiving, Joyce
A Thanksgiving Message from Oprah
I live in the space of thankfulness - and I have been rewarded a
million times over for it. I started out giving thanks for small things,
and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased.
That's because what you focus on expands, and when you focus on the
goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships,
even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what
happened in my life.
"Say thank you!" Those words from my friend and mentor Maya Angelou
turned my life around. One day about ten years ago, I was sitting in my
bathroom with the door closed and the toilet lid down, booing and ahooing
on the phone so uncontrollably that I was incoherent.
"Stop it! Stop it right now and say thank you!" Maya chided. "But
You don't understand," I sobbed.
To this day, I can't remember what it was that had me so far gone,
which only proves the point Maya was trying to make. "I do understand," she
told me. "I want to hear you say it now. Out loud.
'Thank you.'" Tentatively, I repeated it:
"Thank you - but what am I saying thank you for?"
"You're saying thank you," Maya said, "because your faith is so
strong that you don't doubt that whatever the problem, you'll get through
it. You're saying thank you because you know that even in the eye of the
storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.
You're saying thank you because you know there's no problem created
that can compare to the Creator of all things. Say thank you!"
So I did - and still do. Only now I do it every day. I kept a
Gratitude journal, as Sarah Ban Breathnach suggests in Simple Abundance,
listing at least five things that I'm grateful for. My list includes small
pleasures: the feel of Kentucky bluegrass under my feet (like damp silk); a
walk in the woods with all nine of my dogs and my cocker spaniel Sophie
trying to keep up; cooking fried green tomatoes with Stedman and eating
them while they're hot; reading a good book and knowing another awaits.
My thank-you list also includes things too important to take for
granted: an "okay" mammogram, friends who love me, 25 years at the same job
(and loving it more than the first day I started), a chance to share my
vision for a better life, staying centered, having financial security.
I won't kid you, having money for all the things I want is a
blessing. But as I look back over my journals, which I've kept since I was
15 years old, 99 per cent of what brought me real joy had nothing to do
with money (It had a lot to do with food, however.)
It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel
least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you:
PERSPECTIVE. Just knowing you have that daily list to complete
allows you to look at your day differently, with an awareness of every
sweet gesture and kind thought passed your way. When you learn to say thank
you, you see the world anew. And as Meister Eckhart so eloquently stated:
"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'Thank you
God,' that would suffice."
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
Thursday, November 23, 2006
My Dream Dinner Guest
It was during my amazing visit to Texas recently, sitting high up in the Hatta Hotel I discovered there was a single beautiful table at the balcony over looking the beautiful city. So I imagined sitting in the balcony of one of the most exclusive restaurant in town, 360ft up, taking in beautiful views of the city and having 10 people to invite for dinner, who would I choose?
So here is my idea 10 dinner wish list. I’m sure they’d all get along famously!
Oprah Winfrey
Alexandra Brown
John F Kennedy
Pamela Slim
Maya Angelou
TD Jakes
Nelson Mandela
Tyra Banks
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Hillary Rodham Clinton
To add a twist to this and hopefully it gets kicked around the net a bit you must pick two fellow bloggers as waiters/waitresses and in so doing they become tagged and hopefully replicate a list of their own on their site.
Waiter: Tom Criuse
Waitress: Bono
PS: This was hard to keep down to ten, if I did this list tomorrow I would probably pick 10 totally different people, but I tried to go for a variety of backgrounds, ages, personalities etc. and obviously people who would interest me! So what you waiting for, go ahead and pick your 10 now!
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
So here is my idea 10 dinner wish list. I’m sure they’d all get along famously!
Oprah Winfrey
Alexandra Brown
John F Kennedy
Pamela Slim
Maya Angelou
TD Jakes
Nelson Mandela
Tyra Banks
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
Hillary Rodham Clinton
To add a twist to this and hopefully it gets kicked around the net a bit you must pick two fellow bloggers as waiters/waitresses and in so doing they become tagged and hopefully replicate a list of their own on their site.
Waiter: Tom Criuse
Waitress: Bono
PS: This was hard to keep down to ten, if I did this list tomorrow I would probably pick 10 totally different people, but I tried to go for a variety of backgrounds, ages, personalities etc. and obviously people who would interest me! So what you waiting for, go ahead and pick your 10 now!
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
Much to be thankful for
Much to be thankful for
I know that today is thanksgiving in the U.S. Even though ‘am not from the States I still like to express my extreme gratitude for all the people who have come into my life in the past year. Most have come right here through this blog, which has become a comforting, occasionally raucous and always interesting place to host. I don't see myself so much as the owner as the facilitator, throwing out thoughts that YOU, dear readers, share with me in the form of questions, comments and emails. I have so much fun writing here that I sometimes wonder when the big joke is going to end and I will wake up and realize it was just a delicious dream.
So thank you for:
• My encouraging and smart friends that keeps me in line, sharing knowledge, talking me off a ledge when someone blasts me or I get overwhelmed, and generally being fun to hang out with.
• Long-time readers and frequent commenters. I appreciate you comments and for being readers of my blog for a long time and often share your thoughts in comments. We don't always agree on everything, but you always make me think and you challenge me to do better, and for that I am very grateful.
• All of you who have provided instant, problem-solving advice for various technical challenges I have faced in publishing my blog and website.
• Girls – thanks for trusting me to work with you. You let me express my creative self through work and for that, I feel very lucky.
• My link "Sweet Face Sistahpreneur’s" who has graciously shared some of my posts this year with their audiences and who is always positive and encouraging.
• My dear boyfriend and best friend Abe who don't always understand what I am typing at a furious pace most nights, but always is (or act anyway!) excited to hear about my exploits, and share my excitement about many wonderful triumphs of my readers.
• And for the many, many hundreds of you who have shared your stories, your dreams and your fears with me. I don't want to leave anyone out! I feel very privileged to have your confidence and promise to do my best to create content that provides a path, encourages you, reduces your feelings of isolation and fires you up to start and grow your own success business. I appreciate the way that so many of you have evangelized this blog and gotten the message out to people who need it.
Thanksgiving is all about being gratefulness for family, for health, for life, and for always "walking in beauty," knowing that as the traditional prayers say, beauty is always above you, below you, before you, behind you and within you.
Enjoy Being Wildly Successful!
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
I know that today is thanksgiving in the U.S. Even though ‘am not from the States I still like to express my extreme gratitude for all the people who have come into my life in the past year. Most have come right here through this blog, which has become a comforting, occasionally raucous and always interesting place to host. I don't see myself so much as the owner as the facilitator, throwing out thoughts that YOU, dear readers, share with me in the form of questions, comments and emails. I have so much fun writing here that I sometimes wonder when the big joke is going to end and I will wake up and realize it was just a delicious dream.
So thank you for:
• My encouraging and smart friends that keeps me in line, sharing knowledge, talking me off a ledge when someone blasts me or I get overwhelmed, and generally being fun to hang out with.
• Long-time readers and frequent commenters. I appreciate you comments and for being readers of my blog for a long time and often share your thoughts in comments. We don't always agree on everything, but you always make me think and you challenge me to do better, and for that I am very grateful.
• All of you who have provided instant, problem-solving advice for various technical challenges I have faced in publishing my blog and website.
• Girls – thanks for trusting me to work with you. You let me express my creative self through work and for that, I feel very lucky.
• My link "Sweet Face Sistahpreneur’s" who has graciously shared some of my posts this year with their audiences and who is always positive and encouraging.
• My dear boyfriend and best friend Abe who don't always understand what I am typing at a furious pace most nights, but always is (or act anyway!) excited to hear about my exploits, and share my excitement about many wonderful triumphs of my readers.
• And for the many, many hundreds of you who have shared your stories, your dreams and your fears with me. I don't want to leave anyone out! I feel very privileged to have your confidence and promise to do my best to create content that provides a path, encourages you, reduces your feelings of isolation and fires you up to start and grow your own success business. I appreciate the way that so many of you have evangelized this blog and gotten the message out to people who need it.
Thanksgiving is all about being gratefulness for family, for health, for life, and for always "walking in beauty," knowing that as the traditional prayers say, beauty is always above you, below you, before you, behind you and within you.
Enjoy Being Wildly Successful!
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
Thursday, November 09, 2006
7 Quick, Cheap and Easy Steps To More Clients
7 Quick, Cheap and Easy Steps To More Clients
by Joyce Oladipo "The Client Attraction Maven"
Often, all you need to attract a few new clients is the opportunity to speak to a group of qualified prospects at a seminar. Here are seven quick, cheap and easy steps:
STEP #1: Create a seminar on the problem you can solve for clients. For example: How to love the body you’re in. How to be organise and stay organised. How to reduce the pain and expense of divorce. How to find the love of your life in no time. How to make more money doing what you love. Choose a subject that will appeal to the new clients you want to attract.
STEP #2: Get a flier prepared to promote the seminar. On the flier, display the title, explain the various points or problems you will discuss, add your photo and include your biography. Include a space for the time, date and place of your program.
STEP #3: Get a co-sponsor for your seminar. If your seminar is business oriented, you might ask the local chamber of commerce to co-sponsor it. Or a local network group. If it is consumer oriented, ask a local newspaper or TV station to co-sponsor it. All way choose a co-sponsor based on the size of the audience they reach, how many of your ideal clients are in that audience, and how willing they are to promote your seminar to their audience, membership or mailing list. (This can save you a tremendous amount of money in promotion costs, including printing and postage.)
STEP #4: Promote your seminar to your co-sponsor’s audience. Provide them with a flier about your program. Given them the whole information about your seminar makes things easy. If you rely on them to create the flier, it will probably contain nothing more than the title, time, date and place. But if you provide it, you can go into great detail about the information you will present and the problems you can help prospects solve. The more you explain about your program’s content, the more prospects you can expect to attend.
STEP #5: Promote your seminar with newspaper publicity. Contact your local daily newspaper or business paper (depending on the nature of your seminar). Announce that you’re presenting a seminar. Discuss the problem your seminar will address and emphasize how many people in your area are affected by this problem. You can even ask the editor to interview you for an article to help alert the community to this problem and your upcoming seminar. You’re in a stronger position when you approach the editor in writing with a letter discussing your seminar and what you will present. Give the editor at least six weeks’ advance notice of your program.
As an alternative -- if you can’t get advance promotion from a particular media outlet -- invite the editor to send a reporter to your seminar who can write an article about it for the newspaper. I’ve seen editors put articles about my clients’ seminars on the newspaper’s front page. This article won’t help seminar attendance because it won’t appear until after your seminar. Still, it makes a powerful reprint and may bring you new clients.
STEP #6: Promote your seminar with direct mail to your past clients, current clients, prospects and referral sources. I have used this method successfully. Many people on your mailing list may want to learn about your subject. Also, they may have friends and colleagues they can invite to attend with them.
STEP #7: Present your seminar, addressing the subjects you outlined on your seminar flier. Discuss clients you have helped in the past so prospects see you have experience in these matters. Share actual case histories of what happens when prospects make good decisions, and what happens when they make bad decisions. Then offer something your prospects will find attractive, such as a free office consultation, free telephone consultation, free report, a free manuscript, audio, e-zine or whatever you wish.
In all likelihood, if you reach qualified prospects, you will get new clients as a result of this educational seminar.
© 2006 Joyce Oladipo
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
by Joyce Oladipo "The Client Attraction Maven"
Often, all you need to attract a few new clients is the opportunity to speak to a group of qualified prospects at a seminar. Here are seven quick, cheap and easy steps:
STEP #1: Create a seminar on the problem you can solve for clients. For example: How to love the body you’re in. How to be organise and stay organised. How to reduce the pain and expense of divorce. How to find the love of your life in no time. How to make more money doing what you love. Choose a subject that will appeal to the new clients you want to attract.
STEP #2: Get a flier prepared to promote the seminar. On the flier, display the title, explain the various points or problems you will discuss, add your photo and include your biography. Include a space for the time, date and place of your program.
STEP #3: Get a co-sponsor for your seminar. If your seminar is business oriented, you might ask the local chamber of commerce to co-sponsor it. Or a local network group. If it is consumer oriented, ask a local newspaper or TV station to co-sponsor it. All way choose a co-sponsor based on the size of the audience they reach, how many of your ideal clients are in that audience, and how willing they are to promote your seminar to their audience, membership or mailing list. (This can save you a tremendous amount of money in promotion costs, including printing and postage.)
STEP #4: Promote your seminar to your co-sponsor’s audience. Provide them with a flier about your program. Given them the whole information about your seminar makes things easy. If you rely on them to create the flier, it will probably contain nothing more than the title, time, date and place. But if you provide it, you can go into great detail about the information you will present and the problems you can help prospects solve. The more you explain about your program’s content, the more prospects you can expect to attend.
STEP #5: Promote your seminar with newspaper publicity. Contact your local daily newspaper or business paper (depending on the nature of your seminar). Announce that you’re presenting a seminar. Discuss the problem your seminar will address and emphasize how many people in your area are affected by this problem. You can even ask the editor to interview you for an article to help alert the community to this problem and your upcoming seminar. You’re in a stronger position when you approach the editor in writing with a letter discussing your seminar and what you will present. Give the editor at least six weeks’ advance notice of your program.
As an alternative -- if you can’t get advance promotion from a particular media outlet -- invite the editor to send a reporter to your seminar who can write an article about it for the newspaper. I’ve seen editors put articles about my clients’ seminars on the newspaper’s front page. This article won’t help seminar attendance because it won’t appear until after your seminar. Still, it makes a powerful reprint and may bring you new clients.
STEP #6: Promote your seminar with direct mail to your past clients, current clients, prospects and referral sources. I have used this method successfully. Many people on your mailing list may want to learn about your subject. Also, they may have friends and colleagues they can invite to attend with them.
STEP #7: Present your seminar, addressing the subjects you outlined on your seminar flier. Discuss clients you have helped in the past so prospects see you have experience in these matters. Share actual case histories of what happens when prospects make good decisions, and what happens when they make bad decisions. Then offer something your prospects will find attractive, such as a free office consultation, free telephone consultation, free report, a free manuscript, audio, e-zine or whatever you wish.
In all likelihood, if you reach qualified prospects, you will get new clients as a result of this educational seminar.
© 2006 Joyce Oladipo
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Online entrepreneur Joyce Oladipo, "Client Attraction Maven," is creator of the winning ‘Attractive Marketing E-zine’ to Jumpstart Your Business offline and online. To learn to Attract More New Clients, Sell More to Existing Clients, and Bring Back Your Clients More Frequently, Without Pushing So Hard — No Matter What Product or Service You Sell sign up for FREE how-to articles and FREE audio class, at www.ClientAttractionStrategies.com
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