Live Into It!

This is too funny, so I had to share. A couple of days ago I shared the little business lesson of the Black Phoebe bird… Well yesterday, I made myself some lunch and went to sit and relax near the outside patio in the living room, and there he was again, sitting on one of the four chairs where I had been sitting outside the day I first saw him. We made eye contact for quite a while and then he headed off to do his thing.

The thing I find so interesting is that we spent about 10 minutes looking at each other, and in nature, that is quite a long time. I even went in search of some bird seed in one of the cupboards and came back to him and he was still there. He primped and stretched his wings to show me how beautiful he is. I think he really understands how much I appreciate him, which is a sweet human-bird or bird-human connnection. Gotta love his staying power…

Well, this morning, I was upstairs and kept hearing this bird song. When I found the illustration of him on the Internet, I listened to the Black Phoebe bird song, so I recongnized it. In wonderment, I went to the window, and from upstairs, I could see him sitting on the same spot on the chair again, with a huge fat worm in his beak. He was literally sitting there singing about it, holding it in his beak, looking toward the living room and waiting for me to witness it.

I called to him from the upstairs window, and he looked up at me and then he turned around few times, cocked his head up at me, and sure enough, he gobbled it. He fluffed his feathers and pushed out his chest nice and strong and kept cocking his head looking up at me in the window. He is such a special little birdie - an unexpected blessing who keeps putting a smile on my face and teaching me by example. I keep thanking him for my daily little lessons learned.

It reminded me that sometimes we need a witness to share in our experiences and to celebrate our success! Otherwise, it doesn’t always feel real. Or somehow it can feel hollow or less special.

It makes me think of my little brother in the summertime when he’d be doing water antics and calling across the pool, “Christine! Watch me!!!” Or when he’d be playing video games saying, “Watch this… Christine… Check this out…” The connection to what we’re doing often involves a witness.

I’m really blessed, because I’ve got the biggest cheerleading squad I could have ever hoped for in my life… My vision board in my office has love notes from the kids and Thomas reminding me to stay the course, go the distance, dream big, and be happy. Thomas tells me daily how proud of me he is and encourages me to keep going, even when I question myself. And we all do. Its natural.

My mom, Katherine Cibula - Madam Vice President & Most Valued Player (MVP), is always giving me feedback and cheering me on… Celebrating everything with me every step of the way…

Even as I write this, my MVP popped into my office this morning to share her AquaLogix workout with me. She’s so excited with her newfound discovery that she came into the office saying, “I want you to see my happy face… I had the best time today.” She laughed and even cried happy tears, because this experience is a confirmation of her living into her dreams here in California. We all need a witness…

My little brother is encouraging and sends me financial spreadsheets. His undergraduate degree in Business Finance & Japanese from Notre Dame University and MBA from Stanford Universtity gives him quite a foundation and I’m grateful for his guidance.

Dad says keep going… He belives in the power of my dreams and has always encouraged me to do what I love doing…

Lifelong friends who have no knowledge of the business per se encourage me all the time and have fun seeing me live into my dreams, even when the going has been tough. Somehow they seem to get I’m in this for the long haul and doing whatever it takes to make it work.

Friends who do have knowledge of the business, like Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, Fabienne Fredrickson and Alexandria Brown encourage me to keep going through their enthusiasm, guidance and by their shining examples. It helps to have Ali say, “CC, you are so talented you should be a multi-millionaire. You’ve got everything it takes and I believe in you… I know you can do this!”

So yes, we all need cheerleaders, support and a witness as we live into the lives we’ve imagined… I believe we need it even moreso as Entrepreneurs because so many people don’t really get the life of an Entrepreneur and what it really takes in order to succeed in our own small business enterprises. One of the best places I’ve found is my personal coaching and mentorship connections with the people I admire and respect in our community.

So today, I encourage you to stay the course, go the distance and know I’m pulling for you as you live into the life of your dreams…

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Live Into It Expert
www.LiveIntoIt.com

There were times in my life when I noticed the computer would blow up or the car would break down or my cell phone would go funky. When we launched Strategic Living, Inc. two years ago, I was feeling rather vulnerable. I went to see an astrologer on the advice of a good friend who had great success with this woman. She was great. I’ve actually listened to my tape recording of that session a few times since and she was right on target.

One of the things she mentioned was that you should never sign a contract or start something new when Mercury is in retrograde. So I came home and did some online searches about “Mercury in Retrograde” and learned that most anything technological can and usually does easily fail. Then I started hearing other Entrepreneurs joking about it on group coaching calls or at seminars and so I began to take it a lot more seriously.

This time it is almost comical… I was smart and covered the bases. I backed up my computer and encouraged everyone else I knew to do the same. So what is happening this time around?

1. Our voicemail call notes died one day. Just plain dead. Sounded like we didn’t exist anymore. Turns out it happened over a large area here in San Diego and ATT was on it to get it fixed within 24 hours. It was a pretty huge outage. That has NEVER happened before.

2. My business partner and mom, Katherine Cibula, called me to notify me that her email disappeared completely. I download mine from the server into MAC MAIL, but she checks hers on the web. She lost EVERYTHING and called me in a panic saying she lost her flight information, client contacts, etc. and I gently reminded her that I did say to everyone to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE back up their hard drives this last week before she left to go out of town. Luckily, GoDaddy had a back-up server with the emails on it. Whew…

3. They fixed the glitch at GoDaddy. But now I’ve had emails streaming into my email account over the last two days. I have about 18,000 emails that have continued to reload from 2005-2007. Not once, not twice, but three times… It turns out it takes a long time for the mail program to upload 18,000 emails from the server, so at some key moments I’ve turned my computer to sleep so that it can cool off. Of course, I turn it back on it and starts reloading from email NUMBER ONE… Ugh… I’ve even gone into my online email account and saved my 18,000 emails as “Mark As Read” but still no dice. Time to call GoDaddy in the morning.

MY MAC DIED???
In previous “Mercury In Retrograde” cycles, I’ve had my computer hard drive completely die. Luckily, I bought an external hard drive and backed up right before the computer died, so it was a great lesson without horrible repurcussions. Talk about being grateful… Now I have several external hard drives and back up regularly… When my hard drive died, it wasn’t pretty… Not once, but twice, so I do BACK UP, BACK UP, BACK UP… Hint: If you are reading this, BACK UP…

MY BLACKBERRY IS GETTING HOW MANY EMAILS INCOMING???
Year one I had just bought my Blackberry and was learning how to use it. It has something like 8 days of power to it, except when calling on it all the time. So at one point the battery died (during Mercury Retrograde). I recharged, turned it back on, and every single email from my OLD Yahoo account (much of it junk, junk, junk) uploaded into my Blackberry. It was a MESS… Thousands of emails… Slow uploads… Attachments… Ugh…

THE BANK COMPUTER & GROCERY STORE ATM TERMINALS BOTH WENT DOWN?
Yup. These are the days where you can’t make a deposit or take out funds because the bank’s computer system is down. This is the time where the computer places a hold on out of state checks when you’ve never had a problem depositing them before. This is the time when the sweet girl in the department store tells you that she can’t figure out what happened to the computer, but it looks like it is happening in several departments and of course it only happens after you’ve found the perfect ensemble. This is the time when the line at the grocery store is 10 people long and the automatic debit terminal takes a nap while the line keeps getting longer and the cashier starts to visibly panic. The same goes for ATM machines that are on the fritz…

I read a great post on what we should do during this time… It said anything having to do with “RE:” as the prefix… Review… Regenerate… Revise… Reorganize… Renew… Repair… Restore…

So on that note, I’m off to bed. I’ll make the GoDaddy call tomorrow to find out what the heck is going on with the email spool and how to handle it. Then I’m going to turn off the computer and focus first on my client coaching calls and then shift gears and focus on organizing my corporate papers and tie up any loose ends. After all, that is what this time is supposed to be about, so why not go with the flow?

Sometimes we need to regenerate to live into the life we’ve imagined… “Mercury In Retrograde” is a natural time to do that. Take advantage of the reflective opportunity provided and leave the technology for another day.

Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Live Into It Coach
www.LiveIntoIt.com

P.S. If you’re up for it, please take a moment to share your MERCURY IN RETROGRADE story… We’d love to hear about it…

I was sitting in the back yard today relaxing and enjoying the cool morning. There is this perfect time of day when it is warm enough to sit outside, but the sun isn’t too hot or bright yet, so I love enjoying a cup of tea and sitting with my thoughts. Today I was mapping my business plan. Three times a year I revisit the model and make adjustments so I stay on course, or rather “correct course”, as Jack Canfield recommends. As I was looking at the plan I was mapping, I was thinking about what it is going to take for me to personally put myself out there in a bigger way in the next few months and especially in 2008. The backyard is full of beautiful tropical trees and bird of paradise, so our normal visitors are cheerful and chipper hummingbirds. But today I was greeted by the most beautiful Black Phoebe I’ve ever seen in my life.

Believe it or not, this illustration doesn’t even do him justice. He absolutely took my breath away he was so beautiful with a jet black head, slightly pointed crown, jet black wings with slight white stripes at the base of his wings and a pleasantly plump little snow white belly. He turned around several times to allow me to admire him. He studied me as he flittered from one leaf to another on the bird of paradise. He looked young, vibrant, healthy, curious and full of life.

Yoshi, my Shiba Inu, was sleeping peacefully in the sunshine about halfway between me and the Black Phoebe. He tested her a little to see if she would make any sudden moves or be quick to startle. She didn’t move. I was taking in his beauty and silently we studied one another, me smiling at him in appreciation and him taking a long moment to really study me.

Then it happened, he fluttered forward and then back once, then twice, and on the third flutter, he popped down into the fresh green sprouts of grass and back up onto a leaf of the bird of paradise proudly holding a very nice little worm in his beak.

He promptly threw up his head, released the worm mid air, and in one quick move it disappeared right there. He pushed out his chest as he celebrated his victory meal. In appreciation I responded aloud, “Oh, now you had to be BRAVE didn’t you?” He turned around a couple more times for me to admire him and then he flew up and away, stopping on the vines and foliage by the fence and turning one last time to look at me with a long gaze before he left.

I think God, The Universe or Source teaches us all the time if we’re open to it. In that moment, I learned a little (big) lesson of bravery. Living into our dreams means that we often walk right into the middle of our own 3-D dream, but the question is whether or not we have the bravery it takes to step out of our comfort zone (letting go of a previous sense of safety or security) and embrace a new sense of awareness and adventure as we live into the bigger us that we need to be in order to take on the life we’re living into.

What are the top 10 places where we need to stretch in bravery as entrepreneurs?

1. Converting your first one-on-one sale in person.

2. Converting your first online sale and making your first online income.

3. Following a system you’ve learned based on FAITH that it will work, and doing everything you need to do (trial & error) until it actually does work. If it doesn’t, it is time to revisit the drawing board until it does. Persistence and faith are essential elements of bravery.

4. Taking a deep breath and doubling your rates with your clients. Taking another deep breath and tripling them.

5. Mastering new technology or software that will grow your business substantially.

6. Admitting to yourself that what you’re doing right now isn’t working so that you can open yourself to find a path that will work.

7. Completing your first information product (creation, edits, formatting, graphics, order fulfillment, sales page, thank you page and customer follow-up). A lot goes into taking a dream from initial idea or concept to completion. Of course, when it is all said and done, it is very rewarding.

8. Marketing yourself and learning the art of shameless self-promotion.

9. Releasing control and hiring a virtual team while learning the art of delegation.

10. Feeling worthy to step into your greatness personally, professionally and financially.

The good news is that with perseverance and moments of bravery, you can do all of the above. Coaching is one method to overcome self-imposed hurdles faster and a good coach can really help to catapult your success. Sometimes is really helps to have someone who believes in you a little more than you believe in yourself and helps you stretch into the you that you both know you are becoming.

We’ve all known that the early bird gets the worm. However, we sometimes need to be reminded that the bird who tests the environment, assesses the calculated risks, decides to move forward and takes a deep breath in faith, perseverance and BRAVERY gets the worm, too.

Be Brave & Live Into It… :)CC

Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
The Live Into It Coach
www.LiveIntoIt.com

ATTENTION COACHES, CONSULTANTS & ENTREPRENEURS… TODAY IS THE LAST DAY FOR TWO-PAY! THERE’S STILL TIME (UNTIL MIDNIGHT) SO DON’T MISS OUT…

Hey Hey Hey!!! Are you going to join me this November for Alexandria K. Brown’s Once-A-Year Online Success Blueprint Workshop? If there was one event each year I’d have to say, “BE THERE OR BE SQUARE…” this is it! Pssst… Ali’s announcing her BIG vision at this event and this headshot is just the beginning of what’s to come… You won’t want to miss it!

Ali has been my BIGGEST ONLINE SUCCESS MENTOR. I use her system on my website(s) - yes plural - to connect with my clients. To see examples of Ali’s system in action on my sites, visit:
1. www.LiveIntoIt.com
2. www.GetFitWithAloha.com
3. www.LivingWithLyme.com

Now when I started with Ali, she was giving her first ever Online Success Blueprint Workshop. My mom and business partner, Katherine Cibula, called me and said, “Listen honey, I know you’re really busy with work, but I’m wondering if you can save the date for a yacht party?” It was a month away and a fun invitation so I agreed and plugged it into my calendar. Then just as we were hanging up, Mom says to me, “Are you at your computer? Good. Before we get off the phone, can you do me a favor and type in this URL? I need you to help me make a decision before midnight tonight!”

My response as I typed in the URL and saw a page with headline and copy was, “Mom, what is going on with you that you are getting sucked in by all this hypey stuff from these Internet marketer types? Oh she’s a friend of Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero’s from Red Hot Copy? Well Lorrie’s stuff was really great… …Okay, Okay, I’ll read a little, but I mean really!!!” About the time I saw Ali next to the Koala bear and her VW, I said, “We HAVE to go to this!!!”

That first event was magical for me and if you ever hear the CDs from that first event, you will hear me thank Ali at the end sharing, “You gave me my wings for my dreams to take flight…” We had just incorporated Strategic Living, Inc. when we went to her workshop and we had a blank slate to work with, so you can imagine that we came out of Ali’s seminar amazed by all of the things we could do with our business.

Here are pics of me (President & CEO) and Katherine Cibula (Madam Vice President and Most Valued Player) as we had just finished incorporating (the big green binder) the business. Ahhhh…. In the beginning…

After Ali’s rocking seminar, we celebrated Ali’s birthday bash on a beautiful yacht! She sang and danced the night away and we all had the absolute best time networking and hitting the dance floor to our heart’s content!

Then Ali invited us to attend her Holiday Soire to view the Parade of Lights, an annual holiday tradition in Marina del Rey, California. It was really fun to see and we had the best time with Ali and all her friends who came to enjoy the party including Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, Kim Castle, Adam Urbanski, John Rooney, Dr. Mike Woo-Ming, Dr. Cindy Brown, Stephanie Frank, Richard Greninger and Joy Schecter. Ali knows how to throw a wonderful party and make all her guests feel completely happy and relaxed.

Ali offered her second Online Success Blueprint Workshop. She opened the event to previous attendees to attend again at a refresher course fee, so Mom and I went back for round two (joined by about 12 other first timers in reattendance) and had another absolutely amazing experience. By the way, all the previous attendees agreed they got so much more out of it by attending again and seeing where to take their businesses to the next level implementing additional strategies. At that meeting, she launched her Platinum Membership (this is an exclusive $15,000.00 per year membership program). As a result of that experience, mom and I were invited to be in a book compilation by one of Ali’s now Platinum members, Christine Kloser, in Inspiration to Realization: Volume III. Becoming a published author fulfilled a lifelong dream for Mom and me both. Ali is in there, too!

I was one of the last lucky clients who got to work with Ali one-on-one (yes, 100% undivided attention applied directly to my business model). Now ONE day of undivided coaching attention with Ali costs $10,000.00! We were also invited to be contributing authors in Power and Soul, a compilation by Alexandria K. Brown. That experience enabled me to really crystalize my vision for Strategic Living, Inc. about manifesting dreams from a concept to completion, which evolved into Live Into It!

Since then I’ve gone on to author my very own book Live Into It! Now I coach my clients on living into the life they’ve imagined by creating the roadmap to get from where they are now to where they want to be. When I work with personal coaching clients, we literally map a tailored plan to their individual business models, one-on-one, so all the guesswork is taken out of the mix.

In the process of coaching with Ali, she learned I’ve got some business development and project management savvy under my belt. My background in business and psychology is substantial. One session I was sharing how amazing I thought her marketing had been for the second seminar that she had SOLD OUT for the SECOND TIME IN A ROW… That day happened to coincide with her learning of my consulting and project management skills, and being the smart savvy businesswoman she is, she turned right around on the spot and brought me in to work with her on Workshop Marketing Secrets. The product turned out beautiful and it is selling like hotcakes! If you are even considering doing a workshop, this is your ticket to filling it to capacity. You can even hear me interview Ali on the Main Audio CD!

It turned out to be so much fun we started doing events together. I was with her at Dan Kennedy & Bill Glazer’s Info Summit in Atlanta, Georgia in 2006 and you should have seen the MAD RUSH to the back of the room to grab her products! It literally looked like the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with all these people rushing us with their order forms in hand. Surreal!!! Talk about a powerful image to anchor internally…

Right after that, we pre-launched Workshop Marketing Secrets with amazing success at Ali’s third SOLD OUT ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP. I volunteered my time at her event to do video success stories. You’ll see hand-picked footage in the video that is going to tell you all about this year’s FOURTH AND SOON TO BE SOLD OUT, ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP!

This spring I worked with Ali at the Mark Victor Hansen MEGA BOOK UNIVERSITY. I even did the free giveaway on the stage (now that may have been Ali pushing me to step into my own just a little)…

Ironically, a couple of months earlier I was on a Gold Mastermind call with Ali and Dr. Cindy Brown (another Platinum member), and it was right before the holidays. I was struggling with being ready for my audience and Dr. Cindy Brown (who was also a first time attendee at Ali’s first workshop) said to me, “CC, imagine you are in a dark room on a cool stage. The room is filled to capacity. Look at all the faces of the people in the audience. They are there to see you and hear you speak. Take that in…” I imagined a huge stage, like the one Ali had been on in Dan Kennedy & Bill Glazer’s Info Summit, but instead, I imagined the room was darkened and the stage had a cool blue hue to it. I literally lived into that moment on the stage at the Mark Victor Hansen Mega Book University standing right next to Alex Mandossian on the stage… Someone from the audience even called me by name!

But back to This Year’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop! I was thrilled when Ali invited me to come again this year and you guessed it, if you come find me, I’ll make sure we get your success story on camera for next year’s promotion… And this event only happens ONCE a year! So I’m going to be there or be square. Now the real burning question is, ARE YOU?

THREE INCENTIVES IF YOU SIGN UP?

1. You leave with THE BLUEPRINT in hand… Not just THE BLUEPRINT, but your very own personalized blueprint, so you’ll know what to do when you wake up Monday morning.

2. You get great NETWORKING… Let’s face it, Ali attracts a great crowd of serious business owners in a variety of fields. I’ve met the most amazing people through Ali… Over the years her events have included Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, John Rooney, Ari Galper, Melanie Benson Strick, James Roche, and this year we are going to host David Neagle and Bill Glazer, himself! Can we just say Ali puts on one amazing networking event?

3. THE PARTY! Okay, seriously, yes, the party. The first time it was the yacht party… The second time it was CHOCOLATE LOVER’S DELIGHT with chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate martinis. The third time it was an INCREDIBLE JAZZ LOVER’S DELIGHT with live musicians. You’ll have to show up to find out what is going on the fourth time, because its a SURPRISE, but let me tell you, Ali loves FUN…

BONUS OPTIONS

I’m going to give you TWO SPECIAL BONUS OPTIONS, but ONLY if you sign up through my promotion and send me a copy of your confirmation.

1. I’ll send you a FREE COPY OF POWER AND SOUL! This book was compiled by Alexandria K. Brown and authored with 42 successful entrepreneurs (including our fantastic Chapter 13 on Manifesting Dreams From Concept to Completion: Stratetic Living and the 5 Key Milestones to Manifestation

2. I’ll give a FREE STRATEGY SESSION for the group that signs up through me. This means that after you’ve attended Ali’s workshop and you get home and you are thinking, “OKAY WHERE DO I GET STARTED?” I’ll be there to help you answer your most burning questions and since we’ll do it in a group format, you’ll hear answers to questions you haven’t even thought of yet. Plus, I’ll be sure to record the session so that you can have your own personal copy of it even if you can’t make the session.

Keep in mind, I use Ali’s system DAILY…

I work with Ali’s techniques in EVERYTHING THAT I DO, DAILY…

Psssst…. It took Ali about 5 years to get comfy in her business and in the last two years her business has skyrocketed! I met Ali at 5 years into her business model where her life was really easygoing and comfortable being debt free with workouts, pampering, shopping, travel and clients. In the last two years, I’ve watched her go from a comfy six figure a year salary to over a whopping million dollar revenue stream last year and this year she’s close to doubling her income, and her life is still really easy and fun, only now it is even better with a beautiful beach pad, convertible Jaguar and her vacations are longer and more exotic. It has been fun to see Ali live into the life she’s imagined for herself. While we’re at her event, on the last day, we’ll work with David Neagle who teaches you how to JUST BELIEVE. Ali has helped me live into the life I’ve imagined and she can do the same for you, too…

Live Into It… :)CC

P.S. If you can’t make it to THIS YEAR’S ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP, we’ll miss you. While I highly recommend live events for the networking and immersion, you get everything you need to succeed in Boost Business With Your Own Ezine and Online Success Blueprint Workshop and Workshop Marketing Secrets. I share this so that if you are compelled to learn more but really can’t make it to the seminar, each of her products are amazing and I highly recommend them.

Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero of Red Hot Copy was my introduction to
copywriting and an Internet based business model. That was
a short two years ago, and that was mom and me together
with Lorrie and Ali at Alexandria K. Brown’s Holiday Party.
We had SO much fun… The holidays are just around the corner!

Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, and Happy Hanukkah!
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Live Into It… :)CC

The life of entrepreneurship is quite a personal choice. If you haven’t made the leap, be aware. If you have made the leap, you know what I’m talking about.

In corporate, I wore many hats. At one time I was doing operations, training and development, and public relations all at the same time. I was also working 100 hour work-weeks. I sometimes worked 21 days straight without “overtime” pay. I thought this was a lot. I thought I worked hard. That life seems like a vacation by comparison to the beginning stages of entrepreneurship.

As an entrepreneur, I’m the “go-to-guy” for EVERYTHING…
1. Quarterly Sales Taxes
2. Annual Bookkeeping, Accounting, & Tax Preparation
3. Back-end business operations
4. Product Development
5. Marketing
6. Business Planning & Development
7. Shipping & Customer Service
8. Quality Assurance
9. Training & Development
10. ALL OF THE ABOVE…

I went from wearing many hats to wearing every hat. I learned a whole new meaning to the word “BURNOUT” even though I love what I do.

Every entrepreneur has a learning curve that is steep. One person may be great at shameless self promotion while another person may be great at product development. We’re not all good at the same things. So I’ve learned some lessons in the last two years that I’d like to share.

1. While you have millions of ideas, keep sifting it down to 10 ideas then 7 ideas then 3 ideas until you narrow it down to ONE primary goal. THEN really focus your energy until you accomplish that one goal.

EXTRA HELPFUL HINT? Make sure the ONE primary goal you choose has the greatest income generating potential. Save your philanthropic goals for after hours, because the ONE thing that will keep you in business doing what you love, is having the INCOME associated with doing what you love.

2. Focus on one system at a time. Find a role model that most closely matches your ideal business model. Learn the system. Master the system. THEN move on to add more.

EXTRA HELPFUL HINT? Model someone successful. Get whatever version of the system you can afford (home study, teleseminar series, one-day seminar or intensive seminar). Don’t give up until you’ve stepped through the system at least once or twice with your audience. If you run into a problem, rather than going on to the next ‘bright shiny object’, hire a coach who works with the system to work with you one-on-one as you implement the fine details in the context of your own business model.

3. As a California Girl turned Oklahoma Girl turned California Girl, I learned that sometimes you have to take one step forward and two steps backward. It takes a lot of skills to really be a successful entrepreneur. This means you sometimes hit a wall and have to stretch past those moments in order to succeed. Common examples include: networking challenges, shameless self promotion challenges, and the challenge of intiating and closing $ALE$ can sometimes be a big wall]. Be persistent. If you stay the course, then you keep moving across the dance floor.

EXTRA HELPFUL HINT? Focus on the rhythm of your song and just keep two stepping. Keep stretching. Have a good cry [ladies] or pound the desk [gents]… Then pick yourself up and keep going. Problem solve. Don’t let anything stop you. Even major setbacks teach you important lessons. At some point, you will go the distance.

Remember there is a gestation period as we live into the life we’ve imagined… Bamboo takes 7 years to sprout. Just like bamboo, most of the super successful entrepreneurs I know took 7 years to sprout and figure out their “overnight success” magic formula… ;)Truth is even overnight successes took time to live into their seeming overnight success. So be gentle with yourself, be persistent by taking daily action, and remember to keep your eye on the prize with full faith it is already yours…

Live Into It… :)CC

Tonight I’m up late working on OUR dreams… I can sometimes be a night owl, so this is not a chore. I love the process… Yup, we all choose to take action so that we can Live Into It!

I found this cool video while I was in process… At one time I lived in New York - in my former life as a day trader - now I’m an “Individual Investor”…

One of the things I love about New York is the diversity of the people and the beauty in the seemingly unseeming (whatever that means - in this case I’m referring to “I DREAM OF LOVE…” graffiti - the writing’s on the wall…)

I’m half asleep and heading off to bed after this post… Sweet DREAMS!!!

DREAM from Seth Aylmer on Vimeo.

Hope you enjoy and find some inspiration to fuel your day…

Live Into It… :)CC

“Take the first step… You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step…”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Believe In The Power of Your Dreams… Our Dreams Do Come True…

Congratulations Paul Potts for Living Into The Life You’ve Imagined… I LOVE the CD! To my fellow bloggers, it is already on iTunes in case you’re curious!!! I look forward to seeing Paul Potts LIVE IN CONCERT one day soon…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
www.LiveIntoIt.com

P.S. Thanks Mom for sharing these amazing videos!!! And thank you for always believing in the power of my dreams, your dreams and all of our dreams…

A lot of people say they’ve got what it takes to teach you all of the components of an Online Success Blueprint. I’ve learned from some great mentors, but the clearest and most successful approach I’ve learned is from my mentor and close friend, Alexandria K. Brown. You may know Ali by a number of her products including BOOST BIZ WITH YOUR OWN EZINE, ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP & WORKSHOP MARKETING SECRETS. All of them are GREAT. When it comes to anything Ali teaches including signing up for her weekly Ezine, I recommend, JUST DO IT!

I attended her first ever Online Success Blueprint Workshop two years ago. My mom, and business partner, found Ali through Lorrie’s newsletters. She called me from Tulsa, Oklahoma and said, “I want you to save the date for a fun yacht party…” I agreed and plugged it into my calendar.

Then, using The Art of Persuasion, she said, “Oh, one more thing before we get off the phone. Will you please get on your computer and read this one web page page while we’re on the phone. We need to make a decision before midnight tonight.”

I was so reluctant I can’t even begin to tell you. I had just wrapped the final project I had been working on with a long-term 3-year client, and I decided I was ready to launch my own business. Admittedly, I was feeling burned out, excited and overwhelmed in my life. I couldn’t even begin to think of taking on one more thing. So I clicked on the link, complaining as I did it and expressing concern that my mom was falling for some sales pitch from some Internet marketer wanting to take advantage of her, and began reading.

I saw this really cute picture of Ali in a fun hat, and then next to a Koala bear in Australia and another in her cute VW and the next thing you know, I was about three or four paragraphs into it and I said, “Mom! We HAVE to go to this!!!” I converted in a few short paragraphs. I couldn’t believe my resounding, “YES!”. You’ll learn a thing or two about copywriting from Ali, too!

Mom and I have been dreamers for a lot of years, co-creating wonderful images in our minds about business visions we wanted to accomplish. I had been great at getting it done for clients, bringing in $750,000.00 in our first year of sales (EST. $5,250,000.00 to date) and press releases that still pull on Google 7 years after I wrote them. But I still hadn’t been able to implement it all for myself, for us and our business visions. So by midnight, we were signed up, mom had her flight to San Diego lined up, and we were planning what outfits we were going to wear to Ali’s Big Birthday Bash on the yacht.

Mom flew out and we got busy and incorporated Strategic Living, Inc. right before we went to Ali’s first ever Online Success Blueprint Workshop [OSBW]. We had lots of “ideas” that had been percolating, but no solid plan. I knew that what I learned from Ali literally cut my learning curve in half if not more… The experience? It was incredible! I actually feel so incredibly lucky to have been at the first ever OSBW, because it was such a sweet experience for us.

I tearfully thanked Ali at the end of the workshop and told her that she had given me wings for my dreams to take flight. I’m tearing up even as I write this remembering that day and seeing her response to what I said. She knew. I knew. It was a big moment - A DEFINING MOMENT - the kind you remember forever…

ALI’S ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP WAS AND STILL IS THE BEST OVERALL INVESTMENT I MADE FOR MY BUSINESS. Ali has a great way of giving you everything you need and nothing you don’t to create a wonderful online business and develop a relationship with your clients through a consistent Ezine and SO much more. Plus you get to go back at a reduced rate if you need a repeat and a lot of people take her up on the offer simply for the networking opportunity.

Ali covers everything you need without all the stuff that will muck you up. Trust me, I did some other things that did muck me up and created more long-term confusion than short-term gains, and it took me awhile to unravel from the muck and get clear, back on track and focused on what Ali taught me. Don’t waste your time elsewhere. Master Ali’s system and get it working for you and then move on and tweak it if necessary.

I loved Ali’s workshop so much, we [Mom & I] attended the second workshop again with 10 or so repeat participants. I went back the third time to work the event for Ali just to be there in the energy, and I still learned new things I had not yet implemented… Ali’s Online Success Blueprint had everything I needed to keep it manageable to implement and get great results with my online businesses. She’s got another Online Success Blueprint Workshop coming up with an easy-pay program and even if you can’t make it, get logged in and listen to her PREVIEW CALLS - she gives away the candy store! I highly encourage you to go. I may even see you there!

I also worked with Ali as a project manager on “Workshop Marketing Secrets“… The product ROCKS if you think you are going to be giving workshops. You get TEMPLATES that are already mapped out for you to follow and personalize with your own unique voice and a step-by-step walk through where I personally interview Ali.

One more thing. In the last two years I’ve seen Ali go from super successful by most people’s standards (Multiple 6-Figure Income) to “Million Dollar Online Marketer” who is on target to become a multi-millionaire. She is part of the “New Rich” and loving every minute of it, enjoying several vacations each year, a beautiful beach house, and money in the bank to help take care of her family and give donations to organizations. She’s the real deal…

FAQ: YES, BUT DOES IT WORK?

In the last two years I’ve created several sites using Ali’s principles. I was one of her last few one-on-one coaching clients. Now she charges $10,000.00 for a day of one-on-one. In answer to the question, “Does it work?” take some time to see for yourself. These are the sites I’ve created using Ali’s ONLINE SUCCESS BLUEPRINT WORKSHOP.

www.Strategic-Living.com
Our parent corporation where I launched SEO PR [Search Engine Optimized Press Releases]

www.LivingWithLyme.com
www.LivingWithLymeBlog.com
www.LymeDiseaseRapidResponse.com
Thes sites were in response to my heartfelt mission & philanthropic contribution.

www.Geckoline.us
This is uur FLASHY FLASH site that we love because it is beautiful… It is super pretty to look at, but doesn’t convert because it doesn’t have any of the goodies Ali taught us. Plus, our web designer won’t give us his “proprietary flash conding content” so if something happens to him or his files or our site, we can’t work on our site. They should call that “web-jacking” and yes, I’m bitter about it after what has been spent on it… Plus, I can’t even get in there to add the stuff that would make it work for us. You know, all the things Ali warned me about. Gee, the stove really IS hot…

www.GetFitWithAloha.com
The Get Fit With Aloha! was born in Hawaii and we love, love, love it…
This site is our organic, fun, fitness, wellness, family & home for Aloha!

www.LiveIntoIt.com
This is where I bring to the table everything I have to offer and share…
I love helping people live into their dreams and I love living into our dreams…
I love being inspired and inspiring others to live into their dreams…

FAQ: WHAT IF I NEED HELP IMPLEMENTING THIS INFORMATION?

I have been working with Ali’s system for two years and work one-on-one with my coaching clients to help them fine-tune her system to their individual needs. If they hit a wall implementing something, I get them unstuck. Areas that we work on include but are not limited to:

1. Website Presentation & Critique
2. Information Product Development
3. Fine-Tuning the Niche & Modifying the Branding Message
4. Integration of Sales & Shopping Carts
5. Nuts and Bolts of Merchant Accounts, Sales Permits, & the Incorporation Process.
6. Business Cards, Flyers & Networking Materials
7. Expanding Lead Generation & Marketing
8. Methods for Client Follow-Up

To learn more about the Live Into It! Coaching Programs, CLICK HERE…

Live Into the Business Life You’ve Imagined…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
Live Into It Coach & Consultant

P.S. Ali believed in me when I wasn’t so certain I believed in myself and continues to believe in me today. She opened opportunities and experiences to me that promoted huge growth spurts in my understanding and awareness as an Entrepreneur. I’ve been both coaching client of and project manager for Ali and it is a pleasure working with Ali in both roles… Thank you so much Ali for giving me my wings!!!

Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Who?

Who taught me?

Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero

What did she teach me?
The subtle nuances of copywriting, specifically SALES LETTERS.

When?

Lorrie was my introduction to the world of true Entrepreneurship two years ago. I had one primary client who I had been working with for 3 years, and I had just finished writing a medical book to launch his business. My mom, Katherine Cibula, who subsequently became my business partner and Vice President of our parent company Strategic Living, Inc., went to a Shared Vision Network meeting here in San Diego where Lorrie was presenting. She came home and said, “I’ve met someone who is going to become a wonderful friend of yours over the years and I bought her product - RED HOT COPY.”

Lorrie’s product blew my mind with all the amazing content. It is award-winning and full of fantastic copywriting information. I learned a tremendous amount by simply reviewing her materials and doing the exercises.

So I went the next step and took her RED HOT COPYWRITING BOOTCAMP. This is where the magic really took hold for me personally. As an alumni, I get to come back year after year and retake the RED HOT COPYWRITING BOOTCAMP, so I do to sharpen my skills. This is my third round and I always learn something new. Plus, Lorrie always updates the content so I look forward to the new additions in the new editions!

Lorrie just started her Fall 2007 Boot Camp and if you still want to join, there is time to catch up with the first class and engage in the next three classes. You’ll become an alumni, so you can come back and participate again, PLUS you get free access to the RED HOT COPY FORUM and the STERLING MEMBERSHIP for THREE months. Now these calls are amazing because Lorrie gets lazer-focused. Many of the resources she shares I’ve ONLY heard about from Lorrie. I’m a self-proclaimed “Information Junkie” and I often hear “overlap” from one person to another, but I’ve come away from my STERLING CALLS with Lorrie consistently knowing more “TOP SECRET” Internet marketing information and business planning strategies than beforehand.

Where?

ANYWHERE… You can be anywhere and access Lorrie’s calls by phone and Internet. Now she’s doing some really amazing WEBINARS and I love her visuals. She condenses a ton of information into her slide shows, handouts and webinar presentations. Plus you can always download the .MP3 or listen to the audios in the forum, so even if you have an important business meeting you can’t miss, you can still come home, heat up a cup of tea, kick of you heels or dress shoes and dig into the calls.

Why?

* Increase sales conversions.

* Connect with your “Tarket” [Lo’s phrase for “Target Market”].

* Learn the specifics of copywriting done right since it is the most expensive piece of your business to outsource. If I remember correctly, the last time I asked, Lorrie was charging between $10,000 - $20,000 for ONE sales letter which is still a bargain considering I have a client who earned $60,000 overnight for the launch of a highly niched product with one of Lo’s sales letters, so the going rate is WELL worth it!!! Just imagine the money you’ll save and the money you’ll earn by really mastering the skill of RED HOT COPYWRITING!

How?

CLICK HERE to learn more about Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero’s FALL 2007 RED HOT COPYWRITING BOOT CAMP and UPCOMING ONE DAY SPEEDCOPYWRITING WORKSHOP!

Live Into the Life You’ve Imagined…

Live Into It… :)CC
Christine N. Cibula, M.S.
www.LiveIntoIt.com

P.S. Lorrie is an amazing mentor and close friend of mine. Not only does she provide top notch information - important stuff you won’t get anywhere else - she’s a total sweetheart. She has fine-tuned all my copywriting skills as well as some specific businss planning and mind mapping skills and continues to do so. Thanks Lo!