I really want you guys to take a few minutes and think about your life, your business and how it all should support each another. Think about priorities, balance, fostering relationships and more. Your life is full of choices and Choices = Freedom.  You have the choice to build a business that SERVES YOU, not that YOU SERVE. Think about THAT. There’s a huge difference between the two. When your business serves you, you choose the life you want and build your business around it. When your business serves you, you experience a level of happiness, inner peace, fulfillment and FUN that few people ever equate with work.  There are 3 key relationships in your life: Your relationship to yourself, Your relationship to others, Your relationship to your business. Yes, your business is like a living, breathing relationship—it can be supportive and progressive, or it can be draining and destructive. One of the most important aspects of building a business, and a life, is being accountable to yourself and others. This is why I love having an accountability partner and strongly recommend this to everyone I mentor.http://www.mightyventures.com/baiPS: If you’re ready to REALLY become accountable and create the massive success you want and deserve, I hope you’ll join me at my upcoming weekend-long Business Acceleration Intensive Workshop.  For that entire weekend I’ll be personally mentoring a very small group of business. Only twenty participants will get to work with there. If you’re up to the challenge and ready to make the investment of both the time and the funds to attend ($1,997 early bird special), go to http://www.mightyventures.com/bai/ and reserve your spot. http://www.bit.ly/5SxlYE

An accountability partner is a friend or colleague that you call weekly or twice monthly at a set time to set goals and to report the status of the goals you set during the previous call. You’ll discuss any challenges you’re having and seek your partner’s input, and you’ll commit to additional goals to be achieved by your next call. Similarly, you’ll check to see whether your accountability partner has honored the commitments he or she made during your last conversation. If not, the two of you can brainstorm as to how to achieve these goals by your next call.

Schedule your accountability check-ins for an entire month in advance. Put them on your calendar in ink, or program them into your PDA. These are now officially unbreakable dates. I find that simply knowing that I’m going to have to talk about what I did or didn’t do with my partner gives me the extra boost to get stuff done. You can use accountability partners for business or personal goals. I talk with my accountability partner every Friday at 10am. We split the time evenly between us on each call, 15 minutes each + 5 minutes for random stuff. We follow up as needed between calls via e-mail. It’s fun, you build a strong bond with your partner, and you help one another succeed. I commit to 3-5 goals per call, depending on how time-consuming each goal is. I always have a mix of personal and professional goals.

Christine Comaford, CEO Freedom Fighter!

CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.

NY Times Best Selling Author

PPS: If you’re tied up either financially or logistically, join my exclusive membership website with video mentoring instead – only $97 / month. 

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Let’s face it, most businesses either don’t do enough marketing, or worse, they are ineffective or actually turn prospective buyers off and chase them away. This is the “common cold” of the business world! Without a proven marketing system in place, you will always be chasing leads – and end up putting yourself on sale just to close the deal! In the three months between October 21, 2008 and Jan 31 2009 my company, Mighty Ventures, SYSTEMATICALLY created 7,989 new leads… using JUST ONE STRATEGY! That’s an average of 89 new leads PER DAY!

Learning to create great leads and brand yourself and your business is crucial at any time. No matter where you are in your business acceleration, it’s time to solve this puzzle and kick your marketing and recognition into high gear with a few proven steps to generate short-term marketing results NOW.

Here’s the bottom line: EVERYONE is an expert in something. Whether it’s business acceleration, which is what we do at Mighty Ventures, or product launches, parenting, caring for elders – whatever. The question is, are you MONETIZING your expertise? Are you generating revenue from it? If not, why not?

I think everyone, even if you have a corporate day job, should be extracting, packaging and offering their expertise to the world. It’s a great way to add value to others by sharing your wisdom, it’s fulfilling because that wisdom and those lessons of experience can now benefit others, and it’s satisfying because people will pay for your unique expertise and information.  And let’s face it, in today’s economy and job-cutting world, branding yourself and your personal expertise is a sure way to remain sought after and marketable!

Not sure what you’re unique expertise is? Tune in on Friday for Part 2 – Figuring it out.

You can learn more about these tips and a rock solid plan to get 1,000 new leads this month – and every month – at my Results Now Webinar.

To your continued success!

Christine Comaford, CEO Freedom Fighter
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.NY Times Best Selling Authorhttp://www.ResultsNowWebinar.com

Probably the most important comparison I can make between surfing and business is HELP!  Surfing is NOT the kind of thing you should do alone.  Even the masters usually don’t go into the water without a buddy.  Why?  Again, it’s that unpredictable piece to things.  There’s simply no way to have eyes in the back of your head.  And that’s exactly what mentors, advisors, an advisory board and accountability partners do for our businesses as well.  They lend us another point of view – another way to look at things and navigate the next big wave or unexpected current. 

This leads right into my favorite similarity…. WATCH OUT!  I don’t just mean be careful of the undertow or the other surfers who want to bogart your wave.  I mean sty aware of EVERYTHING around you.  Don’t be so busy and focused on your goals that you miss a rare and unexpected opportunity that appears out of nowhere.  

The bottom line is this.  No matter what you learn in life or what your metaphors are, make sure that you follow the signposts and keep your eyes open.  Opportunities to build and experience amazing success are all around you.  Be daring and courageous, but rely on those who have gone ahead of you to help you chart a careful course through dangerous tides.

If you haven’t done it already, and you want to find out where your own building blocks are strong and solid – or missing — head over to http://www.StrategySessionNow.com and take the self assessment.  You will absolutely learn REAL strategies for success and wealth building, and if you’re really lucky, you might win a free strategy session with either myself or one of my Mighty Team.

Christine Comaford, Business Accelerator
CEO of Mighty Ventures, Inc.
NY Times Best Selling Author

http://www.StrategySessionNow.com