This Holiday Season, we invite you to reconfigure your focus. We know that the greatest rewards in life are free: the health and love of family, friends, and fellow entrepreneurs. We challenge you to adopt a spirit of gratitude. Share in the revelry that life’s simplest pleasures can offer. Laughter, community, and the bold expression of your talents are the seeds of gentle greatness, so selflessly feed on these fruits to nourish and grow strong.

After a free coaching session with Santa's elves. Bryan asked for cookies...Hats are not cookies.

There’s plenty of time to think about and talk about money. Let’s continue that conversation in 2010. Together. For now, the one opportunity for joy exists in this moment. Seize it intently, live fully and without restraint, smile broadly and dance. Celebrate all that you have with humility.

From our entire team, our best wishes for a joyous, passionate and prosperous holiday season.  Thank you for choosing to be part of our community.  We simply cannot wait to create 2010 with you.

With gratitude,
Miata & The Abundance Bound Creative Team

We have spent the past few blog posts teaching you how to prepare yourself for success as a small business owner.  You know how to treat your business finances as an entity separate from your personal finances, you know how to organize and keep track of your expenses, and you know where you are starting on this financial journey. Great!  Now what?

Not a thing in your financial lives will change if you do not do the footwork.  You need to consistently devote the time necessary to improve your financial situation.  As entrepreneurs so many of us are great starters.  We begin to gather knowledge and make great plans, thinking of the ultimate outcome, but then we often do not fulfill our plan by taking the step-by-step actions required to bring us to that outcome.

Have you ever uttered, “I’m too busy”?  Maybe “I can’t afford it” sounds familiar.  These are excuses and you need to look closely at where they have gotten you so far.  Are you even one step closer to the financial prosperity you wish to have in your life? The financial pressure that exists for many small business owners is so distracting it brings an almost unbearable amount of stress into our lives and our minds.  If we make a little time every week to take care of our financial situation – such as reading, attending a seminar, updating your financial records, working on investing, adding extra income streams to your business model – we would actually free up time later on.

So what exactly does “priority” mean.  A priority is a “must”, something we “must” do, and a “must” is very different from a “should”.  We all have lists of things in our lives that we “must” do and we all have lists of things we “should” do.  There is a critical difference between the two.  For instance, I must pay my bills every month on time.  This is something I would never allow myself not to do.  However, I really feel I should exercise every day.  Somehow, as much as I know I should exercise, I often allow other things to get in the way.  For others, exercising every day is a must, and they are prepared to sacrifice to get that exercise time in.

I suggest to entrepreneurs that, for the period they are working with me in private coaching or in our Prosperity Bootcamp, they make implementing the steps of The Prosperity System^TM a “must.”  Generally, once we see our financial pictures start to shift, we will not go back to doing things the way we did before.

So, analyze your time.  How do you use it?  Where do you waste it?  Be completely and brutally honest with yourself.  At http://www.AbundanceBoundSystem.com you’ll learn our step by step process, which makes it easy for entrepreneurs to set aside a few hours every week to devote solely to the endeavor of creating financial prosperity.  This practice will help you develop the sound knowledge that will allow you to start building the financial wealth you deserve and desire.

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Enjoy!