I recently had the opportunity to interview Anna Deskins about being a successful small business owner, children’s book author, and mother. It’s not easy to juggle all these roles, but Anna has found a way to follow her dreams and be an inspiration to her children, as well as a motivator to other women who want to accomplish their own dreams of small business ownership. I hope you find some nuggets of how you can do the same as she shares her blessings here.
Your children’s book, “The Adventures of Smitty” looks magically. Tell us about it.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Monday, November 22nd, 2010
In the last post, I shared with you a Life Lesson about gossiping from “The Power” by Rhonda Byrne (best selling author of “The Secret”). Today, I want to share a second Life Lesson. Once again, this lesson is an ancient biblical truth, thus something we have been encouraged to practice for most of our lives. Yet, I’d bet most of us don’t take the harmful implications of not following these life lessons very seriously.
So it is enlightening to take a new look at why we need to strive toward fulfilling these life lessons … not only because it’s the right thing to do, but because of how it impacts the success we are after in life.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Friday, November 19th, 2010
I have been reading “The Power” by Rhonda Byrne, the author of the Best Selling book and movie, “The Secret.” This will be a book I’ll re-read every six months, if not sooner, to remind myself of the simple, yet life changing, concepts she illustrates.
I wanted to share some life lessons (or Points of Power as she calls them) that she teaches in this powerful new sequel. They are ancient biblical truths, things your mamma probably taught you. Things we all understand are “nice” to encompass into our lives. Yet, I bet many of us don’t really realize the impact these simple truths make on our own happiness and success in life.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Monday, November 15th, 2010
One free, easy way to promote your home business is through the inclusion of email signatures in your outgoing email messages. Typically your email signature will consist of a short, attention-catching phrase and one or two URL links to a website that promotes you and your home business.
To enhance convenience and efficiency, you want to have preset email signatures that are included automatically with each email message you send. Unfortunately, Gmail (my email provider of choice), is limited on using HTML coding to create anything “cool” in your signature line.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Thank you to all those that have served or are currently serving our country, as well as the families that are daily affected by the absence of their loved ones while they sacrifice to protect the rest of us.
“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” ~~ Elmer Davis
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Monday, October 25th, 2010
This weekend I saw the Disney movie, “Secretariat.” What a great testimonial about taking big risks and following your dream, even when others don’t believe in you or what you want to accomplish.
While we know the story of Secretariat, the Triple Crown champion, most of us haven’t been exposed to the story of the courageous woman who owned the legendary race horse.
The movie shares the story of Penny Chenery Tweedy taking over the Virgina horse farm of her ailing father, despite the obstacles she would face. Tweedy was a housewife who left her family in Denver, had little experience with horse breeding and horse racing, was a female in a male dominated industry, and received no support from her brother and husband who felt the best financial move was to sell the horse farm to stave off financial disaster.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
~~ CS Lewis
I love the stories of highly paid executives who gave up their prestigious jobs in order to pursue a new career … often making only a fraction of their previous salaries. But it was something they always dreamed of doing, so they went for “the new dream job.”
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Today, I received some really good advice from a parenting newsletter I subscribe to called Connected Families. I thought the information was so transcending of the parenting world and applicable to the business world as well that I wanted to share their meaningful thoughts with you.
Excerpt from the article, “Making Forward Progress Starts by Stepping Back,” by Jim and Lynne Jackson.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Thursday, September 30th, 2010
The right mindset is one of the most important pieces to our financial success. What is mindset? Mindset is defined as “a fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person’s responses to and interpretations of situations.” In other words, what we think and believe to be true.
To cultivate the right mindset, we need to generate positive thoughts and assumptions about our intended money goals. That also means removing negative perceptions from our mind.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Thursday, April 8th, 2010
My last couple of posts have mentioned that my friend Saul Jacobson wrote his first book, “He Made Me Think.” I recommended the book to you prior to reading it myself because I know what a great mentor and business coach Saul is and anything he wants to share with you would be of significant value and worth your time.
I have now had the opportunity to read the book myself. And as I expected, I am very pleased with the teachings he provides in the book. I was not disappointed.
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
I was so moved by this short video by my friend Saul Jacobson that I had to share it with each of you. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we all had such a wise friend to stand beside us when making difficult decisions like Saul has in his wife Ginger.
This video is just a small sampling of the wisdom Saul has to share with you. He has recently released his first book, “He Made Me Think.”
Posted by Cathy Mahady on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Never underestimate how powerful a role that music (melody and lyrics) can play in your life and business. I have posted previously how particular songs have made an impact upon me. Here’s a past post entitled Cherish Your Dream
I love reviewing my goals while listening to really cool, upbeat music with words that inspire. Today, I have a new song that I am rockin’ out to “My Best Days Are Ahead of Me,” by American Idol contestant, Danny Gokey.
One free, easy way to promote your home business is through the inclusion of email signatures in your outgoing email messages. Typically your email signature will consist of a short, attention-catching phrase and one or two URL links to a website that promotes you and your home business.
