Are You Ready for 2010?

As the calendar year of 2009 comes to a close are you prepared to start the new year off successfully? What have you done to make sure 2010 begins with you ready in your life?

Have you put the last month on hold because you just knew that people did not want what you were offering? How about you just decided to take the past few weeks of and enjoy your family and friends? If so now is the time to get yourself moving again. No time to waste on getting a jump start for 2010!

What goals have you written down for you and your business to reach this next year?

Who have you share these goals with?

What steps do you have in place to go after these goals and be committed to achieve them?

Who are your accountability partners? How will they hold you accountable? When will they hold you accountable?

If you are looking for a great accountability partner let me know.

Visit http://www.bealegacy.com/classes.htm for more information on coaching and consulting to keep you accountable for 2010.

12 Days of Christmas Gifts That Be A Legacy Gave To Me

Last year I started the 12 Days of Christmas program and have decided to keep it as a tradition.

Many people celebrate the 12 Days of Christmas as the 12 days leading up to Christmas Day. The true 12 Days of Christmas actually came as the 12 days after Christmas and began December 26 with the feast of St. Stephen a traditional day for giving leftovers to the poor and ending January 6 with Epiphany. Each day a gift was presented to the world with celebrations to serve others in the world.

I would like to offer you some special gifts to keep you moving forward in life.

The cost of these great gifts is only an email to dreamteam@bealegacy.com saying
"Yes sign me up for the 12 Days of Christmas!" Don't forget to put your name in the email.

It is as simple as that!

January 11, 2010 is the drawing to win Prize Gift Pack

THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS BE A LEGACY GAVE TO ME...

► 12 Action Steps for Success (Dec.26)
► 11 Networking Tips For Growth (Dec.27)
► 10 Tools to Resolving Conflict (Dec.28)
► 9 Ways to Think Clearly (Dec.29)
► 8 Team & Group Ice Breaker Games (Dec.30)
► 7 Areas to Create Life Balance (Dec.31)
► 6 Ways Of Getting Out of Debt (Jan. 1)
► 5 Goal Setting Strategies (Jan.2)
► 4 Behavior Style Tools (Jan.3)
► 3 Ways for Effective Follow-Through (Jan.4)
► 2 Articles on Creating Joy (Jan.5)
► and a Life Assessment Form (Jan.6)

Everyone wins with great tools and information. Join in on the fun today.

► Sign Up To Receive the 12 Days Of Christmas Gifts From Be A Legacy For A Chance To Win A Prize Gift Pack

Prize Gift Pack Includes:
Books, Audio CD's, Business Tools, Special Gifts & More. (Value over $400)

How to win the gift pack?

For every referral who signs up you receive tickets, by signing up you get a ticket, when you respond back to each of the 12 Days you get tickets. It is up to you on how many tickets you get.

1 Ticket for replying "Yes"
2 Tickets for each person you forward this message to and they sign up to receive by Dec. 23.
3 Tickets for reading information sent each day and replying back to let me know how you will use something from each day.

(Possible 3 tickets per day = 36 or more tickets)


I look forward to giving these gifts and celebrating the gifts of the New Year with you.

Thanksgiving Everyday

Thanksgiving is upon us here in the US. We get together and celebrate with family and friends. We come together to be thankful for what it is that we do have in our lives.

What do you have to be thankful for? How far have you come this year?

What I have discovered for me throughout the years is when I focus on what I have that is working in my life and fills me with joy, that is what my life reflects.

Someone recently said "You only write about good stuff on all your posts. Is that really how your life is or are you like a duck that looks good on top of the water but is really struggling under the water?"

I thought about her comment and discovered for myself that I really do have a lot of wonderful things that happen in my life. These are brought forth by how I make choices in my life. I also noticed that I have bad circumstances just like everyone else. I just do not give them the power to bring my life down. I get back up and keep moving forward.

I make conscious choices each day to look for what good can come out of the circumstances. I look equally for the good in people, places and all challenges.

It doesn't cost me anything extra in life to offer a smile, give someone some hope or care about people and their success.


As you celebrate thanksgiving this month (& every month) my hope is that you will find what is good in your life and keep your focus on that. What you focus on is what you usually will create in your life. If you are looking for evidence of how bad others are you will find it. If you look for evidence of the greatness in others you will find it! What evidence are you looking for?

What are you thankful for? Who are you thankful for?

I am thankful for your contact, friendship, feedback and support to keep Be A Legacy moving along side of you.


PS. ~ I decided I am much more like the Swan. Bigger feet creates less paddling as I continue to glide in life. Letting the tough things in life roll down the feathers allowing the elegance to be seen and admired.

Design Your Ideal Life

Are you designing your ideal life?

Believe it or not you have a clean slate everyday to design the life that you want. Each day you get to choose what you will do and how you will respond to the choices around you. You can invent your life any way you choose. How you do it will be up to you.

Start designing your life by choice. Here are some questions to get you thinking and get you writing about your ideal life. Answer these questions with great detail. Describe each idea using your senses. Visualize the colors, sounds, smells and anything that can get you excited about your ideal life.

• How do you see yourself every day?
• Who do you want to be?
• Who do your spend your time with?
• Who would you like to spend your time with?
• What does an average day look like for you?
• What would you like your average days to look like?
• What do you do for fun?
• What would you like to do for fun?
• What do you do for income?
• What would you like to be doing for income?
• Where do you live?
• Where would you like to live and why there?

This does not have to be difficult. If it feels hard to visualize a long distance just visualize your ideal life for one day. What can you do tomorrow to make your life better than today? Take designing your ideal life in small steps. It took small steps to get you where you are today so pace yourself in your designing. After you get the hang of your ideal day then move to an ideal week and then month and so on. Once you have designed what your ideal day, week, month, year or life looks like then start taking steps to put it all into action. Start making the small steps and planning to live your ideal life.

We do not have to out do someone else's life. We only have to live up to our life! This is Your ideal life. You can decide how you live it, who you live it with and what is important to you.

Design your life with your loved ones supporting you and bring together the people in your life who are willing to help you reach your ideal design. What are you waiting for? Go have fun designing your life and your legacy.

Step Into The Costume Called YOU!

October is the time for ghosts, goblins, tricks and treats. Often people use Halloween to be a time to transform for one night into being someone else. You have the opportunity to dress up, take risks, be like another and look silly and still be accepted. Why not take it to a new level this year and discover a person to become that you enjoy everyday.

As children you may have gone out door to door and collected candy as repayment for us dressing up. Did you come back with a lot of great sweets? You took the risk to say "Trick or Treat". And then you were rewarded. What did you do next? Eat it all, get a stomach ache and then have go visit the dentist to fill those cavities? Ok sounds kind of bleak! We were young.

Where in your life would you like to take a risk and be rewarded? Do you take the effort to bring all of you to the game? Ask for a raise? Ask a potential client to join your business? Ask for that sale? Ask an associate to support you? Ask someone to marry you? Have a child?

What is holding you back from taking those risks? Fear? Uncertainty? Worthiness? Afraid of not being accepted or that you are not enough? Waiting for the "right time" to do what you have always wanted to do?

I say finish this year with a filled bag of treats. There is still time! Step in to the costume called YOU! Take the risk and do something new. Do something unexpected that would serve you and others around you. No more tricking yourself into believing you do not deserve better. Enjoy the treats of your life! What are the gifts that you offer the world just by being who you are? Step into your great qualities & core values and live with as much excitement as those bright eyed children who will come to your door asking you for treats.

Who will you dress as for the rest of this year? What quality or core value do you want to make stronger in your life? What will you need to do to turn a weak area in your life into a stronger area? How will you go about treating yourself and stop tricking yourself?

What would help you move forward in life? Where would you like support in your life? Isn't it time for you to get an accountability partner to walk along side of you and finish out 2009 with more treats than tricks? Call today if you would like to get some new clients, build a better relationship and create income to pay bills and/buy gifts for this holiday season! dreamteam@bealegacy.com

Who Is Making Your Choices?

Every morning I get up and I am ready to jump into action. I get up and go about making today a better day than yesterday. I am not saying that it is always easy to look at life this way. I am saying that everyday I have a choice on how I want to look at the world. I choose everyday to make it better.

After being in business for over 16 years I have seen a lot of challenges. We have been through just about everything negative a business can go through. In one of my companies I recall when we sold it to a Fortune 500 company and then worked as local managers for them. Within one year they went bankrupt and we were faced with a choice. The choice of letting go and moving on without doing that work anymore or taking back our company in which we were not completely paid for. We made the choice to keep it and boy did we learn a lot from that. Ten years later we are still going in that business. Oh but be clear there have been some difficult choices in those ten years. Just this spring within a two month period we had a couple clients file bankruptcy. Between them, they owed us over $100,000.00. Because we are a service industry there is no product to take back, this was all for payroll that employees must be paid. We had a choice to say should we close the doors or what can we do different? Well, we are still doing different. Batten down the hatches and hold on tight!

Our lives are made up of many choices. Choices to change course, to let go, to hold on and leave the thoughts of failure behind! What are your choices? Can you enjoy your choices even when things get tough?

Who are the people that you bring into your life to help you get through it? Are you bringing problem solvers or problem makers into your life?

Do you have people who you can brainstorm with? Are there friends, family members or co-workers who are willing to remind you why you do what you do?

Who do you have that helps you set and achieve goals? Hold you accountable to what you say you want to achieve?

I would challenge you to make a list of all the people in your life you consider close to you. Next to their name put either the letters E & D. E is for the people who bring you energy and lift you up. D is for the people who are more often draining the energy from you. Then look to see who you spend the most time with. Do you want to shift where you spend your time? You do not have to do anything different! As long as you are aware of it you can make the choice to stay the same or do something different.

If you catch yourself in a rut, evaluate what is going on and ask what can I improve in this situation? Find the solutions to lift yourself up. I live with an attitude of today will be better than tomorrow. Here are a few of the attitudes that I choose in my life most.

Excellent Attitudes of Choice:

1. An Attitude of Solution.

Finding a solution to what is going on and not becoming a victim to it. If I am low on cash I find a solution to bring more money into my life. Ask myself what can I do to bring in more money. So what ever you are facing get support from people who can help you find solution.

2. An Attitude of Productivity.

There is a difference between busy work and productive work. I can look busy all the time! I am productive when I have the attitude of creating a forward moving result. Cleaning the house when I know my business is not producing would not be a smart choice for me. I can hire a house keeper when the money is flowing in. I can delegate some of the non essentials to others who love to do that and have a business for it. This leaves me the time and energy to be productive and do what I love to do. When you slack at your job or business it says that you have a habit of slacking. You are likely to get a slack pay for your job. Do your job with excellence and you will be rewarded. It may not be rewarded from the same place however.

3. An Attitude of Optimism.

You may not be able to choose all the circumstance in your life, you do have the choice on how you handle them. Refuse to be defeated by the circumstances. Look for that silver lining. What can I learn from this? How can I teach others to get through this? Instead of a “why me” choose a “why not me” attitude. Find something good in all your doing and hand on tight. You never know when this lesson will be pulled up to help someone else along the way. As a survivor of a rape, at the time did not see any benefit in it! Now I am grateful to be able to truly understand where a survivor comes from and can help them get through it too.

4. An Attitude of Improvement.

Look for ways to continuously improve your life. Find ways to make your life or the life of someone else better today than yesterday. No one ever said life would be easy! I have found that it is easier when I find ways to improve my relationships, improve my business, improve the knowledge of my kids and improve my attitude. If I were to stay the same as I was 20 years ago I would not be worth much to the people around me and yet at the same time I know that I must change me because no one else can change me and I can not change them either. What could you improve in your life today? Take baby steps and improve a little at a time.


Remember, you have the choice to do what you want in life. Not all choices are easy and not all choices are hard. Keep moving forward and know that there are people in the world looking to help you along the way. Go find those people and allow them to keep you energetic and you will be able to return the favor.

Are You Preparing For The Holidays Yet?

The holiday season is just around the corner! I know you are probably not ready for it! However, knowing that it is three months away can make or break you when the season comes and you are stressed because you were not ready for it.

What are you going to do to prepare yourself for a profitable end of year?

Since marketing your business takes time to do, now is the time to get your campaigns together. Work on them now and when the time comes you will be a head above your competition!

For my direct selling friends this means how many shows are you booking now to put on your calendar for the holiday season? How can you keep in touch with the people you are booking now? Maybe send a post card each month or twice a month to keep their show fresh in their mind. Let them know how excited you are that they are hosting a show before the holiday rush. If you have 20 or more shows on your calendar before you even get into the season you will have more time with your family, friends and the chance to do the things you want with out the stress.

If you are carrying extra inventory offer an incentive to the people who keep their shows book on the regular scheduled date. Make this worth their while. Throw in an extra bonus for those who have 15 or more in attendance. Don’t have extra inventory on hand? Plan ahead by getting a couple orders in between now and then from the specials your company is offering.

Think about some coupons that you can have ready for your customers. What incentives do you want to offer that will get people interested in your business? Products? Services?

Now is the time to recruit team members to your business. Get them in and going strong to create extra holiday cash. Remember that asking people to join you in your business is a privilege and an opportunity. Ask everyone you know and everyone you meet. In this economy to leave anyone out would be selfish.

Prepare your self now for the upcoming holiday season and you will be better off for it. Nothing better than going through the season with little to no stress because you are prepared and ready to take it on!

Are You Solution Oriented?

Regardless of what we do for a living or where we live, most of us spend our waking hours at home or at work solving problems. Many of the problems we face are small, however, some may be large and complex and feel overwhelming. Anyway you look at it, problems are being solved daily.

So how do you decide when something is a problem? And how you handle it?

If my boss or upline asks me to take care of something my internal voice might say “I don’t know how to go about doing this” or “I can’t do that”. My external words say, “okay, I will let you know when this is done” or “when do you want this done by”.

There are times when moments come, and everything just goes wrong. We are now challenged to get what is not working properly, fixed. Life’s problems do not exist to beat us down. They exist to help us grow in who we are meant to become.

Let’s explore some of the problems that you may have been challenged with recently.

Why does it have to be hard to make money? I don’t understand how I can get out of debt when I can barely make my bills.

Why can’t I find a job that I love to do? I don’t even know what I love to do. So how am I supposed to find the right job?

Why doesn’t my team follow through with what I tell them to do? Don’t they understand, I know what success looks like?

Why do I keep ending up in short-term relationships? Isn’t anyone committed anymore?

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I almost never use the word "problem" because most people hear drama with a problem. I don't know about you but all I have to do to see drama is turn on the TV to see a reality show, the news coverage or the old favorites a soap opera.

I look at the challenge before me and say okay, what do I have to take action on to make this work. This mindset has allowed me to find solutions instead of feeling sorry for myself with the situation. Since I cannot change what happened, I can change how I react to it. Now trust me, I have not always been this way. I could get caught up in the problem with the best of them! So how did I make the shift to see problems as challenges and opportunities for improvement in my life? Let me share with you a couple of things that I did to change how I reacted and took action on finding the opportunity in the challenge is I’m faced with.

First thing I do, is stop and take a deep breath. I look to see how this challenge affects me personally, my family, my business and my lifestyle. I looked to see who is involved. Who will benefit from this challenge being solved? Why is that important? This allows me to focus on what the issue is, instead of running, kicking, screaming or blaming someone else. Stopping to take a breath allows me to bring my emotions down so my brain can go to work. When emotions are high, intelligence is low. So, breathing can allow you to bring down the emotion level to build up the intelligence.

Next, I look to see how soon I have to make a decision with this challenge. I ask myself if I have the flexibility to gather more information, or does a decision need to be made immediately. If I have some flexibility I will research, ask for support and see how I can shift whatever is necessary to solve the challenge before me. Asking myself questions like “What do I want the outcome to be? And why is that important?” will allow me to brainstorm for the best choices available. If a decision must be made quickly, my focus must be in full gear to make it happen, which usually means take another deep breath.

Then, I look at the cause of the challenge to identify what may have contributed in creating the challenge. A brief glance to learn what to do differently, without getting stuck in the past. This allows me to determine the root of what caused the challenge. Why this happened or what got me in this situation to begin with. This is where I may get support from friends, family, coworkers or a boss to brainstorm on what may have caused this to prevent it from happening again in the future.

Finally, I decide what I need to take action on now to correct or solve the challenge. This is the opportunity for me to do something different and create a better outcome. What is my objective? What is the outcome I am looking to create? What systems do I have to put into place to prevent this from happening again in the future? What action can I take today that will bring me closer to the result I am looking for? Who will I ask to hold me accountable, to taking the necessary actions to solve this challenge?

What I have discovered as the biggest benefit to solving problems or challenges is my attitude. If my attitude is a “why me” attitude I am not likely to get very far. If my attitude is a “why not me” attitude, I am likely to move forward faster than getting stuck in the drama.

Challenges are not meant to be roadblocks, annoyance is or irritations. They really just are life happening before us. Imagine for a moment, a life where there were no problems to solve, no opportunity for growth, and no reason to invite other people into your life to help you solve the challenges you face. Who would be the people that you would have never wanted to meet, because without your challenge, you never would have met them? Now imagine a life of many opportunities, everyday growth, and all the people that you have met along the way to solving your challenges.

I know that facing these challenges can be difficult, may feel lonely and sometimes overwhelming. And at this point, I have to discover my courage to step up and asked for support. This is where I get to adjust my attitude, be stronger and more effective at communicating with myself and others.

I look at challenges and opportunities as personal training exercises. I get to exercise my skill to be stronger, more productive which become easier over time to recover from. At first your workout may appear hard, tiring and stressful. However, over time, you become stronger, smarter and recover quicker from these opportunities. So have some fun and stretch yourself to be solution oriented and have a “can do” attitude to be successful. And don’t forget to ask for help along the way. As a coach, I am your spotter to keep you safe and moving forward in your challenges and turning them into opportunities. Let me know how I can support you.

Brainstorming Business Ideas

Brainstorming is about expanding your thinking and generating new ideas. Bringing people together to brainstorm with you around your business and personal life can be very powerful and rewarding. Brainstorming has been proven effective with in businesses, relationships and personal goals. Brainstorming helps people over come the desire that they are alone in solving the challenges of their lives. It also promotes ideas that no one may have thought of without the proccess of the team.

Everyone tosses out ideas on a given subject. Having a scribe to put down all the ideas either on paper or on a white board is helpful so the team can be throwing out ideas and one person takes down all the thoughts. Again not in any particular order. This process may look like a lot of ideas going in all directions. This is normal and later in the process you will prioritize the ideas that you feel you can work with.

An important piece to this process is to speak out all ideas whether you think they will work or not. Whether they fall into your personal or business values or not. You can cross those off the list later. If you stop and evalute during the brainstorming process you will cut off the flow of creativity and the process will be less effective. These are just ideas and later in the process you can eliminate what you are not willing to take on.

Here are some steps to get you brainstorming.

1. Gather the troops - be it friends, mastermind teams, similar business owners or other direct selling team leaders.
2. Establish a topic to work with.
3. Set a time limit.
4. Communicate ground rules on what can be discussed and what is off limits.
5. List all ideas or suggestions that are made and encourage creativity.
6. Do not evaluate ideas. Allow what ever is said to come out and be listed.
7. As a group consolidate all like ideas and/or categories.
8. Prioritize all the ideas based on what you would commit to.
9. Put a plan of action into place to do.
10. Thank your brainstorming team for supporting you and make a plan to do this on a regular basis such as quarterly, semi-annually or annually.

Have fun brainstorming and allow others to support you in your growth as a business person and in personal development.

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Summer Group Coaching Program

Applications are being accepted for the Summer Group Coaching Program with Be A Legacy.

Only 6 applications will be accepted to be coached on your goals in this special summer group format.

Program Includes:
Goal setting
Accountability
4 - 1Hr. weekly group calls
2 - 30 minute individual calls
Unlimited emails
You choose your goal and we support you in reaching it.

For an application email dreamteam@bealegacy.com get your space reserved quickly. Best bargain for the summer.

Upon receiving your application we will review and contact you with 5 days to let you know if you are selected into the program.

Once you are selected into the program full payment must be paid no later than 7 days prior to the start of the program. An invoice will be sent to you when your application is accepted.

The program begins last week of June and will complete 4 weeks later.
Individual coaching dates will be set with each participant and coach.