ASK CHERI S HILL

For one week, millions of young people around the world have joined a growing movement of entrepreneurial adventurers, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things.  More than 75 countries are coming together for the first time to host Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to inspire young people to embrace innovation, imagination and creativity, inviting them to think big and to turn their ideas into reality.

I was invited to participate as a panel member for the Sierra Nevada College’s Entrepreneurship Summit in Incline Village NV on November 22, 2008.  Our topic: The Entrepreneur Within

We focused on the mindset of an entepreneur (passion, faith, team, why you are the viable investment everyone is looking for, and why it’s important to keep it simple).  I’m pretty sure I told a story that started with your guts and ended with, “Just put your big girl panties on and deal with it!”  I’m always one for being direct when it comes to offering my advice.   

Being an entrepreneur is a fascinating journey.  Sage International, Inc. is here to help you put the foundation (corporation or LLC) under your dream.  It’s so much easier when you have help and support from a team of experts because being an entrepreneur does not mean you have to go it alone.  In fact, it becomes even more important to have positive people all around you. 

The goal of Global Entrepreneurship Week is to help the next generation of entrepreneurs to find their inspiration and create the businesses and ideas that will appear in the future.  By participating, they will have access to the knowledge, skills, networks and values needed to grow innovative, sustainable enterprises that will have positive impacts on their lives and the lives of those around them.

Yahoo!  Sage is all about creating successful entrepreneurs.  A special thanks to Gary Jesch - CHOPS & Associates Live Animation and Rick Normington, Chair of the Entrepreneurship Department at Sierra Nevada College - a four year liberal arts college which sits on a beautiful campus.

I am currently taking a class developed by a friend of mine, Linda McLean, which in my opinion is the missing piece after The Secret.  I did watch it again last week and was reminded about the importance of knowing what you want and how you have the power in your own mind to manifest it.  Which leads me to the vision board.  I have spent the last four weeks defining all of my goals for 2009.  Financial, Personal, Health, Community, Recreation, Spiritual, Social, and Business.  I realized in some areas I am doing great and don’t really have any specific goals.  I just need to keep doing what I’m doing.  Certainly there were a couple of areas that will require more of my attention.  By focusing on those, I was able to boil it down into six specific goals I want to accomplish in 2009.  I found the process a lot of fun and it forced me to think about my life - where I am - where I want to be.

By creating a vision board it allows me to visually see the results that I desire.  It has been fun cutting out pictures, creative words, pretty much anything that resonates with my goals was attached to my board.  I now have a picture that I can look at everyday that will keep me emotionally attached to my goals.  This will also serve as a reminder to direct all of my attention, resources, time and energy to accomplishing those six and those six only until complete.  Not 40, not 100, SIX!

I encourage all of you to take the following steps:

1. Imagine.

2. Write it all down.

3. Hone it down to six goals next year.

4. Visualize it (create the board).

5. Stay focused and take the right actions.

6. Sit back and enjoy your accomplishments. 

If you want to learn more about Linda’s progam, Next Level Living, email me at cheri@sageintl.com