The following guest post was written by Julie Frans, Co-owner of Dining Details, the featured gourmet caterer for the upcoming January 21st event, The 4th Annual Making The Most of Your Personal Strategy New Year Kickoff. Julie also owns Chickpeas, which provides nutritious school lunches for growing children. You can follow Julie on Twitter.
Julie is a member of Six Figure Moms Club. I’m proud to know her and to have the opportunity to learn from her as another working mother following her dreams and working through the challenges every day. Thank you Julie for sharing this wonderful post with us. May you find everything you always wanted…that’s not already right in front of you.
My BFF, Shelley Swisher, always knew I’d be a broadcast journalist and she was right!
On April 8, I’ll be live on the air with two internet radio shows on www.wsradio.com. The first show is about entrepreneurism and the second show is….you guessed it, Twitter Talk Radio!
It’s my great honor to co-host a show about small business owners with Rieva Lesonsky. Rieva is truly amazing. She is a small business expert and she writes, speaks and helps small businesses all over the country. We’ll be interviewing successful entrepreneurs and experts and talking about three major themes:
In his bestselling book, The Dip, Seth Godin, Internet Marketing Extraordinaire writes about leadership and perseverance. Seth tells us that great leaders are the ones who can push through the hard times to get to the finish line. Specifically, The Dip indicates that most of us can achieve a moderate level of success. Next, things level off again and then we experience a little dip in performance because it gets much harder to get to the next level. Maybe we get bored, maybe the highs of accomplishment wear off. It sometimes feels easier to regroup and change direction than to continue pushing boulders uphill. I like Seth’s concepts. They fit nicely with the “Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” mantra. The Dip is especially relevant for working women and entrepreneurs because there are so many tests along the way that it’s normal to have days where you want to give up on pursuing what’s most important to you. You have to be committed and you have to keep reminding yourself that The Dip and other bad days are all part of the learning process to get to the next level. Easy stuff is boring anyway!