My friend Baeth Davis often says, “If you don’t use your own unique gifts, you experience a penalty.” That penalty is the frustration—the RUT—that we all experience when we’re not in alignment with what we were meant to do in our lifetimes.

If you’re nodding your head yes as you read this, I invite you to change your life TODAY. Here’s how…

May is National Small Business Month, so it’s a great time for business owners like you and me to pat ourselves on the back for pursuing our passion. It’s not always an easy road, but as many of us know, there truly is nothing sweeter than the taste of making it as an entrepreneur!

To celebrate our choice to reach for the life of our dreams, here are six tips to help you keep on keepin’ on. Enjoy!

1. Appreciate your peeps
Take a break from number-crunching and ground yourself in an equally valuable and tangible asset: your clients and customers.

Before you can commit to your goals or act with purpose, you must first develop a strong sense of self. Or, as New York Times best-selling author Stedman Graham calls it, IDENTITY leadership.

Tonight, you have the opportunity to join me and Stedman on the phone, as we walk you through his Nine-Step Success Process from his new book, Identity: Your Passport to Success.

You’ll discover essential factors about yourself, such as how your personal values, attitude, and role in your relationships affect your identity, so you can offer your value to the world.

A list of prospects will be one of your biggest assets as you build your business. It gives you the power of marketing one-to-many instead of one-to-one.

There are several ways to build your list, and something you’ll definitely need is an opt-in page. (An opt-in page is a web page with an offer and a form that online users can fill out, telling you their name, email address, and other contact information.)

But take warning: If you want people to actually sign up for what you are offering, there are several must-have items you must incorporate into your opt-in page to make sure it works and inspires ACTION.

I remember years ago when I started my first little email newsletter. I began with a list of 10 names, and one of them was my cat Francine, whom I had given an email address just to round it up from 9 to 10. 😉

From that humble beginning, I quickly realized how influential having a list was for growing my business. Instead of marketing to one person at a time, I could market to 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, and later tens of thousands of people at a time!

One of the best ways to get inspired is to learn from others’ successes.

That’s why in my Elevate online training program, we spotlight one of our Premier members during our member Monthly Access Calls.

Elevate Head Coach James Roche and I select and interview one Elevate Premier member who is making great strides with the program.

Some successes are large, some small, but it’s all about taking steps forward and making progress.

Today, you’ll meet Elevate Premier member Karen Davis, an interior decorator and founder of Karen Davis Design (www.KarenDavisDesign.com).

Spring is here! It’s a time for fresh beginnings. And to celebrate, I’ve decided to do a Spring into Success 3-DAY SALE—and it kicks off TOMORROW morning, April 17!

For 72 hours only, you can save 40% on ANY of my award-winning products for business and personal success. If you haven’t shopped my Success Store before, it’s chock-full of helpful resources to help grow your business and transform your life.

So you can start deciding which products are right for you, here’s a sampling:

“SHINE 2011 – The Complete Deluxe Set” – Immerse yourself in the transformational SHINE 2011 content—all from the comfort of your own home.