Is entrepreneurship something you are born with?

Last night I was talking with Ryan and reminiscing about some points in my childhood. They, at the time seemed insignificant, however, it now has wondering : is entrepreneurship teachable or do we just have it from a young age?

Two quick examples:
. My very first way of earning money was in the fifth grade. I couldn't get a specific type of sneakers from my mom so I decided to go out and get them myself. At the time I didn't have enough money, but I did have some money. My solution? I sketched out a jewelry line of necklaces, bracelets,and earrings. Next, I spent all of the money I had. I spent it on beads, clasps, fishing line and other jewelry accessories. For the remainder of the week I built all of the jewelry, careful to follow the plan and pattern I laid out in the first place. Once built, I came up with a price structure that considered materials, time spent and profit. Some of the pieces were more expensive to make, more complicated etc.

Finally I went door to door in my neighborhood with the drawing I had made. I kept the pieces in my backpack so that I could fulfill orders on the spot. At one door, the lady asked me 'if you have all of the pieces, why not just walk around with those on display?'. My response, 'i can show you what's left, but I already have orders for pieces that have been sold out. Plus nobody likes to look at the almost empty inventory, so just imagine that it's all available for you to see and it will be delivered to you in a few days.'.

You see, if at the ripe old age of 10, this was my thought process - without any real information, classes, schooling etc, then it has to be in your blood. Geez, I even unconsciously took the 'emotions of a buyer' into consideration so that I would not only sell out but take future orders!

. Senior year I was arguing with an old boyfriend about time spent working. No time left for self, just all work. He kept saying, that's life. You're always going to have to work more and harder than you play. It's just how it is. I can honestly say with 100% certainty, that I mew at that moment that I had been lied to. We were not put on this earth to work it away. The working was just a way to earn money, the important stuff happened as a result of your work and outside of work. It's about what you create, what you leave behind. It was incredible to me that this person could not see that it is absolutely possible to make money without working your life away. All you had to do was be the innovator, the thinker and the money maker.


All I'm saying is that I believer there are different types of folks. There are rule followers and rule makers. There are innovators and there are people who are hired to make the innovation a reality. There are entrepreneurs and there are worker bees. There are those who will dump all of their money into things that they 'just have to have now' and there are those who will dump their money into a place where it will keep coming back at them, long after they've gotten that 'thing they have to have now'. There's no right way to be. The best entrepreneurs are so because of their innovative thinking, their dreaming, their naughtiness AND because of their ability to work well with their team. You cant succeed without the right team in place. That would be like eating soup with a fork - it's right there, you can taste it but you can't quite get it in your mouth. Leverage baby.

Love and Peace ,
SR

Paid to Shop with the Stacks

A few tips for the holiday shopping season: Our web portal is LARGER than Amazon.com and WE PAY YOU TO SHOP! Why shop anywhere else online this season when you can still access all of the stores, products and services you want AND GET PAID TO SHOP?

Ever hear the Coca Cola analogy? $0.80 out of your dollar gets spent on advertising? Doesn't it annoy you that only $0.20 of your dollar is spent on the quality of product that your getting while the majority of that same dollar is spent trying to get you to buy their product?

We have introduced a new way to shop that is the most ETHICAL and coolest way to shop ever. Our web portal does the following:

1. Allows you to get a preferred customer membership for FREE> (unlike BJs, Barnes and Noble etc.)

2. Pays you 2-35% cash back for all purchases made through the web portal!

3. Gives you access to over 4,000 stores you are already shopping at! So you do not have to even change where you shop or what you are shopping for! No replacing products for an alternate one - you simply go through the portal first!

4. Provides "hot deals" - to save you time for shopping for coupon codes, we automatically feed them into "hot deals" tab so that you find the best one the quickest!

5. Comparison Shopping right on the portal! If you search for "Macbook Air" our site generates a list of all of our partner stores that carry it. You will also see how much each store charges, any additional offers such as free shipping as well as who offers the most cash back!

6. Customer Service and Shopping Consulting! Can't find a customer service number at Amazon.com? That is because there isn't one! WE HAVE PEOPLE POWER!

Here is the site:
www.cashbackma.com

Have questions or want help getting started? Email or call me!
Enjoy getting your shopping done along with some of that cash right back in your pockets this holiday season!

Do you need a Social Detox?

When you think about when you're at your happiest, you probably picture yourself in a place you've desired to be and surrounded by people you love to be around. Generally, it is not your vision to work your whole life in order to achieve a certain goal just to finally arrive there and be around people that you don't like or love. So much of achieving success is in the journey. It's not that the journey isn't tough at times but its how you handle it.

How do the people you hang around make you feel? Physically, how do you react? Your body will know what feels good and what doesn't. Are the people in your life contributing something positive to your every day life or are they sucking the energy out of you? Every relationship will be different, some people you can talk business with, some more emotional, some, you just adore their spirit and love being around them. Sure, we will all have our not so great days and our real friends will be there for us. However, if you are surrounded by someone that you constantly are reacting badly toward, than here's the secret: remove yourself from the situation. It's not that difficult to walk away from something or someone that makes you uncomfortable. Not all friends are created equal and that's ok.


Why choose to socially detox? You really are the sum of your network. Who are you hanging with? Are they like or dislike who you are and who you strive to be? Are the positive contributors or takers? Are they people you love but just can't be around right now? Are their intentions good or bad? All of these things are possible. The point is that by being aware and by listening to how you body reacts to certain situation is a great way to achieve happiness. If you are working to achieve happiness in the future - the fastest way to bet there is to make choices that make you happy now.

Love and Peace ,
Sarah Rose

Did you lock yourself up?

After meeting many people from all walks of life, you begin to wonder who is really responsible for each person's circumstances...

Regardless of if I'm talking about the free and beautiful Kim Kardashian, Loren and JR Ridinger or people in less desirable situations there is only one thing that is certain: each of them and each of us is a direct reflection of our thinking. the mind is such a powerful thing, it can hold you down or set you free. What ever you focus on, you become. Will you lock yourself up in a prison today or leave freely on your own terms? The key is in your ability to train your thoughts to be focused on where you want to be.

A great leader this past weekend said 'Medicore people focus on what they're going through. Champions focus on where they're going to.'

Love and Peace

'You're lucky'

I have people tell me all of the time 'you're so lucky!'. While I understand that when people say it, they mean it with love. However, I believe it is not luck. I believe it is much more than that.

I believe that the real determining factor of happiness and receiving what you want is actually 'what you give or put out there'. The universe is in constant motion of giving and receiving. To me this motion is a circular motion that needs to follow the path to keep it going. When you give, you are then open to receive. If you only take, then you close yourself off and the cycle will leave you out eventually.

The best way to assess your current state of happiness in your relationship, finances etc is to assess the giving and receiving cycle. I do it all of the time and I use this as a constant resource to find balance in them. If a relationship with people or an organization becomes one sided where one is giving more than the other than it can not thrive forever. It might be able to be forced for a while, but it isn't happy and it eventually becomes burnt out.

So if you want to be 'lucky', the secret is to to be a giver. Give with the best of intentions and you will become open to receive. <3

Love and peace,
SR

Limited to Limitless.

T Harv Ecker says not to "drink from only one river". In other words, regardless of what you do for a living, everyone should be involved in creating multiple streams of income.

Only 20 ago, if a person wanted to earn a second stream of income they would have had some very limiting possibilities.

1. They could get another job. But let's be real - another job usually pays less than your first AND you have LESS hours to sell for money. Your income is still controlled by how many hours you personally have available to sell for a wage. Another big downer - you have very little time left for yourself or the people you love.

2. They could start a business. Pre-internet, that meant investing a few thousand dollars into starting a business. This possibility was available to the top 5% who had the resources available to take this path. And, once again, you certainly have very little time left for yourself and the people you love.

3. The could invest in the market. A top financial adviser told me this year, if you don't have to invest in the market (stocks especially), than don't. You never know what is going to happen - invest your money in places where you know it will come back to you and multiply / not places where you "hope" it will do that. He showed me examples of two portfolios: both were sound choices of investing according to industry standards yet one at the age of retirement had less money available than was originally invested. So much for retirement after 45 years of working... If you're a big risk taker than play the lottery. Also, never take investing advise from someone with out examining their investing choices.

Those were the limiting choices for creating multiple streams of income. Now, the internet makes it so easy to have a second source of income. The playing field has been leveled and people are allowed to compete more for the market. It's not even hard to do anymore. Your options to create more income have changed from limited to limitless.

A good exercise to examine your situation is to think about the following situation: If something happened to me or my job, how long would I be able to sustain my current lifestyle? Is my house bigger than my wallet? Would I need to borrow money? Would I depend on government money / government benefits? If you are at the mercy to your answer, than you need a SOLID PLAN B or multiple streams of income.

Some people are rich and others work to "pay their bills". Some people "get it" and others are pawns in their plan for success. Which person will you be? You no longer have to play into the system that holds some people up and keeps others down. You decide which direction to move.

Love and Peace,
SR

Maps show icons but you see what is real.

We all create a map for our future. Some of ours have more details than others, some are based of other people's success and some make them as they go. I was thinking a lot about this today because yesterday was such a great day that got totally derailed. I didn't fall apart - I don't ever agree to do that - but I did stop what I was doing to add a .... pitstop and give attention where it was needed. I guess the point is, that the map is the plan and we all see the icons but what we really need to pay attention to is the stuff that isn't universal. The stuff that happens everyday and how you deal with it and how you move forward.

I believe the only way to stay on track is to be clear about your destination. If your vision is clear enough than you will get there regardless of everything else. Planning and strategy should derive from a healthy balance of dreams, logic and acquired knowledge. If your planning your future without a combination of all of these, then you most likely won't get to where you really want to be.

Dreams. If you can't visualize it than it can not be. It's that simple. Don't allow other people to limit your dreams - if they want to limit themselves then let that be their problem.

Logic. What steps to you logically need to take to achieve your dreams. What does the breakdown look like? What will your days look like? Is your plan proven or are you creating a new one? What are your chances of success and what can you do to stay on the right track? What tools have you acquired to manifest your dream? What sacrifices are you willing to make? What are you not willing to sacrifice?

Acquired Knowledge. Don't underestimate what you already know. Also don't forget that you don't know what you don't know. The biggest lesson and acquired knowledge for me is: Looking back, did I really do everything I was supposed to do? Did I take the time to live in each moment and enjoy the ride to the top? Did I remember to bring my family and friends on the ride (new and old)? You learn so much from yourself and the people around you, so make sure that you take it all in. Be present. Don't be so distracted by everything around you. Take and give time where it is needed.

The big plan is the road map and you driving through it. When you plan your roadtrip, you don't know what traffic will come up in 6 hours or what kid is going to need to pull over for a 30th potty break nor will you know when. All you can do is take it all in and pull over when you need to and then get back on the road when your done. Your loved ones will stay the course with you because they believe in you. They will support you because you support them. They will have faith in you because you have faith in your plan, so just remember to make it a good one. Just remember to live each day in the moment. Your plan is good enough that you know your going to get there, so don't be afraid to enjoy the stuff today.