Faith – A Must Have for Women Entrepreneurs

Faith Is the Substance of Things Hoped For

As a business owner I’ve learned the importance of diligence and what it truly means to be consistent.

When I worked in corporate America I was faithful in getting up and going to work every single day, five, sometimes six, days a week depending on the season. I had to get up every day at 6 o’clock to leave my home by 6:45 am to get to work by 7. I dreaded leaving my children each morning but I knew if I wanted to keep all four of them in private I had to go to work. I enjoyed the work but I didn’t like my hours. I had a great boss. He and I had an excellent rapport.

For twelve consecutive years I traveled to work working on a job that prevented me from taping into my great potential and discovering my gifts and talents. Oftentimes when we are forced into a situation we don’t want to be in we miss out on such much because it seems like our hands are tied, and our brain is not being fully utilized if that makes any sense at all. Even though the place that employed me taught me some of the most amazing lessons in my life through the people I encountered, connected and interacted with on a daily basis I was still missing something in my life as well as in my career because I was super unhappy working for someone else and right before I walked away from that 9-5 as program coordinator I began to discover that I was this phenomenal creative being who wanted so much more for my family and myself.

My journey as an entrepreneur began when I was about 14 years old. I used to dream big dreams. I used to browse through the Philadelphia Magazine and tell myself that I was going to buy my parents a mini-mansion with a Mercedes Benz parked in the drive way. I’m still dreaming that same dream today, but the difference today is that I now know what it means to believe, trust and have mountain moving faith in God. I could have gone so much further in my life, achieved much more and I could have had much more in terms of material objects if only I knew what the word faith really meant. Having faith in God is one of the most important principles that I had to learn in my life as well as in my business.

Learning to deepen my faith and applying it to every aspect of my life has truly changed my life. All the money in the world cannot compare to having faith in God. Trusting God with my whole heart has blessed me in ways in which I will always be grateful. My life is stress fear. I don’t worry about what people think about me or if they laugh at my newest business venture. I don’t have doubt or fear and my confidence has soared taking me to a whole new level in my life. I can honestly say I am bold, I am courageous and I am powerful. I’m not afraid to try new things. I’m no longer afraid to tell people how I really feel and I’m not afraid to say no if I don’t want to do something that I just don’t want to do.

Keep Your Faith in God

God’s word is truly phenomenal and awesome.

Each and every time I spend time alone in His word reading studying and meditating upon His word I find myself in awe of His principles which have helped me to build my business as well as building an unbreakable foundation for my business.

Growing up in a loving and nurturing home with my mother, father and four siblings, I attended Sunday School and church just about every Sunday. I always enjoyed walking to Sunday School with my neighbors. We had such a good time and I looked forward to going to the candy store before our feet ever entered into the church doors.

As a child, I had a ball jumping double-dutch and doing all the things I incorporated into my lifestyle as a child. I had an awesome childhood and have countless memories of my days growing on in Philadelphia, PA.

As I grew older and still having a blast with my friends, what I didn’t realize is that I would become a business owner who lacked faith and without faith you cannot do anything. I mean I knew absolutely nothing about the word faith and just how it could change my life in an instant if I had faith in God. What’s sad is that I didn’t know the importance of having faith and if I did understand it’s meaning, I could have done things and gone places I never could have imagined. I never even heard the word faith until I was about 40 years old.

I began learning about faith through the reading of God’s word and from a friend who had written an extensive article on “Believe and Receive.” Her article was just what I needed to help me to grow my typing and now, design business all because my faith in God has deepened. I now know what it means to simply trust in God!

I Began my Journey with Faith in Tow and Soared to my Destination!

When I began my design business years ago, I envisioned what I wanted to do with my designs. I wanted to color blank canvasses with light and purpose. I worked, got down on myself and threw in the towel more times than I could count. Until I let everything go.

I took all my worries, fears and stress straight to the throne and left them there and my faith sky-rocketed and I saw major changes in my business that have kept me soaring ever since.

My faith has:

Given me confidence I never knew I could have
It has taught me to be bold
It has taught me to be courageous
It has taught me to not be afraid to do things
It has taught me to be obedient to do God.
It has taught me to do whatever it is God tells me to do because I know He’s going to equip me with the tools I need.
It has taught me that I don’t have to do things I don’t want to do just because others expect me to.

My faith has blessed me and my business abundantly and now I live a prosperous life; not because I am financially wealthy, but because I am spiritually rich!

To God be the Glory,

Cyndi

God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs

Abundance Is Your Business

Feel the Abundance Everyday and Prosper in Business

Good Day God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs,

Did you know that abundance is your business and abundance is you! Success is you today. It is the air you breath and the flowers and trees you see.

Everyday is filled with great abundance. When you look outside and you witness God’s glory and wondrous works and excellent acts, that is a form of abundance that God shares with you. Bask in it and give God thanks for it.

You even see abundance when you look into the mirror. Abundance is also the way you live when you are living your life according to the word of God.

Why am I telling you this? Because I want you to understand that no matter where you are in business at this very moment, you are abundant, prosperous, wealthy and rich.

You have to believe that you are this incredibly remarkable business owner who has the power to get wealth because the wealth that I am speaking of is inside you.

Inside you dwells the Spirit of God who gives you everything you need to continue on the path to greater riches and abundance than you have ever imagined.

When you are awakened each day ask God what He wants you to do for the glory of His name. Tell Him that you surrender and commit each day to Him for His glory. When God speaks to your heart write down what He tells you. And then make sure that you execute His plan(s) brilliantly for that day.

Open your heart and mind and be receptive to God’s voice. Expect miracles to flow into you life and accept them with a grateful and happy heart.

It is such an amazing feeling when we get to talk to God and then be still to listen to hear all of the great things that He is going to reveal to you.

Let The Holy Spirit Guide You

Today, Saturday April 4, 2020, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart. He told me a few days to make a vision board. That was one of the first things on my today list today.

I created and designed a vision board. It’s plain and simple as I already have everything I could ever need. I only want a few more things in life for myself and I already know that it is done.

And so I have designed my vision board to serve a reminder to buy the things that I need for the gift I am about to receive. This is super exciting and I am jumping for joy.

If your business is hold right now this would be a terrific time for you to find some constructive and positive to do. Maybe you, too, would like to design a vision board.

When I decided to do my vision board I looked all over the house for magazines and I could not find even one. You see, I have been purging my home and throwing out anything that does not serve me. Well after looking high and low for magazines for my vision board there were none to be found. Well, later that day, my neighbor texted me and said she had a stack of The Pioneer Woman Magazine and asked if I wanted them. I said, YES! Now do you see how the Holy Spirit works can you see faith right there?

I am in awe and now I have completed my vision board and with the help of hubby I will hang it up in my office where I can see if every day on a non-stop consistent basis. I am going to speak to that vision board and be thankful because it is done!

Well, I hope you enjoy April. Now would be a fantastic time to start a new project that is sitting on the table of your heart. Get it done and then celebrate with Yessssss because you don’t want to keep leaving money on the table.

Blessings,

Cynthia

www.everywomanslifelovingjourney.com

www.womeninbusinessprosperingthroughwisdom.com

www.godsvirtuouswomenentrepreneurs.com

Your Entrepreneurial Journey

Christian Women Business Owners

Your brilliance is the light that illumines the path of your entrepreneurial journey. You are magnificent, gifted, intelligent, and wise. You have an amazing skill set. You know how to use your awesome skills and great abilities to bring change into the world of business. You stand alone. There is no one like you. God has created a plan made exclusively for you. God’s plan for you is unique as are you. Your gifts are the presents that have helped you to birth your business. Your entrepreneurial journey is life changing.

As a Christian woman entrepreneurial you have a lot on your shoulders, but every weight that you bare is life changing. It is the sugar in your tea and the cream in your coffee. It is the words that you write and the book that you plan to publish. It is the dream you envision and now it is the life you live.

Stay on the path of your journey and never veer from it for you virtuous woman entrepreneur are the force behind the success you breathe.

Written by Cynthia G. Boyer

Best Places to Find Inspiration

Some people love routine. They’re perfectly happy getting up at the same time, doing the same things, eating the same foods, and working the same job, day in, day out. I guess it’s comforting to them.

Not me. I thrive on variety. Newness. Challenges. Getting out and about and making things happen. Starting a project and feeling that awesome sense of accomplishment when I get it done … right.

And that’s exactly why I hate this time of year. It’s the weather.

This is the start of northern California’s rainy season, and I’m an outdoors kind of guy. Whenever I can work outside, I do it. Coop me up inside for too long, I start to lose it. And the first thing to go is my inspiration. No, I don’t need sunshine to think, but enough days without it and my brain starts to develop its own sort of gloomy cloud system.

You know the feeling. Everyone has those moments when you feel like you’re stuck in quicksand: the harder you fight, the more it pulls you in.

It’s a problem for anyone who has to think for a living. Managers, executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, marketers, engineers, software developers – all knowledge workers need inspiration to innovate, come up with insightful ideas, solve complex problems, make tough decisions and excel at their jobs.

Over the decades, come rain or shine, I’ve always managed to find things that inspire me, ways to get my creative juices flowing again. Will they work for you? Beats me, but one thing’s for sure: They’ll never work if you don’t try them out.

Talk it out. Sure, there are times when things just come to you. It happens to me all the time, usually when I’m half asleep or in the shower. But when your brain just refuses to function, a little brainstorming can provide just the spark it needs to get going again. The truth is, some of my best ideas came during impromptu, thought-provoking chats.

Do drugs. No, not those kinds of drugs. I’m talking about caffeine. It’s an amazing stimulant. Whenever I need to do some real thinking, I go for the cappuccino. And when I need a big idea but I’m too wound up, I find a glass of wine or two in the evening helps my mind to relax and the ideas to flow. Not for everyone, but it really works for me.

Disconnect. If you’re looking for inspiration, the last thing you want to do is check your Twitter feed, your email, or anything else online. That’s just a bottomless pit of distraction and instant gratification. The same goes for video games, shopping and stress eating. Because it’s addictive, it feels good, even though you’re really not accomplishing a thing.

Take a walk. I’ve heard that doing something repetitive frees your mind. I don’t know if going for a walk or a hike qualifies, but for some reason, just getting out and about in the neighborhood or on a woodsy trail gets my synapses snapping like crazy. It even extends to walking meetings, believe it or not.

Start a long-term project. Start a project, something you’ve never done before that has nothing to do with work. I once spent an entire fall and winter season designing and building a large greenhouse in my spare time. And you know what? I’ve never been so productive at work.

Get your blood pumping. Once you get over the pain – or at least get used to it – going for a run, shooting hoops, anything really strenuous makes you feel like you’re on top of the world. It always helps me clarify my thoughts and put things in perspective. Little things that build up seem to evaporate when your pulse rate hits 120.

Commune with nature. Beautiful landscapes, mountains, flowers, majestic coastal redwood trees, rock formations, animals – anything born of nature – has a magical way of drawing you in and making you feel apart of something alive and wonderful. There’s a breathtaking view of evergreen mountains and a bougainvillea vine outside my office. The hummingbirds love it. Me too.

Related: Focus on Passion, Not Labels

Practice mindfulness. No, this isn’t some New Age mumbo jumbo. It’s science, and it’s real. Mindfulness meditation can help you learn to live in the moment, deal with stress and gain perspective. It’s a great way to unblock your mind. A leader in the field is Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Check out his bestselling audio book, Wherever You Go There You Are.

Play with your kids. If you’ve got them and they’re the right age, I can’t think of anything more inspiring than seeing the world through the eyes of little kids. If not, play with your dog or cat. They love the attention and, you know what? So do you.

Above all, get to know yourself and be good to yourself. If you do, you’ll never hold yourself back or be your own worst enemy. Then all you’ve got to do is figure out how to change the weather.

Steve Tobak

Steve Tobak is managing partner of Invisor Consulting — a Silicon Valley-based management and strategy consulting firm — and a former senior executive of the technology industry

No Money to Start a Business

No Worries; All You Need Is You!

Things to Do Today. Start Your Own Business!

Okay so you are excited and pumped up and ready to start your own home based business. And you realize that you have no money to start a business. That’s okay, because you don’t need any money to start your empire. All you need is you, your gifts and your great skill set.

You might be limited to a strict budget when you want to start a business, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have any options. It is possible to start a business with very little money, if you have the right combination of skills, work ethic and marketing know-how.

According to Chris Guillebeau, author of The $100 Startup, “To succeed in a business project, especially one you’re excited about, it helps to think carefully about all the skills you have that could be helpful to others and particularly about the combination of those skills.”

Follow these simple guidelines to start a business when you have little to no money. Learn how to make money today.

1. Make something.
Yes, making something does take an initial cost in supplies, but oftentimes, these products can be sold for many times over their actual cost. What you decide to make is up to you, but there are several places you can sell your handmade options online:

Abe’s Market deals in natural and organic goods, such as lotions, candles, granola, and more.

Etsy is one of the largest online markets for almost anything homemade, from jewelry to wooden toys for kids.

Bonanza is another growing handmade marketplace, similar to Etsy. According to PC World, it boasts over 10 million visits per month.

eBay is one of the biggest online ecommerce marketplaces in the world, and its streamlined store options, easy checkout through Paypal, and customizable listing options make it a great choice for selling items.

Many business owners sell their products on multiple platforms to get the most exposure possible. It is important, however, to make sure your inventory stays updated on all sites you have a storefront on. If you want to learn about more resources for selling homemade items, check out this Lifehacker post.

2. Resell something.
If you don’t want to make anything (or you don’t consider yourself a creative person), many business owners have grown large businesses just be reselling products that have already been made. This can be done through a variety of ways or channels:

Drop shipping: Set up an online store and partner with drop-shipping companies that will do all the order fulfillment for you. Online ecommerce platform Shopify has a great drop shipping guide, and Tim Ferriss does a good job of explaining drop shipping in his well-known book, The Four Hour Work Week.

Thrift stores and garage sales: If you know where to look, you can find items at thrift stores, antique shops, flea markets and garage sales and resell them online or in your local community for more than you purchased them for. One extremely successful example of this is Sophia Amoruso, the founder of Nasty Gal. Amoruso started buying and reselling vintage and unique fashion pieces on eBay, and her company has grown to a net income of $24 million in 2011 with over 200 employees. Her book, #GIRLBOSS, is in inspiring look into how she got started.

3. Sell your services.
One way to start a business with little to no startup capital is to sell your services, instead of a physical product. There’s a huge variety of services you can offer, depending on your background and interests.

Related: Starting a Business? When to Scrimp vs. Splurge.

Some will require advanced degrees, such as accounting, while others require little more than a working knowledge of how it’s done (such as babysitting, lawn mowing or personal assistance).

Because you are selling your services, you will need a branding plan to make sure your name and company gets in front of the people who may need the service. Some places that are free for promoting your services include Fiverr, Craigslist, Elance, Taskrabbit and Skillshare.

It’s also useful to have a website to show examples of your work, list your experience, and blog about your industry to draw visitors. If you want to learn more about branding and online marketing, check out Buffer’s social-media blog, Hubspot’s blog, Content Marketing Institute and CopyPress.

4. Barter to get what you need.
Unfortunately, it’s extremely hard to start a business without any type of funds at all. Even creating a freelance-writing business utilizing Elance and a free WordPress or Wix website will still require a computer to work on as well as Internet. However, there are ways to get supplies you need for starting your business without money.

For instance, if you find yourself in need of a used laptop, try to barter for it. Build a new website for a used electronics supplier, or offer babysitting services to your neighbor for their old Macbook.

5. Utilize low-cost services.
As mentioned previously, you can use sites such as Fiverr or Elance to advertise your products and services on, but you can also use these platforms to build up your own company. For instance, many designers offer $5 to $25 logo designs (that come with free revisions). Sort by reviews and look at past examples to find a designer or service provider that matches your style.

This is a great way to get branding materials, printed items (Vistaprint and Zazzle are great places to buy personalized items), or other needed items without much cost. And for additional savings, be sure to look for coupon codes on sites such as RetailMeNot before checking out at any online retailer!

Starting a business requires ingenuity and a passion for what you are doing. Once you find yourself doing something you enjoy, you will be more likely to find ways to make it all come together.

This article was written by Sujan Patel

I hope it blesses you in some way.

All for His glory,