If you are a visual person, setting goals on a piece of paper isn’t enough. Perhaps you need something you can look at every day. A vision board might be what you need.
Vision boards have been around for a long time, but got great publicity in the movie, The Secret. I even made my own at a party with some of my entrepreneurial girlfriends.
To create your own: grab some scissors, magazines, glue and a cheap frame.

Cut out pictures and words that relate to your goals.
Paste the pictures on to the paper filler from the frame. (That’s the thing that you …read more

Whether you’re starting a business, or just planning new goals for the new year, it’s sometimes hard to know where to start, especially if you are a visual person.
Many folks recommend mindmapping as the way to get those goals or visions on paper.
Mind mapping is a technique popularized by Tony Buzan in the 1960s. Noticing that the humans respond better to images, keywords and direct associations, he developed many of the mind mapping techniques that we see today. And before Buzan formalized it, thousands had used the techniques including journals  Leonardo da Vinci, and Albert Einstein.
Here’s the basics:
1) Set your …read more

Last week, I spent most of Friday morning with two of my good friends, Rebecca Murtagh and Lori King Kocsis creating vision boards.
I wanted to have one for my office to inspire and motivate me (see a picture below).
A vision board (which was made popular by the movie, The Secret) is typically a poster board on which you paste or collage images that you’ve torn out from various magazines, etc.
The idea behind this is that when you surround yourself with images of who you want to become, what you want to have, where you want to live, or where you …read more

We all know 7 is a lucky number right? This time is no different with the biggest Carnival of Entrepreneurs yet!
I hope you’ll enjoy the plethora of posts. There’s more here than any one person could read (except me, cause I read all the posts!) but find a category, post title or summary that grabs your attention and read on. Help these bloggers out by checking out their stuff, commenting on their blogs and linking to them.
And please support to the Carnival of Entrepreneurs by spreading the good word! Link to this post, tell your friends, share the wealth. …read more

Welcome to the 6th Edition of the Carnival of Entrepreneurs!
We’ve got a huge list of content to go through, with some great posts on topics ranging from motivation, inspiration, learning, making money online and failure. There’s a few themes running through the posts, which I find particularly interesting. It shows that people are thinking along the same lines at the beginning of 2007.
Please help us promote the Carnival of Entrepreneurs! Link back to this post. Visit the sites and comment on then. Submit your own entrepreneurial content! The more participation, linking and sharing, the stronger the Carnival becomes.
Carnival Highlights

Laura Young …read more

Face it, almost no one sticks to their New Year’s Resolutions. We lie to ourselves. Often it results in lying to others as well. It’s really not healthy or productive.
Although we’re already halfway through January (where’s 2007 going?!?!) it’s still as good a time as any to look at our goals.
In fact, you should be assessing goals constantly. Goal setting isn’t a time-specific activity. You don’t have to set goals only at certain times – be it at the beginning of a new year, every quarter, every month, etc.
Steve Pavlina points out that setting goals is about improving your present …read more