As a motivational speaker and coach, my morning was already made before I had my first cup of coffee.

I am creating a new seminar: The 5 Top Small Business Blunders (and How to solve them). In our group coaching session this week, I gave the class a sneak peek.

Business Blunder : Being Spread Too Thin
Many small business owners are trying to be all things to all customers. Without focus your energy isn't concentrated to make a big impact. It's almost impossible to identify you key clients, and at the end of the day you and your bank account are drained.

FAB TIP: Pick A Lane.
Pick a market or category and Go for IT!
Case Study: I have an event planner as a coaching client. Within two weeks of implementing her Pick a Lane Plan had huge results. She decided to focus on weddings She met with OPRAH'S event planner. He loved her and her plan of focusing on weddings.

I just got an ecstatic email from her this morning. She is going to be featured in the premier wedding magazine in her city.

The way to get the most value from a Turnaround Technique™ is to do it with some gusto.  Give it a full-tilt whirl.  You can analyze the heck out of it later.  Now, you may feel silly, but that's okay.  If I were in the room with you, I'd encourage you to go full out anyway.  In fact, I'd go full out with you.  I'm happy to act like a mega goofball if it will help you let go of a little funk.  So, what is that thing that's bugging you?  Go for your El Numero Uno stressor.  Has work gobbled up your life?  Are you caring for aging parents?  Did your boyfriend just announce that a friend of yours is pregnant .  .  .  With his baby?  Whatever your stressor is: See it.  Hear the words about it.  Feel how lousy it makes you feel.  Got it?

Once you have a specific picture in mind, assume the funky position.  When you feel funky, you slouch and your shoulders slump.  Tension makes your face look like a sour grape.  You look like a wilted version of yourself.  It works best when you're seated, so sit down, look down at your lap, and slip into funk mode.

Now think about that funky thing.  Vent, baby, vent.  Let your frustration out.

Repeat after me: Funky.  Funky.  Funky.  Louder, I can't hear you.  I have done this on TV with Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland.  She gave a command performance.  You can too!  I want you to really let it out as you say: Funky.  Funky.  Funky.

Five more times just for good measure.

Now, stand up.

Raise your hands in the air and look at the ceiling.  You'll look like the Y in YMCA.  Say: Fabulous.  Fabulous.  Fabulous.  Like you mean it.  Come on, you have more juice in there.  Fabulous.  Fabulous.  Fabulous.  I want to see you get an Oscar yourself for your rendition of Fabulous.  Go ahead.  Put the book down and do it.  Then come right back.  .  .  .

How was it?  Did you feel a shift?  Do you feel more fabulous?

Bravo.  I am proud of you.  If you did that exercise with some gusto, you got to experience from your head to your tootsies that you have the ability to empower yourself.  Isn't that cool?  You have what it takes to go from funky to fabulous.  To change the weather in your personal world.  And it's available to you every second.  You have always had this ability-you just may not have exercised it.

Working with a client yesterday, I saw the power of how attitude, goals and results converge.

It's important to set realistic goals. Often women feel hopeless becasue they never meet own internal expectations. If you aren't thin enough, rich enough or smart enough....welcome to the crowd.

I see clients flounder because the results they are chasing are unobtainable.

Turnaround Tip: Give Yourself A Break
If you think you can spend two hours a day at the gym five days a week (and never manage to make it), decide to go three days a week for an hour. When you accomplish a task (even something like feeding your cat) acknowledge yourself . The more frequently you appreciate yourself and others the greater attitude of gratitude you will have.

Mayor Villaraigosa's affair with reporter Mirthala Salinas is definately FUNKY, but should it be exposed, judged, and debated publicly? While political figures should serve as role models for the rest of us because they are our leaders, do we expect them to be perfect and flawless? Should we have the right to meddle in their personal lives? Is it any of our business?

Let us know what you think! I heard a debate on the radio some weeks ago and became interested in how the public is feeling about this whole affair. I'm not even sure about how I feel. Salinas will most likely lose her job because she is a risk for the network but does her occupation necessarily need to be affected by her personal life and personal choices? It's sad, immoral, and unfortunate for Villaraigosa's wife and family, but whose business is it anyway?

Should the affair be publicized? FUNKY or FABULOUS?

Let us know what you think. Thanks,

Team Fabulous

The moment you decide to take dominion over what happens to you internally (regardless of the gunk and funk that can go on during a day) you step into your rightful place as the Mayor of You-ville. The instant you take office, you step up to the podium of your self-esteem and personal power. Hey, when I say personal power, I'm not talking about strutting through your life like a bad reality TV show diva. I'm talking about simply claiming the capacity that is already yours.

Think about what it means to be the Mayor of You-ville. You are able to speak up and set clear, healthy boundaries. (Even at work. Even with your kids. Even with your in-laws.) You are able to keep your cool with that creep from accounting. You are able to ask for what you want because what the heck,you're the Mayor. Take a moment and drink it in. Connect with  what being in charge of you feels like inside your skin. Most people feel a sense of expansiveness or serenity. What about you?

Go ahead. Stand up and feel what it's like to be Mayor. You might find yourself sashaying, or striding, or strolling. It seems that each Mayor has their own natural pace. And their own name. Folks have been the Captain of My Ship, the Goddess of My Temple, the Diva of Me, even the Magic Baker of My Town. What is yours? Sure, it may seem a little silly, but go for it. You are using parts of yourself that you may not have visited since you turned eight. Is there a tickle of happy in there? Let yourself find it.

Let's face it. You are and have always been the Mayor of Youville anyway. You just may have abdicated—like the rest of us. The moment you take office as The Boss, things can begin to change. The moment you stop pretending that someone else has snatched the remote control of your life, that's the moment your life transforms. How? You start choosing yourattitudes and your actions.

Even when you love someone more than life itself, you can't breathe their air or digest their food. We aren't wired that way. No one but you can assimilate the tuna melt sandwich you had for lunch. So too, no one but you can choose your attitude. The moment you grasp that it's you, only you, who can grant yourself authentic power, that's when you wake up. You stop being an innocent bystander in your own life and start becoming the co-creator of your days.

Eli Davidson, Success Coach and author of Funky to Fabulous: Surefire Success Strategies for the Savvy, Sassy, and Swamped
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