My clients ask me all the time which events I am attending for the year and inevitably, the very next question I always get asked is why I am going.

The very first event I registered for this year was Fabienne Fredrickson’s Marketing and Mindset Breakthrough Workshop (MMBW). Yes, I totally registered so early to increase my expenses at the tail end of 2009.

But seriously, I also registered for Fabienne’s MMBW because several of my friends attended the event last year and came back raving about the valuable content and how easy it was to understand. But more important, I heard how they were able to learn tips and tricks to help them shift their mindset to play a bigger game and take bigger leaps toward their goals and dreams.

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January is usually a weird month for me. We’re in that post Christmas funk, taking down all the decorations and lights and getting back into our regular routines. I don’t know about you, but my house feels so bare now that it’s back to normal.

Back to normal. If you think about it, that is a really odd phrase.

What is normal anyway? I definitely know normal for me probably isn’t the same as normal for you.

What I realized when I was thinking about the idea of normal, is that "normal" changes every day as we grow and change.

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This post is the third in a series based on the Ali Brown Shine event in Las Vegas. Check out my previous posts I Didn’t Really Come For All The “Woo Woo” Junk and Billionaire Entrepreneur Coach Makes Social Media Blunder.

One of my favorite things to do after I attend live events, conferences, and seminars is to read through all of my notes from the event and write down all of the most important ones in my journal.

Rewriting those notes and positive words of encouragement helps me remember them. It also helps me reflect a little further on what they meant to me and why I wrote them down.

Today I’d like to share with you some of the nuggets of wisdom I jotted down at the Ali Brown Shine Event, where I not only got to hear from Ali and her team speak, but from Real Estate Mogul & Business Consultant Barbara Corcoran and Academy-Award Winning Actress & Activist Marlee Matlin!

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This past weekend I headed out to Las Vegas for five days to attend Inc. 500 CEO Ali Brown’s Shine Event for women entrepreneurs (and some men) in Las Vegas.

As many others I ran into this weekend would say, “This is my second Ali Event” and I have to say it was an amazing event.

In 2008, I attended Ali’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop (OSBW) and while there experienced some big Ah-Ha moments in regards to my business.

I knew where I wanted to go, what I wanted to achieve, and the things I needed to do to get there. But what I wasn’t sure about was the order in which to do them and the details that tied them all together in a logical sequence. At OSBW all of the pieces fell neatly into place, the right place, and in the airport on the way home I mapped out my entire business plan for 2009.

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Wow! I can’t even begin to describe this week. I had some serious personal and business commitment collisions and it was absolutely fantastic and super stressful all at the same time. In fact, sometimes it seemed like I was on a roller coaster.

The week before I leave town for a conference or vacation is always like this. Professionally, I am wrapping up as many open projects as possible or working to get them to a place where we can continue moving forward while I am away, and more than likely I am pulling an all-nighter or two. Personally I am running all sorts of last minute errands. This week was compounded even more with school fundraisers and Halloween activities.

All this craziness got me thinking about how often we over commit ourselves in business because of fear.

It may be fear of losing a potential new client, fear of not making as much money, fear of rejection, or even fear of making someone mad.

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