Thirty + Ten = What Was I Thinking?

Just a quick message today! Yesterday it was my birthday (Yes, I’m now 30!) and today I am celebrating my 10 YEAR wedding anniversary. Yes, I got married the day after I turned 20 and now I ask myself, “What was I thinking?” I really should have spread the two apart, but back then all I cared about was getting married, the church had only one day available, and I didn’t want to wait.

For me, I approach my business in sort of the same way. I decide what I want to achieve, I set a date of completion, and I jump right into the planning and implementation needed to make it happen. Ten years ago, I never would have guessed that I would be running my own business and loving every second of it – It took me a while to figure out I was an entrepreneur.

Yesterday I celebrated my birthday with a fabulous lunch at the Bistro 33 restaurant inside the brand new Mercedes dealership in my home town. It was delicious and I highly recommend it if you’re local. With a giant water feature in the shape of the Mercedes logo pouring down from the ceiling of the second story into a planter on the ground floor, the beautiful cars to check out, and the shop and car lot on the roof of the building (not visible from the street, this dealership definitely lives up to the Mercedes standard.

During our long lunch, I had a chance to reflect on the past year and talk with my husband about all of the changes that we have gone through in my business since my last birthday.

OH MY GOODNESS! Last year at the same time I was working on my website, starting my ezine, pondering a blog, and making a serious plan of action for growth and expansion. This leap into action was launched at the eWomenNetwork Internatonal Conference in 2008 and catapulted into serious implementation at Alexandria Brown’s Online Success Blueprint Workshop later that year.

This past year has been a HUGE foundation building year for both myself and my business and I just want to say thank you to all of you who are reading my ezine and sending me your kind praises, and engaging with me on the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. There is no way that I would be I business today with out your support and I am lpoving every minute of it.

I also want to say thank you to all of you who have supported my BIG IDEAS - and matter how crazy or out of reach they may have sounded. I totally embraced THINKING BIG last year and it is very exciting to see many of those exact ideas and visions becoming a reality. (Check out my speaker site www.jenniferbourn.com)

With only goal goals, it is easy for entrepreneurs to feel overwhelmed and actually put off the work that needs to be done to reach those goals because they seem big and scary. Big goals can seem intimidating and without a plan of action, many of us have not idea where to start and what to do first. The key for me has been to THINK BIG and then create a serious, step-by-step plan of action with my big goals broken down into several smaller goals.

By breaking down your BIG goals into several smaller goals, you not only have a much more clear and focused plan of action, but you will be able to celebrate your progress each step of the way and actually see the progress your are making to make your dreams and goals a reality.

If you have any insights on how your break down your big goals or have a success story on how you have tackled large projects, I’d love to hear from you!

Best Wishes & Incredible Success,
Jen Bourn