Motivation

Introducing Mentor Online Magazine

I want to introduce you to my friend Tamara Patzer.

Drawing from her years of experience in successfully creating multiple streams of income working online, she established MOM – Mentor Online Magazine. I invite you to click here to sign up for a subscription to her new online magazine. Just watch the video below to see if you feel that Tami might have useful information for you. I believe she does.

MOM’s founder: An adventure from the JOB to Online Entrepreneur

First, I’d like to introduce myself to you. I am a 53-year-old college educated mother who spent the majority of my life as a single mother of three children. I often consider myself a late bloomer, but that is only partly true. I graduated from high school a year early and went to college, but made a life choice that slowed my path to success by about 15 years. I got married at age 19, had a baby at 20 and was divorced at 22. By age 22, I was a high school graduate with a year of college, a 2-year-old and low self-esteem.

After a cold winter in my hometown in Oregon, I took my daughter on a cross-country Greyhound bus trip with less than $50 to in my pocket to join my parents who had moved to the west coast of Florida. There, I found a minimum wage job and worked hard. I liked Florida, but within two years my mother died and my father went back to Oregon. I was alone. No support system. No real friends. After supporting my daughter on my own, I met the father of my two sons and spend a turbulent few years balancing a bad relationship with a teenager and two babies born 17 months apart.

By the time I was in my early 30s, I knew I had to go back to school if I was ever going to make more than $7 an hour. I went to Eckerd College’s Program for Experience Learners and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Business in 1997. I started working as a newspaper editor and during that time, I also earned a master’s degree in Mass Communications and Instructional Technology. So began my  job juggling to earn more to make ends meet. I was a newspaper editor and college professor. At times I worked full-time as an editor, and drove hundreds of miles each week to teach at three different university campuses. One year I drove 65,000 miles. I was tired.

Did I say I was tired? I was exhausted. I started asking myself why? Why am I working so hard? What am I working for? Is it supposed to be this difficult? I needed my mother, but she was gone. I needed a mentor, wise advisor and friend. Over the years, there have been many women and men who stepped up and provided me with support, encouragement and guidance to help me move forward. In future issues, I will share more of my adventures and insights about these remarkable mentors who have helped me and will also help you, too. Recently with the advent of social media, my life has improved because I have a support system I can tap into any time, day or night. It is with this in mind that MentorOnlineMagazine.com was born.

Wouldn’t it be great, if you had MOM giving you some sage advice, a shoulder to lean on and some step-by-step guidance about how to improve your life, how to move from employee to entrepreneur, from exhausted to joyful?

Know this, MOM is here for you!

Sincerely,

Tamara A. Patzer

Founder and Publisher, MentorOnlineMagazine.com

MOM

About MOM

Free Subscription

MentorOnlineMagazine.com MOM is that wise friend, mentor and advisor every woman wants in her life. Each week, on Monday and Thursday, MOM is delivered to your email inbox via free subscription.

You can expect Mentor Monday’s MOM to provide motivation, step-by-step action plans, and multi-income stream opportunities, techniques and ideas.

Triple-T Thursday’s MOM brings you trends, tips, and tools to put into action to help you achieve a more balance, wealthy and healthy life.

Not only will I bring you the best advice I can offer, but I have gathered some of the best minds in the world to share their insights with you. MOM is a collection of essays written and videos produced by a panel of expert contributors offering a global community of support for women around the world.

It is my hope that as publisher of MOM to bring you information, opportunities and high quality advice that you can put into action immediately.

For more information, feel free to contact Tamara Patzer at info@MentorOnlineMagazine.com

Rushing Thoughts and Voice Recognition Software

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I was sitting in a restaurant as I first started writing this. I found it interesting to sit there and write. In general the noises around me formed a constant background noise, but occasionally some voice stood out from the rest and caught my attention. It was as if the cacophony of sound was periodically interrupted by a spot of clarity.

My purpose in sitting there writing was to sort my thoughts. But as I listened to this cacophony of sound, a question occurred to me. Is that how it is with my internal state? A constant cacophony of ideas enjoying their own processes and designs? Each competing with the other for attention? As I think about it, I realize that is exactly what happens. That is why I need to have times such as this to attempt to order those various thoughts.

This cacophony of ideas circulates randomly in my head, or so it seems to me. And yet when someone asks me a question, the needed information immediately surfaces and so that I can meet their need. So there must be some order in there that I’m not aware of. Read more…

No Excuses Accepted for Lack of Success

Wow! If you have ever felts that there were obstacles in your way to success, watch this video. This is so inspiring.

Food For Thought – The Missing School Desks

The following is a true story that is well worth repeating.
Click here for the Snopes report on this story.

Here’s a lesson that should be taught in all schools in America, including colleges.

Back in September 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a social studies school teacher at  Robinson High School in Arkansas, did something    not to be   forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor, she removed all of the desks out of her classroom.

When the first period kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks.

“Ms.. Cothren, where are our desks?”

She replied, “You can’t have a desk until you tell me how you earned the right to sit at a desk.” Read more…

Steps To Success

Success is a day-by-day, moment-by-moment issue. It is like the flecks of paint laid down carefully and repeatedly on canvas to gradually create a work of art. Without the application of the flecks, no art results. For those in business lack of daily application means no product, no service, no means of income. Without them the idea remains inside the mind of the creator instead of being made available for all who desire to use or enjoy it.

All success hinges on obedience to a chosen path. But how do we choose what to create, what ideals to be obedient to? That is a decision you must make for yourself. You must decide what will be the guiding force in your life.

If the guiding force you choose is yourself, you automatically limit your opportunities. Why? Read more…

Following the Path Of Your Dreams, Despite the Obstacles Along the Way

A Guest Post from my friend Sandra Gardner…

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday, I crawled out of bed at 4am so that I could drive 3 hours to attend a retreat for women entrepreneurs. “Inspiring Women’s Success,” it was called, and it was put on by a women’s networking group in Central New York called Women TIES. The reason I attended was mainly to begin my career as a networker – something that, as a lifelong introvert and shy person, I have resisted with all my being. So, in order to trick my ego into letting up on the sabotage, I told myself I was coming there to learn – about being a successful entrepreneur, and to learn about people. When it got really overwhelming, I even tried the trick of assuming the role of someone else – in this case, I assumed the role of a journalist who was coming to watch and learn how people networked. To learn how effortlessly they exchanged business cards and made small talk.

Two days before this event, I had a sort-of crisis day. I had talked to my mentor the day before and we discussed that I needed to make the decision – on a daily basis – to commit to what it took to be successful. See, making the connections and seeing the patterns in my life that hold me back – that part is comfortable for me. The uncomfortable part is taking action – even small steps, on a daily basis.

Read more…

Mind Map Your Way to Internet Marketing Success

When starting into a new enterprise it is unlikely that we’ll have a concrete picture of everything involved to get things up and running. This is nowhere more true than entering into the world of Internet Marketing. We are quite used to thinking in terms of brick and mortar stores that we walk into for shopping, the printed ads and the weekly specials. All things that we can touch with our hands and read with our eyes.

But when we move into the virtual world, hard things disappear. Instead we are working in concepts and fluid designs. We can’t direct our customers to our store with maps and direct them within our stores with aisles. They don’t get to actually pick up an item we are selling and literally feel it for value. Instead, we must guide with virtual sign posts (menus and hyperlinks) and assure value by testimonials.

Where location, location, location is the retail mantra in the physical world, the concept of location evaporates in the virtual world. Drive-by traffic, one of the keystones of a physical business becomes traffic generation – trying to find ways to put your website in front of the eyes of the virtual browsers to entice them to come in.

How do we grasp all of these differences in how business is done in the virtual world? Can we just make a gigantic plan and start filling in the blanks hoping it all works out in the end? Read more…

Blind Writing – Part 2 – Tapping Into Your Creative Mind

Glad you could make it back. Now where was I?

Oh yes! I was going to tell you why I call it Blind Writing.

But that has to wait just a bit longer.

First, back to Klauser in Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write. She explains that to reach into the creative side of your mind you must first shut down the editor. To do this, she advises setting aside everything else and simply writing for 10 minutes. To keep your editor from kicking in and trying to change things, you need to force yourself to just keep writing. If you are using pen and paper, keep the pen on the paper and keep writing. If you are using the computer, keep typing no matter what.

Here’s where my term “Blind Writing” comes in. Read more…

5 Simple Rules of Motivation

You can drag yourself up the same way you can drag yourself down. It is a choice you have to make every, single day. Whenever you are faced with a conflict of choices, bring with you these tiny nuggets of wisdom on motivation.

1.     Never mind that you’re not good at this or an expert at that.

It all begins with little excuses like ‘I don’t feel good’, ‘I am not that smart’, or ‘I don’t have enough faith in myself’. Then you start believing in these things like they are written in stone, then these negative beliefs become a part of who you are.

Don’t give a second’s worth of recognition to such negative self-talk. Whenever you hear that part of your brain tell you things that can pull you down, shut it out and listen to that less powerful, but oftentimes ignored voice that says “Yes I can!” Read more…

Blind Writing – Part 1

“How can a blind person write!?” you ask.

Well, it’s not quite like that….. Hang on and I’ll explain.

Your subconscious mind holds massive amounts of information that you do not have ready access to. In fact, sometimes it seems that it is as if it purposely hiding from you. However, such is not really the case. It is simply that your brain is like a giant database continuously absorbing and retaining information for future use.

The sorting of these massive amounts of information takes place in your sleep. It is as if a little clerk goes to work in the middle of the night and grabs these bits and pieces of information you have absorbed during the day, sorts and then files them in the appropriate locations to be called upon at a later time. But this mini-clerk in your brain can only go to work when you hit a deep sleep. Read more…