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Equipping You For Professional and Personal Success
Tap Into Your Power - Bi-weekly Ezine Header

March 2009 - Volume 1, Issue 1

 In This Issue - Personal Productivity
Arrow Note from Cecilia: Having a Personal Mission Statement
 
Arrow Feature Article: Increasing Your Personal Productivity
 
Arrow Forward the Action: Complete an unfinished project
 
Arrow Product Spotlight: Power Circle begins March 24th 
 

 Note From Cecilia
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Power in Action! I have designed this ezine specifically to enable more people to achieve the business and personal success they desire.
 
Given the current economic environment, there are few people who have not been negatively impacted in the past year and even fewer who have not paused to rethink the current path they are on for realizing their dreams.
 
This month's issue is focused on personal productivity because we all have an increasingly large load to carry - managing our current jobs/running our current businesses, maintaining a healthy family life and personal relationships, taking care of our health, and navigating our way to survival through and thriving after this global financial crisis.
 
There is much advice being given that, if taken, could cause you to go in many directions.  This leads not to success but increased stress.
 
Having a personal mission statement, as is discussed in the article below, is a critical navigation tool. Mine is:
To help people realize their potential to change the world and to equip them to do so
That's what this ezine is about.  That's what the InPower coaching system is about.  And that's what Power Circles are about.
 
Special Offer! - Discount on Power Circle
 
Establishing and maintaining a path towards success is difficult to do alone. Coaching is a great way to maintain focus and accelerate results.  Group coaching provides the added benefit of peer learning and accountability.
 
On March 24th, I am starting the next Power Circle, a group of only 10 people who will commit to working with me and each other over the next twelve months to set and achieve goals that will lead to professional and personal success.
 
Given the challenging financial time, I am providing a discount of over 30% for the March program only. 
 
Registration must be completed before March 18th to qualify for the discount.
 
Click here to learn more and to sign up for one of only 10 seats.
 
Have a powerful day!
Cecilia
Feature Article

Increasing Your Personal Productivity
Moving from Busy-ness to Effectiveness

Entrepreneurs, and those with the entrepreneurial spirit, are ever searching for ways to accomplish more, explore new opportunities, and expand the profitability of existing ones. 
 
Given these varied interest and the host of activities that go along with them, "busy" is a common response to the question, "How are you doing?"  Many entrepreneurs struggle, however, with ensuring their busy-ness is effective in moving them towards their goals.
 
 
Often it seems we're so busy putting out daily fires that we don't ever get to accomplish anything of real significance--those things that would be the best for or businesses and make us happiest in the long run. Our work and our lives become things to "get through" instead of a exciting paths to greater fulfillment and prosperity.
 
The efficiency of technology only increases the pressure we feel to do even more than ever before. All of it leaves us feeling too busy, robbed of a sense of accomplishment, and not capable of having the level of impact we know we are capable of having. So what can we do to increase personal productivity? Below are some approaches that can equip you to get more done in less time--and do what you really want to be doing.
Forward-The-Action
Forwarding the action is a coaching term that means gaining a commitment from the client to take an action in the short-term to make immediate use of newly gained information and to increase the probability of success.
 
To forward the action from what you learned in the feature article, answer the following coaching questions and DO the call-to-action.
 
 
Coaching Questions
  • What is your productivity level?
  • Do you have a written broader purpose or mission statement that provides you direction?
  • Do you have unfinished business or things you tolerate that are a drag on your energy?
 
 
 Question Mark
Call-to-Action
  • Create a list of your unfinished projects
  • Prioritize this list based upon how much pain/annoyance each items is causing you
  • Make a commitment to tackle the first item on the list this week
 
 
Movie Action Board
 
Get tips and share your commitment and successes on the forum on the Partners InPower Network, www.partners-inpower.com
 Product Spotlight - Power Circle

In John Maxwell's book, The Law of Significance, he suggests that one is too small a number to achieve greatness.  If you can fulfill the vision you have for your life and work, then you are aiming too low.

Anyone who has achieved a measure of greatness has done so with the help of others. Yet in our current fast paced world it can be difficult to connect with the set of people interested in supporting you in accomplishing your goals.

That's why I am offering you the opportunity to participate in a Power Circle.  In addition to getting the support of a coach who is a seasoned business strategist, you have the opportunity to form a bond with a small group of people all committed to accelerating their own success as well as yours.

This group will "meet" via teleconference three times a month to mastermind and engage in group coaching with the goal of helping you:

  • Develop the ability to consistently obtain peak levels of performance necessary to meet all the challenges that you face in your business and personal life;
  • Create more work-life balance by establishing aggressive professional goals while honoring the goals and priorities you have in other areas of your life;
  • Increase you level of personal accountability to maintain high levels of commitment to your goals and to the achievement of your desired results.

 You will engage in activities that cover both a long-term perspective and short-term actions in order to:

  • Establish a firm foundation for success by building a personal strategic plan to create the best possible future for yourself and your business to include:
  • Create and begin to execute a plan of action for you to drive your financial future
  • Obtain greater outcomes from your short-term efforts
Special Offer! - Discount on Power Circle
 
The value of this twelve month program is over $12,000. However, to make it accessible to as many people as possible, it is priced at a fraction at only $375 per month.  Until March 18th, I am providing my ezine subscribers an additional 30% off the group beginning on March 24th. Only $375 $275 per month.
 
 
Click here to learn more, but don't delay. Space is limited.
About
Power In Action!
Power in Action! is a bi-weekly ezine for people with a mission, a vision, or a dream - entrepreneurs and others who are striving towards professional and personal success.
 
It not only has information and resources to equip you for success - it challenges you to get into action.
 
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 About Cecilia

 
Cecilia Edwards is a seasoned strategy consultant, coach and author.  She has consulted Fortune 500 corporations and private equity firms, led a foundation, built the capacity of nonprofit executives and coached executives of middle-market companies.
 
Through InPower Coaching and the Power in Action ezine she is bringing the power of strategy to individuals motivated to success.
 
 

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 Book Recommendation

 
 
 
This book provides tools to focus your energy strategically and tactically without letting things fall through the cracks.  It is based primarily on a system of capturing everything that needs to be done in a system and then working the system in a discipline manner.
 

Forward-the-Action Call

Each month we hold a call to dig deeper into the ezine topic and discuss ways to forward the action.
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to get dial in information and to submit questions to be addressed on our ezine subscriber only call on March 10th at
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This ezine is a publication of The RobinsonEdwards Group, parent company of the InPower coaching system.  For more information, visit our coaching site, www.getinpower.com or our consulting site, www.robinsonedwards.com
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