
Tap into your inspiration and apply seven steps to cultivate an inspired business, using inspired marketing and strategic timing to grow a profitable venture.
Please download, and ideally print out, the attached Ebook and Workbook. Read through it BEFORE watching the rest of the course videos. It introduces you to the concept of Inspiration that I'll be teaching you in this course and will get you ready to dive into the 7 Steps.
In this ebook, you'll also find the Workbook pages for this course, with space for you to create your Inspired Business Plan.
I highly recommend you take a break after each of the 7 step video lessons and complete the corresponding page in the workbook.
Determine if your business is inspired by criteria aligning with your unique skills, calling, and flow. Preview the circle of inspired business and the seven steps.
Remember to use the course workbook (attached to Lecture 3) as you go through the following 7 steps. Stop after each video lesson and complete the corresponding page in the workbook.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 1 in the workbook (page 12), and complete page 18.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 2 in the workbook (page 19), and complete page 21.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 3 in the workbook (page 22), and complete page 24.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 4 in the workbook (page 25), and complete page 27.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 5 in the workbook (page 28), and complete page 29.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 6 in the workbook (page 30), and complete pages 31-32.
After you watch this video lesson, turn to Step 7 in the workbook (page 33) and read that section.
Prioritize passion, uncover your sense of purpose, and secure profit to build an inspired business you love and sustain, while managing expenses and reinvesting wisely.
Prioritize flow over force by letting go, being patient, and following what inspires you rather than forcing actions, like delaying a website until the time is right.
Learn how to craft resonant, inspired marketing that connects with your ideal clients by addressing their pains and desires, without manipulation or persuasion.
Discover how to replace scarcity tactics with service-driven, inspired marketing that communicates how you can help clients achieve a better life and a more successful business.
Learn to show up every day, embrace inspired action over a rigid to-do list, and be willing to forego tasks if you're not feeling it that day.
Discover how following the inspired path brings ease and flow to your daily work, reducing effort while following inspired ideas rather than a rigid to-do list.
focus inward to grow your inspired business, embracing your unique path, serving your tribe, and pricing based on the outcome you deliver rather than time.
Choose between leaping into new ventures or straddling old work while you transition, honor your process, and gradually move toward the following inspiration method that sparks growth.
Head vs. heart guides left brain thinkers to let their mind catch up to inspiration of the heart, balancing analysis with courage to follow calling in business.
Trust your gut and act on inspired ideas as they appear, whether as intuition, impulse, synchronicity, or serendipity, knowing the right path often shows up in personal ways.
Be patient as inspired ideas surface in cycles; follow them and take action. Trust timing even when momentum slows, and recognize when to move on to a new venture.
Recognize when passion fades, purpose wanes, or profits decline as signals to let go of an inspired business. Trust your calling, embrace the next opportunity, and stay financially responsible.
On the attached PDF, you'll find a few resources I think you may find helpful as you step onto the Inspired Path. Please note, I do not receive any compensation from these. They are simply tools I use to help me Live and Work Inspired, so I'm sharing them with you in case you may find them helpful as well.
Here are my suggestions for what to do after completing this course, along with a downloadable free chapter from my book, The Following Inspiration Experiment.
Inspiration is the creative juice of life.
It’s responsible for works of art, the invention of world-changing products and services, and literary masterpieces.
And yes, it's also something you can put to work in your business.
In this course I will teach you:
What an Inspired Business is (and what it is not).
What the Circle of Inspired Business is and how to use it as your roadmap.
7 simple steps you can begin taking today to turn your existing business into an Inspired Business, or to create a brand new business.
What an Inspiration Instigator is, and how to identify yours.
The role Vision and Planning play in building an Inspired Business (and where they depart from the business school model).
The one thing you MUST do that you’re probably not doing right now (it’s not hard but it will likely require some practice… it did for me).
Why this is the best way to find a business that aligns with your Passion.
Why this is also the best way to Find Your Purpose (or as I prefer to say, have your Purpose find you).
Why Profit should not be your first priority (even though it is critically important).
The difference between Inspired Marketing and Traditional Marketing and why this world needs more inspired marketers.
What to do when inspiration fades, and how to get it back.
How to know when it’s time to let go of a business and move on to something new (and how to figure out what that something new is).
How to measure success in a way that’s more meaningful, and sustainable long term, than just how much money you’re making.
How to ensure you’ll be happy and profitable in your business for as long as you want.
In my opinion, creating an inspired business is the best way to build the exact business you’re meant to have.
So what do you say? Ready to get inspired and start building the business you’re meant to have?
If so I look forward to seeing you in class!