So you can Blast Off to Success in your Business and Life All Year Long!

1.  Start drinking. The creative juices, that is. Guess what? Digital media isn’t going anywhere. To get the most from your online campaigns and viral efforts,
you better spike that drink with some inspiring liquids because your potential clients are asking for your wisdom and expertise.

2. Expand your belt. People continually battle their ever-expanding waistlines, starting fitness regimens that often fizzle in a week. Yet, when it comes to growing your business, its smart to work on expanding your tool belt on a regular basis. The business market is changing rapidly so it is crucial to stay on top of what’s new, what’s hot, what’s working and what’s not.

3. Light up. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Add public relations to your mix to keep things hot, hot. Once the heat cools down, it’s hard to sustain momentum and word-of-mouth about anything. Knowing when and how to keep the fire going will keep you business simmering and glimmering all year long.

4. Spend. Spend. Spend. Time, that is…Spend time mapping out your goals and your plan for 2012. The more deliberate you are toward your Big Picture Vision, the more successful your year will be.

5. Jump off the ledge. To be successful in business, or in anything for that matter, you must jump in with both feet. Go for it full-on! Testing the waters means you are half way in and half way out, which won’t get you very far.  To be successful you need to  be 100% committed.

6. Stop being selfish. If you have an idea inside of you, the world is waiting for its debut.  Your special gifts, passions and talents are your keys to abundance and the powerful remedy that many others need from you. If you are keeping your gifts to yourself, then those that need you, your products and services are missing out.

7. Dump your bucket. Start creating and living your Bucket List now. Don’t wait until you are at death’s door. Your life is what you make of it right now, not in the future. Make a list of all the things you want to do during your lifetime, and check the first one off the list in January 2012. No time like the present!

8. Let go. Did you know that hanging on takes much more effort and energy then letting go? Staying angry or resentful at past grievances will keep you lingering in the past. To move forward and make this year your best ever, write a letter stating what you want to release from your past. Also, write what lessons you have learned from this experience and what positive twist you can take from it to feel lighter into the New Year.  Do a visualization meditation of these old feelings dissolving into thin air. (I recommend burning or shredding the letter to release this old energy completely.)

9. Spend five FEWER minutes each day worrying about your burdens. Worrying is a senseless activity and a complete waste of your energy. It changes NOTHING.

10. Get Gracious. Nothing will change your mood and outlook like taking a moment to close your eyes and inhale all the beautiful qualities of your life. (loved ones, opportunities, fulfilling business, memories, connections, experiences..) ‘Get Gracious’ as much as possible, and then pay it forward. It will come back to you 100 fold.

There is absolutely no comparison between trying to create success on your own, and having a powerful mentor guiding you all along the way. I have built 9 very successful businesses that have been completely fulfilling and made a dramatic life-altering difference in people’s lives. I live my true calling every single day and I love it. And, I could not have done it without the amazing mentors in my life.

If you are truly committed to dramatically elevating your business, your wealth and your life , contact us today about joining The Pinnacle Mastery Club.

Watch this powerful short video with Joe Stumpf, president of By Referral Only, as he spoke at my recent Blast Off Business Breakthrough Live Event.

If you truly want an out-of-the-box year, there is no faster way to success in your business and your life than having the consistent guidance and support you need to get you exactly where you want to go. We only have a few spaces left in our Pinnacle Elite and Pinnacle Royal programs. If you are interested in a complementary strategy session to help you get clear about your business vision, and strengthen the support you need to make this vision a reality, please email us at: support@myblastoff.com today.

Allison Maslan is the CEO of Allison Maslan International. She was recently named “One of the Top Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire” by Self Made Magazine. A born entrepreneur and No. 1 Best Selling Author of the book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality, Allison has built nine successful companies from the ground up starting out as a single mom on her own. As president of Blast Off Business and Life Mentoring, www.MyBlastOff.com, she has helped thousands of people transform their lives while launching countless into thriving dream businesses of their own. As a world-renowned homeopath for the past 16 years, Allison’s work embodies a partnership of holistic balance, a zest for success, and the most innovative business strategies you will find anywhere. Her programs such as The Pinnacle Mastermind www.ThePinnacleProgram.com attract entrepreneurs from around the globe. Allison has been an expert guest on ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox Stations across the US. She was also recently nominated for San Diego Magazine Woman of the Year.

I am sharing this delicious holiday recipe video below compliments of my Pinnacle Star Entrepreneur, Renee Baribeau, The Shaman Chef.

Enjoy this special holiday gift. The chocolate yule log is  one of my fondest holiday traditions; and very special (not so secret anymore) recipes. Please feel free to prepare this extra rich holiday treat with my blessings.

Click here to watch Renee demonstrate her cooking expertise!

Named One of the Top Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Us by Self-Made Magazine, Allison Maslan, is a No. 1 Bestselling Author, Pres. of Blast Off! Business & Life Mentoring and The Pinnacle Mastermind Program. Grab your FREE CD, the 8 Millionaire Secrets of Entrepreneurs at

Today I have the great pleasure of being the host on Day 15 of the Virtual Blog Tour of author Carolyn A. Brent whose book Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially and Legally for a Parent’s Death launches on Amazon on Tuesday November 15, 2011.
Carolyn is a member of my Pinnacle Mastermind Program and I am beyond impressed with her passion and her mission.

Author Carolyn A. Brent, M.B.A. is a former clinical educational manager in the pharmaceutical industry. She is an avid activist and advocate working with the U.S. Congress for the purpose of creating change to protect seniors and veterans from financial and medical abuse. She has appeared on many local and national TV and radio shows, and is a sought-after keynote speaker.

Yesterday, Carolyn visited Andrew Mondia at http://www.andyinspire.com/special-guest-writers/why-wait-a-new-book-by-carolyn-a-brent-interview where they talked about the role itself, family involvement and death.

Today, I’d like to share with you a recent interview I had with Carolyn Brent, an amazing woman and powerful member of my Pinnacle Mastermind Program. I was honored to ask her some questions on her story, work and importance of crucial conversation. I hope you enjoy it.

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Allison Maslan: What is your personal story that led you to write this book?

Carolyn A. Brent: Through struggling with the legal, medical, financial, and familial issues that come up when adult children handle such matters poorly (whether due to denial or to strife), I discovered there were no books on what needs to be covered and planned for, written from the perspective of siblings. Siblings have special needs at such times and, ideally, can be of great comfort to one another. I found no books that discussed the ideal scenario of sibling conversations versus the worst-case scenario of no conversations, as well as cases when sibling rivalry and resentment are allowed to interfere with planning and care. My siblings and I are living proof that this can go very, very wrong, leading to no one’s benefit: neither the children’s, nor the parent’s.

The more research I did, the more committed I became to spreading the important message that planning is critical, and families must begin talking to one another as early as possible. For the past few years I’ve traveled across the country giving lectures at churches and to members of organizations with an interest in these issues, and I’ve spoken with numerous family caregivers. I set up CaregiverStory.com to disseminate resources to help family caregivers. I’ve gone on radio and television. I’ve worked to pass new laws in Congress. Now I’ve written Why Wait?

Allison Maslan: What is your work with members of congress to help change legislation?

Carolyn A. Brent: Currently, I am working with both to the United States Congress and State, toward making the Federal Government and State officials responsible for upholding the decisions and elder person have made about the appointment of a financial fiduciary and medical representative, in the event of their disability and protecting those whom they select. My goal in life is to empower caregivers and their family members with knowledge of possible challenges they might face together while caring for an aging parent.

Allison Maslan: Why is it important to have crucial emotional conversations with parents, siblings and other family members?

Carolyn A. Brent: Why Wait? is designed to guide you through a series of crucial conversations with your aging parent (or parents), and with your siblings, so that you and your family will be well prepared for your parent’s end-of-life physical, mental, and emotional challenges and ultimate death.

It is important to have a one-on-one with your parent, as well as in conjunction with your siblings. Siblings also need to be able to communicate well with one another. It is best to begin talking, to resolve relationship conflicts from the past or present, and to make decisions when your parent is healthy and has a sharp mind, so that should an illness, an accident, or another type of emergency occur, you can focus on those acute sudden needs and your relationship. However, a conversation may be even more necessary if you’ve waited and your parent is ailing. When death comes, proper planning and calm, rational, purposeful, honest, well-intentioned conversations can lessen or prevent family conflict.

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I hope you enjoyed this interview with Carolyn A. Brent and that you’ll check out her book Why Wait? The Baby Boomers’ Guide to Preparing Emotionally, Financially and Legally for a Parent’s Death at http://www.babyboomersguide.org/book-launch/pre-launch.html

Here Are Two Reasons Why:

FREE 3-DAY PASS

When you visit the page at the link above and request a “launch reminder”, you will automatically receive a FREE pass to Carolyn’s 3-day “Why Wait? Telesummit”, with a panel leading experts preparing emotionally, financially and legally for the death of a parent. You can listen to the telesummit online in the comfort of your own home, and even ask questions during the broadcast.

This telesummit is a completely free
“no purchase necessary” gift from Carolyn

To register, go to

http://www.babyboomersguide.org/book-launch/telesummit.html

FREE GIFTS

When you buy Carolyn’s book on Tuesday November 15, 2011, you can ALSO receive a complete library of beautiful personal development gifts from authors, speakers, coaches and other enlightened professionals from around the globe including one from me

FREE CD: “8 Millionaire Success Secrets for Entrepreneurs”

To claim your 3-Day Pass and read about the free gifts, go to: http://www.babyboomersguide.org/book-launch/pre-launch.html

Thanks for reading! As usual, please feel free to share your comments and thoughts below. I love reading your feedback.

Today is her last day but if you joined along the way and would like to follow to the first day… we visited Glenn M Smith at http://sensitiveselfhelp.com/interview-with-carolyn-a-brent-author-of-why-wait , where they talked about her work and other subjects.

Named One of the Top Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Us by Self-Made Magazine, Allison Maslan is a No. 1 Bestselling Author, a serial entrepreneur who has built 10 successful companies from the ground up. Pres. of Blast Off! Business & Life Mentoring and The Pinnacle Mastermind Program.  http://www.myblastoff.com

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Tip #3

Have you ever had a big lofty goal or dream for your business or your life?  You put a lot of energy toward it, made great headway, yet because of this big picture focus, you lost momentum in the important day-to-day projects and responsibilities, causing major overwhelm and chaos?

Or do you feel like you are stuck spinning in the short-term goals and projects, getting stuff done, yet only making it month to month without the potential for the big time growth?

Your diagnosis: Too much focus on either the short-term or long-term goals.
The remedy: You need to focus on both.

In order for you to grow as an entrepreneur, you need to have a vision for the next level in your business. You need to have a creative, strategic plan in place that is developing and moving you toward higher levels of achievement and success.  Maybe you are working on the newest widget that will take the tech world by storm?  Or maybe you are so close to discovering the cure for baldness and plan to add it to your savvy hair product line?  This idea development, what I refer to as ‘The Magic’ in business, is crucial for your expansion in your marketplace.  At the same time, if you only focus on the long-term, the Big Kahuna, you will begin to lose traction in your day-to-day business needs, such as cash flow to pay your office expense and staff. Not good. 

I am a true entrepreneur. A trailblazer of sorts as I have built 9 of my own companies and mentored hundreds of others to do the same. In my own journey, it took me a while to really understand the importance of this concept.  My deepest passion is helping people find their true calling and guide them to express their gifts through a successful business.  One of the important rules you must understand in Business 101 is that your entrepreneurial entity needs to turn a profit. If it’s not, it won’t be long for this world, even if you have invented the  miracle cure to wrinkles. So keep your eye on the dream and the pulse during each business day. It can often feel like a juggling act, but with practice, you will become a gifted, profitable and high-flying juggler.

This is one of the reasons I invented my web-based software, The Interactive Life Coach, www.InteractiveLifeCoach.com.

I wanted my clients to have a fun, inspiring and easy-to-use tool that would help them create their beautiful Big Picture Visions, make them easy to attain by breaking them down into baby steps I call “Mini Feats” and at the same time help people continue to keep the steady business flowing in on a daily basis.

Keep moving forward and don’t lose focus on any goal, short- or long-term.  YOU deserve to suceed!

~Allison
Life and Business Strategist, Allison Maslan, was recently named One of the Top 50 Women Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire by Self-Made Magazine. She has built 9 successful companies and has guided hundreds of others to do the same. She is the author of the #1 bestselling book, Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality. Allison is available for one-on-one coaching and her exclusive mastermind program, The Pinnacle. www.myblastoff.com.

Can you relate to this scenario? A potential partner comes along that has some of the qualities you desire, but there are some glaring differences that raise those tell tale ‘red flags’ right from the beginning. In my own life, I often thought that if I could blend a little bit of Jerry and a bit of Dennis, I would have to perfect partner. Instead I would get together with Jerry, and spend time wondering why he wasn’t like Dennis! This is what we call that fateful, yet common faux pas, ‘Settling’.

I have many clients that come to me complaining about their relationships, and when we break down the issues, it is apparent that one or both individuals have settled for one reason or another. These are the common beliefs that circulate in the mind when we settle:

• “ There probably is no one better out there, so even though he forgets my birthday and criticizes me all the time, it is easier just to stay.
• “I would probably not attract anyone better so I should just stay even though I am so lonely.”
• “There is no such thing as a soul mate or ideal match”
• “She is only mean to me a few times a week.”
• “If she would stop drinking, she would be a wonderful partner.”
• “Maybe he will change if I just keep trying.”
• “I get so frustrated that she doesn’t share my interests. Oh, well. I guess I can give up enjoying the outdoors.”
• “I chose the wrong partner but I don’t want to deal with the upheaval. So I just get my intimate needs met outside of the relationship.”

I am not saying that a relationship cannot grow and thrive if every single aspect of both partners is not a match. It can work well if many other core elements and attractions are present. However, if you have to convince yourself why you really don’t need those elements that are important to you in your life, then you may be settling for your second, third, fourth or fifth best. I just know that from my own personal experience, and those of my clients, we can talk ourselves into situations that we know are wrong from the beginning because we feel, at a core level, that we either do not deserve someone better or that that person just does not exist.

What Are You Giving Up In Your Relationships?

Do you enjoy reading, but choose partners that prefer to watch television? Do you love boating, but you choose partners that dislike the water? Are you a romantic and you choose partners that think romance is, “Hey Baby, what’s for dinner?”

Make a list of the desires, needs, interests and philosophies that you tend to give up in relationships and regret later. By making a list of the things that are important to you in a relationship, you can start to be aware of your choices and actions. Then you can create new intentions for a relationship that fits you ideal picture.

What Inner Language Are You Projecting?

One of my coaching clients, Lisa, shared with me, “I am not acting needy. I am not clinging onto these relationships. What is the deal?” “Why is all this rejection happening?” Outwardly she was cool, calm and collected, and it was obvious that she was very independent in her career and completely capable of taking care of her child on her own. Nevertheless, the energy of her unconscious little girl that longed for love, was screaming out loudly and desperately.

To be able to finally draw in the love and relationship you desire, you must first recognize what energy or behavior you are projecting to the world. What is your inner language expressing without saying anything at all? Get into a quiet space, and ask yourself straight out, “What is my inner language saying?.” Listen to your inner voice and the answers will come. Do not candy coat the answer. The more honest you are with yourself, the more powerful and positive the change will be.

Your Soul Mate Needs an Open Door

Is it possible that your soul mate has not arrived because there has not been room for him to enter? You may think that you are open and ready, but is your heart wide open, too?

If you have experienced pain in past relationships, you may carry an amour around your heart in an effort to keep it safe and protected. The truth is that the more you close your heart, the less love you will receive, and that will only cause you to close your heart even more. This is all well and good if you are content in living alone. But if you desire love, and I believe you do, then it is time to unveil your beautiful, passionate, lovely heart. Just because you were hurt in the past, does not mean it needs to happen again. Especially if you are taking good notes from past mistakes! Do not continue to bring your past into the future. It is time to attract what you deserve. True love.

Open Your Heart to Receive that WOW Love

Get into a quiet space and take some deep breathes until you are feeling calm and relaxed. If soft music and candles help you get into the mood, do what you please. Now on your inhale, visualize a golden light coming into your body from the crown of your head and then melting down to your toes. Feel it as the warmth and sparkling light nurtures all of your organs and systems of your body. After a few minutes, focus on your heart area. Now put your right hand over your heart and continue to inhale and exhale this golden light. Then on the inhale, only focus on your heart area and visualize a soft pink loving energy coming into your heart. Feel your heart opening fully and allowing this pink energy to fill it completely and fully with love. Continue to inhale and exhale deeply. After another minute or two, visualize the pink energy turning to red, passionate, vibrant energy that is continuing to fill up your ever expanding, open heart. Now feel that love and passion spread from your heart to the rest of your body, up to your head and down through your torso and legs, and through the bottom of your toes. Feel how wonderful, light, free and uplifting this love energy feels. Continue to experience the opening of your heart. Now I want you to expand this loving energy inside your heart and the rest of your body, out to the world and to the Universe. See it expanding for miles and miles. Oh, how lucky the world is to experience your love. Now feel it coming right back into your heart and hold it there. Your heart is now open and ready to receive love.

Repeat this at least twice a week to continue healing and opening your heart so that you may receive all the love you deserve.

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies” ~Aristotle.

Allison Maslan is the CEO of Blast Off Life and Business Coaching, The Pinnacle and Blastation Inc., an interactive life coaching software company. She is also the No. 1 bestselling author of the book, “Blast Off! The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams Into Reality.” Maslan has built 9 of her own successful companies and specializes in helping people find their true calling and turning it into a profitable and fulfilling business and lifestyle. She was recently named One of the Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire by Self-Made Magazine. . For more information, visit www.MyBlastOff.com.

As a life and business strategist, I take my clients through a process to find their true calling so they can turn it into a business. Or we work to expand the business they already have while making it much more fun on a daily basis. Once we get clarity on the direction, I help them get creative and design what I call, their Big Picture Vision, which is a window into how they want their business and other aspects of their life to unfold.

Most people get very bold during this phase and dream big, which is what I like to see, and honestly what is necessary to take your reality up several notches. They get very enthusiastic about growing a fantastically profitable and fulfilling business, so we put the plan and structure into place.

Then it is time to take this big, bold dream and put it into action, because at this point, it is all fantasy until you take it out of your head and start moving toward it. I call this the “Jumping In With Both Feet” phase. Invariably, they begin to get scared and ask to take it slow and test the waters instead of diving in wholeheartedly. With the best intentions, they might say, “maybe I’m not ready for that kind of success”, or “I’m not sure if what I have to offer is valuable.” They start talking themselves off the ledge saying, “I cannot spend the money right now because I am feeling stuck financially.”

I am here to tell you, that playing it safe doesn’t work in business if you want big results. (Same goes for athletics.) To get unstuck, you need to let go of the training wheels and jump higher than you have before. Try sort of diving off a diving board. Can you say, “belly flop”? Just like creating a successful relationship, you cannot experience true love unless you open your heart fully.

So many people hold on tightly trying not to fail, yet to be wildly successful, you need to jump in knowing you will succeed even if you are not sure how it is all going to come together. An entrepreneur goes after his/her mission because he is determined to make his dream a huge reality no matter what, because the alternative is living in regret or wondering what could have been. To a visionary, this is a slow death.

My father is the quintessential entrepreneur at 81. His secrets: He lives with passion, has an ability to think big and has taught me to say yes to my dreams even when I had no idea where the financial resources would come from or who would help me. At the prime of my dad’s life he ran the largest privately owned women’s clothing chain in the US. He did not accomplish this from taking small steps and waiting for the right time to appear. Instead, he created his own opportunities and went for them full on.

When you say ‘yes’ to your dreams, something magical starts to happen. If you proclaim your vision to the Universe, believe in it at a soul level, and then jump in with both feet, somehow the world rearranges itself to support your intention. The money suddenly appears, you meet the connection you needed while standing in line at the grocery store, and the opportunities start falling at your feet.

So tell me, what are you waiting for?  If you don’t want to be at the same place next New Years wishing things were different, it’s time to jump in and make it happen. Hire the coach, get the support, invest in yourself and take the bold leap. You will be so happy you did.

Allison Maslan, CEO, Blast Off Life and Business Coaching was named one of the top 50 women entrepreneurs who inspire by Self Made Magazine. She helps her clients build or expand their dream into a profitable, fun and meaningful business.

www.MyBlastOff.com

It is my personal invitation to you to join me and bestselling author Lynn Serafinn for a FREE, live teleconference call this coming Thursday, December 9^th from noon to 1:00 pm.  We will answer your questions about the benefits of mastermind groups in general as well as my new, upcoming Elite mastermind group, The Pinnacle Program.

Send your questions now at http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventID=16352121

This is great way to learn about mastermind groups and their benefits, the call is completely open and totally free. You don’t have to sign up to attend, just call in and enjoy!  And, the discussion will be driven solely by the questions we receive from participants prior to and during the call so it will be particularly insightful.  I hope you can make it!

To listen by phone, call:

The call is also a great opportunity for you to learn about and ask questions about my upcoming 2011 Elite mastermind program The Pinnacle.   The program is filling up fast with participants from all over the world already registered.  And, because we’ve been getting tons of inquiries about this exciting program, we thought the teleconference would be an ideal way to address those for people considering participation.

Click on picture below to watch video on The Pinnacle.

I hope you can join me, Lynn and hundreds of members on the call this coming Thursday.

Allison

Allison Maslan is the CEO of Blast Off Life and Business Coaching. She is the No. 1 Author of Blast Off, The Surefire Success Plan to Launch Your Dreams into Reality. She was recently named one of the Top 50 Entrepreneurial Women who Inspire by Self Made Magazine.

In my 20’s, I ran a full- service advertising agency while raising my young daughter. I was on the fast track to success, but running myself into the ground for all the wrong reasons. “What was the problem? Was it being a mom? No. Was it the high demands of the business?” That was tough, but not the main problem. I learned the hard way that even though I was successful at something, did not mean that it was my passion, or that I had to do it.  I was receiving pressure from all sides to stay because outwardly it was going so well. Until inwardly, I crashed and burned. The good thing for me was that this set me on a path of healing, and search to find my purpose. And I never looked back. I made a decision early on that I would only involve myself with work and activities that I was passionate about. As a life and career coach, I often hear, “ I want something more, but I just don’t know what.”

So I developed the  Blast Off !Dream Career Questionnaire. It can help spark some ideas to help you tap into your passion to brainstorm ideas for your own dream career.

(This exercise can be done on Interactive Life Coaching Software, Blastation, at www.InteractiveLifeCoach.com.

Instructions: After answering each question, re-read your answers. Do you see a common theme arise?

For instance, if many of your answers lean toward creative endeavors, you would most likely thrive in a career or business that utilizes your artistic touch, such as landscape design, interior design, cooking, fine art or graphic design. If you see travel dominating your answers, a business in importing and exporting of foreign goods, an excursion director or editor of your own travel magazine may be the perfect brainstorms for your dream career or business. Your answers to the following 10 questions are clues to your brightest path as they will reflect your true inner purpose and help you resonate with a dream career that expresses your deepest values, hopes, loves and desires.
1. As a child, what did you dream of being when you grew up?
A ballerina, doctor, teacher, magician, astronaut, veterinarian or a scientist? Our younger fascinations hold clues to what we may be naturally drawn to as adults. As a child, it was much easier to drop into your imagination because you most likely did not have any interference from limiting thoughts or negative beliefs. From our childlike perspective our beliefs were more like, “this is what I am going to be and that is that!” If you dreamed of being a teacher, doctor or joining the Peace Corps, it could mean that you have a natural tendency toward helping people. An engineer or scientist is a path for someone with an analytical style. A pilot, traveler or ballerina would be more experiential; and a painter, actress or gardener would have more artistic leanings.

2. What are some of your favorite hobbies or activities — in the present and in the past, and why?
Hobbies are our true expression of fun and creativity. We are naturally drawn to these activities because they excite our physical, mental and emotional nature. Hobbies are an extension of our inner voice and are great clues to our passions and potential dream career.

For instance, my client Ann Marie’s favorite pastime is to indulge in anything that has to do with history, like going to museums, reading historical novels, listening to elderly people tell their life stories and watching historical documentaries. She even received her college degree in history. She thought all she could do was teach history, which did not excite Ann Marie at all. Instead, I helped her launch her own dream business called My Visual History, where she produces beautiful mini-documentaries of elderly people sharing their life stories. Now Ann Marie is truly living her passion and making a living at it, too!

Here are some examples of hobbies:

Ages 3-10: Dolls, jumping rope, exploring, riding my bike, camping, baking, playing with my dog, coloring.

Ages 10-20: Science, swimming, dancing, singing, reading, board games, hiking, tennis, painting, being with friends, rock climbing, sewing.

Ages 20 to Present: Yoga, meditation, writing, public speaking, scuba diving, going to museums, reading historical novels, animal rescue, decorating.

3. What things have you always wanted to do, but were afraid to try? We often create a million reasons that keep us from facing our fears, and ultimately our brightest lives. We often fear change or the unknown, yet in reality the hardest part is those first few steps. Once you have inched across the threshold, your new and fulfilling dream career becomes so much easier to grasp. The fear will begin to dissolve the more you practice taking small steps of action. I call them Mini Feats.

List several interesting, stimulating, or meaningful activities or ideas related to your personal life or career that have sparked your interest, but you’ve been afraid to try, such as scuba diving, writing a book, living in a foreign country, opening your own business, rescuing animals, producing a movie.

List all your business or personal desires here, no matter how silly, risky or scary they may seem:

4. What do you do or have you done in your life that makes you the happiest? What is it about this that you enjoy so much? What does it mean to you? When you are in a state of joy or bliss, you are completely in the present moment and in total alignment with your true self. When you’re congruent with your passions, intention and actions, success is sure to follow.

Happy moment examples: Sitting in my backyard reading under the oak tree, spending time with my kids, embracing animals, competing in a track race, being surrounded by nature, shopping at the flea market, in the creative zone of writing, painting or singing.

5. What is a cause that you could get behind? Is there a cause or charity you’re passionate about? There may be some career ideas that will support and reflect the charities or philanthropic services that have a place in your heart.

One of my client’s, Connie D., worked at mortgage company for several years. She was good at her job, but it was not fulfilling to her. In fact, she began dreading going to work. Her true passion was volunteering at Hospice and helping the families process their grief. It was in this work that she felt most alive, purposeful and of value. I coached Connie to shift her favorite cause into her own business called Break Through Grief Recovery. Now, she is thriving on all levels because she turned her favorite cause into her dream career as a Certified Grief Facilitator.

6. What personal qualities do you hold most important in your life? If you can incorporate some of the most important qualities of your inner and outer character and your life into your work, you will be truly living a life of value and purpose.

My client, Kenneth, loves parasailing, so he is creating a charity that will help trauma victims heal through this sport. He has found a way to combine his passion and talent to give back to a cause he feels strongly about.

If you are more social and extraverted, you may be best suited in a business where you are surrounded by the energy of several clients or peers throughout your day. If you are a more quiet and introverted type, one-on-one business meetings, such as consulting, may be a better fit.

7. What are your strengths and talents? By tapping into the special abilities that you already own, you can translate them into a dream career without spending too much time or money investing in new skills.

My client, Connie M., has always thrived on fitness. In addition, she loved spending time working with children. In one of our sessions, she recalled feeling frustrated during her pregnancy that none of the fitness trainers she encountered knew how to train pregnant women safely. We tapped into this desire as I helped her create a business called Life Fitness 4 Me. Connie M. became certified to train pre-natal women and children in fitness, and she loves it! We found a way to combine her passion for fitness and children into a prosperous business that fits her perfectly.

List all of your talents. Even the ones you take for granted, such as being a good multi-tasker or a good listener. These are huge assets in the business world!

8. What movies and books have inspired you over the years and why? We are often drawn to books and movies that reflect our personalities, interests, and inner being. For example, adventure books may reflect your interest in excitement or change. If you are artistic or philosophical, you may be drawn to foreign films and musicals. Movies like “Tales of a Female Nomad,” “Avatar” and “Eat Pray Love” all have an independent, spiritual message. If these are your taste, you may be drawn to a career with an outdoor setting rather than being office bound.

Why am I sharing this?

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*   We will meet in person ‘live’ for one full Saturday each quarter in

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Octane Mastermind beginning January 22, 2011.

*  The Pinnacle will give you everything you need to discover the champion

inside of you and live your greatness now.

*  Receive complete clarity of your dreams and goals so you know exactly what

you need to accomplish in your life and business every 90 days.

*  Continuous weekly small peer group accountability and support by

phone or Skype all year long to ensure you stick to this vision and

commitment to reach your goals. (52 Weeks!)

*  Monthly group coaching calls led by Allison.

*  Daily accountability system for all Pinnacle attendees to

keep you on track and focused on a daily basis.

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as I take you to the top.

To following your truth,

Allison Maslan/ HHP, CCH

Allison Maslan International

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888-844-3550

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PSS. I just found out that Secretariat and I share the same birthday. How cool

is that?