These are a Few of my Favourite Things
Hey girl hey! I could talk about my favourite products all freakin' day, but who has time for that? To simplify my life (and yours!!), I've created this simple page outlining some of my absolute must-haves when it comes to personal development, health, wellness, and building a badass business as a busy mama. Ch-ch-ch-check it out!
New to Personal Development? Check these out!
You Are a Badass was one of the first "self-help" books I read when I became interested in personal development. I mean, it's described as a self-help book "for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it." It's an easy read, with applicable advice designed to help you identify and change your limiting and self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviours that stop you from getting what you want.
Read You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero. |
The 5 Second Rule is one of those simple concepts you learn that can completely transform the way you live your life. Mel Robbins explains the power of a "push moment" and then gives you a 5-second tool to help you: become more confident, break the habit of procrastination and self-doubt, beat fear and uncertainty, stop worrying and feel happier, and share your ideas with courage. My life changed so dramatically when I began to implement the 5 second rule.
It's literally a one-size-fits-EVERYONE solution for the problem we all have: we hold ourselves back. Read The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins. |
The Compound Effect is based on the simple principle that the small actions you take every day shape the ultimate outcome of your life. Those little decisions you make every day can either lead you to create the life you want OR create disaster for your dreams. It's an easy-to-use, step-by-step system that allows you to multiply your success, chart your progress, and make any dream a reality. You can use The Compound Effect to create the success you want in your health, your business, your marriage... or really any area you want to make progress in!
Read The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy. |
Need some Network Marketing Motivation?
She Means Business is all about giving you the practical and realistic tools you need to live as the badass, creative entrepreneur you want to be. The book is filled with exercises to help you: get clear on your business vision, move past the fears and doubts that can get in the way, understand your audience so that you can truly connect with them, create your brand and build a tribe of raving fans, subscribers, and customers, manage your time, maintain focus, and keep going in the right direction, and to condition yourself for success.
Read She Means Business by Carrie Green. |
Get Over Your Damn Self is "the no-BS blueprint to building a life-changing business." Written specifically for people in direct sales and networking marketing businesses, this book is all about mindset and business strategy (with information on how to teach your team the same thing!). In this book, you'll learn: the posture to confidently connect with anyone about your business and your products; the possibilities for a lucrative, efficient, and enormously rewarding turn key business; and the power that is already within YOU to build the life you really want.
Read Get Over Your Damn Self by Romi Neustadt. |
Rock Your Network Marketing Business is a step-by-step system designed to help you build seven-figure success in network marketing. The author has done the damn thing AND she was a teacher, so pretty much a perfect combination to help you duplicate her success. The book will help you learn how to promote products, power prospect, present your opportunity, power close, and get your new distributors started right so they too can duplicate success. If you want to learn more about how to rock your network marketing business, this book is worth a read!
Read Rock Your Network Marketing Business by Sarah Robbins. |
Go Pro is another 7-step system designed to help you become an expert in network marketing. This guidebook will teach you how to: find prospects, invite them to your product or opportunity, present your product, follow-up (that's where the fortune is, my friends!), help your distributors get started right, grow your team through promoting events, and so much more!
Read Go Pro by Eric Worre. |
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook comes from bestselling author, social media expert, and one of my biz inspirations, Gary Vaynerchuk. It is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies that actually work. This book is all about how to connect with customers and beat the competition with the social media campaigns that you design.
Read Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk. |
6 Months to 6 Figures is literally the strategies that Peter Voogd used to go from broke to over 6 figures in 6 months in multiple industries. (I mean, the dude had built an 8 million dollar sales organization by 27 years old, so he knows his stuff). The book will show you the fastest and most effective ways to maximize your income, how to get bigger things done in less time, and help you to create your ideal lifestyle.
Read 6 Months to 6 Figures by Peter Voogd. |
All about the Money, Money, Money!
Unleash Your Inner Money Babe is a 21-day workbook designed to help you let go of your limiting beliefs and struggles with money. If you sit down for 3 weeks and complete the activities in this journal, you will tap into a mindset of abundance and wealth. With a tangible goal of manifesting $1,000 by the end of 21 days, Kathrin Zenkina guides you through her own process for using the law of attraction to bring in more money.
Read Unleash Your Inner Money Babe by Kathrin Zenkina. |
Rich Dad Poor Dad is Kiyosaki's own experience growing up with a rich mentor, the father of his friend, and his own dad, and the way both men shaped his understanding of money and investing. The book teaches you how to make money work for you. Some of the information in the book includes:
Read Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. |
Think and Grow Rich shares the secrets that could bring you a fortune - not only what to do but how to do it, through the stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of Napoleon Hill's generation.
The book details 13 steps, while asserting that "desire, faith, and persistence can propel one to great heights if one can suppress negative thoughts and focus on long-term goals." Read Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. |
The Total Money Makeover is based on the premise that if you are willing to live like no one else will now, later you can live like no one else can. This is the simplest, most straightforward game plan for completely making over your money habits. It's based on RESULTS and you can expect to:
Read The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. |
You are a Badass at Making Money is written based on Sincero's own personal transformation. (Like, she lived in a garage and now she's a world traveler). In this book, you'll learn to: uncover what's holding you back from making money, give your doubts, fears, and excuses the heave-ho, relate to money in a new way (it's NOT evil!), shape your reality, and basically just get as wealthy as you want to be.
This book is sassy and funny and smart - a perfect combination of humour and education. Read You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero. |
Smart Money Smart Kids comes from financial expert Dave Ramsey and his daughter, Rachel Cruze. The book is designed to help parents teach their kids how to work, spend, save, and give, while also dealing with more challenging issues like avoiding debt and paying cash for college.
As a mom, this book is really important for me and I am looking forward to teaching my daughter to have a healthy, productive relationship with money. Read Smart Money Smart Kids by Dave Ramsey and Rachel Cruze. |
Ready to Dig Deep? Check out these JournaLs/Workbooks!
Style Your Mind is a workbook, journal, and lifestyle guide for "women on the edge of change." If you want to make personal and professional changes, using the life coaching process, this book is for you! It is filled with powerful questions, thought-provoking activities, inspirational quotes (my jam!), and lifestyle tips. This is the least expensive way for women to work with Cara, who is a master life coach and just generally inspiring human.
Read Style Your Mind by Cara Alwill Leyba. |
Beautiful You is a 365-day journal designed to empower women to regain a healthy self-image, develop strong self-confidence, reframe and break undermining habits of self-criticism, and champion their own emotional and physical wellbeing. With practical techniques and realistic daily actions, you can manifest a healthy outlook on life.
Read Beautiful You by Rosie Molinary. |
She's Killin' It is a 21-day journal to help you "manifest your kickass life." You will learn to set goals effectively, set daily intentions, reduce anxiety through therapeutic prompts, form positive habits, and gain crystal clarity of your biggest dreams and desires. Oh, and it's super fun. Kathrin is one of the most inspiring people you'll find and she leads you through her own journalling process in a way that's easy, motivating, and will make you feel like a badass.
Read She's Killin' It by Kathrin Zenkina. |
Growing a Business? These Resources Will Simplify Your Life, Mama!
Tailwind - Signing up for Tailwind CHANGED my life... wow, that's dramatic. But seriously, if you use Pinterest, you need to sign up for Tailwind, the leading Visual Marketing platform for Pinterest (and Instagram). Once a week, I jump on Tailwind and schedule all my pins for the week, or even more! Plus, with Tailwind Tribes, you'll always have new things to pin AND you get to share your content with your niche. You can sign up for a free trial here (plus, if you decide you love it and become a free member, you get $15!)
PicMonkey - For a long time, I thought my dream job would just be creating pretty pictures on Picmonkey; now, I get to do that for my blog (dreams DO come true!!) PicMonkey provides creative tools for photo editing and graphic design. Even if you know nothing about designing eye-catching images, PicMonkey makes it simple and straight-forward, with so many resources. Every image on this blog was created with PicMonkey!
Shopify - Ooooh, girl, I cannot say enough good things about Shopify. I use Shopify, AKA the best ecommerce software around, to host my shop, Mama Mugs. There are so many different ways to make an online store work for you but if you sell anything, you should be using Shopify. You can even utilize their apps to upload your designs to print-on-demand on t-shirts, coffee mugs, shower curtains, and more!
Aweber - The money is in the list. Have you heard that before? Yeah, growing your email list as an online entrepreneur is crazy important... and I tried all the most popular email marketing websites.
But I'm a busy mom!! I needed something easy, straight-forward, and that wouldn't drive me to drink a glass of wine at 2pm in the afternoon.
For the price, nothing beats Aweber. If you're looking to start sending emails to your audience, you can get a free trial right here, right now!
But I'm a busy mom!! I needed something easy, straight-forward, and that wouldn't drive me to drink a glass of wine at 2pm in the afternoon.
For the price, nothing beats Aweber. If you're looking to start sending emails to your audience, you can get a free trial right here, right now!