What Does a $17 Hamburger Have to Do With Your Success?

A couple of weeks ago I had hit the wall. I was exhausted, feeling a tad bit overwhelmed and to be quite honest, I was cranky. My honey, knowing exactly what I needed, packed me in the car and took me on a little excursion.

Two hours later I was in hog-heaven. Mark pulled up to a five-star resort called The Montage in Laguna Beach, CA. Now this might not seem too newsworthy to you so let me explain.

It’s the middle of the week, on an uncharacteristically sunny day in February and I’m sitting in front of the sparkling Pacific Ocean enjoying a $53.00 lunch, which included the most amazing hamburger I’ve ever eaten. And I started thinking to myself….

“How many people can a) just take off to decompress and enjoy a beautiful day at the beach whenever they want and b) would be ecstatic that they had just ordered a $17 hamburger?”

That is the power of having a business that supports your ideal lifestyle.

Many of us start our businesses with all the excitement and passion in the world only to find that the business we have created is exhausting and not delivering the results we desire.

Well I say STOP THE MADNESS!! It doesn’t have to be that way.

But what DOES have to happen is you have to take massive steps to change the way you think about your business, your life and to have the discipline to focus on what you know you need to do every day. (Not what is comfortable, exciting or the bright, shiny object of the moment.) This is the path to MASSIVE wealth, results and prestige

As the famous Albert Einsten quotes goes, “You can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that it was created.” And the truth is, until you invest in a coach that can help you shift into a whole new dimension of what’s possible, you will probably continue to have the same results you do right now.

So here is the question, “Are you willing to keep having the SAME RESULTS you have right now?”

If not, then you have one last opportunity to take action to guarantee you are in one of the few last seats for the ULTIMATE Business Breakthrough Intensive. I’ll be the first to admit that it might be a stretch to attend but everything that is worthwhile is a stretch. Doing it anyway is what separates the wildly successful from the strugglers. Click here to register for one of the final remaining seats:
http://www.successconnections.com/event.html

How would you like to be able to say:

“90 days from the completion of the November UBBI I had my first private seminar – and it was a HUGE success. Not only did I nail my goal EXACTLY as I created it at the Intensive but I also got additional speaking gigs from the event. This is light years beyond where I was when I arrived at Melanie’s event. I was overwhelmed, frustrated and focusing on a lot of things that weren’t really making any money. This program was one of the best investments I’ve ever made!”
-- Sean Smith, MVP Success Systems

“Melanie is THE ONE I turn to when I need to get my motivation turned on.
After just one breakthrough session I transformed a burn-out, dragging my feet, procrastinating-like-there-is-no-tomorrow project into a $50k profit…in just one month!”
-- Alexandria Brown, The Ezine Queen

“I doubled my income one month my massive breakthrough at the Intensive.”
-- Michele PW, MichelePW.com Copywriting

The choice is yours. I just hope you make the choice that will get you the results you say you want. Here are a few ways we can help:

** We are still offering a two part payment plan through Thursday, March 2nd.

** You can bring a friend for ½ price.

** We have a roommate board set up to find someone to share a room with.

** We are buying your lunch on Sunday.

** You will be connecting with other people who will probably want to do business with you. (At least ½ of the participants hired someone in the room to help them!)

You only have a few days left – take action right now to make sure you get everything you need!

Here’s that link again http://www.successconnections.com/event.html

Melanie Benson Strick
The Entrepreneur’s Success Coach
www.successconnections.com
(877) 830-3139

P.S. This is NOT your typical seminar. There’s NO pitching — it’s just you, me, my other coaches and the other participants all in a room getting laser coaching to help all of you breakthrough your barriers and start playing the biggest game of your life. Don’t let this opportunity pass you by: http://www.successconnections.com/event.html

It Pays to Party Crash... In the midst of preparing for my next live event on March 10 - 12, I decided to take my good friend Ali Brown's invitation and crash their Mega Book VIP Party. Once a year Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul series, hosts a big event for authors. I wasn't attending this year but I couldn't pass up a great opportunity to hang with my buddies and catch up with some old friends.


Famous Amos
Me, Wally Amos (of the Famous Amos cookie company,) and my good friend Adam Urbanski of The Marketing Mentors.
I first saw Wally Amos speak about 10 years ago at a church in San Diego. He inspired me by saying "No matter where I am or what time zone it is, I meditate EVERY day." Talk about having a good success habits!







The E-Book Coach
Ellen Violette -- one of our marketing parnters -- and a great support team for getting that e-book out of your head and onto the internet!

Party Goers Gone Wild =-)

Back row, left: Joseph Sugarman, founder of Blueblocker Sunglasses (remember those?) and THE copywriting genius; Kim Castle of Why?Communications; Mark Victor Hansen, Co-Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul; me; Dr. Cindy Brown, the "new" Dr. Ruth; Ali Brown,

The Ezine Queen; Liora Mendeloff, The Virtual Booktour Gal; and Lorrie Morgan Ferrero of Red-Hot-Copy.com.

Entrepreneur Magazine in Action...

Catherine Seda, columnist to Entrepreneur Magazine and Pay-Per-Click Specialist (she's launching a really awesome system any day now. )

The Girls in the Hall

Aimee Mandossian, Lorrie MF, and me. It looks like dark, seedy hotel but its really just bad lighting.











Dan Safkow of pocketseminars.com gave me som GREAT ideas of how to get in the podcast game. So of course, I finally broke down today and bought an IPOD Nano (Dan would be very proud!)