This fall has been a very productive time for me in working on my new PRES® home staging home study course. It's almost finished now and I can tell you I loved writing and creating the power points, the handouts, the exercises and the tests for the PRES Certification and Designation.

I can also tell you that I feel very blessed in that I get to do what I love – educate, inspire and empower women to create successful home staging businesses while creating more beauty in the world. Rolling out this course has solidified the 3 things that I tell home staging entrepreneurs they need to have to be successful:

Passion ~ Persistence ~ Patience

Without these three things, I know I would not have accomplished what I have because it wasn't always going smoothly . . . I'm going to talk about this in more detail in this newsletter and I invite you to think about your contribution to the world. Are you passionate about what you are doing? Do you have a 'never give up attitude'? Can you be patient with the timing of the Universe?

Wishing you success in finding your 'Passion ~ Persistence ~ Patience',

Dana J. Smithers
PRES Staging Resource Centre
Founder & Creative Director
Empowered Women In Business Coach

PS: For this month only the Lower Mainland City Stagers Meet Up is meeting at my home on Tuesday November 15th. If you have''t signed up now is your chance. It will be a pre-holiday snack fest with appies...check it out:

For more details, see the full listing:
http://www.meetup.com/CityStagers/events/33391682/

Do you have the passion, persistence and patience needed to be a successful home staging entrepreneur?

I don't know when you decided that you wanted to become a home staging entrepreneur or why you did but I do know that the 'life of an entrepreneur' is not necessarily an easy, steady climb to success. You may have thought it was going to be because you wanted it so badly and you are really good at it so naturally it 'should' be easy to succeed. Well the truth is that the entrepreneurial road is the 'road less travelled' because it isn't easy. It tests your character and your belief in yourself (and perhaps even the Universe). But the rewards are great if you are willing to go the distance.

So when you find yourself coming up against roadblocks, challenges, sales not happening the way you planned, projects going sideways, clients not buying when you need them to - it's time to examine what it's going to take to get you through the rough spots.

There is of course a flip side to this - things do go smoothly, you achieve your sales targets, you love your clients, your clients love you and you get to do what you love! And for me this is why I am still doing what I started doing 10 years ago. And honestly I have gone through more roadblocks, bumps and hurdles than I ever thought possible. And yet, look where it has taken me - down the 'road less travelled' and the journey just keeps getting more interesting. I think it's a road well worth travelling and I hope you do too!

So here are 3 things that will help take you through the 'ups and downs' of being a home staging entrepreneur…

PASSION:

	Without being passionate about your work you will soon come to resent what you are doing especially if you get to the stage of doing it only for 'the money'.
	If you had passion for it at one time, what's changed? Are you doing too many of the things you don't love to do? Delegate them – look at what it's costing you not to delegate.
	Perhaps it's time to just take a break from what you are doing. Take some time to reflect and ask yourself "If I could do anything in the world would I be doing home staging?" Depending on the answer what is it that you need to change to get where you want to go?
	If you are not passionate about your work your clients can easily see this and in the process you become very unauthentic and unattractive to them and to yourself

PERSISTENCE:

	Without you being persistent in taking 'consistent action' to create a successful home staging business nothing will happen to move you forward
	Being persistent means that no matter what your little voice is telling you to do - like throw in the towel and go do something else - do not buy into this - call your coach or a supporter who can help you see the situation in a positive light
	Your obstacles are only temporary and everyone has them - it goes with the territory - it's how you respond to them and the solutions that you find that build your character on your journey
	It might just happen that by your persistence you reach a new level and make new connections that open up some new revenue streams you had never thought. You will never know if you don't persist...

PATIENCE:

	When I'm coaching home stagers I hear this a lot: How can I be patient when I see my expenses exceed my revenues? Every new business faces this scenario. So plan for this. You have to have some faith that everything happens for a reason and that reason is there to serve you. Calm down and decide what is it that you can do to get some business coming your way. Perhaps you haven't been doing the marketing that you need to be doing. What can you do to attract some new clients?
	I can also tell you that if you are not patient you will never know what you could have accomplished. Do you want the 'What if' scenario? What if I would have been patient just a bit longer for my business to take off. What could I have accomplished? Without patience you will never know...
	The 'timing' of the Universe is not necessarily your timing is it? While many of us would like to be able to control more things in our life, timing is something we can never control. The 'life happens' stuff happens to all entrepreneurs so be patient and stay focused only on what you want to attract.

If you find that you are missing the passion, lacking in persistence and just not feeling very patient about your business growth or lack of it, take some time to reflect. Create a 'Pros & Cons' list about your home staging business. For the items in the 'Cons' column, what could you do get them into the 'Pros' column. Do you need to do more delegating? Do you need to get out there so you're not the best kept secret? Have you been a little bit lazy on the follow-up calls side of things? Only you know - so be honest and find your passion, be persistent and have patience that it will all work out for you.

"You may never know what results come of YOUR ACTIONS,
but if you do nothing there will be NO RESULT."
Mahatma Ghandi

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Dana Smithers is founder and creative director of the PRES Staging Resource Centre, a company devoted to teaching entrepreneurial women how to start and run their home staging business. Through her workshops, courses, mentoring programs, and products, Dana shows her students how to live their dream of becoming a home stager whether part time or full time.

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Dana Smithers is founder and creative director of the PRES Staging Resource Centre, a company devoted to teaching entrepreneurial women how to start and run their home staging business. Through her workshops, courses, mentoring programs, and products, Dana shows her students how to live their dream of becoming a home stager whether part time or full time.

Dana has launched her new website Empowered Women In Business. She has been mentoring women entrepreneurs for years and has now taken on a new client base in addition to the home stagers she has worked with. She says it's thrilling to see women move forward so quickly getting the results they are looking for whether it is setting up a marketing strategy, defining ideal clients or having a negative mindset shift into positive action. To get your 'Free' CD on her 7 Destinations Road Map to Success just go to the site and make sure you sign up for her Empowered Women In Business ezine.

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