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*Article Use Guidelines*Use in opt-in publications, or on Web sites, but please includethe resource box. Please send me a copy, if possible. Many thanks.**Summary: You can do, be and have, anything you want. As long as you getstarted. Take baby steps: one tiny step after another, even whenyou have no real idea of how you're going to get to yourdestination, beyond the next step.Category: Small BusinessWords: 950Baby Steps To Business SuccessCopyright © 2003 by Angela Booth You can do, be and have, anything you want. As long as you getstarted. Take baby steps: one tiny step after another, even whenyou have no real idea of how you're going to get to yourdestination, beyond the next step.Taking baby steps involves faith, but faith isn't something youhave. It's something you do. Meditation teacher Sharon Salzbergsays: "faith is about realizing that we don't have to be definedby the circumstances we find ourselves in. It's seeing that ourlives are a lot bigger, filled with far more potential than weusually imagine… we can step into the unknown and make a newbeginning." (From the article "Finding the Connection" in TheOprah Magazine, September 2002.)So how do you do this?==> One: Decide on your destinationIf the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, youneed to decide where you're headed.Where are you going? What do you want? If you want to own yourown business, decide that that's your destination. If you want towrite a book, decide that that's what you want to do.Sometimes we're so scared of failing, that we don’t make thatinitial commitment, that decision. We never say: "This is what Iwant".Decide. Right now. And write down your decision. Buy a smallnotebook, or open a new computer file. When you write it down,both left and right parts of your brain take notice.If you feel nervous, reassure yourself that all you're going todo is take baby steps. One teeny step at a time, just whateverfeels right for you in the moment. You won't ever ask yourself todo anything you are not capable of doing in the next moment.==> Two: Wait for your intuition to guide you to the next stepRemember that still small voice within you? That still small voice isn't the Spoiler. The Spoiler is anegative demon. It says: "you can't; you shouldn't; you won't;it's too hard; you'll never get there; who do you think you are?"The knack to handling the Spoiler is recognizing it when itchirps up. Here's a cute imaginative exercise to muffle theSpoiler.Close your eyes for a moment and imagine the Spoiler. What doesit look like? Is it big, with a bulging head and massiveeyebrows, and --- what's your image of the Spoiler?When you can see the Spoiler in your mind's eye, imagine itshrinking. It's shrinking until it's tiny. It fits in the palm ofyour hand. Now pick it up and pop it into a jar, or a box.Something with a lid. Screw the lid onto the jar, or close thelid and lock it.Now the Spoiler's gone. You can't hear it any more.With the Spoiler gone (you may need to repeat the disposalexercise each day, or several times a day for a while), you canhear your intuition. Let's call your intuition your Director.You can picture your Director in your mind's eye if you wish. Oryou can listen for him, or her. Your Director pushes. Sometimes Iignore my Director, but she's persistent. She nags. She nagged meinto creating a blog (Web log). I've still got no idea why havinga blog is A Good Thing according to my Director, but at leastshe's stopped nagging about it. If you're thinking that all this imaginative stuff is a miteweird, remember that your right brain thinks in images. Always.Whether you know it or not, and whether you care or not. If youcan become aware of these images, you can get your left and rightbrain to work together more harmoniously. (If you're interestedin images, Carl Jung called them Archetypes. To learn more, readpopularized books on Jungian psychology. Fascinating stuff.)==> Three: Remember that everything's changing, all of the timeChange is frightening. However, everything's changing. Nothingstays the same. So you might as well go with the flow.Change doesn't have to be bad news. It's excellent news. It meansthat your business will NOT stay the same. It will change, andall the myriad tiny things you do each day do make a difference.They're cumulative.Take action to steer your business in the direction you want itto go. If you want more sales, do more marketing. Follow up withyour contacts. Follow up with past clients. Do at least fivemarketing tasks a day.When it seems that nothing's happening, remember that it is,because everything's changing.You especially need to remember that everything's changing wheneverything is going well in your business. You can't stand still.So if everything's going well, keep paddling in the direction youwant to go. If you don’t, you may find yourself sliding over awaterfall.==> Four: Listen to your resistance, it has meaningWhen you resist something – say marketing – your resistance meanssomething. Don't just assume that you're a lazy so-and-so anddump a heap of negative thoughts onto yourself.Take a pen and some paper, find a quiet spot, and ask yourselfsome questions.Ask:* why aren't I (doing whatever it is that you're resisting)?* what am I afraid of?* what do I really want?* what should I do next?Answers will come.That's all it takes to take baby steps to business success. So goahead. DO faith, and take baby steps.***Resource box: if using, please include*** Veteran multi-published author and copywriter Angela Booth craftswords for your business --- words to sell, educate or persuade.E-books and e-courses on Web site. FREE ezines for writers andsmall biz: http://www.digital-e.biz/