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I can't believe it's 2008! Words simply cannot describe the joy and the thrill in completing my product line and finally launching my new website. I really need a rest here... I have been burning the midnight oil for the last three years, so I could give you the highest technology and the most extensive content that I could come up with. It is done, and I am pleased and I hope you absolutely love it!

So let's kick start the New Year! I want you to navigate your way through the site, read everything, download your free goodies, post on my mastermind, join my affiliate program, and most of all have a blast!

I will be looking forward to your feedback and your comments. This year I will have two more books launched, I will be adding video, audio, and telecourses on my site and I will be coming into your areas holding events.

I want you to enjoy!

Love and Success,

Sharon Capehart, Empress of Empowerment, Author, Coach, Speaker
Creator of "A Woman's Path to Success"

I will be doing lots of F*R*E*E teleclasses that will be entertaining and helpful to all of you. Every month, there will be a F*R*E*E MASTERMIND CALL with guests that I have invited to share their info and products with you. The calls will usually be the second Tuesday of every month at 7 pm Central (8 pm Eastern) unless I have to travel, which in that case there will be a change of date/time. If you cannot make the calls, I will post the audio (within 24 hours) on the Mastermind Forum under audio archives so you will have access to it.

Other teleclasses are scheduled on Thursdays and you will be notified of topics and times via email.

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It is time to dream and start thinking ahead! Not only is it fun, but it also puts the skills and improvements in your life and this will help you develop and make all of your dreams come true.

The first step in putting your successful skill set to use is to create goals for yourself. You may be thinking to yourself that "everyone has goals so what is so new and novel about this." Well, let me talk about that for just a moment. It may surprise you that many people don't really even have goals. They just float around through life like they are on a raft in the ocean and just accept what comes their way. Not surprisingly, these people have little to no chance of ever becoming successful when they approach life in this way.

Here is the real kicker! It may also surprise you that many people who believe they have set goals in their life really haven't done so the right way, and thus reduce their chance of ever achieving those goals! It is pretty sad, huh? It is sad because people that fall into this category don't know that they are doing it the wrong way! They think that they are on the right path when they took a wrong turn a long time ago. This thinking can create a lot of sadness, bitterness, or even flat out resentment later in life when they look back and see so few of their so called goals having coming true.

I don't want to see you fall into either of these categories but I know that some of you probably do. The upside is that setting quality goals that can be achieved is, like much of the other learned skills. You know on my journey to success I have had the fortune to be able to train thousands of women just like you and I have seen way too much "trying" as an excuse for whatever. Don't get me wrong, men are as guilty of this as women and it is no less harmful for them period. What I have seen are women who accepted the place where they were in life because they had at least tried to do something better, more healthy, or prosperous for themselves. Is this a commitment to success? More like an acceptance of failure, if you ask me. Ladies, let me tell you "trying is not even close, not even in the same zip code, to the value of doing."

Now what do you want to accomplish? Why do you want to accomplish the things that you do? And how do you define success? Now it is time to ask yourself, "How am I going to get there?" It's okay to think big and be a dreamer here! This is the fun part of goal setting. What we are going to do is dive into the wonderful world of goals and work together towards to the ultimate outcome, which is for you to be able to establish these powerful and effective goals for yourself!

I want to focus on three common things that good goals should or really must have to be most effective.

1. Must be very specific. Generalities just don't cut it! So the reality is that the more specific the goal is, the better it is. A lot of people might set a goal for a new or at least a better house. Don't stop there! It is not just a new house, but what is its exact location, size, color, and even what kind of landscaping will it have in the front yard? Too often, amateur goal setters will stop short of really writing detail in their goals. Don't fall into that pattern and worry about overkill here. Most poorly written goals are written way too generally so the more specific you are the more real the goal will seem to you.

2. Must be stated in the present tense. Most ineffective goals are futuristic, meaning they contain phrases like "I will," or "I want to."  Ladies, this may seem logical but all it really amounts to is making that goal like a carrot on the fishing pole that the rabbit can never quite reach. And why? Because it makes the goal seem out of reach or more elusive because, in your mind, it hasn't happened. Do this instead. Imagine a time down the road, two to five years in the future, when your goal has been accomplished. Then write the goal as you are living the experience of having achieved it. They're also presented as if there is no doubt that it will happen because they are written in the present tense when the goal has been achieved! When you put yourself into the experience of having achieved the goal, that can be a very powerful motivator to get you to do whatever it takes to be able to live that experience for real.

3. The goals are always, always written! Just think about it, if the goal that you set meets your objectives in life and it is so worth pursuing, isn't it also worthwhile to take a few extra minutes out of your life to just write it down on a piece of paper? Don't forget that the simple act of writing it down is like a contract and thus it makes you more accountable to yourself for getting it done.

Now I want you to shoot for the stars with your goals! Most people who set goals focus only on the achievement of the goals and thus write goals that they know that they can reach. This is okay, but really doesn't offer much of a challenge. I want you to stretch a bit and make your goals something you actually have to reach for. This is the truest path to success and is the model for the successful who have followed this path before you have.

Second, I want you to focus your goals downstream a bit. Think in a two to five year time frame when setting your goals so you can work backwards from there. Here is what I mean by that. Your goal is to own ten investment properties five years from now. How many will you have to own in three years to be on track to reach your goal? One year from now? What tasks will you need to be completing to reach your goal? Good goals not only focus you on the prize but also direct your day-to-day and month-to-month tasks that you will need to complete in order to reach your goal.

You're writing them so you can read them! Post them somewhere that you will notice them and have them serve as a motivational reminder of what you are shooting for!

Armed with properly prepared and effective goals, it is time to take control of your life, stop trying, stop making excuses for yourself, and stop accepting failures as being okay. Your properly written, honest, and ambitious goals are tools to help you achieve all the success that you have ever dreamed of! In fact effective goals can be so powerful that failure to achieve them is only an option if you allow it to be!

Because you have written down effective goals, your mind will adjust itself to steer you towards the things you need to complete to reach those goals. You will then set the tasks needed to reach the goals and you will become your own best motivator! Even your behavior will adjust to start making those things happen! Remember, I have been where you are, I have done these things, all of these steps, kept following them, and, guess what? I now have the results to show for it! This can, of course, happen for you too. So make it happen and make your dreams your reality!

Love and Success,

Sharon Capehart, Empress of Empowerment, is an Author, Coach, Speaker and Entrepreneur

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Whether from her home office in Dallas, Texas, or traveling around the country, SHARON CAPEHART, the Empress of Empowerment, makes it her mission to "wake up" women everywhere to the incredible potential they have long forgotten they possess. Sharon's breakthrough "Path To Success" series helps women build a solid foundation for success as Sharon herself guides them on a journey to a life filled with excitement and personal power! "A Woman's Path To Success" is available now at www.positivelywomen.com.

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