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| February 25, 2008 | Cookie Tuminello Your Personal Power Mentor Cookie@successsource.biz www.successsource.biz |
| A PERSONAL NOTE FROM COOKIE | |||||
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Good Monday Morning, |
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I'm back. No, you were not crazy. There was no MMCC last week. I was in bed with the FLU or sinus infection gone bad. At any rate, it took me down like the Titanic. I finally surrendered and crawled in bed to sleep it off. The thing about being sick is that you think about all the things you can do while you’re in bed, read, sleep, watch a movie. The only problem is that you feel so bad, the only thing you want to do is sleep. So I took advantage of that. I am so glad to be back with you this week. I missed you all! My thanks to all of you who sent me Get Well wishes this past week. And now, we are upward and onward. This week is chock full of PPNM events for you. I'm so excited to be presenting to you my first PPNM Teleclass on Tuesday night, February 26th, 7:00 - 8:00 PM CT. You don't want to miss it. I’m going to be sharing my Top 3 Strategies for kicking your overwhelm out the door in 2008. C1ick h*ere find out more and to register. Also, for those of you who live in the Lafayette area, my PPNM Seminar is coming up on Wednesday, February 27th, 6:00 - 8:00 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn on W. Congress Blvd. you only have 2 days left to register. You don’t want to miss this event. I’ll be spilling the beans on how you can create M*O*R*E of what you do want in your life and L*E*S*S of what you don’t want in your life. For Registration and Information contact: Kathy Abshire at (337)233-9594 or Phyllis Granger at (337)232-7077. This week’s success principle shows YOU (The Boss) how can get sick, you can take care of yourself and you can take care of your business at the same time. And you don’t have to stress out while you are recuperating. Thanks for having coffee with me and have a great week. Love ya,  Cookie Tuminello Your Personal Power Mentor PS: I want to extend a great big welcome to the new members who joined our Monday Morning Coffee with Cookie family last week. You are going to love waking up to Coffee with Cookie on Mondays. |
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People Pleaser No More Teleseminar. Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 - 7:00 - 8:00 PM CST Would you like to learn my Top 3 Strategies for creating more of what you do want and less of what you don't want in your life for FR*EE? C1ick h*ere find out more and to register. People Pleaser No More workshop premiering in Lafayette, LA. Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM - Hilton Garden Inn Hotel, 2350 W. Congress St., Lafayette, LA - Open To Public Cookie Tuminello - "People Pleaser No More - More Productivity, More Profit, More Power in 2008" Fee: $35 - RSVP REQUIRED - Limited Seating. For Registration and Information contact: Kathy Abshire at (337)233-9594 or Phyllis Granger at (337)232-7077 Month of February - Tune into Empowerment for Women Interview with Cookie on Cassandra Lang's "Create Your World" TV Show, local TV Channel 21 at 5:30 PM on Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10 AM. You don't want to miss it. Monday, March 17th, 2008 - Business and Professional Women (BPW) Fleur De Lis Chapter - 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Oak Lodge Reception Center, 2834 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA - Open To Public Cookie Tuminello - "More Productivity, More Profit, More Power in 2008" For Reservations and information contact: Myrna Arroyo at myrna@myrnaearroyo.com or call (225)717-2298. Wednesday, March 20th, 2008 - 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM - "The Phenomenal Woman" Personal Development Retreat. - Lake Ponchartrain Basin Maritime Museum, Madisonville, LA - Sponsored by W. St. Tammany Business and Professional Women -- Open To Public Cookie Tuminello - "Stop People Pleasing and Start Truly Succeeding! Powerful Strategies for Women in Overwhelm" For Reservations and Information contact: Jill Stoltz at (985) 789-0811. |
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Quote: "One of my biggest lessons has been learning how to take of ME first so that I have more to give to others." - Cookie Tuminello Entrepreneur Lesson # 1 - Take care of YOU first! As every entrepreneur or business owner knows, being the ‘Queen in Charge’ has its Pros and Cons. The PROS are you get to be the boss. You get to design your business the way you want, you get to live your dream, you make more money, and you get to have fun. The CONS are you are the ‘Go To’ person accountable for everything. A week ago last Friday I woke up with a full blown case of the flu. After fighting the idea that I might just actually be sick for a whole week, I finally gave up the ghost, surrendered and went to the doctor for something more substantial than plain old aspirin to put me out of my misery. And what did the good ol’ doc tell me to do? Take my medicine and get plenty of bed rest, something I’d pretty much figured out by that point. The worst thing for me was letting go of everything I had planned to do that week. I had chills, fever, and laryngitis. Imagine that - a coach with no voice. After several attempts to be productive and keep going, I finally gave up and went to bed. That was my reality. Trying to function when you are sick doesn’t do you or your clients any good. How can you role model self-care if you’re not doing it? HELLO! So I let go, adjusted my mindset, implemented some success strategies and got the support I needed. Unfortunately, when we as entrepreneurs/business owners get sick, we think the earth stops moving as we know it, or at the very least our business can come to a grinding halt. After all, how can the boss call in sick when there’s no one else in the business but the boss! Now normally if you were an employee, you would just call in and take a sick day or two, right? When you are the ‘Queen in Charge’ it takes a little more orchestrating. The good news is that I have working at structuring my business so that I can take off more often. I don’t mean just when I’m sick but also fun time to enjoy the fruits of my efforts. Here’s what I did. I took a look at what was on my calendar and started rearranging things. I enlisted my support team to help me juggle my engagements around so that I could take care of me. I even had to reschedule a workshop and lord knows how I hate disappointing people! I told you that People Pleasing stuff runs deep! After all was taken care of, I took myself to bed peacefully to get the rest I needed to get better. Yes, I even let go of the fact that MMCC was not going to be a reality last week. However, I learned a very valuable lesson (along with several quarts of orange juice!), and here’s the lesson for the week. WE all struggle with wanting to be all things to all people, but sometimes we just have to let go and take care of us. In the end all we really have is us, so take care of YOU first so that you have more to give to your business and your relationships. It works for me and I know it will work for YOU too! |
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