by My Blooming Biz | Aug 15, 2018 | Business Ownership, Empowerment Tools, Entrepreneurship, Personal Growth & Development, Transformational Books, Women Empowerment
In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called, Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – Get Over Your Damn Self by Romi Neustadt.
Every one of us, at some point or another, need to just “Get Over Our Damn Self” and get sh*t done! Yesssss! This book is specifically written for women in network marketing, and women who are also into multi level marketing; however, every woman who is in business for herself can learn a thing or two from this book. If you are looking to gain some insight into taking your business to the next level by working on it instead of in it, then you will benefit greatly from this networking treasure map.
We are featuring this book because it emphasizes what we teach here at MBB and expound on the many ways you can unleash the power that is already within you to build the life you really desire – if only you dare to make it happen.
This book is designed to help you make bold moves and take brave steps towards your goals – regardless of what others say, or how defeated you feel because you didn’t acquire that important foundational piece you needed to kickstart your venture. No more folding! You’re gonna get up, get back in the game, get out there and seek, seek, seek, until you get whatever you need to help you make it happen. If you get knocked down or turned down 10 times, get back up 11 times – more confident than ever – learn from your losses, toss them and continue on to your next target – better prepared than you were last time. Perseverance is key to pursuing and accomplishing anything meaningful in our lives. Others may not understand your pursuit, but as long as you have your valid “why” and you are confident that what you are pursuing is absolutely what you want to accomplish – let nothing, and no-one keep you off track. You may get knocked off track, that’s life, but do not remain there. You are stronger than you think you are! And as the great Nelson Mandela once said, “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Change your mindset, change your life!
Through this book you’re going to learn:
1) The Posture to confidently connect with anyone about your business and your products.
2) The Possibilities for a lucrative, efficient and enormously rewarding turn key business.
3) The Power that’s already within you to build the life you really want… if you dare.
Like us, here at MBB, Romi Neustadt is passionate about helping others build lucrative businesses that will help to create a life of freedom and flexibility. A life where you are better able to live your true purpose, and enjoy a more fulfilling life. She encourages us to shift our mindset so we can stop over complicating our situations and not allow negative voices in our heads to win.
These are some of the strategies we use here at MBB, and we encourage you to read as many of our transformational book picks as possible, and put their teachings and tips into practice. If you are a client of ours we have already passed them on to you through one or more of our many programs and workshops here, but for those of you who are reading this and it’s new to you, go ahead and get this book Get Over Your Damn Self: The No-BS Blueprint to Building a Life-Changing Business, read it, and implement these strategies in your life.
With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,
by My Blooming Biz | Jul 25, 2018 | Empowerment Tools, Personal Growth & Development, Transformational Books, Women Empowerment
In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called, Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series, Influence by Robert B. Cialdini.
In his book, Robert Cialdini explains how the 
“weapons of influence” are used on us in a variety of ways. In a scholarly sometimes amusing tone, he broke down the way humans are persuaded, into very understandable form with his backing of social scientific testing and retesting. In essence, the six universal principles of persuasion – reciprocation, commitment & consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity are the cornerstones from which all persuasive tactics are derived. This book explains how to understand and defend against these pervasive, non-rational influences on our decision-making. One key component that really hits us, is how powerful the deference of authority is, and the cognitive dissonance that it elicits in humans.
Here is a closer look at those 6 ways:
1. Reciprocity – People tend to return a favor, thus the pervasiveness of free samples in marketing. In his conferences, he often uses the example of Ethiopia providing thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid to Mexico just after the 1985 earthquake, despite Ethiopia suffering from a crippling famine and civil war at the time. Ethiopia had been reciprocating for the diplomatic support Mexico provided when Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935. The good cop/bad cop strategy is also based on this principle.
2. Commitment and Consistency – If people commit, orally or in writing, to an idea or goal, they are more likely to honor that commitment because of establishing that idea or goal as being congruent with their self-image. Even if the original incentive or motivation is removed after they have already agreed, they will continue to honor the agreement. Cialdini notes Chinese brainwashing of American prisoners of war to rewrite their self-image and gain automatic unenforced compliance. Another example is marketers making you close popups by saying “I’m signing up” or “No thanks, I prefer not to make more money”. This is a huge one!
3. Social Proof – People will do things that they see other people are doing. For example, in one experiment, one or more confederates would look up into the sky; bystanders would then look up into the sky to see what they were seeing. At one point this experiment aborted, as so many people were looking up that they stopped traffic. Conformity, ah!
4. Authority – People will tend to obey authority figures, even if they are asked to perform objectionable acts. Cialdini cites incidents such as the Milgram experiments in the early 1960s and the My Lai Massacre. This one can literally get you killed!
5. Liking – People are easily persuaded by other people that they like. Cialdini cites the marketing of Tupperware in what might now be called viral marketing. People were more likely to buy if they liked the person selling it to them. Some of the many biases favoring more attractive people are discussed. Physical attractiveness and stereotypes, ah!
6. Scarcity – Perceived scarcity will generate demand. For example, saying offers are available for a “limited time only” encourages sales. This really does work!
The trick is that as the world gets more complex, these 6 things also provide us with social shortcuts, to keep on the straight and narrow with minimal effort. But this also means we have to be vigilant – to make sure we are not being taken advantage of. He notes that we often get that funny feeling in the pit of our stomach when we are being manipulated against our will, and he suggests using that feeling/intuition to our advantage – to recognize when we are at risk. One of the things we especially like about this book is that Cialdini himself is the first to admit that even with all that he knows, even he is not immune to the tricks that are often used, and he provides some very funny examples to show how he personally has been taken advantage of.
This book had to be chosen this early to be in our transformational book picks because it will do just that to you. It will transform you, as it did us here at MBB! It will transform the way you seek to influence others as well as be more aware of the ways in which others can influence you – not necessarily negatively, but in ways that serve them and not you.
This book is revealing! There are lessons in this book that could literally save your life, and your pocket! In addition, this book will not only help you become a skilled persuader, but it will also prepare you to identify when they are being used against you and thus be able to defend yourself against them.
Robert B. Cialdini is a genius, and this book is a jewel. It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you do, this book has something for you. More than using this information for your monetary gain, get this book and study it so you will not fall victim to any of these “tricks.” You may have already fallen for a few, like some of us have here at MBB, but this book will ensure you do not fall for anymore of them.
Get this book Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition, read it, and guard yourself against the travesties and tricks that are used everyday, and mostly for bad.
With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,
by My Blooming Biz | Jun 18, 2018 | Empowerment Tools, Financial Empowerment, Transformational Books, Uncategorized, Women Empowerment
In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called, Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki.
Say what you want about Robert Kiyosaki but it will not diminish his brilliance! He’s a very clever man with a whole lot of wisdom and he knows what the heck he’s talking about. He experienced it from both angles and he has taken it to a whole new level! Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert’s story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you. This is what we talk about all the time here at MBB. Making your money work for you! That’s in one of our signature program MASTER Your Finances. But before you can MASTER your finances, you first gotta earn some money in order to have it work for you, and that’s in our signature program WERK Your Money Making Genie.
We are not only featuring this book because it has helped all of us here at MBB – from CEO to management to staff improve our lives, but we are saluting the author – Robert Kiyosaki and crediting his book because we have used its teaching to help hundreds of women around the globe empower themselves.
This book, as the name suggests, is written with men in mind who is usually the breadwinner; however, its principles can be practiced by everyone and as such we have termed it here “Rich Family, Poor Family”. Robert Kiyosaki’s vision for his book was to help individuals learn the rules of dealing with money so their money would work for them instead of the other way around, and he has achieved that – as many of us will attest. He demonstrates the power of understanding the difference between working hard and working smart with practical techniques that will energize and move you to take initiative in changing your mindset and the way you view and deal with money.
You Can Count On Rich Dad Poor Dad to:
1) Challenge the belief that your house is an asset (Our CEO is an accountant and she strongly agrees with him)
2) Define once and for all what an asset and a liability is
3) Show you why you cannot rely on the school system to teach your kids
about money
4) Teach you what to teach your kids about money for their future financial
success
Some Key Concepts of Rich Dad Poor Dad are:
1) Assets put money in your pocket even when you are on vacation. Liabilities take money out of your pocket; therefore your house is a liability – unless you rent out rooms and collecting rent on it.
2) Wealthy people buy assets first, and then let their assets buy their luxuries from the surplus cash flow.
3) Wealthy people continuously increase their assets by reinvesting their surplus cash flow in more assets.
4) There are 3 primary asset classes: Real Estate, Businesses, and Paper assets (stocks bonds notes, etc)
5) Cash Flow is more important than Net Worth. Net Worth is similar to potential energy, to use it you have to spend it, then it is gone. Cash Flow is like power from a hydroelectric dam, constantly replenished.
Like many of us here at MBB, this book will help you get on the right path to financial freedom. As long as you follow the concepts and apply them to your individual situation, you will benefit immensely. It is filled with anecdotal evidence and practical steps that can prove very effective when practiced! Read it all the way through and highlight important parts or the portions that speak to you, then revisit those portions periodically.
We have utilized these strategies here at MBB, in addition to many others that we have harnessed over the years, and if you are a client of ours we have already passed them on to you through one or more of our many programs and workshops here. But for those of you who are reading this and it’s new to you, go ahead and get this book, read it, and implement these strategies in your life. We have just narrowly touched the surface of this book in this blog post, and there is so much more for you to experience and grasp from Robert Kiyosaki himself in his book. People are always asking for and seeking out success, and in addition to helping them equip themselves by utilizing our programs here at MBB, we encourage them to read books. Many of them do read, but others do not, and as the old saying goes, “you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink the water”. This book has changed lives, and it will change yours too but you have to take action and implement.
Robert Kiyosaki is insightful, and this book is enlightening. Get this book Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!, read it, implement the strategies in your life, and expect to be improved – wholistically.
And as we always say here at My Blooming Biz, “you can learn something from everyone – even the mad man on the street – so remain open-minded.”
With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,
by My Blooming Biz | May 24, 2018 | Empowerment Tools, Financial Empowerment, Transformational Books, Women Empowerment
In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called, Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Think and Grow Rich is based on the 
principle that “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge” and “Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought, which means you can achieve whatever you want be it money, fame, power, contentment, personality, peace of mind, or happiness.” It also contains the ideas, definitions, and the clarifications that provide real answers to the questions of “how do I become rich?” “How do I make enough money to live my dreams?” which he term “the roadmap to riches”. If Stephen R. Covey’s book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People which is the best personal development book ever written is part 1, then Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is the best personal development book ever written part 2. Not only does it delve into all aspects of self development but it also touch on being successful with money. As long as you repeat his teaching until it becomes your reality, you will succeed at your money goal or whatever else you are pursuing.
You may not be looking to obtain great wealth or any exorbitant amount of money, but if you are looking to even garner ample amount of money to live your life the way you want to, then the information in this book will help you get on the right path to achieving your money goal. It will force you to exit your closed off comfort zone, and literally begin to pursue your dreams – whatever it may be.
Napoleon Hill talks a lot about faith, the law of attraction, and why it is important to make decisions and plans. According to Hill, it’s about believing! In order to reach whatever you seek you first have to believe and have faith in your abilities, in the plan that God has for you. YOU have to believe in YOU regardless of what others say or think about you, in order for any change to take place in your life – positively. That is the only way to get to your BIG dreams! So stay connected and locked in to your dreams and allow no one to sway you away. Believe that you can, ignore them, and stay focused on your goals.
We always recommend that when you read books – especially those written a long time ago – you should take the “times” they were written into consideration. For example, this book was written in the 1930’s and at that time this book would have been directed at white males. However, times have changed and this book has transcend its time and is now relevant to all people who are looking to achieve their money goals and improve their overall lives.
The most valuable lessons to be gathered from Think and Grow Rich are:
1) You cannot acquire great wealth without a concrete plan for attaining that wealth, a serious passion that compels you to act on your plan continuously, and great faith that your plan will allow you to succeed.
2) Many of the world’s greatest achievers were passionate to the point of obsession, and in order to emulate their success you must cultivate a desire until it becomes an obsession.
3) Material success does not come solely as a result of knowledge acquisition, but rather from one’s ability to organize and transform specialized knowledge such that it can be delivered to a wide audience in the form of a product or service.
4) One of the common attributes of highly successful people is the ability to reach decisions quickly and to change them slowly. (Most of us are the opposite.)
5) Persistence often makes the difference between success and failure. It is a state of mind that is essential to success and can be adhered to through effort and discipline.
Like many of us here at MBB, this book will help you to breakthrough barriers using its principles which has the potential to attract what we ponder on into our lives. It is filled with anecdotal evidence and can prove very effective when practiced! Read it all the way through and highlight important parts or the portions that speak to you, then read at least one highlighted passage periodically.
Napoleon Hill is visionary, and this book is transformative. Get this book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, read it, implement the strategies in your life, and expect to be improved – wholistically. As entrepreneur, Inventor, and salesman extraordinaire Cactus Jack Barringer said about this book, “Buy it…you have a book. Read it…you have the blueprint. Do it…you have the world!”.
With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,
by My Blooming Biz | Apr 17, 2018 | Empowerment Tools, Transformational Books, Women Empowerment
In January we kicked off a new MBB series to highlight transformational books for women called Transformational Book Series – Our Picks. This month we’re excited to continue the series by sharing with you our next transformational book in the series – You Can Be Happy No Matter What by Richard Carlson, PhD.
We are adding this book to our series because we truly believe that it can help women lead a happier, more fulfilling life. Yes, the title may sound a bit cliche, but if you apply the principles in this book, you can change your mindset and your life. Women often allow daily happenings in their life to take a hold of their attention, focus and time, and soon realize that they are giving the best of themselves, but are unhappy and unfulfilled in the process. Many also try to justify why what they are doing is justified, and their feelings is the culprit when in reality that’s not always the case. One of our favorite lines from Dr. Carlson’s book that we use here at MBB is, “Your thoughts, not your circumstances, determine how you feel. An absence of negative thought brings forth a positive feeling.” That is so absolutely true!
Many of the insights in the book are things we all intrinsically know but maybe don’t consciously think of or apply to our lives consistently. If you are someone who struggles with negative thinking, ruminating over made up scenarios in your mind, or even real past events, or are prone to moodiness, this book will be especially helpful to you. Dr. Carlson dissolves some of the illusions that cause our suffering; our external circumstances often appear to be the cause of our suffering or happiness, but closer examination reveals that it is our thoughts that most affect our well-being. However, thoughts are not the same as reality. Just because we think something, doesn’t make it true. Yet all too often we give our thoughts too much credit and allow them to dictate how we feel. Dr. Carlson explores this relationship between thoughts, feelings, and reality and reveals the alternatives using the five things on which his principle for his book is based.
Dr. Richard Carlson’s 5 Things on Which His Principles for His Book “You Can Be Happy No Matter What” is Based:
1. Thoughts
2. Moods
3. Separate Realities
4. Feelings
5. Present Moment
He explores each principle and expounds on applying them into your everyday life and how they can work for everyone. Yes, most of what he has written is common sense, and most people already know what the 5 things above are to a lesser degree, but what you didn’t know, Dr. Carlson fills in the blanks of how & why they affect your overall mental health and what you can do about it. By reading each principle and corresponding application of the principle, you will absolutely have a crystal clear way of understanding how your moods & feelings work for and against you, and NOT becoming overburdened by some of life’s many pitfalls.
Dr. Carlson’s message supports the idea that if you want to change your life, you must begin by changing yourself. Some of the best books to read to change your life are quite challenging and deal with abstract spiritual concepts, but this book is very easy to read. The ideas are presented with down-to-earth everyday examples that most people can understand and relate to.
Get this book You Can Be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective read it, and use it to enhance your life.
With love, gratitude, and empowered attitude,
by Katherine Goldman | Apr 16, 2018 | Empowerment Tools, Transformational Books, Women Empowerment
Lately we’ve been getting more and more letters from young women all around the globe, with one common thread – “social media is killing me”. And although we usually do not discuss everything that women are experiencing and shares with us, we decided to touch on this because of the vast amount of letters we’ve been receiving from women of all ages, but especially young women, and the effect it is having on them believing in themselves and focusing on their own efforts to realize their own goals and dreams.
And the first thing we want to emphasize is that Social Media is a thing; it is a tool to be used, and like any other tool you must know what you are using it for and be intentional. And, if it is not serving that specific purpose, then you need to let it go! Don’t just use it for use sake! Have a purpose for using it, and be intentional! It is all in your hands to do what you want with it!
Yes, your peers are using it, and they are sharing tons of beautiful photos about their wonderful lifestyle and this sets you up to question yourself and doubt yourself, and even belittle yourself and your value. While some of the stories are true and real, some of them are not as they appear. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “not everything that glitter is gold” and for the ones that are true and real, we do not always get to see the behind the scenes work that are put in to get to the place they are at NOW. Unfortunately, we only see the end results.
We are living in a competitive world and Social Media is competitive. We cannot change that! But what we can do is use everything around us – including social media to work for us. How do we do that? We first focus our attention on what we want for ourselves, actualize that design, create the plan to accomplish that, then move with intention using everything available within our path to bring us closer to achieving it – with self-discipline and self-control.
We here at My Blooming Biz encourage you to take back your life, your time, your mind. Create a design for the lifestyle you want to live, and focus your attention on getting to that way of living. Break down your method of getting there in small, workable pieces, and reach them one step at a time. This is the most fulfilling thing anyone can do for their life, and well-being.
If you find yourself having too much time on your hands to be endlessly surfing social media, or you are feeling unworthy or worthless, take some time out and deviate – turning your attention to other things that can build you. Some uplifting things you can do are:
1. Volunteer at your local community in an area of interest to you. If you’re a dog lover, you may want to attend to animals at a shelter, or seek out elders who have dogs in your community and volunteer to walk the dogs for them. You may also decide to step out of your comfort zone and go volunteer at a homeless shelter. You could sign up with your Recreational & Parks in your neighborhood to help tend the space, or you can volunteer at a school. You can check your local community for volunteer options, or do a simple search on Google “Places I can volunteer at (insert city or State)”. Or you can be more specific and search “I want to volunteer as a “…” in (State/City/Country). You could also use something you do very well such as graphic designing and reach out to volunteer at non profit organizations that may need to have that done but not enough resource to pay for it. I have done a lot of volunteering and I can tell you it’s so very rewarding. I always start out trying to help others, and end up being helped in so many ways. This is definitely what Stephen R. Covey in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People calls #WinWin.
2. Get our Lifestyle Designing WorkBook and spend some time designing the kind of life you desire to live – in 8 key areas, and get to bringing it to fruition. The ultimate fulfillment is designing and actually living the life YOU desire. The life you take time out to design – for YOU. Not the way your mom wants it, not the way your dad wants it, not the way your friends want it, and definitely not the way society wants it. You design your life your way from the very basics to the more advanced way you want to experience life. It may take some time to get to living exactly the way you want, but you can start now by taking small steps and being consistent and resilient until you get there – celebrating each milestone, and enjoying every moment along the way.
3. Get a hold of books that have the potential to transform your life, and use your time to read and implement their strategies and tips. The knowledge that are hidden on pages of so many books are waiting for you to harness and use to improve your life. When you read you learn, you gain experiences, and that knowledge helps to equip you to have a better overall life experience. Life throws darts at us! And my darts may not be your darts, and the way I solve my dart situations may not be the way you solve yours. And so when we share our stories through books, we have the opportunity to learn from each other, and use that imparted knowledge to improve each others’ lives. Here are some of the transformational books that we recommend and use here at My Blooming Biz International.
So stop allowing social media to use you and consume your most valuable resource – time! Use social media to bring you closer to your vision of living life on your terms, by making it work for YOU, not against you.
Keeping up with the Joneses (and the Kardashians) may require you to live an inauthentic life, and being inauthentic is strenuous and draining. What’s the point in being happy, beautiful, and prosperous online and being totally opposite in real life – offline?
You are beautiful and wonderfully made and you have the power to create and live your life just the way you want to. Don’t wait another minute feeding into others crave for attention while killing your dream and crushing your soul. Focus YOUR time on YOU! Do something that adds value to your life everyday, and makes you feel happy and fulfilled. It is human to be loved and valued, but we must first love and value ourselves. And the best way to do that is to use your most valuable resource – time, to empower yourself.
Love & Light,
Katherine Goldman is a Cognitive Psychologist and Behavioral Mentor attaining her doctoral credentials from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has used her psychological training over the years to impact thousands of women and young adults, and have since added coaching to her repertoire of skills. Katherine recently joined our team as a Life Coach here at My Blooming Biz International where she is helping women overcome obstacles and reclaim their lives. When Katherine is not busy changing women’s lives, you can find her trekking to one of her favorite places around the globe, spending quality time with her family and friends, or in her kitchen cooking up a storm.
“weapons of influence” are used on us in a variety of ways. In a scholarly sometimes amusing tone, he broke down the way humans are persuaded, into very understandable form with his backing of social scientific testing and retesting. In essence, the six universal principles of persuasion – reciprocation, commitment & consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and scarcity are the cornerstones from which all persuasive tactics are derived. This book explains how to understand and defend against these pervasive, non-rational influences on our decision-making. One key component that really hits us, is how powerful the deference of authority is, and the cognitive dissonance that it elicits in humans.
Say what you want about Robert Kiyosaki but it will not diminish his brilliance! He’s a very clever man with a whole lot of wisdom and he knows what the heck he’s talking about. He experienced it from both angles and he has taken it to a whole new level! Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert’s story of growing up with two dads — his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad — and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you. This is what we talk about all the time here at MBB. Making your money work for you! That’s in one of our signature program 
principle that “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge” and “Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought, which means you can achieve whatever you want be it money, fame, power, contentment, personality, peace of mind, or happiness.” It also contains the ideas, definitions, and the clarifications that provide real answers to the questions of “how do I become rich?” “How do I make enough money to live my dreams?” which he term “the roadmap to riches”. If Stephen R. Covey’s book 
We are adding this book to our series because we truly believe that it can help women lead a happier, more fulfilling life. Yes, the title may sound a bit cliche, but if you apply the principles in this book, you can change your mindset and your life. Women often allow daily happenings in their life to take a hold of their attention, focus and time, and soon realize that they are giving the best of themselves, but are unhappy and unfulfilled in the process. Many also try to justify why what they are doing is justified, and their feelings is the culprit when in reality that’s not always the case. One of our favorite lines from Dr. Carlson’s book that we use here at MBB is, “Your thoughts, not your circumstances, determine how you feel. An absence of negative thought brings forth a positive feeling.” That is so absolutely true!
