How to have your own annual Business Plan Review day - When I Grow Up

How to have your own annual Business Plan Review day - When I Grow Up Few things bring me as much joy as settling down with a great colored gel pen, cracking open my own personalized worksheets, sipping my favorite cuppa, and diving into my Yearly Business Plan and Review Day (which I now do with my Build Your Client Base mastermind group, holla!).   Conducting one of these is my business coach way of defining self-care, queens. Nurturing your business, thoughtfully reflecting on the past year of wins and road bumps, and setting yourself up for success in the upcoming New Year is invaluable in becoming a proactive, considerate, kick-butt biz owner. (If you take nothing else away from your time with me in 2019, let it be this!) The point of a Business Plan Review Day is for you to get clear on the whats, hows, and wheres of your business, asking yourself questions like: What are you offering? How are you doing it? Where are you going? What can you achieve? How much did you make? What do you want out of your business? Where can you push harder and ease up? What needs to evolve? To be clear this day should feel delicious!   Show up with your eyes open, ready to embrace and glean as much info as possible about your work. By arming yourself with the inspiration, know-how, and gameplan to be successful moving forward, you’re ultimately putting yourself in the driver’s seat of your business, rather than simply hanging on and “riding the wave.”   To get started, set the scene in a way that inspires your best self. If that means putting on a business suit and working from a swanky hotel lobby by all means, go for it! For me, it means staying in my pajamas, hunkering down in my creative space, and inhaling all the abundance my work brought in over the past 12 months and exhaling any unnecessary stressors or obstacles that no longer serve me and will not be joining my journey in the new year.   In past Plan Review Days, I’ve closely followed my Sacred Business Binder â€" a system I designed to easily help my clients with things like setting up their money tracking systems, crystalizing actionable goals, and analyzing important business building questions. It’s a GREAT outline for your Plan Review Day and covers important tools and tasks like:   Reviewing your product/service wins and losses by asking yourself the questions: “Why did I offer this? What was the goal? How did I put it out in the world?” Encouraging you to make ‘Stop Doing,’ ‘Start Doing,’ and ‘Keep Doing’ lists ( love) Crafting a Goals Page as a visual reminder of what you want in the New Year   Strategically setting up systems and processes to help you achieve what you’ve identified as important (like setting phone reminders, revamping your calendar etc.) Making a “Yearly Reflection Dreaming ” worksheet with tough business-building questions like the ones listed above And perhaps most importantly, setting your intentions and/or Word of the Year for all you want to achieve over the next 12 months.   While I’ll always refer to the outline above, your Business Plan Review Day can be as personal as your business, designed by you for you. The benefits of taking this time will show up in obvious and subtle ways throughout the year, and what you uncover will always be there for you to refer to as a guiding light if and when you get stuck.   The great news is: you don’t have to wait until December 2020 to do this again! In fact, I regularly encourage my clients to throw themselves this party once every month (which I *also* do with my Build Your Client Base mastermind group, whut whuuuuut!). Taking regular inventory, updating your goals, checking in on your finances, and evolving your commitments to yourself will only make you a stronger, more agile and nimble business owner in the long run, and give you the chance to teach yourself important lessons with more frequency and less resistance.   However you settle in your personal Business Plan Review Day, I am with you in spirit and sweatpants, sending you all of the best business-building-vibes one woman with an abundance of washi tapes can provide.   Happy Planning and Reviewing!!! Not a full-time business owner yet, but doing your own yearly Plan Review anyway? Do you see launching your own biz on 2020’s horizons? I love to hear that, and I have just the place for you -my *free* 2-hour planning webinar called Leave Your Job Launch Your Biz in 2020, and you better believe I mean it. We’ll talk over 5 essential things you need to truly start the business you’ve always dreamed of and ensure this really is the year of getting shiz done (seriously, you’ll leave knowing the *exact month* you can quit.) To join me, register here!

Writing Federal Government Executive Resume Using Ecqs Samples

Writing Federal Government Executive Resume Using Ecqs SamplesIf you have been hired by the federal government for a job, it is important that you be prepared in writing your federal government executive resume using Ecqs samples. This will ensure that you have a great chance of being offered the job and can move ahead with your new career.The first thing you will want to do when starting to write your federal government executive resume using Ecqs samples is to decide on what the format should be. You should look at the different samples and select the one that you feel is best for you. There are two main formats that these samples are usually used.One format is called Article. This is a form of writing that involves the writer typing a simple sentence, stating a topic and then providing a link to a web page. In the example given by Ecqs they were offering a job in technical writing to individuals who had written several articles. You can easily follow this article format if you hav e ever written a full-length publication.The second format is called Electronic Quarterly. This format does not involve writing a single line but rather several sentences or paragraphs that are then linked to the web page. Again, this format is very similar to the first format except that instead of providing a link to a website, it provides a link to an electronic newsletter.The second way of writing your federal government executive resume using Ecqs samples is called an email. This is simply a message that has been forwarded to you. It contains links that link to your website and to various publications that you have written. You may not send this along with your resume, depending on how your interview is going.Ecqs also offers a paid version of their Ecqs samples that you can download and use to help you create your resume. This is completely free of charge and you can follow the same instructions as described above.So if you have not yet been hired by the federal government, ta ke a look at how the Federal Government Ecqs samples are helping them in their search for the right employee. These samples will help you get started on writing your federal government executive resume using Ecqs samples.

White Gap on Pay, Savings, Debt, More

MLK Day Wide Black/White Gap on Pay, Savings, Debt, More “I may not get there with you,” Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. warned an audience in Memphis on April 3, 1968, the day before his assassination. The address, commonly referred to as his “Mountaintop” speech, was scheduled in support of an ongoing sanitation workers’ strike, and called for fair hiring practices and a fight against poverty along with an end to broader injustice. But even King might not have foreseen how much economic inequality would remain between whites and African-Americans nearly five decades after his death. The following statistics show stark racial discrepancies across a broad range of economic indicators â€" from hourly pay to student debt, retirement savings to home ownership and health. Source: Brookings Institute study, October 2016 Source: Economic Policy Institute, 2015 data The pay gap between white and black workers actually widened in 2015, the last year measured, according to the Economic Policy Institute. The gap reached 26.7%, up from 18.1% in 1979 â€" with white workers making $25.22 an hour, on average, while black workers made $18.49. “We’ve found that racial wage gaps are growing primarily due to discrimination … along with rising inequality in general,” said Rutgers University economist William M. Rodgers III, one of the authors of the report. Source: Economic Policy Institute analysis of 2013 federal data Source: Economic Policy Institute analysis of 2013 federal data. “Retirement accounts” includes 401(k)s, IRAs, and Keogh plans. White families are far more likely to have money put away in retirement savings accounts: 65% of white households have such accounts, vs. only 40% of black households (and 25% of Hispanics), the Economic Policy Institute found in an analysis of 2013 Survey of Consumer Finance data. And among those who are saving, the median balances for black and Hispanic families (both $22,000) lag far behind the $73,000 put away by the median white family. Source: Brookings Institute study, October 2016 Source: Brookings Institute study, October 2016 Over the last couple of decades, the student debt gap between black and white college graduates has ballooned. Blacks who graduated with bachelor’s degrees owed $52,726 on student loans four years later, on average, compared with $28,006 among whites, according to a recent Brookings Institute study that looked at 2008 graduates. There are a variety of reasons, including additional debt taken on for graduate programs â€" but the gap is nonetheless more than 13 times the disparity found in a similar analysis of 1993 graduates. Source: Trulia, third-quarter 2016 national data Source: Trulia, third-quarter 2016 national data Black Americans are less likely to own their own homes than whites. That’s largely an outgrowth of other disadvantages, including lower overall education levels and lower incomes, according to Trulia chief economist Ralph McLaughlin. But housing is also its own form of privilege that tends to perpetuate itself across generations. Controlling for other factors, those whose parents owned their own homes are nearly three times more likely to become homeowners themselves, according to McLaughlin â€" another factor that puts black would-be homeowners at a disadvantage. Source: HHS Office of Minority Health report Source: HHS Office of Minority Health report While U.S. infant mortality rates have declined across the board, black infants still have more than twice the mortality rate of white infants, according to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Among the factors singled out: African-Americans died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome at twice the rate of whites, and African-American mothers were more than twice as likely as whites to either not get prenatal care, or begin it in the third trimester of pregnancy. Close Modal DialogThis is a modal window. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button. Rachel F. Elson, Megan Leonhardt, Kaitlin Mulhere, Ian Salisbury and Penelope Wang all contributed reporting.