Celebrate One Million

the blog for Local Applause

Archive for August, 2007


How to grow your business

Are you a business owner? A woman business owner? Do you have all the abundance and prosperity that you need? Are you looking to gather more leads for your business? Have you ever imagined yourself in the spotlight, leaving a massive lasting impact on your world? I know millions of women are – just like me, working on building a meaningful life filled with financial security. Hopefully you have been looking around our blog and website enough and can see that it is ESSENTIAL that you live the life you talk about – because if you are not that person that you wish to be yet, you cannot inspire others to do the same. Concentrate on YOU first, it is time.

I have a solution…start a chapter of LOCAL APPLAUSE! It is the most rewarding and exciting thing you can do for you and your business, while inspiring others at the same time to also pay attention to their life of prosperity. There are so many reasons to check out our website and start today – what is it? Simple - a weekly luncheon – no need to go out at night – no need to do anything different, it is like combining all your appointments into one spot every week – having all your fresh leads, past leads, clients and community come to YOU. They are constantly reminded of who you are and what you do. Here is a link to why you might consider becoming a facilitator; be sure you take note that we changed the name of our organization from Women Celebrations to Local Applause recently)

Now here is to your prosperity – starting TODAY! You can email me at sheryl@localapplause.com with all your questions – or visit FAQ. I will do all that I can to help you get start building that life of prosperity – not just wishing or dreaming of the life you want– but giving you tools for concrete efficient action that will propel you forward - today. No more time to “check it out,” it is time to take action.

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A Little Construction Dust

 dsc00030.JPGWelcome to our blog today! Please be aware we are currently making some changes around our company and CELEBRATING ONE MILLION PEOPLE. First, we have changed the name of our organization from WOMEN CELEBRATIONS to LOCAL APPLAUSE. Our mission is still the same; we are gathering one million people to commit to living a life of celebration through becoming a member of Local Applause. We celebrate and applaud people through our weekly luncheons around north Florida currently. We have lifetime memberships available for $100 until the end of the year – and then we are changing to $50 per year for memberships. Members locally have great benefits within the luncheons themselves, and soon our online community will be available for members. We have a strong concentration of members in Northeast Florida, but expanding daily as our benefits expand nationally.

Please visit the website to gather more information, but in a nut shell, we invite people into our LOCAL APPLAUSE LUNCHEONS that meet weekly. If you don’t yet have an organization that applauds people in your community on a regular basis yet– please call me, Sheryl Lynn at 904-471-2585, and I will fly to wherever you are to help you start one. It is easy and fun and you can only begin to imagine the incredible impact that your chapter will have on the whole community. Also, if you are a business owner, you will not believe the leads, the support – for yourself and others, and the networking you will muster up!

Thank you for your patience as we make the change to our NEW NAME: LOCAL APPLAUSE.

Let me leave you with one thought; Do something AUDACIOUS TODAY…do something bold, adventurous, daring even – inspire yourself and others…you only have the gift of this day for another few hours and it will gone forever, how can you make it memorable? FYI -my 46 year old friend jumped off a high dive this week – something she has not done since 10 years old, now that is audacious!

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Steps to Great Success

Imagine a butterfly. What a feeling to spread your wings and fly through life!

I have made MAJOR changes in the past few years regarding my business, my personal life, my language, my thoughts… and have spent a great deal of time regrouping on my life long desires. It is as if I have crawled out of a cocoon and my wings are flapping in the fresh air just like a beautiful monarch butterfly. Read more if you like on my website at www.sheryllynn.com.

Experiencing any kind of success, and a great deal of success at that, is knowing all along that the colorful rays of light eventually will warm your whole being.

In my opinion great success is simply about taking new steps everyday in a forward motion. And in the analogy of a butterfly, fluttering your wings as best you can until you can fly. As you reinvent yourself, fail, grow, do it over, fail again, you cannot help but eventually succeed sometime along the way. It is inevitable. Success is less frequent than the setbacks, but it is oh so sweet when it comes. The question then becomes, what are you doing on a daily basis to move yourself forward everyday toward all the things make you tick. Are you kind enough to yourself, allowing yourself the freedom of knowing that if you want something badly enough- it will show up…eventually.

Here are a few suggestions for spreading your wings.

  • Only say out loud what you really want.

Your language has more weight than you think. Do NOT give any time, energy, thought and especially spoken vocabulary to that which is hard, not working or a headache. Long ago I gave up words like; someday, I might, I can’t afford this, what if…etc. Instead, speak words of success, prosperity, knowing and believing in your purpose.

  • Live audaciously

And so what will everyone else think? I know this is a major concern for most people I know. Between what to wear, the kind of car that you drive and the bad business decision made 10 years ago…(I could go on and on you know) there is plenty of reason to live carefully, fearfully, cautiously. Audacious living on the other hand is living in adventure, fearless, boldly and daring. When you are this person, others watch, listen, and learn from you. Give others a reason to be inspired by YOU and give up on what everyone else thinks, they really don’t care all that much anyway.

  • Be efficient everyday

Do you find yourself traveling quickly through everyday and then flopping on the bed at night, usually before 10 P.M feeling exhausted and wondering how you will ever get up and do it all over again the next day? However if your minutes and hours are spent doing what you are doing with focus and attention, and doing it solely with the end result only to be a success your final outcome will send you soaring each day. You see, you will NEVER get it all done. There will always be more. Relax. Focus. Take a few timeouts during the day and get clear again on what can you do in the moment to be completely efficient. It adds up you know, surely as 2+2 equals 4.

There you have it, tiny steps, little life flutters that cause a ripple around the world. You have heard of the butterfly effect right? Set yourself up for great success and bask in the sunlight everyday, even if just for a moment, to celebrate whatever tiny bit of success comes to you each day. Finally, get ready for the big successes to come your way. Just get ready o.k?

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Celebrating Children

freedom.jpg Topic today, CELEBRATING CHILDREN! It has been an interesting summer with traveling to Merrill, WI to gather up my two younger children and making the trip back to Florida. We did enjoy seeing all of our family, visiting the fair and playing in the cool northern outdoors. They GREW so much in only two months time and oh my, their young “lady - ness” (is that a word?) is heating up. This fall they will be first timers at a preforming arts middle school in Jacksonville, Florida. They are fine tuning talents for their own life journey ahead.

My oldest daughter is traveling abroad in Ecuador currently and staying in Quinto. She is only 19 years old and working on being free enough to begin to see all that the world has to offer. Her dream is to live in Europe. My own dream is coming true soon as well. After years of not being with her because of divorce – she is looking to land at our home for a while in here in Florida. I cannot wait to be with her and have our family back in touch after so long. It feels good to look at all of them in the eyes and tell them how very happy I am to be their mother.

Side NOTE: I was reflecting today about house cleaning and children. It has been 19 years since I have taken on the task of having babies. 19 years of laundry and cooking and cleaning. 19 years of emotional, physical and ….well mostly physical endurance of the ups and downs of parenthood. I let my body go for a long time, became stressed with fear of how to keep it all together, angry sometimes that I felt so alone in it all, you know… the “why me” attitude. So even though my children are getting older and they do help out with house cleaning, (of course with gentle prodding), I still enjoy the smudges on the light switches, the piles of attempted laundry, crumbs left on the table after dinner has been long cleaned up and yes, even the toothpaste in the sink.

The picture is my oldest daughter’s permanently tatooed foot – I think it sums what she feels is important – and I concur – having the freedom to wake up everyday and enjoy children and all that comes with it – is a huge gift to celebrate.

What about you? Where are the children in your life today and what are you celebrating them for?

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