If you’ve been following this series and doing the work along with me, you created a vision for summer with your family as well as a vision for your business over the next few months. Now that you know how you want to feel and have an idea of what you want summer to look like, it’s time to create some clear goals and take a look at your current systems.

Set your business and family goals for the summer

List any projects you want to complete, activities you want to do with your family, and also any other personal goals you can think of. and set a deadline to accomplish each. Remember to think about and create SMARTER goals:

So what’s the number one rule? Your potential customers are really not that interested in what you do and how you do it. What they really want to know is, what’s in it for them?

Yesterday you went through an exercise of visualizing your life one year from now and writing down goals to help get you there. Today we’ll just talk about goal setting in general. In order to create powerful goals, think of the acronym SMARTER

Stephen Covey says the “essence of these needs is captured in the phrase ‘to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy’.” Explore a new way of looking at self care and how it helps enable you to serve others in the work you do and the life you live.

In order to have a successful business, it’s important to consider how successful you are in other areas of your life.

In order to help my coaching clients focus on and move toward their goals, I ask them to do a values clarification exercise. Some of you may ask doula clients to do a values clarification exercise to help them become clear on what is most important to them with regard to their upcoming birth. In the same way, clarifying your core values, or the characteristics that mean the most to you in life, can reap the following benefits for you

Sometimes in order to create a clear vision for the future, you need to reflect on the past. Today, I offer some powerful questions to reflect upon what happened in the last twelve months.

So you want to be a doula. A Savvy one at that. I’d like to offer you 5 tips to help you be taken seriously as a business owner:

In Part 1, I discussed ways to build your business support team as a means to move you forward in creating your birth business. Today, I will provide a few resources to help you determine what you need to know about in order to start your business in your particular state.