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Chellie Campbell Articles

Written by: Chellie Campbell

Work Hours - Click To Read Article
I thought about that many times in the next few years as I tried to find how many work hours were “enough” for me. When I was president of the National Association of Women Business Owners Los Angeles Chapter, the first motion I put on the table at the first Board of Directors meeting was this: “I move that there will now be thirty-six hours in every day.” It was seconded in a heartbeat, and passed unanimously, amid riotous laughter.

Flying Without a Net - Click To Read Article
When I decided to sell my business management company and teach the Financial Stress Reductionâ Workshop full-time, it was really scary. I didn’t know if I would be able to sell enough workshops, on an on-going basis, to make a living. With the bookkeeping service, my clients paid me a fee every month. This created a regular income stream. With the workshop business, however, a customer paid once for the workshop and then was gone. I had to generate new customers every eight weeks. I didn’t know if I could do that. I was terrified.

I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS - Click To Read Article
Long, long ago, at a networking meeting far, far, away.... Well, it really wasn't far away - it was in Santa Monica - but it does feel like ages ago. I went to a networking group founded

A COURTROOM WITH A VIEW - Click To Read Article
“Oh, no! Just my luck,” I fumed. I was just selected as a juror in a criminal case downtown Los Angeles. Like the jurors described in the LA Times article a few months ago, I was not happy thinking about how this was going to interfere with my work as a small business owner.

Who Picked Your Number? - Click To Read Article
If they want what you have, they’ll pay anything to get it. If they don’t want what you have, free isn’t cheap enough.

Information Overload – Stop Reading and Implement! - Click To Read Article
Every now and then I get “information overload” syndrome. This is when my eyes cross and I just want to take a nap or play FreeCell all day on my computer.

Money Affirmations That Make You Money - Click To Read Article
“Chellie, an editor is interested in your book!” my agent, Lisa, exclaimed happily. “I sent her a bunch of proposals, and she returned all of them to me except for yours! Now she wants to talk to you.” My heart was thumping and my breath came fast...

Life’s Problem Solvers: Duct Tape and WD40 - Click To Read Article
“All of life’s problems can be solved with two things—duct tape and WD40. If it moves and it shouldn’t, you need duct tape. And if it doesn’t move and it should, you need WD40.”—Unknown

Winning Poker Lessons for Life and Business - Click To Read Article
People often wonder why I like playing poker so much. “You’re a financial coach and you gamble?” they ask incredulously.

Baby-U-Deserve-Getting-Every-Thing (Budget) - Click To Read Article
What is your reaction to the word “budget”? A sinking, depressed, deprived feeling? You are not alone. Many people audibly groan at the mention of the word. For the vast majority, it connotes scarcity, lack, and limitation—none of which are very pleasurable concepts....

Big Business or Small? - Click To Read Article
I’ve been happy as a poker player with pocket aces with my little workshop business, helping people, getting kudos and getting paid. I find people to invite to the workshop by going to networking groups where I’ll see old friends and make new ones. I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner for a living. I hold my workshops in the den at my house

How to Solve Your Love-Hate Issue With Money - Click To Read Article
People have funny relationships with money – studies have shown a majority of people believe money is a bad and corrupting influence...

Twelve Touches Before They Buy - Click To Read Article
When you think about “selling”, do you get excited and happy? Do you look forward to calling a prospective client who just might buy your products and services?

10 Tips to Win in 2010! - Click To Read Article
“If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

Risks on the Road Between You and the Emerald City - Click To Read Article
If you aren’t winning enough in your life, it’s because you aren’t losing enough

Love Me, Love My Spam - Click To Read Article
Years ago, I met a man (we’ll call him Fred) at a networking group. We exchanged business cards and soon afterwards, he started sending me a lot of internet joke emails. That’s fine – I can’t read all of them, but some of them give me a good laugh and perk up my day....

IS IT MARKETING OR IS IT SELLING - Click To Read Article
When you’re working from home, running your own small business, it is vital to understand the difference between marketing and selling. I found this out when I hired a woman to help me make sales in my workshop business. She was bright, fun, and energetic and I was very optimistic about her being able to enroll additional people for my Financial Stress Reduction Workshops..

Investing in the Invisible - Click To Read Article
If you’re a business owner, you might be surrounded by sea, but you know there is land out there somewhere and you are determined to find it. You are investing in the invisible – the land you can’t see yet is the land of your dreams, your goals, and your brilliant, successful future filled with riches, profits, and rewards. If you’re thinking of becoming a business owner, you’re thinking about investing in that same invisible, glorious dream.

Beware of Sharks in Dolphin’s Clothing - Click To Read Article
Have you ever noticed that some of the people who profess to be the most loving, spiritual people are some of the most angry, awful, judgmental people you’ve ever met?

Be Sure Youre Charging Enough Money - Click To Read Article
Entrepreneurs love to get new clients for their business. You work hard developing your skills and marketing yourself and the payoff comes when someone says, yes, they want to hire you. Then comes the negotiation regarding fees.....

To Get Your Goals You Have to Ask the Right Questions - Click To Read Article
Ted and his girlfriend, Tina, were two young chiropractors building their lives and their businesses together. Cheerful, upbeat, and fun, they enrolled in my workshop in order to get clarity and focus on their financial goals. They mentioned that they knew one of the best ways to expand their business would be to buy another existing medical practice..

Your Self Worth Makes Your Net Worth - Click To Read Article
How your self worth affects your net worth

The Importance of Counting - Click To Read Article
“I’ve just always been math-challenged,” my client Barbara moaned. “The words ‘Balance Sheet’ and ‘Income Statement’ scare me! I don’t know how or where to start doing the accounting for my business.”..

EVERYONES IN SALES - Click To Read Article
So you’ve decided to start your own home-based business—congratulations! Welcome to the world of selling. “What?” you ask, “I just want to do my work. I don’t want to be in sales!” Ah, there’s the rub....

Send Out Ships - Click To Read Article
You’ve set up a home-based business. You have a product or service you love, and want to provide it for people for pay, in order to bring money into your life. You’ve gotten your business license, your business cards, stationary, inventory—all the tools of your trade. But it is not enough. Now you have to get customers! How do you do it?...

Dont Just Show Me the Money-Bless It - Click To Read Article
“Hi! Welcome to our networking group,” I said to the guest, a tall gentleman in a business suit who had introduced himself as a financial planner. “I’m glad you could join us this morning.” “Thank you,” he replied with a smile. He should have stopped there.....

Golden Tennis Shoes - Click To Read Article
If there’s one thing I’ve learned traveling along this life’s highways and byways, is that in all things it is best to completely be yourself. Take a stand for yourself, choose your likes and dislikes, and stand proudly in them. When you are clearly you, other people will see it and know you for who you are. This simplifies life immeasurably....

Why Swim with Sharks When You Can Swim with Dolphins - Click To Read Article
Excerpt from “The Wealthy Spirit” By Chellie Campbell

Endless Potential - Click To Read Article
One of the benefits of our fast-moving, information-saturated, technology-enhanced lives today is the wide variety of choices we are offered. It’s wonderful to have the freedom to choose where we’ll live, what work we’ll do, what friends we’ll have. This is also a major cause of stress. We want to do everything, be everyone, live all our lifetimes in this one...

You Are Unique - Market It - Click To Read Article
Excerpt from “The Wealthy Spirit: Daily Affirmations for Financial Stress Reduction” By Chellie Campbell

Buy the Latte! Retirement is a Lie - Click To Read Article
Here’s how to calculate the amount of money you’ll need at retirement: 1) Whatever you have now; plus 2) Ten million dollars. That sounds like enough to make you feel safe, right?....

Help Im Freaking Out - Click To Read Article
The Universe is responding to you in your NOW. So whatever you're feeling right NOW means that is what you are sending out vibrationally right NOW, which means that is what you are attracting to yourself right NOW, which means your future is FULL of a bunch of stuff that is gonna feel pretty much like right NOW feels." Abraham-Hicks

The TwelveStep Program for Financial Stressaholics - Click To Read Article
12-Step Program for Financial Stressaholics

Spirituality and Making Money by Chellie Campbell - Click To Read Article
Your wildest dreams come true: you pick the winning numbers in the lottery and suddenly you are a millionaire! What do you do first?...

It’s Not Net-sit, It’s Not Net-eat - It’s Net-work! - Click To Read Article
If you are in business for yourself and working from home, you are likely to get lonely sometimes. You have no office cohorts, no company cafeteria, no water-cooler or lunchroom to hang out in and chat with folks to ease a stressful day. The evil temptations arise then: somehow the refrigerator door opens of its own accord and ice cream jumps out into your bowl as if by magic.....

Imagine - Click To Read Article
It was seven o’clock on a slightly drizzly, busy Saturday night and the 405 freeway was jammed with cars. Unlike what you may see in the movies, there were no horns honking, no raised fists, or yelled epithets. Los Angeles drivers know there’s bunched up traffic on Saturday night and know that fretting about it won’t get them where they’re going any faster. So everyone waited patiently in their metal cubicles as they snaked along to their various destinations....

Mr. Grumpy - Click To Read Article
Unreasonable joy and happiness came to me on an ordinary day, an unremarkable day, when I was playing poker. The clatter of chips and the shuffling of cards played background music to the conversation of the players. Now and then, the dealer would call “Seat open!” and a floorman would escort another player to a table....

It’s All About PR - Click To Read Article
You learn that, in the book world, PR is everything. When you walk into a bookstore, you are walking into a treasure house of 140,000 books. Online at amazon.com, there are 2.5 million books. Somewhere in your mind, dimly, you knew that, but nothing drives it home so much as walking into a bookstore and seeing rack upon rack of beautiful books and then you go find your section and see all the racks of beautiful self-help books and then...

Networking Works! - Click To Read Article
Eek. The dreadful Jury Duty Summons arrives in the mail again. I’m all for the jury system, mind you, but those of us who aren’t on corporate payrolls don’t get a paycheck during the time we serve. Oh, well, “one day or one trial” isn’t so bad. I am ready to do my civic duty. I believe in our government and the trial-by-jury-of-our-peers system. If a case of mine were being tried, wouldn’t I want me to be on the jury? My mood improved, I call in on the appointed day and receive instructions to show up Monday..

Party Networking or “Are You George?” - Click To Read Article
I love advertising my business through networking with other upbeat business people. There are many networking groups in every city—trade organizations, Chambers of Commerce, Rotary Clubs, national associations, etc. But you don’t have to restrict yourself to business organizations..

The Loneliness of the Home-based Business Person - Click To Read Article
If you are in business for yourself and working from home, you are likely to get lonely sometimes. You have no office cohorts, no company cafeteria, no water-cooler or lunchroom to hang out in and chat with folks to ease a stressful day. The evil temptations arise then...

Write “Thank You!” on All Your Checks - Click To Read Article
It is important for your personal prosperity to take joy in the process of sending people money. As you write the check or pay the cash for your purchase, know that you are creating financial benefits for many unseen individuals who make their living from these transactions...

Are Your Prices High Enough? - Click To Read Article
You love to get new clients for your business. You work hard developing your skills and marketing yourself and the payoff comes when someone says, yes, yes, they want to hire you! Hooray!





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