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Top 5 Reasons Attending Live Events is Essential for Continued Personal & Professional Growth
| Guest post by: Victoria Cook |
Article Overview: I recently attended an intense 4-day workshop in California. Oh sure, you hear California and think it was all fun and games. Well, I did have some fun, but I learned a great deal and left with renewed confidence to take my business to the next BIG level! I’d like to share with you the top 5 reasons I believe attending live events is essential for your personal and professional growth.
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Top 5 Reasons Attending Live Events is Essential for Continued Personal & Professional Growth
I recently
attended an intense 4-day workshop in California. Oh sure, you hear California and think it was
all fun and games. Well, I did have some
fun, but I learned a great deal and left with renewed confidence to take my
business to the next BIG level! I’d like
to share with you the top 5 reasons I believe attending live events is essential
for your personal and professional growth:
1 – Get more personal:
Live events provide the opportunity to meet your mentor personally and really
get to know them. Successful people
think and act differently. Spending
several days with mentor provides great insight into how they do it so you can
see how to do it too!
2 – Deep Submersion: Multi-day events allow you to really
submerse yourself in the subject matter with no distractions. Four days focused on just Marketing and
Mindset created more depth of understanding on these subjects for me. I also had time during the break out portion
and down time to begin thinking about how I would begin applying the
information to my business right away.
3 – Learn about things you didn’t know
you needed to know:
Often at live events other fantastic speakers are invited to share the
stage. That was the case at the last
event I attended. Mari Smith (@marismith)
was a special guest speaker during one of the evening sessions. I’ll be honest; I had NO IDEA who Mari was
prior to the moment she took the stage.
Turns out, she’s been dubbed “the Pied-Piper of Facebook” by
FastCompany. She’s a social media
trainer and social media marketing expert.
I learned SO MUCH from her talk and was blown away by her ideas and
knowledge on using social networking for business purposes. I guess TWITTER and Facebook aren’t just for
kids! It’s a great way to get your
message out there and increase the “know, like and trust factor” with your
market. You can follow me on TWITTER @biggoalscoach
or see my guiltfreecoach Facebook profile.
4 – Meet other likeminded people: Chances are if you are going to hear a
particular speaker, you’ll meet others with whom you have some things in common.
I met so many great people during the workshop I attended. I enjoyed discussing what we were learning,
sharing ideas and resources, and hearing how others were planning to utilize
the information. Who knows, I may end up
partnering with one or two folks on future business projects.
5 – Gain valuable strategic time: As a solopreneur, it’s so easy to get
swept into the day-to-day tasks working IN my business that I consciously have
to carve out time to be more strategic to work ON it! Being away from the office and the usual
distractions allows for greater focus and time for strategic thinking.
BONUS - Have some fun! If
you’ve gotten to know me even a little bit, you’ve learned that I like to have
fun! Life’s too short not to!! If your event is in a different city, it’s
fun to explore and see some new sights.
I have family in California, so I was fortunate to stay with them and
enjoyed catching up as well as partaking of their hot tub!
Attending
multi-day events is a commitment of time as well as finances, but one that can
have a huge return on your investments. I
left with tactical strategies I can immediately implement, excitement and
inspiration to get into action, and belief in getting it all accomplished!
Your Guilt-Free Assignment (should
you wish to accept it)
Even if a live
event isn’t in your immediate future, you can still gain some of the above
benefits with a little bit of work.
- Carve out large chunks of time in your schedule and devote it to studying from your mentor. It could be a book, their audios or a home study system. This will increase your knowledge and provide loads of inspiration!
- Plan a mini-retreat for yourself at a local hotel, retreat center, or nature preserve. Spend the day(s) creating your own vision for what’s next and a strategic plan that’s going to get you there. You’ll find several articles onEvanCarmichael.com to get you started including 5 Keys to Guilt-Free Success , 10 Steps to Mapping Out Your Plan.
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