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After the call, I was inspired to look at where I can be even more daring in my life and with my clients. After the interview I went to my weekly belly dancing class and asked my belly dancing teacher to come to my next seminar and teach everyone to do a little belly dancing. She agreed. You can join us–click here for more info.

Where can you be more daring in your business and your life? Let me know.

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If you answered yes, let me first congratulate you. A decision is a goal that has been made. Next, let me ask you what clear action steps are you
 taking right now to get your goal?

I am sure you have heard the old adage attributed to Albert Einstein: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Now is the time to take new, innovative, and consistent action in order to attract new leads, clients and revenue.

If you are like many small business owners, you are looking to upgrade your sales and marketing efforts, but you are not sure what to do or how to start. Often other more immediate things get in the way and your good intentions never come to fruition.

I am sure you have lots of great reasons for not getting to your sales and marketing, including your social media activities. The truth is, however, without consistent action over time, whatever you do in any of these areas will not grow your business in any significant way.

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There are three different kinds of sponsorship. You could have one or more sponsor in each of the three categories:

• Traditional—a corporate sponsor writes you a check for something like a speech or being promoted at an event.
• Media sponsor—you give a workshop or a speech, and the local newspaper sponsors you and promotes the event, you promote them in your publicity and at the event. No money is exchanged.
• In-kind sponsor—they give you something but not always a check. Let’s say you do a workshop at a local bank; the bank promotes the event, gives you a free venue for your workshop and provides refreshments or some staff support. Their efforts save you money and they benefit from the exposure and you bringing new people to their branch.

Who are natural sponsors for you? Take some time to brainstorm ideas by identifying your ideal client, because you want a sponsor your clients will be interested in and one that is consistent with your brand.

Look for local sponsors with whom you already have a good relationship. Propose an in-kind sponsorship and do everything you can to make it successful. Invite potential sponsors to see you speak. Pay for their lunch and their transportation.

After you prove yourself and do a great job, you can ask for money for the next event. You can also document the results, go to a larger company and use this success to propose a paying sponsorship and generate revenue for your company.

Start now to research local sponsorship opportunities and begin to establish yourself as a valuable entity with which companies want to be associated.

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You are responsible for making sure you are served up a full helping of life. No one else can go to life’s buffet line for you. You won’t get what you want if you let anyone or anything else select your main course.

If you want a life with no regrets, you have to live each day with no regrets, to do that means you are living authentically. Authentic living means you are being true to yourself, paying attention to what you truly want and not letting fear, or what other people will think, stop you. This fulfilling lifestyle involves doing what you want to do, going where you want to go, being who you want to be. You know you are living and working without regrets when you are fully engaged, alert, alive, enthusiastic, and in action in your life.

When you are living your life authentically, problems are seen as possibilities; obstacles are seen as opportunities to learn and to do things differently. What would be different for you if you were truly living an authentic life? Would you go back to school and study ballroom dancing, Buddhism or beer brewing; travel through India on a bike; risk that romance with the new neighbor; start a new business?

The only obstacle between you and a life without any regrets is you.

Take the time. In the words of George Elliot,”It is never too late to be what you might have been.” If you are ready for a new proactive lifestyle, where you will be more fulfilled  and squeeze more juice out of every day, read on:

Strategies for Living Without Regrets

1. Commit Yourself to Authentic Living
Right now this is the only life you have. Make an agreement with yourself that you are not going to sit this one out. Commit to being a participant, not an observer. Commit yourself to the process of finding and following your dreams, wants and desires.

2. Point Out Past “Pro-Actions”
Make a list of all the moments in your life when you felt most alive. Then identify what was it about each of those experiences that made you feel that way. For example, if you identified serving in the Peace Corp as a time of aliveness, identify if it was the adventure, the opportunity to educate others, to help shape a community, or learning about another culture, that was the real positive and invigorating part of the experience. Alternatively, if you felt proactive when you first used a computer, was it doing something new, achieving a goal or actually working with technology that made you feel great?

3. Tolerate Nothing
Ask yourself, what are you tolerating in your life? Is there a health challenge you are not addressing, a relationship you have long outgrown, a home full of paraphernalia that is crowding you? If you are not being proactive in life and handling these things, you are tolerating and being reactive to them and how they impact you.

4. Identify “No Regrets” People
Make a list of ten people you are acquainted with that you believe live life fully and authentically. These are the people you want to spend time with, collaborate with, pioneer with, play with. Reach out to a few of them and make something happen.

5. Jot it Out
Keep a journal for a week and notice when you are feeling the most alive. Write these things down, and then at the end of the week reread your journal and see if there are any common threads or directions that need further investigation.

6. Try New Things
Make a list of all the things you would like to do. Add to the list everyday. Once a week, for six weeks, try something new. In addition to having new experiences and perhaps finding some new talents and passions, living without regrets means trying everything you want to try.

7. Get Into Action
Once you commit to proactive living—living without regrets—the only thing left to do is get moving, get working on it, get going. Write out all the big and small action items necessary to get you living your proactive lifestyle. Start small with little steps, and as momentum builds you will find yourself naturally engaging fully in life, naturally not holding back.

As you begin this new lifestyle, watch closely and notice what is different. Maybe soon you will place an awning or a plaque, or even a welcome mat by your front door that lets all who enter know: here lives a person with no regrets.