2. • Wife/Mother of 3
• 27 Years in business
• Author of four books & a popular
motivational blog
• Professional Speaker & Blogger
• Vice President at a local technology
firm- ZirMed
• Named by the Dallas Business
Journal as one of the top 25 Dallas
Business Women in 2010
3. • Healthcare info technology
company in downtown
Louisville
• Nationally recognized leader in
delivering revenue cycle
management solutions &
pragmatic information exchange
• Ranked top in KLAS
• Multi year recipient of Inc.
Magazine’s 500/5000 fastest
growing companies
4. o Dream Big
o LifeStyle Design
o Make it Happen
o Find Your Strengths and Use Them
o Hoopla over Little Things
o Annual Mid Terms
o What’s Holding you Back
o Fear
o Past Failures
o Go Put Your Plan to Work
10. 1995- 2005 2013
• Traveling too much • Not Traveling so much
• Flew 2,000,000 • Working for a
miles around the company I love
Globe in 14 Years • Speaking to groups
• Constantly on airplanes like this one
• Had an office in London (Professional Speaker)
& one in Seattle • Enjoying my job/life
• Not satisfied with life
• Have written 4 books
• Not using my
strengths/gifts • Blogger/Guest writer
11. • Dream a LOT
– Yes- you are seeing this right
• We don’t dream enough
– Your parents/teachers/coaches often discourage it
• Your first goal: Find what you were born to
do!
• You will need to ‘Try On’ different
occupations/jobs to find one that fits
• You will know when you’ve found ‘It’
– You will find success
– You will like it
12. • You can design the life you want to live
• Why don’t you believe this?
• Accept it
• Move forward with an Action Plan
• Design goals that build for you the Life that
YOU want to live
(not the one your mom/dad, Grandma,
boyfriend or _____ wants you to live)
13. • Prioritize Life’s Areas
– 1 God
– 2 Family
– 3 School/Job
– 4 Relationships
– 5 Fitness
– 6 Hobbies
• Regardless
of priority,
Each One Should
have some attention
in your life
• Revisit these annually to
see how you are doing and
reset your focus
14. • What is your reality?
– 1 Work/School/Career
– 2 Family
– 3 Relationships
– 4 Fitness
– 5 Interests
– 6 God
• It’s no wonder
we grow into lives
where we don’t feel
satisfied with
where we got to
OR we don’t get
where we want to be
15.
16. • Start by Creating Your Plan
• Write Down Your Goals
• Create STRETCH Goals
– BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)
• Start moving towards those goals
– Walk towards the goals
• Goals are ‘lofty’, they only get you ½ way there
17. • Put an action list together
• Write down the steps to get you further
down the paths that you’d like to go down
• These ‘actions’ will get you closer to the
life you want to live
• Translate those actions into progressive
steps
18. • Start plotting the action lists into calendar
entries
• Schedule personal time
• Block out vacation time/workout time and
time with friends that you’d like to take
• Schedule hobby/special interest time
• Book planning time for your ‘dreaming’
and scheduling….do it now
19. • Annual Mid Terms
– Get away from it all
Take a day in the country or a day ‘away’
– Rethink, Re-measure & Re-evaluate
– Discuss/evaluate where you are in each area
of your life
– Discuss/evaluate the progress and needs for
your life
– Make a plan to move forward in the areas that
you’ve neglected
• Recommit to your goals and your life plan
20.
21. • Fear
– Failure
– Fear of the unknown
• No time
• You’ve given up
• You don’t believe it can be any better
• Past failures have soured you
22. • #1 Thing that HOLDS us back
• We are critical of ourselves by nature
• Others see more in us than we see in
ourselves
• Sometimes we only see our weaknesses
• Need= DEVELOP A BOLD BELIEF IN
YOURSELF
• Fake Confidence Until you Feel It From
Within
23. • Learn to ‘SEE’ your
capabilities and strengths
• Develop a positive
self image
• Stop ‘seeing’ the bad
• Listen to how others view
you
24. • Each of you have unique gifts/talents
• Rare combination
• Everyone has strengths they were born with
• You will stand out in your strength area
• Find your strengths by identifying areas that
you are drawn to
• Your strengths will energize you
• Using Strengths = Satisfaction
25. • Finding strengths
– www.strengthsfinder.com
• Great books on the subject
– Now, Discover your Strengths
– The Truth About You
• You will STAND OUT
• You should move towards a career/
vocation that uses your strengths
• This will help you to develop
self esteem/confidence
26. • Celebrate the little events in your life
– Promotions
– Good grades
– Achievements at school/work
– Special events for your
family/friends/parents/grandparents
• Celebration over the tiniest events
– First mid term
• Try desperately to LIVE IN THE MOMENT
27. • Failure knocks us down
• We give up on our goals too easily
• We let others tell us what we cannot do
• We stop trying
• We don’t persevere
• Failures are our stepping stones to
success
28. • No one gets anywhere without a roadmap
• Biggest mistake I see? Targeting too low
• This is easy to do- but we let our fears drive us
– Behind every successful person is a long string of
failures
• Map out a plan that lays out
YOUR TRUE DESIRES (BHAGS)
• Visualize the path and move in that direction
29. Great things can happen in your life:
Believe it
Dream it
Reach for it
and Go Achieve it!
Start with a plan and head down the path,
one step at a time….
30. Brandon , Heather Caleb Michael
Age 18 Age 25 Age 14 spouse
31. • Secrets to business success
for women
• Tips and Advice to improve
your salary and
to advance at the office
• Written when GE acquired
the company I was working
for
• Published in April 2008
32. • Written as a mentoring
guidebook to aid parents
with the tumultuous teenage
years
• How do you find peace in a
household of hormones?
• Introduces rights and
responsibilities grids
• Released in 2010
33. • Create a Brand that Sells YOU to a
Market with Stiff Competition
• Simple steps to define your
unique brand
• Advice on marketing your brand
• Package & Market Yourself better
than you ever have
• Written when the economy
forced many out of work
• Hit #1 on Amazon’s Hot new
releases the first week of its release
• Released in Oct 2011
34. • Get up, and get going!
• Live the life you were born to
live
• Start dreaming and creating
the action plan to get you
closer to living the life you’ve
always dreamed of
• Just released Jan 3, 2013
35. • Cell 502-551-1871
• Email: Bethany@bethanywilliams.org
• Questions: Feel free to submit questions
Connect to me on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook
Facebook: Winforwomen,
Twitter: WinLifeStrategy & BethanyZirMed
Email me what steps you’ve taken!
Work Web Page: www.ZirMed.com
– Personal Web Page: www.bethanywilliams.org
– Blog:
www.bethanywilliams.info
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38. • 1998- Jamaica • 2003- Turks & Caicos Islands
• 1999 • Paris, France
• 2004
– Hawaii
• Mykonos & Athens Greece &
– Antigua, West Indies London
• 2000 • Virgin Islands
– Niagara Falls, Canada •2005
– Snoqualmie Falls, Washington •Belize, Central America
• 2001 •Aruba
– Lake Taho, Nevada & Las Vegas •2006
• 2002 •Phuket & Bangkok, Thailand
– Tour of Italy •Tokyo, Japan
– Paris, France •Acapulco, Mexico
– Scottsdale, Arizona •Denari, Alaska
– Seattle, Washington •2007
– Ghana, Africa Mission Trip •Great Wall, China
– Nasau Bahamas •Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
•Kona, Hawaii
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46. • 2008
• Rio De Janero, Brazil Couples Trip
• Dominican Republic Family Trip
• 2009
• St Kitts Couples Trip
• Grand Canyon Family Trip
• 2010
• Tahiti and Bora Bora Couples Trip
• Costa Rica Family Trip
• 2011
• Singapore & Malysia Couples Trip
• Barbados Family Trip
• 2012
• Machu Picchu & Galapagos Couples Trip
• France & tour of Italy Family Trip
47. • Set Goals!
• Make an action plan
• Define the steps
• Schedule activities into your calendar
• Go make it happen
Editor's Notes
You may have read some of the articles I’ve written on workbloom or on the motivational web site that I run called Winning strategies. I’m still flying on an emotional high from receiving a Dallas Business Journal Women in Business Award as one of the top 25 women To watch in Dallas….Today I hope to give you some fuel to inspire your own flight.
Your future is a mystery. But one thing I know is that YOU are in control of it. You are in control of where you go to school, what you study, how well or how poorly you apply yourself to your studies, whether or not you take it seriously, and how hard you try at your first job. You are at the center of how your future will turn out. There is a shifting process going on. Your parents, who have been driving the bus for some time are now having to step back and let you take the driver’s seat. They cannot continue to make all the decisions in your life for you. You will live with the successes and failures, you will live with the decisions that you make. Your future is a mystery just as mine was, or your mothers, or your sponsors was when we were your age. We didn’t know what was around the corner. We had hope and promise for a bright future. This is a story that you are writing. This is your page turner.
(It works just like the goals you’ve set to attain your college education and your position at work) Now you will work to attain goals in the left behind areas of your life
Veer towards jobs and assignments that are centered around what you are good at.
Ashley H- - - - I can’t help but think about her….. WE hesitate to take STRETCH positions. We don’t even think that way. Take a job that we aren’t experienced at doing because we know we will grow into it? Why do we doubt ourselves so much? Why are we so AFRAID of Risk. No risk, no reward. No risk, no payback. One thing I have found is that going backwards is easy. You take something you either don’t like or don’t do well, YOU CAN always go backwards. You pass up on a promotion, and it may not come up again. We are going to empower ourselves. This sounds odd, I think- at first. But we are often our worst enemy. We underestimate our abilities and our male counterparts OVERestimate their abilities. We keep uiet with our ideas and they shout theirs. We need to empower ourselves. You have a great idea? Take it to leadership. Write it up and present it. Take a risk. You think the company could do something better? Speak up. You think you’d make the best choice for the new VP role, then let everyone know exactly why you think that.
YOU WILL DESIGN and create a life that is completely unique to you. Great things can happen in your life. I challenge you to Believe it, dream it , reach for it, and go achieve it.