1. By Bethany Williams
Young Women
Lead- Louisville
March 20, 2013

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

5. Bethany Eastman
2nd grade

6. Bethany Eastman
4th grade

7. Just like I didn’t know in the
7th grade what life would be
like today
Bethany Eastman
7th grade

8. Challenges will come your
way, but you can overcome
Bethany Eastman
11th grade

9. Make it great!

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

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

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

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

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