Hi Creators!

Maslow Again–I started blogging over at www.sherimcconnell.com last week (had that site converted to a blog too…) and I talked about Entrepreneurs and Boredom. I wanted to make sure I shared another resource on Maslow with you too. This one explores Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs in relation to how you serve your customers (or members). It is a new book by Chip Conley titled Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo From Maslow. By the way, Inc. Magazine has a really great article on him and the book this month that I think you would also benefit from reading.

Group Coaching Program Update–Don’t forget to check out my brand new (and only one in existence) membership-based group coaching program at http://createyourassn.com/coaching

You can still join and listen to the September Coaching Session on Choosing Your Membership Benefits and also listen to the September Support Call too–the coaching session also goes out in the mail to you on CD with your binder/coaching forms.

If you need help planning and implementing everything I talk about in the Blueprint & Tool Kit–I urge you to check it out today. It is very affordable (way less than $100 a month for 6 months). Being able to talk about your particular group and brainstorm with like-minded individuals who are doing the same thing you are is invaluable. And that I know of this is the only group available to mastermind solely on the membership-based business model. Plus I am really great at focusing you on activities with a high payoff–trust me, I have been there and done it all.

Note: If you don’t own the Blueprint and Tool Kit yet–there is a big discount for anyone who joins the coaching program at the link above.

Until next time–think big and then act!

Sheri McConnell

Do you feel validated? I heard Oprah once say that she thinks everyone on this earth has one basic need—to be validated. I know when I started the National Assn of Women Writers it was because I needed to find other women who loved to write and create like me. I needed to learn with them and laugh with them because I yearned for the validation that I would receive as I in turn validated the writers too. Little did I realize at the time how many women all over the world needed their goals and dreams affirmed just as I did.

I too believe that validation or passionate connections as I like to call them are so important that I have built multiple companies with that vision in mind. Here are a five ways I have learned to create passionate connections and validate others over the last seven years as I grew the NAWW and my other companies (www.sherimcconnell.com). Even if you don’t want to start a business—whatever your goals are—I know you will accomplish them by reaching out to validate others and following the tips below. Enjoy the journey! (more…)