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About Anne

I am a self made entrepreneur who simply learned how to rely on faith instead of fear to take me to the amazing place I am today. I am a personal growth "junkie," family lover and a Starbucks addict. I love helping people find their true passion in life. We are all born with unlimited potential to do and be anything we want. It's simply a matter of training ourselves to think differently, and channeling our energy and thoughts to their rightful place.

How I Tackled My Biggest Fear, Defeated It & Found Victory

Overcoming and tackling my biggest fear in life, opened doors I never knew existed, and delivered the most amazing and influential people and opportunities to me. That first step would eventually changed the entire course my life would take. In this brief video, I share a portion of “My Story” and how trusting and believing in The Universe and yourself, is the first step in creating the lifestyle you were born to live.

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You Deserve Abundance,

Anne Theriault

Anne@annemtheriault.com

Happy Spring ~ Perfect Time To Declutter Your Life

Happy first day of Spring! With the beginning of Spring, I also look at this time as a time for “New Beginnings.” I like to de-clutter A LOT of areas of my life. Not just material possessions, but more importantly the areas in my life that no longer serve me, or promote my growth.

I call it a “Lifestyle Cleanse.”

The “Old version of me” used to say “I can’t” change my circumstances. And with that attitude, I was absolutely right.

But once I decided I’d had enough of the mental clutter, I had no choice but to to change my circumstances—I had no choice but to remove myself from circumstances that added to my mental clutter.

I stopped associating with certain people, I changed my spending habits, I downsized my possessions. I started with myself, and I changed my circumstances.

Over time, things change, and instead of letting them change on their own, I decided to change those things myself. Some of those changes were difficult, but the world didn’t stop spinning.

I stopped associating with a few folks who were negative and “drama mommas” and the world didn’t end.

When you look at your relationship to things —and the energy they contain—ask yourself if they promote joy, beauty, and usefulness, or are they burdensome?

What I know for sure: Life is about an energy exchange. Everything and everybody is vibrating at different frequencies. And you get to choose the vibration you want to resonate with and how to manifest that choice through your actions. Which is what I’ve learned to do over the last several years.

Here are a few ways and ideas on how to hit the “Refresh Button” in your life:

Relationship to self—good riddance to decisions that don’t support self-care, self-value, and self-worth.
Relationship to others—do the people in your life give you energy and encourage your personal growth, or block that growth with dysfunctional dynamics and outdated scripts? If they don’t support you as a loving, open, free, and spontaneous being: Goodbye!
Emotional well being– are you on a path of personal growth and self development, or are you simply living a spaced out life fueled by the drama of others?
Are are aligned, in tune and open to opportunities that surround you…or are you satisfied with living a status quo mediocre life?
Self destructive habits — as painful as it may be, are you ready to admit to self destructive habits and take massive action to change?

Stop tryin to “Keep up with The Jones’s. Part of what made my first business successful, (which was a landscaping business), and now makes my network marketing business successful, is because I NEVER TRIED KEEPING UP WITH ANYONE OTHER THAN MYSELF AND MY OWN PERSONAL BEST.

I am simply always trying to become a better version of MYSELF, not better than anyone else.

That goes for your life as well. Just focus on your own journey. No one has everything, so stop comparing yourself to others. You are limitless and have the potential to craft the life of your choosing.

A few weeks ago, I published my first book and it hit the #1 spot on Amazon overnight. In my book, I describe the exact method I used to change my thoughts, which helped me change my actions…which eventually allowed me to live my life the way I want to. If you haven’t had a chance to pick it up my book yet, you can download it from Amazon though this link.

Happy Spring and Kudos to you on making a “Lifestyle Cleanse.” 🙂

You deserve abundance,

Anne Theriault

anne@annemtheriault.com

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The Key Elements of Building a Successful Business

If you are like most new entrepreneurs, you will most certainly make many mistakes in the process of building a successful business. You are human…and you will falter. Be ready to humble yourself, accept that you will fumble and fall, learn from your failures, pick yourself up, brush the dirt off your back, and continue to look in the only direction that will bring you success…Forward.

“Failure is the tuition you pay for success” ~ Walter Brunell

In the last 8 years since leaving my job for entrepreneurship, I have surrounded myself with many successful small business owners. I have taken notes, asked questions, investigated their tactics, picked their brain, silently watched and have done everything humanly possible to follow in their footsteps. In the process I have discovered the key ingredients of creating a business that can, and will survive in any economy…online or offline.

Putting People First

Putting your needs aside and putting people first is the foundation of any successful business. Building concrete relationships with your customers and associates will create trust. Once your customer trusts you, they will refer you to others, buy your products and continue using your services. Without trust and customer loyalty..businesses don’t have a fighting chance.

In the Online Marketing arena, thanking people may be as simple as re-tweeting an article, commenting on a comrades blog, or sharing their post on Facebook.

Zig Ziglar said it best when he said:

“You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.”

Market Yourself, Not Your Business

Spamming and slamming everyone you encounter with a sales pitch about your new product or business is not only unattractive…it’s completely ineffective. People can smell the desperation all over you. Cold calling strangers, neighbors or old friends, and pitching your network marketing business opportunity to them in the first few sentences of a conversation, is not only self serving…it’s downright annoying. You may not realize this…not only are you wasting your time, you are also wasting their valuable time too.

The great leaders of the most successful businesses today didn’t get where they are by jamming the phone lines and filling people’s in-boxes with useless and self serving sales pitches.

Remember what we all learned from our parents as a small child?

“You only get one chance to make a first impression” ~ Mom and Dad.

Learn the simple principles of Attraction Marketing. Not only will you see positive results in your business, but you will begin to see a difference in yourself as well.

Do Business With A Conscience

Your reputation as a person will become the fuel and driving force behind your business’s success. Be honest and forthright. If you lose the trust of one associate or customer, it can only take a few minutes, a few phone calls, or a few quick conversations…to lose them all.

One of my community’s most prominent and successful business owners has this sign in all of his stores.

“It can take weeks and months to gain a customer…but only seconds to lose them”

Self Education

Self education is in-arguably one of the most effective tools in creating a successful business. Becoming a business owner puts you in the driver’s seat. You no longer have anyone leading the way. It’s up to you to seek out all of the quality information you can get your hands on to implement your business plan. Invest in yourself. It will prove to be the best investment you will ever make.

“Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune” ~ Jim Rohn

In A Nutshell

The holy grail of running a successful business doesn’t lie in the product you are Marketing or the service you offer. Implementing these key elements and tweaking them as you go along, is what most successful business owners focus on.

Surround yourself with leaders, listen to leaders…and learn from leaders.

And at the end of the day, after you’ve mastered how to implement the key elements of building a successful business, chances are…

You will be able to sell pet rocks to the President…or ice to an Eskimo. 🙂

To Your Abundance,