The Ms. CEO Show

The Cure for All Entrepreneurial, Economic, Love and Life Blues

Love her or hate her, Martha Stewart knows the cure for all entrepreneurial, economic, love and life blues—ACTION.  The newspaper reports today that she is shaking up the ranks at her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and has let a few executives go recently and in the past few months.

The article says a lucrative contract with Kmart that includes minimum annual guaranteed payments to her company regardless of her product sales in their stores is also set to expire soon; and shareholders are groaning about the discontent at the top of the company and what the upheaval will mean for profitability.

Who knows what the real story is or what will eventually happen. I can tell you this though: Martha Stewart wins because Martha Stewart takes action.  Business challenges and life circumstances can take you out if you let them.  But only if you let them.  This is because you are in the driver’s seat and every single challenge in life can be surmounted with proper action.  Moreover, all of your heart’s desires can be achieved through proper action.

A problem is a puzzle awaiting action.  Positive, focused and properly planned and executed action turns a problem into a victory.  All of life is about action—whether you choose to take it or not. Everything about life is always moving so you can either:

·         Have things happen to you.

·         Have things happen around you; or

·         Have things happen through you.

Be clear, it’s not about control.  Back in 2005, Martha Stewart gave her best shot at controlling the outcome of her sentence for the criminal offense of insider trading—she did not want to go to jail but she was acted upon by others as a result of actions she had taken.  She couldn’t control what others did but she could control her response to their decision.  She did her time, came out, and took action.  Where did her action take her?  Right back to the top.

Are you beating your head against the wall about a business problem?  Is the economic topsy turvy of the world frightening you to death?  Worried about your job?  Dreaming of starting a part-time business?  Just had your heart broken or wishing that you were in a loving or fulfilling relationship?  Something else in life got you down?

Good!  That’s right.  I said it.  Good! 

These are all life problems waiting for you to solve them through action.  DO something about your circumstances and they will change.  And you will discover your power and be stronger because of it.  Don’t sit around waiting for your destiny to unfold.  Unfold it now.  Keep living decisively and by action and you will soon realize that fewer things get you down and not much can get in your way because you have the mind of a winner and you take action to get what you want!  The cure for ALL blues in life is quite simply, my friend, A-C-T-I-O-N!

Be Encouraged,

Felicia Joy