Ventures Enterprising News & Ideas for Nutrition Entrepreneurs
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Things to Do
to Get What You Really Want Penny Wilson, PhD, RDN, CSSD, LD Chair
“If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to improve, you have to improve. If you grow, everything grows for you.” - Jim Rohn I heard this quote a couple of years ago listening to a Darren Hardy audiobook. I had to stop, back up and listen to it a couple of times. Huh? I have to become more to get more? What does that mean? As I continued listening, I got it. You aren’t the same person you were five years ago. Hopefully. You aren’t the same person you were when you graduated from high school, or the same person you were when you started your dietetics program. You’ve learned a lot. You’ve met a lot of people. You completed your internship and passed your RDN exam. If you look back on the person you were when you started your RDN program, do you recognize yourself? What would you tell yourself now that you wish you’d known then? Looking forward, who do you want to be one year, three or five years from now? What kind of life do you want to have? What do you want your business to be like? As Jim Rohn said,“If you want to have more, you have to become more.” Who do you have to become to live the life and have the business you want? How do you even figure this out? Below are four steps you can use to start changing and getting what you really want. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” - Socrates
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Spring 2016 Volume XXXII Number 4 Embracing Change: How to Make Sure Your Business is Always Evolving
In This Issue: Four Things to Do to Get What You Really Want ����������������������������������������������������������������������������1 Newsletter Editor Letter ��������������������������������������2 Beyond Traditional Media: Videos, Podcasts, and Self-Publishing ������������������������3
You have to embrace that this means you have to change. If you aren’t ready to change, then change won’t happen. Mandy Hale said,“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” First, get ready and excited about changing.
Feeling Stuck? Change it Up! ��������������������������4
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Visualize who you want to be and the life you want to have. Get as detailed as you can. Think about who you are, what your life is like, and what your business will be like in the future. This applies whether you work for someone else or you have your own business. What do you want your work to be like? Write all this down. Be detailed. And, write it like it is already reality. Writing it down helps you get more detailed about what you want.
Changing in Business ������������������������������������������7
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Figure out what you have to do to achieve the life you came up with in the last step. Which classes do you need to take? What skills do you need to develop? What do you need to stop doing? Often, there are things that we need to stop doing to become whom we want to become.
Are You Ready to Be an Author? Try Self-Publishing! �������������������������������������������15
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Does Your Vision for 2016 Include Embracing Change? �����������������������������������������19
th “Just Do It!” Prioritize the things you
need to do and start working through your list. Stop a few times a year to reevaluate and be sure you’re on track and don’t need to adjust. Be sure what you planned is still what you want, and that the skills you thought you need are still relevant. or scary, remember,“If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.” ~ Unknown
Dr. Penny Wilson is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian and a Board Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics. She helps women with IBS learn to control their symptoms so they can live a normal life.Through her private practice - Eating for Performance - Penny uses integrative and functional nutrition to address her clients’ needs. She was the dietitian for the Houston Rockets and the
Delegates’ Corner ��������������������������������������������������5 A 5 Year Review ������������������������������������������������������5 Members on the Move ����������������������������������������6 More Results from the Member Survey ������7 My Mother, My Husband and the Saleswoman Who Dressed Me ����������������������9 “Rigatoni Bolognese, Please” �����������������������11 Don’t Just Embrace the Change, Be the Change ���������������������������������������������������12 Listen Up! Use Customer Feedback to Help Evolve Your Business �������������������������13 I Hate Changing �������������������������������������������������14
Product Review ���������������������������������������������������16 As They Say, If You Don’t Move Forward, You Will Be Left Behind. ���������������17 Grow by Embracing Change �����������������������18
New Technology: What Do I Need? �����������20 How NE Inspired My Changing Business Vision �����������������������������21 The Importance of Venturing Outside of Dietetics �������������������������������������������23 Mini Meetings ���������������������������������� Back Cover Webinars �������������������������������������������� Back Cover
Sugar Land Skeeters. In addition to her work with athletes, Penny taught sports nutrition at the University of Houston for six years. Penny is a professional member of the National Speakers Association.