Guest Blogger Monica Carter Tagore
Meet Monica Carter Tagore on her April 2008 Virtual Book Tour
Monica will be the guest blogger for the week of April 6-12, 2008
Please visit this post often to read the inspiring messages left by author and motivational speaker Monica Carter Tagore. Join us in celebrating the release of her new book, Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets.
Monica Carter Tagore is a successful business owner and award-winning author, who reveals her key to achievement, in her book Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets. She also packs the book with insights and advice from high achievers who are at the top of their field, including award-winning filmmaker and author William Joyce, bestselling author Judy Pace Christie, internationally known speaker Les Brown, self-made millionaire philanthropist Dr. Deavra Daughtry, and more.
Author and speaker Monica Carter Tagore
This is a book for people who are tired of doing what they’ve always done and getting what they’ve always got. It’s for people who are ready to make real personal, professional and financial changes in their lives. It’s for people who want 2008 to be their best year yet. Check out Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets.
Read her daily blogs below and please share your opinions, comments, and questions too!
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Ten questions about Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets, and its author, Monica Carter Tagore:
Interview with Monica Carter Tagore
1. What is Zoom Power about:
Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets helps release people from their self-imposed limitations. Many people want to be successful in life, but they think they can’t attain it. They think success is something only “other” people have. But Zoom Power helps readers see success isn’t some mysterious force bestowed only upon a “lucky” few, it’s accessible to anyone who chooses to go after it with focus and perseverance.
2. What are the keys to success?
Two elements essential to success are focus and perseverance. These are the elements that make up the Zoom Power Equation for success. These elements are critical because focus – concentrated effort – creates power. Perseverance is important because it protects against the natural inclination to be discouraged at a disappointment. Perseverance is key because on the way to our goals and dreams, we will meet some hard times, but if we persevere, we can keep moving on and emerge on the other side of disappointment to find success.
3. What are some strategies people can use to implement what you suggest in the book?
Well, there are several strategies. One is to get clear on what you want. Most people are hazy about what they’re working toward. So get clear about what you want by defining your goal: instead of just saying you want to lose weight, say how much weight you will lose and in what kind of time frame. Another strategy is to write down your goal. If it’s not written down, it’s not happening. Taking a goal from your head and putting it on paper kind of seals the deal; it makes that aspiration more real.
4. What are some other suggestions from Zoom Power:
Well, there are several. One is this: Guard your mind. What I mean by that is you can’t entertain all the negative thoughts floating around. When you are on your road to success, you’ve got to fortify yourself with fuel for the journey. That fuel is confidence. One way to build confidence is to see the potential in your opportunities and not dwell on doubt, misgivings and the negativity of others. That may mean you’ll have to reduce – or eliminate – conversations with certain people. It may mean you spend less time reading certain things that don’t support where you are trying to go. We can’t control the thoughts that enter our minds, but we can control what we choose to entertain and embrace.
5. What if others think your dream is crazy?
Well, it’s your dream, not theirs. That means you sometimes have to be your own best cheerleader. You have to believe in the crazy. It may seem weird or off the beaten path to others, but if your dream is worthwhile, then believe in it. You will see it in your mind long before others see it in reality.
6. You present the counter argument that we can’t have it all. Isn’t this a bit unorthodox?
Well, it may not be what people want to hear, but it’s true. And, quite frankly, liberating. The thing that gets people into trouble is trying to do every single thing on their to-do lists and to be everything to everyone. You can’t have it all, so stop trying. That means make some smart choices and do those things that are most important or pressing.
7. Lots of people hear inspiration, but it doesn’t seem to work. They read books that are inspirational. They attend conferences and events that are uplifting. Yet, they seem to remain in the same positions they were before reading the books or attending the events. What gives?
Well, this is the thing about inspiration. Inspiration is something that sparks a thought. It gets you thinking about the possibilities for yourself. But you must then take that inspiration and turn it to action. Whether it’s Zoom Power or some other information source, the information source is there just to get you started. You’ve got to act upon what you learned.
8. Tell us about Monica Carter Tagore. What do you do?
Well, I am the president of a copywriting, design and publishing company and am the publisher with my husband, of Knowledge Wealth Series, http://www.knowledgewealthseries.com, which is an online resource for entrepreneurship and business for creative people. We launched this project as a way to help other creative people learn how to turn their talents and expertise into impact and income. Many people have talents or abilities but are unable to turn those into real businesses. We give people information and assistance in doing that. We offer articles, books, e-books, coaching and other resources. I also speak on entrepreneurship, success and empowerment through workshops and keynotes.
9. What other projects are you working on?
Well, Knowledge Wealth Series keeps me pretty busy. We are constantly working to add resources to the Knowledge Wealth Series Web site. So I write a lot of articles on business and entrepreneurship, and lately, I’ve been conducting a lot of workshops. We’re sharing the Zoom Power message of personal empowerment so more people realize they can create unlimited success in their own lives.
10. What do you do when you’re not writing books, speaking or working?
Well, I work a lot, because there is so much I want to accomplish. But when I’m not working, I like to watch movies, read, travel, go out to eat and spend time with my husband, typical things. I try to work out on a regular basis, and am more successful some weeks than on others. And during football season, you can find me watching football – most often the Dallas Cowboys.
Get sexy, fit and fine — with a plan
I was lured by a headline when I signed into my e-mail earlier today: “How to lose weight – fast.”
Who hasn’t been attracted by a headline that promises sexiness, weight loss and allure? The Savvy Sista loves to look good – and feel good. Wanting to look good is a no-brainer, and we’ve all tried some trick to alter how we look – whether it’s a crash diet to lose weight or a new shade of lipstick to draw attention to our kissable lips or a super sexy dress to showcase the junk in our trunks. Wanting to get fit is at the top of many a Savvy Sista’s to-do list. And that’s OK. A Savvy Sista has a right to look good, and why shouldn’t she? She is fabulous. But a Savvy Sista can’t forget the biggest reason for wanting to get fit: to be healthy and feel good.
We’re inundated with information every day about what we can do to lose a quick ten pounds or what we can do to squeeze into a new dress size by the weekend and whatnot. But those are quick fixes that often do not work or are too dangerous to try. The best solution to the unsightly bulges that occasionally plague the Savvy Sista is a sensible plan.
And you know I’m all about creating a plan to tackle a certain goal. In my book, Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets, I share strategies for achieving your goals and even give you a goal achievement plan to help you meet your own personal milestones. The reason I believe in plans is simple: they work.
And if losing weight is the focus of your plan, you can make it happen. We know the key to weight loss: It’s a mathematical equation. We have to burn more than we take in. So that means creating a plan for how you will do that: How will you change what you eat? How will you add more movement to your day? You don’t have to train for a marathon (by the way, I did that, and it worked for me) to lose weight, but you do want to get off the couch and do some moving around.
We’ll probably always be attracted by the headline that promises a quickfix, but we know the real fix for our fitness concerns is in our own actions. What will you do this week to get fit and fine?
*** Monica Carter Tagore is an entrepreneur, author, columnist and speaker. She is the publisher of http://www.knowledgewealthseries.com/, which provides resources on entrepreneurship and business for creative people. Her new book, Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets gives practical tools, tips and strategies to achieve goals and find success.