How Can You Be a Successful Entrepreneur?

Digging deeper into exploring the qualities of top-tier female CEOs, this female entrepreneur recognized a pattern that was the foundation for sustainable success.  It boils down to 5 traits women must have or develop to succeed.

1. Build a team 
2. Find a mentor 
3. Think differently 
4. Understand your strengths 
5. Be confident 

Read the entire article here.

50 Fastest: Is That You?

Entrepreneur magazine, in partnership with the Women Presidents' Organization (WPO), is launching the 2nd annual list of the 50 fastest-growing women-led companies across the nation and Canada.

That's gotta be you! Apply here. And good luck!

What Mood Are You In?

Are you pessimistic about the economy or jumping for joy that you are putting all sorts of great new ideas into play?

Here's what some folks are saying.

At the same time, find out what the biggest difference is between men and women business owners.

WomenEntrepreneur.com

My favorite entrepreneurial magazine, Entrepreneur, has just launched a website designed exclusively for the growing women's business community.

It's all ours ladies. Check it out!

A Time Out From Entrepreneurship

Never enough time? Tell me about it. But maybe if you practice these time management techniques, you just might get your life back.

Karen Behnke is CEO of Juice Beauty, a San Rafael, California, organic beauty products firm that projects sales of more than $10 million this year. "Our top line is doubling, our EBITDA is doubling," says Behnke, 49. "We're doing very well."

But like the rest of us, Behnke has days when life gets in the way. She recalls one chaotic workday when her husband, Howard Luria, an interventional cardiologist, was away and she needed to make an hour-long drive to Napa where her dad, who is battling a brain tumor, had gotten worse.

To add to the stress, Behnke was between babysitters and didn't have anyone to watch her son and daughter, ages 9 and 7, until she got back. She made hasty child-care arrangements with another mom and began making her way over the winding roads to Napa with her phone ringing nonstop. One minute, her 83-year-old mother was calling; the next minute, she was taking a scheduled client call or speaking with one of Juice Beauty's 30 employees. Then there was the emotion involved in checking her dad into the hospital.

It was 9 p.m. when Behnke finally got home and put the kids to bed, but it wasn't lights out for her yet: She opened her laptop to find 120 e-mails waiting for her. "Those are the days that you think, ‘Oh, my God. How am I going to do this?'" she says. "When something lands on top of [my schedule], that's when it just kind of falls apart."

OK friend. Time out. Or if you really want to get your life back, go here.

Separately and from the book "Women Who Changed The World:"

Chapter 42
Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life. ~ Mary Quant