By Bethany Williams

March 20, 2013

By Bethany Williams

Young WomenLead- Louisville

• Wife/Mother of 3• 27 Years in business• Author of four books & a popular

motivational blog• Professional Speaker & Blogger• Vice President at a local technology

firm- ZirMed• Named by the Dallas Business

Journal as one of the top 25 Dallas Business Women in 2010

• Healthcare info technology company in downtown Louisville

• Nationally recognized leader in delivering revenue cycle management solutions & pragmatic information exchange

• Ranked top in KLAS• Multi year recipient of Inc.

Magazine’s 500/5000 fastest growing companies

oDream Bigo LifeStyle DesignoMake it Happeno Find Your Strengths and Use ThemoHoopla over Little Thingso Annual Mid TermsoWhat’s Holding you Back

o Fearo Past Failures

oGo Put Your Plan to Work

Bethany Eastman2nd grade

Bethany Eastman4th grade

Just like I didn’t know in the7th grade what life would belike today

Bethany Eastman7th grade

Challenges will come yourway, but you can overcome

Bethany Eastman11th grade

Make it great!

2013• Not Traveling so much

• Working for a company I love

• Speaking to groupslike this one(Professional Speaker)

• Enjoying my job/life

• Have written 4 books

• Blogger/Guest writer

1995- 2005• Traveling too much• Flew 2,000,000

miles around theGlobe in 14 Years

• Constantly on airplanes• Had an office in London

& one in Seattle• Not satisfied with life• Not using my

strengths/gifts

• Dream a LOT– Yes- you are seeing this right

• We don’t dream enough– Your parents/teachers/coaches often discourage it

• Your first goal: Find what you were born to do!• You will need to ‘Try On’ different occupations/jobs to

find one that fits• You will know when you’ve found ‘It’

– You will find success– You will like it

• You can design the life you want to live

• Why don’t you believe this?

• Accept it

• Move forward with an Action Plan

• Design goals that build for you the Life that YOU want to live (not the one your mom/dad, Grandma, boyfriend or _____ wants you to live)

• Prioritize Life’s Areas – 1 God– 2 Family– 3 School/Job– 4 Relationships– 5 Fitness– 6 Hobbies

• Regardless of priority,Each One Shouldhave some attentionin your life

• Revisit these annually to see how you are doing and reset your focus

• What is your reality? – 1 Work/School/Career– 2 Family– 3 Relationships– 4 Fitness– 5 Interests– 6 God

• It’s no wonderwe grow into liveswhere we don’t feelsatisfied withwhere we got toOR we don’t getwhere we want to be

• Start by Creating Your Plan

• Write Down Your Goals

• Create STRETCH Goals– BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)

• Start moving towards those goals– Walk towards the goals

• Goals are ‘lofty’, they only get you ½ way there

• Put an action list together

• Write down the steps to get you further down the paths that you’d like to go down

• These ‘actions’ will get you closer to the life you want to live

• Translate those actions into progressive steps

• Start plotting the action lists into calendar entries

• Schedule personal time

• Block out vacation time/workout time and time with friends that you’d like to take

• Schedule hobby/special interest time

• Book planning time for your ‘dreaming’ and scheduling….do it now

• Annual Mid Terms– Get away from it all

Take a day in the country or a day ‘away’– Rethink, Re-measure & Re-evaluate– Discuss/evaluate where you are in each area of your

life– Discuss/evaluate the progress and needs for your life– Make a plan to move forward in the areas that you’ve

neglected

• Recommit to your goals and your life plan

• Fear– Failure– Fear of the unknown

• No time

• You’ve given up

• You don’t believe it can be any better

• Past failures have soured you

• #1 Thing that HOLDS us back

• We are critical of ourselves by nature

• Others see more in us than we see in ourselves

• Sometimes we only see our weaknesses

• Need= DEVELOP A BOLD BELIEF IN YOURSELF

• Fake Confidence Until you Feel It From Within

• Learn to ‘SEE’ your capabilities and strengths

• Develop a positiveself image

• Stop ‘seeing’ the bad

• Listen to how others view you

• Each of you have unique gifts/talents

• Rare combination

• Everyone has strengths they were born with

• You will stand out in your strength area

• Find your strengths by identifying areas that you are drawn to

• Your strengths will energize you

• Using Strengths = Satisfaction

• Finding strengths– www.strengthsfinder.com

• Great books on the subject– Now, Discover your Strengths– The Truth About You

• You will STAND OUT• You should move towards a career/

vocation that uses your strengths• This will help you to develop

self esteem/confidence

• Celebrate the little events in your life– Promotions– Good grades– Achievements at school/work– Special events for your

family/friends/parents/grandparents

• Celebration over the tiniest events– First mid term

• Try desperately to LIVE IN THE MOMENT

• Failure knocks us down

• We give up on our goals too easily

• We let others tell us what we cannot do

• We stop trying

• We don’t persevere

• Failures are our stepping stones tosuccess

• No one gets anywhere without a roadmap

• Biggest mistake I see? Targeting too low

• This is easy to do- but we let our fears drive us– Behind every successful person is a long string of

failures

• Map out a plan that lays out YOUR TRUE DESIRES (BHAGS)

• Visualize the path and move in that direction

Great things can happen in your life:Believe it

Dream itReach for it

and Go Achieve it!

Start with a plan and head down the path, one step at a time….

CalebAge 14

HeatherAge 25

Michaelspouse

Brandon , Age 18

• Secrets to business success for women

• Tips and Advice to improveyour salary and to advance at the office

• Written when GE acquired the company I was working for

• Published in April 2008

• Written as a mentoring guidebook to aid parents with the tumultuous teenage years

• How do you find peace in a household of hormones?

• Introduces rights and responsibilities grids

• Released in 2010

• Create a Brand that Sells YOU to a Market with Stiff Competition

• Simple steps to define your unique brand

• Advice on marketing your brand

• Package & Market Yourself better than you ever have

• Written when the economy forced many out of work

• Hit #1 on Amazon’s Hot new releases the first week of its release

• Released in Oct 2011

• Get up, and get going!• Live the life you were born to

live• Start dreaming and creating

the action plan to get you closer to living the life you’ve always dreamed of

• Just released Jan 3, 2013

• Cell 502-551-1871• Email: Bethany@bethanywilliams.org• Questions: Feel free to submit questions

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Email me what steps you’ve taken!

Work Web Page: www.ZirMed.com – Personal Web Page: www.bethanywilliams.org– Blog: www.bethanywilliams.info

• 1998- Jamaica• 1999

– Hawaii– Antigua, West Indies

• 2000– Niagara Falls, Canada– Snoqualmie Falls, Washington

• 2001– Lake Taho, Nevada & Las Vegas

• 2002– Tour of Italy– Paris, France– Scottsdale, Arizona– Seattle, Washington– Ghana, Africa Mission Trip– Nasau Bahamas

• 2003- Turks & Caicos Islands• Paris, France

• 2004• Mykonos & Athens Greece & London• Virgin Islands

•2005•Belize, Central America•Aruba

•2006•Phuket & Bangkok, Thailand•Tokyo, Japan•Acapulco, Mexico•Denari, Alaska

•2007•Great Wall, China•Playa Del Carmen, Mexico•Kona, Hawaii

• 2008• Rio De Janero, Brazil Couples Trip• Dominican Republic Family Trip

• 2009• St Kitts Couples Trip• Grand Canyon Family Trip

• 2010• Tahiti and Bora Bora Couples Trip• Costa Rica Family Trip

• 2011• Singapore & Malysia Couples Trip• Barbados Family Trip

• 2012• Machu Picchu & Galapagos Couples Trip• France & tour of Italy Family Trip

• Set Goals!

• Make an action plan

• Define the steps

• Schedule activities into your calendar

• Go make it happen