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The 4th Annual Grow Your Dreams Conference

4/13/2017

April 8, 2017-Virginia Beach, VA I sat on a business panel with five other entrepreneurs, coaches and authors. Everyone was most impressed with a 9-year-old entrepreneur who attended the conference for the second year in a row with his notebook and pen taking notes, and his very mature questions.

His name is Ellis and he's looking for sponsors to support his business dream. You can learn more about him on his page.

Having a mentor for various areas of your life is crucial. That's what parents are. They mentor, hopefully, and train us for adulthood. They're only given the first 20% or less of our lives to guide us in full measure, and from then on we're responsible for finding our own mentors and coaches.

I'm a mentor and I have several mentors. I LOVE to connect with experts and learn from them. One of my mentors told me at the conference this past weekend, that I'm not only mentoring and coaching because of the deep heart and personal issues I address; that I'm actually counseling. What's interesting about this is that a few people have recently suggested I return to college to get a doctorate. I've always said if I ever did get a doctorate it would be in psychology.

I love The Grow Your Dreams Conference. It's served as a launching pad for greater things for me each of the three years I've been honored as a speaker. I expect even greater next year.

If you want to be launched into your next level, you have to go where the launching pad is. Launching pads don't come to you. I'm available, and the conference has opened early registration for 2018. Don't delay. Windows of opportunity close.

WA Business Week 11/28-12/2/2016

12/8/2016

Pasco School District's 17th Enterprise Week 2016
TRAC
Pasco, WA

I designated the last two months of 2016 for volunteer work and to serve others. In November I gave my time and expertise to two clients in the form of daily mentoring sessions. Each were facing difficult situations and indicated their lives depended on taking authority, responsibility and doing whatever was necessary to make changes so they could get out of negative cycles once and for all.

I specialize in desperate situations and enjoy walking others out of them and into abundance. If you ever find yourself in what is a seemingly impossible circumstance, consider booking a session or at least schedule a call. You don't have to accept anything as "just a part of life," or "your lot." I facilitate change in lives and lots regularly.

Unless, of course, you want to just deal. I used to have that mindset, but I've decided I don't want to just deal ... I want to overcome and evelate consistently. You can, too. You can overcome anything - sickness, death, divorce, financial crisis, you name it. And I have supernatural strategies to help.

Last year - my first as a Company Advisor - my student employees won in two categories. This year's seniors won in 4!!! I'm so proud of them. Their elected CEO wasn't as capable as was implied, so everyone else stepped up, put in extra work and they prospered. I was thinking about how often that happens in business. The Theranos issue comes to mind immediately. And, Yahoo, too.

Also, this year's group of kids were much kinder and compliant. Which was wonderful. All 1,000 of them, not just my group. In 2015 there were physical fights, arguments, disrespect of adults and each other was rampant. I enjoyed Enterprise Week 2016 even more than the first time around.

I've already received an email from one of the students, Michelle, requesting a Letter of Recommendation. She thanked me for an amazing experience and said she couldn't have had a better CA than me! That's pretty good feedback. Another student, Alex, asked me to sign his award certificates; he wanted it known who his CA was. That's big honor.

And once again I was highlighted before the school district and others in the community. One CA came up and shared that he'd been volunteering for six years but had never won with his student employees, and he acknowledged my efforts. Well ... the student employees do the work, I just give advice, information and resources. Enjoy the slideshow.

Make Good Use of Your Name

8/25/2016

Social media is a fabulous marketing tool for any budget. With the creation of hashtags you can draw attention to any topic and even start a movement or go viral.

I have tons of websites and urls so I spent some time attempting to build a landing page that linked to all the others, and I wasn't able to do it. So I bought another domain and built a kind of landing page on a whole different website.

Then, I noticed someone quoted me on social media and used my name as a hashtag – #ZariBanks. When I saw that I had an "ah-ha" moment. Because my website is my name I could use it as a hashtag each time I posted it on social media (see pic above).

People really do click on hashtags. I know I do, and it just makes sense to make good use of my name because there aren't many others with it out there (if any), and none that do what and all I do. There's even a search engine just for hashtags – hashatit.com – which you can use to search when you need to see what's already in use and how.

So, if you're a business owner, blogger, whatever, consider having an about page using your name for the domain. It's a priceless branding strategy. Then train others, by example of use, how to find you on social media by using your name as a hashtag. I shared this in the GYDN business group and one of the members is doing it – #EmpoweredWives.club.

If you're ever on Twitter or Facebook, search #ZariBanks and check me out.

If you need more quick and effective strategies for your toolbox consider enrolling in the Supernatural Success Mentee Portal. If you need personalized success strategies, book a package or schedule a call today.

Greater is Out There

7/28/2016

Sometimes being laid off from a job is the best thing that could ever happen. It ignites a fire inside to go look for the next thing and sometimes, sometimes it sparks creativity that births million-dollar inventions and companies.

I didn't realize it in 2009, but being laid off from public education was the best thing for me because it freed me to live my dreams.

More from The 3rd Annual Grow Your Dreams Conference

7/14/2016

April 8-12, 2016
Virginia Beach, VA

Get your dreams ignited, nourished and launched at The 4th Annual Grow Your Dreams Prophetic Business Conference, April 7-9, 2017.

Life-Changing Dreams

6/30/2016

Do you make a focused effort to remember and record your night dreams? You should. But, I suppose as a dreamer and interpreter I'm a little biased. 😉

I've received great information for improving various aspects of my life in dreams, including money-making endeavors. I've had at least three of the books I've written downloaded to me in night dreams; so when I awoke and sat down to write, the words flowed out of me and within hours I was able to make money on pre-orders.

Here are some easy steps to help you begin remembering and benefiting from your dreams:

Try to awake naturally — without an alarm or anything else that would startle you -- as often as possible.
Keep a journal and pen right next to your bed so you can wake up and record before much movement. I recommend you use a journal specifically for dreams without any other types of notes for ease. Yes, this means you may have two or more journals going at a time, but so be it.
Write down as much as you can; which may not be much in the beginning. As you make the effort to recall and record, you'll remember more.

As the saying goes, "You'll find that which you seek." This is true for remembering your dreams as well. As you focus on recall, the amount and details will become more obvious and as the habit forms, dreams and your connection to them will increase.

Lie down without fear and have peaceful dreams. 😴💤

Supernatural Strategies for Success in Business #GYDreams2016

5/5/2016

The 3rd Annual Grow Your Dreams Conference

4/28/2016

April 8-10, 2016
Virginia Beach, VA

Testimonial March 2016

3/17/2016

There's nothing better than reading in someone's own words how you impacted their life.

Today I'm sharing a recent testimonial I received from a client. Remember: we can take someone else's testimony and use it to construct a vision of what's also possible for us in the future. If it can happen for one, it can happen for us all.

If you're ready to start living the life of your dreams, schedule a call or book a package today.

Release Your Authentic Self So You Can Soar

2/1/2016

I was honored to be a speaker at the 1st Annual Profit with Passion Virtual Summit this weekend. Here's a snippet of my interview.