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Million-Dollar Business Lessons from Leonie Dawson

June 25, 2015 By Johanna Baker-Dowdell Leave a Comment

 

Who doesn't want a hug from Leonie Dawson?

Who doesn’t want a hug from Leonie Dawson?

Leonie Dawson is not your average million-dollar business owner. She has green chalked hair that matches her flowing, mismatched clothing. She swears. A lot. Her presentation bullet points are pretty pictures and she advocates all things hippy.

 

But all these things do not matter when you have the successful ingredients to run a successful business. And Leonie has that in abundance. Leonie happily shares how she grew her business from $30,000 turnover to $1 million last year; and how she plans to double that amount to top $2 million this year.

 

I live-tweeted Leonie’s tips from last night’s presentation and then collated them on Storify, but my three top take homes were:

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Filed Under: Business Tips Tagged With: business tips, education, growing a million dollar business, Leonie Dawson, mastermind group, personal development

Moving Mountains with my Focus

January 29, 2015 By Johanna Baker-Dowdell 2 Comments

Focus“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” ~ Steve Jobs

 

Like many, I awaited the end of 2014 with a mixture of trepidation and excitement. For me 2014 was a blessing and a curse. It was not a good year for me personally with a major foot injury clipping my wings for five months, but I celebrated many successes including being confirmed as a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania so it wasn’t all bad.

 

To start me off on the right track I chose a word, incorporating ideas from Christine Kane, Leonie Dawson and Kelly Exeter. My word for 2015 is “Focus”, which I settled on because I want to stop reacting to other’s priorities and trying to do everything concurrently so I can concentrate on less to do my tasks better. And because I feel inspired by pretty things, I decorated a poster for my office during a craft morning with my boys to remind myself to stay focused.

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Filed Under: My Stuff Tagged With: Christine Kane, focus, goal setting, intentions, Kelly Exeter, Leonie Dawson, small business, Steve Jobs

My Vision for 2014

January 31, 2014 By Johanna Baker-Dowdell 5 Comments

Vision boardAs a visual person, nothing has been more powerful in helping me achieve than to have my goals in front of my eyes.

 

Last month I outlined my intentions for the year ahead and told you I would be spending a day with three special friends brainstorming and creating our vision boards for the year ahead. In preparation for this day we all completed Leonie Dawson’s Create Your Amazing Year workbooks. This made sure we had our goals, dreams and intentions right at the front of our minds.

 

As you can see from my board, there’s plenty of powerful images and a smattering of inspiring words. The board is divided into nine segments, based loosely on feng shui principles. From the top left and moving clockwise, the segments are spirituality, career, travel, creativity, relationships, aspirations, wealth and health, with my heart right in the middle.

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Filed Under: My Stuff Tagged With: goals, goals for 2014, inspiration, intentions, Leonie Dawson, vision board
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