Meeka Claxton - Million Dollar Girls: Guide To Success In Six

For those of you that are already familiar with my platform, you know that I am a huge supporter of entrepreneurial empowerment especially among women. As a woman myself, maybe Im a bit biased but, Ive always felt that women make the best bosses. I travel doing seminars advocating more women in business and on my website, www.MeekaClaxton.com, I offer female entrepreneurs the tools and support theyll need to succeed. Sometimes, all we need is a little help along the way. Do you have dreams and aspirations of being a BOSS? Are you ready to finally turn your passion into a million dollar reality? If your answers are yes, then this eBook is for you.

Ive always believed that its never too early or too late to take control of your destiny. Theres no right or wrong time to take my steps and start applying it to your own life. Whether you are 15 years old or 50 years young, its never too early or too late to make the choice to claim your success.

The key to achieving success AND maintaining that success is being properly prepared for it when your time comes. Preparing yourself for success is one of those things that you would think is self-explanatory and Im sure as you read this youre even saying to yourself, Oh, Im ready!! But if you think youre ready just because you know you want to be an entrepreneur and you already have a mug that says BOSS sitting in your kitchen cabinet, then thats your 1st mistake. You have to be more than just ready for all of the success coming your way, you also need to be prepared.

So, youre ready. You know exactly what you want to do and youve set your goals. Now what? Well, now you follow these steps and you will not only be prepared for success, youll also be 100% ready to maintain that success for a lifetime:

CLAIM WHATS YOURS

As I blew out my candles today, I closed my eyes for the first time since I was probably 3 to make my birthday wish and it was amazing! I saw my future so clearly. It will be mine one day, thats for sure. I am claiming my success today, August 7, 1994 at 10:51pm.

--August 1994, Meeka C. (Diary excerpt)

I cant begin to count how many times a day I get asked for business advice. Twitter, Facebook and my website are all flooded daily with questions on how to become what I like to call a Million Dollar Girl. Hands down, my #1 fan question is Whats your secret? And to that, my answer is simple and has remained the same since Day 1, There is NO secret. You just have to WANT it!

Being successful is a choice. You make the choice to set goals, you make the choice to stick to those goals and most importantly you choose to not let certain things or people distract you from achieving those goals. I made the choice to be successful when I was 15 years old and to this day 15 is my lucky number for that very reason. Claiming my successful future changed my life forever and made me the Million Dollar Girl that I am today.

Becoming a Million Dollar Girl isnt complicated but its far from easy. What I mean by this is that you dont need a PhD, theres no secret code and unlike on television, you dont have to step all over people, eat insects or practically die trying to earn it. Instead, you have to claim it, own it and then be ready to put in the work.

Making the choice and deciding wholeheartedly to move toward success is the hardest part for a lot of us that grow up in an inner city. We grow up in an environment where drugs and failure is our reality and often times were conditioned into believing that thats all we should expect out of life. Anything more than that is pure luck. We grow up believing that we dont deserve love and happiness, let alone success and wealth. To us, that only happens in the movies. But the truth is, no matter where youre from or what youve been through, the best life has to offer is within arms-reach and its yours if you want it. But once you decide that you want it, its up to you to claim it and everything you want along with it.

Claiming your future can be confusing for people. Its more than just thinking about your future and its more than simply wishing for things to happen. Claiming your future goes a bit beyond setting goals and writing them down. To properly claim your future requires a combination of speaking your successes into existence, never backing down and believing beyond any shadow of a doubt that your destiny will be fulfilled when the time is right.

Words have what I like to call an invisible super power. Your words have an uncanny ability to manipulate your emotions and guide your actions both negative and positive. If you walk around saying, Im unlucky chances are youll never catch a break. You have the power to choose what words will guide you on your journey from this moment on. Your subconscious mind accepts what you continue to say repeatedly as true and, in turn, attracts corresponding situations into your life. Most people repeat negative statements about their life, which subsequently creates undesirable events. Why choose to constantly repeat negative statements only to get negative results?

I choose to give my lifes events positive motivators. I set the tone for my day by reciting positive affirmations out loud daily. I dont give negative energy the chance to pull me down. Reciting positive affirmations consistently throughout my day helps me to attract success. I swear by positive affirmations in my own life and I attribute all of my successes to the power that positive affirmations have had over the way I approach business.

LET YOUR PAST INSPIRE YOUR FUTURE

I never understood why so many people leave where theyre from and never want to go back. Im the person I am today because of where Im from and that, Ill never forget! I owe it all to QueensQueens taught me my hustle

-- May 2009, Meeka C. (Journal excerpt)

I hear it all the time. Women constantly using where they are from and what they have been through as excuses for their current situations, bad attitudes, failed relationships and reasons why they cant get to the top. But the truth is, we all have pasts. Yes, Im in a great space now. And yes, I have everything I could have ever dreamt of and more. I am blessed beyond measure, so who am I to talk about real life right? Wrong!

Most women try to forget about their pasts while I have a different take on the past. Women should remember their pasts and use it as a trigger for their future successes. You have to remember that you are not the only person who has a painful past. Every single person around you has gone through a lot in his or her own life.

Who am I? Ill tell you who I am. I am just like you! Im from where youre from and Ive dealt with real issues just like you. And at only 34 years old, I have had to deal with my share of real life. But I refuse to crawl up in a hole and allow my past to be a hindrance to my future. Instead of crying about how hard Ive had it and taking it out on the rest of the world, I chose early on to use my past and the things that I couldnt control to fuel my drive and determination to be successful in life.

Its very simple. If your past overwhelms you, you will never be able to move forward. Instead, if you allow yourself to use the angst of your past as life lessons for your present self, youll go far.

Youve heard it before; you cant change your past. Unfortunately, this is absolutely true. No matter what you do unless you have a time machine your past is your past. It will forever be a part of you. But what you can do is take charge of your future and change it for the better. In order to do this, you have to be willing to let go of your past. Believe me, I know that this is easier said than done. It takes a different kind of strength to let go of the past, the kind of strength that requires you to dig deep down within yourself for the courage to deal with the pain as well as the power to overcome it and move forward.