What I Learned My First Year in Business- Lisa Peck, Step It Up Queen

By startupprincess | Published May 28, 2009

Lisa Peck, Life Coach, Author, mother of 7 and “Step It Up Queen” asked some very introspective questions at our SLC Startup Princess Chapter event recently. (This the 2nd of six posts focusing on the subject “What I Learned My First Year in Business”. The first if you missed it was by Rachael Herrscher of Today’s Mama. The following are Startup Princess Founder, Kelly King Anderson’s notes from the event)

Lisa Peck asks:

What are your core values?

What are the words you’re using to describe yourself and your business?

What are you drawn to?

What makes you most fulfilled?

Once you know the answers to these questions Peck suggests finding a mentor who can help you be more authentic self and not put their values onto yours.

Peck suggests that one business strategy that has been successful for her is to make one major goal per quarter.

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Way to go Lisa, great questions and advice. I’m definitely encouraged to focus on one major goal per quarter, what a great way to break it down. Thank you for your wisdom and contributing to Startup Princess!

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2 Responses to “What I Learned My First Year in Business- Lisa Peck, Step It Up Queen”

Shannon on May 28th, 2009 6:29 pm

Hooray for Lisa! I read all the questions with interest, but I was most happy to see the first question, “What are your core values?” It’s so easy to lose sight of yourself in the first year of a startup. Gotta go set a quarterly goal now…. THANKS.

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Lisa J. Peck on May 30th, 2009 6:42 am

If a business owner can identify their top three values and then build their business around that they are much happier, less stressed, and more likely to be successful. It is a powerful question that if you truly honor works wonders in many business peoples’ lives.

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