Transform your life and your business!
I want to introduce you to a friend of mine. You may have heard of her – her name is Kate Ripp, the queen of action for results that matter. I have been working with Kate, as my personal and business coach. She has helped me with a program called “Best Year Yet”, which I loved! With Kate’s help, I’m in a better place with balancing running the West Chamber and running around 5-year-old twins! Many of my BYY goals have helped the West Chamber staff with our 2010 Program of Work and we are all marching to the same tune.
Well, Kate wants to teach YOU exactly how she’s helped her clients double their income, eliminate distractions, and live a life that they love, with confidence, and filled with success in relationships, finances, health, creativity and business. And she’s doing it for free with Best Year Yet in her BRAND-NEW webinar “5 Steps To Transform Your Life And Your Business” on Thursday, March 25, at 11 am MDT.
In a hurry? Grab your seat here
On this ground-breaking call you’ll:
1) Learn the key “Magic” steps to becoming a master at producing “the right” results
2) Highlight the most useful lessons of the past twelve months and apply them as powerful advice to keep you focused on doing the things that make the most difference
3) Uncover the underlying assumptions and mindsets that keep you vulnerable and slow you down—so you can release them and unleash the strong and powerful person you are meant to be
4) Make your short list of the Most Important RESULTS to have your best year yet
5) Leave the session re-energized and inspired with a renewed vigor t become a highly productive master at producing results
Here’s that link again to reserve your spot in this complimentary webniar
I hope to see you on the call!
Much success,
Amy Sherman
P.S. As you may or may not know, getting great results again and again is easier when you can tap into the secrets of masters who produce results. Let Kate walk you through the 5 Steps To Transform Your Life And Your Business. Here’s the link again
Amazing Philanthropy in Jefferson County
I’ve been blown away lately at the amount of philanthropic activity in Jefferson County. I had three of the most energetic meetings last Friday and couldn’t decide which one to talk about first. So I’ll mention all three.
You’ve seen the construction on the new animal shelter on 6th Avenue by the Jeffco Fairgrounds for months. Table Mountain Animal Center will become Foothills Animal Shelter this summer. It will be the second largest animal center in the metro area. The new 30,000 square foot facility will be more than double the size of the current one and will allow them to significantly improve current services. The capital campaign is underway and they are seeking to raise $3 million in a short amount of time. All animal lovers should consider the new Foothills Animal Shelter for charitable giving now by going to www.tablemountainanimals.org
From there, I moved on to another massive construction project, the St. Anthony Hospital off of 6th and Union. I am on the Art Committee, a group of people dedicated to raising money to place a beautiful piece of art in every room of the new hospital. The artwork collection for the new hospital is a blend of nature with an urban contemporary feel. Establishing a common foundation for patients, docs, nurses, and staff, the art collection will create an uplifting atmosphere that represents our physical being, as well as the spirit within all of us. We reviewed the overall art work themes – they are amazing. From “zen” to a sense of place to butterflies to family to colorful Colorado, the themes will support all employees and patients. All art lovers and fans of St. Anthony Hospital should consider donating on www.stanthonyhealthfoundation.org to help raise $2 million for the artwork collection.
And in the evening, my husband and I attended a fundraiser for the Jeffco 150 for Kids – a mission to bring a Boys & Girls Club to Jefferson County. We don’t have one, hard to believe isn’t it? We have a goal of raising $1 million by Saturday, May 1. All of Jeffco’s top leaders are chairing this effort. We know that Boys & Girls Clubs help kids build confidence and character and appreciation for civic and social achievement. This fundraising event was held at the new Paul Mitchell School in Belmar and we heard from top leaders, but most importantly the kids who have been saved by the Boys & Girls Clubs. We were so moved that we about volunteered to pay for college for one amazing young girl! We watched as almost everyone in the room went up on stage and donated $1,000 of personal money. Donations to the B&G Club effort are tax deductible and qualify for a 50% Colorado State Income Tax Credit. I have no doubt from the energy in that room that they will raise the $1 in the next six weeks. And you know what I’m going to say next…please help us! Go to www.bgcmd.org and join the effort to bring a Boys & Girls Club to Jefferson County.
Please give what you can to our amazing non-profits of Jefferson County – our future depends on it! Thanks for reading.
Much success,
Amy Sherman
Bitter battle over tax exemption eliminations
As most of you know from reading the local news, the business community is in a bitter battle this General Session with several tax exemption elimination bills on the way to Governor Ritter. Yesterday, one of our small business members told me that it would cost his company $85,000 and he would have to lay off two employees. So much for job creation.
Our lobbyist, RJ Hicks, sent an email reply the other day to explain why these bills are so detrimental to the business community and that the business community DOES support education. Here are his words of wisdom.
“The short answer to your question is that if business does not lose their tax credits and exemptions, the General Assembly will be looking for that money from somewhere. We could offer some ideas, but these measures for the most part will pass. The Chamber’s point of view is that business is reeling now, job losses have been substantial, unemployment continues at levels at or above 8%, and businesses have had to cut back on many expenditures including health care for their employees and other benefits as well. What I think is missed sometimes is that business is what makes the whole system work. Without jobs and healthy businesses, revenues go down and everyone in the food chain suffers- state-county-local governments.
Therefore school funding suffers. Business has been assessed over one billion in new fees from the 2009 legislative session on top of the economic woes we have been facing. So we have been asked several times to pay our share. The Chamber supports education, always has and always will. We need an educated work force and K-12 delivers that work force.
Tough times for all, but we must also look at setting realistic priorities for our government. We have to start to say we will focus on good schools, higher education, better roads, and workable safety net for social issues. But after that, we need to start making tough choices on what we fund. This cannot be business as usual. The Chamber also supports fixing the budget mess caused by our competing constitutional issues.
Unless we can find some real leadership to begin to tackle that issue, we will end up a sub-par state always settling for second best.”
Join our business advocacy efforts and check out www.jeffcobusinesslobby.org for more information.
Much success in business,
Amy Sherman
Welcome to the West Chamber Blog!
Welcome to the West Chamber blog! We hope you enjoy the new look of our website and find it simple to navigate. The website was designed with members’ feedback on what features they used most often. We will be adding pages/features over the course of the next two weeks so visit often to see this helpful work in progress. A huge thank you to the team at EduCyber for their wonderful work on the site and help in making this process virtually painless.
The West Chamber continues to develop our social media campaign. If you attended the Chairman’s Inaugural Celebration in January, you saw that we had our Twitter live (@westchamber) and members tweeted during the event. We gave our members a sneak preview of the new website to our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/westchamber) and asked for feedback on the initial peek. And I’m writing this from a hotel in San Fran at the Western Association of Chamber Executives conference where I am about to go into a Social Media for Chambers breakout session to learn more about what we can do for our members.
We have kicked off 2010 with several High Tech/High Touch tools and are excited about this year! Thank you for being a member of the West Chamber Serving Jefferson County!
Amy