You're listening to the online marketing made easy podcast episode number 142.

Welcome to the online marketing made easy podcast business advice so easy you'll feel like you're cheating and now your host Amy Porterfield.

Well, hello there. Welcome to another episode of the online marketing made easy podcast. I'm your host Amy Porterfield and as always I'm thrilled that you've tuned in.

Now if you're listening in somewhat real time then happy new year. This is the very first episode of 2017 and I am absolutely excited to ring in the new year with you.

There are so many opportunities that lie ahead. Now if you're listening to this a few months later or maybe a year later this episode will still be completely relevant so definitely keep listening.

Now to start off the episode we're going to be talking about bold moves and there's this quote that I absolutely love from Norman Vincent Peele and this is what he says.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it you'll never get anything done.

Isn't this so true? There will never be an absolutely certain time to do anything important in your life especially when it comes to your business.

Now if you're not taking risks if you're not making bold moves in your business then you're not allowing your business to grow and reach new heights.

So today I wanted to start the year off with saying make a bold move in your business to shake things up for the new year. Take a chance, take a risk.

Now I believe that you have to get uncomfortable in order to make big shifts in any area of your life.

Now I can't take full credit for that because I learned that when I work with Tony Robbins he was always talking about getting uncomfortable in order to grow and I definitely subscribe by this way of thinking.

Now when I'm talking about uncomfortable I mean that you might do something that's scary or really awkward I feel awkward all the time when I'm doing things in business that are new so maybe you can relate or just extreme uncertainty.

The thing is you might just feel like you're going crazy like what am I doing this is crazy this is such a leap of faith but you have to get into those moments I believe in order to grow in order to move in the right direction.

So with this episode I am encouraging you to make a bold move in spite of fear in spite of awkwardness in spite of any extreme uncertainty that you might be feeling.

Now I also want you to get extremely strategic so I'm not just going to say do something risky and then leave you with that because you know everything I do is very calculated so we're going to talk about that today.

Now specifically in today's episode I have seven ways for you to make a bold move in your business.

Most of these I've done myself along the way I don't want you to do them all at once so just for the record I'm hoping you just choose one of these today.

But I've done most of these along the way and I know for a fact they can boost your business and they can be an absolute game changer.

Now before I dive into all seven of them I want to tell you about this episode's special freebie you know that with most of my many trainings I do on my podcast I have a freebie and what I don't want my freebies to be are just notes from the episode I think it's important that if I'm going to offer a freebie that you give your name and email for in exchange for whatever I've created.

I want it to enhance what you've learned here and so I thought about this one for a while and what I've decided to do is I've decided to share with you my personal list of the ten books that I'm going to dive into in 2017.

So I haven't read these books but they've all been recommended to me by my mentors are people that have done amazing things in their businesses and people that I trust.

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