When you run your own small business you are required to have many skills. However, to do this successfully you need to manage yourself first. Here are some motivating tips to success for small business owners to get them going.

Motivating Tips To Success No 1 – Take Care Of Yourself

• Have a healthy life, exercise regularly, eat good healthy food and be around people who have a positive attitude.
• Give your brain some new information and attend some development courses.
• Listen to tapes or read self-help and motivational books.
• By looking after yourself of yourself you will have more of energy, be motivated, and have more balance in your life which in turn will help you do more.

It seems to me the concept of living in the present or the Now is a focus of much conversation. One example is, Eckhart Tolle, who was recently featured on Oprah with a ten week webinar of his book The New Earth which is all about the power of living in the Now. I attended a week long Yoga and Meditation retreat in Mexico and the theme of the week was the power of living in the present. Life can only happen right now. It doesn't happen in the past and it can't happen in the future. The power of life is right now in the present.

I also attended a training program on giving powerful presentation. This was also a week long program and the main focus was on being present in all you do. The best way to connect with your audience is to be authentic and fully present in the moment. So what does this mean? To be present in the moment means that your mind is clear, you are not worrying about the past or future. You are focused only on being present right here and now.

While I was at the retreat in Mexico, I was reading a fascinating book by Dr. David Hawkins simply entitled " I: Reality and Subjectivity". Here is his description of living in the present. He compares living in the present to the rise and fall of waves in the ocean. "If the focus of the sense of 'me' is on the rising crest, the person never lives in reality but is constantly poised with the expectation of control the next instant. They are therefore constantly concerned with the future. If the focus is on the back of the falling wave, then the 'me' tends to cling to the past and editorializing. With some practice, the focus can be precisely narrowed to only the breaking crest of the wave, for in that instant, there is neither past nor future and neither regret for the past nor longing for nor anticipation of the future. Everything is witnessed to be as it is."

As shell-shocked as you are, when you're handed that pink slip it's hard to think about moving on. Much less what to do next. Especially when the ink on your pink slip isn't even dry yet. Risking sounding Pollyannaish, I'll say it anyway. It could end up being one of the best things that's ever happened to you.

What should you do now?

Unfortunately, no one is immune to losing a job in todays unique economy. Even the best. And current statistics show few employees staying with a company long term; or even reaching retirement with a company they started out with. And whether it's planned, you knew in advance you'd be downsized out, you can never plan enough.

First things first. Before thinking about moving on, it important - for many reasons - including peace of mind, to determine how you'll handle paying bills and other personal situations. Next apply for any and all available benefits. Such as unemployment. Check into available medical and/or insurance benefits available. Check on the status of your 401k, if you have one. And any pension plan. Because once you've at least done that, you can begin to give a thought to how you'll move on.

Leigh was a single mother with a stressful job and two young children who decided that self-employment was the answer for her. She quit her job, purchased a vending machine route and tripled its sales within two months. Once that was in order, she started her next profit center, buying and renovating houses. Not only did she find that she was spending more time with her kids, she also got them involved in her business as much as possible.

One day Leigh and her children went to visit a friend who had moved into a large new house. The friend took them on a room-by-room tour of the house proudly showing off her new home. When the tour ended, Leigh's 5-year-old daughter looked at her quizzically and said, "Mom, where's the office?"

Leigh's daughter is not the only one who assumes that a home should have an office. Glossy magazines now feature layouts of slick home offices. Builders of upscale homes are including an office in their plans. Trendspotters tell us that this work-at-home lifestyle is not a passing fad.

Whether your work space is a studio, a rented office or a card table set up in a corner of your bedroom, efficiency is only one of the requirements. Your working space needs to be inviting, a place where you function easily surrounded by things you love and find inspiring.