Small Business, Big Life : Five Steps to Creating a Great Life with Your Own Small Business

"Your business can earn more for your family while you have a fulfilling life." All too often, small business owners settle for less than the best life has to offer thinking they have to choose between financial success and family time. Do you want financial success? Then you'd better be prepared to sacrifice you family life. Do you want more quality time with loved ones? They you can forget about taking your samll business to the next level. Renowned financial planner Louis Barajas knows you can have both. You don't have to choose between giving up successful finances and abandoning your family. Written for "ordinary folk who have more dreams than education, capital, or resources," Small Business, Big Life will show you how to build a business that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for you and your family. What is Barajas' secret? Whether in his East Los Angeles office or on the road speaking as an author and small business expert, Louis Barajas teaches his clients a unique, integrated approach to balancing the professional and the personal. The book contains Four Cornerstones for a Big Life Five Steps of Building a Small Business, Big Life 22 Temptations of a Business Owner Let Louis Barajas show you how to make your business work for you, and not the other way around. Small Business, Big Life is not just a plan for financial success?it's a blueprint for a truly fulfilling life.

Your business can earn more for your family while you have a fulfilling life.

All too often, small business owners settle for less than the best life has to offer thinking they have to choose between financial success and family time.

Do you want financial success? Then you'd better be prepared to sacrifice you family life.

Do you want more quality time with loved ones? They you can forget about taking your samll business to the next level.

Renowned financial planner Louis Barajas knows you can have both. You don't have to choose between giving up successful finances and abandoning your family. Written for ordinary folk who have more dreams than education, capital, or resources, Small Business, Big Life will show you how to build a business that creates both money and meaning, and that provides a legacy for you and your family.

What is Barajas' secret? Whether in his East Los Angeles office or on the road speaking as an author and small business expert, Louis Barajas teaches his clients a unique, integrated approach to balancing the professional and the personal. The book contains

• Four Cornerstones for a Big Life
• Five Steps of Building a Small Business, Big Life
• 22 Temptations of a Business Owner

Let Louis Barajas show you how to make your business work for you, and not the other way around. Small Business, Big Life is not just a plan for financial success―it's a blueprint for a truly fulfilling life.

When I was young, I never fully appreciated how you were always there for me. I fondly remember that you always took the time to help me shoot hoops or play catch, no matter how busy your life was. As a child, Imarveled at your speed as a soccer player.Unfortunately, I never inherited your speed, but I did inherit your entrepreneurial gene. As a teenager, never did I realize that, when I helped you with your start-up company, I would be getting some of the best business experience of my life. I appreciate the opportunity to have worked with you and learned the virtues of hard work and integrity that you taught me. I also learned from you that anyone in America has the opportunity to fulfill the American Dream when they have enough desire and the willingness to work hard. Why start a business? The four cornerstones of personal greatness Truth Responsibility Awareness Courage The five steps of building a small business, big life Step 1: your life blueprint : the purpose of business is to give you more life Step 2: your vision : the source of leadership Step 3: your business blueprint : your business is your business, not your product or service Step 4: your business systems : make it easy to build success Step 5: your team : the bigger the dream, the better the team needed Conclusion : living the dash. Don't let your business run your life; run your business to give you and your family a good life