Are You Taking Advantage of Your Calendar? April 11, 2007

 With the new buy two get one free promotion on Satin Hands Sets (beginning April 15th) We have many opportunities to use the upcoming holidays to really build our businesses. These are the holidays that we have in the next two months.

April (entire month) – Customer Service Month – we can take advantage of this just about anywhere.

April 25th – Administrative Professionals Day

April 27th – Child Care Professionals Day

May 6th – 12th – Teacher Appreciation Week/Nurses Week

May 7th – Nurses Day

May 13th – Mother’s Day

May 13th – 19th – Police Week (this one means a lot to me since my sister and BIL are cops)

May 20th – 26th – Emergency Medical Services Week

May 21st – Waitstaff Day

 I plan on taking full advantage of all of these. I am going out tomorrow and talking to anyone who will listen. There are just too many great gift-giving opportunities for us to pass them up.

I’ve been busy April 4, 2007

  Things have been a bit crazy around here for the last week or so. I finally had a fishbowl that paid off! I have added 15 new names to my PCP list, and yesterday I booked 2 facials and 3 classes for the next two weeks. I still have around 30 names to call, so I’m hoping to have a FULL book for the rest of the month. I have a friend that I am talking to today about possibly joining, and a former consultant that I am calling tomorrow because she said she was thinking about restarting her business. Things are definitely on a roll. I hope to be able to post more, but it doesn’t seem likely. I hope I am absolutely crazy busy for the next two months. I would really love nothing more than to be able to pick and choose exactly when I am working, but for the moment, I don’t have that luxury. I want and need to build this up as much as possible before my son gets out of school for the summer. I want to be able to truly enjoy the summer with my children for the first time ever, but if I don’t get this to where I want it to be by then, I will still be working like crazy. So, there’s my goal and my “why” for the moment.

I hope everyone is doing well. Believe me when I say, if I can do this, anyone can do this!

This May Shock Some Of Ya’ll March 21, 2007

(There I go again, showing my southern roots!)

After the past week, I have made a HUGE decision. Everything seems to be snowballing for me, and that is definitely a good thing! There are moments when it is a bit overwhelming, because as I have said before, I am really the type that is most comfortable taking the slow and steady route. This is all just so fun and exciting that I just can’t help but embrace the spirit of it all.

I have mentioned in passing that my director has decided to have a guest event on Friday. Since I don’t have another job,  I have been helping her with it A LOT! I absolutely love party planning, so this has been tons of fun for me, especially since it’s one of two big events I am planning for the week. (I know, it’s a lot for one person to take on, but I think just the fact that I have so much to do has given me more motivation than anything else could have.) Anyway, my director and I were discussing some of the details on Monday afternoon, when she made a suggestion that floored me. She said I needed to push to be a director. My immediate response was, “But I don’t even have 1 recruit yet.” She said she really just wanted me to think about it, because she felt like I would be a good leader. Well, not to sound full of myself or anything, but I’ve always enjoyed being in leadership positions and felt that I did well in them. I was captain of my high school softball team, editor of the yearbook, and SGA VP. I was also an assistant manager at one of the restaurants I worked at and the only certified trainer at another restaurant. I do have a love of helping other people to reach their own goals. I decided to think about it some more, and told her I would let her know before Friday.

Well, to sum up this long story….. after easily adding 7 more people to my guest list for Friday night (I now have a total of 10) in only 2 hours, I realized that this is something I could actually do. I have decided to set my sights on directorship! Wow! I told my director last night, and obviously she is excited. A part of me can’t believe that I have committed to something this big, but I really think I can do this.

For those of you who might be concerned about my unending excitement, I want to assure you that I will be doing this the right way. I am not a high pressure person. I would never push anyone to do anything they don’t want to do, or that is not good for them personally. I want team members who would truly get something from this. I want to help them be all the things they have dreamed they could be. I know this sounds cheesy, but it really is how I feel. I want to make sure that everyone I recruit, and even all of the people I simply share this with, come away with a positive view of the company and of me. I am determined not to ruin anyone’s perception of MK or me.

So, does anyone out there have any great words of wisdom? My director is great, and is also pretty low on the pressure scale, but it always helps to have some other input. Let me know what you all think!

Quote of the week 3/18/07 March 18, 2007

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

How true!

Are you going to Career Conference? March 15, 2007

Hey everyone! I hope you are all having a great day! I was just wondering if anyone is going to CC this weekend. I am leaving in the morning and headed for Memphis! My NSD is going to be there, so I am super excited. My only worry is that I tend to get a bit nervous when I am around large groups of people. I already warned my director that she is going to see a different side of me for the first hour or so, at least until I get adjusted to the situation. It usually passes quickly, but that first hour or so will be rough. Hopefully I will be able to get some rest tonight. I’m still trying to figure out what I’m wearing! (I’ve been trying to figure that one out since before I even registered for CC!) Anyway, let me know if you are going, and if you have gone in the past, please tell me some of your experiences. If anyone is going to Memphis, look for me!

Quote of the Week 3/11/07 March 11, 2007

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think this sums it all up…. February 27, 2007

Making the Most of Life

The path to wisdom and success

is not for kings alone; it is

open to you and me.

You may not succeed at first,

but the failure of you efforts may be

the needed preparation for your final triumph.

If there are a hundred steps in your

path to success

and you have not reached it in ninety-nine

of them,

do not conclude that the journey is a failure.

Press on and up…

the prizes are generally at the end

of an effort, not at its beginning…

and not to go on

is to miss them.

Be valiant…have faith in yourself

Success belongs to him

who dares to win it.

- George S Forest

 

Why settle for a hamburger when you can have filet mignon? February 26, 2007

 

First, I must be honest, I am sick today, (think I have some kind of stomach virus or something) and since I rarely get sick, and it drives me crazy to just sit at home all day, the combination of the two has put me in a not so good mood. After making several phone calls this morning and getting nowhere (apparently everyone on my list for the day actually went to work), I decided to do a little searching on the PT website. Yes, I was looking for something to set me off. Sorry. It took me quite a while to find something that really bothered me. There is so much on there that most of it I can just ignore because I know MY TRUTH, and on days like today, it is almost amusing to read some of it because it makes me realize that at least I’m not bitter. I don’t hold grudges, never could, thank goodness. I finally found a quote that made me think. The poster was referring to directors when she said…

….they’re like pimps…promising a better life….’just work a little more, a little harder’.

My first thought was that it was simply ridiculous, but for some reason, the second half of the line made me think. What is so wrong with working a little more, a little harder? Maybe it’s just my personality, but no matter what I have accomplished in my life, I’ve always been willing to work more and work harder. I’m never satisfied with the status quo. Why should I be? I don’t see that there is anything wrong with wanting more. If someone gave me the choice of a hamburger or filet mignon, why would I choose the hamburger? I may have to work a little harder for it, but it would be worth it.

I guess it has to do with the way I was brought up. I remember being told as a child that a “B” was good, but an “A” was better, and of course, an “A+” was best. For as far back as I can remember, I was always willing to put in the effort to do the best I could. I knew my parents would be proud of me, but most importantly, I would be proud of myself. (For those that are wondering, I graduated high school with a 3.95 GPA.)

Does anyone reading this see anything wrong with working “a little more, a little harder”? I don’t.

 For now, we’ll just ignore the rest of the quote.