So....I had this amazing post to send out and wouldn't you know right at the end it goes. and deletes itself!!!!! ARG! Well the gist of it is In the last month I have taken a more passionate approach to my business and what a difference that has made. I have always loved the instant gratification in my business where a woman tries something, likes it and then buys it and it's even better when she wants to share it with her friends. To me that is so awesome. It means that I am doing a great job and not only that, she wants to be in my space again.
More than that though, I have really been focusing in on the transformation that goes on when a woman sits down with me.....and I mean every woman....no matter what level she is at at washing her skin or wearing make-up. I truly now know what Mary Kay meant when she said that our role is to Enrich Women's Lives. For a brief moment and then for moments to come we get to inspire confidence in a woman and help her feel beautiful again or even more beautiful than she knows she is. And I believe without a doubt that when a woman feels confident she can do ANYTHING! So, I decided to let my customers and potential customers know that. And what a difference this has made for me and my business with customers and for building a bigger unit of integrity filled women who understand, as much as they can, that we get to play an important role in helping a woman be confident. So, my mission now is: Inspiring confidence and beauty one woman at a time. I feel like this is a movement. We are in a society where so many women feel like they aren't good enough and they are constantly measuring themselves up to others. We are all beautiful creatures and the more we keep believing it the more positive change takes place.
I am so excited to see where this new found passion in my business takes me and my unit and for all of you women out there who still think you're not beautiful....STOP! Take pride in who you are, take care of yourself so you too can remind yourself daily that you are important.
So, as the company says and now I'm really seeing it.....Mary Kay is more than a lipstick, so much more!
I am going to share my journey from being a brand new Sales Director, struggling to get a hang of this business to becoming a successful leader in the 50th year of this company. I hope that other women can relate to this journey. I plan on sharing the good and the bad, inspiring hope to women that no matter what is going on in your life you CAN achieve your dreams and that I know obstacles will come along the way, but not giving up is the most important piece.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
I'm back to this blog thing...again....
Well, I have about 5 minutes here to just update everyone on my missing posts for about 2 months. My business has been going great and I am so proud of that. While my personal seems to be a struggle sometimes I am continually reminded that life happens and when we allow daily life frustrations, relationship woes, the busy tasks of being a mother, sister, daughter, friend and spouse distract us from our dreams when can easily tell ourselves that "now isn't a good time" or maybe that dream isn't for me.....well, life is ALWAYS going to happen so GET OVER IT!
So, I'm working hard on time management and maximizing my time so I do only have 1 minute left but I am committed to doing my best at updating this blog regularly, sharing more of my journey and providing some sense of hope that you CAN achieve a successful business and you can have what you want....you just have to work for it and be willing to forgive yourself for imperfections and know that doing the and then some can make all the difference at the end of the day. Well...off to a Saturday Morning Luxury Breakfast for Mary Kay and then to lead my first ever GIrl Scout meeting for my daughter's Daisy troop!
So, I'm working hard on time management and maximizing my time so I do only have 1 minute left but I am committed to doing my best at updating this blog regularly, sharing more of my journey and providing some sense of hope that you CAN achieve a successful business and you can have what you want....you just have to work for it and be willing to forgive yourself for imperfections and know that doing the and then some can make all the difference at the end of the day. Well...off to a Saturday Morning Luxury Breakfast for Mary Kay and then to lead my first ever GIrl Scout meeting for my daughter's Daisy troop!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
What a difference a month makes.
Alright, so it's 12:45 am....on my birthday technically, August 1st and I have just wrapped up an awesome month in Mary Kay. Compared to last month I blew this one out of the water. And the best part is that I'm just getting started. Our unit is changing and molding into something truly amazing and honestly started out with a change in my attitude and activity. I decided to make a plan of what to accomplish....get on-Target for $300,000 club and we did it!!! Share this career with many, many women and we did that. We are all fired up to make things happen in our unit and I am so proud of the new women that have come on board and the seasoned consultants who have made commitments to make a change in their business.
If I wasn't so tired I would go into detail but the major shift for me was that if I really want anything worth having in life, my financial independence, a truly flexibly career and to be surrounded with people of integrity and to find other like minded women who want a business for the same reason I need to work really hard...not just some days...but ALL days and the best part is that I did and I still didn't miss a beat with my kid's activities and my family commitments. My social calender is pretty lacking but the best part is that in Mary Kay I feel like I'm socializing all the time and I get to do it with some of my best girlfriends. I hope that you all know that things can change in a matter of weeks with a determined mine, a plan and then being willing to go to work no matter what, I mean no matter what, whether you have sick kids, financial issues, long term illness in the family, crisis and even death. All of these factors are a part of life and absolutely deserve due attention but they can't consume you so much that you allow them to dictate every move and emotion you make...if you did that it would be paralyzing. This month has been such a growing experience for me personally and professionally and while I won't bog you down with details I could have allowed my personal life to negatively influence my professional life but I made a choice and I sincerely hope that you all do the same too!
If I wasn't so tired I would go into detail but the major shift for me was that if I really want anything worth having in life, my financial independence, a truly flexibly career and to be surrounded with people of integrity and to find other like minded women who want a business for the same reason I need to work really hard...not just some days...but ALL days and the best part is that I did and I still didn't miss a beat with my kid's activities and my family commitments. My social calender is pretty lacking but the best part is that in Mary Kay I feel like I'm socializing all the time and I get to do it with some of my best girlfriends. I hope that you all know that things can change in a matter of weeks with a determined mine, a plan and then being willing to go to work no matter what, I mean no matter what, whether you have sick kids, financial issues, long term illness in the family, crisis and even death. All of these factors are a part of life and absolutely deserve due attention but they can't consume you so much that you allow them to dictate every move and emotion you make...if you did that it would be paralyzing. This month has been such a growing experience for me personally and professionally and while I won't bog you down with details I could have allowed my personal life to negatively influence my professional life but I made a choice and I sincerely hope that you all do the same too!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
"What the Most Successful People do before Breakfast"
I have literally been filling up each of my hours with something useful for me and that has been so rewarding. This doesn't mean that I am working constantly but it does mean that I fill each hour with family time, personal time, spiritual time or work time. I don't find myself procrastinating as much.....the key is as much...I'm still working on it. Yesterday I got 4 whole hours to do work and it was amazing what I got done. As I learn to be even more productive and delegate properly I will be even more productive.
I have been reading this book titled, "What Successful People Do before Breakfast" by Laura Vanderkam. I sure hope I'm spelling that correctly. I was listening to this Million Dollar hotline, put on by extremely successful daughter's of National Sales Directors. They have of course seen success each day as they grew up and how lucky are they to watch those positive habits! One of the Directors mentioned this book. While I have 'wanted' to get up early an be productive because I knew it was more time efficient than expecting to get things done at the end of the day after events and being exhausted I still have had major difficulty with that. Well, what Vanderkam talks about in her books is that the one common thread of very successful people is what they do before breakfast....they wake up early in the morning and exercise, meditate, have a healthy breakfast and basically prepare themselves spiritually, mentally, physically and believe it or not emotionally for the day. When you are centered and prepared you aren't wasting your day playing catch up and you learn the importance of being productive and NOT surfing the net, wasting time or texting....You understand the value. I for one, as a mother, can see the emotional importance of waking up early so that I can spend time cleaning my house and doing things that I know while bug me later because I will be looking at what isn't done, getting frustrated and irritated and then being in a hurry because things aren't where they are supposed to be. Thus I get really frustrated, take it out on the kids with being short and not so loving which of course affects them and then we have set the tone for the rest of the day.
Now, I'm not going to kid myself and think from here on out I'm going to wake up at 5am and believe me that is a personal goal, but I will tell you that I am going to wake up earlier than I have. So, this morning I woke up at 6:30am. I will tell you I got more done with my house by 8am then I have in the last couple of days. I had the focused time, the energy but the knowledge that I would be more productive if I did it which encouraged me to get it done. After I write this blog I am going to go for a walk and listen to the Million Dollar Hotline, get ready for the day and be off to Charlotte's morning softball game and feel much more accomplished than if I would have woken up at 8:30/8:45 and rushed to get the morning going and get to softball barely in time.
6:30a.m is no 5am but it's awesome to think how much more productive I'll be when I wake up at 5am Tomorrow I'm going to to 6:15a.m. and I also think I'm going to put my phone in the living room, not right next to my bed so that I have to get up!!!! (That's probably not novel to most of you but to me it is!)
The funny thing is that this whole concept of waking up early was what Mary Kay Ash referred to as the 5 O'Clock Club. That woman was a single mother of 3 children and yet she got it all done....not because she was super woman, but because she woke up early in the morning and was productive, allowing her work her business and still have balance in the home (not perfection mind you but balance).....so, if a single mother of 3 in the 50's can get up at 5am and run her own business (she hadn't started Mary Kay yet but she was working in direct sales...which is essentially owning your own business) there is absolutely no reason why I can't go to bed at earlier and skip out on The Big C, Mad Men or an other great TV show so I can wake up earlier to be more productive, thus helping me reach my business goals that much quicker. I mean really, how lame does it sound that I can't reach a goal because the shows I was watching were just too good to miss!
I have been reading this book titled, "What Successful People Do before Breakfast" by Laura Vanderkam. I sure hope I'm spelling that correctly. I was listening to this Million Dollar hotline, put on by extremely successful daughter's of National Sales Directors. They have of course seen success each day as they grew up and how lucky are they to watch those positive habits! One of the Directors mentioned this book. While I have 'wanted' to get up early an be productive because I knew it was more time efficient than expecting to get things done at the end of the day after events and being exhausted I still have had major difficulty with that. Well, what Vanderkam talks about in her books is that the one common thread of very successful people is what they do before breakfast....they wake up early in the morning and exercise, meditate, have a healthy breakfast and basically prepare themselves spiritually, mentally, physically and believe it or not emotionally for the day. When you are centered and prepared you aren't wasting your day playing catch up and you learn the importance of being productive and NOT surfing the net, wasting time or texting....You understand the value. I for one, as a mother, can see the emotional importance of waking up early so that I can spend time cleaning my house and doing things that I know while bug me later because I will be looking at what isn't done, getting frustrated and irritated and then being in a hurry because things aren't where they are supposed to be. Thus I get really frustrated, take it out on the kids with being short and not so loving which of course affects them and then we have set the tone for the rest of the day.
Now, I'm not going to kid myself and think from here on out I'm going to wake up at 5am and believe me that is a personal goal, but I will tell you that I am going to wake up earlier than I have. So, this morning I woke up at 6:30am. I will tell you I got more done with my house by 8am then I have in the last couple of days. I had the focused time, the energy but the knowledge that I would be more productive if I did it which encouraged me to get it done. After I write this blog I am going to go for a walk and listen to the Million Dollar Hotline, get ready for the day and be off to Charlotte's morning softball game and feel much more accomplished than if I would have woken up at 8:30/8:45 and rushed to get the morning going and get to softball barely in time.
6:30a.m is no 5am but it's awesome to think how much more productive I'll be when I wake up at 5am Tomorrow I'm going to to 6:15a.m. and I also think I'm going to put my phone in the living room, not right next to my bed so that I have to get up!!!! (That's probably not novel to most of you but to me it is!)
The funny thing is that this whole concept of waking up early was what Mary Kay Ash referred to as the 5 O'Clock Club. That woman was a single mother of 3 children and yet she got it all done....not because she was super woman, but because she woke up early in the morning and was productive, allowing her work her business and still have balance in the home (not perfection mind you but balance).....so, if a single mother of 3 in the 50's can get up at 5am and run her own business (she hadn't started Mary Kay yet but she was working in direct sales...which is essentially owning your own business) there is absolutely no reason why I can't go to bed at earlier and skip out on The Big C, Mad Men or an other great TV show so I can wake up earlier to be more productive, thus helping me reach my business goals that much quicker. I mean really, how lame does it sound that I can't reach a goal because the shows I was watching were just too good to miss!
Sunday, July 15, 2012
It's amazing what happens when you do what you say you are going to do!
The last few days have been incredible for me. I have been working my business they way it was intended. I have been calling those referrals I said I was so scared to call. One gal game to an event and we already had a sharing appointment and she wants to get going on becoming a consultant. I called women from those referrals and some said yes, some said no and some said they would call back (of course they didn't but that's ok!). For me the victory was just getting over myself and doing the work that I am supposed to do. I did some awesome preprofiling for a party on Thursday which may not have been awesome in sales but I have 2 sharing appointments and one referral booked with a sharing appointment. In fact I get to meet with a gal who speaks Spanish and I LOVE to use my Spanish,especially when it comes to supporting women and helping them towards their dreams. I have been holding appointments, working when I can and still putting my family as a priority and myself mind you. It feels good to work and do what I say I'm going to do instead of finding reason why I can't or procrastinate. I'm soooooo over that. I know that if I just keep doing the work the results will come. I have made a decision to Gold Medal this month with 5 new personal recruits and get to work with shows, sharing appointments, and bookings.
Yesterday was a great day too. It was one of those perfect days where everyone was on time, the appointments all held, we had great recruiting prospects at a Grand Opening and I still got home and was able to make dinner for my family, enjoy a walk and even helped Charlotte learn how to ride a bike and then we watch a movie. TO me that is a perfect day and it all started off with being mindful and grateful for what I have. Thank you God for all the blessings in my life and for also allowing me to fall many, many times and while my learning curve is apparently HUGE, I think I have got it now!
I am going to enjoy these moments because I know there will tough ones ahead but I KNOW I will get through them and get on my feet, dust myself off and go to work.
Yesterday was a great day too. It was one of those perfect days where everyone was on time, the appointments all held, we had great recruiting prospects at a Grand Opening and I still got home and was able to make dinner for my family, enjoy a walk and even helped Charlotte learn how to ride a bike and then we watch a movie. TO me that is a perfect day and it all started off with being mindful and grateful for what I have. Thank you God for all the blessings in my life and for also allowing me to fall many, many times and while my learning curve is apparently HUGE, I think I have got it now!
I am going to enjoy these moments because I know there will tough ones ahead but I KNOW I will get through them and get on my feet, dust myself off and go to work.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
I OFFICIALLY HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!!!
I am so excited. I officially have a new website for our unit and any other women who want to come to our page to get inspiration, education and motivation. It is www.bellmontBOLD.com.
I have been looking forward to this and if it weren't for my Senior Sales Director gently guiding me towards doing this and for my website designer Shani who had a deadline I would have procrastinated! It just makes me feel better to have something that has all the documents my consultants need without having to individually emailing them the information.
Now off to a booking blitz. A solid 2 hours without my kids and husband and I'm going to do some booking. I'm not going to lie I am tempted to procrastinate and have ALWAYS been afraid of calling referrals but I"m going to do it anyways!!!! I NEED bookings like no other! Looking forward to sharing my results! Cheer me on:)
I have been looking forward to this and if it weren't for my Senior Sales Director gently guiding me towards doing this and for my website designer Shani who had a deadline I would have procrastinated! It just makes me feel better to have something that has all the documents my consultants need without having to individually emailing them the information.
Now off to a booking blitz. A solid 2 hours without my kids and husband and I'm going to do some booking. I'm not going to lie I am tempted to procrastinate and have ALWAYS been afraid of calling referrals but I"m going to do it anyways!!!! I NEED bookings like no other! Looking forward to sharing my results! Cheer me on:)
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