Long day's journey

Into a late night. Still at work. I'm not getting out of here at midnight. I really hate these long days. They make me nervous about driving home with Char because I'm so tired. It is also irritating that my schedule has been changed twice today, resulting in a way longer day than I was prepared for.

I want to cry. My baby doesn't care about my work schedule. She's going to be awake at 7am no matter when I get to sleep. I have to work the schedule they give me, which doesn't and shouldn't account for my baby. Not to mention we are currently getting our schedule one week at a time, about 3-4 days in advance right now. Makes it difficult to plan for anything.

In better news I got another Tupperware sale today and am pretty sure I've made as consistent doTERRA customer. Little victories.

So much for going to bed early!!

I told myself an hour ago that I was going to bed in half an hour!! Obviously that's not so, and I didn't even finish everything I wanted to do tonight. Though I am closer.

I spent some time working on the Success Challenge through my Success Planner and Lead Guide. Some deep stuff there. Sunday I went to Arin Ingraham's Pathway to Diamond seminar at Ashland Springs Hotel and it was a total kick in the ass. In a very good way. I now have more tools to get further ahead in my business. I've done some brainstorming and idea bouncing and I think I have come up with ways in both businesses to generate interest. I'm having a class on Monday, for which I made flyers tonight that I can pass around tomorrow. A few big ones and some smaller leaflets. I need to invest in some plain cardstock.

Today I downloaded Napolean Hill's Think and Grow Rich. I have read the intro. I'm excited to get into the meat of the book. It is suggested in the forward that the reader only tackle one chapter a day, so that will be my goal. I'm not sure how reasonable that is with everything I have going on currently, but at the very least, I will say that if I start a chapter, I will finish it that day. I'd like to read through the book by the end of the month, and then read it a second time. There are plenty more books I need to be reading too, in general. I should finish the Wheel of Time series. I'm on book... uh... 10? Stuff is getting good! I hope some of my predictions are right.

Chipping away

Attempted another Tupperware get together tonight. Still not very successful, but at least there were sales and good food and friendly conversation. I netted about $50, which means I only have $400 more in sales to do before March 8th. Doable. I pronounce it. I'm trying to get a "Tupper Lunch" going for Saturday. That's the term I'm coining for bringing the products to someone's home or work place and making them lunch. I have an idea for the first one and can continue to expand on recipes as I get a feel for what people like at lunch time. I have to get back to one friend about it, thought I'm not sure it's her cup of tea. I have another I will be calling tomorrow to see if she'd be into it. There are yet more people on my list as well. A friend today made some very good suggestions on places where I might be able to drum up some business that I hadn't thought of yet. I need to bring more catalogs to work too.

So, the numbers, for Gabriel.

Goal $450
Tonight's sales $50
Need $400

I might have something else going in Friday for about $100. If that happens then I'm down to $300. That would be sweet.

Run down

I am not sick, but damn I am tired and listless. I'm realizing how different my daily routine has become, and now that I've deviated from it, I see how much better I was feeling. I know I said I'd see this month through, but I'm starting to think that's a bad idea.

I spent yesterday afternoon with a wonderful group of people learning how to expand our doTERRA business. So much good insight. I have my first class planned. I just booked the space tonight. I'm super excited. Tomorrow I'll make flyers and a Facebook event. I'm feeling more confident about building my team.

Tupperware is a different story. I just can't seem to crack the market. All these ladies in Medford and north of there are rockin it, but I can't get anyone to bite. Ed's mom is graciously hosting a party tomorrow, but she doesn't know how many people will actually show. I told her him to tell her that was fine. I know she has two people who want to place orders, so at the very least I'll have that. I also have another order coming in from a coworker that I'll be adding. I'm hoping that some of the deals we have will get me a few extra sales. I just have to keep pushing on. $450 by March 8th. That's the goal.

We are watching the Beatles special. So so awesome. And now I have to go back to work. Boo!!!! I hope I'll be able to catch the rest of it tomorrow.

Affirmations

Going along with Visualization, this morning I decided to begin doing Affirmations. This is what I started with:

Rubbed White Fir on my feet while saying "I have no inflammation."
Followed by Citrus Bliss on my feet while saying "I feel energized."

I felt pretty good most of the day. I think I'm gonna stick with this for the week and see what happens. I'm considering adding Balance tomorrow as well.

This evening I did three on my feet. The same thing with White Fir, and then
Rosemary: "I will see my dreams come true."
Lavender: "I will sleep well and be prepared for tomorrow."

So there it is.

In other news, I don't know what I ate, or if it's hormones, or if it's the changed vitamin regime, but I'm seriously bloated. Like, visibly and uncomfortably. I've put DigestZen and now Peppermint on my tummy. It's better than it was an hour ago, but YUCK!!!!! It just came out of nowhere about 2 hours ago while I was eating. It's freaky cause I look pregnant. Like 4 mos along. Haha. Do not worry y'all; there's no bun in this oven, just some hot air. Zing! But yes, very uncomfortable. And so, I'm going to bed. Have to be up extra early, and I want to get some good sleep cause I have a big day tomorrow. Early work call, and then Pathway to Diamond training. Woot!

More revelations

Two night ago the title and subject of my post were something my darling beau said to me as I began to blog. He had a point. Not long after I finished up and signed off, thinking about his comment and how Char tends to react to my computer usage, I decided that as long as they are around, I have to reign myself in with the computer. Yes there are things I need to do, and I will, but sometimes I'm just filling dead air. And there are better ways to do that. So that night, I turned to the totally awesome dude that I have piles and piles of fun with and said "If you ever feel like I'm paying too much attention to things, and not enough to you, just tell me." And I mean it.

I tend to blog around the same time every night. It's late. It's the end of my day. I've tried a few times to do it earlier, but I like the feeling of putting a capstone on all the experiences of my waking cycle. And I like putting out goals into the universe to take to dreamland. It makes me feel fulfilled to do this last in my day. But that means that all the time before these few briefs minutes have to spent filled with my family and my home. I need to do those things first so I have the experiences to record.

Tonight it's just me and my baby girl, and we got home late, so there wasn't too much play time before bath and bed time. But I still waited until she was safely tucked in to pull out the laptop and get to business.

I should have cleaned the kitchen and attempted to work on my bedroom tonight, but I fear the change up in vitamin routine had me running at 1/2 speed. Holy cow, the difference. I seriously feel run down like I haven't for ages. I didn't realize how awesome I was feeling with the LLV until not using it for the last 5 days. Yeesh. But I committed to this trial regime, and I'm going to stick with it for this month. But dude, seriously, March 1, LLV. Just... Wow...

Visualization, Intention, Action

I am becoming more and more of a believer in Visualization. If you can dream it, you can be it. Recently I have experienced this is very real, though small ways.

Last Saturday, during our Tupperware webinar, my name was pulled in drawing. As I was sitting listening to the call, I kept thinking about winning something, anything, even just recognition. My name was on a few lists and I was welcomed as a new member of the team. At the end of the call, 4 names were pulled. I didn't think anything with the first name, then at the second I thought "wouldn't it be cool if....". At the third I said to myself "I want to win." And the fourth name was mine. I still don't know yet what I get, since I could not make it to Rally tonight, but it doesn't even matter. I know it will be something good, and I know it means that I'm on the right path. My stars are aligning.

The reason I was not at Rally tonight was two fold. First, I did not get off work until 630. It would then be a 1/2 hr + drive to Central Point from Ashland to be there for maybe an hour and have to go all the way back to Ashland to get Char. (I need to work out a better Weds night babysitting option if I can, one closer to or in my home.) Knowing this, I agreed to go to a doTERRA event, which started at 7. I arrived ASAP to attempt to help with set up, but only really managed to put out a few chairs. I received two raffle tickets for registering on Eventbrite, which was a fluke to begin with. The flyers says you should only get one. I didn't really think about it when she handed me two. I honestly didn't notice I just took what she gave me. So I'm in a room full of people who all have at least one ticket, and some have more because you can also purchase them ( There's even a $20 deal). I won not once, but twice. Both my tickets. The first prize was some incense which I am curious to check out. The second prize is the important one. It was in the last raffle. Earlier in the night, a bottle of Citrus Bliss had been given out, and I began thinking about how much I wanted that oil. In fact, I thought about it throughout the next two raffles. And again, right at the end of the last raffle, my second ticket was pulled. Holy moly Universe, thank you! THANK YOU!!!

You can call this whatever you want. During the business portion of the evening, Arin talked about making dream boards and using visualization. Merry has also talked to me about setting goals and keeping tracking of them. So this is what I'm doing right now.

My doTERRA minimum goal for this month: 600 OV and one enrollment.
My Tupperware minimum goal for this month: $450 in sales.

My overall minimum goal for this year: $300 in "extra" income (profit) per month. This will offset my car payment and my student loan, and therefore free up that money to go toward my major goal of Having A Better Home.

This was my epiphany tonight. I've been talking about how I want to make more money, get ahead, get out of debt, not rely on unemployment, be more financially stable for my daughter. But that's the easy way to put it, the way everyone can understand upfront. It also seems to be the selfish greedy way, which is something I've struggled with in terms of presenting an image of what I'm doing with network marketing. Sitting in that room tonight, it became clear. It's not really about money at the end of the day. Yes, that will be the means to the end, but that is not the core. The core is to have a better home. A clean, healthy, organized, happy, loving home for myself, my daughter, and my partner (even if he doesn't live with us, he's still a part of our home life). This is a hug task that is going to take a long time and involve habit breaking and making and SO MUCH CLEANING! Ugh. But it's time. It's time to find the better path. It's time to start doing what I want to do, so that my home is filled with love and light. It's time to live my dreams.