Details Count

Whether your office consists of hanging files and a carboard table, whether you build your direct-selling business on a part-time basis, or whether you plan to rise to the highest level of management within your company, paying attention to the details of your professional image is vital to your success. Consider these facts:

• Opinions are formed and people are sized up in as soon as seven seconds in today's fast paced world, studies now show.
• 93% of a persons conclusion about you is influenced by your appearance, body language, tone of voice, and attitude. Only 7% is influenced by what you say.
• The moment you meet a person, she begins to subconsciously assess whether she wants to get to know you better.

With this in mind, can you see why it is vital that you give your professional image top priority?

Your professional image is all about how you project to the world and how you conduct yourself. It's the energy you bring into a room and the way you make others feel when they meet you. It's something I refer to as your personal power, and it has a huge impact on your success.

Information Breeds Confidence

Doubt is deadly! You will rarely succeed unless you really believe that your products and the opportunity can truly change the way a someone feels about themselves.

It is vital to your continued success that you invest the time and effort to learn everything there is to learn about our business. Lawyers are constantly learning about new laws, doctors about the latest medical developments, and computer programmers about every=changing technology. Information breeds confidence!

Life...in the Fast Lane

The only thing consistent in life is change. There are so many reasons why change is necessary for everyone, it's hard to pick just one and blog about it. I am going to discuss a little bit of what's going on in my life, and maybe just maybe it will make me feel a bit better and get some things off my chest.

Life constantly gives all of us challenges, the important part is how we deal with these challenges that makes us who we are. Recently both my furnace and my oven went out, which in the grand scheme of things are very small challenges that make a huge impact in your everyday life. It's amazing to me how difficult it was to adapt to having no heat and no oven. Luckily the heat part was only for a brief time. The oven was out for about a week, I got really good at stove top cooking and utlizing the microwave. No my friends, we didn't have microwave meals every night, I think I would die if that happened for an entire week!

This week my son is really sick, Connor has RSV and for those that don't know what that is,
it's Recpiratory Syncytial Virus. His isn't that bad, but it could get worse if we don't watch him. We are currently giving him Nebulizer treatments every 6 hours in hopes that his crud will loosen up and he will be ok. Luckily for us, Connor isn't wheezing, and most babies get this before the age of 2, so I am not too concerned. Just one more sad point in the life of a working mom that is forced to use DayCare.

This weekend should be yet another crazy one, I have a big assignment due Sunday night that I haven't even started yet, I also have a bunch of cleaning to catch up on, and want to organize my office. All of this on top of watching Connor! Good times! -

Life Happens

The weekend was a totally mess of chaos. Woke up on Sunday morning to no heat, the furnace wasn't blowing and the thermostat was completely blank. It was a huge Fiasco to get someone out, and when he came out, we had him look at the oven as well. Come to find out the Furnace wasn't working because the filters we get are too thick...may I say Thank you 3M for making a product that does what it's supposed to do so well, that it shuts down the furnace completely for LACK of airflow...so again, Thank You. The oven needed a new ignitor, and that was just replaced by Centerpoint Yesterday...so it was over a week with no oven....but we made it through.

Connor is now full time at "School" I love calling it that, because he actually does activities and art projects, much like pre-school. It's a very cute environment and I can see he is thriving being around other kids as much as he is.

I end this blog with a phrase that really made me think, and re-organize a few things in my life.

"the truth is, balance is not a matter of fitting everything into your life; it is a matter of deciding what is important to you and fitting all the important things into your life."

A direct selling woman can have balance amidst the madness, but you must consciously choose what you do with your time and with whom you spend your time.

Expecting Achievment

Successful people plan their success because they know that a failure to plan is a plan to fail. The fact is that I've yet to meet a person who has reached to top in a company, or any pinnacle of success in their lives, who didn't plan to be there. More importan than planning to succeed, however, that these successful people expected to succeed

When I joined my direct selling company, I expected to reach the highest position, and I developed a strategy to do it. I expected success because I looked around and saw that other people with the same product and the same compensation plan were successful, so I knew it could be done. I also understood and had the confidence to believe that if others were capable of being successful in that company, then I was as well.

Many people approach life as though they have no control over outcomes. the opposite is true. You control your own destingy. When U learned that and internalized it, my life changed. Yours can as well. I am not talking about wishful thinking, I am talking about expectancy. to Quote from Paul J. Meyer in his program The Dynamics of Goal Setting (Success Motivation International Inc.):

"Expectations held over a period of time, either consciously
or subconsciously, affect attitudes-and attitudes affect actions.
Expectations function relentlessly, whether you create them for yourself or
someone holds them for you."