Important Reminder when Becoming a Consultant

About once a month I schedule a call with my upline leadership.  Sometimes I do not really have much to say but want to touchbase and not be forgotten.  Yesterday was my monthly call.  This time I had some serious issues pressing on me and I knew she would be the resource in helping resolve some of them.  This is a very important tool when becoming a consultant.  Know your resources abd maje the effort to reach out to them. Yes, you call/text/email/message them.  How YOU choose to communicate will be matched, so choose wisely (I recommend calling and always leavr a voicemail).  You are not alone in your direct sales business but I have seen plenty of consultants create a lonely environment for themselves.  Reach out to your sponsor, your team mates, your upline, your central office.  They are wasted resources if you do not use them. It is up to you.  If you do not know how to use them, just ask them how. 

31 Thirty-One 31 Everywhere

I just wrapped up a coaching call with a woman on my thirtyone team heading fir leadership.  I love these calls!  Among many other things they remind me what I have learned and how the signs are very clear around us.  If I have an off day, God reminds me that I am on the right path with His connections.   When I talk with someone expressing an interest in becoming a consultant and she expresses a little hesitation I tell her three things.  #1 Pray about it.  #2 Talk to all your support network about it (and expect some not think it is a good idea- but talk it through to help you understand what you want mire clearly).  #3 Watch for the signs.  It seems when you are destined for something great the signs will be there if you pay attention to it.  You will see the number 31.  It will be on road signs, receipts, paperwork, just everywhere you encounter in your daily routine.  Suddenly you will see it everywhere as if the whole town is carrying a thirty-one bag.  It will be obvious, noticeable, and seemingly mundane.  You will know, if you didn't already, that you and thirty-one are meant for greatness together.

First Party in a New Place

We moved to the usvi on March 17.  I rolled into the airport with my thirty-one rolling tote, party pack, cinch sacs, retro metro tote, and out and about bag BRANDED to take over an island.  In reality it took nearly six months to get noticed and foster new relationships that would kick start my business in the area.  Yesterday, September 22, 2013, was the first home party with an awesome hostess and new friend.  Six months after arriving.  Six months.  Has it really been six months?  Whatever your expectations when moving your business, throw them out the window.  Expect nothing.  Everything you think you know about a market- you don't.   It will take more flexibility, brainstorming, and perserverance than you can imagine.  Six months is nothing when you are resetting your business...it may take two years.  So many moments of depression and questioning "how long do I keep doing this" came to my doorstep and it was only with family support and encouragement the determination to keep moving forward thrived.   Six months and only the first party, yet it will become and always be the party that started it all.  I arrived branded with the thoughts it would take me a week.  With the knowledge it takes most businesses five years to establish, I believed I could do it in a month.  I also believed my team and clients would not be affected by my move.  It takes time and you have to allow yourself that. Amen we all have such an opportunity.

Community

Recently a man made an aggressive advance on me while sitting, what I thought was harmlessly, at the laundromat.  I was definitely startled at first and shaken for a time after this abuse.  I was alone and a target.  In the after shock my thoughts turned to my business and how my livelihood is affected because I am seemingly a lowly part of the surrounding culture.  How am I to thrive?  Am I safe? Yet in reading Matthew I am reminded that there is a light within the darkness that is more powerful.  Jesus repeatedly defied cultural expectations and invited the lowly, the outcast, the alone, the rejected to have a relationship with him and his community.  He shared meals with them. I would not have thought I was any of those things yet I can see that there are moments we embody all of those.  In those moments of fear and isolation I can see the three other men who suddenly appeared and shooed the screaming aggressor in my defense.  They blessed me with their humanity so I can see it is not the one who attempts to break my spirit as the one to define me, but the three souls who appeared as protectors for my empowered reassurance.

Stand Back

Well here goes.  I am going to BLOG- stand back...

Six months have passed since our move from Georgia to St Thomas.   I haven't said much because one...whoa, overwhelming what busy can mean as you begin in a new place and two, it means I have to be honest that the entire experience has had a good dose of negative.  When I think about how I portray my livelihood and how I pay the bills and how I take care of my daughter I sure do not want anyone to connect a negative and deter them. 

Life is what you make it and I am dealing with that.   I have confronted sone ugly truths about "paradise" and I am dealing with that.  It has had lonely moments and reflective moments.  Reality has jilted me with fear at times and reminders of good have leveled the field again.  It is definitely a place to be aware.  If you want a health check up for your business. ..move to a new place.  Eye opening.