Of course!   It’s Hump Day!

For those of you who noticed, I have been away for a few weeks!  I wasn’t goofing off, but was sick and now getting better!  Hopefully I will be back in full swing shortly.

So today is Hump Day!  But it more than that!  It is the first day of the rest of your life!  But, it is also the “First Day of the Rest of Your Avon Business!”  I talked with several of my business associates yesterday and I found that a certain amount of apathy had crept into their businesses.  Please don’t think I am immune to this issue, I certainly am not.  But we get so involved in the day to day workings of our life and our business that we seem lose our focus on achieving our goals and dreams in our work.  

So what is the answer?  How do we keep the enthusiasm up when life keeps getting in the way?  If you listen to motivational speakers there are a lot of different ways and surely at least one would work for you. Keeping your goals posted in a prominent place, where you are forced to look at them every day is one way.    Reviewing them at least one a week to see where you are and what needs to be done the following week is another way.

Regardless of how you do it, it is vital that you DO something! Keeping our goals fresh and in the front of our mind is the only way that we can work our dreams and make them happen.

So today, make a plan, set your goals, and figure a way to keep them fresh and you WILL succeed.

Have a wonderful day,

Micki

Another Happy Hump Day!

I’m sure all of you have heard the phrase “When the going gets tough, the tough get going!”.

This is true in every aspect of our lives, but I think even more so in our home based Avon business.  When sales and recruting are down I see so many people who either give up totally or suddenly find so many other things they need to be doing.

But the truth is, you may be just about to make it work when you give up. Maybe it’s time to do some serious thinking about your attitude or as Zig Ziglar was fond of saying, “You need a check up from the neck up”.  

I have been forced to do my own checkup recently.  I found I was agonizing over a crucial problem in my Unit for the last few days.  My thoughts were seldom anywhere else and I must admit to you that they were NOT very positive thoughts. But, all of a sudden this morning, a solution struck me. (At least I think it will work). The situation seemed pretty hopeless but I refused to give up.  I realized that my “stinkin thinkin” was at work and I needed to look at the problem with a positive optimistic attitude and it worked!!!

Please don’t misunderstand, I stil have some even more major issues that have to be addressed, but I feel sure that if I face each one with the right attitude, I will find a solution.  

So maybe it’s time for your check-up!  Are you doing everything you can do to make your dreams come true?  Are you facing each day with a plan and working that plan using all your time?  Do you actually put in the hours that you need, or do you find a zillion little personal things that need to be done.  If you had to go work every day, you would work 6-8 hours and never think a thing about it.  Are you putting in a day’s work on your business and your dreams?  Answer these questions for yourself and put on a smile and go out and grab your day!

So on this wonderful “Hump Day”, I wish you a positively happy productive day!

Micki

Good Morning,

I hope you had a great Labor Day Holiday and are anxious to get back to your Avon business. 

I imagine that you, like me, were following the news about Diana Nyad’s historic swim from Cuba to Miami!  If not, you missed an incredible story and I urge you to look it up.  Amy and I and a couple of friends went to Callaway Gardens to enjoy one last day at the beach.  But I must admit that frequently my mind was on Diana and her long swim.  As soon as I got home, I  checked to see if she had made it and she had!!!!!!

In case you are wondering why I am focusing on this so much today, it tells an incredible story that each of us can learn from.  Diana is 64 years old and has had this dream since she was 28.  This was her 5th attempt and possibly her last.  The obstacles she faced were unbelievable.  No shark cage, deadly jellyfish, and a 112 mile swim without stopping.  But she was chasing her dream and she wouldn’t give up.

Her words at the end just make me shiver and think about myself and my business.   She said “Never, ever, give up” and “You are never too old to chase your dream”.  So often in this business I see people give up on their dream when the going gets tough.  Or I hear, if I had known about this earlier in my life I could have done great.

Do we give up on our dreams when we run into problems?  Or we do “Find A Way” to make our dreams a reality?  Do you want to have an average life, or do you want to have an Above Average Income?  Are you willing to face those obstacles to pursue your dream?

Knowing that Diana Nyad at the age of 64 was willing to do whatever it took to make her dream come true gives me the strength to continue working to make my mine come true as well.  She gives a great deal of credit to her “wonderful” team that supported her through all of her work in this endeavor.  You, too, have a wonderful support team that you can depend on to help you through all your obstacles.  So use them!!

So maybe like me, when the going gets tough you can look at Diana Nyad and know that you CAN DO IT, if you never give up.  

Just remember to “Find A Way” and have a great day.

Micki

Hello!

If that title didn’t catch your attention, nothing will 

To explain this one, I have to tell you that my children and I (and one girlfriend) went yesterday and did “A Treetop Adventure”.    It is an obstacle course and zip lines that is suspended in the treetops.

If that sounds scary to some of you, let me assure you, it is!  However, I found many correlations between it and my business.

I REALLY wanted to do this adventure, but had many second thoughts over the last few weeks.  I finally realized that when you stop going for the new and adventurous, then you are truly stopped!  So off we went!

The course is much like your business in that it starts small and relatively easy and gets progressively harder and harder.  I kept telling myself, baby steps Micki, baby steps!  But I had to force myself many times to take a larger and larger step into unknown territory.  I will be the first to admit that there were a couple of times that I panicked and had to rely on Amy for reassurance that I COULD DO IT!  Just as we rely on our family, we can rely on our mentors or our upline to reassure us that we can make our business work.

Each time I had to jump from a platform onto a zip line, Amy was waiting at the next platform like a happy beacon urging me on.  But then we changed the order that we went and Amy was behind me. My first thought was, oh no, Amy won’t be there waiting for me, what will I do without her encouragement.  So, I told my son, I need you to be waiting and encouraging me when I get to the next platform.  So now I had the best of both worlds.  Amy was beside me when I pushed off, encouraging me, and Paul Wayne was waiting to encourage me at the other end.

So many times in our business we have to take a leap of faith at an obstacle that seems to loom larger and larger each time we look.  So many people won’t take advantage of the cheering section they have available that want to be of help.  They let the obstacle keep them from moving forward and being who they can be.

Now I didn’t set any records yesterday!  Nor did I perform with outstanding ability!   But I finished the course and I can’t tell you the satisfaction I got from that.

So maybe it’s time to look at the course of our business and start using our support team to help move past obstacles and finish. In Avon we can do what we want to make the money we want, but we have to go past the obstacles, take a few leaps of faith, and finish the course.

I hope your Monday and your week find you willing to do your “Treetop Adventure”. Do it, and as  Zig Ziglar always said  “I will see YOU, and yes, I do mean You,  At The Top!

Micki