I love my job. It’s work, and it forces me to be motivated, but when I am working I love it. For those of you who don’t know I am a Mary Kay consultant. I have been for over 9 years. I was a director for a period of time until my son had major surgery and I stepped down to take care of him for 4 months while he recovered and we adjusted to his new lifestyle.
After my son’s surgery I had a hard time bouncing back. It’s almost as if I felt defeated. Like I wasn’t good enough to remain a director while going through such a tough time, and that’s ok. It’s ok and perfectly valid for me to have felt that way, but it’s time for me to go back to work. We are having trouble putting aside much of anything for the build because C’s job pays all our bills and enough money for gas and food with a little left over and that’s it. If i go back to work as much as I was for the several years before i became a director then we can put aside a lot more. It’s not even full time work and I can still be basically a stay at home mom and run a farm, especially since I am getting really good at time management.
So what would that look like? I just hired someone to watch the kids two days a week for 3 hours each time (that’s 6 hours a week). That time will be spent networking, meeting new clients, and catching up with existing clients. I would then spend 1 hour a day the other 3 weekdays contacting clients and doing paperwork stuff, then i would hold 3 selling appointments a week totaling 3 hours each (1 hour for driving and 2 hours for the appointments). That’s a grand total of 18 hours a week working. When i am working like this I typically bring in $800-$1000 a month. i know my numbers, i know my stats, and now i just need to get working. I need to see 30-60 clients a month which is totally doable when i am holding that many selling appointments. it’s not about people buying stuff either. Some people i see will buy $300, some will buy nothing, that’s not a big deal. The individual numbers don’t mean much, it’s the relationships i am building and the number of people i am servicing every month that matters. LETS DO THIS!! LETS BUILD A HOUSE!!
