Do you ever think that if the day just had a few more hours in it then all of your "to-dos" will be done? Well, I am right there with you most of the time. I have really had to learn to budget my time accordingly based on my priorities, but you know what SOMETHING always happen and the list gets out of whack. Today for instance, I was using my daughters adding machine (8 years old and that is what she asks for her birthday LOL) anyways I was doing real well finishing a project I had to complete in Quickbooks when we got to the end of the paper tape. No big deal, right? Just grab another roll of tape and slap it in. Well I gave the roll to my darling husband and then 20 MINUTES later we finally had it ready to go. It wasn't that it was beyond our knowledge base of how to put the tape in, but one little thing after another and it took us 20 minutes...unbelievable! But that lead me to the notion of that is how the day gets away from me at times. It's those darn little unplanned things that take just a little longer than you thought and when you add all of those up you suddenly have lost very valuable time.
I guess that is why I purposely try not to schedule tightly. I try to plan time for the unplanable. I even do that with my business. If I set a goal for myself to sign up 10 people by the end of the week, I use to wait up to the wire then push myself until I couldn't even breath. Then when I didn't make my goal I set for myself I would say "Man, there just wasn't enough time". I now know that it was a lot due to my scheduling too much in one day that lead to my rush then burn out. I try to break it up evenly now throughout the week so that by the end of the week I am still just getting the same amount of people for my goal as I was getting on the first day. Sure, it always doesn't work out exactly the way that I have planned, but then I suppose, that would be too boring. At least I am headed in the right direction, and many more goals are being met because of it. Try it yourself, just carve out a little bit of time and soon you will wonder how you ended up with a little free time on your hands.
Laura Lamberth
http://www.financialfreedomfamily.com/
Monday, February 11, 2008
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Starting Somewhere
We all have to start somewhere, right? I mean, sure some of us are really good at somethings, let's say baseball, but if you look back were you always the star hitter or could you always time running backwards to make the "catch of the day"? No, I don't think so, we all have to start somewhere. What about cooking...the very fist day in the kitchen did you make the most yummy 7 course meal that anyone had ever tasted...no I don't think so. What about typing, riding a bike, swimming, parenting all of these things we have learned over time and normally with some help or at least some direction. So I always wondered why it was that people think that they should be able to "make money" on their own with no direction. I have tried many different avenues over the years, whether it be from lemonade stands or grown up doing plasticware parties. Both of those things are great and a lot of people are good at doing them and making good money, but it just wasn't for me. It's really not that I didn't like doing the selling or the party thing it was actually more that I made friends by doing so and I no longer had the heart to ask them to pay the retail price so I gave them the wholesale price which then I no longer made any money and had to make new "clients" to make money from it. So even though it was good fun, it wasn't a money maker for me. I thought I just "blew it" again and stopped trying for awhile.
I then, with the help of my Mom created a local company that was not only fun to do but we were doing increasingly well with it and it built up my confidence again. Eventually I came across Jerky Direct Primium Products and with looking back on my past I realized that this was going to be the company that my family has been waiting for. We were going to work TOGETHER to make things work and reach our goals and I didn't have to do it on my own, I didn't have to worry that I was getting a great deal, but my friends had to pay full price, and I didn't have that yucky feeling that I am working against everyone else because with our group, Financial Freedom Family, we take each other by the hand and help them figure out what we need to do to help each other reach our goals. We even messed that up in the beginning, but learned by our mistakes, corrected them and not only begun again, but are doing it with speed.
So to look at the statement that everyone has to start somewhere...HERE WE ARE! We are starting something new...this blog...and starting today we are going to track how we are doing and what we are doing to get there. You can join us too, or just lurk around for a while, but the more you just lurk the more time goes by and remember, Everyone has to start somewhere!
Laura
http://www.financialfreedomfamily.com/
I then, with the help of my Mom created a local company that was not only fun to do but we were doing increasingly well with it and it built up my confidence again. Eventually I came across Jerky Direct Primium Products and with looking back on my past I realized that this was going to be the company that my family has been waiting for. We were going to work TOGETHER to make things work and reach our goals and I didn't have to do it on my own, I didn't have to worry that I was getting a great deal, but my friends had to pay full price, and I didn't have that yucky feeling that I am working against everyone else because with our group, Financial Freedom Family, we take each other by the hand and help them figure out what we need to do to help each other reach our goals. We even messed that up in the beginning, but learned by our mistakes, corrected them and not only begun again, but are doing it with speed.
So to look at the statement that everyone has to start somewhere...HERE WE ARE! We are starting something new...this blog...and starting today we are going to track how we are doing and what we are doing to get there. You can join us too, or just lurk around for a while, but the more you just lurk the more time goes by and remember, Everyone has to start somewhere!
Laura
http://www.financialfreedomfamily.com/
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