Time Management.........Procrastination

This sort of relates back to my previous post. For those of you who work another J.O.B full time and work your Mary Kay business, how do you do it? How do you get Mary Kay stuff accomplished. I begin work at 8am and leave a 4:30pm with a half-hour lunch. My J.O.B is so busy it isn't even funny but my mind runs Mary Kay all day. The next thing I know my day is over and I didn't get anything accomplished. Any ideas to help?

I have research alot about Time Management and the Mary Kay business. I am very eager to know how everyone does it. My new habits or goals are....every night sit down and make you six most important things list. I have a spiral notebook and I am a list for work, a list for Mary kay and a list for personal. I am also going to school so I have a list for that too. I try really hard to get the things on each list done that day and the ones that I don't transfer to the next day. Some days it is easier than others but I keep trying.

My #1 problem is PROCRASTINATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am the biggest procrastinator. I absolutely hate this about me. I can have a list of people to call and just stare at it...What is up with that??
I have been wanting to get a newsletter out for some time now and I work on it here and there but can never find the time to finish it up and get it out. NEED TO DO THAT ONE!!
I love getting ideas from people and finding out what else I can do to improve my business but actually doing them is another thing. Any advice?? I sure could use it here.

Mary Kay ....... Full Time?

There has been alot of talk on other blogs about mk corporate and the good and the bad and what needs to be change. All in all, I believe that there is good and bad in every company and no matter what you do there will always be a sour peach but I do feel that grouped together we can make a difference and help Mary Kay gain back the respected name that it deserves.

That being said..........My Ultimate goal with my Mary Kay business is to be able to quit my J.O.B and work Mary Kay full time and be able to be with my children more. I say children but right now I just have a three year old son but ... growing our family is defintely in the near future. Two years ago I went thru DIQ and accomplished directorship. I have to say that it was the greatest accomplishment of my life!!!! (besideds my son) My directorship didn't last that long and to this day I kick myself in the butt for it everyday. What happened you may ask?? Well a few things...first and foremost...I went about accomplishing it the wrong way. When DIQ was over I had recruited my mom, sister, cousin, aunt, sister-in-law....none of them had any intensions of actually working the business, they were just doing it to help me out. Mistake #1.

Mistake #2...I had a very negative and abusive husband who basically beat me down emotionally every day. I know this is probably no big excuse but I was not strong enough to overcome it. The day my free car was delivered I got a 20 minute butt chewing on the phone about how stupid I was.

Mistake #3...I became overwhelmed with it all and stopped working my business and became really depressed and scared. Depression is a very serious thing and I would not wish it on my worst enemy. I am much stronger today for enduring it but......

Mistake #4....During the past few months of DIQ, I had acquired $8,000 in credit card debt from my business. Big Mistake!!! One night it just hit me like a bomb and I was numb and scared. That is why it is so important to run your business the right way. The good news is that once I got my butt in gear, I paid that credit card off in 4 months completely with Mary Kay sales!!

Today.....I divorced my husband a little over a year ago and gained control back over my life. I found that once I seperated from him my depression improved dramatically! Imagine that!!!!
I have met the most wonderful man and he is an amazing father figure for Jacob (my son).

At this point I am scared of recruiting because I had some consultants, when I fell out of directorship, sell there product back and I ended up owing the company over $1000. Luckily, you dont have to pay it off by a certain date and it does not earn interest so you can just pay as you go. But now I am scared of recruiting because I do not want to go thru that again. That is why I am only recruiting women who actually want to work this business.

I want to REALLY grow my customer base and get my name out there.

I would love to hear from all of you on your thoughts and ideas. Also, if you do Mary Kay full time or part time, do you have another J.O.B? If you work Mary Kay full time, how do you do it, are you a director?

Well I think that is it for now. I can't wait to hear from all of you!!

Powerstart - Update!

As of today........

10 faces done.....20 to go!!!

I will get there slowly but surely!

Mary Kay Products!

Please ignore the prevous blog about Spa girl. I was trying something new and it did not work the way that I wanted it to. Ooops!!

Did you know that for the Essence 2007 Readers' Choice Beauty Awards Mary Kay Cosmetics had 3 products at the top of the list??!!! That speaks volumes about Mary Kay products.
In the lipstick category, they chose MK Signature Creme Lisptick in Downtown Brown, in perfumes they chose the Affection Eau de Parfum. When it comes to skin care Essence readers chose the TimeWise Age-Fighting Moisturizer. That just blows my socks off!!!

Spa Girl: How to Apply Summer Makeup and Tips

Spa Girl: How to Apply Summer Makeup and Tips

Check out my blog at www.mkheart.blogspot.com. You don't mention any Mary Kay products in you blog so I would love to introduce you to them!!!

Renewed Mary Kay Website!

ATTENTION CUSTOMERS!!!!

I just wanted to let everyone know that I finally renewed my Mary Kay website. Please feel free to visit my website anytime.

www.marykay.com/radical_rachel

There I am available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

POWERSTART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay girls.......POWERSTART!!! For those of you who do not know what a powerstart is, it is 30 faces in 30 days. By doing this, the destination of your business is in your hands. Shades and Pink Bren...and anyone else out there.......Let's Do It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Are you on?? Track progress on your blogs as I will on mine.

July 12, 2008 - 2 faces down, 28 to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mary Kay customers....You are #1!!!!!!!! I am here to provide you with the best customer service that I possibly can. With you, I would not have a business to grow. Thank You!!

NEW Virtual Makeover!!!!!!

NEW Virtual Makeover!!!! Mary Kay has recently started the biggest color lauch in Mary Kay history!!! Well in addition to that Mary Kay has added a brand new feature......A Virtual Makeover! It is an interactive playground for customers to have the oppportunity to upload their personal photo and create a unique state-of-the-art color look makeover just for her!!!!

They even have the option to pick and choose hairstyles and hair colors. It is completely risk free. And of course, with MaryKay, it is, like every product, a 100% satisfaction guarantee, try-before-you-buy deal!! You can not wrong! You also have the option to "foward-to-friend"! This is a great tool to use to grow your business.

Please feel free to contact me for anything!! I would love to help you and your friends and family with their great new summer LOOKS!!!



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Brand New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is a brand new year in the Mary Kay world!!! This year is going to be a great year, I can feel it! Everyone of us, whether in Mary Kay or not, have obstacles that come our way unexpectedly to overcome. It is how we handle those obstacles that make us or brake us.

My goal this year for my Mary Kay business is to build to 150-200 wonderful customers and Queens Court of Sales!!!

YIKES!! That makes me want to puke but they say if a goal does not make you a little scared then you are not dreaming big enough!

Stay Tuned for more....plus the new newsletter!!