Day 21

It is funny how you cannot stop thinking about business when you are in business for yourself. This journey has been one of thinking of the best ways to promote products and or sponsor another person to be successful. When you look at the beginning stages of a business, getting the business is the frustrating part.

I have sold 1 bottle, connect with a couple of hundred people, have 1 person sponsored, working on a couple more, planning a trade show and all without any income from the project.

If I quit now, then all is lost and I will have to start over again with another project. Quitting is obviously not the answer and perseverance is the way to go. But what are the opportunity costs? I guess your time becomes voluntary until the business starts to pay off. It is no different from spending thousands of dollars on a business that requires a store front, inventory purchases and you still have to market and get customers.

I see a parallel between this home based endeavor and one that is a store front. The difference being that the upfront costs are minimal in what I am trying to build. I have to keep focused on the product sales at every opportunity so that a customer based can be built. I guess it gets a bit frustrating at times and the help from the up line, although very good, is not a sounding board for all the business skills needed.

Perhaps there is room for letting people know what goes on each and every day of being in business for yourself. There is no letting go, no I can do that tomorrow – there is only today and so I sent my 10 emails out and researched my database to find the next 70 for the week. Interested process – I am seeing names of people that I had lost contact with and now is my chance to rekindle the friendship.

Ok – it is the weekend today and I still get pumped about the possibilities. I will work on my weekly plan and then execute it during the week (evenings and lunch time only for me).

Now it is getting more serious. I spent part of the evening planning how my website will start to drive traffic to the purchase of product. I have a general outline that I put together while eating dinner. It is clear that I have three principles in mind. First is my success mind, second the belief that this is the way for me to go and the third is feeling the success at every turn. According to Jim Britt these principles are the difference between really making it and letting it go. In my mind success is the only word available. Success will only come from continuing to be in business and have the business mindset.