Mary Kay 4 hour a day Plan Follow Along - NSD Tammy Crayk recording

Hello Again,

So I have listened to this recording twice and think it is a great foundation for good habits, I have procrastination issues and have recently been trying to get a schedule under my belt, this plan is simple and wont break my brain as I weave MK into my life.

First here is a link to the recording
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CHrskYiKeg

The recording is a little long so make sure you have time set aside to listen, you will be glad you did.

Now in the recording there are training tools mentioned but no link on how to obtain them, I am fairly good at tracking down things online and have the following links to go allong with this recording.

Bubble Sheets and instructions on how to use them

Tammy Crayk Unit Page

Tammy Crayk Facebook page


A Quick Summary(for those who cant spare an hour to listen to the recording)

4 Hour Plan- Hour 1
spend this hour making Booking calls, get parties on your books (personal unit quote, if you don't have parties booked you might as well be out of business)



4 Hour Plan - Hour 2
this hour is for coaching your booked parties (get the hostess excited call guests and get them excited and pre-profile them) coached bookings are twice as likely to hold and we all want our bookings to hold!


4 Hour Plan - Hour 3 
use this hour to call existing customers and follow up, (see how they are enjoying their products that were purchased, make sure they don't need anything and see if they would like to re-order) Our products are consumable don't let your customer's run out of a product and be reduced to buying a different brand, as a former Pro active user I have to say if I wasnt selling MK myself I would be finding a way to get my  MK cleanser come hell or high water because I will NOT be going back to my old product. (NOTE: those who are just starting out in MK may not have a customer base large enough to fill an hour time slot 7 days a week but even if that is the case this hour can be used don't just get rid of it, add an extra hour to booking calls or coaching calls)


4 Hour Plan - Hour 4 (if you are not wanting to team build with MK which is absolutely okay then use this hour for one of the 3 above)
this hour is for Team Building whether you are booking times for your prospective team members to talk with your director or you are making time for interviews or if your prospects are listening to a pre recording of the business opportunity use this hour to grow your team.


I will be trying this approach on MY Mary Kay business if anyone else wants to try and would like to post results (good or bad) below please feel free to do so!

Follow up of Procrastination

        So last post was on procrastination and I had promised to post again that night. due to internet related issues beyond my control that didn't happen...HOWEVER I did get things done! I made phone calls that needed to be made and so far have built up a good Mary Kay order. I took pictures that needed to be taken and have posted items to Etsy and did some exercise with my sister (Just Dance 2014 and a walk in the woods clearing our old path of dead tree limbs and leaves) Oh and I cleaned off my desk! muwahahaha its still not finished and I don't think it ever will be, I live at my desk it always has been and I'm pretty sure it always will be a work in progress....

This is a link to my etsy - https://www.etsy.com/shop/sistersallystar

and now PICTURES!!!!!

so we made a snack off  of Disney Junior Elatho! which is Spanish for Ice Cream, Rowan's grand parents that we don't live with are from the Dominican Republic and both speak fluent Spanish so I thought it would be cool to teach him the word.

anyway the Disney junior recipe just tells you too freeze chopped bananas and stick them in the food processor and I'm like "I can DO that!", but i'm not a huge banana person so we had frozen bananas mango and strawberries it was YUMMY!!!!

so here is what it looked like in the food processor











Here is it dished up for Me Rowan and My sister who Rowan Calls Mima.

 First bite is always the best.

But its COLD!!! maybe not the best treat for winter but I like cold so yeah...

So then I said we had a walk in the woods, here they are.... LOL

This is Rowan saying "no pictures please"












This is my sister saying "no pictures" without the please










Here is the back of her head













aaaand here is the bottom of her foot LOL

 it has been very cold till this week and we found that our pool (half deflated from summer) caught some water that turned to ice and one ice block is shaped like Texas....sort of

And Rowan asked for pie so here is the tray of personal apple pies I made for everyone!


I will add the Recipe when I can find it again...

Procrastination - Prime enemy #1

     So in my last post I introduced myself, Today I have a confession. I am a procrastinator, a huge one. I hate deadlines I hate appointments...well I don't really hate them, I just usually forget about them which leads to losing doctors and sometimes jobs, losing money and sometimes my sanity...but I know that I have to live with these things because without them nothing would get done.

     My goal is (as the title of this blog states) to Stay on track. I would like to report that January was...a complete failure. Maybe not completely but for the most part to be sure. I did manage to make a few crafts, crafts which have not been posted for sale or even had pictures taken of them. I did start this blog which up until today has only had one post (and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who has viewed it) I did have potential customers contact me for Mary Kay sales, I did not follow up with them!!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!

      I dont neeeed anyone to answer that. I know what is wrong. I procrastinated and I did it till I lost those customers...that is wrong I assume that I have lost them because I still have not contacted them. I have not made any money and Feb 8th is my son's Birthday, I have nothing but my pintrest posts to show what I wanted to do but cannot afford to do for him. I feel ashamed and beaten and I'm very much aware that it is my own fault (which I do believe makes it worse.)

       Now part of my procrastination is allowing myself to sink into depression and wallow. I feel so sorry for myself that i have not gotten anything done that I...don't get anything done! and then I feel worse and we spiral downward...I WILL NOT LET THIS CONTINUE! That being said I need a plan, I need to stick to that plan I need to be held accountable (publicly) for my actions (or lack there of) and I desperately need to escape my excuses!

      So on to step one!

Step one: MAKE A PLAN (and stick to it)

My plan needs to have the following parts to it. I need to be making an income, I need to be centered in my faith and connected with God, I NEED to feel like a good mother...I really most importantly just need to BE a good mother but feeling like I'm doing a good job really boosts productivity and morale and My work space needs to at least be kept in a state of (what Rarity from My Little Pony Calls) Controlled Chaos.

A big part of my plan is that I need to have a schedule waking up at 10am is not getting anything done and doesn't do much for my state of mind waking up to realize that I have wasted much of the day. Mary Kay (the person) said that getting up getting dressed and put on make-up was one of the most important parts of the day, not just because it gives you more time to work but because when you are clean dressed and look pretty you feel good! and when you feel good things are just better, when you feel good and someone says "no" to a sale it is much easier to say "okay" with a smile and move on.

From now on I need to be up at a decent time (aiming for 7:30...we will see how that goes, I'll settle for 8:00) and whether I plan on going out or not I should be Showered, dressed (PJ's don't count), and my son too.

Next part of my plan is to keep up with the daily text challenges from my director. They have been really good ones but due to procrastination and illness and snow I have not been keeping up with them at all! nor have I attended any meetings or plugged into any MK outlets, I know I know I'm horrible.

I need to be at the weekly meetings and plug into MK (if nothing else there is always the million dollar message but my Director is amazing and I love her she is always here if I want to connect)

After my plan is made I just need to stick to it!!



Step 2: Be accountable!

This step will require others I will need to tell people what I am doing when I am doing it and why and be able to show that I am doing what I have said I am going to do! So, I have told you (if anyone reads this) and I have told my father, I will tell my Director, my Best friend Sam and probably the next best bet is my Boyfriend and my Mother. they are the ones I talk to the most and will be the ones who lovingly shove me from the nest and hope I fly.

    I am hoping that I can keep up with posting here at least once a week with status updates if not for my readers than for my own sanity and a way to log some sort of progress.


Step 3: Defeat the 1,000,000 headed monster that is Excuses!

     I am the best when it comes to giving reasons that something didnt happen, and when I say the best I mean I can turn something from a situation that I should have managed and dealt with weeks ago to a sob story where people wonder how I'm keeping my head a float with next to no lies involved. I really do make myself sick sometimes....

    Exibit A.
This past week I did manage to get a few things done, I cleaned part of my bedroom (including my sewing area which is a huge deal....no I will not post pictures I'm too ashamed) I made a new sculpture to sell and cooked 2 new recipes which were both awesome.

       During this time I did not sell any items made or MK I did not post anything here I did ignore several texts attempting to get my attention to plan birthday events and I did not wash my dishes.
 
       Here is the reason why. this past week we passed the 24 hour flu around the house and I had an odd allergy attack with an unknown cause. The allergy attack made me itchy for one day and sore to the point that I couldn't write, or even pick up the pen to try due to joint pain. I did get a ride to the doctor's and they pretty much told me to take benadryl  and call them if anything got worse.  The 24 hour bug started with my son and has now moved on to me. Oh and we got 2 inches of snow which trapped us at the top of our hill for 3 days.        

so where this is all true and reasonable for not getting anything done, I still WANT and NEED to get things done and if I reeeeally really want to I can get something done no matter what!

I will today... 
1. take pictures and post to etsy with my items for sale 
2. I will call my leads back for MK sales 
3. I will call MK corporate about last years unrefunded Career conference money since I never got off the waiting list. 
and 
4. I will get out of this house for a bit even if I just run to the store!

and 
5. I will post tonight about today's completed activities

Back Story

                                  My Name is Elizabeth, and I am living a very jumbled life.




           I am 24, and I live in a 4 bedroom 2 bath home that belongs to my parents.
           My parents also live in this home, and so does my sister who is 11, my son who is almost 3 and our 5 cats.






       The past 3 years I have been on a wild ride, getting used to being a first time mom, making the decision to break away from my son's biological father, and trying to get on my feet financially. It hasn't been easy its still a work in progress but I have learned a lot.
   

        Before my son Rowan was born life sucked for me, and I'm not gonna lie I almost single handedly did it to myself. in high school I hated everyone (what teenager does feel that way at some point) I also lost several family members that had been a huge part of my life growing up and their deaths tore me apart. Hurting as much as I was I made some very poor choices over the next couple of years and by the age of 19 I had dropped out of college quit the 40 hr a week job I had, and moved over 800 miles away from home to live in New Jersey with a much older man I met on Myspace.






      After only 2 weeks of living with this man I was miserable, home sick and scared. I hadn't had enough experience with life yet to know that even if you have been talking to a person for a year that doesn't mean you know them. Phone calls are nice but they dont allow you any sort of insight to how a person lives their day to day life. 

       Short version of the story this man after I had moved in went from having a good job with a company car, to living on state disability for mental illness, and playing video games all day long while I worked, to saying who I could or could not hang out with, and not letting me leave the house without him. to sitting at my work and watching me during my shift, to saying things like you are not allowed to change your mind, yelling at me and throwing things at me,  to preforming sexual favors for our male neighbor to get drugs so he could get high, to trying to get our homosexual roommate to sleep with him.

      I stuck with him up until our roommate came to me crying and I finally ended it. Problem was I didn't have anywhere to go. So I spent a month sleeping in that man's bed and spending as much time as I could at work even sometimes falling asleep in the break room. Finally I caught a break, a co-worker offered to let me come and stay with her. I didn't know Janet that well (you would think that I would have learned my lesson) but I was ready to get away from the place I was living as fast as possible and she was an adult (over 40) how bad could she be.

     over the next 6 months living with Janet and trying to save enough money to go home. I realized something wasn't quite right, my car was having a lot of problems out of no where and I was having to use all my savings to keep it running so I could get to work. I was approached by some one at work who told me that she had over heard Janet say that she was planning something to do something to my car and it wasn't very nice.

      Now up until this point Janet and I had been very friendly and she was almost a mother figure but after hearing this little bit of gossip at work I was suspicious. I got a lock for my gas tank, I started parking my car where it could be seen from my bedroom window and I stopping accepting any help from her at all. After about 2 weeks she was a different person, she was snappy and rude, finding any excuse to argue with me and I began to feel as uncomfortable in her home as I did in my ex's. Then she brought in someone new, I had see the new girl at work she was in a different department but I knew her face I was told that Vanessa the new girl would be living with us from now on, it wasn't too big of a deal to me I figured less bills. Nope, she was going to get to live with us free of charge.

      Over the time that I had been living with Janet I had started a new relationship his name was Donald, Don for short and things had been going pretty well. He was an escape a friendly face, a place to go so I didn't have to be home with Janet and Vanessa both of whom seamed to not like having me around. Well in May of 2009 I found out I was pregnant! I had spent all of high school telling my mother that i didnt want kids, was never going to have any and that was that, but suddenly here I was with a little life in me and I was SO VERY HAPPY! we told his parents and my parents and we talked about getting married, and then in September I started bleeding. it was late at night and I was scared so I went to the ER and they did an ultrasound, they couldn't find my babies heartbeat. They asked if i wanted to wait have nature takes it's course or if I wanted to induce the "expulsion of the dead tissue" ...what a way to word it. I opted to medication so that it would be over with quickly. So I  had labor induced and I "gave birth" to my dead baby. I had never been so sad in my whole life.

      After I lost my baby, I lost myself. I broke up with my babies father I just couldn't look at him after the baby died. I began smoking, cigarettes and other things to try and take my mind off my pain. I almost lost my job because it was obvious to everyone that I truly didn't care anymore. I decided that i needed to shock myself back to life, one of my favorite musical groups is Insane Clown Posse so I bought tickets to a show in Philly and one of my best friends from down home caught a flight to Jersey and we went to the show together.

       In order to get the days off for the concert with my friend I had to bargain with my boss and I ended up opening at 5:00am for a few days that week in order to have the days off I wanted. I was usually on the closing shift so the first morning coming in at 5:00 I got stopped by one of the over night workers and he said i couldn't come in because the store wasn't open yet. I laughed and showed him my badge and unzipped my coat so he could see my uniform. He laughed too and apologized introducing him self as Robbie, i had never seen him before because our shifts hadn't ever allowed it, but he made me smile again and it felt good. I was all geared up for the upcoming concert with ICP and so the coat I was wearing that morning was my Hatchetman hoodie. Robbie saw the big red hatchetman on my back as I was walking away and said "whoop whoop!" for those who are not "down with the clown" that is the family greeting among the Juggalos and Juggalettes (Psychopathic record's fans)
I told Rob about the concert and we talked for a little while then I had to go actually work.

        That year I spent New Years eve with Robbie and he was my new years kiss. We moved in together in March when Janet told me to "get out" and even though the lease wasn't up till June I left. Robbie and I did really well together for the first few months but after moving in together and seeing each other everyday it was different. He was not much of a people person, that was one of the reasons he worked the over night shift, so he wouldn't have to deal with people. I am a very friendly very bubbly person and for the most part I love everyone. I was glad Robbie loved me but it bothered me that he didn't want to be around other people.


       
       In April shortly after I turned 21 I found out that I was again pregnant. I wasn't as excited this time, I was very happy about the baby but so very afraid to lose it. Robbie was ok with it but not over the moon, had little to no interest in going to the doctor's with me. Between April and July we argued at least every other day, I wanted to go home and have my baby in my home state, Robbie thought it was an unnecessary complication. I had by this point managed to save up a bit of money. So in August I packed as much as I could into my ford focus and drove home by myself  leaving Robbie in Jersey to hold down the fort. Part of me planned on going back to jersey to be with the father of my unborn child the other part of me had been away from home so long she was sure she would never want to leave again.




 

  Rowan was born on February 8th at 2:25am and Robbie was there he came down from Jersey to see his son born and stayed the first week, then went back up north. I never thought I could love anything as much as I love my little boy! He brought so much light into my life, and I am so thankful.






     I broke things off with Rowan's father in July. I had decided to follow Christ, I knew there was a god I just kind of always thought he hated me for some reason, then I saw Rowan and the light he let in my life showed me how wrong I was. Robbie is an Atheist and I found it very hard to talk to him about my new happiness. Rowan's father was also was looking forward to the 2012 Apocalypse so that earth would be cleansed of humans including himself and his new baby.... I didn't want to be around that kind of negativity, so I asked that we no longer be in a relationship.

     Robbie doesn't visit his son or ask about him we haven't spoken since that July, and the last time I saw him was in court for child support where he didn't even make eye contact. Rowan doesn't miss him yet as far as I can tell and he has my Father as a roll model.




As of today I'm at home with my son,

I sell Mary Kay cosmetics as a Consultant,
and do crafts on the side and sell them on Etsy.

I go to church on Sundays and help in the children's classes, and some Sundays I sing with the band. I'm getting my life together and spend way too much time on Pinterest.

    I lost 11 lbs with Weight Watchers and have kept it off for 3 months, through Halloween candy, Thanksgiving and Christmas

 I have a good solid relationship 

of almost 2 years now.

 I get to spend time with
 my family any time I want

               Mary Kay lets me put My Life in Order! Faith First! Family Second! Career Third!

I have had a bumpy past but now it's time to get on track and stay there! And I am well on my way!