In December 2011, I DIQ'd. In Thirty-One, DIQ means you have met all the criteria to be come a director. In January, I needed to meet these requirements yet again. Once I had done so, I would receive the title change and become an Independent Director with Thirty-One Gifts.
BOY WAS JANUARY STRESSFULL!!!
January is the first month after the ever expensive holiday season and the last month in the Fall/Winter Catalog. The combination makes it very difficult to book parties and make sales in January. I scraped and scrammbled to come up with the $1,000 personal volume requirement I had to meet and did absolutely everything I could to get my girls motivated so together we would meet my $4,000 team sales requirement. I offered these girls FREE business supplies, money, etc. and it just didn't seem to be helping. I send them tips and tricks via email and tried to help them get sales any and every way I knew how. Yet again, didn't seem to be helping! In the end, I spoke with Thirty-One home office and put my DIQ month hold to try to re-group with these ladies and start over in February. By officially putting DIQ on hold, I would not lose the ability to earn the $1,000 promoting bonus Thirty-One offered.
By my birthday, January 26th, I had relinguished hope that we would make the team goal and had let HO know I wanted to put DIQ on hold. I was SO relieved the day I sent that form to HO.
For the next couple weeks I really reflected on this experience. I had thought I wanted to be a director SO BAD! But, as I thought about it more and more over the time that had passed, I remembered why I started doing this to begin with. It wasn't for some fru-fru title, it wasn't to be able to quit my job because Thirty-One allowed me to make enough to stay home, it was simply to make an extra couple hundred dollars a month so I could make ends meet without having to get a "real" job that required me losing time with my puppy, family and friends.
I was sitting at the stoplight at Topeka Blvd. and Morse when I had this revelation. At that moment, I re-embraced my "WHY?". The original "WHY?". The foundation for my business!
Sure, it would be nice to someday be able to be a director, to earn enough to be a stay at home mom...someday, but right now what I NEED is still just a couple hundred extra dollars a month. I truly feel that is where my focus should remain. If the title changes and additional opportunities come to fruision in the process, PERFECT...but I don't NEED them.
As a P.S. - I will share that I have learned in the last few months just how powerful being prayerful can be when it comes to the biggest and smallest decisions, stresses and, most importantly, blessings in our lives!
Pray hard my friends!
Blessings,
Jen
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
My "Why?"
About two years ago, I decided it was time to begin searching for a new job. One that would bring me closer to home and/or provide more income. I had purchased my first home only a few months before (40 minutes from my job!). The commute had become overwhelming and fuel prices were thru the roof! One of my co-workers at the time had forwarded my information to a friend of hers working in our field in the town my new house was in. I applied for a job at this person's request once one became available at her organization. AND...I was hired! Although I had found a new job, in my field, much closer to home, with a higher salary, I just needed a little bit more. Spending less on fuel and being able to run home for lunch were enough to make ends meet...most months; however, it wasn't quite enough to make any headway.
I have always been a worker. I had two jobs in college. However, now that I am out of school and have that expensive piece of paper hanging on my wall that says my education was successfully received, I do not feel as though I should have to work more than one job to "get by." I digress. Once I was ready to own my situation (about 10 months after I found this new job), I asked myself what I could do to make extra money without sacraficing time with my puppy, my family and my friends in the process. NOTHING! Was the first answer I received.
But, I had a girl friend who sent me a different answer. I didn't really know this girl, but we were friends on facebook and had went to the same schools growing up. She found an opportunity that allowed her to earn "spending money" for her family. It was called Thirty-One! She had offered me the opportunity to join Thirty-One with her, host a party for her or place an order. I WAS BROKE! I respectfully declined a thousand times between August and Christmas. Yet, I still kept tabs on her facebook updates and the reminder messages she would send telling me how AWESOME Thirty-One was for her and would be for me.
Then, Christmas Eve 2010, this Thirty-One company changed my life despite all the pushing back I had done. I was at my aunt's house exchanging gifts with a few family members when I opened a box that I will never forget! Inside the box I found an Organizing Utility Tote in Black Tailored Stripe (w/ the lime green handles) with my initial on the side (also in lime green). I WAS SO EXCITED! My cousin had purchased this Thirty-One tote for me from a friend of hers that was a consultant. She had no idea that I even knew what Thirty-One was, let alone that another birdie had been feeding me seeds for the past 4 months!
When I got home that night, I moved all my crochetting supplies into my new tote and sat it by the door to take with me to my parents' house on Christmas Day. After the holidays, I sent Judy (my little birdie) a Facebook message and told her of my GIFT and that I was ready to accept the pokes and prods from God and sign up!
January 15th, 2011, I became a Thirty-One Consultant and changed my life. I have been able to earn that extra couple hundred dollars a month I wanted to earn without interrupting my life to do so. I work my business when I have time, my 2nd income does not work me! I have made serious headway towards paying off that one credit card from college, I have extra money each month to visit the spa, go shopping or do fun things with my friends. In addition, I was able to pay for Christmas in CASH this year!!!
Throughout my time with Thirty-One, I have not only gained an extra income, I have grown in my relationship with God and earned many new friends along the way! My "Why?" has shifted, now I don't just want a couple extra hundred dollars a month to make ends meet...
I have always been a worker. I had two jobs in college. However, now that I am out of school and have that expensive piece of paper hanging on my wall that says my education was successfully received, I do not feel as though I should have to work more than one job to "get by." I digress. Once I was ready to own my situation (about 10 months after I found this new job), I asked myself what I could do to make extra money without sacraficing time with my puppy, my family and my friends in the process. NOTHING! Was the first answer I received.
But, I had a girl friend who sent me a different answer. I didn't really know this girl, but we were friends on facebook and had went to the same schools growing up. She found an opportunity that allowed her to earn "spending money" for her family. It was called Thirty-One! She had offered me the opportunity to join Thirty-One with her, host a party for her or place an order. I WAS BROKE! I respectfully declined a thousand times between August and Christmas. Yet, I still kept tabs on her facebook updates and the reminder messages she would send telling me how AWESOME Thirty-One was for her and would be for me.
Then, Christmas Eve 2010, this Thirty-One company changed my life despite all the pushing back I had done. I was at my aunt's house exchanging gifts with a few family members when I opened a box that I will never forget! Inside the box I found an Organizing Utility Tote in Black Tailored Stripe (w/ the lime green handles) with my initial on the side (also in lime green). I WAS SO EXCITED! My cousin had purchased this Thirty-One tote for me from a friend of hers that was a consultant. She had no idea that I even knew what Thirty-One was, let alone that another birdie had been feeding me seeds for the past 4 months!
When I got home that night, I moved all my crochetting supplies into my new tote and sat it by the door to take with me to my parents' house on Christmas Day. After the holidays, I sent Judy (my little birdie) a Facebook message and told her of my GIFT and that I was ready to accept the pokes and prods from God and sign up!
January 15th, 2011, I became a Thirty-One Consultant and changed my life. I have been able to earn that extra couple hundred dollars a month I wanted to earn without interrupting my life to do so. I work my business when I have time, my 2nd income does not work me! I have made serious headway towards paying off that one credit card from college, I have extra money each month to visit the spa, go shopping or do fun things with my friends. In addition, I was able to pay for Christmas in CASH this year!!!
Throughout my time with Thirty-One, I have not only gained an extra income, I have grown in my relationship with God and earned many new friends along the way! My "Why?" has shifted, now I don't just want a couple extra hundred dollars a month to make ends meet...
- I want to be able to help other ladies get their couple extra hundred dollars a month
- I want to be able to set a foundation for myself so when (God willing!) I become a mother, I will have a solid business that I can work from home
- I NEED a new vehicle in the very near future but have not had a car payment in so long, I need Thirty-One to help me afford a car payment
- I want to be able to share my experience with other women searching to find themselves, to find their way, to find extra money and to find their FAITH
To learn more about this wonderful opportunity that has helped me find myself, my FAITH and my way visit www.mythirtyone.com/jbrown83
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