Adjusting the goal to remember the "Why?"

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