Nature girl vs. Motivation (part 2)

So a month or so ago I wrote about my distinct LACK of motivation.

Today I am glad to say that I am starting to feel like I may have divined my way to a tiny little spring of motivating energy.

I am cutting out the negative self talk (not always the easiest thing) and replacing it little by little with positive affirmations and happy thoughts.  I am great at being positive, supportive, and encouraging to others, but I am not always the best about being that for myself.

I am finding that doing a weekly training session with the remarkable Jerry Roisentul (sorry peeps, he is just for Arbonne reps, because we are that cool) has really pointed out the ways that I talk down to and on life.  One step at a time I feel like the more control I take of life, the less overwhelmed I am by it all! A very key process for me considering I am easily overwhelmed.

This little bit of personal growth has broken through the metaphorical crust of my wishy washy behavior, and pushed me towards (but I'm not there yet) striking out for my goals with purpose and confidence. Though I am not at the fully confident, driven, successful place I want to be - I can at least feel progress in that direction, and it gives me the motivation to keep going.

...Nature girl

Training Day

Training Day, it's not just an action flick, it WAS my weekend plan.

I am not usually the one who is up to doing corporate training days. But I guess it's different when you are your own corporation, because somehow I was really excited about the day long training I signed up for this Saturday. So imagine my let down when I opened my e-mail today and saw that the event was cancelled.

It was like the let down from Christmas, no glow, just the bummer that it can't still be a party the next day (unless you're Brittish, then you get boxing day).

Ever since we made this big move to Hawaii, I have felt a lack of drive for my business out here.  Probably because I am lonely and missing home, but moving on.  I was super excited to go and hang out with other Arbonne Consultants and fill up on targeted training. But since that summit was cancelled, I now have two options. Be bummed and further put off, or be stoked that if there wasn't a big enough enrollment, that means I have more than enough room to grow!

The tough part about network marketing is not the sales, it's the courage quotient. With a great product (or products) like Arbonne it's easy because the product "sells" itself! Building this business, for me, is much more about education, options, healthy alternatives, and relationships. But that is where the hitch in my giddy-up comes from in HI. I have to find a way to meet people/tell people what I love to do, not just what my JOB is! This in person summit, I feel, was going to help equip me to get over my fears.

Now in all fairness, the training didn't disappear, it just relocated - to the phone. I am still amped to get going, now three days early, and I happen to have an event planned for that same day, so I will definitely be busy! I guess I just don't like to be bored...it saps my energy.

Not having this in-person training go through just showed me how passionate I am about succeeding in Arbonne. And how excited I am for this.  Besides the amount of freedom that being my own boss will eventually provide for me, it will also let me stay home, play with my baby (when he arrives) and educate people (and myself...I miss you school)!!

So I have decided to move forward. In conversations with my gal-pals today, I encouraged both of them not to be passive observers in their lives, but to continue growing, be involved, and make healthy decisions for themselves and their lives. That was when I realized that this HI holding pattern I have been in isn't really helping me. Though it isn't "hurting" me, it definitely isn't pushing me toward my goals, and I want to achieve my goals.

...Nature girl

Nature Girl vs "getting life direction"

I think this is going to be "that entry" for me.  The one that really forms what I am trying to do with this blog and with my life right now.  I have been so blessed to be at a crossroads of sorts, surrounded by people who love and support me and I feel like I am one at of those slow motion scenes in cartoons.  I've been running like mad and come to the cliff and taken that first step off the edge unknowingly.  Now it's time to see if I am Wile E.Coyote, and will fall to my doom (hopefully not); or Roadrunner and I really can "fly".

I've made the decision to Arbonne to grow my family and do what I am passionate about instead of what will just get us by.  Knowing that the road will not be easy makes this decision even bigger and the commitment even more intense. I can see how people that we ask to join us look at us like we are nuts!  The thing is, the potential for benefit and reward is SO much bigger than the downside!

Here is something for the numbers people:

When people go to work, they get paid on the hours they are there. Simple right?  What if they went to work as usual but made a few calls on lunch hour and did a presentation on the weekend (two hours tops), and maybe they met someone who though it was great.  Maybe a student who doesn't have a job, but a lot of time in between classes and a whole weekend day free to do presentations. Now that person would have their regular job and this great opportunity.  But wait, now they get paid on sharing a great product and a commission from their teammate too! When they are at work, maybe the teammate is at a presentation rocking it out! Their earning potential just increased without even trying!

The Arbonne opportunity is not FOR everyone but it can fit everyone who wants it.  People can make it whatever they need, or whatever they want! I am jazzed for this new part of my life but I can't help being a little overwhelmed.  It's kind of like Christmas for me, It's beautiful and shiny, and there is so much going on, and it's exciting and you see so many people....Honestly, it's a little hard to focus.  I tend to do all of my "Christmas" (you know - shopping, wrapping, parties, visiting, baking etc.) in the last week before Christmas..that's how long it takes me to get acclimated.

I feel like it's my week before Christmas in Arbonne - I finally get it, the light went on, I understand it, and now I'm ready to really launch out into space; arms wide, wind whipping in my hair, and belly flop into the clouds!  I think Arbonne can take me as high as I want to go, and that's the only thing I haven't decided yet.

...Nature Girl