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| Feb 07, 2011 2:11 pm |
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Heidi Caswell
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Chris, I can relate.
I remember years back, a single guy, no family, full-time mlm, do a breakdown on hours in a day and how easily people can find 15-20 hours a day to work their mlm. How most people spend 30 hours a week in front of TV.
So me and a friend of mine, also with family tried our hour lists, factoring time with kids, volunteer work with their activities, cooking meals, laundry, feeding baby, etc. I don't remember what we came up with, but it seemed with only 5 hours a week we didn't even have enough time for 8 hours sleep. Now if 3-4 of those hours are spent in attending a local weekly meeting, an all day event every month or 2, listening to conference calls, no time would be left for doing the parts which paid you.
Realizing we needed more time, looked for things to cut out. Kids could help more around the house. Downside is until you get them trained to do so, it takes more time out of your schedule, but still worth doing.
We looked cutting back on activities, kids sports, volunteer work, etc. But that was where we were meeting the most people, gaining customers, distributors, new friends. We came to the conclusion best to scale back on training type meetings, get better at collecting names and phone numbers while out and about, make followup calls to schedule apts while waiting at dr's office, to pick up kids after practice, etc. And that babies and toddlers are people magnets. Later I learned this was called lifestyle marketing.
I remember one time, while struggling whether I could do a home business with my crazy schedule, I was sure it couldn't be done. I shouldn't even consider such a thing. My kids were at the park, my sponsor there too with kids. Meet a new mom at park, talked, and as we got ready to leave she volunteered her cell number so I could keep in touch. Next day I went to neighbor's garage sale, meet new neighbor who after talking a few minutes said we need to be in business together, said I already had one and she invited me in to talk to her and her husband to tell them more.
I realized at that time that the single guy was not a good mentor for me, he had no idea what my lifestyle was like, etc. That I'd be better finding successful moms to learn from, and sharing what worked for me.
Heidi Caswell
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