New Week!

I hope everyone is having a fabulous Monday so far! Yesterday was my family day so I am excited and pumped to start work for today so that I can share the results.

Make today a Magnificent Monday and I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Amy

Sunday

Happy Sunday to everyone! So how did yesterday's facials go? Well, I had several appointments setup, but let's just say that there were some cancellations and some rescheduled. I know that's expected as it is with doctors and dentists, and you can choose to let those things get you down, or you can view it as... not being the ones that God needed me in front of right now. I chose to leave it in God's hands and just praise Him, because He has a plan.

Now, the good news..... those cancellations were just for the first few appointments of the day! So I still had a 6 pm appointment for 6 ladies that live an hour from me. I got my things ready to go down there, and on my way I prayed for God to have His will be done there at that party. I wound up with 63 new referrals, $109 in sales, and I got a new booking. It was lot's of fun and I left there praising God for a good day!

So, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has been reading my journals. I have been so blessed by all of you, and this has been such an encouragement. I look forward to all the new things I will learn through being consistent in the 4 hour plan and keeping this journal updated.
Thank you again!

Talk to you tomorrow,
Amy

"Without ambition One starts nothing. Without work One finishes nothing!"

Saturday Woo Hoo!

I'm so excited that today is Saturday because that means facials all day today! I have them scheduled at 10am, 1pm, and 6pm. I'm foreseeing coming home tonight, washing my face, and hitting the bed. There isn't even scheduled time for eating in there. Oops, oh well, I'll make it happen. That's why I am writing my journal so much earlier this morning, so I can start getting ready for my facials.

Alright, yesterday was a fabulous day! I worked my 4 hours and wow did it show! During the hour of customer service calls I decided to contact guys in my phone to see if they needed a Valentine's Day gift for their special ladies. I simply text messaged them (because my son would have been screaming in the background if I had called) and said, "Hey Bob! I'm working towards a big Mary Kay goal and I wanted to see if you already have something special for (ur special lady/Jane) making her feel SUPER SPECIAL for Valentines Day or if you would like some help with that?!!! :-)" I got a few guys that were interested, and to think if I had never texted them, that would have been money left on the table. So I wound up with $210 in sales yesterday!

Then in my hours of booking parties/facials and interviews I got 5 new bookings! Part of those bookings were just people who had responded to me from prior days, which meant, I was still getting results from prior days work. That's a great feeling. So, today there will be no time for any of the 4 hour plan, it will only be facials all day, but tomorrow I will journal about how the facials went.

Look at what a little determination can do to a person.
Can't wait to talk to you tomorrow!
Amy

"If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse."

It's Friday!

Happy Friday! This means that the weekend is fastly approaching.  For me that means facials all day tomorrow and that's exciting! Yesterday it snowed here in Rowlett, TX and we get snow maybe once a year, so when it snows we are not prepared the same way as others who get snow more often.  That typically means people don't get out as much, which can be used as an advantage for booking. So yesterday my husband and my 2 1/2 year old were at home all day. I started the day by letting my husband know my work plans, that way I could get his help in making that happen. Our little boy keeps us pretty busy, but I assume that's true for most little boys. 

I did a total of two hours of the plan yesterday and I just broke it down so I did 30 minutes of each part of the 4 hour plan.  I made 4 new bookings, plus I still have people texting me that I will respond to as soon as I start my work day. The flexibility that this business gives me is always showing me new ways that I love it even more! I was able to let the texts keep coming when I finished my work and allow my focus to be on my family. I just ignored the texts and I'll look at them today when I begin working. 

Although this was not a typical '4 hour plan' work day for me, it still brought me results. Today there is still plenty of snow on the ground and it's pretty slippery in places, however I will be working while my son takes his nap today and then once my husband gets home I'll finish it up. 

I know many women wonder how to work this plan when they have run out of referrals/leads. Tammy even discusses that topic on her 4 Hour Plan. She says to work the leads that you do have first, then get out the door and meet new people, getting new leads, for the rest of the hour. She even discusses calling existing customers and booking them again, and asking existing customers for referrals. The reason that I bring that up today is because I have gone through all of my referrals until I get more from my facials tomorrow.  That means that I will be doing these things during my booking hour today. 

Everyday that I continue to work this plan I am finding myself not only doing more in my business than ever before, but I am truly taking care of every aspect of my business. I've always been good at booking, when I'm actually doing it, and I was even pretty good about booking interviews at least once a month, or at the parties. That still left coaching and customer service calls though, and those are just as important. This 4 hour plan is what I needed in order to do my business and do it right! 

Well, I'm off to go make this day another step towards directorship!

Talk to you tomorrow!

Amy

!!Thursday!!

Wow, what a day it was yesterday! Where do I begin? Well, I did the full 4 hours yesterday and can I just say that it shows in the numbers! Even though there are days where I don't do the full 4 hours and maybe I break it into 1 or 2 hours, it still gets me results, but boy it's wonderful to see the results from 4 hours!

So I'm going to leave you hanging for just a minute while I tell you that I have noticed that different days yield different results. Sometimes it because of the people you are calling/texting to book, sometimes maybe it's just because the customers that you are calling that day to service still have enough product, but overall consistency will show you the results that are discussed in Tammy's plan. Now, isn't that exciting!?


Ok, so now for the results of my day. I have eight new bookings from yesterday. 1 for our success meeting, 2 parties with 4+ at their houses, and the rest are for our studio with at least 1-2 friends coming with them. It's funny, because as I was booking yesterday I actually forgot to count and I had to go back through all my new bookings on my calendar to count them up this morning. That is a great problem to have though. I also had a customer reorder from me yesterday. When she was texting me what she needed, she was only a few dollars away from 40 which meant she could get a Free Gift With Purchase if she found one more thing to add, so I explained that to her and she is deciding what else she needs so she can get her free gift. So let's just say it's at least a $40 sale.

Yesterday, while I was working hour three, my husband came home for lunch, I stopped my time, and had a nice lunch with him. This is one example of the wonderful flexibility that this business offers me. Now, I must say that there are times that we must choose to keep the commitment to ourselves to complete our work for the day by choosing not to do something. My example of that yesterday comes from my husband being here for lunch, which got me sitting and relaxing, and then (due to pregnancy) I became really tired. I could have fallen asleep in a minute of laying down. However, I chose to start back up in my third hour and get it completed so that by the time 7pm came around I'd already be done so I could attend church. I told myself, that if I had time to take a nap once I was done, then I would, but good thing I chose to do it that way, because I didn't have time to take a nap. Overall, I was happy with my results! Directorship, here I come!!

What an awesome day! It feels so wonderful to end the day that way, and I will be doing it again today.
Talk to you tomorrow!
Amy

"Our results will not change until our habits change"

~Wednesday~

It is Wednesday and I just gotta tell you about yesterday's work so I can start my plan for today!

Yesterday was fun because instead of doing my hour of scheduling interviews, I was actually doing an interview! I have done 4 in the past 8 days, which is good, but I plan to do way more this month. So this morning to top it all off, I got a text from someone that I had tried to schedule for an interview a couple of days ago, and she said she is available today. So I'll actually be doing that interview in about 30 minutes, which means I gotta hurry to finish this journal entry. Yesterday's interview went well, and I'll be following up with her on Sunday to get her final decision. 

While booking I also made one new appointment. I only spent approximately 2 hours total on my work yesterday, besides my success meeting last night, and I'm still seeing results!!

I look forward to today's results and I can't wait to share!

-Amy

P.S. If you are just beginning to read this journal, I'd encourage you to read the first couple of posts first so you have a better understanding of what I am doing :)

February!

Happy February! This is GO time! Yesterday I spent 2 hours doing all the tasks from the 4 hour plan. I had spent a big portion of my day with my son and just thinking about working, but then I decided to get off my butt and get busy, even if there was only a couple of hours left that I could work with. This makes me think of a thought provoking phrase that I heard today, "What got you here, will not take you there." Isn't that powerful? This is another reason to change what I am doing. I will not give up, because as long as I continue pushing forward, God will make this dream, that He has placed in my heart, a reality.

So yesterday I contacted several women that I have done facials with recently, to setup phone inner-views. I have one new one setup for today and she will be listening to my director's marketing line before we talk. I also followed up with several ladies who have recently purchased from me, just to check on them and their product. Finally, I contacted quite a few referrals to get bookings, and obtained 1 new booking from that. For only working two hours yesterday, I felt as though that was pretty good.

So as I look at what's ahead for today, I see wonderful results coming my way that will catapult me into the next level!

Have a fabulous day!
Amy