This Week Recap...

Wow, this stuff can run away with you.

Like,

dang...

So I started doing Mary Kay totally committed to making one meeting a week. I was going to take it slow. Ease into things...

yea.

Tuesday I had the weekly MK meeting/class to train and also invite clients to for a hands on skin care demonstration. My sister-in-law agreed to come AND she CAME. I'm learning it's one thing to get a commitment, it's another to actually have clients show up (since life gets in the way). So that was exciting.

Then Thursday morning I had my first color consultation scheduled with...my mom. 

Hey, don't laugh! Your mom wears make-up too I bet!

Anyway, she pushed hers back an hour so my sister-in-law thought she'd jump on the band wagon and treated herself to a color consultation. Then my mom came in after her.

TWO COLOR CONSULTATIONS BACK TO BACK! I know, I know, it's family but still for my first time I was a little proud. 

:)

And I also made my first sale that day, too! 

And since I'm being totally open....it was a lip gloss.

HEY! A sale is a sale. I will take it. And I got over that hump of making the first sale so it's all down hill from here, right? lol

Then Friday I went to observe a street fair where my director has a booth that I, along with another consultant, will be running next week. Funny story about that actually...

I try and look well put together when I'm working, we all do, so I wore grey heels, a black fitted skirt, a nice blouse and necklace. I walk up while on the phone with my director because I was a little lost and I saw her for the first time ever not only in pants but in jeans and a t-shirt (Mary Kay, of course). I'm pretty sure I stopped mid-sentence over the phone and said, "YOU DIDN'T TELL ME I COULD WEAR JEANS!!"

Oops.

Keep in mind my director and I have known each other since we were in elementary school so instead of feeling disrespected she rather much enjoyed my candid commentary. :) I spent an hour at the street fair and came home.

This week: 3 days of work plus I set a date for the Grand Opening and I ordered business cards. That was a little freaky. I've NEVER wanted to own my own business.

NEVER.

So consider yourself lucky, if this doesn't work you get to watch the fireworks first hand. ;)

See you next week!

Mary Kay And A New Direction

It's been a little over a year...and I've lacked direction.

I have two kids now, a husband in grad school, lots of volunteer positions....

and yet I lack direction.

LOL

Lucky for me I found it.

It's like that line from 'The Land Before Time' when the young dinosaurs happen upon a tree star forest and they think it's The Great Valley. Sara, the Triceratops start singing, "I fo-ound it!". 

Two words:

MARY KAY

I can't believe I'm a consultant. I signed up a week and a half ago. Up until this point I've been pretty terrified. I don't wear a lot of make-up and what I do have should have been thrown out ages ago. 

I have no clue what I'm doing.

But that's ok. I'm taking baby steps. And I'm comfortable with that.

Tonight was my second meeting. Last week was my first meeting to bring clients to in which my mother and sister-in-law came to. Tonight my other sister-in-law came. She's not super social but she said she had fun at least. That was a relief. I'm glad I have family around to practice on! My husband keeps asking me about the men's line...maybe he'll come with me to the next make-over meeting?

New things coming. Haven't made a sale yet or recruited anyone; I'm waiting for my grand opening party next month to sell. I wasn't really excited about having to throw a Mary Kay party (required as a new consultant) but after I started reading Mary Kay's autobiography I'm finding that I'm learning much more about life in general than I thought I would from reading a little book about a retired woman who drove a pink Cadillac. 

It's going to be an adventure. 

I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm going to do it anyway.

:)

Stay tuned for my first color consultation on Thursday!