Dear Consultants and Directors....
    This topic is so very dear to my heart, going to the very core of what I feel most missioned about so please hear it in these comments...
    I could have written these 2 messages myself. I highlighted in red below what the key issue was for me. Because I had left teaching & we were totally dependent on my take-home pay, I had no time to give in to the normal emotions of fear, doubt, worry, depression, & anxiety. While my sister consultants were thinking about putting something on their datebooks, I was across town holding a class! And if my class postponed, I was disciplined ( notice, I did NOT say "motivated") to spend that 2 hours on the phone calling customers, selling reorders & booking 2 more classes to cover what income that postponed  class would have brought me that day.
    Also "the petty demands of the day, friends, & relatives" took a back seat to the priority of providing income for my family, just as it would when we work a "real job". In other words I has to learn to say, "No" graciously, & in the process, not only earned adequate income, but the respect of others for what I considered ( and they were to learn) was my career.
    Can you even imagine a man saying to his boss, "I'm having some personal issues right now & I just cannot come into work today. In fact, I'm going to have to put this project on the back burner..." ??? That's convenience, not commitment, & no self-respecting man would even dream of jeopardizing his family's security by having that attitude.
    After almost 22 years in MK, I  know with every fiber of my being that my three children ( ages 22 and 1/2, 16 & 14) have been the biggest beneficiaries of those disciplined days, taken one at a time for 22 years. How I ache for all of you to have the freedom of unlimited choices  for yourself & your family that applying a strong work ethic to MK brings.
    Even if you do not have children at home, you probably have aging parents and in-laws or grandchildren who spell love T-I-M-E. Read on...        Much Love, Dorothy Boyd

From Denise Kucharski....
I've always said that #1 on my list of "thank you's" to God,is that I never had to put my children into full time day care.  I never had to leave them early in the morning and pick them up at night.  I chose at some times to put them in 1/2 daycare, just enough that they thought it was great fun, and Icould get those phone calls & classes done.  When they reached school age, I was always in here when they left for school, and here when they came in the door at 3:00.  WHATA BLESSING and HOW IT HAS SHAPED the lives of mychildren, and will trickle down to theirs.

If being in your home full time is your dream,  there's no timelike the present to MAKE IT HAPPEN.  Your children deserveit and so do you!
PrayingYouDreamComesTrue,
Denise

By Julie Potts:

Advice sent to a young woman who is 2 months pregnant and
wants to stay home with her baby -- she is already in MK....

My best advice to you if you want to make MK your full-time career or at least enough to stay home...
1. Sit with your husband and determine how much you will really need to make when you deduct childcare from your current salary.  Plus when you are home you will save tons of money on things like laundry/dry cleaning, groceries--because
you will have to cook instead of going out and quick meals that tend to cost alot.
2. Get some appointments on the books now!  You will need to hold a minimum of 2 classes a week plus some facials thrown in.
3. Hand out 5 business cards a day---or get at least 5 new contacts through referrals or at a class every day.
4. Set up a system to keep customers for life--I like BLVD to track inventory and clients  www.mainstsoftware.com  You will need to
contact them in 2 days after first appt, 2 weeks to refacial and in 2 months to check on reordering

I have been a stay home mom from the start of my career and when you make it the only source of income it's amazing what you will do to get
the job done.  When you aren't committed and you have options, then you can bail on your MK when the going gets tough.  But I have always
been determined to make MK work because I didn't want a job and I didn't want my two kids in a daycare.  They are now 13 and 14 and I
have been home all these years.  My husband's income when I started was only about $20,000 a year so my income was desperately needed
immediately.........you can do it if you book enough appointments and you are committed to no other option but to make it work!!!God bless!
Julie Potts
Future Exec Senior Director