It's Thursday Again!

I got laid off from my best paying job six months ago.  After 2 months of being unemployed I found another job that was the next worst/best job I ever had.  It is a nationally well known company.  It boiled down to working 14 hours/day, 60 hours/week for $30K.  That's $10/hr and absolutely no personal life!!!  The wonderful thing about my experience is that it reminded me how much I love helping people. I was also missing the freedom and flexibility of being self-employed/independent contractor.  Pain isn't always bad.  Pain causes us to change.  Pain helps us focus on what is really important.

We moved to Amarillo, TX

Over the past 4 months I worked for Schwan's Home Delivery Service.  It was quite an experience.  It was one of the hardest jobs I have ever worked.  I typically worked 60 hours per week.  Our days where from 8 am to 10 pm, Monday - Friday.  I worked out of the Pampa, TX depot and I drove back and forth from Amarillo everyday - 65 miles one way.

Schwan's didn't work out (Thank God!) and I quit.  I'm really excited about getting back into the insurance business and going to work for Aflac (the duck).

Dave

Cowboy Funeral

We live in a small town in the Texas panhandle. Last week a elderly gentleman passed away from cancer. He had lived his whole life in the area. Yesterday was his funeral. It was a Cowboy funeral.

Getting Laid Off Sucks!

I just got laid off from my job in the Oil Field.  It was the best paying job I've ever had.  I was on pace to make $120,000/year.  Oh well.  When this kind of thing happens it makes me ask - what did I learn from it?

I learned that I am worth $120,000 per year!  But the question is, who will pay me what I'm worth?

Answer:  Life will pay us what we ask of it!  It is a mistake to look to others for our value.

Here goes the next journey - looking for a way to get paid what I'm worth.

Dave

On Right Track - More Work To Do

Yesterday I spent 2.5 hours on a webinar put on by Chet Holmes team. It cost $199. The info was great but ultimately it was a pitch for $3,000 DVD set of Chet Holmes Seminar. The presentation sucked. We were interrupted by about 100 callers thinking they were calling into a Tony Robbins recorded call. What a mess.

Oh well - great learning experience. I love webinars that are good! Most I've seen are not so hot.

Bottom line - the info that was sent to me prior to the webinar was just as helpful as the webinar itself. I'm on the right track!! I've been kicking myself for not "starting" but you can't start if you're not ready.

I'm excited about the ideas I came up with and the new "revelations" about what I'm doing.

More to come soon - back to writing my business strategic plan.

Starting Something New

Today is the last day of January 2009! I started working on my emarketing plan almost two months ago. It has been hard. It is hard when you are actually inventing the wheel. Notice I didn't say I was re-inventing the wheel.

PPL is traditionally sold via traditional network marketing. That means selling to your friends, family, and neighbors. It also means going to weekly meetings. I have a problem. I'm 180 miles from the nearest meeting and I've already sold PPL to all of my friends and family. So what do you do when you're out of prospects and you're in a place where the "system" wont work for you?

You have to create a new system. I've been around long enough to know better than trying to re-invent the wheel. But there are times when it needs to be re-invented!

I know the new system will work. The new system is actually just using new tools to do the same old job. You have to talk to lots of people. Some will - most wont!

What really has me excited is that the Internet has totally changed everything. There are literally ten's of thousands of people looking for our business opportunity. We have a tremendous product - great price - wide open market. The future looks great.

I'm ready to get started. Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday - I'll wait and get started on Monday.

Grand kids have been here for the weekend and we have had a great time. Today has been a success.

Go Cardinals!