I’m home from Dallas and I have Monday off before returning to work which is good because I have a party scheduled for tomorrow and I cannot wait! My hostess is excited, too! I love that I have work lined up right when I get home. I scheduled this appointment before I left, but it still feels great! I have huge goals now that I’m home. I need to finish my Star! I’m close to halfway there right now. My sales goal for August is $2000 retail and 5-7 parties held! Can’t wait to get started!
Today was spent catching up with Hubby. That was nice. I had a great time at Seminar, but I am happy to be back home with my husband.
Today did not start off so great. Last night I didn’t sleep well. As a result, I woke with a bit of a headache that I did not want to have escalate to a full blown migraine. I decided to stay back at the hotel and rest. I looked over the class schedule and decided that the afternoon classes looked more interesting to me than the morning ones did anyway. One thing I really liked this year compared to the Seminar I attended five years ago is that our classes were split based not only on our career path level, but our number of years in the buisness. Hooray! Finally, I can go to a class and not hear the same tired things over and over and over and over! (more…)
After all the opening Seminar festivities it was time to get ready for our local Future Area Awards Dinner. This is when our unit gets recognized for our accomplishments such as our unit’s Queens of Sales and Sharing and our Miss Go-Give Award. To be honest, I liked the food served at this dinner much better than the food at the dinner last night. Last night’s dinner made me a little ill. Tonight’s was better and the dessert was an excellent pecan pie! Yum! (more…)
Today was Day 1 of Seminar. They conducted the opening General Sessions for everyone. What is really great about this time around is that I’m in the arena! This is actually a fluke. Enrollment is lower than past years so there is room for all of us to fit in the arena this year so I don’t have to sit in Hall A. What a treat! My seat is higher up, but it’s really not that bad. I’m off to the side, but I can see the stage clearly. I’m close to the stage, just higher up. My back isn’t against the wall, either. The seats aren’t uncomfortable. They are typical theater seats if you ask me. I got some great pics with my phone and with my camera. What was really nice was that my friend had an extra seat by her because her husband didn’t attend the General Session so she said I could sit in his seat for the second half of the day. Her seat is close! She’s not on the floor, but one level up which isn’t bad at all. (more…)
Tonight was our National Area Dinner. It ran late. It’s always inspiring to see my NSD and hear from all the high achievers in our area, but after a long day of touring it got to be a long evening of awards. My NSD is Kathy Helou and she is absolutely amazing. We are the #2 national area at this Seminar. The #1 area is the Gloria Mayfield Banks Area. Some highlights of tonight’s dinner were that the Director Queen of Personal Sales is from our area. She did just over $106,000 in personal sales! She accomplished this by doing fund raisers for the troops. Her son had been overseas in Iraq and that was what originally inspired her to do this last year. She was the Queen last year with just over $116,000! Now her son is finished serving his time, but she couldn’t stop the program she had begun so she continued on this year. It was quite an amazing story and she accomplished tremendous results! Another highlight was Kathy Helou’s younger daughter singing at the end of the evening. She has quite a voice. She’s very talented. This is all I can muster for tonight.
The first thing I wanted to be sure to accomplish this trip to Seminar was seeing the manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters. My friend also had this goal. She had completely missed it the first time and ran out of time on her second trip. For her, I told her the third time’s a charm! Today we traveled to Addison!, TX to accomplish this mission. The reason I type “Addison!” is because every street sign in this town says, “Addison!” underneath the street name. I found it amusing. It must be a fun place to live. There are tons of restaurants in Addison! (more…)
Tonight I arrived in Dallas for Seminar! It was one long flight down. Although I never left my plane, it made 2 stops along the way in Nashville and Houston. Why Houston I’ll never know! In total I sat on that plane for 6 hours! Fortunately, I was in good company as I had my friend and her husband as travel companions. (more…)
It’s a new sales year in the business world and I’m determined to kick this year off right. I have made goals for 2009-2010. My biggest goal is to be a Star every quarter. I’m on the right track so far. I have 2 appointments on July 11, and one so far on the 18th. I’m working with my hostesses to ensure they all hold. I want to earn car status by December and submit DIQ in January. Those are my goals. If I can be a Star every quarter I can reach those goals I am sure. (more…)
In 2004 I attended my first and only Seminar. During the course of the event, I noticed a theme in many of the speeches and training that I heard. One speech that really stuck with me over the past few years was that of NSD Anne Newbury. In her speech, Anne spoke of having a strong vision as far as what she wanted from her business. Her speech struck a cord with me. After hearing her speak, I noticed she was not the only person to speak on this concept. Many of those honored that year made similar points in their speeches. (more…)
This week is Emerald Seminar. My director and some of our unit members are all in Dallas. While they are gone, my director has challenged our unit to sell $300 by Friday! What a challenge indeed! I just may be able to pull this off and jumpstart my business for August!
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I had a great time at Seminar, but I am happy to be back home with my husband.
Tonight’s was better and the dessert was an excellent pecan pie! Yum! 
In 2004 I attended my first and only Seminar. During the course of the event, I noticed a theme in many of the speeches and training that I heard. One speech that really stuck with me over the past few years was that of NSD Anne Newbury. In her speech, Anne spoke of having a strong vision as far as what she wanted from her business. Her speech struck a cord with me. After hearing her speak, I noticed she was not the only person to speak on this concept. Many of those honored that year made similar points in their speeches. 
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