Moving Forward ----Day 32

Today I had a conversation with a person on the lead calling team, and it was good to visit for the first time.

I had some issues with my browser closing down suddenly, so I rebooted my system. As that seems to take awhile, and I noted that dust had seemed to overtake my desk since its recent cleaning, I decided to make myself useful and clean and dust it while I waited. It's amazing how much dust is generated in a day!

I visited the Member's Forum for a few minutes and looked around. I haven't spent any time in there for a long, long while. I was glad to be able to log in and see that it's been being used by our members . . .

I created a third voice mail in the calling system for when I make my third attempt at reaching a person. It is much simpler than the first two. After this, I will leave the ball in their court.

I filtered through my leads and created a report of all the bad phone numbers or the bad emails to send in. I updated my calling report for this weeks' efforts.

My calls included a F/U with the woman I interviewed yesterday that had computer issues and a storm that blew us off course at our original follow-up time. She still has computer issues, and must get her machine to the shop, however, she did get to view the presentation. She said she's a "Yes! I'm ready to get started!" With that said, there are a few hurdles to get through, such as the computer, and some personal affairs must be set in order. She said she wants to be a part of our company for "giving" and because of our philosophy. She want to give back to her community and she'd be doing it for charities. She's had a lot of time volunteering for the Red Cross. We set an appointment to check in this coming week and see if the computer and her other affairs are in order, and then, we'll get her started. She would like to be a World Changer. I invited her to our Monday night Family Chat and gave her the phone number to call in.

I gave a F/U call to a wonderful woman I interviewed yesterday. She was 72 years young and is looking for something very substantial to supplement her social security. She also has an ailing husband and she's working in a place that provides her housing, but she's very dissatisfied. When I called her back today, she clearly stated that our company wasn't the one she was looking for, and that she wasn't into growing a team. I asked her about shopping and earning rebates. She said she didn't want to save with a personal mall. I thanked her for her time. I will send her a thank you email with a 101 Way e-book.

F/U call with the contact I interviewed but haven't reached yet that was at work. I got her sister-in-law. She said she was there, but then, when she came back, she said she was ill. I expressed my hope she is better soon, left my number again, and that she may call anytime.

Since my sister is doing the Relay for Life, I went to its website and found the page for the event. I spoke with my mother about it, and she hoped to be able to join my sister and her team. Eventually, I found my sister's team page. I cried. She is dedicating her walk to her Dad, and my step-Dad, who passed away in December just before Christmas. She raised the most funds on her team. I called her and left her a VM expressing my feelings to her, and asked if she would walk one time around the track with me . . . or as many as she liked! And, I told her that one day, we should do this walk together.

Big Z had a reasonable reward picked out this week for accomplishing his keyboard practice every day he had scheduled with his teacher. He succeeded and his reward was having a friend sleep over. We spent the late evening on a bike ride with his friend, our neighbor, Big Z, and another neighbor boy. It was a wonderful trip.

We had dinner and the boys played some new Pokemon game that Big Z's Dad had given to him by a person he knew. Must've been their son's at some point. After dinner and as the game resumed and I sat back down to my computer after dishes, I opened up my email and found a surprise message:

"Thank you so much for your submissions for the MPM ebook, 101 Ways to Survive Tough Economic Times! You are one of the five lucky winners of a $500 Retail Merchandise Certificate!"

Wow! What a huge surprise . . . and to think that I almost didn't get our entries typed up and into our Director of Communications by the deadline! I gave a, "Whoop!" and and said, "Big Z, come look at this!"

Big Z came over to my computer as he muttered, "Oh, why do I have to skip out on my game for a few minutes . . ." and he read the words upon my screen. His eyes got all big as he leaned forward to the monitor and he exclaimed, "We won!" and he had the biggest grin on his face. He then added how much he liked his entry into the e-book about how he is a good saver.

Our neighbor asked, "What did you win?" and so we told him. He was very surprised and he celebrated our win saying, "That's really cool!".

How very exciting! I emailed back our Director of Communication and our Director of Mall Promotions as requested, and then I emailed Ginny with a huge thank you and expressed my surprise, my delight and my gratitude!

I believe this is great news to sleep on, providing rich dreams ;-).

'Night all. Sleep tight.