Breaking Out

I like to think of myself as a relatively easy-going person.  I don't always rush to meet new people, I tend to be a bit stand-offish for a while, until I get to know someone a little bit better.  I don't make New Year's resolutions, mainly because I don't always finish what I start, and you can't fail at something if you don't resolve to accomplish it in the first place, right?

So I basically am going nowhere, real fast.

I need some change.  Major change.  Soonish.

About a year and a half ago, I joined an amazing company called BeautiControl.  I joined without trying the products, because the business model just made so much damn sense.  The more I put in, the more I get out. The first few months, I did pretty well.  I was having fun, earning some extra money, and bonus? I got clear skin out of the deal that people started complimenting me on.  There was only one downside.  I was relying on my friends and family to make my business work for me.  Eventually, that resource was tapped out, and I was left with the only option being getting over myself and talk to strangers.  In other words, EVERYONE ELSE OUT THERE.  I'm not that person who knows how to (or really, is even very willing to) just go up and start talking to strangers about what I think is an awesome opportunity.  I kept telling myself that no matter what I was told by the women who had walked this path before me, that if I just believed hard enough, the success would find me.  And for the last year and a half, I have sat in pretty much the same place that I started out in.  While those women who had found success recruited more women who found success, and they all sailed right past me.  Bummer.  I sit here tonight, wondering, if I had just listened to those ladies, would I have created the success story that I wanted?  Or were they just damn lucky?  I think they are onto something.

So I'm making a promise to myself.  I will start following in the footsteps of those women.  These are women that I have been awed by every time I see them.  They are women who are inspirations to more people than just me.  They are women who routinely get what they want because THEY GO OUT AND F'ING GET IT.  What the hell is my problem?

As part of my promise to myself, I will make this blog my accountability tool for myself.  Even if nobody but me ever reads it, I will update it once a week with that week's progress.  I refuse to look back at this post a year from now, and still be stagnant.  I WILL have created my success story.