Thursday, April 20, 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017
The Change With In Myself
I spent most of my life telling myself that I did not need to work out.
That I was happy about how my body was and that I have the same kind of body every mom out there had.
That there was nothing special or different about me. Nor could I do anything to get the body back that I once had. Did I think I had this amazing body when I was younger... ummm NO!
Did I see how great I was and how my working out just a little after I had each of my older kids. Completely changed my body and helped me get back to the size had stayed for years. ..... NO!
I had no idea that the energy I had and how happy I was with in myself didn't come from being 20!
I had no idea of how working out even a little every day could change my whole mind set and my life. Not to count the lives of those around me since I was happier. I caused that happiness to spread to everyone in my world. Was I a single mother of 2 crazy kids. a 2 year old and 1 year old when I was only 20 years old. I was not perfect, I was not great at anything but I was learning to live my life and dang it that counts for something. I was learning to be everything that I am right now and that I will be in the future.
I am not a fan of working out.... in fact I freaking hate working out. It makes you sore, it makes tired and it takes up time I could be doing anything else.
I spent years of my life from the time I was 20 until now at age ( cough cough God am I really going to say my age, I feel so old ) 30!! 10 whole years not working out. I mean I did some work outs in the past with my best friend and with a guy from my past. But lets just be honest I worked out back them not because I wanted to but because the guy thought I was fat. ( clearly to me if I guy makes you work out with him he thinks your fat. Did I ever ask him if he thought I was fat.... heck no! I was too scared of the answer and he was a jerk but that is a story for another time. ) I ran 6 miles every day ( walking running.... okay maybe jogging is a better way to describe it because i run like phebe from that show Friends lol ) some days I was with the jerky ex of mine, with my best friend or some day I ran by myself.
Other times I worked out with just me and my best friend doing random work out videos we ran into to try to get us in shape. She was dealing with a deployment of the guy she was with at the time and I was just trying to be " good enough " for the guy I was dating. Did we lose weight.... YES! We both lost weight was it a lot umm not but we were not eating right either. Did I know anything about diets or what you should or should not eat. No I had no clue what I was doing and going by other people standards well that only made it worse for me.
With in those 10 years I used every excuse in the book of why I wasn't " in shape." I did so many fad diets that I lost count. I didn't eat at all some day just so I wouldn't gain any weight and guess what none of it worked at all. From 2009 to 2012 my weight went up and then it would drop down a little jus to go back up. I used depression as a huge reason for my weight gain and my birth control didn't help with my weight gain at all.
Sitting here right now I can honestly tell you that I use to be crazy! I use to think that I was so freaking fat when I was younger. I allowed everyone around me to tell me I was fat. .... When I was only a tiny size 3/5. I had to have been totally crazy to think they were right! But I know we have all been there and seen pictures of our selves when we were younger and thought dang I looked good back then.
What I have learned in the past few months would have changed my whole life if I knew what I know now back then. ( Story of my life lol )
1. Healthy eating doesn't mean you have to eat freaking rice cakes. .... Them things is nasty as can be!
2. If he doesn't love you for you and not your weight or looks then he is not the right man for you.
He is just an asshole and you should dump his sorry butt right now! seriously!
3. If he puts you on a freaking diet.... dump his sorry ass right now! You can do so much better!
4. If your living an unhealthy life style then your body is not and can not be healthy! Change it all
and you will change your world! Mine, body and soul!
Since I have started this journey ton working out again. I have more energy than I thought I could ever have again. I am happier and my kids are happier. The domino effect is so real and I never thought it was before. All of my friends that have such unhealthy life styles are growing and changing right along with me. Not because I nagged them to but because they see the change in me and my life. It has inspired them to make changes in their lives as well.
But still I hate working out... I hate it honestly but I do it because I love myself. I love my kids and my husband. I love my future grandbabies ( very very far off grand babies ) and I want to be there for them. I want to see my kids at their weddings and to watch them grow up and spend their lives doing what every positive things that they love. I want to be around to meet and love my daughters in law and son in law. I want to be active and be able to run after my now 9 month old baby boy and for all my kids to grow up in a house where they are living a healthy lifestyle. I want them to never question if their bodies are the way they should be. I pray my children never battle the self doubt that I have battled. My whole life because they are growing up in a house hold where healthy is beautiful.
If you hate working out .... your not alone! We get it! But push through and don't allow your self doubt to stop you from working out and living a healthy life style. Be stronger than you excuses!
If you need a support team I am here for you! Just contact me anytime.
Here is how my kids and I feel about working out before and afters lol
That I was happy about how my body was and that I have the same kind of body every mom out there had.
That there was nothing special or different about me. Nor could I do anything to get the body back that I once had. Did I think I had this amazing body when I was younger... ummm NO!
Did I see how great I was and how my working out just a little after I had each of my older kids. Completely changed my body and helped me get back to the size had stayed for years. ..... NO!
I had no idea that the energy I had and how happy I was with in myself didn't come from being 20!
I had no idea of how working out even a little every day could change my whole mind set and my life. Not to count the lives of those around me since I was happier. I caused that happiness to spread to everyone in my world. Was I a single mother of 2 crazy kids. a 2 year old and 1 year old when I was only 20 years old. I was not perfect, I was not great at anything but I was learning to live my life and dang it that counts for something. I was learning to be everything that I am right now and that I will be in the future.
I am not a fan of working out.... in fact I freaking hate working out. It makes you sore, it makes tired and it takes up time I could be doing anything else.
I spent years of my life from the time I was 20 until now at age ( cough cough God am I really going to say my age, I feel so old ) 30!! 10 whole years not working out. I mean I did some work outs in the past with my best friend and with a guy from my past. But lets just be honest I worked out back them not because I wanted to but because the guy thought I was fat. ( clearly to me if I guy makes you work out with him he thinks your fat. Did I ever ask him if he thought I was fat.... heck no! I was too scared of the answer and he was a jerk but that is a story for another time. ) I ran 6 miles every day ( walking running.... okay maybe jogging is a better way to describe it because i run like phebe from that show Friends lol ) some days I was with the jerky ex of mine, with my best friend or some day I ran by myself.
Other times I worked out with just me and my best friend doing random work out videos we ran into to try to get us in shape. She was dealing with a deployment of the guy she was with at the time and I was just trying to be " good enough " for the guy I was dating. Did we lose weight.... YES! We both lost weight was it a lot umm not but we were not eating right either. Did I know anything about diets or what you should or should not eat. No I had no clue what I was doing and going by other people standards well that only made it worse for me.
With in those 10 years I used every excuse in the book of why I wasn't " in shape." I did so many fad diets that I lost count. I didn't eat at all some day just so I wouldn't gain any weight and guess what none of it worked at all. From 2009 to 2012 my weight went up and then it would drop down a little jus to go back up. I used depression as a huge reason for my weight gain and my birth control didn't help with my weight gain at all.
Sitting here right now I can honestly tell you that I use to be crazy! I use to think that I was so freaking fat when I was younger. I allowed everyone around me to tell me I was fat. .... When I was only a tiny size 3/5. I had to have been totally crazy to think they were right! But I know we have all been there and seen pictures of our selves when we were younger and thought dang I looked good back then.
What I have learned in the past few months would have changed my whole life if I knew what I know now back then. ( Story of my life lol )
1. Healthy eating doesn't mean you have to eat freaking rice cakes. .... Them things is nasty as can be!
2. If he doesn't love you for you and not your weight or looks then he is not the right man for you.
He is just an asshole and you should dump his sorry butt right now! seriously!
3. If he puts you on a freaking diet.... dump his sorry ass right now! You can do so much better!
4. If your living an unhealthy life style then your body is not and can not be healthy! Change it all
and you will change your world! Mine, body and soul!
Since I have started this journey ton working out again. I have more energy than I thought I could ever have again. I am happier and my kids are happier. The domino effect is so real and I never thought it was before. All of my friends that have such unhealthy life styles are growing and changing right along with me. Not because I nagged them to but because they see the change in me and my life. It has inspired them to make changes in their lives as well.
But still I hate working out... I hate it honestly but I do it because I love myself. I love my kids and my husband. I love my future grandbabies ( very very far off grand babies ) and I want to be there for them. I want to see my kids at their weddings and to watch them grow up and spend their lives doing what every positive things that they love. I want to be around to meet and love my daughters in law and son in law. I want to be active and be able to run after my now 9 month old baby boy and for all my kids to grow up in a house where they are living a healthy lifestyle. I want them to never question if their bodies are the way they should be. I pray my children never battle the self doubt that I have battled. My whole life because they are growing up in a house hold where healthy is beautiful.
If you hate working out .... your not alone! We get it! But push through and don't allow your self doubt to stop you from working out and living a healthy life style. Be stronger than you excuses!
If you need a support team I am here for you! Just contact me anytime.
Here is how my kids and I feel about working out before and afters lol
Monday, April 3, 2017
Learning To Eat Healthy
Lets be honest here!
Eating clean or eating healthy did not in any way shape or form sound fun to me.
I was NOT excited at all about this change in my life and everyone knew it.
It's not that I have always eaten crappy food or that I wouldn't eat healthy food. It is just that well I like pasta and need pasta in my life! Living in a house with a husband who eats like a cow and yet has freaking abs. That sucks! I tell him all the time how unfair it is that he can have the body that he has and not work out really at all. He is just blessed so very blessed to be able to sit there and eat a whole 3 layer chocolate cake and not gain a pound.
As much as I love him..... I kinda hate him for being so perfect as well. lol
So along my journey I have started to change little things about the way not only the way I eat but the way I cook for my family. Has my husband noticed..... bahahahhah NO he hasn't figured it out yet.
Here are some of the things I have made, recipes to follow next week of each of these meals.
The battle with wanting junk food has not ended but oh my goodness I know I am in for a long road.
I am not perfect when it comes to eating healthy but I am a forever work in progress.
My journey will never end but I know that the weight I have lost thus far is proof that if you work hard. You cut of the junk food and you drink your water every day. That you can have the results that you want.
.... Until Next Time! Y'all have a wonderful day!
Eating clean or eating healthy did not in any way shape or form sound fun to me.
I was NOT excited at all about this change in my life and everyone knew it.
It's not that I have always eaten crappy food or that I wouldn't eat healthy food. It is just that well I like pasta and need pasta in my life! Living in a house with a husband who eats like a cow and yet has freaking abs. That sucks! I tell him all the time how unfair it is that he can have the body that he has and not work out really at all. He is just blessed so very blessed to be able to sit there and eat a whole 3 layer chocolate cake and not gain a pound.
As much as I love him..... I kinda hate him for being so perfect as well. lol
So along my journey I have started to change little things about the way not only the way I eat but the way I cook for my family. Has my husband noticed..... bahahahhah NO he hasn't figured it out yet.
Here are some of the things I have made, recipes to follow next week of each of these meals.
The battle with wanting junk food has not ended but oh my goodness I know I am in for a long road.
I am not perfect when it comes to eating healthy but I am a forever work in progress.
My journey will never end but I know that the weight I have lost thus far is proof that if you work hard. You cut of the junk food and you drink your water every day. That you can have the results that you want.
.... Until Next Time! Y'all have a wonderful day!
Friday, March 31, 2017
The Road Thus Far
Okay Y'all I am sitting here shaking and fighting back tears right now.
This 
👇👇 scares the living crap out of me.
👇👇 scares the living crap out of me.I have NEVER gone this far out of my comfort zone in my life!
When I started this journey I told myself that I would never be that person. The person who post pictures of their body on social media.
I didn't feel like I needed anyone to see me in such a compromised position. To see the amount of weight I gained due to infertility, over eating, and depression. Not to count the stretch marks I have gotten from my pregnancies.
I could blame it on the fact that I just had a baby almost 9 Months ago. I could sit here any give you every excuse in the book as to why I weigh the amount I do. ( I have no idea how much I weigh bc I don't own a scale and haven't owned one my whole adult life. )
Yet here I am owning it! Owning that I gained so much weight and became someone I honestly hate! I have only been this unhappy with my life when. I was in an extremely abusive marriage with my ex husband.
I decided to take the picture on March 24th not for the whole world to see. But simply because I wanted to see if there was even going to be a difference in my body. After doing Country Heat for a week. Along with the few days I did 21 Day Fix. ( mostly the 10 minute abs )
I woke up this morning and decided to take another picture. The difference honestly completely shocked me.
I have exaggerated kyphosis and lordosis with scoliosis. My back hurts so bad just about every day but I push myself still. Until this morning I didn't think I had lost weight. I didn't think anything had really changed. But the pictures are proof that I was so wrong.
If you think you can't work out, you hate working out. You're " size " causes you issues so you can't work out. .... Guess what YOU ARE WRONG!
" Stop with the excuses! Because not one of them is good enough! You are worth getting healthy for. Your kids are worth living a healthier lifestyle for. "
^^ that is what I have to tell myself every single day but I still push myself even when I don't feel good at all.
I am not perfect and will always continue to be in progress. If You're looking for a great support system, where you can share the good bad and ugly of your journey comment, email, DM, text me. Start your journey and never look back!
You Wont regret it! I am not saying its easy but it sure is worth it!
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Rocking My Business!
Y'all I never in my life though I would be sitting here right now telling you. How I am totally rocking my business. I never thought when I started this journey on February 1st, 2017. That I would be rocking my business in the ways that I have been rocking it.
I have been so blessed to have accomplished the things that I have thus far. I know , I know everyone says they are rocking their business these days. However lets fact it when we all say it, it means different things to different people.
For me Rocking my business means I have done so very well that I am actually proud of myself.
My husband is so proud of me and my business, he even refers to it as my job and my business. ( you have no idea how happy I am to be able to say that ) I never in my life thought he would say that to me.
Right before joining beach body I told my husband that I was going to join beach body as a coach. His words to me was " It will count as a real job when you make $30,000 a year. " I was honestly heart broken and angry to hear him say that. Asif anyone who makes less that that doesn't even really work in his eyes.
Yet here I am saying he is here right now saying the change is so real! My husband fully supports my business and supports it 100%.
No, I have not made $30,000 this year by far. Let me break down how much I have made and why my husband is fully supportive of this business.
Week One: I made $8.74 that's it! Not even enough to hit the $10 amount you need to make in order to get a check from beachbody. I worked less than an hour that whole week.
Week Two: $0.00 Yes, you read that correctly I didn't even make not one cent in my second week in business. I did not work at all that week due to honestly being lazy.
Week Three: $0.00 Yes that's right a second week of making nothing at all but that was okay with me since I knew I was focused on learning. I worked maybe half an hour that whole week.
Week Four: This was it! My first really good week and let me just tell you that I was not expecting it at all! I had not one but TWO people out of the blue signed up under me as coaches. They also bought challenge packages and I made $140. In a matter of 2 hours I made $140 and that was pretty much all I really worked the whole week. I know I should have been working more however I had a lot going on.
What did I do differently in my 4th week than I had been doing in the other weeks. Well that is simple I actually worked my business. I started doing the things that I was told to do and had been learning all about doing. Did I do it all full on , well no of course not. I was business and I didn't do what I should have been doing fully.
However from that week on I have been doing my power hour, and let me just tell you the power of 3's are AMAZING!
I changed my life in that 4th week. I decided to start making time each and every day for my business. To set working hours and to start doing things the way the others on my team have been doing the whole time. There is a reason that all of the amazing females above me in my up line are making the money they are. They are changing lives each and every day and it's following their lead that has changed my business for the better.
I am not making the money that I want to be making at this point but so far I have.
* Became a EMERALD coach!
* Earned one of the best calls of my life, with the CEO and Co- Founder of Beach Body.
CARL DAIKELER himself and let me just tell y'all this was an awesome call and I learned so very much.
* I have been recognized for my success with in this company. Unlike other companies Beach Body is all about giving their coaches everything they need to be successful and they are their to celebrate with you.
I don't know where my business will take me but I know I can not wait to share this journey with everyone.
Success is Possible with Beach Body! All of these amazing things have happened in one week! I haven't even been a beachbody coach for 30 days yet but I just rocked my first month in business.
I can not wait to share the amazing things that are to come with in my little company. Great things are planned for me and even greater things are already happening with in the people who have joined me on my journey. If you are ready to take the leap and start your own business.
Let's do this! Let's rock this amazing journey together.
Start Rocking Your Own Business
I have been so blessed to have accomplished the things that I have thus far. I know , I know everyone says they are rocking their business these days. However lets fact it when we all say it, it means different things to different people.
For me Rocking my business means I have done so very well that I am actually proud of myself.
My husband is so proud of me and my business, he even refers to it as my job and my business. ( you have no idea how happy I am to be able to say that ) I never in my life thought he would say that to me.
Right before joining beach body I told my husband that I was going to join beach body as a coach. His words to me was " It will count as a real job when you make $30,000 a year. " I was honestly heart broken and angry to hear him say that. Asif anyone who makes less that that doesn't even really work in his eyes.
Yet here I am saying he is here right now saying the change is so real! My husband fully supports my business and supports it 100%.
No, I have not made $30,000 this year by far. Let me break down how much I have made and why my husband is fully supportive of this business.
Week One: I made $8.74 that's it! Not even enough to hit the $10 amount you need to make in order to get a check from beachbody. I worked less than an hour that whole week.
Week Two: $0.00 Yes, you read that correctly I didn't even make not one cent in my second week in business. I did not work at all that week due to honestly being lazy.
Week Three: $0.00 Yes that's right a second week of making nothing at all but that was okay with me since I knew I was focused on learning. I worked maybe half an hour that whole week.
Week Four: This was it! My first really good week and let me just tell you that I was not expecting it at all! I had not one but TWO people out of the blue signed up under me as coaches. They also bought challenge packages and I made $140. In a matter of 2 hours I made $140 and that was pretty much all I really worked the whole week. I know I should have been working more however I had a lot going on.
What did I do differently in my 4th week than I had been doing in the other weeks. Well that is simple I actually worked my business. I started doing the things that I was told to do and had been learning all about doing. Did I do it all full on , well no of course not. I was business and I didn't do what I should have been doing fully.
However from that week on I have been doing my power hour, and let me just tell you the power of 3's are AMAZING!
I changed my life in that 4th week. I decided to start making time each and every day for my business. To set working hours and to start doing things the way the others on my team have been doing the whole time. There is a reason that all of the amazing females above me in my up line are making the money they are. They are changing lives each and every day and it's following their lead that has changed my business for the better.
I am not making the money that I want to be making at this point but so far I have.
* Became a EMERALD coach!
* Earned one of the best calls of my life, with the CEO and Co- Founder of Beach Body.
CARL DAIKELER himself and let me just tell y'all this was an awesome call and I learned so very much.
* I have been recognized for my success with in this company. Unlike other companies Beach Body is all about giving their coaches everything they need to be successful and they are their to celebrate with you.
I don't know where my business will take me but I know I can not wait to share this journey with everyone.
Success is Possible with Beach Body! All of these amazing things have happened in one week! I haven't even been a beachbody coach for 30 days yet but I just rocked my first month in business.
I can not wait to share the amazing things that are to come with in my little company. Great things are planned for me and even greater things are already happening with in the people who have joined me on my journey. If you are ready to take the leap and start your own business.
Let's do this! Let's rock this amazing journey together.
Start Rocking Your Own Business
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Shakeology 7 Day Sampler Unboxing
My daughter has been asking me for a while now to allow her to do an " unboxing."
What is Unboxing? It is when you open and show what comes in a box of course.
She has seen all these unboxing videos on youtube and they all seemed like so much fun to her.
It has taken her a lot of time and practice to post this video. So please do not be rude to her in anyway.
We hope that you all enjoy her video and if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Links to the websites will be posted under the video.
My BeachBody Website
Shakeology Website
What is Unboxing? It is when you open and show what comes in a box of course.
She has seen all these unboxing videos on youtube and they all seemed like so much fun to her.
It has taken her a lot of time and practice to post this video. So please do not be rude to her in anyway.
The Shakeology Flavors are:
Strawberry
Greenberry
Vanilla
Chocolate
Vegan Chocolate
Vegan Tropical Strawberry
Café Latte
Links to the websites will be posted under the video.
My BeachBody Website
Shakeology Website
Monday, February 6, 2017
Healthy Food .... The struggle is REAL!
Food.... the thing that makes life so wonderful ( to me at least )
I love food and let me just tell you that the struggle to find great tasting healthy recipes is HARD!
This is NOT a easy thing to do, for me at least. I know I should eat healthy food and I know I should be drinking water every single day. I want to do these things but honestly it is hard and I struggle with it. I know I am at the start of my business and the start of my journey but I am working on it every day.
So as for right now I am going to hold myself responsible for what I eat and as a mom what I feed my children. I knew this was going to be the struggle and I decided to start from .... well the start!
However that doesn't change the fact that its a sad fact that fatty totally bad for you food. Is way cheaper than healthy food. Every where I look I see all these fat junk food types of food on sale and twice as much as the healthy food is. Yet that is not even the worst part of it all. The amount of fatty really bad for you food that is pretending and marketed as " healthy " food is crazy!
My kids got so excited to go to the store with me until they seen that all the things they love are all so so bad for them. Yet the things I would love for them to eat, they just are not into at all. But how do you get your kids to eat healthy when they are so use to eating so badly?
Should I allow my kids to keep eating the things that they love? Do I start switching them for healthier foods? The questions just go on and on. Yet I don't have any answers right now as to what to do. So I guess I will do what most of us moms out there do when they need answers.
So here I am trying to find healthy recipes. Pinterest Let me just tell you right now I love it and I love being able to go on there and search for everything. However I find myself starting with searching for healthy meals for my family. But I end hours later on arts and crafts that I know I can not do because I am not a very crafty mom.
So I started something new this week and I am going to post what I am going to be making for my family for dinner every night. I don't know if it will help me, I don't know if it will work but I am trying.
It is hard when your sitting there seeing all these people eating pasta, and all these amazing things and more so because Valentines day is coming and I know the chocolate is coming.
So I am starting this journey and I know that my issue is that I need to go a head and start thinking of going shopping every week. As I know that most of the " good for you " foods go bad with in a week of buying them. It is not easy to eat healthy and more so when you are on a budget.
But I am going to keep fitting my struggle and I am not going to until I am figuring out how to eat healthy on a budget. With the help of Shakeology, and Pinterest I am dead set that I am going to do this and I am going to teach my children these healthy habits even on a budget!
So Yall are not alone, I am there with you struggling and I know it sucks and its hard. I am there every step of the way and I am going to share this journey with you. Good bad and ugly I am here.
So know your not alone and your never going to be alone again. Healthy eating is harder for some than it is others but we have got this!
I love food and let me just tell you that the struggle to find great tasting healthy recipes is HARD!
This is NOT a easy thing to do, for me at least. I know I should eat healthy food and I know I should be drinking water every single day. I want to do these things but honestly it is hard and I struggle with it. I know I am at the start of my business and the start of my journey but I am working on it every day.
So as for right now I am going to hold myself responsible for what I eat and as a mom what I feed my children. I knew this was going to be the struggle and I decided to start from .... well the start!
However that doesn't change the fact that its a sad fact that fatty totally bad for you food. Is way cheaper than healthy food. Every where I look I see all these fat junk food types of food on sale and twice as much as the healthy food is. Yet that is not even the worst part of it all. The amount of fatty really bad for you food that is pretending and marketed as " healthy " food is crazy!
My kids got so excited to go to the store with me until they seen that all the things they love are all so so bad for them. Yet the things I would love for them to eat, they just are not into at all. But how do you get your kids to eat healthy when they are so use to eating so badly?
Should I allow my kids to keep eating the things that they love? Do I start switching them for healthier foods? The questions just go on and on. Yet I don't have any answers right now as to what to do. So I guess I will do what most of us moms out there do when they need answers.
So here I am trying to find healthy recipes. Pinterest Let me just tell you right now I love it and I love being able to go on there and search for everything. However I find myself starting with searching for healthy meals for my family. But I end hours later on arts and crafts that I know I can not do because I am not a very crafty mom.
So I started something new this week and I am going to post what I am going to be making for my family for dinner every night. I don't know if it will help me, I don't know if it will work but I am trying.
It is hard when your sitting there seeing all these people eating pasta, and all these amazing things and more so because Valentines day is coming and I know the chocolate is coming.
So I am starting this journey and I know that my issue is that I need to go a head and start thinking of going shopping every week. As I know that most of the " good for you " foods go bad with in a week of buying them. It is not easy to eat healthy and more so when you are on a budget.
But I am going to keep fitting my struggle and I am not going to until I am figuring out how to eat healthy on a budget. With the help of Shakeology, and Pinterest I am dead set that I am going to do this and I am going to teach my children these healthy habits even on a budget!
So Yall are not alone, I am there with you struggling and I know it sucks and its hard. I am there every step of the way and I am going to share this journey with you. Good bad and ugly I am here.
So know your not alone and your never going to be alone again. Healthy eating is harder for some than it is others but we have got this!
Wednesday, February 1, 2017
What is a Beach Body Business and MLM?
Military life is filled with tons of ups and down and finding a career you love is no easy task.
* You need a career that can move with you no matter where you pcs around the world.
* Will give you the freedom to drop what ever work you are doing and parent, pcs, go to Military functions or do anything else that might come up.
* You have to be able to restart your business no matter where you end up.
* Little to set up cost as military life isn't what some think. They don't get paid a lot of money.
" Benefits " are not free. So starting a business can't cost a whole lot and schooling to find a good career that can go with the flow. That is so hard!
* Weekly pay you need to get that pay check every week.
However where and how do you find a job that can be everything you need it to be?
In the military life style there are not many options for careers. Most of us know at least a few wives who have started their own businesses. No matter if its photography, selling crafts, or the ever difficult sales business. ( Beachbody, Jewelry in candles, Thirty-One gifts, Avon, Mary Kay, doTerra etc. ) The list of MLM companies and businesses go on and on.
They are the companies that allow wives to change their world and bring in the income they want. However lets face it they have a reputation as " waste of time and money." That they are " just another scam to take you money. " You know those " pushy sales " wives who try to sell anything to anyone just to make a dollar.
For those who don't know MLM is Multi-level marketing. That means you start on the bottom rank and then with members you have " join you team." As well as sales you make with in the month. There are different systems but they are all pretty much the same from what I have learned.
There are those people who say that these companies are all a scam and not to go any where near them. However I would like to start by pointing a few things out. When you join the Military or most companies. You start out on the bottom of the company and you have to go up the ranks. Each rank requires a certain list of things in order to move up to the next rank. The way I see it Companies who allow people to start independent businesses at home or where ever. Are no different than any other companies out there. You start at the bottom and work your way up the company latter rank by rank. The only real difference in these types of companies is that you are the boss on how quickly or slowly you go up the ranks. Not everyone is cut out for these types of businesses and not everyone should be part of them even if they are already part of them. No one enjoys a pushy annoying sales person trying way too hard to make you sale or buy things you don't want in your life. However from the research I have done I don't think all " at home " businesses are made equally at all.
The way to tell which company are right for you and your life style is all about figuring out what you want. As well as what you need in your life and when you need it. I am going to use myself as an example. For me I have never found a company I believed in, at least not fully believed in. I have looked around at many different companies and yes there are some really great companies out there.
However that has not stopped me from joining a few different companies through out my life. One of which was Beachbody.... yes I said it I joined beachbody. However the company was not right for me as I had no idea what beachbody was. Back in 2010 when I joined the company I was not a Military wife, I had no idea what beachbody was nor what it meant for me. So it lasted all of 30 days and I was over it with out a second thought or a moment of being trained by my " mentor." This is the story with so many people out there searching for a great business that they love. It's not that the company has failed those of us who don't do well in these businesses.
1. Our mentors were not the ones for us and they did not help us in the way that they should have or that we needed.
2. We didn't start the business for the right reasons.
3. We don't take it serious as a real business.
4. We did not follow the system that we had been taught with in our company.
Those 4 reasons are the ones that are the most common of why a business does not do well. Yet the companies so often blame others for their businesses not doing very well. They say that the company was the reason they failed or because they did not want to push products on their friends and families.
I was one of these people lord knows I felt it was everyone fault but my own. Until I took a step back and decided years later that I was going to research these companies. I knew I wanted to set my own hours, that I loved to help people, to change peoples lives. I needed my business to move with me with out a lot of paper work. Being a Military wife I knew that we could get stationed any where in the world so my business couldn't take up much space. I didn't want to keep inventory at all. It had to be something that I could do in my own time.To get paid every week and not have to question when I would get my pay check. So joining one of the MLM company's seemed like the best idea and the only real option for me.
Working my way down the list of companies I found myself right back where I had once been many years ago. Looking beachbody right back in the eyes and questioning if it was the right one for me. If maybe having a new mentor would change things. So I researched and talked to actual beachbody coaches who were the best of the best. They loved what they do , they made over $100,000 a year ( they showed me the proof. ) and yet they all said the same thing. They don't sell anything at all, they don't ask anyone to buy anything. All they do is share their story, their lives each and every day on social media sites. They help others learn to do the same and the customers come to them, they don't go out nagging people to buy things or keep any inventory.
So I asked myself the question that they had asked me.
Can you work out 4 days a week?
Share your story?
Drink a shake once a day 5 days a week? ( or every day )
and hire a team who wants to do the same thing?
There is it.... the 4 questions that can change your life for the better or allow you to keep going the way you have been up until this point.
For me, The answers were yes .... to every question YES! I wanted that, I could do that. But that is not where the questions stopped for me. I had to learn more about what beach body really was.
This is what I knew about the company....
They sold at home work outs, dvds and shakes that were to replace the meals. That was it all I knew about the company from back when I was a " coach " for my 30 days.
However from a little more search and talking to my wonderful friends who were rocking it as coaches. I learned that beachbody was not selling work out dvds at all. Yes it use to be and lord knows I couldn't do that again. Beach body on demand had it all over 6000 work outs at the tip of your finger. No more dvds, no more spending $100's of dollars on a crazy amount of dvds just so you could have a choice of different work outs depending on your mood. All for a cheap price and there were actually a ton of options not a set. pay this and you get that style.
Yall that was it! I learned so much and I knew that was the one thing that honestly was stopping me from doing this. So Here I am sitting here as a beach body coach. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I share my story with others and from there if they too want to change their world. Everyone joins for their own personal reasons. Some to make a full time income at home, to have time with their family. To travel the world and still be able to work. The list goes on and on and that is the great thing about this company. Your reasons are your own, your story is your own and your business is your own. I cant tell you where my story will end up or where I will be a month from now. But I do know that my business will go with me. My family gets to come first always and I am in control of my own future. I could do all the good I want in the world and help others make the changes they have been wanting to make.
........ And so the journey starts here ........
When Your Looking For:
* You need a career that can move with you no matter where you pcs around the world.
* Will give you the freedom to drop what ever work you are doing and parent, pcs, go to Military functions or do anything else that might come up.
* You have to be able to restart your business no matter where you end up.
* Little to set up cost as military life isn't what some think. They don't get paid a lot of money.
" Benefits " are not free. So starting a business can't cost a whole lot and schooling to find a good career that can go with the flow. That is so hard!
* Weekly pay you need to get that pay check every week.
However where and how do you find a job that can be everything you need it to be?
In the military life style there are not many options for careers. Most of us know at least a few wives who have started their own businesses. No matter if its photography, selling crafts, or the ever difficult sales business. ( Beachbody, Jewelry in candles, Thirty-One gifts, Avon, Mary Kay, doTerra etc. ) The list of MLM companies and businesses go on and on.
They are the companies that allow wives to change their world and bring in the income they want. However lets face it they have a reputation as " waste of time and money." That they are " just another scam to take you money. " You know those " pushy sales " wives who try to sell anything to anyone just to make a dollar.
For those who don't know MLM is Multi-level marketing. That means you start on the bottom rank and then with members you have " join you team." As well as sales you make with in the month. There are different systems but they are all pretty much the same from what I have learned.
There are those people who say that these companies are all a scam and not to go any where near them. However I would like to start by pointing a few things out. When you join the Military or most companies. You start out on the bottom of the company and you have to go up the ranks. Each rank requires a certain list of things in order to move up to the next rank. The way I see it Companies who allow people to start independent businesses at home or where ever. Are no different than any other companies out there. You start at the bottom and work your way up the company latter rank by rank. The only real difference in these types of companies is that you are the boss on how quickly or slowly you go up the ranks. Not everyone is cut out for these types of businesses and not everyone should be part of them even if they are already part of them. No one enjoys a pushy annoying sales person trying way too hard to make you sale or buy things you don't want in your life. However from the research I have done I don't think all " at home " businesses are made equally at all.
The way to tell which company are right for you and your life style is all about figuring out what you want. As well as what you need in your life and when you need it. I am going to use myself as an example. For me I have never found a company I believed in, at least not fully believed in. I have looked around at many different companies and yes there are some really great companies out there.
However that has not stopped me from joining a few different companies through out my life. One of which was Beachbody.... yes I said it I joined beachbody. However the company was not right for me as I had no idea what beachbody was. Back in 2010 when I joined the company I was not a Military wife, I had no idea what beachbody was nor what it meant for me. So it lasted all of 30 days and I was over it with out a second thought or a moment of being trained by my " mentor." This is the story with so many people out there searching for a great business that they love. It's not that the company has failed those of us who don't do well in these businesses.
1. Our mentors were not the ones for us and they did not help us in the way that they should have or that we needed.
2. We didn't start the business for the right reasons.
3. We don't take it serious as a real business.
4. We did not follow the system that we had been taught with in our company.
Those 4 reasons are the ones that are the most common of why a business does not do well. Yet the companies so often blame others for their businesses not doing very well. They say that the company was the reason they failed or because they did not want to push products on their friends and families.
I was one of these people lord knows I felt it was everyone fault but my own. Until I took a step back and decided years later that I was going to research these companies. I knew I wanted to set my own hours, that I loved to help people, to change peoples lives. I needed my business to move with me with out a lot of paper work. Being a Military wife I knew that we could get stationed any where in the world so my business couldn't take up much space. I didn't want to keep inventory at all. It had to be something that I could do in my own time.To get paid every week and not have to question when I would get my pay check. So joining one of the MLM company's seemed like the best idea and the only real option for me.
Working my way down the list of companies I found myself right back where I had once been many years ago. Looking beachbody right back in the eyes and questioning if it was the right one for me. If maybe having a new mentor would change things. So I researched and talked to actual beachbody coaches who were the best of the best. They loved what they do , they made over $100,000 a year ( they showed me the proof. ) and yet they all said the same thing. They don't sell anything at all, they don't ask anyone to buy anything. All they do is share their story, their lives each and every day on social media sites. They help others learn to do the same and the customers come to them, they don't go out nagging people to buy things or keep any inventory.
So I asked myself the question that they had asked me.
Can you work out 4 days a week?
Share your story?
Drink a shake once a day 5 days a week? ( or every day )
and hire a team who wants to do the same thing?
There is it.... the 4 questions that can change your life for the better or allow you to keep going the way you have been up until this point.
For me, The answers were yes .... to every question YES! I wanted that, I could do that. But that is not where the questions stopped for me. I had to learn more about what beach body really was.
This is what I knew about the company....
They sold at home work outs, dvds and shakes that were to replace the meals. That was it all I knew about the company from back when I was a " coach " for my 30 days.
However from a little more search and talking to my wonderful friends who were rocking it as coaches. I learned that beachbody was not selling work out dvds at all. Yes it use to be and lord knows I couldn't do that again. Beach body on demand had it all over 6000 work outs at the tip of your finger. No more dvds, no more spending $100's of dollars on a crazy amount of dvds just so you could have a choice of different work outs depending on your mood. All for a cheap price and there were actually a ton of options not a set. pay this and you get that style.
Yall that was it! I learned so much and I knew that was the one thing that honestly was stopping me from doing this. So Here I am sitting here as a beach body coach. Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I share my story with others and from there if they too want to change their world. Everyone joins for their own personal reasons. Some to make a full time income at home, to have time with their family. To travel the world and still be able to work. The list goes on and on and that is the great thing about this company. Your reasons are your own, your story is your own and your business is your own. I cant tell you where my story will end up or where I will be a month from now. But I do know that my business will go with me. My family gets to come first always and I am in control of my own future. I could do all the good I want in the world and help others make the changes they have been wanting to make.
........ And so the journey starts here ........
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Picking A Company To Go With and Why I picked this Company.
Since I decided that this year was my year.
I have spent way too hours and nights searching through the long list. Of work at home businesses that I could start on my own at home.Researching each company and their products so I could figure out which company would be the best to start a business with. With there being over 1400 companies currently. I know that I do not want to be one of those pushy sales people who makes everyone they know buy things. I don't really want to sale anything at all I want to work with a company that is something that most people want or need. So that people will come to me instead of my having to search for customers day and night. I have to have a weekly pay check with out a doubt.
With there being so many different types of companies out there. The only way for me to start the process was to break down the companies based on what they sale.
Candles -
Make Up -
Skin Care -
Storage Stuff -
Clothes -
Wraps -
Cleaning Products -
Jewelry -
Health And Fitness -
The list just goes on and on for way too long. So those are the ones I have broken the ones I have heard of down to. I know that wraps don't work so I know that none of those companies are right for me. Along with Skin care, candles, Jewelry and make up and storage stuff. I just don't think I believe in those companies enough to bother starting a business with them. That pretty much leaves cleaning products , clothes, and health and fitness.
I know that everyone has their own story and own reason for joining and what they are looking for.
For Me I know I want:
* To get paid weekly
* Not to have to sale anything
* To work my own hours
* A business that can go with us where ever we move to
* To be able to help people live their dreams out loud.
Find a company that can give me everything I want was hard but I am blessed to have found one.
They have a A+ BBB rating
No sales at all!
They send people to me who have dreams that they want to follow
They help change peoples lives
I could go on and on about them and trust me in the following months to comes I am sure that I will.
If you want to know which amazing company I picked....
You will just have to wait a few more days until I take the leap and officially start my business with this company. Trust me you don't want to miss out on hearing all about them and how they have changed my life. I haven't even joined at this point and they have already changed my life so much!
I know that everyone has their own story and own reason for joining and what they are looking for.
For Me I know I want:
* To get paid weekly
* Not to have to sale anything
* To work my own hours
* A business that can go with us where ever we move to
* To be able to help people live their dreams out loud.
Find a company that can give me everything I want was hard but I am blessed to have found one.
They have a A+ BBB rating
No sales at all!
They send people to me who have dreams that they want to follow
They help change peoples lives
I could go on and on about them and trust me in the following months to comes I am sure that I will.
If you want to know which amazing company I picked....
You will just have to wait a few more days until I take the leap and officially start my business with this company. Trust me you don't want to miss out on hearing all about them and how they have changed my life. I haven't even joined at this point and they have already changed my life so much!
Monday, January 23, 2017
Changes coming in 2017!
For years I have been trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life.
I knew all the basics of what I wanted and what I needed with the life style that my family and I live. It has been a lot of hard work many nights of researching and praying about what was right for us. This is something that is not only about me and my life and my needs.
My family is the most important art of my life and I know that with my career I need to be able to fully support us. In case something were to ever happen where my husband were to be unable to work. I want to be able to live the life free of fear and that could take me where I want to go in life. I am a mother, a wife and friend. I want to be able to help other people better their lives every chance I get. There is no better career for me than one where I am helping other people reach their dreams.
How I could reach my dreams well how everyone reaches their dreams in this world. I need to start where ever dreamer starts and that is by writing my list of what I will be doing this year.
2017 if my year and big changes are coming to mine and my families lives.
So here we go .... Here is my Game plan!
1. I will to change the lives of at least 1 person a week and anyone else who comes my way.
2. I will make an income that will replace the one I would have working out side of the home.
3. I will work at getting my body to a point where I am happy with it.
4. I will work each day to be a better mom and wife than I was the day before.
5. We will take a family vacation where I fully pay for everything, using income from my business.
These are my 5 top goals and this is what I will do this year. It is not my full list I am sure that as the months go by I will add and changing things. I will grow an a business owner and I know that when I pick a business to enter. That will be the largest thing I can do to put these things into action.
One step at a time.... and this is step one!
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