Thank you windows vista for shutting down my computer so I have rewrite the first half of this...grrr.

I went to a meeting last night for an organization called DSWA, Direct Selling Womens Alliance.

http://www.mydswa.org/local_area_chapter_detail.asp?LocalAreaChapterID=61

The link is for my local chapter.

The group focuses on supporting women(and a few men too) who have a home business whether it is with an established company like my Pampered Chef business or Mary Kay or Avon or your own home business. It gives you a new outlet for contacts and possible new business, as well as a different speaker at each monthly meeting.

The ladies I met were funny, friendly and very supportive, several took catalogs from me.

But the most interesting part of the evening was the speaker.

She spoke to us about how our own thinking can limit us and our business.

DId you know that we have a new thought about every 1/30 of a second? (No wonder I can't ever get anything done!) Most of these thoughts are lost, or tucked away in the back of our brains some just random musings but some are actually important to us and our own behaviour.

Almost all of our behaviour is driven by those background thoughts, the ones lurking in the corners of our minds. Which is natural, I mean, if we had to pay attention to every thoguht we had in order to do something we'd be reduced back to a toddler have to think about how tie their shoes. I likened it to what we dancers call "muscle memory" where you have done something so many times before you don't need to think about it to be able to do it. ( I think I need to do that to improve my typing!) Which cna also mess you up if you have suddenly change how you always did it before.

THere's all kinds of stuff crammed in our itty bitty brains:
Facts
Opinions
Beliefs
Judgements
Aspirations
Dreams
Predictions
Past experiences as WE remember them
Stories we tell ourselves about everything

All of these thoughts generate our feelings which can in turn generate more thoughts. The feelings are real no mater if the source of the thought is or not. Feelings then generate some kind of action which in turn generats a result. Even our inaction to teh feeling generates a type of action/result.

But it is up to us to make that: Thought=Feeling=(in)Action=Result into a successful one.

The RULES:
We also have all kinds of rules in our heads that do not apply to our daily life and our business, conditioning we've received all our lives from birth to now. Here's an example:

Which of these numbers is the most different?
1) one
2) thirteen
3) thirty-one



The answer is 2...how many of you did not even LOOK at the numbers on the left? It is form of conditioning, a rule we were given a very young age to not pay attention to certain information when trying to answer a question. And yet how many times have we done that when we needed to pay attention to everything before us?

It is a lack of awarness if you will. And you need to find a way to tap into the awarness of things you are always pushing to the back of your mind. You could be tapping into more choices, more thoughts more information if you just try to be more aware of all you have to chose from.

Awareness: the state of being awake
Information: all come from the past

Combining the two can get you better results.

My Pampered Chef directer has said it several times: what you put into your business is what you will get out of it. If I use that thought as well as what I heard last night I can see that I've not been approaching my business in the direction that would give me the most success. I had all kinds of Dreams and Aspirations, but was not AWARE of all my choices because my THOUGHTS kept pushing them into the background.

I did not work hard enough..I did not pay attention to enough of what my choices were and so I've not been succeeding as I had hoped. I let other thoughts cloud my JUDGEMENT and I held back not thinking of my business truly as a business. There are lots of REASONS for this but in the end it all came down to not be as serious aobut it all as I should have been. And now that I can see that it is time to work on getting rid of all the excess bagage and clear out the negative.

I am a Pampered Chef Independant Consultant, it is my JOB and it is time I started thinking of it as such so it can start helping me get off unemployment and back into helping contribute more to my household.

It is part of my Dreams and Aspirations to succeed at this JOB/CAREER not to have to go back to working for someone else and do what they say; but do what I say to make MY life and my husband's life better for both of us. It is MY choice now..and it is time to get it in gear.

Just as many of you all have jobs, this is MY job and I like it, so I will not act like it is just a pastime or hobby, let it slack off because there is this thing going on or that..unless I want to end up working for some big company again that will mandate to me how much I will make and what I must do for THEM to make it. Sure I may have to go back to an office job at first but I'll be damned If I'm going to give up on this career.

I will NOT apologize for having this business or feel like I'm some kind of telemarketer that's trying to sell you cat handcuffs. What I sell is great stuff and it is worth every penny! AND I am thrilled that I have found a job that lets me set my own hours, that lets me earn free products, trips to England, Disneyworld and other amazing locations. Just for selling products I believe in and enjoy using myself.

Here I am folks:
Cybele A Baker(- Fresh)
Independant Consultant for The Pampered Chef
http://www.pamperedchef.biz/bellescookinghaven

Trust me you will LOVE what we sell and if you don't you can return it.