Friday, November 3, 2017
Getting Older....
It's getting close to the big 6, 0, birthday. Parts of me are feeling older, but I know I can stay young in my mind and attitude.
Opportunity....
"A guy walks into a toy store..."
lol...
And today I wonder, what if I hadn't been working that day? If I hadn't been there, this whole God-thing might not be happening to me in just the way it is! Which is exactly why I was working.... God has His hand on my life, and this is an opportunity that He alone has orchestrated for me! I believe that, which is why I am jumping in with both feet! I know He will open the right doors!
Looking back over this blog, I see that I was so discouraged in the spring, feeling as though I would never have anything in my life.... a career, a home, security. Now I feel so much hope and elation towards my future! It's going to be work... No one is handing me anything but information... I have to make it work for me... but I know I have the whole country at my disposal, every business is an opportunity, and that everything I have ever learned about life, and people and business is to my benefit in what is to come.
The few people I have shared this with have been so encouraging, saying things like, "This is SO Perfect for you!"
I can do this!!
I know there will be some discouraging moments, but I cannot be discouraged and give up. I am telling myself this:
* * *
Much has happened over the past couple months in regards to this opportunity.
I asked, "How do I grow up to be you?" And this amazing gentleman, who has a family, a card and calendar business, has worked for the Associated Press and has been published in Sunset Magazine and The New Yorker, has spent countless hours with me mentoring me in this business, with no benefit to himself. He even answers my questions when I text him even when he is on a shoot!
I have purchased over $2k worth of camera equipment and this laptop to do the software editing on. I have business cards and a rolling case lined with Pic and Pluck foam.
I have done somersaults in my brain as to whether I can do this or not. Truly, the alternatives are just not acceptable. Every night I sweep the floor at the toy shoppe, I think... "I can work this hard, or harder for myself, not someone else." Or if I were travel to another area, I think how much I hate having to sell myself on a job interview when I know I can do the work and do it well, but have to answer stupid questions like, "Tell us about yourself".... which is a trick question for you to answer as what you can do for the company. Tired of that game!
With this, I am offering to do something grand for this person's business.... either they want it or they don't. No big deal to me. And there mostly likely is not another person in line waiting to give them a better deal.
And do you have any idea how many bottles of Avon hand lotion I would have to sell to make as much money as I can make on one shoot?
So my plan is to get 6 of my 7 credit cards paid off by the beginning of September, which is the time I have committed to work until at the toy shoppe... Labor Day, basically the end of the summer season. Then my required amount of money needed for monthly bills will be low enough not to cause too much stress working for myself.
Meanwhile, I will be working on my days and mornings off, in an untapped nearby town. I plan to make enough money over the 7 and a half months to pay myself back for the equipment, and to save enough to travel across the country to the Vermont/New Hampshire area, where I will work for about two months. I have never been to that area of the country and would like to experience it. Especially the fall colors.
From the money I make there, I hope to visit New York for a few days. Ice skating under the big Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza is on my Bucket List. Then, before winter really sets in, I need to bee-line back to Arizona where I hope to find a place for the winter months until it gets too hot, or I may stay longer depending on the work. Maybe I will also be able to meet family for Christmas in Thailand.... another destination on my Bucket List.
* * *
So many hopes and dreams. Hope and dreams that seem possible. Thank you Jesus for opening this door for me, and thank you for all the doors to come that You will be opening.
:)
Really, the worst that can happen is that I have some camera equipment to sell on ebay, right? I can always find a retail job somewhere at minimum wage, or maybe come back to the toy shoppe. But I am not expecting the end of story to be that at all!
Excited!!
Oh, and I started another blog about it all... 360alife.blogspot.com It's actually entitled "360 - A Life in Panoramic Mode"
lol...
And today I wonder, what if I hadn't been working that day? If I hadn't been there, this whole God-thing might not be happening to me in just the way it is! Which is exactly why I was working.... God has His hand on my life, and this is an opportunity that He alone has orchestrated for me! I believe that, which is why I am jumping in with both feet! I know He will open the right doors!
Looking back over this blog, I see that I was so discouraged in the spring, feeling as though I would never have anything in my life.... a career, a home, security. Now I feel so much hope and elation towards my future! It's going to be work... No one is handing me anything but information... I have to make it work for me... but I know I have the whole country at my disposal, every business is an opportunity, and that everything I have ever learned about life, and people and business is to my benefit in what is to come.
The few people I have shared this with have been so encouraging, saying things like, "This is SO Perfect for you!"
I can do this!!
I know there will be some discouraging moments, but I cannot be discouraged and give up. I am telling myself this:
- Every No gets me closer to a Yes
- God is the one who will be opening the doors.
- I cannot let my Mentor down
* * *
Much has happened over the past couple months in regards to this opportunity.
I asked, "How do I grow up to be you?" And this amazing gentleman, who has a family, a card and calendar business, has worked for the Associated Press and has been published in Sunset Magazine and The New Yorker, has spent countless hours with me mentoring me in this business, with no benefit to himself. He even answers my questions when I text him even when he is on a shoot!
I have purchased over $2k worth of camera equipment and this laptop to do the software editing on. I have business cards and a rolling case lined with Pic and Pluck foam.
I have done somersaults in my brain as to whether I can do this or not. Truly, the alternatives are just not acceptable. Every night I sweep the floor at the toy shoppe, I think... "I can work this hard, or harder for myself, not someone else." Or if I were travel to another area, I think how much I hate having to sell myself on a job interview when I know I can do the work and do it well, but have to answer stupid questions like, "Tell us about yourself".... which is a trick question for you to answer as what you can do for the company. Tired of that game!
With this, I am offering to do something grand for this person's business.... either they want it or they don't. No big deal to me. And there mostly likely is not another person in line waiting to give them a better deal.
And do you have any idea how many bottles of Avon hand lotion I would have to sell to make as much money as I can make on one shoot?
So my plan is to get 6 of my 7 credit cards paid off by the beginning of September, which is the time I have committed to work until at the toy shoppe... Labor Day, basically the end of the summer season. Then my required amount of money needed for monthly bills will be low enough not to cause too much stress working for myself.
Meanwhile, I will be working on my days and mornings off, in an untapped nearby town. I plan to make enough money over the 7 and a half months to pay myself back for the equipment, and to save enough to travel across the country to the Vermont/New Hampshire area, where I will work for about two months. I have never been to that area of the country and would like to experience it. Especially the fall colors.
From the money I make there, I hope to visit New York for a few days. Ice skating under the big Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza is on my Bucket List. Then, before winter really sets in, I need to bee-line back to Arizona where I hope to find a place for the winter months until it gets too hot, or I may stay longer depending on the work. Maybe I will also be able to meet family for Christmas in Thailand.... another destination on my Bucket List.
* * *
So many hopes and dreams. Hope and dreams that seem possible. Thank you Jesus for opening this door for me, and thank you for all the doors to come that You will be opening.
:)
Really, the worst that can happen is that I have some camera equipment to sell on ebay, right? I can always find a retail job somewhere at minimum wage, or maybe come back to the toy shoppe. But I am not expecting the end of story to be that at all!
Excited!!
Oh, and I started another blog about it all... 360alife.blogspot.com It's actually entitled "360 - A Life in Panoramic Mode"
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