CBS reporting on February 14, 2009
Business Booming For Cosmetics
Almost every facet of the economy has been severely hampered by the recession. But, as Richard Schlesinger reports, business has been booming for many in the cosmetics industry.
Where will you be a year from now? Where would you most like to be?
There is so much you’ve learned and experienced on your journey to this day. Imagine what you can now do with it all.
This new year is a grand opportunity, filled with promise and possibilities. Choose now the very best of those possibilities, and know that you have the power to bring them to life.
You will spend this coming year moving in one direction or another. Commit now to making that direction the one that will take you toward what you sincerely desire.
Life in each moment is influenced by your presence and participation. As this new year unfolds, continue to make that influence a positive and fulfilling one.
Consider today where you would like to be a year from now. For now is the beginning of the year in which you can truly make it happen.
– Ralph Marston
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BE SURE TO LOCK YOUR DOOR!
With the KEY to…
For negative thoughts can multiply
And crowd the positives out
And make the mind a cesspool of anxiety and doubt.
And so I told the negative thought
I could not let him in.
He went his way, but I am sure that he’ll return again.
But no more will I greet him
With a welcome or a smile
And never will I entertain him even for a while.
I’ll fill my mind with positive thoughts and on the door install
A sign which reads, “DO NOT DISTURB”
When negative comes to call
For tho’ he knocks a thousand times
And yet, a thousand more,
He cannot dominate my mind
If I don’t open up the door.
Author Unknown
“I like looking at beautiful women. We all like looking at beautiful women.” – Meredith Vieira, The View (former View co-host), The Today Show, Who Wants To Be a Millionarie.
Did you know that April was beautiful Women month? I didn’t.
THANKS DONNA BAYES!
Aug. 26, 2008 —
Your e-mails about working from home continue to dominate the ”Good Morning America Web Site.” Many of you say scams are a major concern and worry about Web sites and ads that prey upon people who need to earn money from home.
For many of us, being asked to pay money to make money sounds contradictory, but this isn’t always a sign of a fraud. One example of a legitimate “pay first” opportunity is Mary Kay cosmetics. New sales agents are asked to spend $100 on a starter kit, which includes the tools and training to get going as an independent representative. In fact, many direct sales companies want prospective agents to make an investment in the company to show they’re serious about the opportunity.
THANK YOU MARY KAY!
Dominance
(Career-focused, Results-oriented)
They want RESULTS
Influence
(Recognition-focused, People-oriented)
They want INTERACTION
Steadiness
(Security-focused, Family-oriented)
They want TRUST & SECURITY
Conscientiousness
(Analytically-focused, Detail-oriented)
They want DATA
What will you be for HALL-O-WEEN?
FULL CIRCLE INDIVIDUAL CLOSE
to Sell Sets, Book Classes, & Schedule Interviews
(In that order)
35 Second Sets Close
__________, were you as excited about how good you looked in the mirror as much as I believe you were? You know your situation a whole lot better than I do, so it’s up to you - I’ll work with you either way. Would you like to splurge and have the extra touch of class that comes with our Premier Collection or would it make more sense right now to just start with our Complete collection? Whichever you would rather do will certainly be fine with me. [Break eye contact and allow her to respond] Excellent choice, would you like to put it on MasterCard, Visa, or cash? [Discuss payment plan option].
There are women everywhere. All kinds of women. From every walk of life. In every shape and size. From every background imaginable. To every conceivable stretch of the Corporate world and motherhood. All age ranges. All skin types. Facing everyday life with challenges. The varieties are endless.
Work with purpose.
Insist on integrity.
Never make excuses.
Never stop learning and growing.
Enjoy your work.
Resolve to stick with it.
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Wake Up! |
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Dress Up! |
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Shut Up! |
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Stand Up! |
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Look Up! |
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Reach Up! |
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“Would You Like…”
Most people in marketing have heard how McDonalds® added an “upsell” to every order. Right before the sale was rung up, the cashier asked if the customer would be interested in adding french fries to their order. McDonalds® made millions selling french fries using this simple technique. Yes, millions.
The upsell is a smart, skillful, and easy way to add product to any order. But here’s the interesting thing about that McDonalds® campaign.
I am part of the Fellowship of Excellence. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I won’t give up, shut up, let up until I have stayed up, stored up, paid up and prayed up. I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away or be still.
I am hosting an online Mary Kay Website Party and I’m inviting you to join on and have some fun.
All you need to do is go online at www.marykay.com/_________
starting _______________ ending __________________.
Check out what’s new, play with the virtual makeover and even upload your own picture to try the newest makeup artist looks! You can shop for upcoming events such as Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. There’s skin care, body care, color cosmetics, gifts, men’s products and more!
“It costs five times as much to attract a new customer as it does to maintain an established one. So determine to make your customer the happiest in town. If you will take care of your customers, they will take care of you.” —Mary Kay
Rate this. There’s excellent and there’s poor. Seems to me that there’s no inbetween when it comes to the rating of customer service. Only two categories of choice available.
Anything less than excellent is viewed substandard, uncaring, poor performance, rude, no excuse good enough, unfair, unacceptable, unforgiveable, and let us not forget majorly disappointing.
A poor service check would pretty much reveal one or more of those labels of customer dissatisfaction. Wouldn’t you agree? Several important factors need to be realized to establish and maintain excellent customer satisfaction.
Think about YOUR dreams.
Then watch the Dream Movie. A very innovative and inspirational movie that will bring things in focus. *click here* (turn up your volume)
Afterwards, make it a GREAT day! Start TODAY!! Go for YOUR dreams!!!
PINK BIZ NOTE: YOU can do anything you want. Be dedicated and determined. Don’t let anything and anyone tell you differently. This is your life, your one and only life. Do what others only talk about doing. Make your dreams come true. After all, they are YOUR dreams!! Hugs, Pink Biz
Do you need a lift? Find your inspiration to start new today. Begin a new week and a new day with goals ahead. Be inspired to dream big and dig deep. Reach new heights!
Click here http://www.natureofsuccessmovie.com/ to view a beautiful inspirational movie (turn up your volume). Absorb its meaning for it is speaking to you!
ENJOY!
Be Inspired! Think Pink!
Behind every fortune is someone who has labored long into the night to make it real.
Behind every important discovery is a person who often grew weary searching for it.
Behind the magnificent work of art is an artist who spent hour after hour, month after month toiling at tasks that were tedious and seemingly endless. Behind the beautiful, soaring music is a composer who carefully arranged each note, each pause, each crescendo into place.
Take heart. Your effort cannot help but pay off.
The fact is, your effort is the payoff. The fortune, the discovery, the work of art, and the music, as grand as they are, serve as mere tokens of the achievement.
The real achievement is in the achieving, and the real value is in the doing. Sincere, focused effort makes your life rich, even as you do it.
Make the effort and the reward is guaranteed. For the biggest reward is in the doing.
– Ralph Marston July 21, 2008
Please continue 
This is my newly acquired slogan. Like it? Personally, it intrigues me.
I, like many others, often need a nudge to wrap up, finish up, or move things right along. From the incomplete to the complete. From the almost done to the done, From the desk to the appropriate location in the file cabinet (I like paper trails). From the thought of doing the work to the action exhibited to make it a done deal. More importantly, I wanted to adopt a slogan that would steady my pace of IPA’s (Income Producing Activities) on a daily basis. I want to face the positives as well as the setbacks and roadblocks upfront with a positive line of thinking. As my New Mary Kay Year has taken off, I want to ‘bust-a-move’ to make my new year goals become a reality! It’s MY YEAR to shine!!
Does the wording, “out of the strain” bother anyone? Does it seem to have a negative connotation in a way? I thought so at first and then I began to think about it differently. I felt like the intended strain of the matter was the stretching I will (am) doing on a daily basis to reach my intended goals. Still, the word strain might be a slight odd for some to think about. I have chosen to analogize it as the stretch to get me ”into the peace of the done”.
Have to say that I saved this cute pic from another site, and I think if my memory serves me correct it was from My Pink Truth several months back. Anyway, I thank the site and owner for use of the pic even though I can’t remember who to even ask if I could borrow it. Good intent here to give credit where credit is due.
I have to climb on the soapbox here, as I strongly feel the need to share my thoughts and concerns about an email I read from a sister consultant who offered up this suggestion for moving your inventory off your shelves. The email went out across a yahoo group for MK consultants.
Here’s how it read:
Summer fun is HERE! Lots of great outdoor water activities to choose from. As well as a number of other outdoor activities. Beach or poolside, tennis court or golf course, the sun is HOT!! Soaking up those rays, even minimal exposure, can attribute to sun damage and skin cancer. You may want to ask yourself, “What Can I Do?”
Help create a level of exposure for yourself. Take advantage of continued education surrounding the sun and your skin. Understand the importance of knowledge preparation and precautionary applications. Both are equally important in the defense of SUN protection.
1. Know the symptoms of burnout, including chronic exhaustion, sleep changes, depression, loss of concern and empathy, feelings of anger and resentment.
2. Keep healthful, easy-to-fix meals and snacks on hand, so you can re-energize yourself with good nutrition.
3. Know your limits and respect them.
4. Identify the things you have control over and tackle them. Find ways to let go of the things you can’t control.
5. Learn to manage stress in healthful ways: use exercise, stretching, laughter, hobbies and other positive strategies.
6. Every workday brings triumphs and failures. Savor the triumphs and move beyond the failures.
7. Watch your back! Do the necessary things to keep you well and pay attention to things that are hazardous to your health, both illness and injury hazards.
8. Look for ways to continue growing professionally and building confidence in your skills.
9. Make time for your family and loved ones. When you look back on your life, those moments will be the ones you treasure.
10. Apply to yourself the good advice you give others every day!
Pink Biz Note: Go the extra mile for yourself so that you’ll look extraordinarily beautiful and well-cared for as you present yourself in your Mary Kay business. Women can tell the difference!! Be kind to thyself sister consultants!!
A Spring Break that is! Have a blast!
Thanks for all that you do. Really, I appreciate each and every one of you!
Hope you enjoy this little bit of humor. The Dog Ate My Homework.
This had the cutest song (sorry if you missed it)!
Have an awesome break everyone! Keep reading →
We can see forever on a clear day.
Isn’t it remarkable? The feeling we get when we can see with such clarity?
A look at the lyrics to this song will enhance the focus I’m searching for…
FACTS ABOUT EASTER CELEBRATIONS
Glory to God in the Highest, Christ Jesus is alive!
Christ is Risen!!
HE LIVES!!!
Easter is the religious celebration commemorating the resurrection of Christ, observed in the Christian churches today. By the first Christian, it was considered to continue the feast of the Passover, at which the paschal lamb, a symbol of Christ, was sacrificed. Hence, its name in Greek, French, and other Roman languages is taken from Hebrew “Pesach” = Passover. The English name comes from the Anglo-Saxon “Eastre” – a goddess of light or spring, whose festival was celebrated in April.
An Angel Irish Blessing. A beautiful angel, a halo of green shamrocks on her head. Holding out her gown, catching falling shamrock leaves.
The saying reads:
May you be blessed always with,
a sunbeam to warm you,
a moonbeam to charm you,
a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you.
BEAUTY OF THE REWARD KIND
It’s a natural. It’s a passion. Meaningful reward. Working, achieving, being rewarded. It’s all about beauty of the reward kind.
PIANO ROLL PLEASE!
AN AWARDS TRIBUTE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!
Thank you for your heartfelt recognition and award. It is my desire to share, with others, this award and with a small tribute to you. I want to say that I appreciate your kindness. It was a complete surprise and one that I will not forget! Many thanks again!
Living Your “Dash”
by Rubel Shell
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Everyone is writing his or her own
eulogy every day.
My friend Howard Harvey shared an e-mail he received from a friend. It was a poem. Not a piece of classic literature, mind you. But a thought-provoking several lines about living one’s “dash.” You know what your dash is. It’s that little fragment of a line between the years of someone’s birth and death. You know how it’s written in text or on grave markers: “Shirley Jane Doe (1945 — 2000).”
That tiny, nondescript dash stands for everything she ever was or did. It covers all her accomplishments and fears, all her accumulations and losses, everything that made anybody notice and care that she ever lived at all.
The invisible heart. We know it’s there.
We equate it with both life and love and oh yes, with giving.
Giving of ourselves. What a gift! The uplifted heart of the giver!
There’s a Pink Pig with abundance flowing from above.
We all love to take that to the bank. I like hundred dollar bills forming in my account just like every other MK sister consultant. The picture above gives me the visual of what I like to see resulting from my business efforts. This is pink abundance that I will share with a new spin on thinking from a biblical standpoint.
How’s this for a concept? A brillant one actually.
Now I’m not thinking about the person on the street who holds up a sign for all to read implying that he/she will work for money. I’m not just thinking about the money either. Rather, my thoughts lie in the first person.
I like this saying. I REALLY like it.
Do you have a goal for this quarter? Do you have a goal for this seminar year? Where do you stand today in achieving your goal(s)? Have you evaluated your position as it stands right now, right this minute?
I received this in an email today. Wanted to pass this invitation along.
Just click here..
Blessings for He is the reason for the season.
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“I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. Attitude keeps me going or cripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When my attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.”
Positive Attitude, it changes everything, wouldn’t you agree? Keep reading →
“I BELIEVE” in YOU!
YOU ARE GOD’S UNIQUE CREATION
from a beautiful EESD site!
I believe for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows.
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night a candle glows.
I believe for everyone who goes astray someone will come to show the way.
I believe, I believe.
I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard,
I believe someone in the great somewhere hears every word.
Ev’ry time I hear a new born baby cry or touch a leaf or see the sky,
Then I know why; I believe!
WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE QUOTE….???
Add one…feel free, please. Comment on one if you like.
Hope you find one that touches you…
Quiet thoughts to begin the day.
As they say, a visual is worth….a thousand words.
What quiet thought is on your mind today?
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COME TO THE GARDEN ALONE
WHILE THE DEW IS STILL ON THE ROSES
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FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING
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