Catching Up

I hate being sick! I don't mind the occasional sniffle or sore throat, but being down for a week puts everything but the most essential parts of our lives on hold, and it takes forever to catch up again.

I had three parties booked for last week. One of my downline was able to take the Thursday party (thanks, Michelle) and I thought I would be able to do Friday's party, but come Friday morning, I realized that even though the symptoms were gone, I was wiped out and did not have the energy to drive 1 1/2 hours to do the party. I called everyone in my downline except the newest who were not ready to do a solo party, with all of them already booked (yea for them!). I then posted the party on the Forums as well as calling a sister consultant who lives closer to the party to see if she or any of her downline could take the party. She gave me the names of five of her daughters and I called each of them. Still no luck. I was not about to cancel a party three hours before it was due to begin, so I began to call my three newbies, one of whom was available. She drove to my house, and then drove my car to the party, where she helped me unload, setup, fill orders, etc. She was a godsend (thanks, Lisa)! I could not have done the party by myself.

Saturday I rested all day in preparation for my Saturday night party. Even though I was still tired, I did not want to disappoint my hostess. The party went well, with average sales. Sunday I took the entire day off - no phone calls, no paperwork, none of the things I was behind on. My husband and I reconnected (we had not slept together for over a week to make sure he did not catch what I had) and it was absolute heaven to touch and hold him again [explicit scenes left out].

Monday I started to plow through all that had accumulated on my desk - nearly a week's worth of mail, packets of guests' order sheets that needed sorting through, bank deposits to be made, emails to answer. I placed my PR order, then packaged up the few backorders that had come in the order I received last week and got them to the post office. I'm glad I always tell my guests 7-10 business days for backorders, so that if something like this happens I still have some leeway to get them their products within that timeframe (they usually get them sooner).

Last night I finally did it - I sent out a sale flyer using Constant Contact to advertise a one-day sale. I was putting off sending out anything until I was caught up on entering emails into the system, but as another consultant advised me, I can always add more people later. So the notice of the 50% off sale went out to 470 women, one of whom called me this morning to place her order and she booked a party! Even though a bunch of the emails bounced (the list was started two years ago and I'm sure people have changed their email addresses since then) and four people opted out, it is still worth my time to send out a sale flyer. My goal is to send out something once a month, but now that I saw how easy it was, I need to be careful not to do it more often than that.