What does it take to become a success?

This is singularly the most personally influential quote I've ever heard.  I first heard it when I was a Health Insurance Agent in the 70s.  I read the book, "Think and Grow Rich".   I read everything I could about Napoleon Hill once I heard this quote.  It was like the quote turned on a light bulb in my heart.  He was such a positive thinker.  It amazed me.   I had never thought of the idea that the mind was that intelligent.  At my young 21 years, did not know what a goal was but certainly knew what dreams and desires to better myself were. I just didn't know how to put the two together.  That was the year that I first really remember getting frustrated with hearing people talk about their goals and really started trying to figure out how to achieve one.



The main obstacle or problem was, I had a personal influence who was oppressing and at that time I was not strong enough to realize it, or figure out how to grow around it and flourish.  If you plant a seed and then put a rock in it's way, the seed will continue to grow roots in an effort  to try to push itself up through the rock.  It never gives up trying to seek the sun.  It takes a break while getting stronger, but finally, it will figure a way to go around the rock or up through it in its desperate measure to reach the light...Isn't that what we do? Can we figure out how to break through the rocks in our lives and become victorious?  Yes!

Whenever I came up with an idea of how I could achieve something, there was an outside influence which kept telling me to give up...it will never happen...I wasn't worth it....I had no real value...Who would ever listen to me.  I gave up my dream of finishing college because my 1st husband was upset that I might find someone and leave him.

I never gave up my entrepreneurial ideas and I continued to raise 5 children over 37 years while working in the following fields...Dental Assistant, Aetna Admin Assistant,   night time newspaper delivery, childcare 18 years, swim instructor (taught 22 babies to swim), diving instructor for Newbury Park High School, seamstress, costume designer, Tupperware, Avon, Amway, Novelist, Craft Boutique with crafts in 4 stores (California),   Contributing Reporter for the Ventura County Star, Website designer and expense specialist for TBG,  a call center operator, Call Center Manager, A call Center Assistant Account Executive for Kaiser's Medical Products, for Skechers, for Sam and Libbys, for The Right Start Baby Catalog, and product Senior Trainer for Desert of the Month, Miss Grace Lemon Cake and Mrs. Beasley's Muffins and was instrumental in starting the Amgen Orchestra in 2007 and was their Soloist, became an autodidact website designer and did countless websites for other women who had dreams, Genealogist, Office Manager for Arizona Shutters and Blinds and Web Designer for same, Avon top Sales for my district for 5 years running and Top Recruiter for same.  So what was my dream and what were my goals about?  Well, during the hard years, my goal was to make enough money to feed my children and not have to beg for money from their father.  My dreams were to be a teacher and in many ways I fulfilled those dreams.

My dream was to inspire others to reach their potential.  Teaching has always been one of my passions.  When I taught Customer Service Representatives, I was really in my element.  I'm not telling you all this to brag, but to show you that no matter what horrible thing happened, I persevered.  I stayed the course.   I never lost my Faith in someone looking over me.  I knew my Heavenly Father had a plan for me.   I ran the race and in the most primitive meaning, I won.  Everything I experienced has prepared me for each new day I experience now.

Success didn't come all at one time.  It was a process of doing the same simple things daily to build on a platform of knowledge.  You can't expect to start selling Avon and have a client base of 1000 people overnight.  That part takes time, but unless you start somewhere with what your mentor suggests, you won't be able to make it up the first flight of stairs!  If you try to re invent the wheel and do your own thing, you are doomed to failure.  Many people will not only not put in a first order, but they will stop after 4 orders.  They will figure out some way to blame Avon, or Amway, or Mary Kay, or Tupperware, but if they had just done exactly what their mentor had suggested, day by day, they would start getting a return clientele, they would learn to prospect, they would learn how to market themselves online,  they would learn the basics to get them up the first flights of stairs.

 People asked "Why did you stay in an abusive situation for 37 years?" then  "How did you plan your escape?"  There were several mitigating circumstances that surrounded my psyche.  I was made to feel that I could not survive on my own and could not leave my children.  Truth be told, I didn't want to deal with the dual custody situations that my friends were suffering from in their divorces, so I became numb to the negativity and stayed to protect my children from abuse as much as I could.  I kept my Faith in God and turned to him often for strength.  When the youngest was 19, things fell into place and many friends helped me to effect my move and subsequent dissolution of my situation.  It was clearly a miracle for everything to come into play the way it did.  At the end, I felt peace and forgiveness and started to experience joy, truly for the first time in my life.  When my book comes out, many will be surprised at what occurred.  Because of the negative influence, that became a catalyst for me to push around the rock and reach for the light...and I grew.  People ask me why I do Avon?  It's because I like being my own boss.  I like not having to punch a clock.  If someone wants to meet with me, I can go whenever I like.  My time is my own with my Grandchildren and children.  I can jump on a plane and visit my mother when I want to in California.  You can't do these things when you have a salaried, punch the clock, settle for bad or poor or even less than great performance reviews.  The next question is, "How did you accomplish this?" - like you eat an elephant....one bite at a time.

The point of this is to show you that you can accomplish whatever you want to in this life.  Think Big, then use your Avon income to salt away the cash to make your dreams come true.  Speak with your Leaders about what you want and they will be eager to help you create a plan for success.  The most important thing that I can tell you love your customers as a hen loves her chicks and they will be loyal. The next most important thing is to be kind to one person.....yourself.  Sometimes the biggest enemy we know is living between our ears.  Negative self talk within your brain, is devastating to your self esteem.  Your negative voice might be telling you that you can't jump over an obstacle, constantly doubting yourself, telling yourself that your mistakes cannot be fixed are not what you need.  Choose to do little things for your business each day and remarkable things will happen. Just get to know 3 people every day and give out your books and you will amaze yourself.

I'm sending positive blessings to you.  I hope you follow me on FB and let me know how you are doing.  http://www.facebook.com/AvonSkinCareAZ/   Other sites that may be a positive influence are my team recognition site:  www.meyer2consult.blogspot.com.  Again, think and grow Rich ~ Napoleon Hill


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How AVON Literally Saved My Life

In 1983, many years ago, I was a young mother of 3 children trying to make ends meet.  In order to stay home with them in the daytime and care for my youngest nursing baby, while the others were in 1st grade and preschool, I did AVON sporatically, Tupperware and a newspaper route at night.

My husband did the first part of the route and then would switch so the children were never alone.  When he gave me the car, he failed to warn me that he had just had a fender bender in the middle of the night.  I went on the route and due to a damaged fan/fan belt, the car started to over heat.  The alternator was not working and the headlights were dying.  I could hardly see to drive and the car was getting too hot, so I found a gas station and decided to put water in the tank.  After a few attempts to get the cap off and wait patiently to make sure nothing would spray out, I leaned over the hole to see if I could see any fluids at all in there.  When I did, a delayed reaction, a virtual snake of water as in "The Abyss" came out and made impact with my face, including mouth and neck, then followed me, blowing my glasses off and hitting my chest, arm and thigh as I turned to flee. 

The pain was searing followed by the anguish that the station, at 4:30 in the morning, did not have any hoses attached to the outside of the station, and of course, they had turned the pressure way down on the water to keep people from stealing water, so as I tried to splash sprinkles of water on myself, the blisters started spewing and growing to the size of lemons.  I could look down and on my chest, I could see the water from my own system, dance inside the blister as if I had sprinkled water on a grill.  My skin was hissing and blisters were growing exponentially until I could barely close my mouth and my ability to speak was impaired. I felt that my air supply was diminishing when I tried to breathe from my mouth, so I tried to calm myself down and only breathe through my nose. I felt like I was fighting to survive, I rushed to the car and grabbed a handful of change from the ashtray, and leaving a trail of coins, ran to the phone booth.

This was the pre-cell phone era of 1983.  It was now about 5 a.m.   I first tried to call the newspaper office, but everyone had left.  I tried to call my sleeping 1st husband, but the battery on the other car was dead and he said he couldn't leave the kids alone.  He told me that an ambulance was out of the question and if I called one, I would be responsible for the payment if the insurance did not pay for it.  I then called a friend, Karma who was up getting her kids ready for an early morning religion class called Seminary.  It was difficult for her to understand me, but she understood enough to know she was needed and said she would be right there.

While I decided I might be able to survive this, I turned around in the phone booth to see a man, who apparently had heard my screams from the gas station across the street and was trying to be a good Samaritan.  He was standing exactly in front of me with eyes wide open.  Staring at me in horror, his wild eyes told me that I was probably going to be attacked or raped.  Suddenly, he started screaming, "Oh my GOD, look at her face!", over and over again as he ran away.  I sank to the bottom of the booth in shock and relief and disbelief and thought that at least I could be grateful that I had been saved from multiple traumas that day. 

I got my wits about me and my Girl Scout training kicked in.  I took off my wet sweatshirt and made my way to the car.  The doors were open, water was on the ground, money was all over the ground and I, as calmly as I could, rolled up the sweatshirt and placed it under my feet, lay back and did Lamaze type breathing to try to calm myself down.   I wasn't sure where my glasses were.  I thought I could last until my friend got there when suddenly the Samaritan returned, now screaming that he could help me.

I was a little panicked, in shock and he told me to lie still and he, with black greasy hands, proceeded to rub a first aid cream with the consistency of lard on the hissing blisters.  Of course, with the lemon sized taut skin, the cream melted instantaneously and the blisters started ripping open at his touch.  He was crying and a voice told me to do what I could to calm him down, because clearly he was negatively impacted by this event.  My right hand had one huge blister the size of the entire hand, so I reached over with my good hand and touched his arm and tried to nod that it was going to be ok.  He ran out of cream in nothing flat, turned and disappeared into the morning fog.

Moments later, my friend Karma arrived, surveyed the situation, found my glasses and helped me into the car where we proceeded to the emergency room.  Not knowing if my insurance would cover the Sherman Oaks Burn Center, I opted for the local emergency room, where a series of mistakes were made, leaving me wrapped like a mummy, with a serious and almost fatal infection called pseudomonas, resulting in 3 weeks of antibiotic in patient stay, and severe keloid scars.

Fast forward 9 years.  Depression and 2 burn repair surgeries miraculously accomplished by Dr Bryan Slywka, had removed some of the scaring but I was still horribly depressed and my husband was interested in other things. I felt like I was a failure and contemplating exits.  The love of my children kept me going and I could not bear the thought of abandoning them with a selfish action, so I turned to ANEW which after using on a regular regimen, slowly but surely started repairing my skin and dissolving the scar tissue.

 Now, in 2016.... years later, 5 children and now in Arizona with an adoring NEW, appreciative, supporting "high school sweetheart" husband, I am an Avon Gold Ambassador, and my skin certainly does not make me look like the 63 year old woman that I will be in November.  I feel like I am an AVON miracle.  AVON does not promise this will work for all people, but I am telling you that when you see the scars on my chest, you would never believe that the face and chest were in the same accident.

Now, my regimen is to use ANEW Ultimate Multi Performance at night while I sleep after I put the ANEW night cream on my face while kicking back and watching television.  I put it on and even though I have thoroughly removed my make up and washed my face with 1) remover wipes and 2) ANEW cleanser, I am always aghast at what happens next.  After I put a thin layer of the Night cream or Night Emulsion on, I wait about 15 minutes then start to rub in gentle circles.  Within minutes, brown dead skin is rolling off and my face is as soft as a baby's skin.

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