Summer to Remember!

Hello all!!

Again my apologies for not posting for a while...busy summer getting my life back together, whatever the challenges!!

Job front - well, I tried to continue on in recruitment, got made redundant, the bottom has fallen out of recruitment consultancy, with over £3million unemployed again, who in their right mind is going to spend £2k to recruit someone, when all they have to do is place a free ad and wade through the response for nowt??!! I am sure that all will come back to them again in time, but quite a long time...not for me any more..16 years was my lot!
Telesales from home was fine, for a very short time, until I did the call lists too quickly and they ran out of customers for me to call!!! No good when childcare had already been booked and paid for in advance!! So?? what to do - I need to earn a good income, work from home as I am not well enough to do a normal 9-5 job, work around the kids as well, trying to avoid childcare after school costs - £14.60 a day!!!
I dismissed this opportunity back in May when I was first job seeking....Kleeneze - running and building my own business - retailing products via catalogue drops and also recruiting, training and mentoring a team to do the same as me...I use crutches to walk around - I get tired easily, I am in pain quite a lot....give it a go Wend and see how we can get around my "issues". Well, I learned that there are quite a few disabled people already in Kleeneze who are doing well...I read up on how they do things - trolleys to hold your catalogues, pacing yourself - delivering to 100 houses a day takes me 2 hours, it would take a healthy person about 45 minutes - but hey?? who's in a rush?? Introducing the opportunity to other people - I can do that!! I love to talk, all I have to do is pass on the opportunity DVD and tell them how I am doing, I don't have to sell any more!!! The catalogue items sell themselves, the opportunity sells itself, I just enjoy doing what I want, how I want (following a successful system) and when I want. I have no child care. I collect catalogues on a Monday that I have delivered the previous Friday and Saturday. Tuesday and Wednesday I deliver more catalogues, Thursday and Friday I collect them back up. I do some fliering and put shop cards in windows, I hand out business cards and have a website where I attract people into the business. I do as much as I want to do every day. I don't have childcare costs, I take my kids to school every day and collect them too (they love this!!). I have even offered to pick up another mum's son to reduce her childcare costs...I feel in charge of my own destiny at the moment. My Hughes symptoms are controlled, I have to take medication and I have to take lots of rest breaks and make sure that I eat sensibly. The extra exercise and fresh air that I am getting is doing me good! I may even lose some of the weight that I have gained in the last 2 years (fingers crossed).
When you have a condition like Hughes, you have to live with it, rather than against it...Hughes is not going away..I thought that I would get a cure after diagnosis - not the case, I got "management" after diagnosis, the best it is going to get..so after the disappointment of finding out that I am not going to get better...you have to do something that gives you back your power and challenges you on a daily basis...I feel mentally strong and I am confident that I can really make my life work now successfully. I aim to increase my earnings significantly and reasonably quickly, I am on my way to recruiting 2 into my team - it is called the "Let's Do It Now" team - because that is what we have to do - Do It Now - tomorrow may be too late!!! No-one else is going to do it for you. I am grateful every day for the rest of my health, my husband, children, home and abilities. I really do try not to moan about the things I want to change or that I am not happy about, because I think that dwelling on negative things, brings more negative things to you..I try..it is not easy every day..but every day I try..

This is not an advert for you all to set up a Kleeneze business - but if you are interested, see my website www.letsdoitnow.co.uk!!! It is however letting you know that although having Hughes Syndrome is many things - painful, depressing, debilitating, scary, unfair, sad and many many other things... it is not the end of your life and can be the beginning. Once you learn to live with it and not against it. If I had a choice of having Hughes or not, I would not have it, obviously, but I am grateful that having Hughes lead me to becoming self employed, finally spending more time with my family and making me happier and more content (and in time richer!!).

I thank you all for reading and again promise to post every week (probably Sundays).

Much love

Wend x x x x