My Newbie
Two Cents Worth
By
Bailey
Family obligations, vacations, and burn out sometimes takes us out and away from business. In the year I’ve been at VNWR I’ve seen it a few times. Recently, I was at a point where I was starting to do less and less everyday. I had some great ideas, but I just couldn’t put them into action. I would sit at the computer and nothing would come together. I was starting to get frustrated, and I thought more and more about taking a step back for awhile. As it turned out family obligations made the decision for me and I had to step away from business for several weeks. But I didn’t have a time frame for when I‘D be ready to get back to work. I felt when the time was right I’d know it. I did the bare minimum to maintain my business, and that was mostly on my mainstream accounts.
I felt like a weight was lifted my “last day of work”. I don’t know why really. Although I was frustrated, I was having fun...I was learning new things everyday and business was good. I chalked it up to life’s ups and downs and then moved on. I thought about business while on hiatus - what changes should I make?... what direction should I take?... how am I going to manage time better? I thought about what I liked best and what I liked least about this business and how I was going to balance it out, and I continued to write down ideas.
About three weeks had gone by and things were starting to settle down a bit at home and I had more free time, but I wasn’t ready to get back to work. My head still wasn’t in it, but I had the time now to stop by VNWR and see how everyone was doing. A few days passed and I took a peek at a project that I can’t seem to get finished. The sponsor offered some unique promo material and I wanted to use it to make fpa for all sites this sponsor promotes. It’s a rather simple on-going project, it’s basically a lot of cut and paste, and the biggest decision I had to make was how I wanted to link them together, but it just stalled. When I looked at it the other day, I suddenly had a lot of enthusiasm, and I realized “the time was right” to get back to work. I planned to jump right in the next morning.




