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No electricity

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It has been a strange week. Beside the crazy temperatures between minus 22 and minus 32 (not included the wind to add to the joy of frozen fingers) we also lost partial power. Only half of our panel got power, the other half didn’t. Thank god that the heating and the fridge/freezer were on the good half. The water supply wasn’t. Also the barn had only half supply. Some horses had solid frozen water in their buckets, some didn’t.

Luckey our electricity supplier arrived early in the morning and fixed it in only 4 hours. Yeah!

It also meant no internet. Frustrating because I still have a list with things which I want to be done this month. My goal list:

  • Finally finish my website,
  • Finally setting up and sending out my newsletter,
  • Finally creating a killer advertisement which will give me at least 10 (or rather 100) new customers,
  • Making my secret santa present,
  • Sort out a lot of the mess in the house,
  • etc, etc, etc.

Probably too much of a list, but hey that’s me. Love to frustrate myself, so I can proof later that I will never finish anything. Story of my life. Maybe I should start to use my oils a bit more to get my moods under control.

No kidding, I should have thought about that sooner. Will be continued….

 

Lawn mowers

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My horses are lawn mowers. Very lucky lawn mowers. Less fortunate or less passioned people would probably has sold them already and shipped them off to slaughter.

My 2 old guys (Reese and Toblerone or Toby) were already on that wagon but together with a couple of others pulled of the wagon and put up for sale. I went looking for one of them. And I can home with 3 of them. The mare (nr.3) has passed away a couple of years ago. The guys are still there. In their twenties and too old to do anything anymore. Accept for mowing the lawn.

Then I have my mares.

One of them isn’t even mine. She (Royal) came 3 years ago with her foal and she never left. Owner is Bear Valley Rescue (http://www.bearvalleyab.org/index.html). I know. But I just feel so sorry for her. I don’t want to send her back to a herd of 100 plus horses, while she clearly enjoys her stall at night with me (She is the only one who only poops inside. The other do their business outside in their run-out). She has been a breed mare, has a terrible sacked back and you guessed it right: lawn mowers.

Then we have Oreo. Guess what colours she has. My daughters pony. The only rideable one. Till a couple of months back. She foundered severely.

Next one is my mare Gracia. My prospect. My horse which would take me to the higher levels of dressage. Till she met a nail. Lame since then. The next lawn mower.

Last 2 are Royal and Gracia’s foals (Diamond and Cornelia). 3 Years of age now. 1.5 Years to go before I can start them and we can ride them. Guess what they are doing now. Right: mowing the lawn.

It is hard

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My life is easy. According to others. I have a great husband who works hard, takes care of me and accept my horses and spending. I have 3 great daughters who all work hard to make something of their life. I have a great little house filled with animals.

My head is telling me otherwise on regular basis. Because of that I procrastinate, watch television and nothing happens. I know I have to start moving, have to do something, but I just don’t manage to do it. And I hate it.

Good thing is that we started running at the beginning of this year. I not only lost a lot of pounds, I have more energy too. Which gave me finally the energy to start doing something with my life. To seriously start my business.

Now I have to keep going. But I am going to make it.

My website

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Beginning of November I finally started with my website. I already had one, but as somebody mentioned it was very basic. Now it starts to look like a real professional website. I still have to add things, but my main thought was to create something were people could actually have a look at what I am selling. A place were people can start to buy from me or join me after leading them to the website through some kind of advertisement. And that’s what I have right now.

Have a look and give me some positive feedback: www.WhyOils.ca

I am pretty proud of myself how far I got. I took a lot of effort and frustration but it is mine. And I don’t have to pay a huge amount of money to anybody for development and hosting.

What I also learned is that I still have to learn a lot. My gosh. 20 Years ago I already made websites. But a lot is changed since then. But looking at the result….

Only thing left is finishing it AND creating a screen where people can leave their name and email. Because that is the way to find your new team members but also your clients.

And that is what I need!!

 

My horses

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I have 7 horses to take care of. Sounds as a lot of work which sometimes is, but basically I just turn them out in the morning, feed them, take care of the water, clean the stalls and bring them in again at night.

In the summer I am more busy. A lot of fences need to be repaired and replaced and because I love it to make it easy for myself I decided I wanted white fences and no barbed wire. That means a lot of painting and placing posts on an exact distance of 8 feet (length of the board) apart from each other, in a straight line. No problem would you say till you find a big rock exactly on the spot where your post is supposed to be placed on a depth of 2 feet. Sooo.. after spending an hour digging a hole you only have 6 inches to go and bang…. there he is. Your friend “big stone”. 3 Hours later your post is finally on the right spot. Only 39 more to do this summer.

Good thing is that it looks awesome when it is finally done and that’s why I keep going.

 

Being positive. 

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Did you know that being positive will create a more positive life for yourself.

Start the day with telling yourself that your day will be great. Tell yourself which great goals you are going to fulfill this day and it will happen!  Really. You just have to believe in yourself. And you will really succeed.

And when you are half way your day and you get desperate because it doesn’t work out the way you want it go, do it again.  Take 5 minutes of your time and go back to your positive thinking. Do something you like to do. (And I don’t mean your laundry!) Get yourself back on track.

You can even end your day with all the positive thing which you have done till now and visualize what you are going to do the next day.

Try it!  Make happy thoughts. Create a happy life! You can do it! You can do everything you want!

MLM Scam or reality?

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As I mentioned before I started my own business.  An MLM business. Because you can work whenever you want, you work from home, it’s part time and if you do it right you can earn a lot of money. Yes, right.

It took me some time to figure it out. To get over the idea that it’s a easy part time job. Because it isn’t. If you want to earn the big bugs you have to work full time. If you want to earn anything you have to start full time. Of course you can work part time but just like with every job, the less you work the less you earn. And it will take a long time to get to that level to earn a reasonable amount of money and be able to step back to the part time job. Did you know that only 1% made it to that level??

So is it a scam or is it reality? I don’t think it’s a scam. You can earn money. It’s just a business. When you start it up, you have to work hard. You have to find your clients. You have to find your employees (your team members who start their business). And it will take a couple of years to get to the level that you start earning some money.

And that’s the reality. 

What happend to Time?

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It’s been 94 days already when my last post had been put out there. So much for consistentcy. 3 Months ago it was still the “old” year. Some changes has been made meanwhile. After my hubby started with excersising and loosing 10 kilo’s I decided it was my turn too. We both have set a goal to run the 5K this summer at a decent speed (for me 30 minutes) And meanwhile loose some of these extra kilo’s.

It still surprise me how fast a body can adapt. When I started out I was gasping for air when running, not even mentioning the fact that 3K already was a achievement.  Now I run the 5K (okay, it’s turtle speed but I run) and slowly my speed is going up. Starting out with a walking speed I needed 50 minuten to do this 5K. Now, after 7 weeks it takes me less then 40 minuten. Still 10 minuten to slow, but I will get there. Eventually.

My business doesnt go that well. But to be honest, it just because of lack of energy and activity from me that there is no progress. Slowly I am starting to return again in the world of website development. And at least my website is more then just  an “it’s under construction” page. And the plans and ideas how it’s going to be when it is finished are all in my head. Maybe I can change them. Tell me what to do. Www.WhyOils.ca

And then there are the big plans for may/june. 3 Weeks holiday. We will start in Munich and end in Amsterdam. We have some things set to do in between, but most of the time still have to be filled in……