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flabastida · 01-08-2007, 07:01 PM

I tried the "Jumping right into self-employment...because poverty is a great motivator..." but it kind of backfired on me at this stage of the game. I have 4 kids, ages 16 to 2, and my wife is a full-time stay-at-home mom. After I got laid off from my last job in June of 2006 I thought, "well, I'm starting my company with my partner, I might as well jump in head first." My expertise is in sales, making cold-calls, setting appointments finding opportunities, closing sales. My partner is the creative side of the equation. We started a production company. I closed an initial $7000 in sales initially, but for some reason it took us a REALLY LONG TIME to produce the videos. So I stopped selling so we could catch up and not get into hot water with more clients. By the way, we had charged them up front, so it looked bad that we had their money but no end-results yet.

In the meantime, the money ran out, I was living off credit card and other unsecured credit, until it got unsustainable. Now I had to get a full-time job, which I seem to be doing really well at (at this early stage in the game), and my partner is getting caught up. We've had a "come to Jesus meeting" so-to-speak about how we can accelerate our production and still keep the video quality high, so that we can start making a regular income for ourselves.

Needless to say, my wife is mad at me, and I've been stressed out. I've become privvy to the Law of Attraction from the movie The Secret (that my partner introduced to me), and found Steve Pavlina's website through doing a google search of "Law of Attraction." He's been very helpful in terrms of setting goals, doing what's important, and learning how to implement the Law of Attraction in a practical way. I like the "creative observation" bit, because it's not hocus pocus, it's practical, and it allows me to come to terms with my current, seemingly awful, debt-ridden, full-time-job-holding circumstances, and at the same time see the light at the end of the tunnel so that I know that I know that I know I'll come out of it fine. The latest podcast was good because of Steve's prescription for getting to your goals quicker by implementing some of the "side effects" of having more money, for example.

01-08-2007, 07:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
flabastida Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8	I tried the "Jumping right into self-employment...because poverty is a great motivator..." but it kind of backfired on me at this stage of the game. I have 4 kids, ages 16 to 2, and my wife is a full-time stay-at-home mom. After I got laid off from my last job in June of 2006 I thought, "well, I'm starting my company with my partner, I might as well jump in head first." My expertise is in sales, making cold-calls, setting appointments finding opportunities, closing sales. My partner is the creative side of the equation. We started a production company. I closed an initial $7000 in sales initially, but for some reason it took us a REALLY LONG TIME to produce the videos. So I stopped selling so we could catch up and not get into hot water with more clients. By the way, we had charged them up front, so it looked bad that we had their money but no end-results yet. In the meantime, the money ran out, I was living off credit card and other unsecured credit, until it got unsustainable. Now I had to get a full-time job, which I seem to be doing really well at (at this early stage in the game), and my partner is getting caught up. We've had a "come to Jesus meeting" so-to-speak about how we can accelerate our production and still keep the video quality high, so that we can start making a regular income for ourselves. Needless to say, my wife is mad at me, and I've been stressed out. I've become privvy to the Law of Attraction from the movie The Secret (that my partner introduced to me), and found Steve Pavlina's website through doing a google search of "Law of Attraction." He's been very helpful in terrms of setting goals, doing what's important, and learning how to implement the Law of Attraction in a practical way. I like the "creative observation" bit, because it's not hocus pocus, it's practical, and it allows me to come to terms with my current, seemingly awful, debt-ridden, full-time-job-holding circumstances, and at the same time see the light at the end of the tunnel so that I know that I know that I know I'll come out of it fine. The latest podcast was good because of Steve's prescription for getting to your goals quicker by implementing some of the "side effects" of having more money, for example.