Cell phones = Oxygen

You don't really realize how much you rely on your cell phone until you lose it!

I work from home and basically all I need to run my business is a cell phone and a laptop.  Well on Tuesday night I was at a meeting and when I was leaving I realized that I couldn't find my phone.  I thought there was a chance that maybe I just left it in my purse in the car.  When I got out to the car and realized that it wasn't there either, I was becoming a little concerned. 

You see I was almost 3 hours from home and was NOT about to leave without my phone.  So now we started searching high and low and had everyone in on the search!!  I thought it couldn't be long to find it...I mean I really didn't go very far. 

Two and a half hours later...we were STILL looking.  At this point it was close to 11pm at night.  I just couldn't leave without it.

At one point I thought I didn't have a choice, that I was going to have to head home without my life...oops, I mean my phone.  At this point my friend Jenn said, call me when you get home.  I had to let her know that I had no idea what her number was...it was in my phone.  She said, OK is there a number I can reach you at if I need you tomorrow?  I said, yes I have a fax line at home...but I don't know the number, it's in my phone.  I then realized that all the meetings that I had the next day...the addresses of where I was going were in my phone.  This was getting more depressing by the minute.

So Jenn asked me if we should check one more time in the car that we were in, just in case.  I thought why not...it couldn't hurt anything.  She didn't find anything and as she was walking back to the apartment, she realized that she had left the trunk open.  When she turned around to go back...IT WAS AT THAT MOMENT...that she saw my phone!  How???  I have no idea...other than the conclusion I came to that she has bionic eyes!

Here we are close to midnight, extremely dark, near a very dark parking lot and my phone is black.  Where did she find it?  Near the side of the building in the tall, dark grass.  I was blown away. 

For one thing, I was NEVER even close to that location.  For another thing, how would it have gotten in the grass off of the road or sidewalk?  I am still a little bewildered, but would rather be bewildered than sophicating...cuz that's what was happening without my phone.  Hence cell phones = oxygen!

The most exciting thing about this...I own my own telecommunications company that I run from home and to realize how dependent people are on their cell phones, internet, TV, etc.  It makes me have warm fuzzies that I get paid every time people pay those bills.:)  Thank you Jesus!!

Sorry I have been MIA...

Good morning fellow bloggy friends.  I'm back!

For those of you who don't know, I work from home and am so blessed to do so!  Every 3 months I have the pleasure of going away for the weekend for my business.  It's a nice little break and usually well needed. :)  This last weekend created a major amount of production in my business which has kept me a bit friggin crazy busy and out of the blog loop. 

For those of you who found a void in your life without me being there yeah right, never fear...I'm back.

Happy Friday everyone!

Living on little to no sleep....

 Since Thursday I have been going on little to no sleep...why you ask?  Being that I work from home, there are times in my business that we all get together for the weekend for a mass amount of training. 

THIS IS THE WEEKEND!!

I have to admit that is one of the best things about my business is that every three months I get to travel for a weekend and it is truly THE MOST AMAZING training I have ever received in my life...however we truly go on little to no sleep. 

Here is the problem with that my friends...I can't stay awake when I am tired.  I am not one of those people that just continues to go and go and go and then when I finally lay down it's over...I mean don't get me wrong, I do pretty good with staying up late and being up early, but I do need a little assistance sometimes.

I am not a big fan of the large can energy drinks.  They are too big and you have to drink too much in order for them to work...for me, I have "liquid magic".  Wow, that sounds like I am on crack.  Let me explain myself...there are these little red...(oh my, its sounding even worse)...bottles of 5 hour energy drinks.

This is how it works...when I find myself not able to lift my head because I am falling in to a deep slumber...I find my 5 hour energy drink.  I can't tell a lie...they are NOT delicious.  HOWEVER...they work so well...all of a sudden (about 15 minutes after taking it) you come back to life wake up!  It is a complete transformation where all of a sudden you actually feel alive and well again.  It doesn't give me the jitters, what it actually does is just make me feel normal again.  I literally look around and think to myself ...I'm back.  And you are literally back for 5 hours...and counting.  So when that 5 hours hits..you feel it.

Looks like I'm only gonna need only 4 more today...LOL

Alright, alright...I don't actually take that many in a day...maybe 2!

Have a great day all!

Oh, the people we meet....

In my business I have the pleasure of meeting lots of different kinds of people.  Being that I love people, this is a good thing.  The last couple of days have been somewhat frickin crazy interesting to say the least about this individual that I met.

I got a phone call that this gentlemen...we'll call him Buddy...and he lets me know that he will be meeting me at a meeting that I had on Tuesday night.  He was unable to make it so I followed up with him the next day.  Not ever having met "Buddy" before, I had no idea what to expect.  Here's what I did know about him...he was very interested in my technology business.  That's it.

So my first call with him goes something like this...
I introduce myself and he tells me how excited he is to meet me and to see my business.  Without taking a breath he then proceeds to tell me how wonderful he is and that his geneology goes back to William the Conqueror, he was hired to be the bull pin catcher for the Oakland A's but turned that down, but he is in the hall of fame at U of O.  My response...Oh, how nice.  He then proceeds to tell me that he has an executive assistant that works for him in Eugene, OR and handles his calender and such.  I ask him what he does for a living....he pauses...then shares with me that he is a pizza delivery driver for a chain of pizza restaurants in our area that his brother owns.  He just does that to make sure no one is "stealing" from his brother...ahhh ok. 

It doesn't end there, he then tells me that he wants to meet me for breakfast the next morning so we can discuss the business.  I find out the location we are meeting and then he tells me...I like your name.  Thank you, I say.  (Mind you, my name is Kandi)  He then tells me...i bet you're eye candy.  It took everything that I had not to laugh considering I would be what they call the OPPOSITE of eye candy. :)  He then tells me that when he sees me he is going to give me a "sweet kiss", I share with him that there will not be any kisses but a firm handshake will be fine.  You can imagine how many red flags I have going up at this point. 

So the next day, the person who introduced him to the business is going to meet me at the restaurant where "Buddy" has suggested we go.  I actually didn't know the address though so I call him to confirm exactly where we are meeting...he tells me and then says to me..."you buying or are we going dutch, cuz if we're going dutch, I don't have any money."  WTF????   I just about passed out.  I haven't ever had anyone say such an ignorant thing to me in my life!  Mind you, I planned on buying breakfast, but now was adamantly against it!  I said to him that I had already eaten so I wouldn't be eating, but if he needed me to buy his breakfast, that would be fine. 

I actually considered not going just because I could see where this was going...and then I thought I might call him just for the fun of it and tell him that I was running a bit late and would have to meet him after breakfast.  All of which would have been inappropriate, so I went. 

The meeting was interesting to say the least and I can honestly say I have encountered one of the very first "scam artists" that I have come across in my life.

The last thing I will share with you is that while he was eating breakfast, my business partner and I were just sitting there.  A person across the room received an order of bisquits and gravy that looked too good to pass up...my business partner and I decided that we would split an order since we both weren't very hungry...when the waitress came up, she mentioned that they had a half order as well.  This sounded much better for us...then "Buddy" chimes in and tells the waitress, "Just go ahead and bring them the big order and what they don't eat I will take home!"...remember I'M PAYING!!! 

This was just the funniest meeting ever and it will definitely give us a story to talk about long in to the future.  He did end up putting money out for his meal...which totaled $40 by the way...and when I offered to get that he said no...so I paid for mine and left nicely. 

In this business I am blessed to meet lots of people...and ALL KINDS of people...and as a result, I am a better person because of it.

By the way...he did take our left over bisquits and gravy.

What it is that I do...

I have received several emails over the course of the last couple of weeks wondering what this wonderful company is that has blessed me to stay at home with my girls...this blog is going to share that with you.

In July of 2008, I was approached to come and look at a business that they thought..."I would love".  Just for the record I was not a big fan of multi-level marketing.  Not because I had done something before but because we all know people that tried something, THEY didn't work it so they said the opportunity didn't work. 

I sat down and actually shared with the people presenting that I was not going to be interested in "whatever this was".  Then they started to get in to it...it blew my mind.

You see prior to this wonderful business...I was the head recruiter at a casino.  Really super fun job...I just didn't like the direction the company was going, so I gave my notice.  During my two week notice is when this business was presented.

I now own my own telecommunications company...here is the beautiful thing, every time one of my friends or family members pays their home phone, cell phone, TV, internet, or home security bill...I get paid.  It's called residual income.  Residual income is doing the work once and getting paid over and over and over again for it.  This is one of the ways that we make money.

Another thing that I love is that I don't have to sell you ANYTHING, you already use and pay for the services that we offer EVERY SINGLE DAY!  So I am not going back to you and selling you a vitamin or a lotion, potion or magical juice (which all of those are great products) in order to make my residual for the month. 

We are an amazing company that has the most blessed leadership that you could come across.  I am thankful for what this has allowed me and my family. 

First of all...it's the phone.  Everyone is going to use and pay for a phone until the day they quit breathing air.  To be able to make money every time someone paid their phone bill was amazing to me!

Here I am a year and a half later more excited about this opportunity than I have ever been in my life.  You see I have always worked for someone.  Then I understood you could never create wealth working for someone else...you could create wealth for them but not for yourself.

My heart is with helping people and I love being able to help so many people every single day. 

To learn more about what I do and view any of the opportunity videos...please click{HERE}

I wish you all great success in whatever you do...the number one thing that I would recommend to change your life is to read and listen to self help books and audios every single day!

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