Maximizing Recruiting Success: Tips for Developing Directors in Your Downline

[Christ Follower]

My DH sent me a dozen red roses and stargazer lillies to my work place. It was valentines day and the card read... Be my Valentine Always, Norm. I thought nothing of it other than wow these are beautiful and how sweet!
After work, no lights were on at home or there appeared to be none on. I opened the door to our apartment, and all the way up the stairs leading up o our apartment door were red rose petals. I opened the door and candles were lite throughout the apartment. The petals made a path to the bedroom. He had a small gift and a teddy bear holding a heart in the middle of the bed. I opened the box and found a heart shaped chocolate box. I opened the cover and found about 8 chocolate truffles and nestled in the middle was a beautiful one carat princess cut solitare diamond ring. He knelt down on one knee and asked me to be his Valentine always and will you marry me and I said yes and here we are 4 years and two children later

Now THAT is a proposal!:love0010:

 

[JaimeQ]

We had come to Cali for his brothers wedding... while here he wanted to take me to my favorite place which I had not been to since I was a kid... the beach!! So while at the beach (freezing my buns off I might add) we were having a good time, there were lots of annoying birds bothering us... we saw dolphins in the distance jumping around... anyway... while sitting on the blanket he pulled out the ring and asked my and we got married about 20 days after his brothers wedding.

 

[chefkristin]

I had the flu and he just couldn't wait anymore so he asked me in my kitchen when I was as sick as a dog. Very Romantic. LOL!!!

 

[pamperedlinda]

He had just bought a digital camera and was flipping through it to show me the pictures he had taken that day. The last picture was of the ring. I asked what is that? He then pulls the ring out of his pocket and says, maybe you can see it better here. That's when he proposed.

 

[missydivine]

:love0010:My dh took me out to dinner, then we went on a horse drawn carriage through the plaza and he proposed on the ride. He's pretty wonderful!:love0010::love0010:

 

[Stampaholic1961]

I'm a little late on this conversation but I haven't seen anything like mine yet so here goes. Jim was teaching me to rappel (come down mountains on ropes). When I was about 10 feet from the bottom he tied the safety rope to a tree & climbed up to where I was dangling & asked me to marry him. He said that he didn't like rejection so he wanted to make sure I couldn't say no!! When I tell the story now, I usually say that he was holding a knife to the rope as he asked. I tell people that I didn't have a choice....I had to marry him!Bev

 

[its_me_susan]

Thanks so much! Exactly what I needed to hear. I guess I just needed some kind of permission to make it about ME!!!

Colleen, How are you doing now? I'm in a similar situation (just in limbo here). I think when you put your mind to it and focus you are fine. But we do need to "decide" where to focus otherwise you feel like you're working all the time, which is not good either.

 

[finley1991]

My personal business has been great... better than ever. My TEAM finally started to work again and had a GREAT November!

Thanks for asking!

 

[chefheidi2003]

It sounds like you are in the same place I was a while ago.

I focused on my business first and then I spent time with my producers. I matched my time to their effort. I took one month and filled it solid with 18 shows. I called everyone I could think of to have a show and I got recruits from those 18 shows.

Some people are really good at saying that want "this thing" but expect it to just happen without any work. I would schedule phone appointments, if they kept them and did what they said they wanted to do, then I kept scheduling appointments with them. If they didn't answer the phone I left a message and didn't keep calling them. I would leave them one message a month and invite them to the meeting and send them my newsletter....that was it.

If they answered the phone but didn't do what they said they were going to do, I told them that we could not move their business forward until they did their work. They could then call me when they were done with this step and that I would be glad to help them move forward.

Don't spend a lot of time on the phone listening to them come up with excuses. I just told them that we didn't have anything to talk about since they don't have progress to report to me. It sounds harsh, but I was not listening to the whining and I was working with the people that wanted me.

I only had one person that did all these steps. I knew who to work with and that I needed to add more people.

Michelle

 

[karaboo2]

Okay -- mine's kinda pathetic. We met while working some dinners in the church kitchen ... the night of the Valentine dinner I was wearing a knee length skirt and he made a comment along the lines of 'nice @ss' ... I called him a pompous arrogant jerk. We went out that night with some friends to watch our town try to get into the Guiness book for the most couples kissing at once. When we walked in together, the organizers ASSUMED we were a couple and gave us a number. So yada yada yada, we end up kissing as well (to support the town's effort - LOL). We saw each other a couple more times that week.

I had been in a few bad dating relationships, so after the 3rd 'date' I made it clear that if he wasn't going to persue marriage, he should say so and go his own way. He thought about it for less than 60 seconds, and said "Well ... ya wanna?" So we were engaged less than 2 weeks after getting together, and married less than 7 months after that!!!