What Are Your Ambitions for 2008?

[redsoxgirl]

So what are everyone's goals for 2008?
More shows?
Future Director?
Director?
Earn a trip?

 

[vwpamperedchef]

My goals for my business are:

to advance to future director (I struggle with recruiting)

to do more then 4 shows per month

to earn at least level one (because I missed it this year by about 4,000 points!)

to get on the phone (I have phone phobia).

How about you Lindsay?

 

[lacychef]

My goals are:
director by conference
earn level 2 trip this year
be better at CC calls

 

[pamperedlinda]

My Pampered Chef Goals:

Consistancy!
Hold 8-12 shows each month
Recruit at least one per month
Be a better leader for my team
Promote to Director in time to walk in July
Earn a Pampered Vacation
Earn TPC in Sales and Recruiting (Balanced Business if I can work that one out)
Organize my office and keep it that way

 

[redsoxgirl]

I'm still sort of new (signed up in Oct), and I want to be able to be a SAHM when we have a munchikin (I hope at the end of this year). So my goals for PC are:
At least 4 shows per month (hopefully more)
To make Level 1
To hit $15,000 in sales by Oct
Keep myself more organized
Be more proactive with 3-2-1
Get on the phone for CC and for new business

On top of hopefully getting pregnant and kicking up PC, we're also planning on buying a house in a few months! It's going to be a busy year for me!

 

[stacywhitlow]

Here are my goals:

$50,000 in career sales by May 31st
Director by March 31st
Earn at least level 2 of incentive trip
Hold 6 shows per month, $500 avg. per show, $3000 monthly sales
Be consistent with phone calls (host coaching, customer care, etc.)

I am really going to make 2008 GRATE!!!

 

[wadesgirl]

I would love to:

6+ shows a month
$50,000 in career sales sometime this year, hopefully by conference!

 

[ChefJoyJ]

I have some of my goals listed under my name, but here are a few more of my goals. Keep in mind I'm brand spakin' new...still waiting to submit my first show...just waiting for a few stragglin' orders.

1. 8-12 shows a month
2. Promote to future director (director and beyond is my eventual goal)
3. $15,000 in career sales by June...so 25-30,000 in career sales this year (nothing like setting your goals high, right? )
4. 3-2-1
5. Organize my office and keep my business and office organized
6. Balance family and PC!
7. Have fun!!!

(as it says in my goals below - earn a trip (at least level 2) and I'd like to be able to start paying the mortgage by March or April (or at least my car payment each month)

 

[lacychef]

Joy, I am just amazed by you! You have some awesome goals; and to be that focused & determined this early in the game...you will go far with this biz!

 

[heat123]

Here's what I received today about goals:
Hope this helps you all!

Here are 6 points to remember when goal setting:

1. A goal gains power when it is written down. This allows it to become substantial and it will then begin to sketch itself into your subconscious mind. Post your goal in various places around your house where you will see it often.

2. A goal gains power when it depicts an event. Put it in terms of who, what where, when and then add DETAIL!

3. A goal gains power when its benefits are expressed. Select your destination, define it, depict an actual event and put yourself into it. Be sure to make it exciting…it needs to lift your spirits!


4. A goal gains power when entered into the subconscious mind. Use color, touch, emotional feelings and responses, taste and smell, and sounds.

5. A goal gains power when the subconscious mind delivers the “how”. Break your goal

into bite-sized daily steps.

6. A goal gains power when you act now!

A goal is a dream with a deadline. Be sure that your goal has a deadline, that it is written down and SHARED! Follow these action plans and as Zig Ziglar says, “We'll see YOU at the top!”

 

[wadesgirl]

I have some of my goals listed under my name, but here are a few more of my goals. Keep in mind I'm brand spakin' new...still waiting to submit my first show...just waiting for a few stragglin' orders.

1. 8-12 shows a month
2. Promote to future director (director and beyond is my eventual goal)
3. $15,000 in career sales by June...so 25-30,000 in career sales this year (nothing like setting your goals high, right? )
4. 3-2-1
5. Organize my office and keep my business and office organized
6. Balance family and PC!
7. Have fun!!!

(as it says in my goals below - earn a trip (at least level 2) and I'd like to be able to start paying the mortgage by March or April (or at least my car payment each month)

Your goals are totally acheivable! I didn't set up any goals for myself in my first year but I got $15,000 in my first 10 months (three of those months I didn't even do that much work!) and hit $25,000 my first year! Keep up the great work and you will see the rewards.

 

[PCSarahjm]

PC Goals
4-5 Shows a month
Start using 3-2-1
Earn a trip
Promote to Future Director

Personal Goals
Stay organized
Balance family and PC
Break Ground for our new house!!!!!!!

 

[ChefJoyJ]

Your goals are totally acheivable! I didn't set up any goals for myself in my first year but I got $15,000 in my first 10 months (three of those months I didn't even do that much work!) and hit $25,000 my first year! Keep up the great work and you will see the rewards.

Joy, I am just amazed by you! You have some awesome goals; and to be that focused & determined this early in the game...you will go far with this biz!

Aww shucks...thanks... :blushing:

I'm so motivated for several reasons. One - I want this to be a successful business for me and a meaningful source of income for my family. It meets so many of my criteria (being able to stay at home with my daughter/not put her in day care, I can work around my husband's crazy schedule, and still have family time) while making money. Two - my DH and I made a deal, if I can make around $600/month (totally doable!!) then I don't have to get a PT or FT job...otherwise, we do need me to supplement his income. Three - this will be fun for me, hardly like work at all!

We were hit with some serious medical bills for our daughter earlier in the year, which we obviously had not planned on, and that put a huge dent in the money we had set aside so I could stay at home (ate it all up actually). With all the testing to discover what was wrong, the two sugeries, two hospital stays, and over two weeks in the hospital...it added up, even with good health insurance! Turns out she had a rare congenital membrane form in her stomach - blocking the flow of food from her stomach to her intestines, causing her to vomit most everything she ate back up. She was growing at first, then slowed down , and then she stopped growing at around 4 months and at 5 months was losing weight. That's when we knew it wasn't reflux and was something more serious. We were in the hospital with her second (and final) surgery when she turned 6 months. The reason it took so long to diagnose is it's so rare - she's the 51st documented case worldwide in the last 30 years. But now, she's healthy, happy, and so much fun - no more crying, screaming baby for me! She's such a bundle of sunshine! I can't imagine going back to work and putting her in daycare.

Sooo...I'm determined to rock my PC business!

 

[sfdavis918]

Joy, my son had almost the same thing. It was called pyloric stenosis. The muscle between the stomach and small intestine grew really thick and eventually blocked food so he would vomit it also. He was textbook though, it usually shows up at around 4 weeks, and he was 4 weeks on the dot. We were lucky and he was diagnosed and had surgery all within a week.

I feel for you though. It was awful not knowing what the problem was and he would vomit so violently. It was so sad! Wow, that was so long ago now though, he is 20 months now! You would never know though, he is a little bruiser! My DH calls him Tank!

 

[wadesgirl]

Aww shucks...thanks... :blushing:

I'm so motivated for several reasons. One - I want this to be a successful business for me and a meaningful source of income for my family. It meets so many of my criteria (being able to stay at home with my daughter/not put her in day care, I can work around my husband's crazy schedule, and still have family time) while making money. Two - my DH and I made a deal, if I can make around $600/month (totally doable!!) then I don't have to get a PT or FT job...otherwise, we do need me to supplement his income. Three - this will be fun for me, hardly like work at all!

We were hit with some serious medical bills for our daughter earlier in the year, which we obviously had not planned on, and that put a huge dent in the money we had set aside so I could stay at home (ate it all up actually). With all the testing to discover what was wrong, the two sugeries, two hospital stays, and over two weeks in the hospital...it added up, even with good health insurance! Turns out she had a rare congenital membrane form in her stomach - blocking the flow of food from her stomach to her intestines, causing her to vomit most everything she ate back up. She was growing at first, then slowed down , and then she stopped growing at around 4 months and at 5 months was losing weight. That's when we knew it wasn't reflux and was something more serious. We were in the hospital with her second (and final) surgery when she turned 6 months. The reason it took so long to diagnose is it's so rare - she's the 51st documented case worldwide in the last 30 years. But now, she's healthy, happy, and so much fun - no more crying, screaming baby for me! She's such a bundle of sunshine! I can't imagine going back to work and putting her in daycare.

Sooo...I'm determined to rock my PC business!

You can so do it! Glad to hear your daughter is doing better. Keep up the postive attitude, let it show through your parties you do, people should catch onto how positive you are about your business.

 

[acdugger]

My son also had pyloric stenosis. He had started having it really bad when my husband left for 2 weeks cause his mother almost died. I was a basket case. I was running on about an hour of sleep a day, washing 8 loads of laundry--due to the vomiting. (Oh, and my washer broke during those 2 weeks). I was so happy when they figured out what it was. Even though he had to have surgery there was an answer. Now he is great--except for right now he has the stomach bug. MORE VOMIT!
Andrea

 

[Christ Follower]

My PC GOALS:

Become Director by April 30th (June 30th at the latest)
Hold 8-10 shows a month
$3000-$5000 in sales per month
CC calls more consistantly
Lead by example
3-2-1 Consistantly

 

[ChefJoyJ]

It's similar, but pyloric stenosis is much more common. Her's was called an antral web. Try researching it on the internet - there's not much there! It was funny, b/c the pediatric surgeon who was meeting with us had to look it up and research it before coming in to talk to us about it. The hospital had only seen one come through in over 30 years (that's how long the chief of pediatric surgery had been there). It's a great research hospital too! Her symptoms mimiced reflux for the longest time...except as a first time mom, I didn't realize that she wasn't refluxing, but instead vomiting, until I finally figured out the definition. It wasn't projectile or violent, so that could be why I didn't clue in! The surgeon told me that they are going to write a medical paper on her and publish it, b/c most of the research on it is from the 70's and 80's.

It wasn't the muscle thickening, it was actually a membrane blocking. It was positioned near the pyloris. Sad part is, when they did the endoscopy to explore before surgery, the hole that was in the membrane allowing food to pass through was only the size of a pinhole!! So, bless her heart...no wonder she hurt all the time, vomited up her food, and was miserable - screaming and crying.

She's so funny - she's only in 3-6 month clothing with plenty of room to spare! (and she'll be 11 months in a week) You should see the looks she gets when cruising or walking around...

 

[ChefJoyJ]

My son also had pyloric stenosis. He had started having it really bad when my husband left for 2 weeks cause his mother almost died. I was a basket case. I was running on about an hour of sleep a day, washing 8 loads of laundry--due to the vomiting. (Oh, and my washer broke during those 2 weeks). I was so happy when they figured out what it was. Even though he had to have surgery there was an answer. Now he is great--except for right now he has the stomach bug. MORE VOMIT!
Andrea

Andrea - I'm so glad they figured it out and he is doing better! How old is he now?

Joy, my son had almost the same thing. It was called pyloric stenosis. The muscle between the stomach and small intestine grew really thick and eventually blocked food so he would vomit it also. He was textbook though, it usually shows up at around 4 weeks, and he was 4 weeks on the dot. We were lucky and he was diagnosed and had surgery all within a week.

I feel for you though. It was awful not knowing what the problem was and he would vomit so violently. It was so sad! Wow, that was so long ago now though, he is 20 months now! You would never know though, he is a little bruiser! My DH calls him Tank!

You will understand this though - the first surgery was exploratory and they were going to try to remove the membrane, but it was thicker and more tied into her stomach lining than they had originally thought, so we had to go in a week later for another surgery and they did a pyloroplasty, bypassing the pyloris, which is how they treat pyloric stenosis.

Did your son have to have a drainage tube come from his stomach out his nose? How pitiful was that???

 

[sfdavis918]

Did your son have to have a drainage tube come from his stomach out his nose? How pitiful was that???

He had the tube but instead of coming out the nose it came out of his mouth. It was awful. It kept backing out and we or the nurse would have to push it back in. The surgeon we had felt that having the tube go down the nose caused more damage to it so he prefered the mouth. We also didn't have the surgery until 36 hours after the tube was placed. So my poor little guy was basically starving! He would sleep some and then wake up crying because he was hungry. It was necessary though to give his stomach a break from all the vomiting.

Looking back on that short time frame makes me so sad. It was so awful to go through. That what doesn't kill you just makes you stronger, right??

 

[ChefJoyJ]

Luckily my little one didn't have the tube put in until after her surgery, before the recovery room. It was only supposed to be there for 2 days, but on day 2, she had a huge increase in the amount of fluid being drained, and some blood - that bought her another 36 hours of tube time and another 2 days in the hospital. She wasn't hungry, which surprised me...I guess her stomach was too traumatized to think of food.

She was also signifcantly older than your son, by 5 months...so could be why they went the nose route.

She was soo anorexic looking when we went in and left the hospital - she only weighed 11 lb, 8 oz when we left...you could count all her ribs , her arms were like twigs...it was sad. She did have some chunky cheeks though...so people didn't think I was starving her. She inherited those from her dad - he had them too when he was little, he hated them. Now he has some strong, high cheekbones.

 

[ChefJoyJ]

Okay - mini hijack over!

Back to goal setting now! :chef:

 

[acdugger]

My son is 22 months old now. I know Pyloric Stenosis is very common with first born boys. My son is adopted and he was the first born boy from his birthmom. I am glad you had doctors that finally figured out what your daughter had.

Good luck with PC. I just hit my 90 days at the end of December. I am loving it. My big problem is my husband doesn't want me to do it too much. I would love to do 2 shows a week. I love to cook and love to be around people so it is a perfect fit.

My goals for PC are:
consistency
getting on the phone
3-1-1 (only can do 1 show a week)
Becoming a director by end of year

Andrea

 

[jcsmilez]

Goals for 2008:


GET ORGANIZED!!!

* Promote to director: (Only 5 recruits to go!)
* Hold a minimum of 8 shows per month during school, 12 during the summer
* Increase monthly sales to $4000 consistently
* Earn at least level 2 Incentive Trip

... and I will be a very Happy Camper!