As many of you know, we all like to have vendor fairs and online parties when you are in the online business scene. I think that there are many people that do not realize how real this life path really is, and there are some that will go out of their way to walk on you and take what is not theirs. Let me ellaborate a bit.

Sally is having a party representing ABC company, and Jane is also an affiliate or consultant with that same ABC company. Jane decides that she wants to private message everyone in the party room while you are presenting your products and working hard for your sales. What is Jane saying to all of the party goers? I will tell you, and it is appaulling.

“Hey, are you planning on ordering from Sally. If so, will you use my link so I can make the commissions?” Yep that’s right! She is hijacking Sally’s sales and with not a bit of hesitation. Sadly, I see this all the time, and I think it is very wrong. That is why I am writing this post. What Jane just did to Sally would be the same as walking into Sally’s in-home party and saying, “Forget Sally’s presentation….you should buy these products from me instead.” It is wrong, and it is unethical.

Think about your last online party. Where you successful? Did you get the response you had hoped for when clicking to enter the party room? Did everyone seem unusually quiet while you were presenting your products? YES? You may want to re-evaluate if you want to choose to do business with that party room.

See the problem that you run into is that so many people sign up with the same great online companies because you cannot pass up a company with a low or free start up cost. Therefore, they invite their friends, and they make new friends while they are at these functions. I say more power to them, and I am glad they are making friends. However, if they are not representing the company that they are hijacking from another WAHM, they need to just shut up and listen to their team member do a good job. Instead of working with Sally, Jane chose to go behind her back and steal her sales.

With all this said, I think it is important to say that I see this all the time while attending parties as a guest. Many of the moderators of the chat rooms will think they have the upper hand and try to steal your hard earned sales from you in a private message. This has to be stopped. You need to be aware who is around you when you have a party. You have paid your money to party in their room. You should be respected by the room owner and the other vendors. Don’t leave there feeling that you did not present your business well. You did your best….the problem is that you just had someone in the background taking your glory away.

Keep your chin up, and if you feel you have been a victim of having your sales hijacked, find a new party room to start over in. New people, new sales, and new friends that support you and want to be there for you.

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Click the link for Kelsey’s story. I had tears rolling down my cheek as I watched this video. Please pass this on to everyone you know….it could save a child’s life!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWow42TCwzg

That is what life is about to me….life, love, and happiness. In order for you to feel like you are worth something, it should not matter how large your pocketbook is. However, my problem is that this entire world revolves around money. My honey and I have been together for over 3 years now, and if something could have gone wrong….it has. That doesn’t matter though because, as long as we have each other, we are completely happy. Yes, it would be nice to be able to go out and fill up the bottom of the Christmas tree that we just haven’t been in the spirit to put up, but it is wonderful to be able to look at one another and know that tomorrow may be a better day. We pull ourselves out of every rut we run into, but it seems like that rut always has something to do with money or bills.

I wouldn’t change anything about our lives though….and that sounds completely insane….but..it is the truth. We can only do what we are doing and put our hearts and souls into and working our way to where we would be financially comfortable in order to make our kids happy. Our kids deserves to feel love and happiness along with having a good life. It is sort of a contradiction in terms since we are fine with the little money we have coming in that we would want our kids to have it all. However, shouldn’t they be as happy and loved as we are without the financial and material things that seems to mold our children in this era? You would think so, but I am here to tell you that no matter what you do there is always another kid at school that has better things than our kids do.

The sad part about the school scene is that our kids always want what the more fortunate kids have. For example, my daughter had lost her Christmas gift card from last year that my dad had sent for her. About a month ago, she found it, and we went to Wal-Mart to get groceries, and she wanted to shop too. She went to the girl’s section and picked out this really cute light green coat for the winter. She absolutely adored it, and she was really proud that she had bought something that she could wear all the time and actually use. The next day or so, she goes to school, and her friend had given her this ugly brown coat with the fur around the hood. The sleeves on this coat were too long for my petite little girl, yet she found it to be “cooler” than the jacket she had just bought for herself.

It frustrated me, and it makes me despise that darn brown coat. I just want to make it disappear! I tell her I hate it, and I ask myself, “Why are you saying this to your 11 year old daughter?” I just do not understand why it is a fashion show every single time she leaves the house to go to school. She gets upset at me because I have such a poor opinion of the coat, but it is not the coat that she was so proud of buying for herself and not something I would have ever let her purchase. I cannot pry it off of her nor talk her into giving it back to her friend. What is a mother to do in this situation…just stay out of it?

I have kinda strayed off the subject a bit….but life, love, and happiness is different for other people; and each person views these three feelings and experiences differently. I do not think that they have to be elements of money and material gain. I think it is a matter of human nature, and I am sure that as long as we all have each other that life will go on no matter what. With money or without money….we will survive and you will too.

The other day, my oldest daughter asks me if she can get an account with Myspace. She is only 11, and the thought of her being there is absolutely haunting for me. There are so many child predators, and Shy is so naive when it comes to chatting online. I just can’t let go of the umbilical cord, I guess, but she is my baby girl. What would you do if you were in my place, or what have you done if your children have asked you to have a Myspace? I could use all the advice I could get on the matter though. I want to let her express herself, but I don’t want her to have a profile on that site to do it. I feel like a hypocrite because I have a profile on Myspace, and Mike has one too. If I can protect her and keep her from harm, that is my job…so why is this haunting me so badly?

Robert Hawkins went into a mall and just started shooting randomly and then killed himself in an Omaha, Nebraska mall. It has been plastered all over the news, and I get daily stories pop up on my dashboard for my site and decided to talk about it a bit. According to the surveillance video, he walks into the store 2 times acting very strange. The first time he acts a little out of it, and the second time he walks in out of it but stays in the mall, takes the elevator, and then the next thing you see is all kinds of people running out of the mall. Can you imagine what all of those people that were shopping were thinking at that crucial moment? It is scary. You never know who is going to pop up in the middle of your life with a gun and start blowing people away just because of inconsistencies in their life. I do feel for his family and the life they have to live after Hawkins doing this to so many families, but I also feel ashamed of them for not hearing his cries for help. There are always signs, but no one sees the signs until the person has blown up something, shot someone, or committed some other horrific murder/crime.

I cannot believe all the people killing people anymore. It is seeming like a new trend to “off” yourself and take the anybody else that you can with you. Someone could have saved the people he killed and injured if they would have seen him cry out for help. The link to Hawkins’s suicide notes HERE.

I have many shows that I enjoy watching on television, and I have to tell you that some of them really touch my heart.  I am an emotional person, and some of these t.v. programs bring tears to my eyes and make me feel like I am there with them in every crisis, break up, and whatever else happens.  Some of the shows I enjoy watching is Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, October Road, Lost (which I can’t wait for it to come back in 2008), Women’s Murder Club, House, Bones, Prison Break, Numbers, NCIS, and all of the CSI shows (Crime Scene Investigation, Miami, and New York).  When these shows are on, I have no need for a computer or a telephone (which is a miracle if you knew me lol).  Do you also enjoy any of these shows?  Do you have other shows that you think I might like?  Which of these shows are your favorite?  Can you relate to one person in each of your favorite shows?  I feel so close to all of these shows and find them all very intriguing.

I cannot say out of all of them that I would chose any one of them over the other, but I do find myself more inclined not to miss episodes of Grey’s and October Road.  On Grey’s, Christina is my hero.  She is so strong and determined in making her dreams come true, and when she had her breakdown at the end of last season I absolutely lost it right along with her.  With October Road, I find myself relating to Janet when it comes to not fitting in and being with the legend.  However, I also relate to Nick as to why he left Knight’s Ridge.  Both shows make me feel like I am part of their family, and that is the recipe for a wonderful sitcom.

Another series that I never miss is my CSI shows.  I love all the science and the problem solving, and in each of the shows I relate to at least one person in the lab.  On Miami, I relate with Cali.  She is such a tough woman, but she can be so vulnerable.  On New York, I find myself relating to Stella because she has been through so much in her journey to become a CSI, and on Crime Scene Investigation, I always felt close to Catherine because of her shady past and the ability to get out of the gutters to make a life for herself.  They are all wonderful shows.

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This semester is almost over, and I will tell you that I forgot how much work is involved in getting good grades in college. It is finals the next two weeks in my four classes that I am taking, and I tell you….I am burnt out LOL I will be glad to get a few weeks break before we start again on the 4th of January. This semester I took Math with Business Applications, Microcomputer Applications, Computer Information Systems, and Practical Writing. At midterm, I had straight A’s because it was all going so easy…an assignment here and there. It seems like the teachers kind of piddled around the first 8 weeks, and the second 8 weeks they realized we were behind; then it was all over but the crying. Boy, have I cried a lot LOL. With that said, I better get back to work Thanks for reading….feel free to leave a comment.

Motivation is a huge part of being successful, and I try my hardest to be as motivated as possible. However, sometimes it is quite trial some to wake up and go directly into overdrive. Does that make any sense? I am a true insomniac, and I have suffered a bit with depression the past couple of week (finals are coming up at college and just feel down). Late hours and motivation to get up to start your day just do not go hand-in-hand, and every single time I get going on a good schedule, I mess it up. I started this blog to get my foot in the door, but I just cannot seem to get the traffic that I am looking for. The same goes for my forum. It can be a great thing, and I know it can. How do you get your foot in the door in order to be as motivated as everyone else is or more?

My questions for you are……..How do I get motivated again? What advice would you give to a friend that asks you to help them get motivated?