No Excuses

December 9, 2011 By 2 Comments

Good morning! I'm not going to make excuses about why it's been so long since I've written a post here on my blog.

Note: the picture here is 3 of our grandbabies and their cousin–we had the pleasure of having them spend the night a few weeks ago…we are also expecting 2 more granddaughters and are so excited about that! So we'll have 5 granddaughters and 1 grandson (sorry my little buddy).

I've been busy working with my partners and my team (not MLM).

February of this year I had 6 Filipino's on my outsource team and only me, myself, and I in my home office. Since then my team has increased; 12 Filipino's, 3 full-time State-Side employees, 2 State-Side virtual assistants, and 1 State-Side part-time assistant.

When I quit my job in October 2009 with an "I Quit" email I had one client–yup–one!

What a leap of faith, huh? Some would call it down-right stupid–to quit a job of 17+ years with free benefits to work for at the time 1 client. But I did and I have NEVER looked back. When I sit outside in the morning and watch the cars driving by my home–with folks who are headed to their J.O.B. I am so thankful for the relationships I have developed that allow me to take 10 more steps and walk into my home-office and do what I LOVE–every day–I am more and more thankful.

I know some of you reading this are thinking how cool that Holly can work from home–but I have to tell you the truth. It's NOT a 4-hour work week, I do have clients who expect (and rightly so) that we do what we say–when we say it. I probably work more hours now than I did when I worked at the school system!!!

BUT–I can and do take naps when I want or need to. I can and do take 2 or sometimes 3-hour lunch breaks! I can and do leave the office to run errands! I can and do take time to just do nothing–and I don't have to send someone an email that I am "out to lunch" or gone shopping!

I don't have to fill out a form and get approval from 5 different people in order to get paid when I'm off.

With this "freedom" I have the responsibility to pay my team on-time, pay my vendors on-time, and get the reports for clients finished on-time.

I can't leave work at work–it's staring me in the face every day. And because all of my State-Quit Your Full Time JobSide team are family members I consider myself responsible for their financial well-being!

Soooooo, before you go out and make the decision to QUIT your J.O.B.; remember, that even when you finally accomplish the life-long dream of working for YOU–you will still have responsibilities and dead-lines and have to be accountable to someone!

Me? I wouldn't trade it for the world–as a matter of fact, thinking that I would have to go back to a 9-5 and take breaks when I'm told, go to lunch when I'm told, work on days that I don't want to–makes me sick to my stomach!

So, I will continue to work hard for my partners and my clients and for my team!

Are you really ready to work for you?

Holly Powell

Filed Under: Leadership, Mindset, Work From Home

Productive Home Working Environment

April 30, 2010 By 3 Comments

I’m getting ready to go in the house and declutter…we’re having a yard sale tomorrow and we’re in the middle of a major remodeling project–so my house is a shambles.

But I wanted to shoot off a quick blog post before I go into the house and work.

Creating a productive home working environment can be accomplished with a few simple tips.

I’ve written a few posts about the clutter in our life and how it has a way of weighing us down. The same holds true in our business–we have downline members and yes sometimes upline, sideline members, and even business partners who bog us down with the constant phone calls, emails, hand-holding, etc.

I’ve eliminated a lot of that by sending most of my calls through my google voice–love this tool as I can read the message through my email–if it’s NOT important–I hit delete and it doesn’t hurt at all.

Some folks think everything is an emergency–it’s not I promise you. Most of the time the email and/or phone call questions can be answered if folks will go to their website and read the F.A.Q.’s or there is also this incredible tool called Google.

It’s funny when folks email me with How do I? If I don’t know the answer–I use the trusty Google search to find it–try it sometime–you’ll be amazed at the results.

OK I’m being a smart-a$$ here I know…

I have a friend who is an incredible marketer–I LOVE talking with her–we only talk about once every 8 weeks–but we get more accomplished in one 15-minute phone call than some folks do in 10 phones calls.

Do you find yourself with folks who email you constantly with questions and you answer every question immediately? Instead, wait a day–and answer ALL the emails in ONE email response.

OK so I’m headed into the house now–for the next 72 hours I will busy, busy, busy!!! I hope all of you have a super-great day!

Holly Powell

Filed Under: Mindset, Outsourcing

I Can Show You an I Can But I Can’t Show You I Can’t

February 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

A few years ago I had the pleasure of listening to Mamie McCollough and she talks about how she asked her students to bring cans to school–yes cans–any size, type–it didn’t matter.

She spent the evening cutting out eyes from magazines–the next day she asked her student to paste the eyes to the cans that they brought in…

The result? Everybody had an “I Can”

You can too…If you click on the Mamie’s website you’ll see that she has created a can label–you can use that.

Or if you’d like to have my designer create your very own “I Can” with your name and website on it…you can use paypal and send $10 to have my designer create your very own “I Can”!


My “I Can” is my desktop! So that’s what I see every morning and well so does my family.

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