BUT I CAN'T GET OUT. The practically supernatural deception that keeps you repeating your mistakes and locked in fear.
In my opinion, we have been seduced by a power bigger than we can even imagine. And in order to prevent it from happening again, and to hopefully help in the de-fogging process, a walk down memory lane might offer some clarity.
When we first walked through the doors, we did feel the awkward environment... didn't we? We felt the possibility of being pressed into or cornered into making a decision to join. But the environment was so benign it seemed. So harmless. Girls just wanna have fun. These women already knew how to do something. They acted like they would continue on whether we wanted to join or not. These women had it mapped out. The way was clear. All we had to do was follow. All we had to do was follow.
“…we are going to have to take some risks. And that includes all of you reaching out beyond your comfort zone and holding more classes. I only wish we had Mary Kay here to lead the way again and show everyone it can be done. And that’s when I did something risky…I said, “Well, what if I held 10 classes in one week during the month of August?” And then I thought, “Oh no, who will I get to host them?”
So saith Mary Kay Ash’s corporate-suited grandson Ryan Rogers at Seminar 2010. How on earth will Mary Kay’s “VP of Strategic Initiatives” (now there’s a vague title if ever I saw one) find ten people to host ten classes? Oh, how we all wish Mary Kay Ash was here to lead the way! But she’s not! And Halloween is still two months away and one of the NSDs has the company’s Ouija Board signed out again, so you can just scratch that idea!
As an award winning top personal recruiter in another multi-level marketing company, this was my experience.
For every SEVEN new customers I added to my customer base: I signed only ONE new recruit. (I know, I know... make-up MLM is an easier sell. You all kicked my butt at recruiting!)
For every TEN qualified consultants I recruited (who placed a first inventory order): FOUR would quit before the end of the year.
For that same TEN consultants I recruited on my team: Only FOUR would duplicate themselves by accidentally, or with my help, recruiting someone else
For those that aren't familiar with the MRS. CAB recruiting script, it is an acronym designed to show potential recruits the reasons why women join Mary Kay: Money, Recognition, Self-Confidence and Personal Growth, Cars, Advancement, and Be Your Own Boss.
When we are in the Pink Bubble, we are taught to avoid negativity, with Pink Truth being cited directly as a huge bad thing, or at least alluded to as being poison. It is not. Negativity as defined by the Mary Kay world is anything that may cause you to doubt the company, your nsd, or your director. Most of you have been to meetings and were told to leave your bad thoughts, the day's activities, or anything that wasn't wonderful at the door and enter the pink bubble.
I want you to think about this. Mary Kay asks you to stop negative thoughts ("Cancel, Cancel") never discuss product non-performance, classes that didn't hold, people who were dodging your calls, your inability or unwillingness to warm chat, withholding evidence of no show/no sale appointments from the people closest to you, the amount of your debt, fear you feel about your business, the push to recruit and to finish that star, the pressure to attend events, the MK dress code.
Just follow that line of thought, I know the list is much longer.
I hitched my wagon to a Star, showed up to go up, prayed to widen my territory and be kept from evil, polished up my attitude by cancel, cancel, canceling my negative thoughts and I still landed in a crap heap with double digit interest rates!
God is good. Today I get to look at this Mary Kay business with an amusing chuckle. Now I am not saying this "stage" will last long... but for now, God has given me a reprieve from the pain, sadness, guilt, shame and anxiety of Living the Mary Kay dream! After all it is a dream... they weren't lying!
The Star I "hitched to" was another consultant in my Unit who was always up front getting ribbons. She was awesome. She gave me hope! Cause after my perfect start-perfect stop, I wondered if I could ever get a booking again. She was always working her biz, and reaping the rewards. I ran into her a few years back. She has been gone from the biz for many years and I thought gee, she made it work, I should ask her exactly how she did it all, back then.
The truth is that can't stay at home with your children and make a living at Mary Kay. It takes lots and lots of time away, no matter what they tell you when they're trying to recruit you.
You can (not) have it all.
One of the many myths of a Mary Kay business is that women can quit their horrible JOBs (often referred to as Journey Of the Broke) and stay home to raise their children and have an executive income while doing so. This is powerful motivation to hand over the $100 and get started. The reality, of course, is very different.
The dream is to have a home based business, be home with the kids when they are home, and schedule business activities when they are gone. It sounds so easy! So workable! So flexible!
Written by Lazy Gardens
Mary Kay Ash said, "A woman who will tell her age will tell anything." She never told her age. She also never mentioned other details that might have interfered with her carefully crafted public image as the plucky divorced single mother of three from the wrong side of the tracks who founded a cosmetics company to give women like her a chance. Somewhere, somehow, she managed to lose track of two of her five husbands.
Hello! And thank you all so much! Wow, I never thought I would be on this fantastic Seminar Stage with all my sister Sales Directors and Consultants in this wonderful arena! Where do I start?
This is only half of the stage, and I apologize for the poor quality, but this picture of the Diamond debuting directors was taken with a phone. Diamond has always been one of the better seminars for number of director debuts. But check it out.... numbers are only about half of the prior year!!! Click "read more" to see pictures going back to 2006.
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