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Don't feel like blogging tonight. This is a picture of my dart score. I'm pretty good at darts. I suppose it is because I played darts a lot when I was in Korea.

Resolve

Here's what I did right today:
1. Read my Bible
2. Read Psalm 91
3. Read personal affirmation
4. Read faith card
5. Read 15 pages of success principle book
6. Listened to CDs.
7. Prayed

I got distracted today. Instead of going out and meeting new people (which is part of my Franklin 13), I went to my friend's house to say hello to his wife and play with their baby girl.

She is a cutie and so creamy and chunky. I can't imagine what it's like to have to leave her every morning. I've got to be like a pit bull in a dog fight to get this thing done. I'm not married and I don't have children but when I get married, I want my husband and I to be able to be full-time parents.

I want other couples to have that, too. If I can help people have a better life, then that's my mission.

A march in March

Here's what I did right today:

1. Read my Bible
2. Read Psalm 91
3. Read personal affirmation
4. Read 15 pages of success principle book
5. Listened to CDs
6. Prayed

I'm not doing so good on my Franklin 13. I need to add my Franklins to my to do list. This week's Franklin 13 is Resolve. I couldn't bring myself to approach 5 people. There was some kind of march in remembrance of Trayvon Martin.

I lost my mood and just wanted to walk around. And as usual, the Thug couldn't resist saying something to me. I wish I were a much meaner person sometimes as I would have the guy take a picture of himself with a smartphone with a front facing camera and tell him to look at the picture while I describe what I see when I look at him. What do I see? A chronically unemployed, want to be a baby daddy instead of husband, one incredibly stupid decision away from prison THUG. A compliment coming from his sort is not a compliment.

I'm done with my rant.

Movies and daily goals

I didn't write about what I did right yesterday. I still did most of what I've set out to do daily, I just didn't write about it. The good thing is, I have other ways of keeping metrics on my progress other than my blogs.

To continue blogging my progress, today I:

1. read my Bible daily
2. read Psalm 91
3. read 15 pages of success principles book
4. read my faith card
5. prayed
6. read my personal affirmation
7. Listened to CDs

Still dropping the ball on approaching 5 people a day and Kate. But not bad. I need to work on my questions. Write them all out and figure out when to use each one.

Now, about The Hunger Games, it was a good movie. I was surprised by the plot. I went into the movie not knowing what it was about and was surprised I wax entertained. It was somewhat disturbing because it was young people having to go through that, but as time passes more and more sinister things will happen in the world.

I must retire and get my sleep. I have a long drive tomorrow.

Trayvon Martin

Not sure what all the fuss is over the Trayvon Martin case, but it is yet another example of what's wrong in the black community (the BC).

One crazy white man kills a teenaged black kid and the BC goes into an uproar. Mean while, everyday in this country a teenaged black kid will be killed at the hands of another teenaged black kid. But you won't hear the BC get upset over that. As long as they kill each other they don't have issues but let a white man kill one of them and all hell breaks loose.

It's just like Muslims getting upset because someone like Glenn Beck uses Muslim and terrorist in the same sentence but when a Muslim suicide bomber actually attempts to blow something up, you don't hear a peep from Muslims.

I don't like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. I think they create more problems than they've ever helped solve. They make every case about racism. Even if Zimmerman is the newest blood thirsty racist, it doesn't change the fact that the number one killer of black men is black men. Where's the racism in that? Why are Jackson and Sharpton protesting about that? Why do they jump on the rare incidences instead of jumping on the common occurrences?

Franklin 13

Here's what I did right today:

1. Read my Bible
2. Read my personal affirmation
3. Read 15 pages of success principle book
4. Listened to CDs
5. Read faith card
6. Prayed
7. Read Psalm 91

I felt really congested today. My sinuses made it impossible to feel enthusiastic about anything. Enthusiasm was last week's Franklin 13. This week's Franklin 13 is resolution. I need to "Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve." I'm not sure I have complete understanding of this Franklin 13 but I will need to get rejected 5 times tomorrow or die trying. It should be easy. Increasing my NOs gets me closer to my YESes.

Colds and such

I went to the movies with a friend last night. We saw The Hunger Games. It was a good movie. A little twisted seeing children kill each other.

I've been in bed all day with a cold. I hate being sick.

Now back to what I did right today.

1. Read my Bible
2. Read Psalm 91
3. Listened to CDs
4. Read 15 pages of success principle book
5. Prayed
6. Read faith card
7. Read personal affirmation
8. Made 1 phone call.

I don't know if my prospect was serious about seeing the business opportunity, but I got her voice mail.

I should have practiced what I was going to say in case I got her voice mail.

I must get going tomorrow on getting rejected. I'll be in the mall tomorrow meeting up with some singles. I hope I have fun.

Rejection Saga

Here's my progress for today:

1. Read my Bible
2. Read my faith card (only once, should be reading three times a day).
3. Read 15 pages of success principle book.
4. Read Psalm 91
5. Listened to CDs
6. Read personal affirmation.
7. Approached three people-got two NOs and one YES.

Still having a hard time being bold.

I practiced my smile today at church. I was a greeter and someone noticed I handed out the programs with a smile. I also remembered the name of someone I met in church a while back. I remembers her name because she has Sisterlocks.

I also managed to get the names of two new people at church. Sanford and Gwen. Easy to remember not sure if I'll remember their faces as it was some what dark and I couldn't see the details of their faces.

What I did right

Here's a run down of what I did right today:

1. I read my Holy Bible.
2. I read Psalm 91
3. I read personal affirmations
4. Read 15 pages of success principle book.
5. Read faith card.
6. Prayed.
7. Listened to CDs

Not bad. I need to improve this. I still need to Kate and get my five rejections. Once I master this list, I'll be on my way to retirement in no time.

I lost my temper though and I wasn't remotely enthusiastic about much of anything. I need to get more sleep during the week and eat before going to bed if I fast during the day.

Rejection at the farmer's market

I approached two persons today. Both said NO. I was tired and couldn't muster the energy I needed to continue.

One lady had been involved with Visalus. She said she didn't have it in her to sell or approach people. The second person(s) was a couple. I wish I had typed their names. I wasn't impressed with the guy. He doesn't mind pimping his wife. Married for 5 years she is a nurse or trying to be and he works for his dad's business.

Then I met D. He owns a stand and wants to branch out in the future. The perfect candidate for building a business. I will have to stop by next week and get rejected by him.

I need to work on my questions. I need to work on being bolder. I think I'll go to the mall Saturday. Or Trikke down Lancaster Blvd.

Tired of blogging already

I can't believe I'm burned out on blogging! It seems when you have to stop for a few days, it's hard to get back into it. I must find the time to get some good posts up. I'm sick of posting pictures. This ain't no photo journal.

Love

Sleeping

I'm going to bed. I'll try to post something tomorrow.

Post-snow Sunday

Snow Saturday

With Jesus

Stumbles

Sitting outside Bex waiting for folks to show up. The sucky part. Will they come or will they no show. At least one member called to let me know he wouldn't make it.

Need to get done more stuff on the calendar.

I chickened out again. I only asked one person today. My attempts to get over my fear of rejection is proving difficult. When I arrived at the farmers market, there was music and many people. I saw a diamond and I should have jumped out of my car to ask. Action cures fear. Plain and simple. I can't let my stumbles get to me. Why am I so excited at work and then I freeze up when it comes time to get it done?

What I'm Reading

I'm rereading the Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. It's a great book. I recommend reading it if you want to make a change in your life but want to do it on an incremental basis.

The other book I'm reading is the Holy Bible. I suggest you read it even if you are not Christian.

Rejection

It seems difficult to get rejected or at least I would like to get rejected by people who would make me feel bad. I flaked out today. It seems to be rather challenging just finding people. They are either just busy working because people don't just naturally mill around in this city. There's no place to mill around. People are doing something but not enjoying themselves.

I will have to analyze my situation and map out my plan of action for maximizing my time out and about. Going to the places with the biggest turn out of people. It will eliminate the needless wandering I've been doing today. I ended up spending money I hadn't intended.

Oh, how I need to get on it and get it done so I can do other things. Get away from the mediocre. I'm going to try to get at least one rejection before I leave this restaurant.

Rejection quota

I went to work on my rejection quota today. My goal was to approach 5 people to get a NO, a name (and number), or show a napkin plan. I did not get the five rejections I was hoping for. I was rejected only three times and showed the napkin plan once. The guy said he wants to see a more polished presentation, so I have to call him and schedule a plan with him and his wife.

Not bad for my first day. My nerves were really bad and if I hadn't told my mom I was making pot roast, I would have gone for another rejection. I'm thinking I'm going to up the ante and start asking women if they would like to come to a spa cafe.

So my quota for today is as such:
3 NOs
1 STNP

I should have gone after one more No just to make it 5.

I will have to work on it tomorrow as this is a daily habit I want to continue to do. I can't buy my mom a house and myself a new used car if I don't.

Taxes

I spent the day getting all if my receipts together for my appointment with my tax preparer. I didn't realize it would take all day but it did. I still have to add my plane fares but it will have to wait until next Sunday when I get back from ladies retreat.

To ensure things go easier next year with getting my documentation, I'm going to stick with adding my expenses to my spreadsheet. I'm so glad Numbers is now on the iPhone. I always have my phone on me. I'm up to date for 2012. Let's hope I can keep this up for the rest of the year.

Denny's

I discovered my new favorite place to hang out and read/plan. Denny's is open 24/7. And they have free Wi-fi! It totally beats paying $4 for some disgusting coffee mocha crapo nonsense that will only give me gas later just to sit and relax.

I literally spent all day there. I went at 10:30 to study and reserve some tables for my Bible study fellowship that started at 1:00 pm. After that, I went to get my tires rotated then I went to church. Now I'm back at Denny's ready to read through The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson and finish up my action plan and affirmation.

If my action plan isn't perfect by the time I leave tonight, it will have to do. I can always revise it later.

I'm going to go home in a few as I'm tired and I want to get some sleep so I can do what I need to do tomorrow.

Pages

My iPad was not fully charged so I was unable to work on a document I need to get done before Sunday.

The good news is, I was able to work on my plan of action and my personal affirmation on my phone. I just paired up the Bluetooth keyboard I bought for my iPad, opened up Pages on my iPhone and started typing away. Pages is a great app for creating documents but it has one limitation-bullets.

I tried to create a B bullet for a section of my plan of action but was unable to because my A bullet had numbered bullets. When I hit enter twice to try to start a B bullet, the bullet would become an A bullet. I can't have two A bullets in one section! Other than that little quirk, using Pages on my iPhone was a pleasure.

I got a third of the way done with my affirmation. I will finish it up tomorrow when I meet with my bible stuffy group at Denny's. I must get home and make something to eat. I'm starving.

Get it done

I have to keep telling myself I can do this. I can do this. It is do easy to be friendly at work but when I get off work, I can barely muster the enthusiasm I had at work.

I'm at the farmers market and I'm beat. All I want to do is go to sleep. Should I have gone home first? No I am where I'm supposed to be. I just need to grow some balls and get it done.

Get it done, Shavonne. What have you got to lose? Get it done, Shavonne. The most people will say is No.

Karaoke

I went out to meet someone for karaoke. I like karaoke. I can't sing but that's why I like karaoke. You don't have to be a good singer, you just have to like singing.

I hope the food is good. I've never eaten at Primo's Cafe. I'll need to pray the food won't make me sick.

Windy

I was on the road all day. I'm so tired. The wind made my drive more stressful than usual. Oh how I hate windy days.

What's up with the weather in California? Whenever we have a beautiful day, the next day is absolutely dreadful. My throat is sore and I have postnasal drip.

I'm going to bed now.

Cars and delis.

More car troubles. I had to put my truck in the shop. I have no choice but to get another car because I can't rely on the one I have anymore.

The good side, I got to eat at a deli (The Brooklyn Deli). I had been meaning to try for the longest. The food was great. I don't eat the bread of my corned beef sandwich but it was still good. The chips were awesome. Nice and crispy and made on site. And they gave me three pickles! Three! Most places only give you one but they were generous.

Dream building

Went to the car dealership to do some dream building. I've had my eye on the Ford Edge since I test drive it almost a year ago. It's still my first choice for a car if I had the cash to buy it. That's the only way I could think to buy a car. I hate car notes.

I need to do my research because if I had to buy a car in the next few months, I want something small. I'm tired if big cars. But I still want a Ford Edge.

Disneyland

Just a walk away from Disneyland. I'm not a fan of Disneyland. It wasn't something that got me excited. I preferred Six Flags but the last time I went, I was too scared to get on the rides.

Much needed sleep is in the works

I just wanted to post a little something before going to bed.

I just finished Pscho-Cybernetics. It was a difficult read. I'm going to start reading The Power of Potential by Edwin Louis Cole. It looks like a good read. I'm also going to reread The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson. I really enjoyed the Olson book and I look forward to reading the revised version.

I best get to reading so I can be in the bed by 8:30 pm. Good night.

Busy

I've been wanting to do more serious posts but haven't the energy. I've got a lot going on and things just seem to take up my time. I still haven't gotten my taxes done. I been too lazy to sit down and go through my receipts. I will need to get through some of it this Sunday and finish up next weekend.

I'm going to have a long day tomorrow so I better get some sleep.

Good night.