8 Free Tips. The Truth about handcare.

Look at your hands now and tell yourself what you see? Beautiful and gorgeous hands are so important. Hands tell everything about yourself, how you live your life and love your body. They say that hands give a woman's age away, well so what! But gorgeous hands are carriers of your personality, no matter in what situation and age you are. You may wear fancy designer clothes; imagine negative effects if you combine these fancy clothes with abandoned hands. Look around you and see how hands are centre of communication. At a party, or even a job interview, your hands are your business card. Your hands are ultimate tool invented ever, but you don’t realize how important these tools are. You just use them all day; Shaking hands, cooking, doing your hair, feel, touch, work, write. Endless, think about this for a second. And decide now, no matter what your age is, to treat them as your treasure.

From Corporate America to Work at home mom… who knew it would be a promotion?

When my daughter was born, I had no second thoughts about going back into work place. After all, I had spent 6 years in college getting both a bachelors and masters degree in field I had wanted to make my career. I spent many years in prison system as a mental health counselor for medium security male inmates. I enjoyed what I did, but in back of my mind I was always thinking, is this really it for me? Is this really what I want to do with rest of my life? Do I really want to be working for someone else? When my daughter was about 18 months old, I started thinking more about leaving corporate America and branching out on my own. I jumped at first direct sales option that came along without doing research, what a mistake. In end, I think it cost me more than I had earned and I was still in same career I was trying to get out of. My husband, although very supportive of my desire to get out of workplace and be able to be home to raise our daughter, said this to me, “honey, you can do whatever you like as long as you are happy and you are earning money.” We have a lifestyle that we enjoy, so if I were to leave workplace and my salary was gone, we would have had serious financial issues and that scared me. What if I caused our family to be out on street because of my selfish desire to be an at home mommy?

In end of 2002 I decided to make a serious effort to be home with my daughter and have my own company generating an income for our family. The only thing was, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I had heard about different direct sale companies over years, but for some reason everyone I knew that was involved with them was still in corporate America in one way or another as they were only making enough to provide a little extra. I was seeing these people working 40 hours for someone else PLUS 10-20 hours for themselves giving them a small financial gain and less time to spend with their families. This was not what I was striving for.

Then in early 2003 answer came to my door, literally. I received a jewelry catalog from a friend in another state. She was selling this jewelry and was passing catalog on so I could see what she was offering (and buy something of course). I glanced at catalog and realized I wanted a lot of jewelry that was in it. As I read through it, I saw a paragraph about earning money and immediately called my friend. I wanted to know more about it. She gave me information and it was great – 50% on my orders immediately, low start up cost, all items guaranteed and company was over 20 years old, I was sold! I talked to everyone I know and generated an order for my start-up costs. From there things went slowly but steadily upwards. I was still working in corporate America, but each month I was getting more and more customers and my confidence was growing. I was also able to take my daughter with me when I did my home shows, which made this even more appealing, plus it was nice to be able to get her that special something she wanted when we went to toy store. She and I were spending our weekends together as my company began to grow. In summer of 2003, my husband got word that he was being offered a promotion. However, this also meant we were going to be transferred. At first, thought frightened us, but then we realized that this was not only a great opportunity for him, but if all went well this could be answer to growing my business even larger as we were moving from a small rural area to a large city which would have an incredible client base. For next few months, I worked my fingers to bone, marketing my products and doing research on how to increase my visibility and income. My bookings increased as did my return customers, and I began to really hear what they were saying. As people can only buy so much jewelry for themselves, I heard my customers saying “I’m going to get this for my daughter…my friend…my boss.” I soon realized that many of them were buying these items as gifts. My mind started working overtime gifts need cards, why should my customers have to go to a store for their cards? I could offer those as well. The end of 2003 was fast approaching, and move was drawing near, I acted fast and decided to do research on expanding my offerings.