Day one of boot camp, oh boy

Oh my what a long day!!!! I never thought boot camp would be like this!lol To start this off I have to tell you what my plans were for the day. I had a doctors Appt. at 2pm, had to visit 2 different schools, a boot camp conference call at 11am and a webinar at 8pm. I also still work with NABCA and is the reason for visiting the schools and also the 8pm webinar. I don`t drive anymore so I take the city bus where ever I go. It can be challenging to say the least.

I started out this morning to visit one school and then come back home for the 11am boot camp conference call. As I was passing by a school I noticed no cars in the parking lot Hmmm, I make a call to a friend and ask if school was out today. To my surprise yep school is not only out today, but for the entire week because of Thanksgiving! Great, I get off at the next stop and figure hey 2 less things on my list for the day. So I patiently wait for the bus to return home in time for the boot camp conference call it would of worked out perfect except for the fact that the bus I was waiting for went right by me! Grrr I was upset to say the least I did not want to miss that call. There was no way I was going to make it home in time and I did not have the number with me. No it was still in an email and up above my computer at home so I would not forget.

Time to rethink things, I have got my laptop with me, just need a connection...scoping the terrain ah ha Mcdonald`s they have wifi right? Lets find out, walk in and ask and great they do but they charge for it 3 bucks for an hour! Hmm is 3 bucks worth 2000.00 a month in the next 60 days? Ah of course it is and I have about 5 mins now before the call. Takes me a few minutes to log on and get in my email to get the number and walah I`m hearing Ginny talking! Yahoo I did it!!! lol

The call was not what I expected, not really sure what I expected but it was not that. Basically came down to personally contacting(talking) to 5 people everyday and letting them know about boot camp and that I want to help them create 2000.00 a month in 60 days as well. Should not be to hard I thought, I did say I would jump out of my comfort zone. Well while Ginny was talking I`m looking around at the people in McDonald`s thinking hey I could just yell, Excuse me everyone I have something that I need to share with all of you and I I could share this with everyone in the place. Well the envision was there, but after the call and the inspiration that it gave me I still could not do it! Grrr I have a shyness problem that I have been working on and this was not going good for me. I have got like 15 minutes before I have to catch my ride to my next appt. and it was easy to tell myself I did not have enough time anyway.

So here I am on my way to the doctors and I`m turning those wheels in my head how I am going to pull this off. Wow I have great ideas! If I could just get past this fear and do them! Ok I`ll talk to the girls at my doctors I tell myself. Talked myself out of that one easily. I`m on county insurance, they know this, they also no that I am not working. What are they going to think when I tell them about this,ahh no not going to happen. So as I sit in the little waiting room I`m thinking what else can I do. Another great idea! The next bus has to stop at the mall and I have to get off and catch a different one, so I will go into starbucks (my favorite) they have free wifi and I could be online right there and share this with who knows how many people. Great got a plan now and I`m going through with it.

Well I get to starbucks, order my Cafe mocha and politely ask the cashier if there wifi is up and running? Well since I haven`t been to a starbucks in over 6 months I did not know that they now not only charge for it, but you have to sign up and register for it and it takes 24 hours before you can log in! things are not going to plan so I sit scope it out and drink and leave. I catch my bus back home, get there at about 5:30pm. I check my emails, make a few calls and just taking care of things but I still have in my mind that I need to contact 5 people, get there name, email and phone number and I`m not sure exactly how I am going to do this but the grocery store is looking real good about now!

Hey I forgot to check my mail (usps)lol. Wow whats this? I got a tube in the mail and check this out it`s from Ginny!!! Frantically I try and open this thing up like there is something in there that is going to solve all my problems.(it was a pain to open) What is this, beans? I thought she said beams on the phone! lol And there are two papers here as well. As I stood there and read those words I felt an overwhelming sense of what had to be done and I knew I had to do it if I was ever going to make this boot camp the reality of what it is. I have to.

I immediately go to the website and get the invitations ready to print with my computer, print them out on regular paper, cut them with scissors, throw them in a little notebook I have. copy,paste and cut Ginny`s example script and I tape it to the first page in the notebook just in case I get lost. I feel like I`m crazy at this point so I can only imagine what you could be thinking right now reading this. Ok where am I going to go? It`s night time getting later quickly and I have got to make a move if I`m ever going to. There are three things that are open at this time across the street 2 blocks away. A convenience store, laundry mat. dollar general, oh and a pet hospital but I never see anyone there. Out the door I go, first stop the convenience store. I know the people in there can not speak English to well, but I figure I`ll get my feet wet with them first. As I`m pulling the front door to the store open, I look to my right and see a young lady standing there in scrubs smoking a cigarette. I say hello and she replies nicely, I pause and say to myself this is it JUST DO IT!! I walked right up to her and introduced myself and followed the script as for what I remembered of it. Well when I asked can you do me a favor she immediately said no! What? That's not how it`s supposed to happen! I stayed with it. Are you for real I say? She says yes I don`t even know you. I smile and continue with what I have to say and also got some pointers on my dog and cat. (she works at the pet hospital next door)

WOOHOO!!!! I got my first contact!!! Man I`m ready now I walk in to the store and basically didn`t get two words out before the Arabic man said not now I am busy. Ok the laundry mat! As I am walking to it I say ah lets go to the dollar general first. I get 2 doors past it and stop. I`m procrastinating. I turn around and see a guy walking into the laundry mat. Excuse me can I ask you a favor? Sure he says. I say lets go inside. I get in there and I told him what was up and I did it as loud as I could as to let everyone there know what was going on. Bam 2 more contacts!!!
The others there, one was on the phone and the other was a Chinese man who I wrote off as I thought he would not speak the language. I head over to dollar general, get there talk to the only person I see and get the not interested plea. Ok I`m screwed I have got to get at least 2 more people tonight! Ya you guessed it, back to the laundry mat!

The young lady who was on the phone was off of her call now and I approached her, she had heard everything I said to the other people and wanted to give me her information! Wow! I`m thinking that Chinese man, well he might speak English better than me!lol I make my approach, I`m not going to say this was easy, he had a hard time understanding me and kept saying nothings easy. Boy did I know that! I agreed with him, took some time to explain just enough to get him interested and there you have it folks, I now have my 5!!! For today anyways. Tomorrow is a whole new day and as I am thinking about it now I don`t think it will be as hard as it was today but you will just have to come back tomorrow and find out!:) Wow you know what I just realized? I am going to help those people I talked to today do exactly what I said I was, help them to succeed. Goodnight!