I had the pleasure yesterday of listening to two top new associates in Fl-E, Kevin Stewart and Jeremiah Benson...There was nothing flashy, pretentious, arrogant or frankly all that special about these two gentlemen..
I promise you I say the proceeding statement with utmost respect.
I do not mean they were not special people. In fact, they seem like two of the most genuine kind men I have heard speak lately.
What I am speaking to is they didn't have some hidden talent or secret to their success. They weren't hoarding or concealing some secret formula from the rest of us normal folk.
They were just hard working and passionate about what they do.
In the words of Kevin Stewart to be successful with aflac he related it to being as easy as making instant pancakes...with the dry pancake mix you just add water and with AFLAC you "just add work".
I love that...so simple and so true..."just add work".
Jeremiah said repeatedly that his secret was to remember at the end of the day he had people at home counting on him to provide so he gave his very best.
They both credited their hierarchy for training and systems like lease, success trax and winners edge, but at the end of the day, the most important ingredient for success is to "just add work"!
Will you "just add work" to your recipe...If so I know you can achieve success beyond your wildest dreams with this company..."Just Add Work"!
I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the superstars form Team Epic week 3...It was evident these associates "just added work"!!!!!
Team Epic Victories:
Nickie Fleming #1 associate in Region...#1 in state...way to go Nickie!!!
Mark Morgan #2 associate in Region...#3 in state...awesome!!!
Kristi Foret #3 associate in Region..#6 in state...incredible!!!
Karen Carroll #4 associate in Region...# 12 in state...fantastic!!!!
Corina Lechin #5 associate in Region...#13 in state...unbelievable!!!
Jeanne Coker # 1 DSC in Region...#1 DSC in State...Super Fantastic!!!
Mark Lee #2 DSC in Region...#5 in State....amazing!!!
A huge Congratulations goes out to Corina Lechin and Cody Dawson who hit their fast start awards this week...congratulations...you are both on your way to the top!!!
A special thank you goes out to my top nominators from the region...Mark Morgan...4 nominations, Dana Clark...2 nominations and John Claypool 1 nomination....you guys rock!!!!! and you are one step closer to eligibility to win regional contest!!!
Thank to the entire team...we had a great week with over $81,000 issued business, 2 fast starts, 1 new account validated, 7 nominations and many solid appointments set.
I understand that your name may not be on the list because you were out prospecting and filling your funnel instead of enrolling this past week, I say thank you for your efforts and "just adding work"... it will pay off soon and your name will be on this list soon...rest this weekend and beginning Monday "Just Add Work"!
Cathy
The Volcano Region
"This Baby's about to erupt"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
My upside down day!!!
Have you ever just had one of those days??? You get out of bed and everything seems normal. It seems like it's just another day and then it begins... You get a cup of coffee and it's not quite warm enough so to make it perfect you put it in the microwave. With anticipation you smell the aroma as the cup rises towards your mouth and then when just when its close enough you can taste it, the cat that you couldn't live without, decides that at that very moment there is nothing he wants more in life than to be in your lap. The freshly brewed, then microwaved for extra heat , coffee that you were about to enjoy is now all over the newly pressed shirt you were planning to wear...not to mention the red marks from you favorite cup of coffee that is now running down your hands, arms and just about everywhere.
It didn't strike me then but somewhere there must have been a comedian laughing and saying "here's your sign"....today's going to be one of those days...lol
Well I am happy to say it did get better...pretty uneventful actually..until I got back to the office that is.
You know I am pretty good a being prepared for things. I am kind of anal about it actually. I will work for days ,sometime weeks perfecting a plan or a presentation. I will write rough drafts, gather data, have organized thoughts and then when I am finally ready I put all the pieces together to create what is to me, my masterpiece of the moment.
Today it was my business plan. Okay I know what you are thinking ,why didn't you already have your plan completed??? Besides, I asked you all to turn in your plans over a week ago. Well I did...but in my own particular fashion, I decided I would make it better, tweak it just a little, give just a bit of the "Cathy" flavor. Actually I guess you could say I wanted to drees it up in cha cha heels so it could walk just a little taller.
You can probably guess that the hex that was haunting me in the morning, the one I thought was long gone, suddenly appeared again. The document was perfect...just my style with all the confidence a plan needs for the 10Th anniversary year of the duck...click, save, smile and print....click, smile, print, click not smile, print, click, panic, print. Nothing was happening. Okay I admit, I am somewhat challenged with technology but even I know when you click, save and hit print. What I am looking at on my screen is supposed to magically come through perfectly on my printer. I even called in reinforcements...that didn't help matters either. On the contrary...now my usually friendly printer is spitting out papers at me with a vengeance. I think it was possessed....literally. Have no fear being the technical wizard I am, I hit some button (I have no idea which one) and it printed out beautifully, magically just like it was supposed to in the beginning.
It was almost ticking 5 o'clock and I had a couple more items I had to get off my desk. Tapping away at the computer, the keys on my keyboard began sticking. My bright idea was maybe I should take the batteries out and put them back in really fast in hopes that it would magically start working again.
I flipped it over, took out the batteries and put them back in....when I flipped the keyboard back over something unexplained happened...my computer desktop (well the view anyway) at that moment turned upside down... I glared at it for a second almost in disbelief..it was the strangest thing I seen lately. My start button was not upside down at the top of my screen and when I typed everything was opposite of of how it was supposed to be. Now I am sure I am not the only person this has happened to. I am sure there is an explanation but at that moment with the clock ticking away and with two things I really needed to complete, I had to make a choice. Either I walk away and leave it for another day or I sit, stare and become increasingly frustrated. I could try and complete a "right side up" job with an "upside down" attitude. It was at that moment a tough choice had to be made. I really wanted to finish the work...the fact is I NEEDED to finish the work but what I realized was if I forced myself to keep going when all signs were pointing to stop, The job I would have ultimately completed, would have been incomplete.
I know that you've had those kind of days. What job have you tried to do when you really had no business doing it...at least not in that moment anyway. I have always said it is better to take the time to get in the right frame of mind so you can go out and do your work and represent us at your best...I found out today just how hard that advice is to actually take. I took it, I walked away, I called it a day and I challenge you to do the same...God permitting tomorrow is another. The work we must do will still be there waiting for us, like an old friend, it will be there. The difference will be us...we will approach it with joy and pride not as a task that we just need to check off our list.
Good night and God bless!!!
It didn't strike me then but somewhere there must have been a comedian laughing and saying "here's your sign"....today's going to be one of those days...lol
Well I am happy to say it did get better...pretty uneventful actually..until I got back to the office that is.
You know I am pretty good a being prepared for things. I am kind of anal about it actually. I will work for days ,sometime weeks perfecting a plan or a presentation. I will write rough drafts, gather data, have organized thoughts and then when I am finally ready I put all the pieces together to create what is to me, my masterpiece of the moment.
Today it was my business plan. Okay I know what you are thinking ,why didn't you already have your plan completed??? Besides, I asked you all to turn in your plans over a week ago. Well I did...but in my own particular fashion, I decided I would make it better, tweak it just a little, give just a bit of the "Cathy" flavor. Actually I guess you could say I wanted to drees it up in cha cha heels so it could walk just a little taller.
You can probably guess that the hex that was haunting me in the morning, the one I thought was long gone, suddenly appeared again. The document was perfect...just my style with all the confidence a plan needs for the 10Th anniversary year of the duck...click, save, smile and print....click, smile, print, click not smile, print, click, panic, print. Nothing was happening. Okay I admit, I am somewhat challenged with technology but even I know when you click, save and hit print. What I am looking at on my screen is supposed to magically come through perfectly on my printer. I even called in reinforcements...that didn't help matters either. On the contrary...now my usually friendly printer is spitting out papers at me with a vengeance. I think it was possessed....literally. Have no fear being the technical wizard I am, I hit some button (I have no idea which one) and it printed out beautifully, magically just like it was supposed to in the beginning.
It was almost ticking 5 o'clock and I had a couple more items I had to get off my desk. Tapping away at the computer, the keys on my keyboard began sticking. My bright idea was maybe I should take the batteries out and put them back in really fast in hopes that it would magically start working again.
I flipped it over, took out the batteries and put them back in....when I flipped the keyboard back over something unexplained happened...my computer desktop (well the view anyway) at that moment turned upside down... I glared at it for a second almost in disbelief..it was the strangest thing I seen lately. My start button was not upside down at the top of my screen and when I typed everything was opposite of of how it was supposed to be. Now I am sure I am not the only person this has happened to. I am sure there is an explanation but at that moment with the clock ticking away and with two things I really needed to complete, I had to make a choice. Either I walk away and leave it for another day or I sit, stare and become increasingly frustrated. I could try and complete a "right side up" job with an "upside down" attitude. It was at that moment a tough choice had to be made. I really wanted to finish the work...the fact is I NEEDED to finish the work but what I realized was if I forced myself to keep going when all signs were pointing to stop, The job I would have ultimately completed, would have been incomplete.
I know that you've had those kind of days. What job have you tried to do when you really had no business doing it...at least not in that moment anyway. I have always said it is better to take the time to get in the right frame of mind so you can go out and do your work and represent us at your best...I found out today just how hard that advice is to actually take. I took it, I walked away, I called it a day and I challenge you to do the same...God permitting tomorrow is another. The work we must do will still be there waiting for us, like an old friend, it will be there. The difference will be us...we will approach it with joy and pride not as a task that we just need to check off our list.
Good night and God bless!!!
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
New Beginings
There is just something about new beginnings. Out with the old in with the new...
The new year brings crisp opportunities, a blank page and one more chance to get it right.
I have spent some time this week reflecting on 2009.
The word I would use to describe last year is realization. I grew to realize who I really am, what I really want, who I can really count on and how hard I am willing to work to be a better me.
There were times last year that insanity was knocking at my door but somehow I got through it and I am a better person because of it.
Have you invested the time to take your own personal inventory??? It is not an easy task. It can be difficult to look through all of the mask and armour we display to others and dig deep down to determine who we are, what we want, who we can count on and how hard we are willing to work for it.
I challenge you before you get too far into 2010, to reflect backwards for a moment and ask yourself "what did I learn about me last year?" and "how will I use that knowledge to do better this year?"
One of the things I learned about myself in 2009 was the extent of my capacity to forgive....I learned that when I need to forgive the most is when it is the most difficult to forgive...
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” -Paul Boese
God Bless you all and good night:)
The new year brings crisp opportunities, a blank page and one more chance to get it right.
I have spent some time this week reflecting on 2009.
The word I would use to describe last year is realization. I grew to realize who I really am, what I really want, who I can really count on and how hard I am willing to work to be a better me.
There were times last year that insanity was knocking at my door but somehow I got through it and I am a better person because of it.
Have you invested the time to take your own personal inventory??? It is not an easy task. It can be difficult to look through all of the mask and armour we display to others and dig deep down to determine who we are, what we want, who we can count on and how hard we are willing to work for it.
I challenge you before you get too far into 2010, to reflect backwards for a moment and ask yourself "what did I learn about me last year?" and "how will I use that knowledge to do better this year?"
One of the things I learned about myself in 2009 was the extent of my capacity to forgive....I learned that when I need to forgive the most is when it is the most difficult to forgive...
“Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” -Paul Boese
God Bless you all and good night:)
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