My last blog this week will be about maintaining your level of enthusiasm.  I have a tendency to get excited about a project, pour myself into it, and then lose interest.  For example, I did a fabulous makeover in my design studio, got everything organized and looking beautiful, and now I’m unmotivated to actually SEW anymore!  I think I overdosed and burned myself out, so I’m on hiatus right now.  It’s fine to take a break when it’s your hobby, but when it’s your livelihood you can’t afford to lose interest.

If you don’t already visit the HCTS forums now is a great time to start!  Besides the great sales tips and general info exchange, you’ll find listing challenges, initiated by members of our community, to help keep you on track.  I’d also like to work on a weekly goal post.

Starting Sunday, I’ll post a thread where we can list our goals for the week.  Every time you accomplish something, come back and check it off your list.  Think of it as your virtual to-do list; we all know we’re much more likely to do something when it’s on a list we can cross off and brag to friends all over the world!  Just like working out is easier with a friend, working on our businesses is better with support, too!
And so along those lines, Rebecca has a really exciting, get-your-butt-in-gear, motivational challenge coming up! Clear your calendar and plan to join us for the 2.28.10 challenge!

I really hope this week’s series has been helpful to you. I’ve actually had a lot of fun doing it, and I’ve found it motivating to improve the systems I already have in place. You’ve written in with so many great tips! I look forward to implementing several of the ideas you’ve given me, and I hope we can get together again to see how we’re maintaining our progress.

There should totally be a prize for the best makeover, don’t you think? hmmmm…;)

PS) Don’t forget – the giveaways end tonight.  Leave a comment to enter!

PPS) Look for the Daily Listing Challenges in General Chit-Chat, and starting Sunday, the Weekly Goals post will be in Off-Topic.  This is the perfect spot for you to blend your personal and professional goals.  (One of mine is organizing both types of pictures!)

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While we are waiting for the blog’s purpose to “officially” begin next Monday…tell me about YOU. How did you find yourself where you are now?

How did you get to where you are as a work at home woman? How did you get your ebay start? Most importantly…how did you find Here Comes The Stork?

I started selling on ebay in 1999. Ten years, sigh!  I had just quit selling Longaberger Baskets at the time. I had a LOT OF BASKETS and A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY. I eventually began selling them off. I charged ridiculous shipping fees. Who knows those stinkin’ baskets are so heavy? I would drag my two year old 15 minutes to the little country post office with all of those huge boxes. Most of the time we ended up arriving on their lunch break-in case you are unfamiliar, country post offices seem to close each day from like 10:15-2:53 for lunch. Sigh. Last night, that 2 year old got signed up for church youth group. Double sigh!

Then I joined a young mom’s group on AOL and discovered Gymboree.

I was hooked!! Shew! I started scouring consignment shops and stalking ebay to find more and more Gymbo!!  A few years passed of me hustling outgrown clothes, things casually bought for resale, etc…and then IT happened. I found the master of all Gymboree selling-Kendra, Miss HereComesTheStork on ebay, selling huge lots of Gymboree!! What, and she knew how to get it cheap enough to resell it?!?! I was intrigued!! But, hey-I’m way too smart to join a subscription website. Shheeessh. I’m not going to fall for that!! I would only join for ONE MONTH, get all the info she has to offer, and then cancel. Easy Peasy! Here I am, around 6 years later, still a member of HCTS!

After I joined HCTS, I became a POWERSELLER within 3 months, became a board moderator within 6 months.

I’ve been lucky to work with K here at HCTS and on a few projects over the years. I started a board of my own-Bodenboard.com (filled with awesome people, join us-we don’t bite!!). Now here I am, working as the admin of HCTS, trying to fill K’s incredible shoes here. I can barely believe those pain-in-the-behind to ship baskets started this chain reaction of events.

Where ever those baskets are today, I hope they are blessing whoever owns them as much as I was blessed by selling them.

Okay, now your turn. Use those comments to tell your story.

xoxo

Rebecca

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