Motivation

As a business owner it is easy when you are busy to loose track of time because you are so immersed in day to day routine of meetings and conferences and business calls. But what happens on those few and far between days when you are not really motivated at all??? Thankfully that does not happen to me often, but when it does, it is a real quandary. How do I push through on those days when I just want to send calls to voice mail and take a nap? Well - today being one of those days - I made calls, sent out emails and orders and samples and decided to blog on the subject because we all go through this from time to time.

I think that sometimes we need to give ourselves permission to not work every moment of the day. I have always given my kids one or two "mental health" days from school. Since they were never the kids that faked being sick [like my brothers and I did] they rarely missed school. Once in a while I would wake them up and one of them would come out to me on the couch and I could tell by looking at them that they just needed permission to take the day off and sleep. They never abused it and understood that staying home also meant staying in after school - and if they were willing to do that - I KNEW they needed the day off!

Today I want someone to give me a mental health day and say, Dori - just take the day for yourself, go have a manicure and perhaps a glass of red wine and come back tomorrow. Unfortunately, calls needed to be made and emails sent and things done - so I feel like I did when I was still doing theatre professionally and once in a while I had one of those shows where I was "phoning in" my performance. I was there - but not there at all.

That is why the computer is a great thing - emails can't have a blase tone, tweets can be honest and blogs don't always have to be about sales and marketing and business building - sometimes they can just reflect the mood of the day or of the moment. So that is why I am sharing this with you - it is alright not to always be happy and peppy and bursting with life - you can be tired and uninterested and still get things done. Sometimes the contacts you make on a day like today are the ones that eventually put the motivation back in your day.

To all of us out there that have muddled through the days that we didn't want to be at the office at all - Congratulations - we did it anyway!!! So as Linda our fabulous webmaster says - GET MOTIVATED even if you are not and just do it!

The Power of Twitter and On-Line Marketing!

I am completely amazed at the power of Twitter. The spectrum of people that you find tweeting back and forth is remarkable. Believe me, when Theresa - S1's Director of Finance - asked me if I was on twitter - I knew what a powerful tool this really is. If you knew Theresa and her lack of web-based marketing knowledge, you would understand. Needless to say, she was very happy to see that I am happily tweeting away.

As we launched our Checkpoint Friendly Laptop Bags I was checking on Google to see where we were ranking on the search engines imagine my surprise that all my blogging regarding the launch landed S1 fourth on the list! My blog - not our website - but my blog.

The power of On-Line marketing is literally right at your fingertips and there are great people out there to connect with that will be happy to walk you through things as you get started.

I was sharing information with a class at Gateway Community College in March and was amazed that to so many they don't realize that the www is for world wide web! The saying, "It's a small world" has never been more true than now.

The most important thing to realize is that we don't need to know it all - there are plenty of people out there that can share their knowledge with us - and believe me - they are happy to help.

So those of you on Twitter - my name is Dori_S1_Bags - follow along as we travel the online road together!!!