Day 34

A love story that is worth telling :)

My parents (mom and stepdad) were both visiting at Christmas. We had a great time in between dinner and packing out presents on Christmas Eve I had a conversation with my stepdad and I asked him how my mom and him met.

He told me a great story about the two of them and coincidence which I wanted to share here:

Apparently my mother and my stepfather were dating long time before I was even planned. They had dated for 2 years when my stepfather found out that my mom was only 16 years old, making her 14 years old when they first started dating. Well, my stepfather was already 19 and so mad about the lie that they had broken up. My mother moved away shortly after this which happened in 1972.

Both of them went their own ways, my mother chose a not so good path while my stepfather got married to a woman who died in 2001 of cancer.

My stepfather said that in all this time he always had wondered what and how my mom was doing but he never saw her again.

About a year later - in 2002 - my moms stepfather who was still living in the same area had called him one night in a drunken stage lol and told him he had seen my mom and they should call each other.

My stepfather being unsure about this idea since they had not seen each other for 30 years he laid off the plan of calling her for a couple of days when one night the phone rang and my mom was on the line. He said his heart was pounding so hard that he did not know what to say.

My mom again had the idea for both of them to meet the following weekend so she gave him her work phone number for him to call when he got close to the city she was living in which is about 4 hours away.

He said when he finally made it to my home town he pulled up on the side of the road trying to call her for 2 full hours but nobody ever answered the phone. He already had thought that my mom blew him off and he started feeling awful. As he was on his way back home he decided to pull over just one more time right outside town and give it another try to call her.

This time someone really answered the phone. When he asked for my mom the lady on the other end said that he had called a hotel and that she was working there but there was no female with that name. My stepdad finally being completely discouraged was about to hang up the phone when that lady asked him what his name was. When he told her the name she replied that he had called a hotel room that was reserved in his name. My stepfather was stunned since he did not know anything about a hotel room.

She said, that she kept hearing the phone ring in the hotel room for ever but was not sure if she should answer it. After so long she told her boss that it must be a very important phone call and decided to answer the phone.

She quickly told him where the hotel was located and hung up the phone. My stepfather turned around still being unsure about the situation driving back into town when my mom called him and asked him where he was. She was mad because he never called lol

...coming to find out my stepfather had mistakenly switched the last two digits of the phone number which miracly turned up to be the phone number for the hotel room my mom had reserved for him without his knowledge lol

Needless to say this time the age difference did not matter and they both got married quickly living happily ever after :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Hello everyone,

I wish all of you and your families a MERRY MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Day 28...I am still here :)

Just wanted to let everyone know that I am still here. I have been having a severe Sinus Infection. It has gotten to the point that I could not even look at a TV screen or computer screen without hurting. My entire head seemed to be infected and my head felt like it will explode anytime soon.

My biggest fear was that I might have had to get a surgery if my sinuses won't clear up but luckily it has gotten better.

I took pretty much the rest of the week off trying to get better. I did check my emails but that's all I was able to do.

I still have a bit pain on the right of my face but this is not as bad anymore. I managed to buy all Christmas presents so I am ready for Christmas :)

I am starting to catch up on everything I needed and need to do now :)

Will keep you posted...

Day 23

Today was not such a good day. After barely no sleep all night because my head was hurting I finally went to the doctor and was told that I have a severe sinus infection.

Everything is clocked up. I went straight to the Police Station and turned in my sick slip.

The sick call was supposed to be until monday, 22nd but my son and I are invited to the Christmas Party of the local MP Station on friday so I told the doctor that thursday will be fine, too.

I can't really concentrate as I am writing this. It seems to be a pain just looking at the computer screen. The Conference Call will be in 30 minutes and after that I'm off to bed :(

I am not even getting mad anymore lol just wondering what will be next lol

Day 22, First day of Week 4

On sunday night and this morning I spent hors going through whitepages and emailing business owners. I think I have emailed about 120 business owners. I was so mad about getting sick that I decided to email them until my fingers fall off lol

From all the businesses I contacted 2 have replied. I called one of them and had a very nice conversation with the owner. I also followed up with him and he seems very excited about MPM. He said he has to wait until the 1st before he can sign up for a World Changer Mall. I did tell him thst he could start with a Business Mall and already earn on his Christmas shopping. I hope he will :)

I also called about 15 leads today, most of them were not interested, hang up the phone or had given the wrong phone number but one nice lady from Texas seemed that she wanted to know more after I mentioned that we also support Non Profit Organizations. Unfortunately she has a dial up internet connection and she could not view the presentation due to her internet speed and broken speakers but I sent her an email explaining the most important parts about MPM.

I am going to call her back on saturday and I hope she will have been able to look at our site by then. She said that she had supported a Non Profit Organization for 28 years I believe.

It's kind of frustrating that most people don't want to give you a minute to listen or don't even open your emails but thinking back I have not been the nicest person either when a telemarketing company called me. Now I feel a bit different about it :)

Anyways, this is all I have done today, still hoping to receive some more response from the emails I had sent out but we will see.

Good night everyone :)

Day 21 and now I am mad as #$&%!!!

I try to laugh about it but I just can't. The things that have happened to me are becoming just so ridicilous I could just jump out of my body lol

This time I am sick!!! I'm not sure if my body is taking the toll of this weeks lack of sleep or if something is just messing with me lol If you knew me then you'd know that I USUALLY NEVER get sick. I wrote usually because as you can read I am sick now. I have the flue and am forced to lay in bed. The last time I had the flue was three or four years ago. That's how good of an imune system I usually have.

I had planned to make this such a busy weekend calling businesses left and right but with the voice I have this is impossible. I sound like I went out drinking three nights in a row lol

I know not to have negative thoughts and I don't have them unless somthing ridicilous like this crosses my plans again. I know I am sooo far behind, barely have any phone numbers to follow up with, barely have any prospects left and no matter what I start with so much enthusiasm it gets turned down within the shortest time. I feel like my written words on the internet are kind of like invisible to others.

I even purchased leads from LeadBackOffice (thats what they are called I think) yesterday since I could not call anyone. I wrote a nice email to the leads and received NO RESPONSES what-so-ever!!! I am not sure if it's because of the subject line, or the email itself or the fact that I did not call them before emailing but I can't call with the voice I have right now.

Ok, at least I could write down my frustration lol Now, I have to wait until the voice is much better again and then start all over again contacting a hundred people every day if I have to lol

Day 19 and I am ashamed :(

Have you noticed that I have not a blog titel saying "day 18"? Because yesterday was my first day that I have not made it to a Conference Call, the first day I have not updated my blog or sent in a report, and I feel so ashamed of it.

No matter how hard I tried to stay up last night I just could not do it. Three nights in a row without any sleep was just too much, I was exhausted. My husband said he had heard my alarm clock and tried to wake me but I just would not get up. To be honest I am so mad at myself because I have told myself before the beginning of boot camp that I WILL NEVER miss a single day and I did :(

When my husband went off to bed I stayed on the couch, placing my phone and alarm clock next to me. I had set it to 1.50 am but never heard it go off.

I apologize for not doing anything yesterday. I was at our Police Stations Christmas Party and had to sit there until the official part was over which again was too late for the 8 am morning call.

I am aware that I have a lot of catching up to do this weekend and hope I won't let anyone down again. I know the requirements and understand if I would not be allowed to participate anymore but this week was tough with work, all the Christmas Parties coming up and the late night conference calls I just had no more energy :(

Be back for an update...

Day 17 of the World Changer Reality Boot Camp

I am working the streets today again so I generally won't be able to talk to people :(

Update: My name is Gueler, I live in Germany and I am proud to say that I am one of the few International members in this boot camp. Why do I say this? Because even though we all see the potential of My Power Mall on american ground we have not deared to look at it from the perspective what My Power Mall can do world wide. Yes, it is a bit tougher to succeed from the "outside" but it is possible. All you need to do is improvise.

You can't contact people in your local area because of the language barrier? Go through Yellowpages and call people or businesses in the US asking if you might have the permission to send them an email until we have found a solution to translate MPM in other languages. Or create a free webpage in your own language about the important parts of My Power Mall and send all possible leads to your free website. Or advertise on websites targetting US people. There are so many possibillities!

Being an International member only means that you are not physically living in the US but with the internet generation it really doesn't make a difference.

Being an International member does have one advantage though:

Once MPM is available in your language you will be already prepared to - even more - expand your business and be one of the first in your country.

No matter what country you live in it always is and will be possible to succeed with My Power Mall and with this said I'm going off to bed after the late night conference call :)

Day 16 and still strong!!!

Today was one of those days again. Somehow I feel something is trying really really hard for me to fail with this boot camp. Why? Because thinking of the past 5 years it NEVER snowed that early in winter, it NEVER snowed that bad twice in a row within two weeks, it was NEVER that cold. This "Something" knows I HAVE to leave the house in order to approach people personally which I can't do at home, of course. Now, i am stuck in the house again. I had to work all day until 9.30 pm and I just now made it home at 11 pm. You should know that it usually takes me three minutes to get to work.

Next example: My phone NEVER went out in the past I don't know how long BUT it went out three times since the start of the boot camp, once at exactly 8 am when I was dialing in to the conference call and another time 5 minutes before the conference call forcing me to stand outside in the cold.

And if that is not bad enough my internet went out along with my phone. Yesterday that happened for 5 hours straight. I don't understand the world anymore. It really makes me feel like something just does not want me to succeed or do what I need to do in order to stay part of the boot camp.

Let me be honest: I have not made any contacts today, all I could do was placing some advertisement online while being at work. I worked from noon til 11 pm and will have to stay up until 2 am to attend the afternoon conference call. Then I have to get up at 7 am to get my son to school. And the same tomorrow again!

Oh boy, something really is trying to give me a hard time lol

I wish I could tell you a success story for today but karma is not on my side lately lol

Talk to everyone soon :)

Day 15 of the World Changer Reality Boot Camp

Today was a decent day for me. I have contacted my 5 people and actually 2 more while I was shopping for Christmas. Even though it's not becoming any easier for me I at least did not hear a no this time. They all seemed to be very interested and I will follow up with them this week.

Speaking of following up: I have called the numbers I have received. Many of them were not correct but the ones I get to talk to have not been able to take a look at the website. So I will follow up on them, too. I have a list of people who seem to be real prospects and I will work that list down.

I was sooo mad at one point when I got home and picked up the phone for the 8 am call. The phone AND my internet both went out at exactly 5pm which was 8 am PST. I really thought is this bad karma??? lol So I ran downstairs to my friend again and used her phone to attend the call. I just can't believe it happened right when I was dialing in!!!

The call was very interesting. Linda (Ginnys friend) pretty much said exactly what I was thinking about the Local Merchant Program. It's just so easy to understand and there should be no reason at all not to have one's business listed in the local mall but then when I try to tell a business owner about it, they completely block everything without even giving me a chance to explain anything. This really makes me upset!

We truly are still Under Construction and I am ready for the new week :)

Day 14 and still here :)

Today is sunday, december 7th, 2008, day 14 of boot camp. I am getting ready for work here soon. Since I don't have a baysitter and my husband is also working I have to take my son with me to the station. Poor child! I will see if I can take his playstation with us as well so he won't become too bored.

I just received a comment from Joanne. I read her blog post and I so understand what she is talking about encouraging us not to give up. What if Ginny would have given up? Can we imagine the pressure she has? There is no way I will give up even though it gets very hard sometimes. This is just so not me going up to strangers and talk to them. I have no problem to do this when being on duty for some reason. I am an outgoing friendly person but all the circumstances around me just make it so hard to talk to others about My Power Mall.

Yesterday was the first and only day I didn't blog. I went out on friday night with a friend and did not get home until early in the morning lol Oh boy, did I have a headache when I woke up lol

Tomorrow will be a new day and I can't wait to attend the conference call. Have to get ready now, be back blogging soon :)

Day 12 of My Power Mall World Changer Reality Boot Camp

I just got back home from work. I had A LOT to do today. A small shoplifting case turned out to be more than I thought - 4 counts of shoplifting, theft and fraud. Had to even stay longer to finish the reports. Today I could not work the business due to work.

I only had this morning to advertise a bit. My husband called 15 businesses today while I was gone and he received one email address. I just now sent out an email to that business owner.

Sorry for keeping it so short today but I will be back tomorrow :)

Good Night everyone!!!

Day 12 of My Power Mall World Changer Reality Boot Camp

YouTube is really wrecking my nerves. It is 10.06 am right now and I have been sitting here since 8 am trying to make this work. It just won't upload my video and it's driving me crazy!!!

Ok, day 12 and I already think I am running out of time. I'm trying my hardest not to panick and not let any doubts come up. I have to work today from 12.30 pm until 9.30 pm which means I will miss the 8 am call which also means I will have a long night ahead of me to attend the 5 pm call.

I keep telling myself this is MY business I am working which helps me a lot because in order for my business to work I have to WORK my business.

I have sent an email to both business contacts I mentioned in my last update. One of them gave me a fake email address and the email bounced back, the second one was real at least. I also emailed more merchants I found in the whitepages so I am hoping to receive any responses from that.

I wish everyone success today and I will be back updating again later on tonight :)

Day 11 update...

I have had a decent day, still not being able to leave the house I just started calling businesses asking for permssion to send an email but this time I changed the approach a bit. When a business owner answered the phone (in many cases the phone number was not up-to-date on whitepages.com) I explained him that we had launched a Business Partnership Program and that we had over 140.000 shoppers eager to see their local stores participate.

Well, from 15 business owners two of them gave me their email address which is much better than yesterday. Yesterday we had called over 30 business owners and none would give us an email address. So, I am getting all the information together and will send them an email in hopes of response :)

I also placed some advertising online and called two more people from my warm market but I ran out of contacts now :( They both said they will take a look but I will call them back on saturday.

I have spent all day - just like every day - working "my business" researching online, going through whitepages, re-doing my blog theme, placing ads, calling people, messing with YouTube which wont let me upload my video (I dont see how they became such a popular site, it takes forever to upload a video and then it won't even work) I sure hope my efforts will pay off one day :)

Well, its time for me to lay down again, tomorrow will be a busy day for me!

Good night everybody :)

Ginny, below roses are for you, get well soon :)

Day 11 of My Power Mall World Changer Reality Boot Camp

ok, this is a new day, new adventure, new everything only the snow stayed which is old news. It is almost 11 am and I have spent all morning re-doing my blogger template to fit the theme. Christmas is coming soon and I already have my tree up so I figured I also get a Christmas theme here :)

What I am going to do today is contacting Non Profits within the military and letting them know that I'd like to support them financially once I raised funds during the boot camp. Sounds good?

I wanted to appreciate all the help and suggestions I received from Jacki and all all other boot campers during last night's Conference Call (well it was the 8 am call), it sure gave me hope and opened new perspectives for me.

Ginny, if you read this, I hope you feel well soon, WE NEEEEEED YOU!!!! lol

ok, be back soon updating again :)

...still Day 10 and almost ready to go to bed :)

ok, the idea of calling "local" businesses was not so good. We called at least thirty business owners, from Gift Stores to Clothing Stores and more. With "we" I mean my husband and my best friends daughter - Tina - who worked successfully in the sales business before. I asked them for help because I thought maybe I was doing something wrong.

When I asked Tina to make some calls for me she was very motivated and pretty much said that it was a piece of cake for her but after she was turned down several times she said "that really hurt" lol so I told her "See, what I'm going through". She said she never thought she was going to take it to heart but it really hurt her the way she received those answers. She said "I feel like calling her back and telling her a piece of my mind" lol I really had to laugh, it was funny the way she said it.

Back to contacting business owners: All I did was ask for permission to send an email with more info after I explained that I was working with My Power Mall which is a division of "Together We Can Change the World". I asked if they could use more customers and told them that we just launched a Business Partnership Program. That's all! Not one email address, nothing, nada, nix!

About half of the people did not even listen more than 5 seconds and all others either said straight up no or just hung up the phone. All my enthusiasm was gone for today.

Todays morning call helped me out a bit though, gave me more ideas to focus on different directions which I will do first thing in the morning. I have no other choice but contacting people by phone or email, it is still snowing!!!

I am sorry I had no positive experiences to share, I really am doing the best I can :( It makes me so mad that I don't seem to succeed with anything I do and I wish I had something positive to tell but hopefully tomorrow? :)

Day 10...am I ready? No! Do I have to do this? Yes!

First off, I wanted to say Thank You, Frank, for the nice comment you sent :) I hope you will read this since I have no way of replying to you! Yes, I remember you from the old days and I hope you will stay in touch...send me an email or something :)

Ok, I got up this morning determined that I will approach 10 people today just because I miserably failed yesterday and when I looked out the window I was shocked: EVERYTHING covered with snow and still snowing!!! Oh my God, what is going on???
I was really thinking for a minute not to take my son to school but I did not want him to miss a single day if not necessary. I knew I could not leave with my car having summer tires so I decided to call a Taxi.

Right before I grabbed the phone my upstairs neighbour walked past me taking her children to school. She offered me to also take my son, thank God, I thought.

There is no way I can leave the house today. Now, don't think I am making up excuses but if anyone knows Baumholder then they know it's nothing but hills. Baumholder is also called "The Rock" and that for good reasons. When riding along taking the kids to school there were cars stuck all over the place. We barely made it to school and on the way back we almost got stuck, too. Luckily she also offered me to pick my son back up!

I am really mad now and since I can't leave the house I decided to do following:
Today, after my husband gets home, we are going to call "local" businesses left and right asking them for permission to send them an email about something that might help their business.

I hope this will make a difference and I will keep you posted on this!

...update on day 9

Today was a bad day for me, actually the worst I had since beginning of boot camp. I feel like I just want to crawl in a whole and hide from the rest of the world. I have nooo idea how in the world the entire world seemed to be against me. I have been blown off several times today, that never happened before. I feel like I had something bad written on my forehead.

The first 2 people I approached at the PX listened to what I had to say but when asking for any information they both refused to give them to me. The third person - a female - told me straight up that all online businesses are scams and that she did not want to have anything to do with it.

After I finally received a young ladies information I went over to the clothing department because my son needed some sweaters and when I asked another lady there, if she would give me her name and phone number after I had told her that I was attending a World Changer Reality Boot Camp she just looked at me, said no and kept walking. That's it I thought, I'm going home and hide :(

After this horrible day, as this was not enough, 2 minutes before the Conference Call my phone line went out!!! I was so ready to just freak out so I ran downstairs to my best friends house and asked her if I could use her phone. Unfortunately the signal did not reach out far enough so I was standing outside in the hallway freezing so I wouldn't miss the Conference Call which was - like always - very encouraging and helpful to me. Thanks Ginny and Jacki, you guys are the BEST!

I followed up on the leads I collected yesterday, sent them all an email yesterday and will call them tomorrow since my phone did not work. I am so horrible in following up. I dont know what's worse, approaching a person or following up with them. When I called my leads I collected last week, I either had a wrong phone number or the person had not looked at the site yet or wasn't interested in what MPM could do for them. At least none of the emails I sent out bounced back so I think they are more comfortable giving out an email address than a phone number.

Well, at least I got to buy the Christmas Cards for the 3 soldiers and I am sending them out tomorrow first thing in the morning :)

Good Night fellow boot campers and oh, I wanted to congratulate all of you for the success you been having! Way to Go!!!

Morning of Day 9...yuck!!!

it is 8.15 am here and I can't believe it's snowing again. This really is driving me crazy. My son of course was really happy about it but every human being with a car and a drivers license knows exactly how much I hate snow. It's beautiful on the sidewalks and everywhere else but not on the streets!!!

The worst part is that I still have summer tires and to be honest I can't affort winter tires at the time. Today is supposed to be my husbands pay day and all he received is a little over $ 900...COLA went down. For those who don't know what COLA is it is the difference they pay between Euro and Dollar to match it up. So if the dollar goes up COLA goes down and vice versa.

So within 2 weeks he went down almost $ 300 from $ 1200 to $ 900 and this right before Christmas!!! This is frustrating. I think I have to contact 10 people every day now to make up for the loss :)

I just received a Comment from Lil' Bro who must be a soldier as well. He asked me for a favor to send three soldiers a Christmas Card and I think this is doable :) I copied and pasted his comment below. Please, if anyone has some Christmas Cards to spare, please send them a card as well.

Ok, I will be back for my second update. I have to write 2 a day since everybody else is asleep when I write my first post everyday lol

How much more worse can it get if you have to send yourself a Christmas Card???

Hey Girl!!! I know you can do this!! I have a favor to ask? Can you and some of your friends send Christmas cards to these 3 guys in Afghanistan, No one has written them and one guy sent himself a letter!

SPC Dia ( <--- I think this is supposed to be DIAZ? )
HHC Co, 201 BSB,3 BDE, 1 ID,F Co
FOB FENTI
APO AE 09310

PV2 Ricardo
HHC Co, 201 BSB,3 BDE, 1 ID, F Co
FOB FENTI
APO AE 09310

PVF Sanchez
HHC Co, 201 BSB,3 BDE, 1 ID, F Co
FOB FENTI
APO AE 09310

Thank you and remember YOU ROCK!!Maybe you could get all the boot camp people as well to send these guys a card, Tell them it's from the amazing my power mall world changer boot club:) MPM's Biggest Fan!

Day 8/Week 2....Update on the World Changer Reality boot Camp

Week 2 has started and I still dont' have any sign ups :( It is kind of frustrating and upsetting at the same time. Sometimes I think, do people really not see the good in this Business? I mean My Power Mall is much more than just a business opportunity. Those who want to earn on their own shopping can sign up for a free Personal Mall. Those a bit more serious about the Business part have the option to choose from either a free Business Mall or a low fee World Changer Mall.

Why do people not see this? It can't hurt anyone to own a Mall for whatever purpose they sign up for. It truly is a great way to raise funds for charities and NPO's I just don't get how people don't see this. And it seems to be the majority of people.

This is the way I think sometimes.

I called my only World Changer Mall owner - Trina - today and talked to her over the phone for a while actually (follow up :) She told me that they have time until End of this month to come up with the lease money or they will be homeless. What kind of a New Year would that be?
This puts even more pressure on me. I NEED her to succeed with My Power Mall. I know I said I NEED and WANT to succeed but she needs it more than I do. I, at least, will have a roof over my families head and I really don't want her to loose her home.

I made my 5 contacts today but - again - couldnt go outside because my son has gotten sick. When I started feeling the pressure in my stomache that I still had to contact 5 more people I called my warm market and they all agreed to take a look at the presentation. I sure pray to God they will :)

I told them: "Hey, how are you doing today? How was Thanksgiving? Oh, by the way, the reason I'm calling is that I need you to do me a favour. I am attending a Reality Boot Camp with 24 other lucky participants chosen out of tens of thousands of applicants and I am required to personally contact 5 people every day. We want to prove to over 140.000 members and even more internet users that it is very much possible to earn $ 2000/Month in just 60 days! Would you be interested in taking a look at my website and the presentation? (By that time they only hear the number "2000" and the word "dollars" )

See, this part seems the easy part but asking strangers for name, phone number (especially phone number) and email address is what gets me. I still can't do it. Or i can't do it right! I am having such a hard time with this it's driving me crazy. I mean my warm market was easy. I called them so I already had phone number and name and when I said "Let me send you the info through email" they agreed but thats people I already know.

Soon I will be running out of my warm market (which I only use in case of an emergency when I CAN'T leave the house) and I still have to admit that I am still not good at what I do. The boot camp already proceeded to follow up which is kind of step 2 to me but I am still stuck in Step 1 because I seem to be my biggest problem!

Good Night Folks :)