Mary Kay Career Conference

Last Friday, March 23rd and Saturday, March 24th, I spent time with my Mary Kay girlfriends at the Minneapolis Convention Center learning how to better serve my customers. It was very inspirational, motivational, and fact-filled. I walked away with a deeper desire to be more like Jesus with my customers and serve them with excellence.

I still have not processed all the pages of notes that I took. I am looking forward to typing up my notes into word documents to help me process everything that I took in last weekend. I will probably spend a significant amount of time doing this tomorrow because Ed will have the car all day. He has a meeting with a CEO and the other employees of a consulting company located in Uptown.

Pictured from left to right: Senior Consultant Teresa Scholtz, Independent Beauty Consultant Stephanie Gulland, Executive Senior Sales Director Joyce Danger, and Team Leader Jill Overby

What's Happening?

To the few who read my blog, you have probably given up and do not check very often for new postings since they have been few and far between. I apologize for my lack of updates. However, I had to let something go when I was nannying. There was simply not enough time in the day. My last day of nannying was last Friday, March 16th. As much as I loved the kids and miss them, I feel like my life has more balance again. I also feel like my priorities are back in order: God first, family second, and career third --- Just like Mary Kay taught the very first beauty consultants.

I have spent my first full week retired from nannying with getting organized, clearing out clutter, and cleaning. My major chore was tackling Mount Washmore (the approximately ten loads of laundry that I had been putting off doing). Procrastination is SO NOT a good thing! I am happy to say that using FlyLady's techniques and ideas that my house looks better than it has in months. For more information about FlyLady, visit http://www.flylady.net/.

I must admit that I feel much more peace in my household. Ed even commented to me that it was definitely a lot less stressful for him to come home to a clean home. I am glad that I have been able to help create a peaceful place in our home, so Ed can come home from work and unwind.

This weekend I am attending the 2007 Career Conference for Mary Kay at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Tonight was a lot of recognition of accomplishments. Even with all of the recognition, I took tons of pages of notes. I learned a lot tonight, and I know that I will learn a lot tomorrow in my workshops. I am looking forward to being able to really process the information on Sunday and into the beginning of next week.

Please leave a comment and let us know what is happening in your life. If you have any prayer requests, please either post them or email them to us at gulland@wh-link.net.

Love you all! I must head to bed because the alarm will be going off at 6:00 am tomorrow morning to get ready and head out the door to the final day of Career Conference 2007.

Dream Team at Chula Vista

This is only part of my unit in Mary Kay. My director, Joyce, is behind her husband on the far right hand side. Joyce is kneeling in the black suit. If you can't find me, it is because you don't know that I added blond highlights to my hair! Plus, I am throwing you off by wearing my glasses. I am in the front row to the left of Steve. What do you think of my hair?

Last weekend, October 28th through 29th, we traveled to the Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells for a fun-filled weekend of wonderful tips and knowledge on how to grow our Mary Kay business. I am more excited than ever about this opportunity. God kept showing me over and over again that He is part of this company. They don't just say that they put God first, family second, and career third; They actually live it!

I was constantly amazed at the caliber of women who are involved in this business. Everyone that I met was genuinely interested in me, and we all took the time to learn from run another during our breaks and around the dinner table. I am looking forward to a long career with Mary Kay.

Another thing that was a NEAT surprise for me is that these women LOVE to have FUN!!! Our sessions were not boring. They were full of knowledge and quite inspirational. Some of them were VERY HUMOROUS as well! I will have to say that the directors always kept us guessing about what they were going to do next. One of the directors actually gave her presentation in an evening gown, sash, and tiara. IT WAS AWESOME!!!

For even more fun, a group of us ventured down the water slides at Chula Vista. I cannot even put in to words how much fun this was. I felt like a little kid all over again. It was A BLAST!!! If you and your family ever get a chance to go to Chula Vista, DO IT! The water park was phenomenal!!!