OH Galveston, I love you! Except when it rains… grrr. So Galveston is about 6 hours south if Mount Pleasant. I took side roads and took my time. The longest part of the trip was getting to Galveston Island. I did not realize there’s a whole nother part of the island, like 20 miles long to get the the Island vs just the tourist town of Galveston.

I got here and it was 77 and beautiful, hot, crazy weather. The the next 2 days were rainy and windy. Now, remember my last camper? Lost in a rain storm, yeah, PTSD hit me hard! The first night I woke up at 5am and could feel my camper rocking. I was terrified. I remembered what Angie had told me and I left. We got into my truck and drove to the lobby/check in area and stayed for about an hour.

The next night, I had to do some googling to remind myself that it takes a lot to take down a camper. 90MPH wind to be exact. I also had to remind myself that it was a tree that took out my camper and it didn’t get blown over. And there is not a large tree around here for who knows how far. Nothing is taking my camper down. Just need to stay calm and relax.

Also, my son called me each night which just means the WORLD to me! He’s a marine finishing up his MCT training in San Diego and only gets his phone once in awhile….he can call me anytime!

Now, onto this park… LOVE IT! The lobby area has a grocery store with food, RV items, clothes and frozen drinks. I did have a frozen margarita… took me out. LOL. We are literally one street away from the ocean. I am hoping the sun sticks around for awhile and we can go check it out. The rest of this week may be bad weather, but next week looks great! They have a heated pool and lazy river, along with a hot tub. They have pickelball and basketball and cornhole too. They also have a dog park and kids playground.

The RV spots here are varied. I have one with no one behind me, perfect. Some spaces back up to each other, some have extras like the dog play area shown here. They are fairly close to each other but there’s no one on either side of me. They are also concrete pads which make it easy and they had a maintenance guy bring me to my spot and help me back in. That was awesome.

They seem to have quite a few people here for the winter. They do a lot of Bingo and Trivia nights, walks on the beach, wine and cheese tasting. They had a craft fair. Things to keep people occupied.

I did do some laundry, plenty of machines and clean. I will say that I thought they were expensive, $2.25 per wash and $2.25 per dry. But they got the job done.

I did decide to go larger with my truck while I was down here. A 1500 just was not working. So Carvana it is! It was fun seeing the truck pull up. I do suggest to anyone getting a camper to really look at tow weight. I was definitely maxing out my last truck. So I went with a 2500. Should be plenty.

So now my goal is to leave my camper down here until early February. Come for a week or so then head to Pensacola to see my son. Fingers crossed.

Well, I made it this far! 10 hours and 50 minutes and I’m here. I was terrified when I looked at driving this far but it really was not bad at all. I stopped about half way in Jasper, MO, right outside of Joplin at a Loves that has RV spots. It worked really well. Although I did not get any sleep, maybe due to nerves or due to the traffic, it worked to rest my eyes and my body for the night.

The loves has a really nice truck stop. Lots of showers and restrooms and food. I was happy. I was also able to bring my dog inside so that made Cooper happy.

Then on we went to Mount Pleasant, Texas. A town of about 15,000. This KOA is nicely upkept. There’s a lot of permanent and winterizing people here. There’s also a soccer/sports complex very close and my dog and I have gone walking there twice.

There’s also a good variety of concrete and gravel pads. Ask for Concrete, very level and clean.

I have also proven to myself that “I don’t need no stinkin’ man!”. I put together a standing desk (mobile) and a chair all by myself! May have taken some time but I can do this. I don’t need anyone else. I took out the table and chairs on my last trip and now I have a desk and couch, perfect for my working situation. Now just need to get settled.

I was going to travel to Texarcana for 2 weeks next, however the gal that owns the KOA park I’m staying at says that KOA is the only one she would not feel comfortable staying at by herself. She said its been for sale and there’s a mobile home attached to it and she said its just kinda shady, so, I changed up and I’m traveling down to Galveston for 12 days next. Why not? It will take me 2 days to get home but I think that’s fine. Warmer weather and safer situation sounds great to me.

So I spent my first holiday away from family here, Thanksgiving. It was totally fine. Got some texts from friends and family. Also went and had lunch a restaurant called “Sisters Bistro” which is a buffet type place. Seems everyone knows everyone. But they served thanksgiving dinner and OH MY was it good! Especially the sweet potatoes!

And did some laundry. LOL

That’s my update from Mount Pleasant. I will update you all when I get to Galveston.

Its so hard to stay “on” all the time. Between work, and family, and kids, and exercise, and friends, and goals, and yard work and that never-ending laundry…its so hard to keep up on a marketing plan. Its all fun and dandy in the beginning. Its exciting and motivating until….BUZZ.. the dryer is done and calling your name.

Believe me, I am just as guilty as you are as letting my marketing plans get pushed aside for so many reasons. I can give you the best advise and I won’t even follow it myself because well…its all about discipline and I think we all struggle a bit with that.

Think about it. Did you set goals at the beginning of the year? Did you make a dream board? Did you time block your marketing in your planner? Me too. Yet, off the wagon I fell and I fell hard! I have huge plans of finishing my book this year (did you even know I was writing one?). I have time blocked to write 1 blog post a week. I have a list of live training videos I want to record. Yet, there I sat, binge watching everything on Netflix I could find, probably, deep down, to avoid doing the hard work it takes to accomplish my goals.

There’s a little bit of fear that I have…the fear of success. I know it sounds dumb. But what if I really DO finish my book? Then what? What if I get called to do speeches and trainings. Or what if I don’t? Then what? There’s all sorts of excuses we all make for not taking those steps to accomplishing our goals.

Well… Just when you think no one is looking… you get a wake-up call. At least I did! A big one… actually 2 in about 2 week’s time!

First… I was at an event and I was complimenting someone on the great marketing she was doing. She was building a great presence, she was being consistent and I thought that was great. Then… she called me out. She probably didn’t realize she did, but she told me how I had motivated her to do all her marketing and politely said “when are you going to do another training”?

GULP~ I felt like an idiot! I had completely fell off the track and hadn’t even thought about getting back on! I had great excuses but none of them were good ones. I shook my head in shame (again, she probably didn’y even notice) and told myself… GIRL… get back up!

My second wake-up call came just last week. I ran into a colleague that made the jump and left his employer to start his own business. I was SO proud of him! I just knew he made the right decision and would be awesome. In the same breath of him sharing his news with me, he asked when I would be doing more trainings and when I would come speak to his new sales team. Again… my heart sunk a little. Here I had helped inspire him and then I stopped. Why would I do that?

My heart sunk because I had set out on a mission to help others and just when I didn’t know they were looking…I stopped. I made other things, unnecessary things a priority and I stopped helping others. How selfish!

These were the wake-up calls I needed!!! I have re-prioritized my weeks, I have scheduled time to write my blogs and do my training videos and I WILL DO THEM! I am tired of letting myself down.

And now I challenge you! What have you stopped doing that you need to climb back up and start doing again? Were you volunteering? Mentoring? Blogging? Posting motivational quotes? I challenge you to do something that you may not even know will effect people in ways you may never hear about. I dare you.

I’m also asking you, my followers, my support team, to hold me accountable. Call me out. If you don’t see a blog post or vlog or facebook live training, CALL ME OUT! I need that accountability.

And I promise, even though you may think no one is looking… someone is and they are thankful.

Keep up the good work and Happy Networking!

Whether you are a morning person or night owl, we all have that prime time when we are high energy, personable and a delight to be around (most days). I am a morning person.

I’m at my best because I know I look good, the wind hasn’t messed up my hair.

I’ve eaten breakfast so I have a full tummy.

And the world of nonsense and disruptions has not affected me yet.

So, THIS is when its best for me to be networking. I’m on my toes, I’m not distracted, and for the most part, I’m a delight to be around.

When is your prime time to be networking? Really think about it? If you’re always rushed at the end of the day to make late afternoon appointments or you have to scoot out the door to pick up kids or maybe you’re the go-to who gets problem files no one could figure out at the end of the day. If that’s true, you shouldn’t leave your networking meetings until the end of the day because guess what…they won’t happen! OR you’ll be so sidetracked that it will be a waste of time.

Or maybe you need about 10 cups of coffee before anyone should approach you…well that probably means you shouldn’t start networking until maybe lunch time.

Point being, don’t force yourself to be a people person before you really are. Its rude to waste someone’s time when you’re not really all there. And no one wants to talk to someone who is grouchy, or half asleep, or completely distracted with the day’s turmoil. Plan your networking accordingly. If you’re a beast at knocking out files at a 8am, then leave the networking to the afternoons when you know you’ve taken care of things. If you’re like me and would rather be up and networking bright and early then dedicate the remainder of the day to office work, then hit up the day break coffee events and call it good.

Make the most of your delightfulness.

Happy Networking