Month: December 2018

After all day of silence, John finally messaged me and said he had a good day sleeping in and walking outside. He said he’ll go to Whistler for a couple of days and will look forward to seeing me when I’m back, and that he misses me.

I’m so hurt that he is so distant. Even though it’s about him not me. He is stressed out. Too stressed out to think about me. To be present in this relationship.

I’m going to take a wild guess that you are still stressed out about work these days.

I hope you are making progress in coming up with more than 2 options you can take action on. And writing them down 🙂

How I can best support you? I sent you some ideas in the hopes they’ll help you arrive at the best outcome for you. Are they helpful? If so, would you share with me? If not, are there other preferred ways I can support you?

I was really sad today from not hearing from you all day and there seemed little effort or desire to spend NYE with me. But, I tried my best to get out of my head and stop thinking that it has to do with how you feel about me.

I think in the past when you stopped communicating with me as often, I felt as though I was just not important enough to you to be on your mind as often. I’m starting to understand that it has more to do with your stress level.

This stress has been causing you a lot of pain. From going blind to abs cramps to me getting mad at you and wanting to break up a few times. Has this stress helped you in anyway? Or changed the course of anything for the better? Has this stress helped you be more creative at problem solving?

 

I’m not ok with it. I want to you be less stressed, to have a handle on the situation, to be more present in our relationship, and to be more communicative. But, I’ll do my best to be patient and understanding.

 

I know what to do now!!!

I realized last night and this morning, 3 things:

1. I really want to build a comfortable place to live in
2. I need a lot of money to do this, because I’d like to first provide a new house for Mom and a nice place for Dad to live in, or at least at around the same time.
3. I need to have a revenue of $1MM a year at least, so I can join the MDS group with Stan.

You see, I suddenly realized that, Baby Bibi will reach $1MM in sales so soon. 6 to 12 months. Once they do, I’ll be left on the outside. I need to hustle!!

And if I’m in the MDS group, I get so many benefits to help me get even further in business.

All I have to do, is to triple my sales!

I realized recently (omg so many realizations, I love it!) that adding comfort fit had really increased the sales I wouldn’t have had. I mean, I knew this with the colours that I had. I was smart to add so many colour the first, second year of my Amazon business. But I stopped, because my manufacturer’s MOQ was too high, and mold costs are high.

But now, with Martin, MOQ is lower. We have exclusivity. So, let’s re-evaluate!

I’m very excited about all the expansions we can do, at all the different levels. By this time next year, Knot Theory will be #1 in silicone wedding rings!!! Mark my words!!!

Amazon is a great place to increase sales, but not profit necessarily. Once you’ve found something that generates sales and profit, it’s time to focus on expanding that niche!

1. Product Level
   1. Small batch laser engraved patterns to test out new designs without opening new moulds
      1. Hearts, equality, crossfit,
      2. Logo for sports teams, gyms, events (crossfit games)
      3. See-through engraving for holes
      4. More colors, especially pale gold, mermaid/peacock, and whichever is trending next (iPhone and Apple watch colors too)
      5. Customization – engraving on inside and outside, motivational or gift-friendly or wedding-friendly
   2. Also sell bracelets – very nice looking ones
      1. Also engraveable
      2. Classy unlike the current ones
      3. Beaded bracelets
      4. Motivational bracelets
      5. Road ID bracelets
      6. Teething bracelets
      7. Customizable words
      8. Adjustable length
   3. New Designs
      1. Step Edge
      2. Celtic and filigree
      3. Faceted
      4. Ask focus group
   4. Parallel Products
2. B2B Sales Level
   1. Kent
   2. Stores
   3. Amazon B2B
   4. Hospitals
   5. Firefighters
   6. Police
   7. Army
   8. Mom groups
   9. Army Wife groups
   10. Wholesale on website
   11. Tradeshows
   12. Gym, sports teams – approach for collaborations and custom engraving
3. B2C Sales Level
   1. Focus group / Many Chat
   2. Returning Customer – monthly new release and other reasons to come back. Easy birthday gift etc. Gift draws for people to win. Tell them recent buyers only?
   3. Number of purchases per transaction – Couple matching rings to encourage buying in set. Upsell tools.
   4. Frequency of purchase – more new releases, newsletters/manychat, sign people up for manychat in followup emails, know customer’s birthdays, know their taste so when a similar ring is released, we can promote to them.
   5. Making life time customers – membership and member forever discount
   6. Allow people to donate with rings to causes they believe in
   7. Allow people to buy in bulk for themselves too – especially engraving – 3 for $5 more. Save on shipping too.
   8. Allow people to buy for the whole (extended) family and loves ones
   9. Engrave different messages and dates for your loved ones
4. Marketing Level
   1. IG, FB, Youtube, Google Shopping and Display Ads. What other places?
   2. Better photos and videos

Bracelet:

1. great fundraiser
2. ideally:
   1. has a story
   2. helps community
   3. cheap to make
   4. earth friendly – eco materials, recycled materials
   5. looks good on everyone
   6. adjustable in size
   7. easy to customize
   8. can have many colors

 

How do I want to live this life? What is the story of my life? Role models?

I want to live a life free of stress. But maybe just temporarily. Some stress is good.

I want to build dream houses.

I want to have a comfortable home to live in.

I don’t have a burning desire to live around the world.

But I do want very interesting friends.

I want to be a very interesting friend.

I want to make a positive impact to the world. Starting with alopecia.

IDEAS:

Recycled tire: http://www.itoproducts.com/recycled-tire-bracelets/bracelet-options/

Cool designs, sorta:

Fundraising On Your Wrist With Xbracelets

https://www.positivepromotions.com/friendship-bracelet/p/osa7242/
https://www.bravelets.com/

Very cool company: https://www.instagram.com/puravidabracelets/

Bracelets from ghost fish nets: https://bracenet.net/en/products/

Check most common fundraisers (cause and demographics) for ideas: https://www.gofundme.com/discover

Recycled sari fabrics: https://anindilyakwaarts.com.au/product/18-5139-fabric-and-ghost-net-disk-earrings-with-shell/

Today is a great day, let me count the ways! 🙂

It’s Dec 19th. I’ve done all I can in promoting for Xmas. I’m sick now, but I can rest. I lay in bed all day and it was ok.

I felt more sick when I woke up, but started feeling better and better. Masha got us lots of lemons, so I had some lemon cayenne pepper juice 🙂 Brianna drew on my blender but Masha cleaned it up. Whew! I made a healthy juice for Artsy and I. I felt so much better after the juice!

I watched many episodes of Friends. Some are so relevant to now! I’m grateful for the show.

Sales rolled in like crazy! I love it. We sold 121 rings and 2 scarves on Amazon USA! Amazon Canada is doing well too. Almost $15K/month! We sold 3 scarves on Etsy too! Mom is so happy about this. So far we’ve sold 9 scarves, in just 3 days since launch! We make about $70/scarf, so with just the sales of 25 scarves we’ll break even.

Watched Joe Rogan’s interview of Elon Musk. So fun. Elon Musk is awesome!

Yesterday was great too. Bunny invited me to dinner at Chow. I didn’t like it too much. The food there is great, but the atmosphere is not great. He then suggested eating at his place! I loved that.

He made a super yummy meal with fresh cod from Whole Foods, spinach, purple yam, and walnuts. It was the best meal he’s cooked for me! The best part was, we started making out before the meal, and had a quickie in the kitchen! So sexy.

After the meal, we had sex on the kitchen counter! We hadn’t seen each other for almost 2 weeks, because I was at Date with Destiny, and then was sick. I just love it when we have so much passion. His body is the hottest. He almost has an 8 pack now! And his ass is cute. His proportions are perfect. His face is super cute.

I’m learning that I need to be proud of myself more often. Forgive myself and others more.

I’m proud of building Knot Theory to a business that generates about $70K USD this month! I did a great job with the scarves and they are selling!

I did a great job with the comfort fit rings and they are selling too! And the stackables did well too!

I’m surrounded by love. I have so many comforts. My biz is looking up. I’m expanding it. I have so many ideas. I’ve created such a positive shift within!

I feel very proud of myself, and very grateful 😀

 

 

 

 

 

It’s 3:44am, I’m sick with something. Like I was 2 years ago at UPW.

I feel….lucky.

Sales are good. 130 units sold yesterday. Not as good as last year, but still good. Mom and I estimated that I still profited about $25K the past 3o days.

Masha talks a lot, but at the same time she is always will to talk when I want to talk to her. She is absent minded sometimes, but the good thing about it is she doesn’t get pissed off over little things either.

 

Wow. I’m blown away by DWD so far. I’m so glad I’m here and playing full out!

Day 1:

1. Richard and Brenda from Ottawa. Too many rules. Love language – express it in a way that the other person wants.
2. The reward of this life is directly proportional to the amount of uncertainly you are willing to live with. We are all achievers and want certainty and significance. He knows us so well and we are all so similar!
3. I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

So powerful.

I was thinking about forgiving my parents. And I was thinking about asking Norm’s forgiveness.

I imagined the pain from this as a build up in my kidney area for some reason. I imagined green gooey kidneys turning into green crystal clear kidneys.

I imagined the the build up in my right ovary too. It turned into a golden cryal clear energy too.

I imagined beam of pale blue light shining down through me.

2. What question do you ask yourself all the time?

• What is not good enough about that experience?
• What is not good enough about this person?
• What is not good enough about me?

After:

How can I enjoy and appreciate even more the love and magic and divine beauty (or wabi sabi) of this person and our connection right now?

How can I appreciate the gift of this experience even more?
How can I appreciate even more the amazing woman I am right now?

Josephina sees that I will do life coaching even before I hold her that I have alopecia! She says there’s something about me. She feels that that’s my future.

Day 3:

Tony was so mean to this woman who used the word “emotional violence”. He was triggered. It shook me and probably many others.