Quattro’s 90-Day Challenge, Day 91, 11/30/09
So Where Do We Go From Here?
The 90-Day Challenge is now over. Now what? Well, the first thing I need to do is catch up on my work on the Quattro Boosters website. I still need to write a new intro, and I have fallen behind on our Quattro For Life Phone call reviews. That will be the first bit of writing I do. Once I get caught up, it should only take a night and a half each week to keep up. I hope to be caught up by the end of the year so I can get back to my real passion: writing.
I have a script I wrote years ago. It’s a Christmas story – isn’t that appropriate? Actually, every year at this time I feeling like pulling it out and working on it, but then I don’t. But now I’ve learned that I have the discipline to do it even with my busy life. Maybe I’ll join another 90-Day Challenge to keep me accountable for my progress and then a second challenge to novelize it – that would be a bigger challenge. After that, I have two other story ideas that I want to script and novelize. By doing it this way, the script acts as an outline for the novel, and I can promote my story in two different mediums, and selling it in one medium would help sell it in the other.
Getting back to Quattro, there are a lot of resources out there that can help us grow our business. For example, there are a lot of Facebook pages on MLMs and all the Quattro training to review. One catch-22 about the challenge is that I learned about all these resources out there, but then had no time to investigate them.
Having Kris being in the Loscon art show again has made me want to be in the art show again as well. Now, I cannot claim to be an artist, I consider my drawings to be high resolution stick figures. I know full well that it’s my gags that sold my drawings and not any artistic ability on my part. But I would like to improve on that. In the end, it’s not a whole lot of money, but it’s fun, and I miss the fun.
I would also like to get back to my Lego. I haven’t collected or built anything of my own since last December. I’ve been an awful AFOL (Adult fan of Lego) and it’s time to build a train to put under the tree.
What it boils down to is that I need to get back into balance – which is what Quattro is all about. Ever since Kris and I became Quattro reps, we have been spending most of our spare time on our Quattro business, and little on anything else. I don’t regret spending the time on Quattro – the education has been amazing, but I’ve been ignoring my creative side and it finally slapped me in the face.
So the big picture: I would like our Quattro business to replace my day job, then my writing to replace that. I think our Quattro business will take off first because we’ve been working at it longer, but if it turns out the other way around, that would be a wonderful surprise. And as for my video’s and blogs, I’ll be posting once or twice a week when I have something of content to say.
So here’s to a new year and a new start.
To infinity and beyond…
Dennis Cherry
