Home Business Blog of a Mad Housewife – is Making a Ristra on Wednesday Morning Good for Business?

I think the real question here is whether taking time out for fun during "normal business hours" is good for your home business. I, um, kind of did that today. You see I have this new home business, which is why I also have this new home business blog (because my sponsor told me I needed one), and so I am still mastering the art of doing justice to the business while honoring what I like to tell myself are my needs for personal fulfillment and satisfaction.

Personal fulfillment and satisfaction are the reasons I got into this home based business in the first place, so if I can't honor them then what good am I?

Let's put it like this. I was going crazy in my other, former life. Never getting ahead, bowing and scraping, feeling no sense of accomplishment whatsoever. Then I met my sponsor and totally fell in love with her and everything she stood for and was doing. And knew that if she could do it, I could too. So I dove off into my new network marketing home based business with her. And started this silly home business blog, as per her instructions.

But I'm getting off track here. What does all this have to do with making a ristra on Wednesday morning? What IS a ristra anyway, one might ask. Well, to get that question out of the way, a ristra is a string of red chile peppers like one might see in ads for fancy hotels or spas in the Southwest. So anyway, back to the original question.

You see, around the same time I started my home based business and home business blog, I also started a Wednesday morning Spanish class. I mean, alllll morning, speaking only Spanish. Fortunately this class is held in a neighbor's home, and she is a good teacher, so in spite of the fact that it fries your brain by about the second hour, it is on the whole a really great experience. And I think I am enhancing my Spanish-speaking skills infintessimally each week. Maybe.

I'm still not getting to the point. Sorry. You see, some weeks our class time includes doing something practical, like gardening, or, this week, making a ristra! Because it is fall and the chile peppers are red, and that's what people around here do this time of year (new to me, I just moved here . . .). Well, it was really fun! I mean like majorly! So of course now there is the question of how guilty to feel for having fun during business hours doing something totally unrelated to one's business, instead of just studying Spanish, which one might feel guilty enough about on its own. So to resolve the dilemma I decided the issue simply must end up in my home business blog. Perhaps there I will find some solace, or someone will commend me for studying a foreign language, or will tell me that we all need appropriately spaced breaks from work, no matter when they occur or what our work may be. Stuff like that.

I'm not really sure where I'm going with all this. I think I've written myself into a corner here in this home business blog. So I think I will just here and now unilaterally decide and state openly that making a ristra on Wednesday morning is very good for business because it nourishes the soul. How's that.

I haven't checked with my sponsor yet, but I think I will now recommend to my soon-to-become-huge downline that they do the same. I mean, maybe not build ristras on Wednesday mornings, but do some equivalently frivolous act off-schedule. After all, we're in this for personal fulfillment and satisfaction. Stay tuned . . . mattie mcnutt

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