We’re Done! Having One of Those Business Days

Susan Larimer (00:00)

So for me to be like, okay, this is the one thing I want to accomplish, go in there, find it, do it, get out. That was huge for me. So if you can do, if you’re in that moment and you’re completely frustrated, you know, what’s one thing?

you can do what’s one thing you have control over ’cause I think we get so frustrated about the things that we can’t control.

Lisa Duck (00:24)

Welcome back to another episode of the Other 99% Podcast, where each week we bring you practical tips, honest conversations, and real stories to help you build a business that you truly love. So come on in, grab a coffee, get comfy, and let’s chat.

Lisa Duck (00:41)

Hey everyone, it is me, Lisa, and welcome back to another episode of the other 99%. I’m here with our co-host Susan Larimer, and um today’s topic should be a good one. It’s um, you know, Susan and I are probably it’s kind of funny that we’re both at the I’m done moment. It’s like

I’m done, forget it. We’re we’re we’re done. And we had a had a time slot scheduled to record our podcast today.

And we’re like, well, what do we talk about? We don’t know what to talk about. We don’t have anything ready. It was just like we have so much going on in life, so much going on in business, and so much going on everywhere else that we said, why don’t we just talk about this? We we just come together and use this maybe as event session. Uh I don’t know, but I think we’re both gonna walk away from this episode feeling like but

Susan Larimer (01:37)

I hope so.

Lisa Duck (01:39)

But it’s also gonna give us a place where we can share, you know, what we do to overcome this, right? And I think

Susan Larimer (01:47)

Mm-hmm. Yeah,

Lisa and I both hopped on the

Lisa Duck (01:50)

Yeah.

Susan Larimer (01:51)

the the recording and we’re both like, oh my word, like what a frustrating week. What a frustrating day. And she’s like, you know, is it anything serious? I’m like, no, it’s just like every interruption is a five hour detour. And it’s just, it’s been a very frustrating week. Nothing serious, just

a lot of annoying, frustrating things. So it’s funny that Lisa and I are both in the same place. Like she’s like, listen to this, like this is what I’m going through. And um it always helps to have someone to go through it with you. Misery enjoys company. Isn’t that the the phrase? Um and it does and it’s okay.

Lisa Duck (02:29)

Yeah. Well

Well it was funny when you said some you sent me a message last night and I felt so bad because usually

I’m

like very quick to respond and and it’s like, you know, I’ll look at it now and then I I had to respond and say, Hey Susan, like I just I can’t I I don’t have capacity to do this right now.

Susan Larimer (02:51)

She said no to

me.

Lisa Duck (02:54)

actually said no to Susan and I’m like, my goodness, I just I can’t do this. I will get back to this. And I’m like, you probably thought like, what’s going on? Because Lisa doesn’t usually Lisa doesn’t usually

Susan Larimer (03:03)

That well, yeah. Right.

Lisa Duck (03:06)

say this, right? And it was just one of those things. But I mean, even before we hit record, what did we have to do before we hit record? It’s like

I need to text my family. Okay, I’m recording. Don’t don’t come in loudly. You had to text your son. Don’t come in through the garage. Use the main entrance of the house. And then the only person in my family that I didn’t text because my son’s four hours away, he calls just before we hit record. It’s usually Susan’s daughter that calls during the recording, but this time my son calls. So it’s like all those things that you le need to manage.

Like before I actually have I’m so thankful for my office. I have a door now, which is like, yes, I have a door. It’s never closed, but at least I have a door. And like before I used to have my office in the main living area, like that used to be even 10 times more frustrating. So there’s

Susan Larimer (04:00)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (04:00)

all these little things that pile up at home. And then you have the extra work when you’re dealing with other things and little frustrations and

I’m just gonna get you to dig into like I mean you’re dealing with like frustrations of your company changing websites, right? Like that’s that’s crazy. Like that’s probably intense.

Susan Larimer (04:21)

Yeah. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (04:25)

And a lot of us probably have never experienced that to the capacity that you’re dealing with, right?

Susan Larimer (04:31)

Yeah. Yeah. And we knew it was coming and everyone was very excited and they prepared us as best they could, but the things we’re running into to are things that I don’t think they anticipated um or prepared for. And they’re I mean, our home office is amazing. And they are dealing with I can’t even imagine all of the questions and complaints

Lisa Duck (04:53)

Mm.

Susan Larimer (04:54)

and frustrations and

hair on fire moments that they have to deal with with all of the thousands of consultants. Um, so I feel for them. But at the same time, like we’re all trying to run our business. And

Lisa Duck (05:09)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (05:10)

there are things that are happening that are making it really difficult. Um, and even today I had a customer reach out to me and she had not purchased from me for it’s been over a year. Um, and the message was, Are you still a lemongrass consultant? And I’m like, yeah, like

Lisa Duck (05:25)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (05:26)

Why? Like, do you need anything or how can I help you? And she’s like, I can’t find you when I search. I’m like, that’s a problem. So I emailed Home Office and I know they’re gonna take care of it. Um but thankfully, you know, even though I hadn’t been in touch with her, she I she gets my emails, my regular customer care emails, my newsletter, she gets the lemongrass information.

And thankfully she knew where to find me. She had my phone number. She texted me. And that’s another thing that I’m so thankful, you know, that customer care that we talk about all the

Lisa Duck (06:01)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (06:01)

time. This is why you have to have it in place for moments like this. Um, so that was one thing, you know, and then she’s like looking at a deodorant. Thankfully we still have that deodorant, or else I would have been like, Oh, we don’t have that one anymore. Do you want

Lisa Duck (06:15)

Yeah.

Susan Larimer (06:16)

to try this one? So I think that fire was put out and taken care of.

Um, but it’s just been thing after thing after thing. And you talk about where your office is. So my office is, and I don’t have my green screen on, I don’t you can see it. So the garage is there, the garage door. That is the kitchen door. So when people come home, they open up the garage door, which I can hear in my office, and they come through my office into the kitchen, into the main house. Um, and it’s it’s frustrating. So I’m constantly

texting like

Lisa Duck (06:51)

Ha

Susan Larimer (06:50)

Don’t open the garage

door, come in through the front. And they’ll like pull up here. The driveway’s over on my right. And they’ll pull up. And they’ll if they see like my ring light and my setup,

Lisa Duck (07:02)

Ha ha ha.

Susan Larimer (07:02)

they know, or they’ll knock on the window. I’ll be like, don’t come. So just things like that. But it’s just been one thing after another this week.

Lisa Duck (07:15)

Yeah, I was on a call this morning and it was being recorded. And then my window, usually it’s like my window’s over here to my right, and usually nobody comes to my window because it’s smack dab in the middle of a garden. Well,

Susan Larimer (07:27)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (07:28)

I got distracted because I see a face in my window and I’m like, what’s going on? So I turn around and it’s my son. He’s putting up Halloween decorations, but there’s like these little distractions that you don’t

think about, right? If you if you’re not working from home. And of course, my family, my my husband, they’re not on the same shift. It’s not like they s they work the same shift as me. Like it’s like everybody works day shift and I get like a good eight hours by myself. That never happens. So I’m always

Susan Larimer (07:59)

Yeah. Right.

Lisa Duck (08:01)

like working around them. And so I completely I completely understand your frustration on that one. And then

Susan Larimer (08:08)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (08:08)

with with lemongrass, I mean

When Epicure reopened into the new company, their system isn’t as easy for linking people to you. So

Susan Larimer (08:21)

Eh

Lisa Duck (08:22)

um it’s really odd because if I drop my link through uh like a Facebook message, if they don’t click right on, you know how sometimes you have the hyperlink, but then you have the preview.

Susan Larimer (08:35)

Mm-hmm.

Lisa Duck (08:36)

If they click on the preview for some reason, it will open up a generic

um Epicure website. If they

Susan Larimer (08:44)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (08:44)

click on my link, it will open up my affiliate link. So I had to work around that. And luckily I have My High because what I’ve had to do was I put a redirect in my MyHigh site now. So anytime I share my link, it’s not epicure.com. It’s LisaDuck.com

Susan Larimer (09:04)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (09:05)

forward slash shop hyphen epicure. And it’s like

Susan Larimer (09:08)

And no one else would

know how to do that. I mean thankfully you know how to do that.

Lisa Duck (09:13)

Because I’m like,

I I’ve lost way too many sales trying to put that

Susan Larimer (09:16)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (09:17)

link in social posts, right? And it doesn’t have anywhere. I have like this little tiny picture on the upper left or the bottom right, depending on what platform they’re using. Nobody sit thinks to look at it. And then if

Susan Larimer (09:31)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (09:31)

they don’t link to my site, well, they have to put Lisa Duck in all capitals all together, like one word, in the coupon code.

Why is anybody gonna put my affiliate link in the coupon code? They’re not getting a discount by shopping with me. They’re

Susan Larimer (09:45)

Right.

Lisa Duck (09:46)

just so it it’s a little bit frustrating there. And I’m like, and I I know that I’ve had people shop with me and not I didn’t get the the credit,

Susan Larimer (09:56)

Mm-hmm.

Lisa Duck (09:56)

right? Because I’ll have people but Epicure is good that way. Like if they mesh if I mention like, hey, so and so said they shopped with me, but it’s not linked to me, they’ll go in and they’ll fix it right away. But what

Susan Larimer (10:08)

Good, good.

Lisa Duck (10:09)

those people who haven’t messaged me? Right? How many how

Susan Larimer (10:12)

Right, right. I know.

Lisa Duck (10:14)

many orders have I lost and I don’t have any way to track it? Right? So

Susan Larimer (10:19)

Yeah. I

think the only way I mean, I th I I think about that too, because I know that that may be happening with our system too. But I think if my regular customers purchased from me and I did not thank them within a day or two,

Lisa Duck (10:34)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (10:35)

I would think that they would reach out and be like, Hey, I placed an order like,

you know, on

Lisa Duck (10:40)

Did you get it?

Susan Larimer (10:40)

Tuesday. Did I just want to make sure that you got it? Because I’m that militant about my thank yous.

Um, so another way, another reason you need to do customer care. It all comes back to that. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (10:55)

It does, it does.

Susan Larimer (10:57)

And it doesn’t help that I’m like pre-menopausal because then all of a sudden I’ll be like,

Lisa Duck (11:01)

Ha ha ha.

Susan Larimer (11:02)

hot. And I’m sitting there like fanning myself, and my family is like, are you ha are you hot? Is are you having a hot flash? And they think it’s so funny, and it’s not funny at all. And it makes me so mad. And I before I go to bed, I turn the air conditioning like all the way up.

Lisa Duck (11:18)

Ha ha.

Susan Larimer (11:19)

Everyone else is in like hoodies and blankets. I’m like, I don’t

Lisa Duck (11:22)

Mm.

Susan Larimer (11:22)

care. You can take layers off. I can’t take anything else off. I’m in shorts and a T shirt and I’m still Ugh

Lisa Duck (11:29)

It’s so funny

because at night I freeze. So I

Susan Larimer (11:33)

Uh

Lisa Duck (11:33)

go to bed freezing, but I wake up in the middle of the night and I’m like, get the blankets off of me. I the turn

Susan Larimer (11:38)

Ha ha ha.

Lisa Duck (11:39)

the fans on. So I get it. I get it. Like last night I was working

Susan Larimer (11:43)

Uh

Lisa Duck (11:44)

here. I th I think I I must have spent because I I track my time and I spent

Susan Larimer (11:49)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (11:50)

close to 10 hours straight at the computer, like literally getting up for bra bathroom breaks.

Susan Larimer (11:53)

Gosh. I was gonna say,

so like sitting that long

Lisa Duck (11:57)

sitting

that long, it’s like that’s how I was just focused, right? So when you messaged

Susan Larimer (12:01)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (12:01)

me, you you understand why it’s like I got I got no time, Susan. And that

Susan Larimer (12:03)

Yeah. It’s fine.

Lisa Duck (12:07)

so I wouldn’t even have eaten if my son wouldn’t have brought me food. Right. So

Susan Larimer (12:11)

my gosh.

Lisa Duck (12:12)

it’s like I just need to get this done. And I’m the type of person who I fixate on something. If I

Susan Larimer (12:18)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (12:18)

know something needs to get done, I make sure it gets done. Um

Susan Larimer (12:23)

Mm-hmm.

Lisa Duck (12:23)

I

will not disappoint anyone if I could avoid that disappointment. People pleaser

Susan Larimer (12:27)

People pleaser.

Lisa Duck (12:29)

for sure. So it’s like I will go out of my way to make sure deadlines are met and everything is put into place. So yeah, needless to say, I was sitting here. But then when I got up, I’m like, my God, it’s so hot in here. What’s going on? And then my my husband’s like, just relax. It is hot outside. It’s like it, because

it was freezing outside

Susan Larimer (12:50)

Good.

Lisa Duck (12:50)

for a while.

Susan Larimer (12:51)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (12:51)

And then

all of a sudden the the temperature just like spiked and he’s like, I don’t know what’s going on. And it’s like, so,

Susan Larimer (12:54)

No. It’s hot here too. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (12:57)

but I’m like, what’s what’s going on? He goes, No, you’re fine, you’re fine. It’s just

Susan Larimer (13:00)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (13:01)

so we were open the windows and everything, but it gets

Susan Larimer (13:05)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (13:05)

to the point where it’s like, you know, how much more of this can you handle before you just say enough’s enough, right?

Susan Larimer (13:12)

Ugh. I know.

Lisa Duck (13:15)

But I’m a big believer that this is, you know.

Okay, you you had to see this picture. It’s the guy with the the pickaxe,

Susan Larimer (13:27)

Yes.

Lisa Duck (13:27)

and he’s digging through a tunnel, and there’s a guy on the top and the bottom, and the there’s that guy, you know, he’s dug like far, so far into this hole, and just on that other side, that thin other side is like a big pile of diamonds, and he decides to give up. Right? It’s like

Susan Larimer (13:43)

Yes, yes, I know.

Lisa Duck (13:46)

You can’t give up when the going gets tough. You can’t get up because that’s just that ridge that you’re just gonna hit and then you’re gonna go woo-woo skyrocket, and everything’s just

Susan Larimer (13:56)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (13:56)

gonna be put into place. All the things are gonna fall into place. Like, I mean, we both have a lot of things going right now.

Susan Larimer (14:05)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (14:05)

All right, get a lot of pieces in the puzzle. It’s no longer just Susan and Lisa working a direct sales business, right?

Susan Larimer (14:13)

Mm mm.

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (14:15)

And there’s

many of our listeners in the same boat. It’s like they have expanded beyond the direct sales. They’ve built their brand. They’re doing other offerings. And you know, this I think this episode just needs to come out because we need to tell you that it’s okay to get frustrated. It’s okay

Susan Larimer (14:37)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (14:37)

to feel like, oh, I can’t do anything else. Like this is just too much. It’s it’s okay.

Just

That’s when you just need to sit back. And like we even said, like after this episode, we’re gonna walk away and we’re gonna be like, ah, we’re we’re good. We’re good, you know. Just vent. Get it out there,

Susan Larimer (14:51)

Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

Lisa Duck (14:54)

vent your frustrations and don’t hold it in. And

Susan Larimer (14:58)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (14:59)

everything’s gonna come up roses on the other side. Diamonds, yeah.

Susan Larimer (15:02)

Or diamonds. There you go. Yeah,

we were talking in our Tuesday director’s group. There’s a bunch of us that get get together every Tuesday. And um, you know, we’re just trying to figure out our dashboard and our back office and how to run reports and how to place orders and all of that. And um there’s um one, Julie, who we had on an episode maybe like a year ago, and she is

Lisa Duck (15:26)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (15:26)

always

very optimistic and positive and she’s so good at showing us a different perspective. Um and so we were all like complaining and complaining and did you see this and we can’t do that and my gosh. And she’s like, okay, here’s what helped me. Like if you have one thing to do, go into the back office, do one thing, get it

Lisa Duck (15:49)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (15:49)

done, and then get out. And that was what I needed to hear because I was going in, couldn’t find something

Lisa Duck (15:56)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (15:56)

Then that

led to something else. And I’m like, well, I can’t do that. Like, well, what is that? And then I would get so lost and so overwhelmed down the rabbit holes, I would forget what I went in there for. So for me to be like, okay, this is the one thing I want to accomplish, go in there, find it, do it, get out. That was huge for me. So if you can do, if you’re in that moment and you’re completely frustrated, you know, what’s one thing?

you can do what’s one thing you have control over ’cause I think we get so frustrated about the things that we can’t control.

There

Lisa Duck (16:32)

Yeah.

Susan Larimer (16:32)

there we want it to be a certain way and it’s not, but we can’t do anything to fix

it. So think of one thing

Lisa Duck (16:39)

And see this,

Susan Larimer (16:41)

you can do.

Lisa Duck (16:41)

and I love that advice because yes, it could go for anything in life. And this is exactly, I’m not a pen pen and paper person. I am not a pen and paper person, but it’s so

Susan Larimer (16:51)

Right. Digital

Lisa Duck (16:54)

funny because I’ll show you my masks, my scribbles here. When when I get to the point where I’m frustrated, I need to write it down. I need

Susan Larimer (17:03)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (17:04)

to get out of my head everything that’s swimming in there that I need to accomplish.

And then just cross it off one at a time. Like, because if I don’t take it out of my head and put it on the paper, I have, I have to record the tutorials, I have to get those automations set up. I gotta write that email. I gotta launch my own workshop. I gotta do this. I gotta do that. I get it. And then my head is just like it’s one of those I I always hear um people online, they’re always talking about like when you think, do you hear yourself think or do you just have a thought, right? It’s like

I literally hear myself think and it’s Lisa, you gotta do you gotta do this. This is like so loud in my head, right? It’s like I need to get that to stop.

Susan Larimer (17:45)

Stop the voices.

Lisa Duck (17:48)

So I have to write it down to cross it off, but I mean, take one step at a time. Do

Susan Larimer (17:54)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (17:55)

one task at a time and then you’ll get through things, right? I that’s great advice.

Susan Larimer (17:56)

Yeah. And when Lisa sent me that

message, you know, I’m working on something else. It’s a whole bunko hub. Cause a lot of people are asking me to train

Lisa Duck (18:05)

And it’s amazing.

Susan Larimer (18:06)

them. It is amazing. But I get I get to a certain point. I’m like, okay, now I’m stuck. Lisa.

Lisa Duck (18:13)

Ha ha

Susan Larimer (18:14)

And um, so I I just, you know, it was not an emergency. I s I just asked her a question and um and I I can even read it. She’s let’s see if I can find it.

Lisa Duck (18:25)

Oh w

was my was it in like Lisa language? Okay.

Susan Larimer (18:27)

No, it was good. No, yeah,

no, it was good. And I said, let’s see.

Okay. So when I sent Lisa the message, it was about a Bunko training, and I said, um, I created a new new Bunko training hub because now I’ve been invited to train two local groups how to play. I’d love for you to take a look at it. It is very comprehensive. Um, but ChatGPT and I are also having trouble figuring out how to allow each person to process purchase it and use it, blah, blah, blah.

And her response was, this is exciting. I’d love to help, but I’m a little swamped with everything happening right now. Um, can you please nudge me on this question later today? And I said, wait a minute, did you read my workbook? Look at you saying no. I said, I’m in no rush for this. We can talk about it. I’m like, I didn’t know you were gonna use that no on me though.

But that’s exactly what we need to do. Like when she said, hey, can you remind me later? I was not offended. I was not frustrated with Lisa. I was actually quite proud. Like, okay, you’re you’re at your max. Do not take anything else on.

Lisa Duck (19:40)

Yeah, yesterday I was at my max.

Susan Larimer (19:42)

You have to know when you’re there. If she were that people pleaser, like, you know, my gosh, I can’t say no to her, she would take more on, more.

stress and you just don’t need to do that. So it’s okay to say no. It’s okay to remove some things temporarily from your plate. We love the food and the restaurant and the meal analogies. Um but that is a really healthy thing to do. So that’s very proud of Lisa.

Lisa Duck (20:14)

Yes, I often I don’t often say no, but I mean I know my max, right? I I definitely know my max and

Susan Larimer (20:19)

Yeah. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (20:21)

I’m very good at multitasking, very good at doing all the things, but there comes a time where your your attention needs to be put on something and what you’re focusing on is really involves a lot of brain power. Let’s put it that way.

And there’s just no way you could take anything else on. And it’s it’s so funny because all of this happens. Um, we’re we’re not gonna be listening to this in real time, but all of this is happening when I’m launching a workshop, a live workshop. And it’s like, ooh, okay, Lisa, maybe you should have pushed that out a couple of weeks, but I can’t. It’s like it’s out there, I gotta deal

Susan Larimer (21:05)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (21:05)

with it, so I gotta figure it all out. So

Now there’s all these other little things that I have to do for my own business in the background. So I mean yeah. Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (21:14)

Mm-hmm. But sometimes if you don’t have a deadline, it doesn’t get done. So

even though it feels like a lot of stress and pressure, you need to have deadlines in order to get the things done sometimes. So yeah.

Lisa Duck (21:28)

Yeah. And

and I’m organized. I have it all

Susan Larimer (21:32)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (21:33)

well, not I shouldn’t say all of it’s in my head. A lot of the it isn’t in it’s in a Google Doc that I’ve created, but it’s like I know what needs to be done. Now I just have to piece it together.

I mean, I guess

Susan Larimer (21:44)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (21:45)

I I’m at an advantage because automations I live, sleep, whatever automations, they’re in my brain all the time. So

That in that aspect, it’s a bit easier for me, but I mean, my hi makes it easy too. Like everything’s

Susan Larimer (22:00)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (22:01)

everything’s all connected in one place. I could not. I’m a tech person and I could not imagine dealing with what some of these people are are using online and how they’re promoting. Oh, I use Flowdesk for this and Zapier for this to get Zapier to Flowdesk to get them to Stan Store. And I’m like, what? Why?

Susan Larimer (22:19)

Yes. Yeah.

Or why? Yeah.

Lisa Duck (22:22)

Whoa, why are you doing that? Right? But

they don’t know what they don’t know. We just have to educate. And

Susan Larimer (22:27)

Mm. Mm-hmm.

Lisa Duck (22:31)

that’s yeah. And and I

Susan Larimer (22:32)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (22:33)

mean with Omaihai launching the MCP soon, it’s already be launched by the time this airs, but that’s just gonna make everything just so much easier for the non-tech non-techie people, right? So yeah.

Susan Larimer (22:40)

It’s amazing. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I will say

I’m reading a a book right now by Bob Goff, G-O-F-F. Um,

Lisa Duck (22:50)

Okay, okay.

Susan Larimer (22:51)

it’s called Undistracted. Funny. Um, and I just I actually just finished it. But the last chapter, I think it was the last chapter, I was listening to it on audio or else I would have the exact quote. But he was talking about how it is inevitable that we’re going to disappoint.

or misunderstand or have some

Lisa Duck (23:11)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (23:11)

kind of conflict with people. I mean, it happens all the time. We can’t always prevent it. Um, we can try to make it better, but sometimes you’re just gonna disappoint people and it’s just a part of life. Like you just have to accept it and, you know, try harder next time. Um, but you you cannot focus on those disappointments and make it your own and take ownership for it because

It’s just a part of life. I mean, we’re we’re humans. We say things spontaneously

without thinking,

Lisa Duck (23:43)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (23:44)

or you can say the right thing, but people hear it a different way, or misunderstand your meaning. Or if you’re texting, yes, your tone. Yes. So I

Lisa Duck (23:53)

Or your tone could be off, could you could be tired and yeah. No.

Susan Larimer (23:58)

mean, don’t be so hard on yourself when you have those those misunderstandings and those conversations that don’t quite hit the way that you intended them to hit.

Um, just give yourself grace and and know that it’s just it’s a part of life. We’re humans. So that was so helpful for me to hear because I was in it, like, you know, feeling that a guy was disappointing someone else or a group of people and it’s just you can’t live there. So it’s okay

Lisa Duck (24:27)

Yeah.

Susan Larimer (24:27)

to be frustrated. It happens. We all feel it. But this has been a lot.

Lisa Duck (24:33)

But it and it

it is. It it gets to the point where and I mean I think that’s why a lot of people um they give up when when you know the going gets tough, it’s easier to get going than just to step up and deal with the tough. And I’m not saying that that’s the wrong choice for every person. I get it, like sometimes the tough is just beyond getting over, right? But

Susan Larimer (24:59)

Right, right.

Lisa Duck (25:01)

We just have to sit there and realize that everybody faces this.

Susan Larimer (25:06)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (25:06)

And it’s how you how you deal with it that’s gonna be what determines your success. So

Susan Larimer (25:14)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (25:14)

sit there and I mean, go through Susan’s workbook. I mean it’s it’s available on Amazon now, so you can find it. Susan

Susan Larimer (25:21)

It is

Lisa Duck (25:22)

Larimer dot or you just search Susan Larimer on Amazon and you can buy a like a

What is it? It’s like not hardcover. It’s like soft cover book, but mm-hmm. Yeah. So

Susan Larimer (25:28)

actual Yeah, it’s a workbook, a bound workbook. Um, but yeah.

Lisa Duck (25:36)

grab it and go through it because like Susan said, it’s it’s okay to say no and if you especially if you say it in a way that serves both of us.

Susan Larimer (25:47)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (25:47)

Right? It’s like I’m not I didn’t lash lash out at you like, Susan, how dare you like message me right now? I don’t

Susan Larimer (25:54)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (25:54)

you know I’m in the middle of all this stuff.

Like

Susan Larimer (25:57)

And I didn’t lash out at you saying, What the heck, Lisa?

I thought it was your number one.

Lisa Duck (26:05)

So it’s like all on all on how you approach it, all on how you handle things. And it’s okay to push things aside. Like if the it might you might come across things and determine, you know, this toughness is because you’re trying to do too much.

Susan Larimer (26:23)

Yeah.

Lisa Duck (26:23)

You’re you’re approaching that hard point in your business because it’s not time to add this thing to your business. Like maybe

Susan Larimer (26:30)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (26:30)

it’s not time to add your Bunko thing to your business, right?

Susan Larimer (26:33)

Right,

right.

Lisa Duck (26:34)

It’s

it’s there, it could be put on the back burner, but

Susan Larimer (26:37)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (26:38)

a a week or two down the road, it might be time. It’s like, okay, now I have time to pick it up. I know that’s that’s what happened with this workshop I’m building

Susan Larimer (26:46)

Mm.

Lisa Duck (26:46)

because I was planning it since the beginning of September. We’re now here at um what mid-October, and it’s not actually gonna be until the 21st of October when I’m actually having the the workshop.

But I pushed it out because I wanted to have it out at the end of September and I just didn’t have the capacity. Right. So it’s okay to do that. It’s okay

Susan Larimer (27:07)

Mm. Yeah. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (27:11)

to to do your business the way that fits your lifestyle. Right.

Susan Larimer (27:16)

Yeah. And I think you

know too, like I had another project I wanted to do um by the time I turned fifty in April. And it would just became like a burden on me. And every time I thought about it, I got

Lisa Duck (27:25)

Mm-hmm.

Susan Larimer (27:27)

kind of stressed and like unsettled. And so finally I’m like, Nope, not gonna happen. Like unless I get some kind of huge motivation or inspiration to get back at it, but it felt really good to just say, Okay, wow, I don’t need to do this right now. I’ve got other things going

on. Um

Lisa Duck (27:43)

Yeah.

I I had one of those on my list because I thought about writing a like a big book, like a an actual book. And I’m like, I wrote an ebook that is, you know, like my journey in the direct sales field. And I’m like, that’s it, that’s enough for now. I don’t I don’t need to add author to my list. I’m okay with that. Right?

Susan Larimer (28:01)

Yeah, yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (28:08)

So all right. Well, I mean

Susan, I hope you you feel better after our our conversation here. It’s like now

Susan Larimer (28:15)

I do. Whew.

Lisa Duck (28:17)

now we can get off this call and get back to work and and hopefully the

Susan Larimer (28:21)

Ha ha.

Lisa Duck (28:21)

frustration doesn’t build again. My husband just brought me a nice warm tea when before we hit record. So I’ll go and drink that and just sit here and then just get back to work and

Susan Larimer (28:32)

And my dinner is done. I had it in the crock pot all day. I’ve got some ham and bean soup waiting for me

Lisa Duck (28:38)

Ha ha.

Susan Larimer (28:39)

after this call, so it’s good. It’s good. Yeah.

Lisa Duck (28:42)

Life’s good. Yeah. All

right, everyone. Well, we hope that you enjoyed this episode. I I’m sure you can resonate with a lot of the stuff that we’ve said. And um, it’s okay. It’s just just remember it’s okay. One step at a time, and you’ll get through it. But uh we hope you join us for next week’s episode where we’ll probably bring you something a little bit more cheery to talk about.

Susan Larimer (29:05)

Maybe maybe we’ll be in a better mood.

Lisa Duck (29:09)

But again, thanks for joining us and we’ll see you again next week. Take care, everyone. Bye bye.

Lisa Duck (29:16)

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