10/28/14 3:15 AM - Still Running Hard - 20 Hour Workday

I haven't left the office yet. Today was a HUGE day for business! We are launching a new program at the end of the week and I was finishing the paperwork for that. I have also been reviewing the accounting and working on marketing. 

Pretty tired, but I plan to hop in my zero gravity massage chair and then get back to work. I've been working for 20 hours straight. I've had some heart burn from all the espresso, but nothing that a little Pepcid can't fix.

I'll let you know when I call it a night...

Lots of work & Heartburn

I believe the sign that I'm getting older is that I get heartburn now...which is awful. Why? What is doing it? My electronic cigarette? Diet Coke? What is the culprit? Anyways, update on the work flow - We are busy as HELL! I'm underwriting loans like a champ. Still positive, just a little cranky. Took an IQ test today...scored a 134.
I would like to think that is my real IQ but I'm sure it's just a site to drive traffic. Either way, I enjoyed rubbing it in my husband's face on IM. He originally emailed me the link and told me to take it when I had a breather.

I had many conference calls today. Manager called out tomorrow. One of the CSRs left because no one could understand her...all these sick people. Take some vitamin C...

Talked to my partner today. He seemed proud of me. I sure do like that man! He has such good manners and speaks so softly! I feel like he's the father I never had. Nothing puts me in a better mood than to hear him laugh. These are my new partners, who invested 10 million dollars in my company. It feels good to have them believe in a young chick like myself. I have a lot to learn from these guys...they are super successful.

I won't stop impressing them.
Just another day in the shoes of a determined little entrepreneur. Lets see how many hours I work today! I got up at 7:30, took a shower, went to the doctor and started my Monday Hustle.

Haven't left my office...just jammin to Pandora and writing emails, doing a little marketing research, monitoring employees, answering questions for my managers, working on the accounting and...underwriting loans.

No slumps in this girl's productivity levels.

Conference calls and bloodwork

Happy Monday! Get ready to go hard. Blood work, underwriting, problem solving, marketing, and conference calls.

The only part of today that sucks is the blood work.

I'll keep you all posted...the posting of work updates is quite an adjustment for me

4:22 AM - Need to get my beauty sleep

I think I need to call it a night. I have a conference call in the morning, blood work, and a long day of underwriting. I finished a ton of accounting, but my toes are freezing and even super woman needs her beauty sleep. No one likes puffy bags under their eyes...

I'll be back up at 6:45 AM - lots of work to be done on Monday...which is today. :)

Sunday Funday is now Monday - still going 18 hours

It's 3:14 AM and I'm working on the accounting while laughing at some recorded re-runs of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." 

I know I have an 8:30 AM conference call with my manager in my VA office and local customer service manager...thinking I should call it a night, but still in the zone.

Think I'll have another Diet Coke and keep pushing.

Just another day in my Christian Louboutins.

Still going strong: 16 hour Sunday

Still going strong. Need to set up the Bing ppc and allocate part of the advertising budget to it. Also, need to finish updating the accounting to include all the sales from the weekend. I also need to write an email to my partner about payment processing department and some products that need to be launched at the end of the day.
The craziest thing is my little brother runs the business with me. He has the same sleep schedule and just tested me to see if I wanted to train him right now. His mind fires late at night, which leads me to believe that this is genetics that allows us to be functional for such long hours. I call my brother lemur, because he's way happier at night...he's "a creature of the night."

Well, think I'm going to head down the street to train Leems on underwriting, so I can have a day off during the holidays.

I will be making magic happen will you're all snoozing.

Success drives me...I'll have time to sleep when I'm dead.

My 2-3 hour sleep cycle

One of the keys to sleeping a few hours a night is my quality of sleep. I never wake up while I'm sleeping. I think this is because I'm so tired. There has only been one a handful of times that I have tossed and turned throughout the night and it was awful. My husband sometimes thinks I'm faking because I can fall asleep in a matter of minutes when I get in my bed. I believe the quality of my 2-3 hours of sleep is better than the average person's 6-8 hours. I wake up feeling rested. Some weekends I will sleep for many hours and "catch up" but I can live without these "catch-up" periods. 

How do I sleep so well? A fluffy pillow, awesome bedding, and a mattress that I day dream about. My room has black out curtains and doesn't have any bright colors. My bedding is grey and white and my walls are a dark grey. I refer to my room as my "cave" and I love it. There is no bed like mine and I feel safe in my cloud.

My sleep is good sleep and I feel bad for the "light sleepers" of the world. 

Sunday Funday: Work Schedule Update

At 11 hours of work so far and going strong. I've been kidding around with my team on IM. I like to call this really funny sales rep the "Saint of Pago Pago". He sometimes gets customers from American Samao and they love him! He acts like a tough guy, but a crying thankful customer makes him feel awkward and I eat it up! It's a running joke and I def. need to buy him a statue with a plaque on it that calls him "Saint Derek of Pago Pago."

Other than that, still underwriting loans and doing a little marketing on Pinterest for my newest company. I pay a girl to do our blogging for my larger company...but I actually enjoy pinning stuff in Pinterest here and there.

Tomorrow I have to wake up early so I can get some blood work done before I have to be in the office; I worked tons of hours this past week, so I may call it quits earlier than normal. I'll keep you posted. For now: it's still on...

Getting ready for the holiday workload

The quote above is why I pull the crazy hours that I work. Here is a little background:

The companies that I run have different "Peak seasons" but the biggest business of them all (my first baby) makes the same amount of money in a 2 1/2 month window as it does the entire year. So, what would any reasonable business woman do? Ramp up business this season and automate a bunch of duties so we can handle the same business with minimal expense increase. I recently sold half of my business for a BIG chunk of change...with that money I plan to finance our customers directly. Who has the best underwriting? This chick. Do we have time to automate my underwriting for the season? Nope...but I can work on the automation data as I manually underwrite all of these loans. My partners don't think that is possible...7 days a week my friends. We work with the entire world; this means 7 day work weeks with 12-18 hour shifts. My response to them: "I know what I can handle...I've been working these hours since our doors opened"

So far, I think they are starting to believe I'm insane, extremely detailed oriented, and brilliant. No one really knows how to take my personality...sweet, angry, giving, short fused, perfectionist, and light-hearted all at the same time. One minute I'm laughing and the next I'm screaming. I never stay angry long and I laugh a lot. I dress appropriately for meetings and events, but have ascendancy to rock a ninja turtles T-shirt to work. 

Anyways, I do the underwriting for hundreds of loans a week, manage our advertising, manage our team, study compliance, do our book keeping, plan future businesses, and do it effectively in my time. I will only be doing this underwriting until the middle of January when they can build a system that mimics the credit decisions this beautiful mind makes.

Here is a rundown of this weekend's hours and my hours today (so far):

I worked an all nighter on Monday and Thursday this week (no sleep at all). Since I can't prove it to you in blogs...you will have to take my word. I will try to keep updating my blogs throughout the day to show you the real hours I work.

I pulled an all nighter Thursday night then went home and took a shower and changed my outfit. I was back in the office by 800 AM on Friday, worked at the office until about 11 PM, came home, ate left over take out my husband had brought home earlier, then finalized the last loan for the night. I passed out at around 1:45 AM.

Saturday: Woke up at 8:30 AM in a great mood. Underwrote all day. We are open on Sat. from 10 AM - 9 PM, but will be open until 10 on Saturdays in about a week. I underwrote loans and worked on some accounting for the business hours and sent emails. From 10 PM - 330 AM I watched YouTube videos on Bing/Yahoo PPC, which I want to launch by the end of the week to reduce the 35k/month we spend on adwords. I don't want to risk a company messing up the details of our campaigns so I figured I would try to do it myself.

Sunday: Woke up at 9:00 AM to a bacon, egg, & cheese biscuit from Bojangles and sweet tea! I have the best husband...he loves me no matter how many hours I work! I started underwriting and watching more YouTube videos on Bing Advertising. I took a shower and IMd the staff that I would be unavailable for 30 minutes. I started writing this blog and have been blowing through underwriting hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of loans for my staff. It's about 10 until 5 and my wonderful husband is off getting Chinese take out for dinner. 

At 6 PM, I will be working on accounting for all the numbers for the week to send my partner a summary when we close and a copy of our P&L from QuickBooks.

Take out just got here and I have another loan application to review...will give you more updates shortly. :)

A Young Female Entrepreneur's Story of Success

I have always been different from most girls. I always felt like the weird-o and like I didn't belong in a certain group of friends; I still feel like that. One would think that someone who felt like the outcast all the time would have low self-esteem, right? Absolutely wrong. I feel like that those people who don't connect with me are simple people who only care about mindless things.

Calling me a narcissist would be incorrect. The reason why I'm not a narcissist would be that I don't hold all the personality traits of a narcissist, including but not limited to selfishness, relationship sustainability, difficulty feeling empathy, hypersensitivity to insults, inability to view the world from other's perspectives, and I care about other people.

The reasons why one would call me a narcissist is because I'm insanely success driven, I believe I'm special and unique, I'm an expert in many things, and I believe I'm successful and will be more successful than anyone who tries to do what I do. No one can take that from me. Am I wrong? Well. just because you don't see it yet...doesn't mean it's not there. Who are the people that capitalize on good investments? The people who buy into them before it's huge...some people have the ability to know what is coming and I'm thankfully one of them.

I'm young female that is proud of my accomplishments and that is okay in my book. I'm proud of myself and I have a right to be. I work more hours than any person that I have ever met. I find solace in my work; I truly enjoy doing what I do...even at 4 in the morning.

The other day my mother was nagging me about how unhealthy it was to work the number of hours I do. I hear it from everyone and even retrain from sending emails until it's early in the morning, so it doesn't look like I only slept for 2-3 hours that night. I have always been ashamed of my sleep habits until I started researching them this week. Many successful entrepreneurs rock the same hours as me and manage to do it more gracefully than me. I'm young...I haven't mastered everything yet.

As I was doing my research, I ran into a blog that stated these major CEOs and presidents were lying about these hours. There is no way anyone could work those hours and be productive. Is that so? Well, clearly the person who wrote that blog doesn't have what it takes and can't fathom the things we do, which is why he or she will never feel the drive that we feel. I have attached a link to the blog for you to read: http://www.quora.com/How-do-CEOs-who-sleep-for-only-4-5-hours-daily-manage-to-function-and-run-multi-million-dollar-companies

Why do others immediately assume that someone is lying because it's something they could never do? I can't run fast, but that doesn't mean that everyone who tells me they are running a marathon is a liar. I believe most successful entrepreneurs are too busy to share or admit the amount of work they do; it makes us even more different than most people. I'm going to share with the world what it actually takes to grow a business 400% a year. Success is the best drug in the world and you can't imagine what it feels like at a level like mine.
I took nothing and turned it into something. How? Unfortunately my friends, it's a simple answer...work.

Do others really think that the most successful people in the world all decided to make up lies about how much they work? Are you kidding me? There is a direct correlation between successful people and the numbers of hours they work. I don't brag about the hours I work, because I'm ashamed of them. I have attached another article from Business Week that is proof of this correlation below:
http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-ceo-sleep-schedules-2013-10?op=1

I'm very busy and I barely sleep, but I do a damn good job at running my company. Numbers don't lie and my multi-million dollar empire is proof of this. Do you think you have what it takes to do what we do?

At this very moment, I'm typing this blog, underwriting loans, writing emails to our development team about the code they are writing for my underwriting process, monitoring my employees remotely, and listening to youtube videos in the background about PPC. The best part of this is I'm doing all of this in a towel on my bed. Why? Because I don't pass jobs off that I don't understand. How can you monitor people doing things If you don't know how to execute the job?

An Entrepreneur can do any job that her employees can do. You have to know everything or your business will fall apart. Anyone who tells you to work less and make the same amount of money...is full of it. They may get by, but they will never be as successful as we are. I would really like to meet Tim Ferris and see how many hours he really works; I'm sure it's more than 4.

Everyday I'm posting updates to my workday for you non-believers who think the life of an successful entrepreneur is easy. Do you want the same bank account? Well, it wasn't free...