I have signed up for 2 official and 1 non-official courses this month and I am pretty psyched for all of them!
1. Mutual Funds Course - this one is official. It is offered by a seperate company but I am sponsered through Primerica. It's a $400 webinar based course plus the cost of babysitting Dexter. The course is one 2 hour intro session, plus 6 two hour webinar classes. While the intro class is on Aug 10, I basically need to start my pre-studying ASAP. I printed off the unit questions last night and read through the math lesson and overview. I'm hoping it won't be too bad.
Sidebar: Since it would be near impossible to concentrate with Dexter home (plus unprofessional), I looked into a part time day home. A friend of mine uses it and has been very happy. When I showed up to interview here, I was a bit embarassed to realize I had been there before, two years ago when I was looking for casual day care for Dexter. At the time, he was around the one year old mark and Tyler was concerned with the amount of kids she had that were younger. Now the day home has a bit older kids and I feel confident she can do a good job.
Back to the course, it requires about 30 hours of pre-study prior to the webinars and then of course the webinar work. Afterwords, I am able to take a test at NAIT and pass with a minimum of 60%. Then I get to fill out a (29 page!) application for my Mutual Funds licence. This licence will authorize me to be full service with Primerica and offer RESPs and some other items that I am not currently eligible to do. I'm nervous about the course, but more so I'm nervous about the commitment that taking this course means. It's another financial investment and as well you have to be "full time" to hold a Mutual Funds licence. That means I need to stop procrastinating and get passionate about my business!
2. Brave Girls' Club: Soul Restoration I - this is the other official course. Again it is web based, but it's more of a self study/exploration, art class and it starts on Aug 7. The instructor have videos, assignments and artwork to print off and we make mixed media collages, an art journal, and personal truth cards. My friend Sian took a different course through them earlier this year and I thought her projects were fascinating. When she let me know they were offering this course, I promptly signed up. I'm super excited as I am into the self-exploration stuff right now and I've never done mixed media art before so it's a whole new technique. Seriously, super excited.
3. The Spark Kit - this is the unoffical course. A long while ago, in November in fact, Sian had offered a free download of this "Spark Kit". I didn't know exactly what it was about other than for business woman to enhance their business selves. Intriguing. She also had the download so we were talking about it the other day and she asked if I'd be interested in working through the sessions with her. Then she thought it would be really fun to blog about our experiences in a shared blog. I agreed profusely, it sounded like lots of fun! We're working on the shared blog part because we have a vision but I'm not sure if we'll be able to execute it using the free blog hosting sites available. So far my research has been a no. But I'm going to reach out to my facebook family for help! We're meeting on Aug 12 to make a plan on how we're going to execute this. Sian is also taking a work course in September and is equally busy with a working-out-of-town husband so it may be a 'slow and steady' work through.
In addition to my courses, I am planning a Alice In Wonderland themed, Unbirthday Tea Party for a few friends this month. I'm hoping its fun and can become an annual event. September is the birthday extraveganza month so lots of work for that, and we're also planning a trip to Vegas in November so some work involved there. Busy, busy as always!!
