This has been the most porductive day in the past few days since the unemployment I have to say. To say the least if you are following me on my journey here I mentioned about my unemployment in this post here : I lost my Job in June 2025. Here is why I am not rushing back.

I am still unclear as to where I want to go and what I want to do but I am not unclear about is that I need to make money, be a business owner and have at least a few rentals and be a homeowner all before I turn 40. And to say the least my Birthday is coming up soon enough I don’t typically have much time. I know I will get somewhere. But as I learning through reading and talking to other people I am understanding that setting visual goals and going over them will get you closer to your vision than anything else ever will.

I have a ton of book by my workspace some or rather most of them I brought through Amazon during the Prime Day in July and I intend to finish them before the year ends. I know by the end of the year I am going to be transformed in a way that could actually be of help to others because that is one of my goals.

I did write an article or two about some of the Amazon Deals if you want to check them out, the prices might still be there or they might have reverted back.

Here are five early Prime deals worth buying right now.

Amazon Early Deals Day 2 (Deals under $35)

Daily Amazon Hauls: Best Deals Ahead of Prime Day 2025

As you can see My intent was to post daily on amazon finds but as life happens we often get distracted from our goals. Me in particular and hence a strong why is very essential to reach and keep working on your goals daily.

So staying true to this blog posts intent to recap the events of the week for accountability purpose the week started off with taking my son to swimming for 40 minutes and then of course feeding them breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner, eating myself and all that good stuff but we also had something called Smart AI core camp for a week. Now I thought this was cool right to be teaching a 6-year-old. Turns out it is a Toy that the teacher teaches the kids to assemble in addition to watching some movies. I mean for a small amount it is not a bad deal given that it was three hours a day just for five days. I mean I have spent thousands on daycare for my kids compared to that this was decent. Plus, I believe sitting at home all day and just watching TV or iPad as they do now isn’t very productive.

Now you may say well this is about him what about me you say right? How was I productive. Let me explain honestly.

On Tuesdays I usually call FSBO (For Sale by Owner’s ) and follow up. But this week I was so hesitant. I don’t know why. Until I attended the bootcamp at my Brokers on Wednesday. It is true that the environment you stay in affects you. As I stay home collecting unemployment even though I want to be doing work I end up choosing not to giving credit to my fear. But finally after that day I emailed the people that I met during the Open House on the Past Sunday.

I wrote an article about my first hosting of an Open house here : I hosted an Open House but its much more than that

It was all of just three emails, out of which one bounced back and two I did not hear back from. Then I called the FSBO that I have been in talks with for two weeks on a weekly basis asking about his property and he seemed hesitant or distant. See the first two times I had called him he was very receptive. But then I was supposed to email him last week which I didn’t again blaming my fear for it and then I emailed him, I texted him and finally got the guts to call him on Thursday and the call didn’t even last a minute and he hung up abruptly. Did I upset him but not following up. Maybe I did. But he said check back in a week or two. So I guess I will keep the weekly thing going until he says I sold it.

Then I think Wednesday and Thursday Night I just couldn’t sleep at night. I don’t know what happened. but I slept pretty late thinking and running different scenarios in my mind. And I think on Thursday one of the agents put in our group chat if there was a Spanish speaking agent willing to host his open house this weekend. Now this is the part I want you to read carefully.

He said he needed a Spanish speaking agent to host. I do not speak Spanish. But I did want the opportunity to host. So I texted back stating that If you do not find a Spanish speaking host I am willing to host on Sunday. Do you see what I did there? This was not an opportunity, but I created one for myself. And I got the opportunity to host.

My point being this was me before I went into this hibernation mode following my unemployment in March 2023. This was me who could talk her self into opportunities that did not exist. And I want to get back to that.

As I am reading How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie I am not learning anything that I have not learned so far. But It has made me realize that I have probably not implemented it in the manner that I should. I will give you an example. As part of hosting the open house, the listing agent created a group stating the information we need and there are two other Spanish speaking agents who would be shadowing with me. So the two agents started posting about what they can bring and basically taking leadership and ownership. I saw these chats a little late and I didn’t know what to reply. So instead of thinking and then posting this is what I wrote:

And then after posting I read it again after a couple of minutes. Initially it felt good to own ownership but after that I asked chatgpt .. I know but i did. Because it did not feel right. And thank god for Chatgpt that I got the correct response that I should have sent out.

So the point is I am not perfect but I am making an effort to update myself. Because I know standing between my current self and the future self is this skill that I need to include others and yet be assertive rather than just being assertive and coming across as dominant.

Because as I look back in life and the decisions that I have made it not that I dont have empathy and don’t want to understand. I do want to help others, help myself and have a community of people in my network but for the past few years I have been alone and still surviving. And this is not alone and mad. This is alone in managing the family, sure I have a husband and kids but there has been no one who has truly come and said I am here for you. And that it makes me wonder when have I said that to others. Sure I think in my head that I am there for them but maybe they don’t know it yet just like I don’t know it yet.

Moving on the week has not ended yet but on Friday we went out eat at the Dosa Place in Parsippany where we used to go before and I see all these developments happening. I have a discussion with my husband that the Gen Z doesn’t hang out in the places we do. All the people that were in that place were people my age with young kids, a little bit older and older people. And I am seeing this difference in how we are aging and we don’t know what the other generation wants. I mean its not important what they want but they are the ones who are going to be buying homes in the next decade or so and maybe that’s why I want to understand it. I don’t know.

On Friday I also called a FSBO in Clifton. Here is another thing. The night before I couldn’t sleep. I had this random thought of how come I don’t see FSBO in Clifton and boom as I sit outside and go on Zillow the first thing that pops up is a FSBO in Clifton. I called him after hesitating and learned some truths about his listing and asked if I could see the house. He was suffering from a personal loss so I am not sure if I was more compassionate in communicating but I tried. And I tried calling back on evening because I was supposed to see his property after 6pm but he didn’t pick up so I let it go thinking that the person must be busy.

And here’s the thing I told my husband as I was driving to the food place I will keep trying until they say we already sold this one off. I don’t know if this will work but it might not even work. But I am committed. One month has already passed into my unemployment, i have three to four months to dedicate to this business I am hoping until September and then I have to start looking for work in the field I truly know so I can stay afloat while I keep the business afloat too.

The week is not over I have today and tomorrow but I will include this in the next week recap.

I hope you had a good time reading and found something valuable that you could take into your own life.

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