It seems that customer traffic at work was good right around the time Kayla was born. Since then it has slowed back down. I'm told that's normal this time of year. Spring breaks happen at different times for different schools, which creates a few weeks of slower traffic. This is the weekend things are expected to pick back up again.
It has been disappointing and frustrating. I've doing this for eight or nine months and I still don't feel good at it. It's not a personality or temperment thing, I'm just slow climbing over the learning curve. Intellectually I know what to do. I just haven't been able to create some of the habits. Some of it is a lack of confidence, but I've struggled with that in every aspect of my life pretty much forever.
They say in sales, your paycheck is a direct reflection of your selling skills.
One of the new sales people is doing better than the others. Better than me, lately, too, which adds to the frustration. Now, a lot of customers lately have been "just starting their research," and pointedly not ready to buy yet. I'm good with those people, and I just need to be patient with them. But patience doesn't buy groceries or pay bills now. Somehow the one doing better seems to get the customers who are ready to buy--and some of them even know what they want.
There was a book I read back in the motorhome, so 1998 or '99. The author mentioned a restaurant cook he worked with at one point. When that cook was off, the place was chaos. Customers came in in spurts all at once, flooding the kitchen with orders. When the cook was in, customers seemed to come in more spread out, and they were able to keep up. The only variable the author could come up with was the one cook. Somehow he was controling the flow of customer traffic.
So that, some determination, some confidence... There's a new on-line training program we got signed up for at work that I can start today. What I need I'll get more effectively from something seminar-like, but this might be a good start. I just have to make it all happen. Having faith that I'll get there isn't good enough. I have to prove it and make it happen.
So that's what been on my mind of late, especially the last couple of days.
Posted by fictionman at April 20, 2006 07:40 AM | TrackBack (0)Hi Brian - Congratulations on your feminine seed. She is beautiful. Two kids are so nice.
I have in my scrapbook folder a link I refer to now and then that reinforces all I have learned in life of my own creative power. Your faith is half the equation. Your actions the other half - you are right in that. You have good instincts. Sometimes we just need a little more information. There are Cosmic Laws of the Universe that work. Check it out - if you want to.
http://www.globalvisions.org/cl/swn/cosmiclaws/index.html and click on Attraction
You may find it interesting and useful.
Glad to hear all is going well for you. Food is such a huge issue for the world. Too much, not enough, GMO'd, inappropriate relating to, etc. Sounds like you are in balance with it. Kudos!
Take care.
Love ya
Auntie B