(Can you tell that I’ve been hanging out with loads of Scottish people lately?) Today was the day…they finally unleashed us upon our poor defenseless customers (to be). I was so freaked out at first to pick up the phone and do it. I can’t really say why, it’s just maybe because it’s something I’m not used to doing.
How did I motivate myself? Well, it really struck a chord with me yesterday when our boss Danny said to us, “The only person here who doesn’t believe in you, is yourself”. He told us it would be really hard to do and that you’d need a purpose to keep doing it even when you’re not having fun.
That was all very nice is theory, but I needed to bring these lessons home. So I started off thinking of what might be my purpose? I have plenty things that I want to have, or do but until now I have never really taken one and elevated it to “my purpose” status. (Except maybe for my studies…but since this is all to do with the financing of that dream, I don’t find them mutually exclusive).
I decided that it would help me if I had a photo of my brother close by, because he sounded really surprised that I was trying this out now and just a tiny bit unsure that I would be able to do it. I wanted to have him there when I did my first deal. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the specific photo I was looking for (lost in the great hard drive crash of 2007 it seems), but whilst looking for it I did come across all my photos from the sky dive…and I thought to myself…If I can jump out of a plane without being too afraid to do it, how can I be terrified of a tiny little black phone?! Makes no sense…pffft.
Even after all that, the first call was still the hardest – but I did it. I learnt a whole range of tricks (or shall we call them techniques?) today, which are really worth exploring. And….*drum roll please* I did my first deal! (Thanks to Ian and Patrick – really super guys – you rock!).
Whoohooo! This might sound silly to you, but it’s really a very big thing for me. It was the very first deal made from our SA branch, it was the only deal made today from our SA branch (hey! we’re still learning the ropes), and everyone was so happy when it happened that they came in cheering and congratulating me, gave me a big bonus for doing it first, the owner of the company phoned me up from the UK to congratulate me, my immediate manager stopped us half an hour before home time to have some beer and chit-chat, and John the genius trainer that worked his magic on us over the weekend SMS’ed me from his plane to congratulate me and ask me how I was feeling, and there has already been hints at the chance for a promotion! Isn’t that sweet?
What a f-ing awesome day… 😀 I absolutely love this job!
Right. Don’t think I’ve forgotten that it’s poem day. I tried to write a lil something to show you how good I feel but it’s come out looking and sounding like a fluffy piece of crap, of course. (I don’t feel too guilty…I have warned you all repeatedly that I usually only write when I’m feeling down). Here goes nothing 😉
*clicking on the image above will take you to DeviantART where you can learn more about the artist and the art.
Oh! And a very big heartfelt Happy Birthday to Henning, Adel, Esmeralda, Fran, Freddy and Bunny who all had their birthdays so far this week. I hope that all your birthday wishes come true! 😉
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