Overwhelm has plagued me since my first day at my first job. I was a mermaid at Marineland, and I stood in my damp concrete dressing room under the fish tank I called home, and hyperventilated. I had to get that cold wet costume on (those shells there, that tail there), clean my breathing tube, review which creatures to avoid, which I could pet, put in eye drops, make sure the sharks had been fed, and then smile. And wave.
I was sixteen and I had my first job and I was overwhelmed. I started my next job, as a trail leader on a dude ranch, and felt the same sensations.
Looking back, I think, I had no clue what real overwhelm is. But it was real. As real as it felt when I walked into my office this morning and saw the piles of files, the impossibly long To-Do list, and my overflowing e-mail inbox. I am overwhelmed! I cried daily.
I’ve been living my life in overwhelm since my first job and I’ve about had enough of it.
The Biz Diva heard my wail across the miles. And she has the solution. Really. It’s not that complex, but as you may have guessed, she’s got a different spin. She’s not going to tell you to get these tools, or try that system.
The Biz Diva says, Forget what you’re thinking. What are you feeling?
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A couple weeks ago I wrote about Seth Simonds’ suggestion for what to do when you were inspired. I was inspired to get more comfortable with selling. The last step (of three steps) was to “E-mail the list of ideas to your most logical friend who knows you well and ask your friend to go over your list and make suggestions the following day.”
So you probably guessed that I sent my list to The Biz Diva, right? My list included “Take a course on how to sell.” The Biz Diva thought that was a great idea, and we looked around for something that was coming up soon, in my price and geographical range, and we found… nothing. Another item on my list was to “e-mail Polly Lemire and see if she did private consulting on sales,” because she is the most kick-ass salesperson I’ve ever met. So I did that, and Polly was so great, she said she’d love to help, because she so much wants to bring sales out of the 1950s stereotypes of annoying hardsell. Because she believes that everyone can sell using their own style.
She’s a sort of sales evangelist. She said she’d show me how to:
- Build a prospecting approach that people will pay attention to
- Remove “procrastination” from you your selling vocabulary
- Put your selling strategy on “auto-pilot”
- Replace pressure with fun and creativity
Which got me all excited. Fun and creativity instead of dreaded drudgery?
So I told a friend about this and she said, “I want to learn that!” And I told another friend, and it sort of snowballed. So I had to go back to Polly and see if she’d be interested in teaching this to a few other people, and because she is a true believer, she said “Of course!”
Do you want to learn how to Sell More with Less Stress? Get all the details here. And on the Biz Diva Facebook page (click on Events). Don’t forget to forward this on to anyone you think could use this course!
