Note to Self 4 – Confidence, Faith and Gratitude

Wow – what a week I have had! We had a fabulous weekend with my girlfriend and her family – best, most relaxing time we have had in ages. Then early in the week I thought I had better get the old J O B and earn some more money. I felt very inspired to apply for a job as a telemarketer – I looked up the company involved and they had quite a good reputation so I went for it.

It was fun, the atmosphere was friendly and the people I worked with all lovely. It was a HUGE stretch for me. I have always been uncomfortable with the phone and selling so cold calling was right out there. The hours and pay (if you made sales) were great except it did involve working Saturdays. However I believed I could do it and had faith it would all work out.

The second day I came home crying, everyone around me was making sales yet I had made none. We were reading from the same script, I have to admit I wasn’t embellishing too much though – just being honest. Anyway I tapped and did every limiting belief pulling tactic I could think of and went in Friday and just decided to do my absolute best, have a lot of fun and let go. Normally, my voice would crack up doing these sort of things however I was determined to be confident in myself and in the fact I could do this and that no matter what happened it would all work out perfectly.

So I did just that and guess what – not one sale. At times I would look to the heavens and think why and then remember my goal to just keep on doing my best and let go – it would all work out perfectly. Well that afternoon I got canned, they couldn’t afford to keep me on (can’t say I blame them) so I cried all the way home again – I had never had such a short lived career let alone being put off. After doing this I thought why was I crying – it wasn’t really the sort of thing I would want to spend the rest of my life doing? I then thought I would find out what I had learnt.

I learnt a great deal and am so relieved I got canned. If I had made sales I would have hung on tooth and nail – that was my old way – not to give up no matter whether I liked it or not. I believe this was a gift for me. I feel absolutely grateful  not to be doing that anymore – it didn’t gel with me at all and as you can guess – I am definitely not a saleswoman! However instead of beating myself up at being a failure as I normally would have done I realised I am proud of myself for giving it my best go and being able to let go and trust. I feel confident in myself and have faith everything will work out.

I learnt that the others who were successful in selling had not so much confidence in themselves but more in what they were selling and people were buying their confidence in that holiday (which is what we were selling). (I thought they were good deals just I would prefer to research and book that sort of thing myself – therefore I lacked confidence in what I was selling).

On reflection, everything comes back to confidence. As I have said in my book one of the things we learnt was that the thing we were most buying from Andrew was confidence, something we didn’t have, also confidence that he knew what he was doing. A good salesperson has confidence in themselves and what they’re selling and this is what attracts buyers – it is the promise. It really is the same with anything you buy, it is not so much what you are buying but how that product will make you feel – that it will fill some perceived hole in your life.

So, as I am writing this the phone has rung and I have been offered some admin work for next week. I know that everything is working out and will work out. I love being at home and being a great wife and mother and that it will all come. I find more and more that the life I love most is the life I once had but never appreciated. I never used to be able to feel gratitude for anything. Now I constantly feel unending gratitude for each day, for all we have and especially for my beautiful family. Have to say I especially feel grateful not having to be a telemarketer!

Have a fabulous week. May you find your inner confidence and gratitude – then nothing can scam you or hurt you – you can never make a mistake if you follow your inner guidance. With love Tracey.

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