It's been a real whopper of a few weeks.
Been seriously under the weather...
Lamenting cancelled birthday plans that I was REALLY looking forward to.
No able to see family and friends.
Cooped up in the house.
And yesterday I found out an old friend died.
I instantly thought it was Corona related but it wasn't.
He was in a horrible car crash.
I hadn't seen him in a while so I not only was I jarred but I was
saddened that although business had taken us in different directions
I hadn't been in touch.
You just never expect this stuff to happen...
Pandemics...car crashes.
You know...the stuff you just can't even fathom.
My mentor always used to say..
Planes Crash...People Die
He told me that people would come and go.
He was trying to inoculate me to the realities of a transient industry.
I'm not sure he knew he was preparing me this year....
The year the world tilted.
And out of all this heartache and pain I AM INSPIRED.
Inspired to write.
Inspired to express the angst that this life brings us and
juxtapose it the the BEAUTY of the HUMAN SPIRIT.
In a sea of CHAOS it is the INDIVIDUALS that RISE UP
and LEAD the scared and worried to the next plane.
In each community SOMEONE starts to SPEAK and then more
and more people realize that they HAVE A VOICE.
In the home business community we have spent decades of
mixed messages ...
We love you...
We care for you...
Now pay us!
You're important to us until you are not on autoship.
We're a family ...
We'll mentor you...
The event wouldn't be the same without you.
Buy this info that you can get for free on Google for THOUSANDS.
And lets all BASH one another and tell you that
YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO
How can you ever know which way to turn?
Who should you listen to?
And will you quickly be forgotten when you are in a car accident?
These are the things that haunt me.
I am a MARKETER.
I LOVE marketing.
I love the MOVES, the angles, the offers and the PROFIT.
But I love people MORE.
Please DO NOT understand me.
That DOES NOT mean that I don't need to make a living.
That does not mean I can spend my days chatting with those
who are not part of my business other than socially on my numerous
platforms and at events.
That does not mean I can feed you before I feed myself.
That''s just not how life works and if you have not come
to understand that yet...
GET IT NOW.
But it does mean that we as business people...
As Modern Day Moms and Pops HAVE A CHOICE.
We can be transparent.
We can stop the ridiculous SHOW.
It was bad enough before.
But now it s downright nauseating.
Somehow the 3 DEADLY mistakes you are making on social media
seem like so much more...
Somehow evoking all the triggers seems very distasteful...
Am I wrong?
Selling is all about CONTEXT.
Commerce NEVER stops.
EVER.
We may be bartering eggs for milk before all is done and 'the LV bags may not
seem quite so important...
Hell..
Toilet paper is the new status symbol!
We have no idea what tomorrow brings...
But the one thing I can tell you is that COMMERCE WILL NEVER END.
And sales and communication skills will NEVER stop being the most
valuable things you can acquire.
That and the TRUST of a community.
I hope I have your trust.
And I hope you know that I will always just tell you the truth.
Many people have not wanted the truth over my many years in this game.
They wanted fantasy.
And I get that.
But we are now in a time where we can not afford fantasy.
The clock is ticking.
Each day that goes by without our acquiring skills and doing commerce
is a day lost which will be harder and harder to recoup as we move deeper
into the crisis.
This is not negative.
This is REALITY.
And the other reality is that those that move NOW will come
out on the other side with the skills they need to WIN.
Right now is a Paddle Paddle time....
Lay on your board and paddle out there in the vast ocean.
In time a wave will come and it will BRING YOU HOME
Trust me...
Happens every time.
But you gotta get on that board and STAY there.
And keep paddling even when you lose site of the shore.
IT's THERE...
And it's waiting for you.
And Ii'll be there just like I am now...
Cheering you on.
Believing in YOU.
INSPIRED TODAY.
Grief has a way of opening the heart if you just look PAST the pain.
<3
Diane