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Monday, August 18, 2008 - (see all news for this day)
growing as a person - 10:08 AM
(filed under 'general')
i feel as though i've been making some positive changes in my life, lately. perhaps there are things i've been purposely changing, but mostly, i feel that the changes are happening to me as i've gone out & started making my own life.
i mentioned the trip to abu dhabi in my previous post, but i didn't mention that i was actually invited to go. i've been getting some really great feedback about my sales technique, which, i assume, is why i was asked to go on the trip.
i don't see it so much as a sales technique. i really believe in the product (being all natural, etc) so when i tell people about it, i'm just telling them things that i know to be true. since it is my job to be selling the product, though, i guess from other people's point of view, i'm a good salesperson. several people who've bought from me have commented that i'm a good salesperson. a couple of fellow stall holders have said the same thing.
jo will be employing me at the woodford folk festival this year to run the stall there. she forwarded an email to me from donna, the nana may's businesses development manager, where she was asking donna about woodford. in the email, donna said that if there was anyone who could make woodford work, it would be me. i was really chuffed to read that. to have someone say that i'm the right person for the job is exciting.
yesterday at eagle street, one of the vendors there was walking around saying hi to other stall holders, seeing what was around: doing the rounds, basically. he happens to also do the kelvin grove markets, the same ones at which i've just started. he stopped at my stall & told me about a conversation that he & another stall holder were having about me. he said they were discussing that i have a very positive energy. we didn't get to finish the conversation because i had a customer, but it was great to hear such nice things said about me. even the fact that they were having a conversation about me was kind of cool.
i know that i'm a fairly outgoing & friendly person & that i'm generally well-liked, but to have people say so many positive things about me recently is so encourging & uplifting, especially when it comes from people who aren't close friends. you kind of expect close friends to say nice things about you, but when people who are just acquaintances say those sort of things, unbidden & unprompted, it makes you feel really good about yourself.
now don't get me wrong, i have a healthy self-esteem—i always have—but hearing postive things that people have said about me is a wonderful thing. my self-esteem did get a bit of a hit through the years that things weren't going so well with me & shroom, but even then, i suppose my solid base of healthy self-esteem took me through it without too much permanent damage.
to have people tell me that i'm good at something, even to the point where i'm suggested as one of the right people to go on an overseas trip to do that thing, is so encouraging.
i really feel like things are going so well in my life right now. i feel as though i'm growing as a person & developing some great skills. people skills have always come pretty naturally to me, but i've been fine honing those skills even more.
i've run my own business before (years ago i started cleaning houses to get out of a job i hated. i did that succesfully for about eighteen months) & i've always enjoyed being my own boss. when i was cleaning houses, the only real product i had was myself. doing nana may's at the markets as a site distributor means dealing with products & sales & expenses, so it's going to be more complex. there may even be times when i'll have to employ other people to fill in at my markets if i want to take a weekend off. i'm excited about all of that. to manage something much more complex like that is really exciting for me.
life really is great. 
Yay Coralie,
What a great feeling.
I think your positive energy has always come through in your writing over the years, so it's no surprise to me at all that it's evident to people who know you in real life.
Confidence and positivity is such an attractive quality - literally!
Yay for good vibes from other people
xxx
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