Feeling most alone...

When success is achieved or failure takes over.
Hope I don't strut around during success... I will isolate a lot of people who will stay away during my failures.

The Jerry Maguire effect...

All the blinking lights on my phone are switching off... all my prospects built up with much love and attention are refusing to sign contracts... the quarter is ending... am staring down the barrel...
Only one more blinking light... one more faint ray of hope...

Building a team - picking the right players

I am not only becoming more aware of my strengths but also equally aware of my weaknesses. And I have decided to stop wasting time on improving my weaknesses and devote more time to my strengths.
For my weaknesses, I will pick the right players, the right team-members who have strengths in those areas. Eg. for me to make sense of numbers, I have to stare at them LONG and HARD. It takes a lot of time and effort and may not result in too many good deductions.
If I have a person on my team naturally inclined to find patterns in heaps of numerical data, then I better make use of him than break my head on the problem myself.

Building a team is key - not working on individual weaknesses.

Good learning

Always consider yourself poor and downtrodden. It'll keep the hunger alive. It'll keep your ego in check. It'll keep you from relaxing when you're comfortable.

I'm poor and downtrodden...I really am.

Nobody answering my phone

It's the last week of the third quarter in my sales job. Many promises were made by my prospective clients. I went ahead and gave a strong forecast.
And now, my prospects have stopped answering my phone...

I think a sales job is the only job where experience teaches lessons that can NEVER be learnt elsewhere. And a strong mind matters a lot. And a tough skin matters much more. This experience will teach me lots when I run my own business - good experiences and bad ones will all teach me how to predict revenue for my enterprise. So many variables. So much optimism. But, ultimately, results matter.

I am staring at the unanswered calls-list on my mobile. The future looks bleak. I feel lost. I need help, I need a shot in the arm. I need a faint ray of hope. I need an order.