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ya know meng, finding myself cheating on a pushup new years resolution

new years resolution reflected in august

since inception of the year 2009 the absolute destination of the journey was to be at 100 pushups per day all year. somedays i had set to bang out 100 thru sets of 4. it was my full intent to pump out 25 in one set, yet after the second set i’d whimper a mere 15. while heading down and back up 15 , the lazy impervious thought came into mind ah i don’t need to keep going.

bad voice pushup

whats that saying? – always listen to that inner voice? listen to your body?

why is my body telling me to give up?

why couldn’t even a healthy chain-smoking 24 year old stand to do 65 pushups over 30 minutes?

albeit, at the end of an ambitious january, recollection, accounting and reflection came to the erred conclusion of not continuing seriously the pushups. why was this? never hit the absolutely poach-able target,perceived ‘do-able’ in absolute certainty. wishy-washy certainty?

this was a new years resolution

66.666666666666666667% of a years’ time passed:

why is it that the New Years Resolution is associated with failure?

This leads to the question that started this blog post – What if the inner voices, the hunches, the bodies’ voices are slightly off key?

this morning it was nice find, a timely 100 sets of 3, topped off by a slow 10 rep -

10000 pushups

how can certainty be delivered if one is NOT certain?

If any of you have ever wanted to try a career in sales you’d probably think of selling Kirby Vacuum cleaners door-to-door. Maybe you were handed a phone book and ordered to start making cold calls.

Wasn’t it painful at first? Humiliating? What do I say?

Did your sales manager ask you to write a list of everyone that you personally know?

Did you feel like a 19-gauge sawed off shotgun with everyone as your target?

Until you really know your customers, have deep relationships with them; you are truly throwing spaghetti and meatball plates at the wall and seeing what ‘sticks’.

Throwing Spaghetti on the Wall

As a beginner is sales, they will always tell you,

“kid, it’s a numbers game. Now, get back on the [expletive] phone.”

Maybe in successive years, as you hang in there, you may notice majority of your sales are coming from the deep personal relationships you build with people.

Now, Realizing as of late, I have had an old-world mentality approach to sales. I’m now astonished that I spent hours weeks and months cold calling prospects that didn’t know me from Adam.

My mentality was that only through cold calling, blind prospecting and bulk-emailing that I would build up enough contacts and hopefully one of them would pick me!

Does this sound familiar?

How frustrating is dialing one after another and getting rejection for reason X, Y, and Z!

What are you thoughts on this?

Please comment, question and challenge!