Edition 369 Monday 06/03/17
Hi, eveyone deserves a treat (too right) so now and then I
head to Crosbys pies Onehunga.It is an iconic local Onehunga store who bake the
meanest pies and my favourite is their steak and mussel(yum).Last week I was
disappointed to discover they had been cleaned out by the locals but then
overwhelmed with joy when my favourite pie pixies gave this hungry bear a steak
and mussel pie fresh out of the oven,right place at the right time!
Speaking of which the local volunteer fire brigade has been
busy lately attending a diverse rang of emergency callouts from horses locked
in floats to cardiac arrests to body retrieval from the wild and unforgiving
west coast….special people doing extraordinary things!
Fletcher
reckons he has what it takes to join his Mum in the local rescue
team.Like me he is inspired by their courage and commitment to assisting others
in need.I guess that will leave his Dad to look after the home fires and
coordinate rescue efforts from the couch!!
They say you don’t appreciate stuff until it is gone one day
and then you realise how good it was and how much you miss it.My vehicle
airconditioning spat the dummy last week so I totally concur with this
statement….sorry Korando and Korea for all the bad stuff I have said about you
and your cars….please can I have my nice
airconditioning back…please!!!
I hope like me this and other stuff has put a wee smile J on your face……Cheers Jonesey.
The Hendersons reckon they would be willing to have a crack
at steak and mussel!
“I don’t care what you think
about me.I don’t think about you at all”. Coco Chanel
I have heard it said that “for every six people who like you
there will be six that don’t”.
This bugs me because I want everyone to like me however the
reality is they wont!
Although that may be reality I still want everyone to like me
and get annoyed if the don’t.
I had a recent example when a customer wouldn’t return my
calls after I had met with him and submitted a proposal for his business.
Our meeting went well and I was confident he liked me and the
solution I suggested.
So why wasn’t he returning my calls…..how could he possibly
not like me??
Instead of shrugging this off I found myself obsessed with
why he wasn’t returning calls and/or why he didn’t like me enough to at least
do me the courtesy of a response.
I finally (via a mildly assertive email) managed to solicit
an answer which was less than friendly but at least provided the much needed
update.
So what I have reluctantly concluded over a career of selling
and a few personal relationships is that no matter how hard we try not everyone
is going to like us!
Yes we have a need to be liked however sometimes up to 50% of
the people we meet wont give a monkeys about that and for a variety of reasons
will think the opposite.
Rather than let it obsess us we need to move on or it will do
our heads in with worry.
There are enough people in the world to like us , want to be
with us and want to do business with us to keep all of us going for more than
one lifetime!!
As hard as it is to accept we need to get over it and move on
to other movies and sales.
In a footnote to last weeks story my favourite vehicle sales
guy won my business…YAY!!
“Its
ok if some people don’t like you,not everybody has good taste”. Marilyn Monroe
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