You’re all too familiar with the fact that this business is a roller coaster of ups and downs in more ways than one. When sales and momentum are good, they can be really good!
When sales are low, like really low, and momentum is going down with it, those valleys can be scary. Even though we know lows are simply part of the process, it doesn’t make them any easier.
When you’re in it, it can leave you with a pit in your stomach wondering “how long will this last?”.
Today let’s talk about getting perspective back and navigating your way successfully through the lows. You can find the full transcript at crazybigdreams.biz/12.
Ok, so things aren’t happening right now. Sales are low. Momentum with team activity is fading fast. You’ve been here before. You’re experienced at this.
Even though it won’t last, getting through these lows requires intentionality and perspective. Let’s create your plan to get you through.
Effective Female Leaders in Direct Sales Feel All The Feels
First, know that you can be scared, disappointed, frustrated or however you’re feeling about being in a low point. And at the same time be intentional about getting your perspective back.
It’s important to fully know, acknowledge, and accept whatever those feelings are for you, first and foremost. When we don’t address them, these feelings can spill over into our efforts to get through the lows. And, those very actions can keep us stuck in the lows.
These feelings creep in and show up when we don’t want them to if we’re not giving them proper space and time to acknowledge and address them. Recognize how you’re truly feeling about your low point.
Set a timer for 90 seconds and feel every bit of it. If you resist or judge yourself during these 90 seconds it won’t be possible to fully feel your emotion.
Let yourself feel it. Every bit of it.
Why 90 seconds? Jill Bolte-Taylor, author and Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, tells us emotions last at most ninety seconds, physiologically. Beyond 90 seconds, it becomes a choice. That was equal parts hard to know and freeing at the same time.
Know, when the timer goes off, you have a choice to continue to hang onto those feelings or to move on. Don’t move on until your breathing is back to a normal pace and you feel calm.
Now you have a choice. Go back to anger, frustration, feeling scared, or frustrated, or decide to leave it in the past and move forward. When you’ve made the decision to move on implement these next 2 strategies.
2 Key Strategies to Navigate the Lows in Your Direct Sales Business
It’s important to take a giant step back from your current low to implement these steps. If you’ve set the timer and allowed yourself to feel your feelings you are positioned to be able to take a step back and gain perspective. We’ll be looking at your life as a whole, not the current month of your direct sales business.
Strategy 1: Assess your current level of fulfillment to money. How fulfilled are you in the area of money on a scale of 1 to 10. I’m not talking about how much money you do or do not have. I’m asking you to assess your current level of fulfillment to your relationship with money.
Yes, you have a relationship with money. It can be positive, negative, healthy, dysfunctional, reflect scarcity, or abundance. Ten is more positive, healthy, and abundant. One is negative, dysfunctional, and reflects scarcity.
Maybe it’s easier to think about it this way. Overall, do you have a level of stress and anxiety when it comes to money and your life?
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