man i’m really frustrated by customs.
They just don’t f*cking work for me in a sales context. Do they work for me at all? I’ve only ever tried them for sales so I don’t really know.
HOM/PCC worked for me, to be clear. More on that later.
I’ve been in a definite slump the last little bit - and chalk that up to the first of the year and a bit of long covid, whatever, but I decided I was going to go from listening to my NR/LE custom, to listening to NR.
I’ve only listened to one loop of main store NR since that decision and I’ve already closed a massive pay in full.
As my sales title, NR needs to be solo’d in order to feel the results consistently and with minimal variation or recon.
As my productivity title, LE inside the NR/LE custom is hitting deeper, for sure. I worked for 20 hours on monday and literally every second of that (minus 30 minutes of some chess for fun) was productive. I was resting productively, working diligently, and even in my work, i was mentally organized, not floundering around looking for everything and being unprioritized.
My point is, it’s DEEPER in a custom and causing more root cause changes… but it’s also way more f*cking inconsistent. I have more capacity to be productive, but I’m also spending more time in unproductive fits of lethargy which may be another major factor why I’m not getting results in sales - the work ethic isn’t the same. The on-call-intelligence isn’t consistent, either. Maybe it’s even stronger at maximum potential in a custom than as a major title, but it’s less consistent. Being 3x as smart on 10% of calls isn’t nearly as good as being 10% smarter on all of my calls. Consistency is the key to sales. Master a conversation and have it over and over and over again.
So, back to why HOM/PCC worked for me back then.
First of all, PCC is not a sales sub. Not for me. I’ll go ahead and say it. I didn’t notice much in terms of sales prowess enhanced from it - but I noticed benefits in many other areas. Second of all, it’s VERY light (pre-WTP), so I’m not sure that it even distracted from HOM very much. It was almost like running HOM plus a booster.
The conclusion, for me, is that I can’t have a sales custom that has two cores. It needs to be JUST Nouveau RICH, or even JUST House Of Medici, a small number of uber-important modules, and that’s it. Just a mildly-enhanced, name-embedded title hardly any different than what I’d find as a solo’d major title.
I’ve also realized that if I want to leverage customs, the best place to do so is for the more advanced/intense healing and personal development. Make something a little heavier, and run it on Friday so that I have about 60 hours to process it, then I can listen to NR/LE as solo titles on sunday night so that by monday morning, all the healing is out of my system, and all of the sales/intelligence skills are back in.