One small thing could be that I’m mainly posting wins in the discussion threads, not my own journal. I’ve been trying out all the new subs, and all of them have been extremely positive, so I’ve been on those threads a lot.
Your observation though is still completely accurate.
I’ve had two closing positions, one that started in 2023 January 1st, where i was selling coaching, and one that started September 2023 up until recently, selling to Realtors. Didn’t care about that one nearly as much, I was quite unhappy there. But selling coaching, I was the happiest and most confident I’d ever been in my whole life.
As of today, I’m selling coaching again for one of the biggest health/mindset coaching programs in the world. Essentially a Focus For Entrepreneurs coaching program from a NYT best selling author. So I believe that that will get me a huge amount of confidence and FIT in my life back… I have been doing something that was not a fit for me, for the last 6 months, because I felt like I had to.
The last 6 months, I’ve been seeing that I wasn’t a fit at this role, and trying to take a lot of responsibility, basically by working on my “deficiencies” that were “causing” the bad fit… but it wasn’t any deficiencies, it was just literally a bad fit, and the moment I left that role, I found a place that suited me better.
The last 2-3 weeks, I have been self-assured, but certainly not confident. I was working on going from sales, something I know extremely well and have a clear gameplan to succeed in, to online coaching and branding, which is something that I really don’t have much experience in, compared to sales. So, I was going in the right direction, but I didn’t have a lot of certainty in anything other than the fact that I was doing the right thing.
When I was SUPER confident at the beginning of 2023, I’ve reflected, that was too much confidence. I had an ego. I didn’t treat my team members as well as I should have. There’s a reason I got fired from that place. I thought being #1 made me untouchable. My confidence, from that, was VERY low over the last 6 months, where I tried to overcompensate by just being extremely humble and self-sacrificing. I’m over that now and should find my sweet spot.
Plus, this role makes me even more confident in my entrepreneurial journey, because it’s the exact training, reputation, connections, and experience I need - it’s literally the best performance coaching program in the world, for entrepreneurs, and I want to run a program like this, but for sales people.